Now girls watch "Dream of the Red Chamber" and feel that the little sister in the book is well-treated, and it is enough to talk about love and poetry and painting.
Web dramas look at it, but isn't that how they are acted?
Sister Lin
But the Thousand Golden Ladies in the Grand View Garden, there are a lot of bearded women, why do you still need everyone to do needlework?
Is it to save money?
It doesn't look like it. They should not be short of money, and they can buy, buy, and buy at will.
Didn't Jia Baoyu buy a lot of things for Dai Yu Ton chun, and Xue Pan traveled to Southern Gusu at public expense and brought back several large boxes of souvenirs?
The presiding grandmother in Jia Province, whichever head jewelry, is enough for the Zhuang family to live a good life for many years.
Jia Mu should wear a high-end style, a birthday gift sent by others, luxurious and high-end clothes, and send it to the poor relative Liu Grandma in the countryside with a wave of her hand.
They all dressed like young grandmothers, so that Grandma Liu recognized the wrong person and regarded Ping'er as Sister Feng.
If Shi Xiangyun still had to work overtime at night, it was understandable that at that time, because his aunt was stingy and mean, he wanted to save money.
Why did Sister Colin still cut her own clothes? Could it be that she is versatile and wants to engage in amateur fashion design?
Therefore, doing needlework in such a rich family as Jia Fu is really not to save money.
Stills from "Dream of the Red Chamber"
Rather, for the following reasons:
First, for love.
In ancient times, men and women exchanged gifts, very exquisite, in addition to "the most acacia red beans, girls often send boys purses, sachets and other handmade products, such as a needle and a thread are poured with affection."
It's like now that her boyfriend is hungry in the middle of the night, and his girlfriend calls for takeaway for him, although it is an empathetic warmth, it is not as intimate as her own cooking, washing her hands and making soup.
If it weren't for true love, how could it be so? Dou Wentao once said in the show that a woman who can cook for you is much cuter than a woman who calls takeaway for you, but unfortunately the sea kings do not understand.
Bao Chao and The Raider once embroidered a close-fitting belly pocket, most likely embroidered lotus flowers and Mandarin ducks.
And the frail and sickly Lin sister occasionally embroidered a purse, which is a benefit enjoyed by the brother.
Just like girls now, it is good to be able to knit a glove or scarf for her boyfriend as a Valentine's Day gift.
Second, casually pass the time.
Since the hand-knitting is time-consuming and laborious, the efficiency is low. A cotton coat is made for more than half a month, not to mention delicate works such as embroidery. Needlework is time-consuming.
After Jia Lian sent Sister Lin out of the far door, people like Sister Feng, when they were bored at night, also did needlework with Ping'er for a while before going to sleep.
Third, social needs.
It is said that in "Jin Ping Mei", Ximen Qing took Jin Lian home and became his fifth concubine. The next day, Jin Lian went to the room of the eldest lady Wu Yueniang, "Meet the size, and hand over the shoes and feet."
After three days, she went to knitting with the moon lady every day, making shoes and feet, not taking strongly in everything, not moving, and the set almost won her favor.
In "Dream of the Red Chamber", when Aunt Xue celebrates her birthday, the girls send a few needles and threads as a congratulatory gift.
Fourth, the basic skills of women.
Under the influence of male farming and female weaving culture, female red is a necessary skill for girls, in order to prepare for marriage.
Yu opera "Mulan" classic lyrics are: go to the land during the day, spin cotton at night, if you don't believe that, please look at this body, thousands of needles and threads can be even they are connected, who said that we women are not as good as children and men?
The standard of the ancient virtuous wife was to go up to the hall, go down to the kitchen, take the embroidery needle, and be a baby and a wife.
Before a woman gets married, she does needlework to prepare for the dowry, and after becoming a wife, she must do a good job of dressing, eating, and carrying a baby.
"The mother's hand is threaded, the wanderer's body is clothed", washing clothes, mending clothes and making shoes are the duties of loving mothers.
Handmade coiled floral buttons
As a basic essential skill, women can read illiberally, but female red is a must. Of course, the dowry is also more or less a part, and it can be regarded as a skilled woman, which is also a skill.
Therefore, the needlework of the female red of the needle was one of the four virtues of the female "appearance, face, virtue and work" in ancient times, even the Qianjin ladies of Jia Province were no exception.
Today, the definition of a good wife and a good mother has changed a lot. Up to the hall, down to the kitchen, housework is no longer the hostess's patent, and the modernization of production, needlework seems to be unnecessary.
It is convenient for people to buy ready-to-wear clothes, do not do needlework, do not knit sweaters. Nevertheless, if the clothes fall off a few buttons and go to find someone to nail, ordinary people do not even have a sewing box in their homes, the hostess of this home is probably not qualified enough in the eyes of everyone.