The title of the book "Jin Ping Mei" is Pan Jinlian, Li Bottle, pang Chunmei three people's names are each taken from a word series, from the weight and influence of the three people in the whole book, there is no doubt that Pan Jinlian is the first heroine of "Jin Ping Mei". Pan Jinlian was "borrowed" from "Water Margin", but the image is much richer than the image of Pan Jinlian in "Water Margin".
The author of "Jin Ping Mei" revitalized the character of Pan Jinlian, and the key is that he wrote Pan Jinlian's unique and complex personality, showing the logical development of the era, social factors and protagonist encounters that led to this character image.
To sum up: Pan Jinlian is a young, beautiful, intelligent, and capable woman. But her youthful beauty became her capital for seducing men and being lascivious; her intelligence and ability also became her competitive, cunning, and self-serving dependence.
Jin Pingmei was sold at the age of nine to learn to play and sing in Wang Zhaoxuan's mansion, and began to learn badly with Wang Zhaoxuan's wife, Mrs. Lin: "Draw eyebrows and paint eyes, Fu Fan Shi Zhu, do Zhang posture, Qiao Looks Like Qiao". After marrying Wu Dalang, he often showed his small feet in front of the door, "seducing" the floating prodigal children, causing Wu Dalang to live in Zishi Street, so he had to relocate to Xianxi Street.
Later, when he met his younger uncle Wu Song, he began to seduce and failed; he immediately hooked up with Ximen Qing and killed Wu Dalang. In Ximen Mansion, because he could not bear loneliness, he had an affair with Xiao Weiqin Tong and secretly had an affair with his son-in-law Chen Economic. Just after Ximen Qing's death, Wu Yueniang asked the queen mother to take her back and sell her back to wait for marriage, and she had sexual immorality with Wang Chao'er, the son of the queen mother, and her ugly state was disgusting. In the end, he was cut off by Wu Song, cut off his head and sacrificed his brother, and died a tragic death. For this reason, Pan Jinlian fell under the insult of "the first adulteress in eternity".
Another feature of Pan Jinlian's image is that she is intelligent and clever. She was good at observing the colors and listening to the fences, and many of the secret things that happened in the Ximen Mansion were unknown to others, but she was clear. For example, Ximen Qing a woman, she will soon become aware, and often hit the nail on the head. Ximen Qing's adulterous affair with Li Zhen'er, Song Huilian, Wang Liu'er, Ruyi'er, and others was the first thing she was aware of, and she took pains to deal with this pile of behavior that undermined her "rights and interests" and racked her brains.
Pan Jinlian was born at an inopportune time, and since she was a woman, her cleverness was doomed to be unable to be exerted. In the small world of the family, in the face of the unreasonable marriage system, the wife and concubine system and the patriarchal system in society, she had to adapt and had to twist her own mentality in order to seek her own survival and development.
In the evolution of the story of "Jin Ping Mei", we see that Pan Jinlian's intelligence and ability bring not a flash of beauty, but the evil consequences of sin.
At first, she poisoned her husband Wu Dalang by any means to achieve her goal of marrying Ximen Qing. Later, in order to compete for favors, he did not hesitate to force his love enemy Song Huilian to die. In the end, it actually developed to the point of killing Li Zhen'er's lifeblood, innocent baby brother out of jealousy, and then he was angry and killed Li Zhen'er, who had no intention of competing with her for favors.
Pan Jinlian's actions show the destructive role of her clever but treacherous side in the course of her life. The artistic treatment of Wang Xifeng's killing of You Erjie in "Dream of the Red Chamber" was influenced by the writing method of "Jin Ping Mei".
The author's portrayal of Pan Jinlian by the author of "Jin Ping Mei" conforms to the prescriptiveness of the social environment and the characters' own situation, and can make people convinced. But the reason why this image can give people inspiration and deep thinking is that the author shows the entire living space of this character. Only in this macroscopic world can the author provide the full answer to why this character is so; only in this space can Pan Jinlian's image be three-dimensional, prominent, vivid and convincing. This space is what Engels called the "typical environment", or "the vast background of the Voltaff style".
The author of "Jin Ping Mei" certainly did not write according to a "novel guide" or some kind of doctrine, his only creed was real life, the real times and worlds that he himself could deeply feel. Truth, this is the foundation on which the author stands.
When the author of "Jin Ping Mei" pursues the story of Pan Jinlian carefully and responsibly in "Water Margin", the author initially notices the environment in which she lives: she lost her father at the age of seven, dropped out of school because of the difficulty of living, and was sold to learn to play and sing in Wang Zhaoxuan's mansion from the age of nine, and the fate of this clever little girl began from here, and poverty is the first feature of her living space.
At the age of eighteen, Pan Jinlian was beautiful and beautiful. Zhang Dahu, who was over sixty years old, took advantage of the absence of his wife Yu Shi and secretly summoned her to the room to "accept" her.
What a polite word to "receive"! In fact, it is just another name for the male master who raped the maid in the feudal era. But this ugly deed was recognized and dignified in that society at that time.
Not only that, after Zhang Dahu occupied Pan Jinlian's flawless "beautiful jade", he married her to Wu Dalang, a strangely short, extremely ugly, cowardly, stupid and alcoholic tenant, while secretly still secretly occupying her, at this time Pan Jinlian was nominally Wu Dalang's wife, but in fact Zhang Dahu's outer chamber.
Later, Zhang Dahu died, but Pan Jinlian could not break free from the rope of her ugly marriage with Wu Dalang, and the traditional concept of male superiority and female inferiority, marrying chickens and chickens, and ending from one to the end of the whole feudal society firmly bound her to the chain of this unfortunate marriage.
This chain does not know how many beautiful youths have been strangled, and how many love of young women have been broken! It hung so high in Pan Jinlian's living space, like a sword with boundless mana.
Pan Jinlian was not willing to be at the mercy of fate and took the initiative to attack many times. She was obsessed with finding another creation, pinning her hopes on finding the man she loved. So he performed a scene of ugly dramas that seduced Wu Song, committed adultery with Ximen Qing, and so on.
In Pan Jinlian's relationship with Wu Song, Ximen Qing, and Wu Dalang, it is easy to find two completely different values and cultural consciousnesses. Wu Song ignored Pan Jinlian's seduction, representing the traditional moral and cultural consciousness and the value concept of social recognition or not. Pan Jinlian's pursuit of Wu Song and his immediate encounter with Ximen Qing reflect the ancient but not traditional utilitarian cultural consciousness. The starting point is based on the individual and "self-interest". How do you evaluate these two values? This is not a simple question. Although the author of "Jin Ping Mei" tends to affirm social morality, his writing attitude is still transcendent. Because of this, Pan Jinlian's world can be so colorful and colorful.
Pan Jinlian's utilitarian consciousness and self-interest principle are brought into full play to form a sharp confrontation with social morality.
She finally obeyed the plan of the princess and took the arsenic cream given by Ximen Qing, and obtained spiritual liberation by poisoning her long-hated husband Wu Dalang. In this incident, Pan Jinlian was sinful, but it was the society at that time that caused this ending.
Because the marriage system and moral and ethical concepts of feudal society are unreasonable, it is feudal society that forces this young and beautiful woman to destroy her conscience and beautiful nature, and it is the cruel reality that makes her choose this inevitable path of "you die and I live".