Jia Yingchun is a character in Dream of the Red Chamber and one of the Twelve Nobles of Jinling. Small partners who are very interested in this, Xiaobian brings detailed articles for your reference.
Among the many daughters with miserable fates in the "Dream of the Red Chamber" Jinling Twelve Books, Yingchun's ending is the most lamentable, according to the book, she was treated as a "commodity" by her father Jia Amnesty, sold to the Sun family, and was beaten and scolded by her husband Sun Shaozu at every turn in the Sun family, and even thrown to the lower room from time to time to sleep, and finally was tortured to death, just in response to her judgment song "Happy Wrongdoers": Looking at the Houmen Yan and Pu Liu, the gongfu who was committing the abuse was as indecent as if he were vulgar...
Cao Gong's sentence was already written very euphemistically, but from these words, we can also see Sun Shaozu's atrocities against Yingchun, a beast. Among them, the more controversial is the reliability of this view of "Jia pardoning and selling women", first of all, this statement is Yingchun's own words, that is the 80th time, when Yingchun was married to Sun Shaozu, after returning home, he cried to Madame Wang, during which he mentioned "Jia pardoned and sold women":
Yingchun Fang cried and cried in Madame Wang's room, saying, "Sun Shaozu was blindly lustful... He also said that the old man had received five thousand pieces of silver from him, and that he should not have made it to him, and now that he had come two or three times, he pointed to my face and said, 'Don't be my wife or lady.' Your old man gave me five thousand pieces of silver and sold you to me for a discount. —80th
As a result, Jia pardoned Sun Shaozu for five thousand taels of silver, so the idea that Yingchun married Sun Shaozu as a debt was widely spread, but if you think about it carefully, you will find that this statement is actually very imprecise, and even the opposite of the truth.
First of all, Jia Shu took Sun Shaozu's five thousand taels of silver, which is certain, and even according to the details in the book, we can infer the use of the five thousand taels of silver that Sun Shaozu sent jia amnesty:
This Sun family was a member of the Datong Fu clan, whose ancestors were from the military ranks, and were protégés of the two provinces of Rining and Rong, and they were also related to the family. At present, there is only one person in the Sun family in Beijing, and he is now in command. This person's name was Sun Shaozu, born with a great appearance, a strong physique, a skillful bow and horse, a change of social rights, under the age of thirty, and a wealthy family, and now the Marquis of the Army was promoted. - 79th
The last sentence is the point. For example, in the book, it was written that Jiao Da rescued the Ning Guofu Taiye in the pile of dead people, which was actually the situation when the ancestors of the Jia family fought in the war.
Sun Shaozu sent Jia Amnesty five thousand taels of silver, most likely because he was in a state of "lack of promotion in the military department", so he wanted Jia To help and let his official functions rise by one liter, but Jia Shu took the money, but things did not work out, and finally let Yingchun marry Sun Shaozu, and the five thousand taels of silver did not have to be returned.
In other words, Jia Amnesty married Yingchun to Sun Shaozu, not to "lai account", but to envelop the Sun family and extend the political power of the Jia family.
In disbelief and watching the 55th time of "Dream of the Red Chamber", Wang Xifeng and Ping'er plotted the cost of the Rongguo Mansion in the next few years, during which they mentioned the dowry of the girls:
Ping'er said, "Not really!" In the future, there will be three or four girls, two or three little masters, and an old lady, and these major things are not finished. Sister Feng smiled and said, "I'm worried about this too... The second girl is from the big old man's side, and it doesn't count, there are three or four left, full of broken each person spends ten thousand silver, ring brother marriage is limited, spend three thousand two silver, no matter where to save a sip, it is enough. - 55th
Pay attention to the details, although Wang Xifeng did not explicitly mention the number of dowries for marriage because Yingchun was a person in the big house, the other three or four girls were explicitly mentioned, and each person needed a dowry of 10,000 taels of silver; Jia Huan was also out of the house, and he was so unpopular, and he also needed three thousand taels of silver to marry his relatives.
Therefore, according to the normal number of gifts in Jia Province, the dowry of Yingchun should also be 10,000 taels of silver! And even if you take ten thousand steps back, the Jia family is poor and can't afford such a rich dowry, and a discount in half is five thousand taels of silver, which is enough to offset Sun Shaozu's five thousand taels of silver!
Therefore, there is no situation of "Jia Amnesty selling women" at all, because the dowry paid by Jia Shu is completely greater than Sun Shaozu's five thousand taels of silver, if he really wants to save money and wants to rely on Sun Shaozu's account, how can he be so confused and do the opposite?
The author believes that Jia Yu's marriage of Yingchun to Sun Shaozu is definitely not for the sake of settling accounts, but has a deeper purpose, that is, for the sake of family interests - to use Yingchun to achieve the purpose of marrying the Sun family!
In fact, political marriage is the core of the marriage of these rich nobles, not to mention Jia Zheng, his eldest son Jia Zhu, married to the daughter of the famous eunuch guozi of Jinling, Li Yi, equivalent to the daughter of today's Minister of Education, according to the reason, there is still a gap between the Li family's family lineage and the Jia family, but Jia Zheng wants to realize the transformation of the family's "military merit - keju", so the selection of marriage objects for future generations must be Shuxiang Mendi, which is also when Jia Amnesty wants to marry Yingchun to Sun Shaozu. The reasons why Jia Zheng stood up and expressed his opposition:
Jia Zheng also deeply hated the Sun family, although they were family friends, it was only Pizu Xi Mu Rong and Ning Zhi, and there were things that could not be settled, so he worshiped under the door. He was not a descendant of the poetry book family, so he was advised twice. Jia had no choice but to listen, and had no choice but to stop. - 79th
Jia Zheng and Jia Amnesty, as the master class of Jia Fu, when choosing relatives, there are considerations for the interests of family development in their bones, but Jia Zheng looks at it very far-term and knows what kind of road the family should take, but Jia Zheng does not have enough vision and pattern, so he only considers the reality in front of him, so at the night banquet of the 75th Mid-Autumn Festival, Jia Amnesty made a big fallacy: Our children, read some books, but they understand it a little more than others, when they can be officials, they can't run an official, why bother to make more effort, but make a nerdy weather?
This also explains why Jia Yu "has the unique wisdom" to choose Sun Shaozu as his son-in-law, he only values superficial forces, and feels that marrying Yingchun to Sun Shaozu can include the Sun family in the political forces of the Jia family, which is of great benefit to the future of the Jia family, who expected that Sun Shaozu watched the Jia family's rivers and rivers decline, but he did not look up to the Jia family, and he dared to torture Yingchun is the best example.
In summary, Jia Yu's marriage of Yingchun to Sun Shaozu is not explained by a simple sentence of "selling his daughter", but behind it there is an unspoken interweaving of various forces, which must be carefully tasted and discovered by the reader, otherwise it is a pity to read the Red Chamber and only read the skin.