Because of the problem of ancient and modern grammar, in fact, when watching "Dou E'er", many places are not smooth, but what is important, the context can still solve the uprising and make it clear.
When I read the complete book (recommended for everyone to read, the full text is only a few thousand words), I thought to myself, did the ancient literati have already discovered that good people have not reported well?
Looking at the whole novel, there is no perfect good person, and there is only one Dou E who can really be called a good person, but this only good person is also the most regrettable in the end.
Cai Po is not a bad person, but she is definitely not a good person.
Her husband left him a rich value, but she could be said to be dissatisfied or a little scheming, and after her husband left, she lent money to make a living.
Lending is a gray or even black profession in ancient and modern times, almost all of them are generally disgusting as blood suckers, think about how arrogant the two wives of the Wang family in the dream of the Red Chamber are, but still only dare to quietly lend money to know that this line is more common.
But are you really bad for Cai Po? Not so, after all, it is a woman under the three from the four virtues, although there is the shrewdness and greed of a businessman, but there is also the weakness and ignorance of women (this is the original sin of education, so is Madame Wang and Wang Xifeng, ignorance will be fearless).
Therefore, it is not called great evil and great good, that is, an ordinary person who will weigh the pros and cons.
Dou Tianzhang, really responded to that sentence of uselessness is a student.
A useless husband, a weak father, a selfish man.
In the Yuanqu, Dou Tianzhang has such a confession: "Dou Ming Tianzhang, ancestor of Chang'an Jing zhaoren." Young learn Confucianism, full of articles; when the struggle is not lucky, the merit is unsuccessful. Unfortunately, the hun family's demise has passed, leaving this girl, the small character Duanyun, from the age of three to his mother, and now the child is seven years old. Xiaosheng was destitute and lived in this Chu prefecture. ”
I have every reason to believe that the demise of the Dou family came after Dou E's mother left. The Dou family was in an ordinary situation, and Dou Tianzhang was a useless person who could not carry his shoulders and could not resist, and the cost of providing for a reader was an astronomical amount for the poor family, which gave people every reason to believe that Dou E's mother may have died prematurely because of this poverty and illness.
Since his family was so poor, why did Dou Tianzhang dare to offer a loan? First of all, he couldn't have settled his account, because as a reader, he could only do this unless he didn't have to be facetious, otherwise his reputation would be discredited and he would be expelled from Confucianism. So was it at the very beginning that Cai Po had hinted at him? So one of the two dares to borrow, and the other dares to give? After all, the rich but powerless families of ancient times, such as the most favorite daughter-in-law of the rural rich people, were the poor school daughters like Dou E.
Read sensibly, and three from four virtues. Obviously, this is the case with Dou'e.
Of course, we can also understand the gambler mentality that ancient readers had to rely on merit to change their fate, but it cannot be denied that Father Dou was an irresponsible father.
It is true that Cai Po is not a villain, and it seems that marrying out early can also get out of the poor family as soon as possible, but the pain under the fence and the involuntary uneasiness? None of this is in the father's eyes.
You must know that many people would rather suffer than suffer bitterness, but some people think they are doing good deeds!
Just like the saying that "every time you slaughter more dogs, the negative heart is more than a reader", Dou E's father is a father of three principles and five constants, and a selfish man.
Especially when he saw the file and encountered Dou E's wronged soul, his first concern was whether Dou E really killed her father-in-law, not Dou E herself. Because once this crime is implemented, Dou E's grievances will be difficult to overturn, and it will inevitably affect his reputation.
A deceased daughter does not first lament her misfortune, but has the reason to interrogate and challenge, and the father's character is evident.
In the opera, Guan Hanqing actually described him as an old father who sighed for the night of his beloved daughter, and it seems that in the eyes of the ancient man, a man like Dou Tianzhang could already be called a good father.
For thousands of years, many men have thought that as long as they do not scold the child and give him food to eat, they have done all their fatherly responsibilities.
If the people on Dou E's side can still be called an ordinary family with some goodness, then Sai Lu Doctor and Zhang Donkey's father and son are pure villains.
Sai Lu doctor is not worthy of the name, if the real medical skills are superb, it is impossible to fall to the point of borrowing money, so he is a deceitful thief; and the first reaction after not paying back the money is to kill people, and when killing people, there is no hesitation of the novice, so it can be seen that even if he is not a habitual criminal, he will not do less evil things.
Zhang Donkey's father and son are not even more good people, and Shi Enwang is just fine, but the forced purchase and sale of Cai's mother-in-law and daughter-in-law to marry him together is obviously for the sake of people and money, not only is it arrogant and domineering, but also knows how to calculate, Dou E does not want to marry Zhang Donkey Er is right, there is no doubt that it is a fire pit.
A person who blindly knows how to use brute force has a vicious heart, but has no strategy, and is not a long-term person. But as long as he had some patience, he lived in The House of Lady Cai, and if he used some warm means, he might not be able to recover the mother-in-law. Because it was obvious that at the beginning, Dou E had a boudoir grudge and did not firmly keep a widow's heart.
These few people are pure evil people, people have no pity, they are evil people who can't do well, they are just low-level evildoers, and they are just thugs and minions.
Dog meat is hard to get to the point of elegance.
Finally, let's talk about Dou'e.
I found Guan Hanqing to be a very interesting person, in the millennium after him, there are still people using the flat method to shape characters, so "The Red Chamber" can achieve the culmination of a thousand years of culture, but Guan Hanqing has got rid of this single character shaping method, which makes his works have the charm of transcending time and still touching future generations.
What is Dou'e's label? Strong, unyielding, and strong?
This woman has many worldly marks on her body, and is as weak as the woman of the moment. Therefore, after Zhang Donkey's father and son entered the door, she only made her position clear with Cai Po, neither strong enough to drive people out of the door, nor did she show them that the carriages and horses did not interact with each other, in the end, it was a compromise behavior, which led to an unclear relationship between the two families, and also left a curse for herself;
And although it is said that he was born in the family of books, he is equally ignorant and even stupid. If at the beginning it can be said that the reputation of the benefactor left Zhang Donkey's father and son, but after getting along for a while, can't you still see the wolf ambition of the Zhang family father and son? She should understand that the two of them and the Zhang family father and son can only have two endings: either they are not clear and finally as the Zhang family wants, or they desperately drive the Zhang family father and son out, but the reputation cannot be saved.
Don't look at the Yuan Dynasty is an era of improper style, the Han family has its own discipline, otherwise it would not still be the set of fathers and sons of the emperor and the subjects, and when Father Dou questioned why Dou E could ignore the three from the four virtues and dared to murder the father-in-law, we can see the essence of feudal etiquette and cannibalism. Killing a man with ill intentions and murdering one's own father-in-law are diametrically opposed, both for crime and for blame.
Dou E's stupidity also lies in her performance in court. Is the judge wrong? Perfunctory, just wanting to end is of course a dereliction of duty, but dou'e herself recruited the death, and even admitted that she killed herself, and said that she killed her father-in-law, dug a grave for herself, and crucified the coffin.
The original words to show you: "[Lone cloud] You can't move or not?" [Zheng Danyun] did not entrust the little woman with poison. [Lonely Cloud] Since it is not you, fight with me that mother-in-law. [Zhengdan Busy Cloud] Live, Hugh beat my mother-in-law, willing me to recruit. It was my father-in-law who was drugged to death. Since he had been recruited, he drew a bow, put the shackles on the shackles, and went down to the death row. On the day of arrival, the sentence is a beheading and the punishment of The City Cao Dian is detained. ”
Dou E's greatest stupidity was that she didn't understand the key to this case. If Dou'e insists that the Zhang family's father and son are plotting against each other and forcing Liang into prostitution after going to church, as long as she sits on this point, Dou'e's act of admitting poison and killing people can be a big deal, but she is stuck in the small section, one will worry that the mother-in-law can't bear the stick, one will complain about her own life, you must know that people who lament their own fate are usually the most likely to admit their fate, the easiest to get by, and live like a paste.
At this point, she was really not as smart as Zhang Donkey,, he bit dou'e to kill the guilt of murdering her relatives, because it was not the mother-in-law who poisoned it, it could only be him, so it was vicious, but people's brains were stronger than the unseen deep boudoir women.
Dou E's death was said to be an unjust case, but rather a confused account. Cai Po, the judge, and Dou E were all confused, and the perpetrators pretended to be confused and shrewd inside, so Dou E died in such a vague and "stupid" way.
Saying that Dou E is strong and virtuous (see boudoir self-complaint), fierce, and unyielding, I do not recognize it, but it is undoubted to say that Dou E is filial and kind.
However, it is also foolish filial piety, and it is always impossible to get rid of a "stupid" word.
Guan Hanqing has a very interesting move when portraying characters, and his preferences for characters are very clear. In the description of the characters on Dou E's side, such as Dou Father and Cai Po, there are beautiful but not pure, there are deficiencies but harmless, and it is precisely this portrayal of "people" that makes us feel human nature and feel the truth.
As for the villains, Zhang Donkey's father and son, Sai Luyi, these villains, Guan Hanqing is not concerned at all, these are just cannon fodder characters that push the plot forward, there is no heroism, there is no tyrant, it is a dog, and it is just thrown away after use.
At the end, there is resentment, there is revenge, and the fate of these villains being destroyed is also based on this, not believing in any heavenly reason (if so, Dou E, as a good person, should not die), just throwing away a few disgusting and insignificant things, if you can still exchange a few cheers and applause from the audience to break silver, it is just their creation.
Therefore, in summary, there are no great people worth talking about in the whole book, with great talents or characters, and there are no perfect and perfect people, some are just individuals.
Some people's selfishness, some people's good intentions, some people's weakness and stupidity, imperfect people, are "people".