"Mansion Gate" is a classic TV series that depicts the life of ordinary people during the Qing Dynasty. The play has won the love and recognition of the audience with a strong sense of historical realism and excellent artistic presentation.
In this drama, the role of Xiangxiu has attracted much attention, she gradually grew from a country girl to a maid holding a dog, and finally successfully counterattacked and became the wife of the mansion.
In the process of counterattacking, she also showed some nasty traits.
Xiangxiu is initially described as a kind, unpretentious girl, but as the story progresses, she gradually shows her cunning qualities.
With her beauty and intelligence, she did not hesitate to use various means to achieve her goals, and eventually achieved a higher social status and abundant wealth.
Although she has also had some unfortunate experiences and signs of weakness, judging by her behavior, she is not a purely good person, but tends to be extremely self-interested.
She is thoughtful and deep, and in order to achieve her goals, she does not hesitate to use various means such as lies, concealment, and deception.
These actions of hers make her look hypocritical and lacking in true humanity and emotion.
Xiangxiu is gentle and intelligent on the outside, but on the inside, she hides an extremely cunning and sinister side.
Her success is inseparable from her beauty and self-confidence, but it also makes her arrogant.
She will often take advantage of the trust of others or deliberately disguise her true intentions in order to achieve her own goals.
She is not a truly good person, sometimes her actions are deliberately hurtful to others, she is good at fighting, calculating, and intriguing, and she will stop at nothing to pursue her goals.
Her shrewdness and scheming are also shown many times in the play.
For example, some people will repeat the previous tactics at their weddings, deliberately making the women in the family make mistakes and destroying the phoenix mirror, so as to reduce their prestige and maintain their status in the family.
She will deliberately manipulate the scene and put herself in the center of attention to get more praise and attention, especially when the task in the house is more important.
She often employs a variety of methods to achieve her goals in these situations, sometimes even resorting to unscrupulous behavior.
Her scheming is unguardable, which is closely linked to her ambitious personality.
In the play, Xiangxiu was born in a civilian family, but she knows that only by marrying into a famous family can she change her fate.
Therefore, in her opinion, success and fame and fortune are more important than anything else.
As a girl from a humble background but witty and intelligent, Xiangxiu showed her extraordinary talent and ability to climb from the bottom, standing out in this feudal family.
However, Xiangxiu's scheming and cunning make her both pitiful and hateful in the eyes of high society.
She constantly deceives and calculates the people around her in order to maximize her own interests.
Her over-intelligence sometimes makes people think that she has been misled by her cleverness and missed out on the more valuable human care that she should have.
As a girl who is a domestic servant, Xiangxiu has been instilled with the concept of order from top to bottom since she was a child.
She has always believed that her identity determines her lower social status, so she is eager to break the status quo and change her destiny.
Xiangxiu is good at seeing the weaknesses and psychology of others, and she always cleverly uses this information for her own benefit.
When she interacts with other characters, she displays a lot of selfish mannerisms.
She often uses her petty position of power to intimidate other servants, suppress other maids, and even take away their opportunities for personal gain.
She will disguise herself as kind and deceive others, but in private she always plots her own selfish interests.
In addition, she will actively provoke incidents and exacerbate conflicts between others.
Her greed and dissatisfaction are influenced by the further deepening of the social class and the gap between the rich and the poor, so she wants to use her ingenuity to obtain more gains and promotions, and these gains are essentially to satisfy her selfish desires.
In the play, Xiangxiu's image often shows a callous and unforgiving attitude, and she is often blind to the suffering and suffering of others.
Only focus on personal interests and desires, ignore the feelings of others, like to play tricks, calculating others.
Xiangxiu not only pursues fame and fortune, but also uses her wealth to manipulate others.
She used various tactics to deal with her mother-in-law and concubines, such as giving gifts to curry favor with them, or spreading rumors and plotting plots to jeopardize their reputations.
In "The Gate of the Mansion", the image of Xiangxiu actually reflects the diverse life of a maid woman at that time.
Although they have some autonomy in some areas, they are generally marginalized in society.
Due to economic, cultural, social and other restrictions, they can only rely on personal efforts and collusion with powerful people to improve their status and change their fate.
At that time, the society was very cruel, and the social class and the gap between the rich and the poor was huge, which also reflected the difficulty of discovering and making full use of people's status and qualifications.
As a result, characters like Xiangxiu have inner selfishness and greed traits that constantly reveal themselves in the story.
The selfish behavior of Xiangxiu's character can also be seen as a means to survive.
In the social background at that time, the status of women was extremely low, and as a lowly servant, they were representatives of the bottom of society.
In such a social environment, it is difficult to get an individual's efforts and talents recognized.
She became selfish at heart because she relied on an environment that colluded with and exploited powerful people.
She often takes a very realistic approach to all kinds of matters, whether it is just or unjust.
Through "Mansion Gate", the audience can also deeply understand the complexity of the society at that time, as well as people's different living circumstances.
Although Xiangxiu's selfish behavior disgusted many viewers, this image also echoed certain realities of society at the time, providing us with more space to think.
Xiangxiu relies heavily on the evaluation of others to determine her own external image and self-worth recognition.
No matter how cleverly she disguises it on the surface, it is difficult to get rid of the label of vanity.
In order to enter the high-level social circle, Xiangxiu often puts a lot of thought into her clothes and appearance.
She always flaunts her gorgeous clothes and jewelry, while her demeanor often comes across as pretentious, as if to assert her status.
Not only is she extremely concerned about her appearance and wealth, but she often compares herself to others in order to achieve higher social status and more glory.
She always sought praise from others to satisfy her vanity.
She often looks forward to causing exclamation and praise from others in the crowd, which shows her inner vanity and inferiority complex.
Xiangxiu has an ardent desire to marry into a wealthy family and become a noble lady, but she ignores her true emotions and identity.
She fell into the ** of wealth and power, lost the basic conscience of human nature to a certain extent, and often showed an arrogant and arrogant attitude.
She prioritized the pursuit of material gains, such as external honor, status, and wealth, over personality, family, and morality, which led to the negative effects and consequences of her actions.
She is also very vain in her sense of social class, always treating those below her own class with contempt and disgust, and extremely pursuing and admiring those above her own class.
She was originally from an ordinary family, but after marrying and combining with Bai Jingqi, she gained a prominent social status and economic enjoyment, which made her pay more attention to her personal image and status.
Her vanity has kept her isolated from others, resulting in her being unable to form true friendships or relationships with anyone, which has also become a major shortcoming in her character.
Therefore, Xiangxiu's vanity and glitz are not only manifested in her appearance, mannerisms, and words, but also reflect her deep feelings of loneliness and inferiority.
From a psychological point of view, her pursuit of vanity is actually a manifestation of her psychological quest for network climb and social recognition.
In both traditional and modern societies, there is a psychology similar to leveling up monster fighting games, and this psychology has similarities regardless of the era.
However, her extreme pursuit of personal image and social status has caused her to suffer certain losses in terms of interpersonal communication, family relationships and quality of life.
Xiangxiu pursues vanity because in her time and society, the issue of people's status and identity is crucial.
Women in particular need to work on their appearance, material and interpersonal relationships in order to earn the recognition and respect of others.
Xiangxiu's father is engaged in ordinary cleaning work, while she herself is an ordinary domestic maid.
At the time, such backgrounds and professions were considered inferior.
She has never had any highly technical training, so she has no outstanding specialties or abilities and is unable to attract attention.
As a result, she seeks the approval and appreciation of others to maintain a balance of self-esteem.
In addition, Xiangxiu's family residence is simple and simple, and the life and meals are very simple, which is far less than the luxurious and luxurious lifestyle of those rich people.
She would feel despised for the simplicity of her life when she witnessed the excessive waste and lavish lifestyles of the rich.
Therefore, people believe that it is necessary to show themselves through things such as dressing and behaving, so as to gain recognition and attention from the outside world.
Xiangxiu's vanity stems mainly from her own background and relatively limited conditions, but also due to her lack of self-confidence and satisfaction.
She will actively look for opportunities to improve her social status and identity in order to gain the respect and appreciation of others, thereby alleviating her inner insecurity.
One of the common human psychology is vanity, and the vanity behavior displayed by Xiangxiu once again presents the social culture and people's values at that time.
Often, we gain material possessions to boost our self-confidence and self-worth.
As a result, people have built a culture to show their status and identity by buying expensive items and living in upscale neighborhoods.
Xiangxiu's behavior shows the values of society.
However, we also need to recognize vanity as a negative personality trait.
We should strive to overcome this psychological barrier in pursuit of true self-fulfillment and intrinsic worth.
In this utilitarian-oriented society, both material and monetary are ephemeral.
It doesn't always sustain our emotions and well-being, it's the abundance and complexity within that leads to lasting happiness and investment.
There is a common emotion in people's hearts, and that is vanity. Vanity stems from the intrinsic motivation of the individual and is also closely related to the social environment and personal identity.
In contemporary society, the utilitarian orientation leads to material things becoming the standard by which people judge each other, which is easy to lead to comparisons and vanity.
In ancient societies, the concepts of identity and face were also important markers in people's social interactions.
As a result, characters like Xiangxiu in TV series are more common.
Of course, we should look at the emotion of vanity with an objective attitude, and achieve inner peace and true value expression by reflecting on the values and cultural traditions of society. Looking forward to writing a diary on the headlines for 30 days.