Recently, I have nothing to do, and I took out "Water Margin" to see. The characters in the Water Margin, men love to see Pan Jinlian, women love to see the prodigal son Yanqing. Pan Jinlian's story, I'm afraid no one is unfamiliar. Remakes of Water Margin's film and television works, without exception, will hype the topic of Pan Jinlian.
Without discussing the truth of history, just talking about the situation of folk circulation, among the few bad women that the common people are most familiar with, Pan Jinlian may be even more hateful than Cixi, Yang Guifei, and Daji. Cixi, Yang Guifei and Dai Ji are all disasters to the country, Cixi is bullying her son, Yang Guifei and Daji are deceitful, and ordinary people do not feel deeply, but Pan Jinlian may be in daily life.
With the passage of time, feudal morality has long been abandoned as if it were our own, and it is still worthy of sympathy to re-look at the Pan Jinlian part. "Water Margin" introduces her lineage, "There is a large family in That Qinghe County, there is a maid, the nickname is changed to Pan Jinlian, more than twenty years old, quite colorful. Because the big family wanted to pester, the maid only went to the master's wife and refused to obey. The big family remembered this hatred in his heart, but he lost some money, did not want Wu Da to pay a penny, and married him in vain. ”
Pan Jinlian's life is bitter, as a maid in a large household, the big household feeds her body, Pan Jinlian refuses, and the big household will marry her to Wu Dalang, which is purely disgusting to her. I can't eat it myself, and I drop the plate with my backhand, which is despicable and dirty enough.
If you make a personal portrait of Pan Jinlian, a maid of a large family, it means that she is from a humble origin, but she has seen the world. This is crucial, because women who have seen the world and women who have not seen the world have very different understandings of fate.
A peasant woman, although she looks good, but has never seen the world, is easy to rebel against fate, even if she marries a man who is a martial artist, she will not have any complaints. Fortunately, Wuda is diligent and takes care of her family, and she will soon be satisfied, give Birth to a big fat boy to Wuda, and live a stable and stable life, and will not complain about her marriage and fate.
However, Pan Jinlian has been a maid of a large family, and she is a woman who has seen the world. Once a person has seen the world, she is less likely to be resigned to fate, she will begin to think about why and why, she will doubt the nature of all existence.
She refused the insults of the big family, only out of the instinctive self-esteem of a woman; she thought that suing the master's wife would avoid the disaster, even if she knew that the master had given her a trick to draw a salary, directly promised her to Wu Da, and did not ask for a penny of dowry. This humiliation of personality even outweighs the insult to her.
She complained about the marriage, but she couldn't decide her own fate, she would think, she would wait, she would bury her hatred in her heart, but she would not accept her marriage as calmly as a peasant woman. This was a very crucial point in her tragic fate.
Later, Takejiro Takematsu came to the house. Wu Song was tall and tall, a talented man, and the head of the county order's bodyguard. She had a heart for Wu Song, and took an opportunity to hand Wu Song half a glass of wine she had eaten. Wu Song refused, and let loose a harsh word: "Wu Er recognizes his sister-in-law in his eyes, but his fist does not recognize his sister-in-law." Come back to Hugh! "Wu Song is a man of integrity and strength, he can't rub sand in his eyes, he doesn't allow himself to cross the ethical boundaries, and he doesn't allow his sister-in-law to cross that line.
Later, there was the story of Pan Jinlian and Ximen Qing hooking up and committing adultery.
Later generations of analysts often believe that Pan Jinlian's tragic fate was caused by men, and she was a funerary of feudal patriarchal society. It was the big household, it was his evil intentions that opened Pan Jinlian's tragedy; it was Wu Song, it was his incomprehensible style that buried Pan Jinlian's fate; it was Ximen Qing, it was his third party who intervened and destroyed Pan Jinlian's family.
Actually, neither. Ignoring the analysis of specific problems, just using the basket of a patriarchal society to set the sinking of individual fate, is a kind of mental laziness. The environment is only an external factor, just a booster, according to Pan Jinlian's own situation, her derailment is also sooner or later. Because she has a desire for life and a hatred.
A frog at the bottom of a well does not hate the vastness of the sky, because it has never seen the sky, it only knows that the well is everything. A caged bird does not hate the shortage of food, because it can only sing a good song and flap its wings a few times to please its owner. But when the frog at the bottom of the well jumps out of the bottom of the well, when the caged bird breaks free from the cage, after the short pleasure of freedom disappears, its desire for life is consumed by hunger, thirst and anxiety, and all that remains is hatred.
It is only a frog at the bottom of the well, a bird in a cage, its origin of its knowledge, its intelligence can only help it in the well, in the cage to fulfill the imagination of a better life, but now the situation is different, it wants to see the vastness of the sky, to forage for its own hard food, to put itself in the shoes of thinking, it will feel that this is the ordeal that fate has imposed on it for no reason. It's so unfair!
And Pan Jinlian is facing this dilemma.
The twenty-fourth time in the "Water Margin" novel, it is written that Wuda moved because the floating children of Qinghe County went to visit the door when they had nothing to do, and Pan Jinlian would not refuse. In order to avoid trouble, Wuhan University was forced to move to Yanggu County to do business.
Why wouldn't Pan Jinlian refuse the entanglement of the floating prodigal children? It's not that she's frivolous by nature, but that she subconsciously doesn't think that she and Wu Da are the same kind of person. As a maid of a large family, she must have seen the brother of the prince of the high-ranking official and nobleman, and if she was not married to Wuda, the most likely fate of going with the flow was to be begged by the master or a certain brother of the prince to be a concubine. Although it is not necessarily how noble the status is, at least it is a world away from marrying Wu Da.
Such a woman is beautiful. Some women come from humble origins, from childhood to adulthood, no one has boasted of her appearance, nor has she set foot in the city scenery, they are beautiful but not self-aware, naturally do not feel that their beauty is a kind of ostentatious capital, even if they marry the mediocre and honest iron cow in the next village, she will not feel that she has a flower planted on cow dung. Pan Jinlian knows her beauty, from the pursuit of big households to floating prodigal children, she must clearly know what her beauty means.
Unfortunately, in her youth, at the age of flowers, she did not get real love, nor was she loved and pitied. The big family wants to occupy her, and the floating prodigal children want to slight her, but they only possess her on a physiological level, treating her as a beautiful object, rather than the pursuit of equality between people. As a maid, she must have been summoned by others, and there would be no one to give her love.
A beautiful woman who has seen the world and does not know how to love is painful. The greater the gap between her life and her imagination, the deeper the hatred accumulated from the chicken and garlic skin oil, salt, sauce and vinegar of life in the wear and tear of the years, and this hatred supports her yearning to find a lover and a better life in the confusion.
Red Face Thin Life is talking about this kind of woman. From a lack of love, growing up alone to the age of flowers, she will easily take the man's frivolous efforts as love, she will cherish the man's love for her like a gift from God, and she has no way to reciprocate, so she has to use her beauty as a bargaining chip and dedicate it to the man she thinks she loves her.
Unfortunately, this man is Ximen Qing. Ximen Grand Official is famous for liking the new and tired of the old, he knows Pan Jinlian's weakness and knows how to fish her.
Pan Jinlian's beauty is not a fault, she bravely pursues her own happiness is also beyond reproach, feudal morality with marrying chickens with chickens marrying dogs with dogs to oppress women is definitely wrong, standing in the position of modern concept of marriage and love, after Pan Jinlian wrongly married Wuda, of course, we should give her the right to re-choose marriage, but the problem is that when this free right is given to Pan Jinlian, it is difficult for me to believe that she will not choose the second Ximenqing and the third Ximenqing.
The catastrophe of fate, in some neglected detail of life, has already marked the target of cash.