"Bai Jiaxuan later became proud of marrying a woman with seven rooms in his life", the opening sentence of "White Deer Plain" is an independent paragraph, with a strong male color and sexual implications, which suddenly aroused the reader's appetite, and the name Bai Jiaxuan is also like Bai Jingqi in "The Gate of the Great Mansion", which has left a deep impression ever since. Bai Jingqi had four women in his life, regardless of whether they were high or low, which could be described as the vigorous love; Bai Jiaxuan married a seven-room wife, covering the southeast, south, and northwest, and all died tragically...
1. The obsession with passing on the generations like "seeing death as a homecoming"
However, Bai Jiaxuan's marriage to these seven-room women is not as beautiful as Bai Jingqi's disciple's love scene. Instead, they had to marry until they completed the inheritance of "seeing death as a homecoming". Before bai bingde died, he couldn't swallow a breath, and insisted that Bai Jiaxuan agree not to keep filial piety for him, and quickly marry the fifth room back, only to let go of his hand and kick his legs. "No filial piety has three nothings to be greater", the Bai family men have been single-minded for several generations, and they all have a short lifespan, and the incense cannot be broken here in Bai Jiaxuan. In this way, the old man died two months after the death of the five rooms on the door, and then there were six rooms, seven rooms.....
As bloody as the story of the succession of "White Deer Plain" is Mo Yan's "Baby", in which Zhang Quan already has three daughters, and in spite of the strict orders of the state "family planning", he refuses to be sterilized, does not go to the ring, and lets his wife conceive a fourth child depending on death. "Whoever dares to kill me after opening my fist, I will fight with whomever I want!" In a word, Zhang Fist's wife baofang was so desperate that she jumped into the river, and as a result, under the desperate pursuit of the health team, she finally exhausted her physical strength and died.
Under the tight curse of succession, women inevitably become tools of procreation. The low level of medical care is even more unable to give the basic guarantee of life, and both men and women are like believers who have gone into the fire, in order to continue the incense, resulting in a bloody tragedy.
2. Seven-room women, seven kinds of marriage and love portrayals of women in the old era
Let's take a look at Bai Jiaxuan's seven-room women, most of them are the orders of their parents and the words of the matchmaker. Bai Jiaxuan was only 16 years old when she married the first room, and the woman died in childbirth. The two rooms and three rooms are all demanding in the matter of intercourse, one suffers from tuberculosis, and the other vomits blood and dies. The fourth room has a little taste of sexual coldness, and Bai Jiaxuan does not refuse or approach, and those who do not make a sound suddenly fall ill and die. The women in these four rooms all went, Bai Jiaxuan fell into a reputation of no one and no ghost, and no one near and far dared to marry. Old Master Bai no longer cares about what is right at the door, as long as he is willing to accept the dowry and is willing to marry his daughter. This is even more confirmed by the rumor that Bai Jiaxuan's life is hard to defeat his wife, the fifth room is extremely afraid of sexual affairs, begging for forgiveness can not be achieved, after being forced by Bai Jiaxuan, less than a year depressed end. Bai Jiaxuan also began to think that he really had a problem, "He even began to really doubt whether the goods flowing out of his thing were poisonous, and secretly shook the goods into the pig food to observe the movements of the pigs after eating, a total of three times, and the pig's activities were not abnormal." The sixth room even took a sharp pair of scissors to the cave room, originally thought that Mr. Leng's daytime deciphering medicine could be exchanged for a long-term life, and as a result, Hu's nightmares at night, always thinking about the first five rooms to ask for her life, and finally scared to death. At this point, Bai Jiaxuan's confusing marriage history has been almost laid, just waiting for the gossip, taking the initiative to rip off the belt and the fairy grass of the mallet, breaking Bai Jiaxuan's spell of hard life.
We can see that in the context of the old times, women did not have the right to choose a husband, repressed sexual desire and fear of rumors and superstitions wrapped around their bodies, minds and souls, women were like a container that could not speak, love and fear were left to the end of death. And Xian Cao is like a rebel of the women of the old society, she not only knows en Tu, obeys her family to marry Bai Jiaxuan, but also shows her naked love and trust, which is the right person to save Bai Jiaxuan from the bitter sea and accompany him down.
3. As long as you want, you can marry him in seventeen or eighteen rooms
In fact, the focus of Chen Zhongzhong's design at the beginning is not to marry a few rooms, but to expose the ills of the old society of blindly passing on the generations and "unremitting efforts" to marry a wife in order to have children. As long as the author is willing to marry him seventeen or eighteen rooms is not impossible, but that would be too sad, the author must not be able to bear it.
Of course, the number "seven" has always had a very magical position in ancient and modern China and abroad. In the West, the Christian scriptures place particular emphasis on the number "seven," in which God created all things in six days and rest on the seventh day as the "Sabbath." So we can often see "seven" in many literary works, such as the seven dwarfs, Bluebeard and his seven wives, and so on. In our country, not to mention, like Tanabata, the Seven Fairies and so on. In psychology, "seven" is called "incredible number", most people have a short-term memory capacity of seven, more than seven is easy to produce forgetting. Therefore, the author prefers to believe that the author arranged seven wives for Bai Jiaxuan unintentionally.
It is said that good things are more grinding, Bai Jiaxuan marries immortal grass, family transfer, Fuchu Tim Ding, a huge novel story officially unfolded. Let's take thousands of beautiful imaginations related to "seven" and walk into Chen Zhongzhong's White Deer Plain together.