"Dream of the Red Chamber" reads to the sixty-eighth time, and the goal of the reply is "Bitter You Niang earned into the Grand View Garden, and Sister Sour Feng made a big fuss in the Ningguo Mansion". The plot is basically clear to everyone, from this time Sister Feng's big trouble in the Ningguo Mansion to the next time Sister You Committed Suicide by Swallowing Gold, Sister You was actually calculated to death by Wang Xifeng. Of course, it is unforgivable to harm people and lose their lives, but After all, Sister You committed suicide, so there are positive and negative opinions on Feng Jie's evaluation.
(Bitter Lady earned into the Grand View Garden)
So there is a question, how should we evaluate the fact that Sister Feng calculated Sister You?
This is a huge problem, because evaluating this matter means to evaluate Wang Xifeng, and in the "Twelve Nobles of the Red Chamber", Wang Xifeng is the most complex, most three-dimensional, and most plump character image, to evaluate her, it is not simple, if you want to find the most accurate evaluation, you can only be Cao Xueqin's sentence and song to her:
The verdict is:
All birds who come from the last days know and love this life. One from two to three people wood, crying to Jinling matter more mournful.
The song is "Smart Tired":
The organs were too clever to calculate Qingqing's life. The heart is broken before death, and the sex is ethereal after death. The rich are rather than happy, and eventually there is a family of dead people scattered and galloping. In vain, the meaning hangs in the heart of the half world; it is like a good one, swinging three more dreams. Suddenly the horn is like a building falling, and the darkness is as if the lights are about to run out. Yikes! A joy and sorrow. Sigh the world, it is difficult to determine!
But after all, there are few words and songs, and Chinese characters often have "Spring and Autumn", the simpler the text, the richer it is, therefore, everyone has different understandings of the sentences and songs, so Wang Xifeng has become the most controversial character in "Dream of the Red Chamber", to evaluate her, whether it is praise or depreciation, it is not flattering.
(Wang Xifeng)
The more mainstream old views are mostly criticism of her, thinking that she is a villain with a vicious heart and poisonous means, probably influenced by old movies or old literary reviews, but in fact, to evaluate Wang Xifeng, we cannot preconceived old views, and strive to be more objective and fully understand her.
Wang Xifeng was born in the last days. This is the premise of the whole book of "Dream of the Red Chamber", this last days, mainly refers to the financial situation of Jia Province, Wang Xifengsheng in the fourth generation of Jia Province, each generation, the income from the title is immediately reduced, that is to say, the income of Jia Province is decreasing day by day. However, the expenditure of Jia Fu did not decrease with time, maintaining the expenditure situation at the beginning of the knighthood, and even because of the "growing teeth and increasingly complicated teeth", the expenditure increased, in short, the financial situation of the Jia Province managed by Wang Xifeng was not enough to make ends meet.
What about the size of the population of Jaffa province she manages?
According to baoyu the fifth time, "Now there are hundreds of girls in my family alone, up and down. Notice that this is only a girl; the sixth time he said: "According to the sum of the people in the Rong Province, although the population is not large, there are three or four hundred dings from top to bottom." This refers to men; so, on the fifty-second occasion, Musk Moon said, "Thousands of people in the family." That is to say: Wang Xifeng is managing a large family of thousands of people who cannot make ends meet.
Thousands of people, naturally things happen every day, just as this time Sister Shan said to Sister You:
Our grandmother promised the old lady every day, and she had to undertake the wife here and the wife on the other side. These concubines and sisters, hundreds of men and women up and down, rose up every day and waited for his words. There are one or twenty major events in a day, and thirty or fifty small things. Counting from the mother-in-law outside, and how many courtesies there are in the family of the prince and prince, there are also the dispatches of these relatives and friends at home. Thousands of dollars in silver, dispatched from his hands and hearts and mouths every day....
From this point of view, Wang Xifeng's ability to govern the family is very strong, and the Zhou Rui family said that she "treats the next person too strictly" because she is a real manager, "Ci does not control the soldiers", a family of thousands of people, how to get it if she is not strict. Therefore, she must be strong, she must be shrewd, and sometimes even unscrupulous (she emboldened herself to say, "Never believe in what is the retribution of Hell").
(Wang Xifeng Mantou Annongquan)
Wang Xifeng's most criticized thing is that she took over the lawsuit and lent usurious loans. But if we think about it, as a woman who can't leave the house, can we think of a better way to increase our income? Without. Taking care of litigation matters, using the remaining or existing prestige of the Jia family (this is actually the resources of the Jia family), only need to send the words to the hand, the money will be in hand; usury is to use money to make money, just need to send people out to lend and collect accounts.
For Wang Xifeng, these are the two fastest, most convenient, most affordable and most reasonable ways to get money. What's more, she used all her profits to fill the deficit of Jia Fu, in order to show her ability, in order to maintain the normal operation of Jia Fu, she was really "exhausted", and she could not care about the inevitable evil behind these two things that brought her income. In fact, "capital comes into the world, from head to toe, every pore is dripping with blood and dirty things" (Marx), but all wealth is almost accompanied by sin.
However, in the sixty-eighth time, Wang Xifeng used it on his own family. She first used good words to earn Second Sister You to enter the Grand View Garden (not formally, it was sneaked into the Grand View Garden), and then manipulated Zhang Hua to sue her husband Jia Lian.
(You Erniang enters the Grand View Garden)
Of course, his four felonies are obvious: a felony of national mourning and marrying a relative; a felony of family bereavement; a felony of deceiving one's parents to marry a wife; and another felony of stopping one's wife and remarrying. Of course, Wang Xifeng wants to make a big fuss, but this time the calculation and big trouble go beyond Chinese the traditional "meat rotting in the pot", "folding her arms and hiding in the sleeves", and closing the door to deal with the final bottom line of her own affairs, that is, she really crossed the so-called "etiquette" of the Chinese this time. If the original work is that Wang Xifeng was finally suspended ("one from two to three people"), then this time he manipulated Zhang Hua's complaint, which is likely to be the direct cause of her being suspended.
Ou Lijuan commented that Wang Xifeng's "great virtue does not exceed idleness" (the words "Analects of Zi Zhang", which is Zi Xia's words, that is, not to cross the boundaries in major festivals), saying that she does not lose money in major festivals, which is actually inaccurate, and when she manipulated Zhang Hua to sue her husband, her so-called "big festival" has long been lost. She broke through the bottom line of "etiquette" that should not be broken.
(Big Trouble Ningguo Mansion)
Some friends will feel that Wang Xifeng came up with the strategy of "one plan to harm the three sages" in order to calculate Second Sister You this time, which she had to do, and felt that this was a necessary struggle for her own interests, and men like Jia Lian, Jia Zhen, and Jia Rong really should be cured. Wang Xifeng has always been that rare talent for ruling the world, a real "can Qi family" skirt, is a "scarf hero", think she "did a beautiful job", really wonderful! Especially the part of rubbing Youshi, it is really painful! It's called relief!
But we insist that although Wang Xifeng is capable, courteous, and decent (she and Jia Rong are certainly not unclean), she loves her husband, and she is even the pillar and compass for maintaining the rong family style and maintaining the continuous survival of the rong house, but she really "crossed the line" this time, crossing the boundary of traditional Chinese "etiquette".
(Acid Fengjie made a big fuss in Ningguo Mansion)
Perhaps this is the reason that Qi Ben has such an evaluation before returning:
Yu read "Zuo Shi" see Zheng Zhuang, read "Later Han" see Wei Wu, said that the ancient great traitor, but this is the most. Reading the "Book of Stones" today, I also saw Sister Feng as a blessing, using softness to use rigidity, occupying the height of the step, leaving the step wide, killing to death, and saving life. Born with such a person, there are many injuries.
The evaluation after The Return of The Moon is also close to:
People say that the section of the Ningguo Mansion is extremely fierce, and the section of earning the second sister is extremely kind. I say that the situation in the Ning Mansion is forgivable, and the law of earning the second sister is not to be punished. The sound of the noisy Ning Mansion is tears, and the words of the second sister are all sharp.
Zheng Zhuanggong's method of disposing of his younger brother Duan was "Spring and Autumn", calling "Zheng Boke Duan Yu Yan" because his uncle Duan was not like a younger brother, Zheng Zhuanggong was not like a brother, Zheng Zhuanggong was a politician, but he was not a good brother who could teach his younger brother; as for Emperor Cao Cao of Weiwu, he was even more "a capable minister who ruled the world and a traitor to the chaotic world", they were all counted as "great traitors and giants", compared with these two people, there are indeed similarities between Sister Feng, and the "Yuan Qi" of Jia Fu was indeed "hurt" a lot by her calculations this time.
In other words, Wang Xifeng, who was devoted to Jia Province, accelerated the decline of Jia Province in this calculation. Even she herself, in this calculation, changed from an upright manager to a "conspirator."
([Follow the pudding to read "The Red Chamber"] No. 142, picture from the Internet)