Wang Xifeng is the most three-dimensional, richest, most complex and unique character in "Dream of the Red Chamber". As a "hero in the fat powder team", Wang Xifeng seems to be a special existence, both the extraordinary of standing out from the crowd and the worry of "not being cold in the heights". Such a being was destined to be very lonely, because in the whole of Jia Province, there was no one who was similar or matched to her. Only Xia Jingui, who appeared in the seventy-ninth time, wrote such a sentence: "If you talk about the longitude and latitude of the hills and ravines in your heart, you will follow in the footsteps of Xi Feng."
Xia Jingui, is there really a similarity with Sister Feng?
In detail, the two are really somewhat similar.
Let's start with the origins.
Although the Xia family is not among them, the Xue family, which is one of the four major families, is the same household name merchant as the Xue family, which is also one of the four major families, and is also one of the "top two big portals". "The East Sea lacks a white jade bed, and the Dragon King invites the King of Jinling", this is the praise of the wealth of the Royal Family on the talisman. The Jin Gui family, which is also "very rich", operates dozens of hectares of osmanthus flowers, and the entire Chang'an City and even the offerings in the palace originate from the Xia family, so it is called "Osmanthus Summer Family".
Sister Feng is always proud of her noble birth, and her mother's family is her confidence. Talking to Jia Lian was unceremonious, he couldn't move his own dowry to talk, and he even had the arrogant words of "sweeping the cracks of my royal family, enough for you to live a lifetime". Coincidentally, Xia Jingui is also such a style, she named "Golden Gui" because of the many osmanthus flowers in her family, but she was not allowed to bring out the word "Golden Gui" among the population. He also renamed the osmanthus flower "Chang'e Flower", alluding to his noble status.
Look at the personality: both are jealous and control their husbands.
The two are also very similar. Not long after Sister Feng got married, she found out whether the two people in the house before Jia Lian were coming and sent them out. This matter was said through the mouth of Xiao Xing'er, and we do not know the specific circumstances. However, if you refer to Xia Jingui's persecution of Xiangling and the separation of quarrels, you can imagine it. It is no secret that Feng Jie is jealous, and Xing'er once bitterly ridiculed Feng Jie as a "vinegar urn". Compared with her, Xia Jingui is all over the place.
Sister Feng forced Jia Lian to secretly marry Sister You, and as soon as Xia Jingui entered the door, she regarded Xiang Ling, who was both talented and beautiful, as a "thorn in the flesh in her eyes", and tortured her to the extreme, and Bao Yu also sought a cure for jealousy from Wang Daoshi for this reason. Jia Lian and Xue Pan were both drunk and had no strength, so they were made to death by their wives.
They are jealous, but they also have to maintain their own personality: while suppressing the people in the husband's previous house, they also give their confidants to their husbands to collect the house, one to show their "virtuousness", and the other to win over the husband's heart and block the mouths of everyone. At this point, the two people really coincide,
They are all deeply scheming.
Feng Jie and Jin Gui both have "hills and valleys" in their hearts, and their hearts are fierce and hot. Jia Lian secretly married You Erjie, and after the East Window Incident, Sister Feng used clever words to earn You Erjie into Jia Mansion, using Qiu Tong to borrow a knife to kill people, causing You Erjie to eventually swallow gold and commit suicide, drinking and hating. Xia Jingui's difficulty and humiliation and torture of Xiangling made Xiangling almost betrayed by Aunt Xue, or Baochao came forward to take Xiangling away, and from then on cut off everything with Xue Pan. Although "Dream of the Red Chamber" is not finished, the sentence "Since the birth of a lonely tree in the two places, causing the soul of Xiangling to return to his hometown" undoubtedly announces the tragic end of Xiangling's final death at the hands of Xia Jingui.
It can be seen that Feng Jie and Xia Jingui really have a lot of similarities. However, the two are by no means similar, and the differences other than similarities are so obvious.
First of all, the attitude towards mother-in-law and elders is different.
Sister Feng is from everyone, and she does not dare to lose her measure in the number of gifts. Not to mention that she accepted the thousands of talents under the knees of Jia Mu, and had great respect for Lady Wang, who was both a mother-in-law and an aunt, even for her mother-in-law, Lady Xing, who did not have a harmonious relationship with her, she was also respectful.
Lady Xing hated Sister Feng mainly because of two points: First, although she was the daughter-in-law of the long house, the Rongguo Mansion was managed by the younger daughter-in-law, Lady Wang. In this way, Lady Xing inevitably complained about Jia Mu's eccentricity and became suspicious of Lady Wang. Second, although Sister Feng was her own daughter-in-law, she was also Lady Wang's niece, and Mother Jia did not give Lady Xing the power to manage the house, but called Sister Feng to help Lady Wang's housekeeper.
Jia Lian was not born to Lady Xing, and Sister Feng knew that Lady Xing was a "left-wing" person, stupid and strong in nature, greedy and miserly, so Sister Feng's respect for Lady Xing was not sincere. However, after all, Sister Feng was a daughter-in-law, and she did not dare to overstep the etiquette and religion, nor did she dare not follow the rules of her daughter-in-law.
On the matter of Jia Shuqiang marrying Mandarin Duck, Lady Xing first came to consult with Sister Feng, and When Sister Feng saw that Lady Xing could not be persuaded, she turned to Lady Xing and said beautiful things. In order to avoid suspicion, she even broke up Ping'er, lest she miss the wind and be blamed by Lady Xing. It can be seen that Sister Feng's jealousy of her mother-in-law is deep. However, Lady Xing still had a grudge against Sister Feng, and borrowed a topic to play on Jia Mu's birthday, and gave Sister Feng a face in public, and Sister Feng secretly shed tears in no one's place, and did not dare to speak out.
Sister Feng is such a strong person, but in front of her mother-in-law, she does not dare to be strong at all, and even swallows her anger. This is very different from Xia Jingui.
Although Xia Jingui's family is very rich, her widowed mother dotes on her, which makes her develop a thief's temper. After marrying into the Xue family, seeing that the Xue family has a simple population and the mother-in-law Xue aunt is a good person, she does not take the mother-in-law in her eyes. In the process of attacking Xiangling and controlling Xue Pan, she dared to quarrel with her mother-in-law through the window, completely disregarding her face and etiquette. Although Aunt Xue was so angry that her ribs hurt, she had no choice but to take this daughter-in-law.
Xia Jingui's disrespectful behavior toward his mother-in-law was a great sin in ancient times and could be abandoned. The reason why Aunt Xue was so poisoned by Xia Jingui was of course related to her personality, but the most important thing was that it was related to the increasing decline of the Xue family. And Xia Jingui deviated from the religion of human ethics and openly sprinkled on her mother-in-law, even if it is placed in our modern society, it is condemned.
At this point, Xia Jingui was not as much as Sister Feng.
Secondly, they have different attitudes towards their confidants.
Sister Feng and Jin Gui have a similar move, in order to win over her husband, she will give up her own personal servant and give her husband to be a person in the house. But this similar move is so different: the original intention is different, and the results are different.
Sister Feng gave Ping'er to Jia Lian, although it was inevitable that she would be jealous, but she was right to look at people, Ping'er was a serious person, and always regarded Sister Feng as the object of her loyalty. Ping'er was forced by Sister Feng to make a concubine for Jia Lian, she did not covet the "glory" of being an aunt, and always humbly guarded her duty in front of Sister Feng.
In fact, not only Sister Feng, as a squire trained by Sister Feng, Ping'er is also extremely smart. Completely different from Aunt Zhao and Qiu Tong, Ping'er is not only kind, she is also rarely sober: the identity status of the aunt determines that she can only skillfully maneuver between the power of Sister Feng and the customs of Jia Lian to protect herself.
The survival in this crevice is already painful, but ping'er's valuable point is that not only can she protect herself, but also can balance the relationship between Feng Jie and Jia Lian with her own wisdom and calmness, and even protect people who are weaker than herself, such as Sister You, and the little girls. People in Jia Fu hate Feng Jie abound, but everyone in Jia Fu loves Ping'er and praises Ping'er. Feng Jie won the right arm for her housekeeper, and Ping'er found a place for her survival.
Xia Jingui, on the other hand, is completely different from Sister Feng. She also gave Bao Toad to Xue Pan, thinking that she had separated the relationship between Xue Pan and Xiang Ling, and it was easy to say that Bao Toad was her own person. It was not expected that Bao Toad was not a fuel-saving lamp, and there was no loyalty of Ping'er to Sister Feng, and once he was a member of Xue Pan's house, he didn't even have a name, so he thought that he had flown up the branches and changed into a phoenix. Xia Jingui's abacus failed, but it caused endless troubles to himself. In fact, Jin Gui blindly regarded Bao Toad as "her own person" was stupid, she had not given Bao Toad warmth and warmth, why was Bao Toad loyal to her?
Although there was no positive description of the situation of the two people in the Xia family, looking at Bao Toad's vicious vitriol, it can be imagined that she had probably never been treated well by the Xia family. Before Xia Jingui got married, he developed a "thief" temper and scolded and beat the family's servants lightly. The treasure toad is close to the waiter, and it is inevitable that it will be angry. The grievances of this stomach do not dare to squeak, once there is an opportunity to approach the male protagonist, it is inevitable to have many non-divided thoughts, so there are also light and wild. Although it is impossible for the aunt to sit on an equal footing with the main room, Bao Toad and Jin Gui have been feuding for a long time, and they are also influenced by the master, and they are also the habits of the Xia family, so they will not accept Xia Jingui's torture, and they will roll around with it, looking for death and making trouble.
The two also have different attitudes towards their husbands.
Although Sister Feng is strong, but in the beginning, she and Jia Lian can also be regarded as a loving couple, and the two people have also had a quiet period of love. Jia Lian escorted Sister Lin back to Yangzhou, and Sister Feng was worried; when Jia Lian returned, Sister Feng was full of joy. To make a birthday for Baochao, although Sister Feng has an idea, she still has to ask Jia Lian first to show respect. Aunt Zhao found a job for her two sons, and Sister Feng immediately placed her beautiful and beautiful - because Grandma Zhao was Jia Lian's grandmother.
Although everyone knows that the limelight of Second Grandmother Lian has overwhelmed Second Master Lian, sister Feng is still defending her own "virtuous wife" personality after all, and does not dare to openly challenge her husband's power. Only later, the two people gradually drifted apart, Feng Jie tasted the sweetness of power, jia Lian also went farther and farther on the road of stealing chickens and dogs, but the marital love between the two people was getting weaker and weaker. And all this cannot be borne by Sister Feng alone, jia lian also has responsibility.
Xia Jingui was not as much as Sister Feng. Her control over Xue Pan was fierce and sharp from the beginning. To this end, he also painstakingly fabricated magic tricks, planted stolen goods to frame Xiangling, and forced the overlord to be violent to Xiangling. Jin Gui really couldn't see any love for Xue Pan, of course, this was also because the Dumb Overlord was really unbearable, Xia Jingui was arrogant and arrogant, and there were regrets after marrying over.
Throughout the text, Xia Jingui only considered how to be the head of the house, control her husband, and her mother-in-law. Squeezing out Xiangling and quarreling with Bao Toad, xue pan was afraid to go home, which caused Aunt Xue to be depressed and annoyed, and she was really a "disturbing family star".
Why is Xia Jingui, who is "quite in the footsteps of Xi Feng", so different from Sister Feng? I think the root cause stems from the difference in their upbringing. After all, Sister Feng is from a big family, from Mrs. Wang and Aunt Xue, you can see the Wang family's upbringing of her daughter, Aunt Xue has a peaceful temperament, and Mrs. Wang is also known as "Buddha-like", all of which guard the temperament of everyone's daughter. Compared with the two aunts, Sister Feng is already a lot "out of line", but even if yang and yin are violated, Sister Feng does not dare to brazenly fight with her mother-in-law like Jin Gui and control her husband. And the reason why Jin Gui is so vicious is nothing more than because the widowed mother is doting, spoiled, and lacks discipline. She was also an outlier in that era.
Although Feng Jie and Jin Gui have some similarities, in the end, because the original families of the two people are different, the parenting methods are different, and they have become completely different characters. Although Feng Jie's viciousness and greed have been criticized, there are still many remarkable points in her exquisite attitude toward the world, her style of killing and decisiveness, her vigorous and practical style, and her witty humor. And Xia Jingui, although the book says that she "if you talk about the longitude and latitude of the hills and valleys in your heart, quite step after Xi Feng", in fact, the accumulation of habits caused by her upbringing is doomed to be difficult for her to look back on compared with Sister Feng.
Author: Du Ruo, this article is to read less of the original works of the Red Chamber.