Every time I read "Jinghua Smoke and Clouds", I feel uneasy for Manniang, Lu Xun said, "Tragedy is to destroy beauty to show people", Manniang interpreted this sentence with her own life. She is gentle and beautiful, quiet and elegant, but she has lived a lonely and lonely life, and the ending is also very cruel. It couldn't be more appropriate to describe her with a "thin face".
Manniang's grandfather and the old lady of the Zeng family are brother and sister, because of this relationship, Manniang and Zeng Pingya, the eldest young master of the Zeng family, have known each other since childhood, and love each other, and the families of both sides also recognize this relationship.
After Manniang's father passed away, Mrs. Zeng asked Pingya to serve as her son-in-law Dai Xiao and assist in taking care of the funeral, making the relationship between the two closer. In fact, the story is handled according to this, Manniang will harvest a happy and happy life, the Zeng family is a wealthy family, Pingya cherishes it, and her in-laws are also very satisfied. After marriage, the two will live a peaceful and prosperous life.
But there were unforeseen circumstances, and Pingya suddenly got an emergency and was menacing. The parents of the Zeng family didn't know what to do, so they were determined to be a dead horse and a live horse doctor, and prepared to use the method of chongxi to make their son marry Manniang as his wife, so as to save his son's life.
The parents of the Zeng family originally only had the mentality of giving it a try, hoping to see the posture of Manniang's family, although Manniang and Pingya had been engaged very early, but his children were in danger, and they also let their daughter jump into the fire pit, which is also a bit inauthentic.
To the surprise of Zeng's parents, Manniang and Pingya agreed without thinking, and Manniang's mother did not stop it, which was regarded as acquiescence. The Zeng family happily arranged the marriage for the two, but still did not keep Pingya.
The red candle in the chapel still exists, and Manniang began to be widowed until she was killed by the Japanese in her 50s, and she was a virgin. How difficult it must have been for more than 30 years. It is said that Manniang loves Ping Asia-Pacific blazing, enough to burn for a lifetime. Actually, I don't really agree. Manniang's widowhood throughout her life has both practical factors and helplessness to a certain extent.
First, there is no one in Manniang's mother's house, and Ding is thin.
When Manniang's grandfather was alive, he spent all his belongings in the family and finally died due to poverty. He left behind two sons: Manniang's father and uncle, who barely lived with the help of his aunt. Manniang's uncle had no children, no children, and adopted a child. When Manniang was 10 years old, she gave birth to an older brother in the family, but unfortunately her brother died of illness when she was 5 years old. In the early spring of a year after his brother's death, Manniang's father also passed away.
Born in such a family, Manniang encountered some things, not to mention the help of her mother's family, and she didn't even discuss one. The Sun family is not only not prosperous, but also has limited property. Manniang's family has their own house and a few acres of land, and the mother and daughter usually help others do needlework and live a simple life. Such a situation cannot be compared with the Zeng family, not to mention that he was an orphan and widow, he had no support back then, and his life was very hard.
Such a poor family, in front of the wealthy mother-in-law, does it still have the strength to choose to remarry? I found it difficult.
The second is that the second elder of the Zeng family strictly disciplined him.
Master Zeng belongs to the old-fashioned people, his mind is full of men and women, and he is even more strict with his daughter-in-law. After Mulan got married, she loved to go out to play very much, and Master Zeng was not very happy. Thinking about it carefully, Mulan's mother's family has money to use to reclaim the sea, and Mulan herself is also knowledgeable and a housekeeper, so she can barely find faults. But when Master Zeng saw Mulan and Sunya going out to play, he wanted to give face, not to mention Manniang, who had no support.
There was no one in Manniang's house, the family was in the middle of the road, her husband died, and Master Zeng was more strict with her. He once told Mulan, "Your sister-in-law is a widow, and the park is the most unsuitable for her." I won't allow you to take her away unless mom and the old lady are gone. ”
Sunya once made a plan to take Mulan and Manniang out to watch a movie, and after returning, he was reprimanded by Master Zeng's head and face, and he blamed Mulan to express his dissatisfaction to Manniang, "Will the widow watch the movie?" "Mulan, you know what's going on, you just took her away. She is not like you, she is a widow. Don't distract her by dragging her out. It can't be done anywhere. ”
Manniang is not allowed to go out to play, parks, and movie theaters, for fear of being seduced. The Zeng family's strict discipline made it impossible for Manniang to participate in the vast world of the outside world, and was only trapped in her narrow courtyard.
Again, when Manniang got married, she was not very old and her experience was very shallow.
I didn't question the love affair between Manniang and Pingya, I just thought that such a short relationship was no match for the erosion of time. Manniang and Pingya actually didn't have too many days together, and the two didn't have childhood sweethearts in their childhood, just a flash in the pan. When the relationship first opened, the two were in a different place and were not very close. And Manniang is deeply influenced by traditional thoughts, and she is also very restrained with Pingya, to what extent is she restrained? Pingya just pulled Manniang and made Manniang think that he was herself.
Manniang was very young when she first got married, and she may still be under the age of 20, and her experience is too superficial. It was a time of madness, fantasies, and unwise deeds for the sake of love, which was understandable. With Manniang's age and experience, I don't know what kind of life she will face next in her marriage with Pingya.
When she agrees to marry Ping Ya and Ping Ya dies, it is estimated that she will appreciate the pain of widowhood and understand what loneliness is. However, at this time, she couldn't change anything when the overall situation was decided, so she could only swallow the bitterness silently and slowly survive her life obediently.
The helpless thing about life is that when it comes to choosing opportunities, you may not have them. By the time you have experience, vision, and know how to choose, you have already lost the possibility of making a choice.
Finally, with the instability of the external environment, it is a luxury to live in peace and stability.
* From the end of the Qing Dynasty and the beginning of the Republic of China to the thirties of the 20th century, the Qing Emperor abdicated, the warlords fought in a melee, and the Xinhai Revolution. With the chaotic times as the background and frequent wars, it is a luxury to be able to live a peaceful and stable life in this situation.
Fortunately, the Zeng family can keep Manniang safe and sound, so that she does not have to worry about food and clothing. She was originally the daughter-in-law of a wealthy family, and her family background was not good, and it would be difficult to marry a high-ranking family.
After comprehensive consideration, staying in the Zeng family may be a better choice for that era. It is also a kind of helplessness in the troubled times.
Wrote to the end.
The book tries its best to describe Manniang's beauty:
* In the early years, she became a rare antique, like a beautiful picture falling from an ancient book. In modern times, that kind of typical is invisible, invisible. Manniang has beautiful eyelashes, a beautiful smile, neat teeth like braided shells, and a beautiful appearance. When Mulan first saw her, she was fourteen years old with her feet covered. Mulan herself is lively and cheerful, but she likes Manniang's quiet and elegant temperament. ”
But for Manniang's beauty, Lin Yutang is in a regretful mood, the book said that Manniang's girlhood, like the plum blossoms blooming in the cold winter wax moon, was born among the vigorous and winding branches, blooming in the cold of late winter and early spring, without green leaves as a companion, and no other flowers as a companion, doomed him to retreat and enjoy himself; When the peach and plum spring flowers first bloomed, she had already walked through the dreamy Shaohua on the aging and quite hard branches. ”
The more beautiful Manniang is, the more suffocating her fate becomes. The tragedy was not due to the depth of the Epimpia or merely personal reasons, but to the turbulent circumstances of the era.