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To regard "The Tale of Genji" as a romance novel is too aggrieved by this world's first novel. It is more appropriate to think of it as a love story.
By opening up the marriage and love affairs carefully depicted by the Purple Style Department, especially the polyamorous love that makes modern people stunned, you can feel the cruelty and sinisterness of the political situation in the Heian Dynasty.
Many emperors abdicated in the prime of the year, the power changed frequently, and a number of noble men and women were prone to depression and death, which can glimpse the bloody corner of the Colosseum.
Most of the characters in the book are busy falling in love from beginning to end, but there is very little true love, genji's bitter love for the barnacles in his youth, Ziji's unreserved lifelong attachment to Genji, and Kashiwaki's willingness to die in exchange for Genji's forgiveness of the three princesses, which is a rare love here.
Speaking of the barnacles queen, although Genji has always admired her, he is also very sorry for her.
Barnacle was married to Emperor Kirito, the father of Genji, as a princess of the previous dynasty, and was of a noble status who could compete with the imperial court of the Honghui Hall. However, her mother, the empress of the former dynasty, was worried about the future and fate of her daughter, and even died of depression before she entered the palace, which shows the sinister and terrible court of the Heian Dynasty.
Genji desperately fornicated with barnacles and had a child with her. The existence of this bastard makes the barnacles scorch their heads day by day and fry their hearts towards the dynasty. Once this matter was known to the Lady of the Honghui Hall, the fate of the barnacles mother and son was in danger. Genji, on the other hand, was only sad and blamed her for not responding to her love, becoming increasingly distant and cold to herself, and never thought that barnacles would walk on the tip of the knife every day.
Later, barnacles left home early, which was also a helpless compromise in the court struggle. Later, their illegitimate son, the Lengquan Emperor, abdicated early at the age of 40, and after abdicating, he also had two children with the eldest daughter of the Yuhua family, indicating that abdication was not a physical reason. If the Lengquan Emperor had a son before he abdicated, the child was likely to be crowned prince, and after abdication, he had a son, but this son did not have the opportunity to take the throne.
Barnacles worked hard to plan for their own and their sons' futures, but in the end their faction was completely defeated in the political struggle. As lover and father, what did Genji do for this mother and son? Leaving the widowed mother in a sinister court struggle, he never forgot to play the flower bush, I think that if barnacles hear about Genji's series of "female chase deeds" in the future, it is estimated that he will regret the events of that year - where is this man worthy of his love.
I really think barnacles are the most unfortunate woman to live in the whole of The Tale of Genji. Other women are more bitter about love and livelihood, she is suffering from political struggles, and getting involved in politics will be overturned in minutes.
Genji, really sorry barnacles. His love, in the political struggle, seems very superfluous, the biggest burden of barnacles, the biggest hidden worries.
If you really love someone and that person doesn't even feel the slightest happiness, is love still love?
Finally, with the passing of the three most brilliant people, Barnacles, Ziji and Hikari, the prosperity of the Heian Dynasty seems to have turned into a more realistic and painful apocalyptic lament in "Uji Ten Theta".
It turned out that the fog of sorrow had long been all over Hualin.