Female characters, pictographic and created, at the beginning like a gentle female character with her hands crossed, her jaw bowed and kneeling in front of her, its shape has evolved for thousands of years, and there has not been much change.
Words are also like people, for thousands of years, women have been constantly reincarnated by the suffering of confinement.
Today's story takes place on the eve of liberation, in the beautiful Qianbei region, the desert paddy fields are as calm as mirrors, and the green mountains are winding in the sky.
In Yijiazhai, traditional customs such as the fire are passed down from generation to generation, because men are scarce and not easy to support, and the deformed marriage customs of old wives and young husbands are popular.
There is also a sending cave on the local mountain, because the stone stalactite pillar inside resembles a male root, and people believe that as long as the incense is offered and the candle is lit day by day, it can have hundreds of children and grandchildren and live a long life.
On this day, it was a festive day, and Shao Wei, the boy of the Yi family's fifth lady's family, was about to marry his wife, and one of the palanquins carried the bride Xingxian into the village.
The six-year-old erlang and eighteen wives caused the children in the village to clap their hands and laugh, and when they entered the hall, the lively and active little groom quietly set off the corner of Hippa.
The snow white skin is peachy, the vermilion lips are slightly red, and the apricot fairy who tried red makeup for the first time is beautiful and moving, but the little groom Shaowei does not know anything.
In the evening, the guests dispersed, and Shao Wei woke up from his dream crying incessantly, panicking to the point that the apricot fairy was at a loss.
In the end, it was the fifth lady who came over and hugged Shao Wei for half a day before it was quiet, and the first night of Xingxian's first wife was spent in sighs and entanglements.
Soon, Xingxian adapted to life here, there were no adult men in the family, Shao Wei was still a child who played with urine and mud, and he still needed to be taken care of.
Therefore, only the mother-in-law and the fifth lady in the family are responsible for their livelihood, and this time with the apricot fairy, the burden on the fifth lady is much lighter.
On weekdays, Xingxian, like a sister, teaches Shaowei to be filial and sensible, and when she is free, she helps her mother-in-law to do some rice mashing work, and at night she also pees for Shaowei.
Later, in the bystander Xingxian learned the story of her mother-in-law, it turned out that the fifth lady once had a small husband, but the man grew up and read foreign books.
After that, she began to resist this marriage, and finally the two were forced by their families to have a room, and later she became pregnant with Shaowei, while Wuniang's husband disappeared from then on.
After xingxian listened, she couldn't help but sigh in her heart, a woman's suffering is always just stepping on the footprints of her predecessors, will the road that her mother-in-law walks will be her own future?
Suddenly, one day, the third sister-in-law next door was beaten by the third brother again, because she could not give birth to a son for many years, and she had been looked down upon and oppressed by her husband.
However, the third sister-in-law has always held out hope for the matter of having a child, and she envied that the fifth lady could have a child overnight, and always wanted to touch her joy.
So she took Shao Wei into the sending hole to pray sincerely, and because of the childlessness, she very much liked to laugh and play with the children in the village.
However, it was also fate that made people, and the third sister-in-law's stomach was always without any movement.
In their free time, women would walk together and chat, sometimes talking about a crazy woman on the mountain.
It was a bitter woman who could not stand the deformity of marriage and love, but the third sister-in-law was full of condemnation and criticism of her in her words.
After a while, soon it was busy farming season, and someone needed to plow the land well to sow seeds.
Wu Niang invited her distant nephew Brother Bing to help with the farm work, Brother Bing was a young and strong young man, his dark muscles condensed with strength and emitted strong hormones.
Xingxian often had to cross the field to deliver food for him, and when the two of them coexisted in the shack by the field, they inevitably felt embarrassed, so they lied that the eagle had come, trying to coax Shao Wei, who was playing outside, to come back to relieve the embarrassment.
Who knows Shao Wei is unaware, still playing with his friends, this time, the two people in the shack are not natural, two men and women who are in their youth, daily contact will inevitably rub sparks.
And Xingxian also felt that her heart was alive again like a dry well, and she began to deliberately dress up on the mirror hairpin flower.
However, this scene was bumped into by Shao Wei, and Xing Xian was busy denying it, saying that the flowers were blown in from the outside, and ordering Xiao Shao Wei not to mention this matter to others.
After the end of the farm, Brother Bing left, and the fire in Xingxian's heart was extinguished. However, not long after, bandits broke out outside the village, and the third sister-in-law heard about it and rushed to inform the fifth lady.
Because there is no man to rely on in the family, the fifth lady called Brother Bing back again, and the return of Brother Bing, of course, is the apricot fairy, and it is overjoyed to see his figure from afar.
And Bingge also has an interest in Xingxian, when the two passed by, he quietly threw a red paper bag to her, who knew that all this was seen by Shao Wei, who was not more troublesome.
He secretly opened the paper bag when Xingxian was not there, found that it was a silver ring, and in order to deliberately tease Xingxian to make her angry, he buckled the paper bag at the bottom of the bowl and hid it.
The apricot fairy who could not be found was anxious and afraid, and when she was noticed by WuNiang at the dinner table, she had to push that she was unwell, and Wuniang felt sorry for her, so she pushed her back and scraped Sha.
Asking her if Shao Wei had bullied her again, Xingxian could not tell Wu Niang about her grievances, but could only be a person's tears of Ai Ai.
However, Shao Wei, who had done something wrong, quietly returned the thing afterwards, and xingxian, who knew the truth, was angry and funny, and hugged Shao Wei and cried.
At night, the desolate and miserable song of the crazy woman echoed in the mountains for a long time, and knowing that the apricot fairy behind the song felt even more piercing.
It turned out that the crazy woman was also the daughter-in-law of a certain family, because she was unwilling to wait for her husband to grow up, so she stole an affair with a young descendant in the village.
According to the clan rules at that time, adultery was to be immersed in a pig cage, her man died, she survived, but unfortunately she went crazy from then on.
The story of this woman, and the fate of the five wives and three sisters-in-law, are like a heavy shadow pressing on the heart of the apricot fairy, making her feel suffocated every time she thinks about it.
Time passed, in 1949, the founding of New China, in order to liberate the people's minds, the province sent a PLA task force down to the countryside to preside over relevant matters.
In order to break the feudal superstition, every household must hand over the Buddha statue in the family, and now it is a new era, comrade Qu in the township office told everyone to pursue freedom of marriage.
During this time, Xingxian and Bingge have already fallen in love with each other, and they are almost private for life, but both of them are afraid of each other's identities and dare not disclose.
One day, Shao Wei was looking for apricot immortals on the hillside, and accidentally found Xingxian and Brother Bing talking under the grass shed, Brother Bing asked Xingxian to go with him, but Xingxian was reluctant to let Shaowei and Wuniang, and he hesitated.
Shao Wei, who did not understand things, listened to the conversation between the two people and became angry in his heart, he did not understand love, but he knew that the sister he had relied on since childhood was leaving, so he cried sadly.
As a result, she was bumped into by the third sister-in-law who was passing by, so she asked Shao Wei what was wrong, and Shao Wei told the third sister-in-law all the things she heard and saw.
The third sister-in-law, who learned of this private affair, began to look at Xingxian badly, sneered at her in front of everyone, and found a group of people behind her back to block Brother Bing.
After several tosses, and finally knowing exactly that the two did not reconcile, the third sister-in-law felt guilty, and she came to the fifth lady's house to send something to Xingxian and said good words.
Xingxian was still a little angry in his heart, and Brother Bing, who had been beaten up in plain white, was even more angry, unwilling to accept her overtures.
In these days, although the comrades in the township office have been preaching the emancipation of the mind and the freedom of marriage, the stereotypes and bad habits formed over thousands of years can be broken in one day.
Xingxian felt very sad when she thought of her and Bingge's hopeless future, and while she was sad that she was difficult to change her fate, she also felt uneasy about her conscience because of her ungrateful betrayal of Wuniang and Shaowei.
For a moment, she hesitated and tangled, and she didn't have a plan in the end, and she didn't know what to do.
After a few days, Xingxian took Shao Wei to see a play, and on the way, he lied that he wanted to go to the toilet, but he ran to no one's place to meet Brother Bing.
The two discussed their future plans, but they were found again by the meticulous third sister-in-law, so the third sister-in-law deliberately shouted to catch the hooligans, alarming everyone.
Brother Bing was surrounded by everyone and beat up fiercely, and in a hurry, Xingxian told the truth in public, and she finally plucked up the courage to say that she wanted to divorce Shao Wei.
As soon as these words came out, it was like stabbing a honeycomb, the two were completely angry, and the people in the village decided to punish the two according to the clan rules, but they were stopped by the people who arrived at the township office in time.
In the township office, Xingxian divorced Shao Wei as he wished, and the people in the village heard about this earth-shattering strange thing and ran to the wall outside the township office to watch the liveliness.
And even if there are thousands of reluctance to Xingxian sister, Shaowei also has to let her go free, Wuniang's face is pale, as if she is very cold and angry about Xingxian's choice, and Shaowei is not allowed to talk to Xingxian again.
However, on the day that Xingxian packed her bags and left the village, Wuniang still asked Shaowei to send her on the last journey, and also instructed Shaowei to tell Xingxian that the third sister-in-law was at the intersection early in the morning to prepare to teach Xingxian a lesson and let her beware.
Shao Wei relayed the words to Xing Xian, and Xing Xian heard the words, clinging to it, and finally separated from Shao Wei, with hope, and embarked on a new road...
"Good Family Women" is a 1985 work by director Huang Jianzhong, which tells the story of Xingxian, a child bride in Yijiazhai in Qianbei on the eve of liberation, who fell in love with a young man and later successfully got rid of the marriage that bound human nature under the wave of the new era.
The story is adapted from the novel of Mr. Li Kuanding, who is also the screenwriter of the film, so the film basically restores the style of the novel.
The language of the film lens is very simple, the actor's acting skills are also deeply touching, and the portrayal of the character image in the film is not kitsch, natural and simple.
The five niangs, apricot immortals, third sisters-in-law and crazy women in the story are all victims of feudal etiquette, the fifth lady has worked hard for a lifetime for the sake of a one-night couple, the third sister-in-law has also been discriminated against by her husband because she cannot give birth to children, and the crazy woman's life experience is particularly bumpy and desolate.
They are all victims, and victims like the third sister-in-law are ignorant who have never awakened, do not know how to fight for themselves, but help the feudal habit of eating people to judge the choice of the apricot immortal, which is both pitiful and hateful in nature.
However, she is not exactly such a villain role in the film, she knows that she blamed The Apricot Fairy for repeatedly showing affection, and the plot of her teaching Shao Wei to treat the Apricot Fairy well when he grows up, which makes this character more warm.
This is also based on the author's unique observation of life, so that such a story of rebellion against feudal etiquette is so plain and true, there is no showmanship, no exaggeration, just tell the story, after watching it, it is unbearable to sigh.