"Golden Powder Family" was once called the modern version of "Dream of the Red Chamber", and when the author Zhang Hexhui wrote this book, it was actually the creation mode of taking the fa and "Dream of the Red Chamber".
With a large family of external strength and middle cadres as the main body, with the love of Yanxi Qingqiu as the main line, the artistic technique of Zhang Hui body is adopted, and through delicate brushstrokes, the patriarchal family model of traditional Chinese society is dissected.
The content of the novel contains a lot of problems of the times under the social change, as well as the shortcomings of the life of the rich and noble, but it is covered up by the powerful love light of Yanxi in the qingqiu Yanxi, which covers up the inherent shortcomings of these societies.
Tearing off the "love" cloak of the protagonist, the extravagant and lascivious, erosive and depraved parasitic life of a powerful family and the decaying soul are vividly displayed in front of the reader.
The concubines are preoccupied, the mother and child have long been separated from their hearts, the wives and concubines have been fighting openly and secretly for decades, the husband and wife are like strangers, and everyone is distorted by the extravagant life.
A huge family, none of which can take over the baton of continuing to revitalize the family, four noble sons, one more depraved and incompetent than the other.
They soak in the "fragrance of gold powder", visit the kiln, marry concubines, hold kun horns, run dance halls, etc., idle, do not learn any skills, sit back and enjoy their success, live a life of drunken dreams and death, and spend money like dirt.
The women of the Jin family are all the epitome of the tragedy of the feudal era, they have been influenced by the new education, and they pursue freedom in their hearts, yearn for equality, and dare to resist.
However, women's power is so insignificant, and the oppression of the times and male power makes them gradually lose their personality and have to be a traditional woman who meets the requirements of the times.
Dozens of people up and down, all with their mouths open, waiting for Premier Jin's feeding, gradually lost their fighting spirit in the life of "eating color", and were still proud under the aura of the cabinet prime minister's house, distorting the degeneration of not thinking of making progress into a supreme honor.
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The premise of luxury is to be "luxurious", the home of the premier of the State Council cabinet, what an honor, at that time, the prime minister's income was enough to match a rich businessman now.
How rich is the Jin family? Rich enough to "talk and laugh with Hongru, there is no white ding", rich enough that a family lives in a large courtyard of more than a dozen houses, rich enough to feast on guests at both ends of three days.
Yanxi's grandfather did not count except for the maid who received the house, there were five aunts in total, and only two sons were born, Yanxi's father Jin Quan and his uncle.
Uncle Yanxi died in his thirties, leaving only Jin Quan, who was erudite and loved by his parents. Jin Quan played and played, and everything was outstanding.
The age at which Jin Quan married his wife and had children was when he was polygamous, and the master took the second aunt, and when he took the second aunt, Mrs. Jin was very dissatisfied, but because of the majesty of the in-laws, she had to accept it.
The second aunt did not know what temper was from the door of the Jin family, made a small low, gave birth to a daughter named Mei Li, and the two women secretly gave birth to a slit under the majesty of Mrs. Jin.
In the book, we see Mei Li is always lively and cute, understanding, and very pleasing to Mrs. Kim and several older siblings.
In fact, Mei Li, like her mother, has been oppressed. On the surface, Mrs. Jin regards the second aunt as a sister and meili as her own, but these good things cannot withstand scrutiny.
Judging from the name, the sons of the Jin family are bird characters, Fengju, Zhenpeng, Hesun, and Yanxi, while the daughters born to Lady Jin are all called Daozhi, Runzhi, and Minzhi, and only the daughter of the second aunt Taisheng is called Meili.
The three daughters who were born out of the country were all children who had studied abroad and had been educated in the new wave of ideas, only Mei Li, who was imprisoned by Mrs. Jin for the reason of staying by her side to relieve her boredom.
After Jin Quan was old, he took in an aunt, Aunt Cui, who was only in her twenties, and was about the same age as several sons and daughters-in-law of the Jin family.
Jin Quan pampered her in every way, as long as she was a petite, you can casually ask for three or five thousand pieces of pocket money, at that time, a coachman's fee for a trip was two cents, converted down, Aunt Cui sprinkled a petite to get the money equivalent to hundreds of thousands of dollars now, and did not include the living expenses.
For the second aunt, Jin Quan has long lost interest in her, almost not to her yard, a year in addition to the annual fee, almost no income, which also for the fall of the Jin family, the second aunt can only accompany Mrs. Jin to the mountain To repair has made a paving.
Under the oppression of the traditional patriarchal power and the distinction between concubines, the personality of the second aunt has not been liberated throughout her life, and even continued this oppression to her daughter.
Similarly, although Aunt Cui is favored, Premier Jin is about forty years older than her after all, and cannot protect her for a lifetime, as soon as Premier Jin leaves, Mrs. Jin begins to harass her, and the childless and young Aunt Cui cannot fight against The Right to Fight at all.
Fortunately, Aunt Cui is a woman with a spirit of resistance, knows how to plan ahead, takes advantage of the favor of Prime Minister Kim, saves the money early and leaves the home where there is no one to protect her.
It can be seen from this that the status and wealth of the Jin family have been accumulated from the ancestors, and Jin Quan has only taken over the baton of his father's generation and run forward for a while.
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In fact, the decline of the Jin family did not begin with Jin Quan's death, but after Jin Quan married his wife and had children. A family, people who are not compatible, focus on infighting, but forget to resist external attacks first.
The ancients often said: "The father of the tiger has no dog", why is it that the golden premier who has been in power all his life, who has the power to the world, is honored and respected, loved and respected by all the people, but the sons born are not instruments one by one?
This depends on the education model of the Jin family, premier of the cabinet, Premier Jin is busy with government affairs, every day is a good idea, almost every day is early out and late home.
When I got home, I either stayed alone in the study and read a book, or I went to Aunt Cui's yard to relieve my boredom, and the eight children in the family sometimes didn't see each other for a week.
Under such family education, although it is a loving mother and a strict father, after all, the whip is beyond reach, and no matter how severe Jin Quan is, he cannot control his son in everything, and many times, several sons are doing things that conceal the sky and the sea.
As the saying goes, poor sons and rich daughters, the children of the Jin family are all raised in fine clothes and jade food, from small to large, it is Mrs. Jin to educate, which belongs to the typical widowhood education.
We all know that if the son only stays with his mother from an early age and lacks the education of his father, he will lose his manhood and cannot bear the responsibility of life when he grows up.
The daughters of the Jin family are all excellent, and the sons are cowardly, which is the reason, which also lays the foundation for the fall of the Jin family.
After the sons became a family, they did not have the responsibility of a single man, took the money of the Jin family, held plays outside, visited brothels, threw thousands of dollars for the plays, and ignored their wives for prostitutes.
The loss of humanity begins with the fall of the self. None of the four sons in the family were not regular customers in the tea house tavern, and each of them had a special drama, and even had an unclear relationship with the male drama.
Jin Fengju, the eldest young master of the Jin family, should have regarded his father as a model for learning, a hero who was like his father, a good example for his brothers, and the high hopes of the family.
However, because he spent less time with his father since he was a child, there was no template for growth, so according to his own ideas, he grew freely as he wanted, and gradually grew out of the direction.
After being stopped by his wife Wu Peifang, he willingly degenerated and began to regard the fireworks place as his home, and the drama prostitutes as his "love" sustenance.
He vented his desires as he pleased, because he married a rich and powerful rich woman, believing that his freedom was restricted, and after tearing the last fig leaf between the husband and wife, Feng Ju began to have no scruples.
He made a pact with his friends to visit all the brothels in the alley in one night, staying at each house for ten minutes, so in his ridiculous plan, he met Tuberose.
Tuberose is the daughter of a poor family, just came out to "do business" not long ago, Fengju pity her, feel that such a delicate and lovely child, should not bear so much darkness, so he spent thousands of dollars to set up a home outside, and married her back as an outer room.
On the other hand, his wife Pei Fang was pregnant with Liujia, Fengju did not care about the love of husband and wife, even the unborn child was with original sin, he did not hesitate to hurt his wife, until the concubine ran away with all the silver money, Fengju woke up:
The love bought by money turned out to be unreliable.
Yanxi is even more depraved, and when he is with Miss Xiuzhu, he does not care about Xiuzhu's feelings at all, and often frowns with Miss Wu'er, who is not clear.
After abandoning Xiuzhu and getting tired of Miss Wu'er, she liked Shangqingqiu, did not hesitate to spend thousands of dollars to buy a beautiful smile, and when she married home, she began to dislike it in just a few months.
Cold war, tantrums, leaving the pregnant Qingqiu at home, himself and the drama white lotus day and night entangled, Qingqiu gave birth, he did not want to enter the "filthy land" to see their mother and son.
Perhaps in his heart, the white lotus's home and the white lotus's bedroom were clean, and later the white lotus sister Bai Yuhua also debuted, and Yanxi often held a "three-person discussion" with the two sisters in the white lotus bedroom day and night.
With four sons who are so unmotivated, it is not enough to splurge even if there are gold mountains and silver mountains in the family.
Speaking of the jin family's eating and wearing degree, dozens of people up and down the Jin family are all divided meals, what everyone wants to eat, the kitchen does what they do, and what they eat is also some precious and rare ingredients.
There is a detail in the book, the Jin family has fallen, Qingqiu gave birth, Mrs. Jin took out a thousand-year-old ginseng, let Qingqiu supplement the body, Qingqiu was reluctant to eat, has been put, was seen by Mrs. Jin:
What do you keep, although the Jin family is not as good as before, but it is not necessarily two less ginseng trees, I still have dozens of them, if in the past, these things were used to reward people.
It can be seen how wide the Jin family used to be, and then Yanxi went to Xishan to see his mother, who was devoted to the Buddha, and the mother ordered the servants to fry four or five vegetarian vegetables and an egg, and Yanxi hated that this was not something that people ate, which showed how extravagant the Jin family used to eat.
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In the TV series "Know It or Not", Grandma Kong once said a sentence: The decline of ordinary big families is from the inside. It's like a melon, which often rots from the inside.
The fall of the Jin family has already surfaced, but the people of the Jin family have been given a dose of anesthetic from a luxurious life, and they are numb and unwilling to open their eyes to see reality.
Except for the youngest Mei Li, who is still underage, all the others have reached adulthood and have reached the age of self-reliance, but none of them have the ability to support themselves.
Fengju hung a name in the yamen, did not go to a trip for ten days and half a month, and took three or four hundred yuan of naming fees every month, but with Fengju's "ability" to spend money, five thousand a month was not enough, and every month was in deficit.
A few young ladies who came back from studying abroad did not go out to find things to do, stayed at home every day to play cards and watch dramas, and even Yanxi, who was useless, felt that "reading is useless, just look at a few sisters to know."
Even Daozhi, who was already married, did not leave the Jin family, and like when he was a girl, he lived in the Jin family, spending Prime Minister Jin's money, eating and wearing the same as his sisters.
Everyone is like a parasite, desperately devouring the cells and tissues of Jin Quan, how sad and how dangerous!
Suddenly, one day, Jin Quan fell ill because of a stroke from drinking, and without the parasites of the host, all of a sudden, he lost the nutrients of life.
As soon as Jin Quan died, the Jin family was destroyed in just a few months, and no one in the great family could come out to preside over the overall situation for a while.
While Mrs. Jin was suffering from the pain of bereavement and dragging her sick body, she presided over Jin Quan's funeral and entertained guests who had come to mourn the prime minister, and at this moment she found that there were so many children, and none of them had a responsibility.
Without the main backbone of making money, Mrs. Jin did not want her sons to continue to eat the last shell left by the Jin family, so she planned to distribute the property to her children and let them make a living for themselves.
The young masters who are usually accustomed to being extravagant, in the face of a large amount of cash in their hands, where they can keep it, they are eager to spend it immediately, and they look at the theater restaurant and are hungry.
A few older uncles are fortunate to have a strong wife who can restrain their behavior and dare not be too arrogant. Only Yanxi, Qingqiu could not control him, nor did he care about him.
Yanxi took all of the 50,000 yuan in her hand to buy jewelry for the White Lotus White Jade Flower Sisters, and the "infatuation and sincerity" was exactly the same as the original "obsession" with Qingqiu.
There is no source, only an exit, Yanxi's fifty thousand yuan was quickly spent, the Jin family, which was already a remnant, was burned clean by the fire, and Yanxi, who had no way out, took another step towards the degeneration of human nature.
He let go of his self-esteem and personality, and went back to the girl Xiuzhu who he once looked down on, Xiuzhu had already seen through Yanxi's nature, designed to play with Yanxi, and Yanxi's self-esteem was shattered.
Yanxi, who has no money and no to rely on, has to go out to study with his sisters, and the sisters who used to be full of love and honey spend white lotus flowers, looking at the abandoned cash machine Yanxi, who can't withdraw money, with a look of contempt.
A large family, with their own running, the family ions scattered as the end, drawn an imperfect exclamation point!
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"The Golden Powder Family" is a distorted history book of the times, cloaked in the cloak of "love" to write about human nature, but when you really tear off the cloak of love, only to find that love is false love, human nature is real humanity.
The men of the Jin family, excessively indulging in human nature, unrestrained pursuit of luxurious life, eating the taste of mountains and seas in their mouths, the style of women in their arms, and the laziness that goes deep into the bone marrow.
And women, everywhere oppressed by the world, in order to be able to get happiness, liberate humanity, they must bravely stand up to resist, in the resistance to find their own rights.
The works embody the new modern consciousness of the old-style women everywhere: the pursuit of a free and happy married life, they dare to break through the cage of traditional marriage, freely choose marriage, dare to break through the class of the people at the bottom, pursue a higher height of life, dare to break the prison of the old rules, and speak out for freedom. Such as Qingqiu, such as Xiao Pi, such as Pei Fang.
In Wang Xiaobo's "Golden Age", Wang Er made an explanation of his own desires, human nature, and the nature of eating color also:
That day I was twenty-one years old, in the golden age of my life, I had a lot of extravagant hopes, I wanted to love, I wanted to eat, and I wanted to become a half-light and half-dark cloud in the sky in an instant, and later I learned that life is a slow process of being hammered, people grow old day by day, and the extravagant hopes disappear day by day, and finally become like a hammered cow.
Several brothers of the Jin family blindly indulged their "food color" needs, and finally lost a family with nothing, and the family was scattered.
Although human nature is like this, wanting to eat, want to love, want to play, want to satisfy all curiosity and fantasy, we all know that if we obey human nature excessively, it will be a destruction.