In ancient times, there was a scholar who was short of money, so he sold his daughter to become a child bride in exchange for 10 taels of silver. The daughter's husband died, the mother-in-law took in a scoundrel, the rogue forced the daughter to marry him, the daughter did not agree, the rogue sent a notice to the government to let her go to jail. Before her daughter died, she had three wishes, "If she is wronged, let the blood splash white practice, june snow, three years of drought."
This scholar's name was Dou Tianzhang, after the death of his wife, he wanted to go to Beijing to take the exam, in order to make up enough entanglements, he sold his daughter Dou E to The Cai mother-in-law's family as a child bridesmaid.
Dou E married her husband Cai Sheng ten years later, and the life of the two was quite comfortable, but the good times were not long, and her husband died. The mother-in-law Cai Shi was rescued by two rogue Zhang Donkey Er and his father Zhang Lao'er, and in order to repay the mother-in-law, they took them in to live at home. Zhang Donkey Er and his father are both bachelors, and Zhang Donkey forced Grandma Cai to marry his father, and Grandma Cai reluctantly agreed when she was afraid.
Zhang Donkey did the same and forced Dou E to marry him, and Dou E not only disagreed, but also scolded her, and Zhang Donkey has always hated this. Zhang Donkey thought to herself, the Cai family only has their mother-in-law and daughter-in-law, if they poison Cai's mother-in-law, how can Dou'e escape from her palm.
Grandma Cai was sick and wanted to eat lamb tripe soup, and Dou E filially made a good job for her. Zhang Donkey took the opportunity to put poison inside, and when Dou'e gave the lamb tripe tang to her mother-in-law, the mother-in-law felt that she could not eat it, so the bowl of soup was given to Zhang Lao'er, who died of poison shortly after eating. Zhang Donkey took the opportunity to blackmail Dou'e and wrongfully accused her of poisoning his father.
Zhang Donkey bought the prefect in advance, and he used a heavy punishment on Dou E, forcing her to admit that she had killed people, and no matter how much Dou E was tortured, she could not admit what she had not done. The prefect knew that Dou'e was filial and obedient, so he arrested her mother-in-law and, if she did not confess guilt, he tortured her mother-in-law. Dou'e thought that her mother-in-law was old and could not bear a heavy punishment at all, so she had no choice but to confess her guilt.
The prefect of Chu Prefecture convicted Dou E of her to death and took her to the execution ground. Dou'e had nowhere to complain, and she swore with tears in the sky: "If she is wronged, first, the blood is splashed in vain, and no bit of blood can be allowed to fall into the sludge; second, june flying snow; third, three years of drought."
After the execution of the execution, Dou E's blood was all splashed on the white cloth hanging high, obviously it was the height of summer in June, but suddenly there was heavy snow flying goose feathers, and Chuzhou had three consecutive years of drought, and everyone believed in Dou E's innocence.
A few years after Dou E's death, her father returned to her hometown as an official, and Dou E's unjust case was unjustly unjustly convicted, and Zhang Donkey'er and the prefect of Chu Prefecture were brought to justice.
This story comes from Guan Hanqing's "Dou E'e Grievance", which mainly tells the tragic life of Dou E, she was sold by her father since she was a child, her husband jun died and was forced to remarry, she was sentenced to death for obvious innocence, all of which she could not get fair in reality, so she could only make three wishes to seek justice to heaven.
Guan Hanqing was a famous opera composer in the Yuan Dynasty, he was the first of the four great masters of the Yuanqu, and his "Dou E'e Grievance" was also one of the four tragedies of the Yuanqu. Most of the literati in ancient times liked to write about men, because of the concept of male superiority and female inferiority, few people set their sights on women, and Guan Hanqing did it.
He depicts many women in his pen, which is also very specific in the documentary "China". The women Guan Hanqing pays attention to are not women of noble status, he pays more attention to women who are at the bottom and have low status, such as Qinglou women, maids, weak women abandoned by their parents, nurses, and so on.
All women have become vivid and interesting in his pen, they will never be ashamed of their own identity, on the contrary, everyone is working hard to live, they are using their own ability to create their own value, women can also not let their eyebrows, they are not anyone's appendages, but independent of themselves, they can face life bravely and strongly through their own will and ability, to pursue their own happiness.
Guan Hanqing can write such a vivid female character because he has a deep identification with women in his heart. He never despises women, on the contrary, he respects women, he can see the value of women, can know their efforts for the family, for life, at the same time, he can also see their sadness, write about the injustice they have received, in the hope that everyone can see their existence, can speak for them.
Guan Hanqing, who can have this kind of thinking, is extremely rare, because the ancient concept of men and women has a qualitative thinking, "husband for wife", but in Guan Hanqing's concept of thinking, she believes that women are independent individuals, they are not someone else's XXX, they are themselves.
So Guan Hanqing is a "leaning youth", but also a cutting-edge artist who does not live in the old concept, if you want to know more about his story, you can go to see the popular documentary "China", which will make people have a different understanding of Guan Hanqing, and also let you see the epitome of the story of the Southern Song Dynasty through his story. #Documentary China ##好书共读启新岁 #
