People living in the world often have a very beautiful yearning for love, and in the novels of ancient times, we often see the fragments of talented women before the moon, but the ideal and reality are different after all, and the stories of the world are nine out of ten sad, often falling flowers intentionally, and the flow of water is merciless.
Before her death, Du Shiniang threw her life savings into the rolling river, and the image of a woman with clear love and hate, enthusiasm and purity instantly remained in people's hearts, becoming a role that people will never forget in the history of ancient Chinese novels.
Du Shiniang angrily sank the treasure chest - Shi Ye? Fate also!
At the port of Guazhou, the river is cold and cold, on the boat by the river, Du Shiniang glared at the two people, one of whom was her lover Li Jia, who had been privately destined for life, and a rich man in gorgeous clothes, who was today Du Shiniang's "buyer", and this seller was Du Shiniang's sweetheart Li Jia.
And this deal, it is Li Jia on the first day with the "buyer" Sun Fu to negotiate, Li Jia is afraid that the penniless himself will be scolded by his father when he returns home, and Sun Fu just covets Du Shiniang's beauty, the two hit it off and immediately made a deal.
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Poor Du Shiniang at this time, it was difficult to redeem her free body from the Qinglou, she was still in the boat foolishly waiting for the return of her sweetheart, they had just arrived at this place, they were about to face a new, unknown, but hopeful life, but when Li Jia returned, he brought the news that he had been sold.
Du Shiniang was disheartened, she was born in the Qinglou, accustomed to the slippery tongue, mean and widowed, originally thought that picking the gentle and honest Li Jia, she would be able to get love and respect, she worked hard to get a free body, it was difficult to meet life as a normal woman, but did not think that this man is no different from those negative people outside.
In their eyes, Du Shiniang has always been a prostitute born in Hook Bar, and a Qinglou woman is not worthy of human rights, so it is not surprising that she is bought and sold.
Sun Fu wanted to buy, Li Jia sold, a contract let a woman who was already suffering slide into the abyss of fate.
At this moment of learning the truth, Du Shiniang finally felt angry, but she had not immediately torn her face with Li Jia, she just sneered, "admired" Li Jia's meticulous calculations, and pretended to agree to Li Jia's request.
At the fourth change, Li Jia was still whirring and sleeping, Du Shiniang had already gotten up, she lightly swept her eyebrows, tapped her lips, took out the luxurious dress she had not worn for a long time, and dressed herself brightly: she knew what she was going to face, and she also made her own choice, everything just waited for dawn.
So the crowd of onlookers by the river and the people watching the bustle on other boats saw this scene in the early morning: she took the silver in Sun Fu's hand, counted it, sneered, and then asked a servant to take out a box depicting gold.
Du Shiniang took out the key, slowly opened the box in his hand, only to see that there were still rows of drawers in the box, and The tenth lady asked Li Jia to pull out the first layer, only to see that there were jade and jade rings, and a rough look was already worth more than a hundred gold.
Li Jia was shocked to see this, but before he could return to his senses, Ten Niang had already thrown the contents of this drawer into the bottomless river, and the onlookers let out a few sighs, followed by the second and third layers...
The treasures in each layer were much more valuable than the previous ones, and by the time they reached the tenth floor, it was not clear how much the treasures in the drawers were worth.
But Du Shiniang ignored these external objects, and she pulled out the treasures in her chest layer by layer in front of Li Jia, and then sunk these treasures into the river, and the value of these treasures was far greater than the price that Li Jia sold her.
Subsequently, regardless of the eyes of everyone present, nor the look of great remorse on Li Jia's face, Du Shiniang pushed away this cowardly negative man, scolded Sun Fu for being uneasy and kind, and at the same time made a generous statement, telling her miserable fate to all the witnesses.
Finally, after saying the sentence "Concubines do not live up to Lang Jun, Lang Jun conceits concubines!" After that, Du Shiniang held the empty treasure chest in her hand and jumped into the water, and people hurriedly called for help, but the river was gushing and bottomless, and Du Shiniang's figure had long disappeared into the endless blue waves.
A generation of famous women like flowers and jade have been buried in the belly of the fish!
People say that Du Shiniang chose to throw herself into the river in anger because she was abandoned by Li Jia and felt extremely disappointed, but
From another point of view, if Du Shiniang wants to preserve her integrity, then death is her only place to go, and her Shenjiang is a helpless choice in the general environment...
Born in red dust, Du Shiniang's heart is devoted to love
Du Shiniang Shenjiang's choice is indeed a helpless move, but if you want to figure out the motives of her actions, you must start from her physical temperament.
Du Shiniang was born in the Qinglou, whenever people mention the Qinglou, they will have a bright and green, prosperous and chaotic impression in their hearts, mentioning prostitutes, many people will also show a meaningful and slightly contemptuous expression, but in ancient times, the Qinglou was often a place where literati and scholars gathered, and among the prostitutes, there were also many talented women.
Du Shiniang is such a woman, her identity in the novel is the wind and dust woman in the Teaching Workshop Division, although du Shiniang's life is not mentioned in the novel, but from her experience in the Qinglou, her origin will obviously not be much better.
Du Shiniang is not her name, her real name is Du Wei, because she ranks tenth in the Teaching Division, the sisters in the Teaching Division call her "Ten Niang", and this name has become her flower name.
Lonely and lonely, born like duckweed is the best portrayal of this woman, but Du Shiniang is born of a delicate style, flowers and moons, and also quite talented, such conditions naturally attracted the favor of many people, including many literati and nobles, princes and nobles, from the age of thirteen, Du Shiniang has lived a sought after life, for her lingering, ruined the family.
Du Shiniang understands that there is no true love between the scenes, so she has been living a life of wandering flowers and playing in the world, but in the depths of her heart, she is very yearning for a beautiful love.
She was helpless in the Qinglou, in the red dust, she was disappointed in the face of men, but on the other hand, she still had hope for the future, hoping that one day she could find someone who really cherished herself, and could live a life like an ordinary woman who worked at sunrise and sunset.
At this time, Li Jia appeared in Du Shiniang's life,
Li Jiazi Ganxian, the eldest son of the old man of Nanjing,
Li Jia has been studying in school since childhood, but he failed to climb the subject and the first, and when he traveled with his fellow villager Liu Yuchun in the Jiaofang Division, he met Du Shiniang, who looked like a heavenly immortal.
At that time, Li Jia was still a hairy boy who had never had contact with girls, and as soon as he saw Du Shiniang, he was deeply attracted by her appearance, and Du Shiniang saw that Li Jia was beautiful and handsome, extremely considerate and gentle to her, and his behavior style was not like those wandering boys who wandered in the flowers, and his personality was also very gentle and honest, so he also secretly fell in love with her.
The most rare thing in the world is that the two are happy, Du Shiniang and Li Jia lived a period of honey oil, but the good times were not long, and the two soon ushered in a most direct problem: money.
As a rich man, Li Jia was not short of money at the beginning, and after meeting Du Shiniang, he also threw thousands of dollars like other princes and grandsons, but in the long run, Li Jia had no income, and his money bag gradually became empty.
A year passed like this, Li Jia's belongings were gradually lacking, and the mother bustard saw that Li Jia's hand was not as generous as before, and her attitude gradually became sluggish, and because Li Jia often pestered Du Shiniang, many sons who asked to see Du Shiniang were turned away, losing Du Shiniang's cash cow, and deepening the dissatisfaction of the bustard mother.
On the one hand, although Li Jia is now penniless, his identity is there, and although the bustard mother is dissatisfied, she does not dare to do too much, so she vents this dissatisfaction on Du Shiniang, and every day Du Shiniang will receive her reprimands and insults.
In the eyes of the mother bustard, Du Shiniang has never been a person with feelings, she is just a tool used to make money in her hands, and now this cash cow has become a money-losing commodity, so in her opinion, everything Du Shiniang bears is deserved.
And Li Jia's father heard about Li Jia's affairs outside, felt very angry, repeatedly wrote letters to reprimand Li Jia, let Li Jia go home quickly, Li Jia who received his father's letter felt very scared, but he could not let go of Du Shiniang, and finally simply broke the jar and broke it, the more his father reprimanded him, the more he did not dare to go home.
All aspects of this society are putting pressure on the two, but no matter how difficult the world is, Du Shiniang has not given up her love, she wants to live the life of a normal woman too much, and the difficulty of the bustard mother did not make her shrink back, but let her pluck up her courage, and finally used the trick to fool the bustard mother and redeem her free body.
Du Shiniang finally gained the freedom that she had not been able to get since birth, and Du Shiniang, who had regained her freedom, finally had hope for a future life, and she finally did not have to be a cash cow of a mother bustard, and surrounded the benefactors without dignity.
But at this time, she still did not understand that from the moment she fell into the dust, her life was already a dead game, and her struggle to this unfair fate eventually became a joke of fate.
Li Jia was still afraid of his strict father at home, when he first came to Guazhou, he carried a rich entanglement, but now not only was he penniless, he had achieved nothing, thinking about this, Li Jia was more and more afraid to go back, plus Du Shiniang's identity was placed there, Li Jia did not dare to take her back to meet his father.
Money became a problem in Li Jia's heart, and finally there was a scene on Guazhou: Sun Fu took advantage of the void, made a "weighing of pros and cons" in front of Li Jia, and finally used the price of thousands of gold to make Li Jia agree to hand over Du Shiniang.
At this time, Li Jia did not expect that Du Shiniang had already prepared a surprise for him: before leaving, Du Shiniang met with the sisters who had lived together, and the sisters in the Sect Division before leaving handed her this treasure chest, which contained all the savings that Du Shiniang had stored in them, as well as a rich "dowry" from these sisters.
Du Shiniang originally planned that when Li Jia took her home, she took out a treasure chest worth ten thousand gold so that Li Jia could have an explanation in front of her father, but she did not expect that Li Jia would sell her to a stranger who had only met once just for a small amount of money.
Du Shiniang finally felt desperate, and at this moment she finally understood the truth of life:
This society is class-defined, from the moment she was born, she has no possibility of changing her destiny, in the eyes of people, she is a commodity that can be sold at will.
In fact, at this moment, Du Shiniang's despair is not only because Li Jia betrayed her, she has tasted the warmth and coldness of human feelings since she was a child, in the face of Li Jia's abandonment, she is not hysterical, her deeper despair comes from her own fate.
At this moment, she finally understood that she could never live a truly free life, no matter how much she struggled, she was just moving from one cage in her life to another.
Later generations often feel worthless or confused about Du Shiniang's choice, many people feel that if they are Du Shiniang, they will definitely take the treasure chest and fly away, regardless of the death or death of the negative person, people who hold this view often ignore the era in which Du Shiniang lived, what they do not understand is that this society does not provide such an option for Du Shiniang at all.
In such a society, money can not change her identity, nor can it change her fate, even if Li Jia did not do such a thing, she smoothly followed Li Jia back, and after that, she still lived a life of sending people under the fence and being discriminated against.
Not only could her money not help her in the slightest, but at this moment it became a burden: Pifu was innocent, he was guilty, and he simply threw himself into the river and cut off the world's thoughts.
The living Du Shiniang had only one choice: to become a concubine of Sun Fu, because her deed of sale was already in the hands of others, so she chose to throw herself into the river.
In such a vigorous way, he bid farewell to this unjust world.
In the past, Qu Yuan died of sinking into the Luo River, and now there is Du Shiniang crossing the river to jump into the river, although the identity and status of the two are completely different, but why is the cause of Du Shiniang's death not the same as Qu Yuan?
They all knew that this world could not be changed, and they felt helpless in this drowsy world.
In the case that integrity and survival cannot be combined, both choose the former, so they have to go to death.
Postscript: Will Du Shiniang's tragedy be repeated in contemporary times?
Du Shiniang's story has come to an end, but from ancient times to the present, her story has aroused the reflection of countless people, and different people have different feelings and feelings, but no matter what kind of feelings, people are curious about one thing: will Du Shiniang's tragedy repeat itself today? The answer is no.
After this, when women face the dilemma of fate, they finally do not have to die helplessly like Du Shiniang, and their lives are not only love, they can go out of the house, create value for the country and society, and find the meaning of life.
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