The TV series "Frost Leaves Red Like February Flower" is based on Mao Dun's novel of the same name adapted by Yu Hua, portraying a noble, virtuous, shrewd and capable traditional woman in the old era.
Zhang Wanqing and her cousin Liangcai's childhood sweetheart, but under the arranged marriage in the old era, the two failed to come together, Liangcai was forced by her mother to marry someone else, and Zhang Wanqing married Liangcai's closest friend Huang Heguang and became the grandmother of the Huang family.
Qian Huang's family is family friends, and her husband and Qian Liangcai have such a close relationship, naturally the two often meet, but they both put their friendship in their hearts, and there is a feeling that the flowers are more colorful. Huang and Guang failed to really round the house due to physiological problems, but Zhang Wanqing did not give up on him and took good care, she saw that Huang and Guang were sad, so she took him everywhere to seek medical advice, Wanqing cared and considerate to her husband like a mother, and later Huang Heguang fell She still did not choose to give up, but tried her best to save this decadent and fragile husband.
With the help of Wanqing and Liangcai, Heguang finally repented and revived, Wanqing in order to prevent her husband from falling down again, encouraged him to go out to the outside world to take a look, and Wanqing and Liangcai learned that Liangcai was still deeply in love with Wanqing, and Guang also felt that he had delayed Wanqing for so many years, and his heart was very guilty, he decided to get drunk Wanqing, complete the beautiful marriage between the two, entrust Wanqing to Liangcai to take care of, he chose to run away to pursue his ideals, Wanqing did not choose to accept Liangcai, but waited hard for her husband's return, Liangcai also did not pursue Wanqing, and chose to take care of Wanqing silently behind her back.
In the past few years, the times have changed and the revolutionary wave has been surging, and by this time the Northern Expedition has reached Wanqing's hometown. At this time, Wanqing received a letter from Huang Heguang, from which she learned that her husband had joined the revolution and was fighting the enemy on the battlefield, and would soon be reunited with her.
Unfortunately, not long after, Chiang Kai-shek and Wang Jingwei launched a counter-revolutionary coup d'état, wantonly slaughtered communists and revolutionary masses, the cooperation between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party broke down, and the whole country fell into a white terror.
The two hugged each other tightly in prison, telling each other about their thoughts.
Wanqing saw that her husband was renewed, full of national righteousness and revolutionary fighting spirit, and her years of hard work and hard work were not in vain, Wanqing was both proud and sad in her heart, proud that her husband had finally become a big husband who stood tall against the heavens and the earth, and the ideal husband in her mind. The sad thing is that the husband will soon be separated from his yin and yang, and there will be no future.
"I like the smell on you", this is Zhang Wanqing's most affectionate love for Huang Heguang.
Liangcai learned that Heguang was arrested and decided to personally rescue Huang Heguang, but was stopped by Wanqing in time, because doing so is tantamount to hitting a stone with a pebble, she can no longer lose the most important loved one in her life, and sent him away in time, Liangcai said to Wanqing before leaving: "I will definitely pick you up if you settle down over there", Wanqing prepared luggage for him, there was a pistol in the package, Wanqing silently looked at Liangcai on the bridge, the affection can only be indescribable, Wanqing personally bid farewell to her former lover Liangcai on the small bridge, looking at the boat far away, Liangcai's back gradually disappeared from Wanqing's sight.
Wanqing personally sewed new clothes for him before his execution, so that he could "come innocently and walk cleanly." Before Heguang's execution, he asked Wanqing not to be a widow for herself, and it was Heguang's greatest wish to let his wife marry Liangcai, and Wanqing deeply hugged her beloved husband and shed tears of reluctance. Huang He The crowd around the execution rushed to see him off and bid farewell to this hero who died for justice, the most dazzling was Wanqing, Wanqing personally saw off her husband, grief-stricken, Wanqing's son avenged his father and killed the enemy officer with his own hands, but was killed by the enemy, Wanqing lost her husband and lost her son.
At this time, she was less than 30 years old, but she was already in the end of her life, and she no longer had the grace of the past, she guarded two graves, and her heart was completely desperate...
A fire burned the Huang family's workshop industry to the ground...
Relatives passed away one by one, what is the use of guarding the family business ...
The heroine of this drama accepted the new cultural movement, the new ideas brought by the May Fourth Movement, and received the education of the West (going to a Western-style school) but still adheres to Chinese traditional culture, she has a natural sense of rejection of Western culture, despises the behavior of admiring foreign countries, and her favorite reading is also books such as the Four Books and Five Classics, modern young women with classical Chinese charm. But in the face of the arranged marriage arranged by the family, she chose not to take the initiative to accept, but to let her brother inquire about Huang Heguang's character in advance, deliberately pretending to be a maid to test each other, knowing that Huang Heguang was dissatisfied with the arranged marriage, she chose to take the initiative to showdown on the wedding night, and lifted the hijab herself, and gave Huang Heguang a profound ideological education, no longer the reserved style of an old-style woman, since then Huang Heguang obeyed Wan Qing's words like a well-behaved child, and the couple had a night of spiritual communication on the wedding night, At this time, Wan Qing really fell in love with this man, Wan Qing played the guqin, Huang and Guang blew Changxiao, the husband and wife sang with their husbands, and Wan Qing followed all the way and Guang wherever she went, inseparable. The only regret is that Huang Heguang is infertile, and when Heguang confesses her problems and encourages her to find someone else, instead of blaming her, Wanqing voluntarily accepts the sexless marriage and refuses Huang Heguang's request.
Because in her opinion, marriage is not about tying the two tightly together, in addition to sexual desire, we should also pursue the honest trust between husband and wife, and Qinser harmony.
"I thought that in the spring and autumn season, you and I traveled all over the famous mountains and holy waters to see the hot and cool world. If the road is uneven, you and I will draw our swords to help. Helping the poor and the poor, spending money like soil, planting flowers and grass, giving poetry and drinking, these are the days of the gods. Why do you have to pour the phoenix upside down to be considered the joy of fish and water? ”
In the original work, Zhang Wanqing replaced sex with maternal love, her love for her husband was deeply soaked with the unique human beauty and human beauty of Oriental women, in this loving and sexless marriage, she lived so comfortably, even at the end, Wanqing still did not choose to give up, in her efforts she finally cured her husband's illness, and later gave birth to a boy, her ending was satisfactory. After the death of her father-in-law and mother-in-law, she chose to take the initiative to assume family responsibilities, become the head of the family, and show up everywhere to do business, in order to make the Huang family's industry bigger and stronger, and carry it forward, which is her ideal.
She supported the revolution and actively donated money, knowing very well that the revolution is to seek happiness for the people.
She actively cultivated and guided Huang Heguang, who gradually grew up under her influence, and eventually participated in the revolution and was willing to die for it. Zhang Wanqing has both feminine beauty and strong and enterprising character qualities, she manages her finances and keeps her family in order; Bold and careful in dealing with people, the outer circle and the inside, is a "young grandmother who respects, loves and fears".
The reason why Mr. Mao Dun created a very different ideal image of women in the past, the mother plot is probably the fundamental psychological motive, Zhang Wanqing has Mao Dun's mother figure This is undoubted, and Wanqing's description of her husband's almost maternal love reveals the mother plot that pins on this female character.