The meaning of reading for each of us ordinary people is to taste our own lives from the stories and experiences of others.
Recently, I have spent a lot of time reading the classic work "Peony Pavilion" by the great dramatist Tang Xianzu, and today I want to share my feelings after reading with you.
Regarding what kind of story "Peony Pavilion" tells, I will briefly repeat it: Du Liniang met Liu Mengmei in a dream and fell in love with Liu Mengmei, and then died because of lovesickness, the judge of the prefectural government sentenced her to Yang because of her deep affection, Liu Mengmei lived in Meihua'an in Beijing, the Daogu of Meihua'an helped Du Liniang to come back to life, and Liu Mengmei ushered in a reunion ending with the help of the emperor after winning the title.
The biggest villain in the story, Du Bao, only adheres to feudal etiquette and does not do anything special (such as directly not letting Liu Mengmei, a poor student, catch the exam and so on).
Du Liniang and Liu Mengmei did not really meet each other, and just by virtue of the meeting in the dream, they could be loyal to each other.
Liu Mengmei did not climb the branches after high school, forgetting the girl who had appeared in his dreams.
There was no one else between the two of them, like the common cousin cousin.
Most of the people in the story also support the love between the two of them.
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None of the scenes that might appear in The Talented Woman's novels appear.
Of course, I also know that the theme of this story is to dislike the suppression of human nature by feudal etiquette, to pursue free love, to highlight human personality and express human desire.
After all, this story was written during the Ming Dynasty, during the Wanli Dynasty, after the development of the two Song Dynasties, by the Ming Dynasty, the Confucian culture dominated by Song Ming Theory had moved to a state of complete oppression of human nature, and the centralized power had developed to an unprecedented level. At that time, young men and women were blindly married and dumb, relying on the orders of their parents and the words of matchmakers to complete the major events of their lives.
At that time, how much was the oppression of women?
"Pulling sleeves" is called "unruly", what is "pulling sleeves"? It was just that the clothes touched slightly with the clothes.
Of course, the most dehumanizing thing in that era was the "Chastity Arch", and what kind of existence was the "Chastity Arch"?
If a woman's husband unfortunately dies, the woman needs to observe the festival for her husband, and at that time, the government will commend the family with the "Chastity Arch", so some women are directly sent to the "Chastity Arch" by the husband's family after the death of their husband.
The "Chastity Arch" is usually a small independent and claustrophobic building, and women must wear vegetarian clothes and eat vegetarian vegetables after living in it until they die in the small building.
At that time, people were bound by layers of shackles, and women were even worse.
Now, we no longer need to meet our significant other in our dreams, we can meet, date, and talk together in real life.
We also don't need to be confined to square inches, have no chance to see the outside world, and are trapped in a boxy yard all our lives, trapped in the yard of our parents as a child, and in the yard of our husband's family when we reach adulthood.
Our revolutionary martyrs ended the rule of the Qing Dynasty, endured countless sacrifices and hardships, and finally brought our lives into a new world.
We can now participate in the work, we can choose the way we want to live, without worrying about the war and the bullying of the invaders, it is really a beautiful thing.
Therefore, we must cherish everything we have, and at the same time, we must work hard to make our children and grandchildren have a happier and better tomorrow.
Don't let yourself indulge in bad love, first love yourself, then you can love others.
May we all embrace happiness.