At the age of sixteen, Bai Jiaxuan married a woman two years older than him, who died in childbirth a year later;
The woman in the second room married Bai Jiaxuan for less than a year before she died of tuberculosis;
The woman in the third room vomited blood and died, and she never figured out what the symptoms were;
The woman in the fourth room died in great pain, and the shape of her body was twisted into a dried shrimp;
married four wives in a row, all of them died bizarrely, not only others were afraid, but even Bai Jiaxuan himself felt scared. In order to prove that he was not poisoned juice, he also made it out and fed it to the pigs.
When it came to the fifth woman, the other party refused to have sex with Bai Jiaxuan, and after being forced, he was in a trance, and finally went crazy, and drowned in the pool while washing clothes.
The sixth woman was scared to death, after she and Bai Jiaxuan finished their work, she got up in the middle of the night and said that she could see the five-room woman he had married before, and finally died.
watched "White Deer Plain" again, and suddenly understood:
The most outrageous story is not Bai Xiao'e's jujubes, nor is it Leng Qiuyue's widowhood. But Bai Jiaxuan actually married seven wives, and in the end, only Xiancao survived.
Women are the paper that pastes the windows, and if they are torn, they should be re-pasted.
Bai Jiaxuan has married six wives in a row, and none of them survived, but he still keeps marrying different women, why?
It's not because Bai Jiaxuan needs companionship, nor because the family needs a woman to take care of it, but because the Bai family needs to be passed on from generation to generation. If Bai Jiaxuan doesn't marry a wife and doesn't have children, the patriarch will fall into the hands of the Lu family.
On the other hand, not having a wife is proof of incompetence and will be ridiculed by others. As a representative of the feudal conservatives, Bai Jiaxuan is the most hypocritical and the most face-saving, and he can't allow others to poke him in the back.
So even if one wife after another died, he didn't care. When the woman in the sixth room died, he persuaded his mother to stop for a while and find a Mr. Yin and Yang to have a look, but he had no idea of not marrying.
In his eyes, a woman's death is like the death of an ant, which is not a pity. In his attitude, there is no valuing and respect for women's lives.
In the feudal era, women had no right to speak, they were fertility machines, and inheritance was the biggest thing in a family. As the patriarch, Bai Jiaxuan thought so, which was understandable.
can be the same woman, Bai Jiaxuan's mother Bai Zhao's attitude towards these women is worth pondering.
The stubbornness she showed was even more powerful than Bai Jiaxuan's father, she and Bai Bingde had a total of seven daughters and three sons, and only three survived in the end.
In her cognition, giving birth to a child is a woman's most sacred mission, she thinks so, she does this, and inherits it in this way.
She was afraid that Bai Jiaxuan would have no children, and after he died in the future, he would have no shame to see the ancestors of the Bai family. So in her lifetime, she must let Bai Jiaxuan marry a wife and have children.
As a woman, she said that women are "paper sticking to the window", which shows the weight of feudal ideology on people.
The survival of fairy grass is the biggest mockery of feudal marriage.
If it is said that the death of Bai Jiaxuan's first four wife is the author's desire to express people's disregard for women's lives under feudal male power. Only the fairy grass survived, and it conveyed the charm of new ideas.
Why did Xiancao survive, and how was she different from the previous women?
One of the most important points is that Xiancao is the only wife Bai Jiaxuan has met before marriage, not only have they met, but they are even familiar like brothers and sisters.
This alone is enough for Xiancao to survive and give birth to children for Bai Jiaxuan, breaking the "curse" of the Bai family's three generations of single transmission. It is enough to see that the author Chen Zhongzhong is dissatisfied with feudal marriage.
This dissatisfaction is also reflected in the marriage of Lu Zhaopeng and Leng Qiuyue, although the two completed the marriage under the coercion of Lu Zilin, Lu Zhaopeng was unwilling to touch each other, and Leng Qiuyue finally died as a widow.
Second, Xiancao is a woman who has seen the world, and she married Bai Jiaxuan because of favors, not because she coveted the bride price of the Bai family.
Xiancao's father turned out to be a buddy of the Bai family's shop, because of his talent and deep trust, he handed over the business of the Chinese herbal medicine purchase shop to him, and he soon became one of the four wealthy families in Panlong Town.
Xiancao grew up in such an environment since she was a child, and although she may be lacking in etiquette, she is bold enough to not be as cautious as other wives.
On the wedding night, Bai Jiaxuan asked her why she was wearing a small mallet on her belt, and she did not shy away from saying "fighting ghosts". When Bai Jiaxuan was about to go out to sleep, she took the initiative to tear off the mallet on her belt and have a round room with Bai Jiaxuan.
Bai Jiaxuan's other women don't have such guts, they are all because their parents are greedy for the Bai family's money, and they are almost sold to the Bai family, and their mood is different from the fairy grass.
In those days, women were like objects that could be traded.
The mother's family doesn't value her, and marries them to Bai Jiaxuan to receive the bride price, naturally the Bai family will not value it, if she dies, she will die, and if you have money, you can marry another one.
This is the tragic fate of women under feudal male power, who cannot choose who to marry, nor can they live with their husbands equally. There is no value and no meaning other than a fertility machine.
For the mother's family and the Bai family, one party collects money, and the other party receives people, each with its own place. And the woman caught in the middle can only be swept away by the torrent of the times without a trace.
This is the helpless and cruel reality of the feudal era.