The essence of life is to recognize the realism of life but still love it, but having said that, when faced with one unfair and unsmooth thing after another in life, whether each of us can do a real normal treatment, this is obviously unrealistic, it is precisely because of the ups and downs and ups and downs on the road of life that everyone has a different life.
In "Dream of Red Mansions", Jiafu, as a family that has experienced the polar reversal of wealth and poverty and despair, naturally has different perceptions and ideas about life.
The Jia family, such a huge family, can be said to be absent overnight, making people feel strange and afraid, but the decline of the Jia family is also a little bit of mistakes and failures gradually accumulated, which has the objective factors that make the emperor feel that he is not loyal enough and is raided, and there are also the stupid thoughts of the people in power, perhaps from the moment Jia's mother kowtowed to Jia Yuanchun, the demise of the Jia family was destined.
Jia Mu and Jia Fu in the same lineage
People have no head, horses do not stand without heads, whether it is a person or a family or a country and nation, if you want to develop and progress, you want to continue, in addition to the people who work hard for the bottom, the most important thing is that there is a key leader, and for Jiafu, Jia's mother is obviously standing at the top of the pyramid of Jiafu.
is not only a feudal patriarch of a family, but also a feudal ruler under power, but the final ending makes people sigh, Jia's mother obviously lived up to everyone's expectations, and the fate of her and Jiafu was also crumbling together, waiting for the judgment and end of fate.
Jiafu is very different from the epitome of the old society, according to the ancient requirements for women's "three obedience and four virtues", the restraint on women should be "unmarried from the father, both married from the husband, and the husband from the son", but Jia's mother did the opposite.
In terms of social relations and identity, Jia's mother appeared when her father and son had already passed away, and the eldest son Jia Yu should be the actual ruler of Jiafu, just like the young prince who ascended the throne in each dynasty, Jia's mother should live a life of idle clouds and wild cranes like a pampered queen mother at this time, but the fact is that the young and middle-aged men in Jiafu have retreated to the edge of power one by one, and only Jia's mother, who is in her 80s, is still the only master of this family.
Jia's mother's governance policy is obviously to implement the Confucian school of "loyalty and filial piety", the respect between the master and the servant in the Grand View Garden, as well as the class system and moral benevolence that the feudal etiquette and religion abide by, these are undoubtedly not the means and measures for Jia Mu to manage the Grand View Garden.
In the forty-seventh episode, Mrs. Wang was unintentionally wronged by Jia's mother when Jia Yu wanted to take a concubine, even if she was scolded and accused, together with her and the gentlemen of Jiafu, they all stood with their hands down and did not dare to say a word.
Of course, in "Dream of Red Mansions", it has been mentioned many times that Jia's mother cares and takes care of her subordinates, which is naturally not contradictory, loyalty and filial piety are the eternal and unbridgeable gap between Jia's mother and others, which is the foundation of unconditional obedience.
A kind of power system formed within Jiafu naturally has its unique advantages and the foundation of survival, and the root of this system is undoubtedly Jia's mother, with whom Jiafu can run as usual for decades, but without her, this result is unknown, fortunately, the story of "Dream of Red Mansions" does not give us such unrealistic illusions.
But after all, Jia's mother is old, gradually out of the real society of the old era of the product, her development plan for Jiafu is still stuck in what she saw and heard decades ago, no matter from the perspective of economy, talents, Jiafu is not as good as a year, I have to say that the decline of Jiafu Jia's mother is the first person responsible.
There are many reasons for the decline of Jiafu
Jiafu, which has been from a famous family and Zhong Ming Dingshi's family for a hundred years, but ended up in the middle of the road and the family is ruined, which naturally has the internal reasons for the family itself to conform to the historical development, but more of it is the ignorance of all aspects of the family.
First of all, life is too extravagant, the extravagance of life in Jiafu is unimaginable, as one of the few families in the Qing Dynasty, although Jiafu is not as good as the emperor's brocade clothes and food, but naturally it is not much worse, when I wanted to buy a coffin for Qin Keqing at that time, I actually said a sentence "I am afraid that there is nowhere to buy a thousand taels of silver", which is obviously beyond the ordinary wealthy family.
Especially when Lin Daiyu entered the scene of Jiafu, hundreds of people up and down Jiafu were very particular about eating, drinking, and Lazar, which made Lin Daiyu very shocked, not to mention the buildings such as Yihong Courtyard and Daoxiang Village set up inside, such extravagance and waste will one day exhaust the family wealth.
The second is that the descendants of Jiafu do not have an outstanding person, even if a person can not have both virtue and talent, but can not become a person without virtue and talent, and these descendants in Jiafu eat, drink, prostitute and gamble one by one, but they can't do any of the things, but if they don't enjoy it, they will be looked down upon in Jiafu.
In their eyes, there is no benevolence, righteousness and morality, gambling is only regarded as people's amateur fun, in addition, the political fighting spirit within Jiafu is also very serious, and the subordinates are extremely oppressive, and the superiors are endlessly flattering.
As a feudal family, Jiafu is almost lacking in education, and the children of the younger generations not only do not love to learn Xi, but also are full of fornication and sin spiritually.
Finally, the internal management of Jiafu is chaotic, the most important thing for a big family is management, and Jia's mother is obviously the person who can't do a good job in system management, whether it is from the selection and employment of people or the management of Jiafu's funds, although Wang Xifeng is the big housekeeper of Jiafu, but in fact, she has used Jiafu's public finances for many years to fill her own private interests.
Especially when she took the silver to put usury outside, the various consequences caused by this are unspeakably miserable, even the middle-level managers are so damaging to the public and private, so the upward and downward effects can be imagined, and the people below have to make a lot of money every time they catch an opportunity, doesn't Jia Mu know?
Many times she chose to turn a blind eye, which led to the occurrence of internal corruption again and again, and the lack of internal supervision also led to the decline of Jiafu step by step.
Jia Yuanchun and Jia Fu
The decline of the Jia family is both reasonable and unexpected, and it is still the son of today who really issued an order to the Jia family to copy the family, as the so-called companion is like a tiger, it cannot be said that the Jia family has any rebellion against the emperor, but the powerful Jia Mansion and the gradual lack of attention and disrespect for the emperor will inevitably lead to the emperor's suspicions.
But from another aspect, after all, there are people in Jia's mansion who are in the position of imperial concubines in the palace, and they are somewhat thin in front of the emperor, how can they end up with a tragic end of family scattering and death, which has to say the story of Jia Yuanchun's provincial relatives.
I think that Jia Yuanchun gained a firm foothold in the palace, and returned to his homeland to visit his relatives with a spring breeze on his face, there is a scene here that is very intriguing, that is, Jia Mu and everyone else looked at the convoy twice in a row and wanted to bow down, although they were finally stopped by the people around them in time, but the obedience and servitude in their hearts were still vividly demonstrated.
From the perspective of traditional morality and ethics, it is obviously difficult to accept and understand that the grandmother kneels and kowtows to the grandchildren's generation, thinking of the usual way of getting along with the Jia family, Jia's mother is like the emperor of this big family, but now it's just that Jia Yuanchun has returned home, and Jia's mother is going to make this big gift, is this necessary?
For us, Jia's mother's move is naturally incomprehensible, but for Jia's mother at that time, from this moment on, all her family relationship with Jia Yuanchun has come to naught, replaced by the relationship between the emperor's family and the common people.
And even after Jia's house was busy preparing for several days, even if Jia's mother showed such an attitude of importance and a very low attitude, Jia Yuanchun still only stayed at home for less than eight hours, so that from Jia's mother's high attention and even trembling, it corresponded to Jia Yuanchun's journey to the province, which violated human ethics and showed the supremacy of imperial power to the fullest.
But it's a pity that Jia's mother doesn't pay attention to the ethics of benevolence and righteousness in the future, but she lifted a stone to shoot herself in the foot, Jia Yuanchun was uncomfortable in the palace, and died at a young age after being framed repeatedly, the Jia family as the remnants of the old emperor, the blind obedience to power and the lack of recognition of the reality made them choose the wrong path when standing in line, which also laid the groundwork for the emperor's liquidation later.
When the house was raided, the people of Jiafu cried and screamed, but since Jia's mother knelt down to Yuanchun, they should have understood that the power of the Jia family was taken by the emperor and would eventually be collected by the emperor, which was just a big gamble.
Epilogue:
There are too many reasons for the decline of Jiafu, as the so-called freezing three feet is not a day's cold, and the long-term ills cannot be explained overnight.
However, the internal corruption and external troubles, and even the inaction of the younger generation in the house did not make most readers react in surprise, but it was the ugliness of Jia's mother, who had been arrogant all her life, in the face of power groveling and obedience and forbearance, so that the decline of Jiafu became the root cause of many people's scolding, and the undignified Jiamu and the dilapidated Jiafu were destined to not adapt to the development of this society.