Chapter 2115 Flower dispute (twenty-three)

Ancient Chinese poems use a lot of metaphors. For example, mausoleums are also called "green tombs", people who miss friends far away are called "spring trees and clouds", the boudoir of a rich family's daughter is called a "red building", and the room of a poor family's daughter is called a "red building".

It's a "green window".

So does Dream of Red Mansions refer to "Dream of a Rich Mansion"?

This allusion is said to come from Bai Juyi's poem "The Rich Girl in the Red Chamber". The Dream of Red Mansions does indeed tell the story of boys and girls from wealthy families. However, the beauties in the Dream of Red Mansions have very few real activities, at least not comparable to the rich social life of Parisian women.

In comparison, although the author tried to give them different characters, they are almost blank except for various love affairs with Jia Baoyu and poetry recitation. In contrast, "Feng Lazi" Wang Xifeng is completely reversed.

She couldn't read a poem, but it didn't affect her eloquence at all, and her words were full of all kinds of afterthoughts.

At first Nick thought it was because of the writer's lack of writing skills, but later he realized how realistic the author was and why the priest used medical treatment as an excuse to encourage women to leave the house.

If you want to have an accurate understanding of Chinese women's temperament, you need to understand what kind of character a husband wants his wife to have. For example, society praises women as filial and obedient, able to take good care of their parents and children, and work quietly. Then she must have been raised like this since she was a child.

.In addition, except for books like "Biography of Women", they rarely have access to other reading materials. Even when the troupe comes, they cannot attend the audience, but can only sit in the "flower hall" with a fence nearby.

There are even some husbands whose fathers do not allow them to do this because the lyrics in the opera troupe occasionally contain pornographic jokes, which they think are not suitable for "women from good families" to listen to.

They were locked up in the boudoir from a very young age to learn the knowledge they would need after getting married. They did not understand human anatomy or gravity. Only by going to the temple to burn incense or taking a boat to relax did they have the opportunity to get out of the boudoir and contact the outside world. From this we can see

In operas, the romantic encounters between scholars and young ladies often take place in places like temples.

This sacrifice to Mazu may be one of the few opportunities for Wan Ning to go out. Even if she is sitting in a sedan chair, she will still open the curtain of the sedan chair and look at the city of Guangzhou where she has lived for three years like a newcomer.

Then Nick remembered that her eyes had only been able to see clearly after surgery, so she saw everything fresh, and her eyes were still so bright hiding in the darkness of the sedan.

Rather than saying that this education method restricts their intellectual development, "It is virtue for women not to have talent," it is better to say that it kills their nature. After all, no man wants to have a wife like Pan Jinlian.

This is not only because she is a slave of love, but also because she is indifferent to family affection, jealous and has all kinds of harmful intentions.

There is a religious play in the Middle Ages called "The Ordinary Man". It depicts a person who wants to meet the Creator after death and must calculate the good and evil of his life. It contains common life issues.

He remembered that Wu Song later became a "walker", that is, a semi-orphaned monk.

What Wu Song committed was "anger". He killed Pan Jinlian to avenge his brother, completely ignoring his niece.

What Ximen Qing committed was "greed". If he could exercise restraint and not indulge in such indulgence, he could not only save his life, but also take advantage of the superior conditions to live a better life than most people in Qinghe County.

"Crazy" in Buddhism refers to stupidity, but "Crazy" also means obsessed. Wu Song was the first man Pan Jinlian fell in love with. When she heard his proposal for marriage, she actually agreed. When she saw Wu Song, the first man was

She thought of the marriage and wanted to keep it in her home. She did not expect that the day she got married would be the day she died.

In order to take revenge, Wu Song did not care about the accusations of people around him. Anger and love can also blind people's minds.

Ximen Qing's vague and weak rationality made him realize that the smart Pan Jinlian was not his favorite. However, when he was dying, he still hoped that his wives and concubines could guard his soul, and remember to remember Pan Jinlian when arranging his funeral.

Jinlian's future life plan is to wait for Wu Yueniang to come and intercede for Pan Jinlian, fearing that after her death Pan Jinlian will have no place in this family.

It’s hard to say whether this kind of feeling is love, but it’s just like “a couple’s kindness lasts for a hundred days” and “when a person is about to die, his words are also kind.”

According to Juren, people can see ghosts before they die. Ximen Qing saw Hua Zixu at that time, and Wu Dalang stood in front of him and asked him if he had come to collect debts.

Dou E was a young woman who was framed and accused of poisoning her father-in-law. The deceased's son took her to the government. The officials ignored Dou E's repeated complaints and sentenced her to death. She was taken to the execution ground and executed. After that, the emperor

He ordered to send high-ranking officials to investigate the public sentiment and re-try the cases that had been decided. This high-ranking official was Dou E's father. Of course he didn't know that this murder had caused him to lose his daughter forever. Some changes happened after he left his daughter.

His daughter also changed her name. He didn't know all this and was kept in the dark. But just when he was about to read through all the files on the case, he felt sleepy and fell asleep.

At this moment, a ghost appeared, it was Dou E's wronged soul. She walked in, looked around, and cried sadly. The old man saw her sad look in his dream, and he also choked up. Then he suddenly

He woke up with a start, but found that he and the scribe were the only two people in the room, and the scribe was sleeping. There seemed to be a shadow in the room that always flickered lightly in the candlelight, and the candlelight became erratic, flickering on and off. The old man

Every time he stood up and wanted to bid farewell to the wick, the ghost would turn the file he had just read back to the unfair verdict. Finally, Dou E finally appeared in front of his father. Seeing this, his father could not help but be frightened, but

As soon as she came to her senses, she started asking about the case as if she was still alive.

She lives as a "person", more vividly than the ladies in Dream of Red Mansions, even though she lives in the "Green Window".

After Ximen Qing's death, Pan Jinlian was almost sold. Just like the noble ladies after the collapse of the Jia family, "Feng Lazi" was also wrapped in a roll of straw mat and buried, just like she had done with her servants before.

Juren once told him a story recorded in "Flower Window and Strange Grass". The literati of his time liked to write ghost stories, and they were "ancient". This may be one of the few subjects that does not have to worry about literary inquisition.

There was a man named Yu who became the son-in-law of a family named Shen. Shen was very beautiful and liked to dress up. She often dressed in front of a mirror from the Tang and Song Dynasties.

One day, this mirror suddenly disappeared. It was the only one missing from the house. All the gold and silver jewelry on Shen's dressing table were not lost. After a while, Yu Sheng saw an old man selling mirrors in the market. They looked very old. , so Yu Sheng bought it and gave it to his wife.

The wife took a look in the mirror and suddenly exclaimed, "Who are you?"

Unexpectedly, the mirror also made a voice: "Who are you?"

Yu Sheng was very surprised. He took a look in the mirror and found that there was a peerless beauty standing in it. His wife could not compare with her. Yu Sheng asked who she was. The woman in the mirror said that she was Zhu Quanzhong during the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period. The beloved concubine later died in the rebellion. Because she met an immortal master, he used her blood to cast this mirror, and her soul was attached to the mirror.

Yu Sheng asked, "Will you bring harm?"

The woman in the mirror said, "I don't dare to cause trouble, I just want to serve you."

Yu Sheng was very happy and asked Jing Ji what she could do. She was not only good at singing, but also good at dancing. So Yu Sheng set up the mirror and the couple watched Jing Ji sing and dance together.

"You say you don't dare to cause trouble, but this girl has disturbed the whole Shen family. If it weren't for my father-in-law, the couple almost lost their lives." Lao Juren ate the food and wine while telling Nick a story, "Remember , the tyrants listed in the history books and the women who brought disaster to the country and the people were all transformed by ghosts."

Georgiana wanted to ask him, Heshen and Zhongtang were also ghosts?

There is a story in "Yuewei Thatched Cottage" written by Ji Yun. An old man named Men Shirong came to Wugouqiao Panhe River one day. At that time, the sun was about to set, but it rained heavily and the river surged. I was worried about where to cross the river when I suddenly saw two people riding horses in front of me. They went back and forth several times and found a place with shallow water. Men Shirong followed them to the river and was about to cross the river. One of them Suddenly he reined in his horse and stopped, waiting for Men Shirong to come over. He whispered: "Don't follow us. Walk to the left for more than half a mile. You can see a dead tree on the other side. Cross the river from that place. I led the man who was walking with me. People are going to do something, so don’t follow them.”

Men Shirong thought that the other person was a robber and hurried back. He followed his guidance and walked forward, looking back at the two men as he walked. Soon, Men Shirong saw that the man who was talking to him was riding ahead, and the man following him came. When they reached the middle of the river, they were suddenly submerged by the water. Both the man and the horse were washed away, while the previous man turned into a whirlwind and disappeared.

Only then did Men Shirong realize that this man was an avenger, and the man behind him should have been his enemy.

This reminded her of "The Tale of the Three Brothers", although it was a wizard's fairy tale.

Is it really the God of Death who is chasing the three brothers, or is it someone holding a grudge?
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