Zhou Rui's family was ordered by Aunt Xue to send palace flowers to the young ladies, and came out of Rongxi Hall to the direction of Sister Feng's courtyard, and when he passed through the Rongxi Hall mezzanine, he happened to pass under Li Kun's window, and through the glass window, he saw Li Kun taking a nap on the kang at a glance, and it was the lunch break after sending off Grandma Liu shortly after lunch.
Zhou Rui's family passed through the west flower wall, out of the west corner door, and entered Sister Feng's courtyard, at this time a girl saw her coming, waved to her again and again and guided her to the east house, this week Rui's family is very experienced, and the atmosphere does not dare to come out of one, tiptoe to the east house of Sister Feng's daughter's residence. What does this mysterious depiction mean?
It turned out that Sister Jia Lianfeng was having sex during the day, and the minions naturally didn't dare to speak out for fear of disturbing the master, when the big family was, what might happen, and the minions were also experienced and understood.
With such an extreme spatial spacing, on one side is the widow Li Kun guarding the empty room alone, and on the other side is Jia Lianfeng's daytime room, at the same time, Cao Gong put these two sets of pictures almost together, it is a set of contrasting depictions, why did he do this?
First, he is writing about Jia Lian's shamelessness and obscenity
His teacher Confucius commented on his behavior: "Rotten wood should not be carved, and the wall of dung should not be polluted!
Daybed, originally meant to take a lunch break or sleep during the day, and it was also an obscure way to have sex during the day, so when Confucius learned that he was a rotten wood that could not be carved, Confucius rarely said very harsh and mean words, but he scoffed at Zai Yu's behavior of daylight. This shows how negative the traditional view of daytime is.
Cao Xueqin is scolding Jia Lian here for being a rotten wood that cannot be carved, a shameless person, and a debaucherous person who corrupts the family business, as for Sister Feng, there is no lewd factor in her personality portrait, here is just to cater to the needs of her husband Jia Lian.
Jia Lian is just a microcosm, almost all of the pampered men in Jia's mansion are lustful and lewd, and the family's inheritance is in their hands, and the fate of the family's decline is doomed.
Second, he was writing about the fate of women in that era
One guards the empty room, and the other doesn't even miss the lunch break during the day, if it is understood by ordinary people, it is naturally Li Kun's sad life and a sympathetic widow. However, looking at the wives and grandmothers who have husbands in Jiafu, who are particularly happy because they have husbands, Mrs. Wang, Mrs. Xing, You Shi, Sister Feng and others, which one is not because her husband is not successful, and she and other women are unbearable and make themselves feel depressed and miserable? On the contrary, Li Kun and Jia Mu, the two dead husbands, have a simpler life and a more comfortable mood.
This is not to preach that it is good without a husband, but that if the man is bad, not only will he not bring happiness to his wife, but will bring more suffering. Jiafu is dying all the way, not to mention the three generations and four generations of officials, not to mention the enterprising and carrying forward the ancestral industry, even what the ancestors gave them is constantly overdrawn and consumed.
The relationship between Sister Feng and Jia Lian is gradually deteriorating, Jia Lian just complained about Sister Feng's inability to satisfy her desires at first, and gradually developed to completely let go of her desires and had a deeper contradiction with Sister Feng, and later under the economic pressure of the family, the two gradually turned their faces, and Sister Feng ended up being suspended. Wang Xifeng is the epitome of the tragic fate of a class of women in that era.
So, misfortune becomes luck, and the so-called luck is sometimes misfortune.
Third, he's writing about what men bring to women and what it means to women
Feudal society is a patriarchal society, women must be dependent on men to survive, women can not obtain all the property of the mother's family, especially the most important real estate, land and women have nothing to do with it, the mother's family has the strength to give the daughter a rich dowry at most, but this is also a one-time, women's survival after marriage depends on the husband's family. Therefore, men are the survival guarantee of women. This is the same regardless of status.
Compared with ordinary women, women in the upper class have the role of marrying for the family, so their status in the boudoir is relatively high, and after marriage, they can also obtain resources for their husband's family and their mother's family, so women in the upper class still have a certain status and right to speak. Just like the powerful Wang Ziteng, he can give Mrs. Wang and Wang Xifeng a lot of confidence, and readers will also find that the two of them have a much higher family status than Mrs. Xing and You's family, because their maiden family is more valuable to Jiafu.
If a woman wants to gain a foothold in her husband's family, she must contribute to her husband's family, and the first thing is to have children for her husband's family, especially to give birth to sons, otherwise, the husband's family has the right to divorce women on the pretext that they cannot inherit the lineage. Men in large families generally have three wives and four concubines, but they require women to accept them generously, otherwise they will divorce their wives in the name of jealousy. Women have to be able to run the house, serve their in-laws, raise children and other household chores, and the vast majority of women not only have to bear the heavy family management after marriage, but also have to bear all kinds of criticism from their husbands' families.
The daughters-in-law in "Dream of Red Mansions" generally live a more depressed and aggrieved life, even Mrs. Wang, who has a high status, is no exception, as the eldest lady of the Jinling royal family, she is also a person with a cool personality when she is not out of the cabinet, but when she arrives in Jiafu, she gradually becomes a wooden person, gradually psychopathic, and gradually loses all interest in beauty, even if she is the mother of a noble concubine, she still has to bear the oppression of male power, and she is not happy in life. Sister Feng is so shrewd and capable, Leng Zixing commented that Jia Lian is worse than Sister Feng, but Jia Lian can still bully and suppress Sister Feng many times, which makes the relationship between the two gradually deteriorate and finally break up.
Women in feudal society have no chance of economic independence in essence, so they are not spiritually independent, and they are surrounded by an invisible net, but a widow like Li Kun will have fewer such troubles, which is very sad in comparison.
The author of this article: Pingshan Magenta Mansion
Reference to the original work: Jiazhu Ben, Gengchen Ben "Fat Yan Zhai Re-evaluation of the Stone Record"
Image source: "The Dream of Red Mansions by Sun Wen"