If you use one sentence to describe Shen Meizhuang, it must be that sentenceI'd rather die with an incense branch than blow down in the north wind].
What is the [incense] that Meizhuang holds?It's her integrity, her love, and herself.
Meizhuang went from being favored to falling out of favor, from the original brightness to the death of the soul in the end, it seems to be helpless, but in fact, everything has traces to follow.
The tragedy of Meizhuang was already doomed in her first appearance!
Before Meizhuang entered the palace, her mother and aunts helped her to bet on the question, and after observing Meizhuang's words and deeds, Shen Meizhuang's mother asked her: "What if the emperor asks you what books you have read?"”
Meizhuang replied proudly"The Book of Songs", "Mencius", "Zuo Chuan" ......
Before she could finish speaking, Shen Meizhuang's mother interrupted her:"Wrong, the emperor is a draft girl today, enriching his own harem, not taking the top prize, asking about knowledge, a woman is virtuous if she is not talented. ”
If you've watched the whole story, you'll remember this sentence:
Meizhuang was locked up in Xianyue Pavilion because of a fake pregnancy, and when Zhen Huan went to visit her, Meizhuang said to Zhen Huan:"Even though you know that you will marry the king one day......”
It can be seen that Meizhuang was cultivated by the family as a favorite concubine, so every word and deed, every smile and smile of Meizhuang must comply with the royal norms.
Zhen Huan prayed at the temple[I hope I lose the election, I hope I can marry the best man in the world], Meizhuang lacks awareness and insight into love. Because the family had already arranged for her (to marry the emperor), she didn't think there was anything wrong.
When Meizhuang's mother and aunts were questioning, one of the aunts said:"The waist is softer, and the emperor will like it more." The Shen family is doing their best to cultivate a stable, qualified, virtuous and virtuous favorite concubine for the emperor. Meizhuang is favored, and the status of the Shen family will also rise, and the former dynasty and the harem will always be one glory and one loss.
On the day of the palace election, Meizhuang's beauty and calm temperament were unanimously recognized by the queen mother and the emperor. The Queen Mother asked Meizhuang:"Have you ever read any books?”
Meizhuang, who knew the answer in advance, replied:"The courtiers are dull, they have only read "Women's Rules" and "Women's Training", and they know a few words. ”
These two books are about [female morality], and they also spread the most traditional values under feudal etiquette: the husband is the wife, and the king is the minister.
Whether it is serving the emperor or serving the husband, the most important task of a woman is to prolong the heirs for the husband and manage the affairs of the backyard.
After entering the palace, Meizhuang has been following this kind of ideological education.
The emperor asked her to learn Xi housekeeper skills and assist the queen in managing the six palaces, and after Meizhuang shirked it, she also readily agreed to the emperor's proposal.
At that time, Meizhuang thought that the emperor liked her calmness and seriousness, but he didn't know that the emperor was just using her to balance Concubine Hua.
In the face of the favored Concubine Hua, Meizhuang also wanted to be good with her when he first entered the palace.
But it was only that time, a jealous and arrogant person like Concubine Hua had no friends in the palace, and of course, she didn't disdain to be with those women.
After Meizhuang was favored, in the face of the arrogant and domineering Concubine Hua, she was steady and self-controlled, and her clothes were wet with water, and she did not mess up her proportions.
Even in the face of the favored Yu Ying'er, Meizhuang is also very beautiful in the demeanor of everyone, and her way to Yu Ying'er in the snow is not a kind of [killing] of Yu Ying'er?
It's just that the Shen family only taught Meizhuang how to be a steady and decent favorite concubine, but did not teach her to recognize people's hearts and understand human nature. She proposed to reduce expenses, originally to save money for the emperor, but she moved other people's cakes and was hated by others.
After the drowning incident in Qianlichi, she wanted to have an heir, but she was framed by Concubine Hua and competed for favor with a fake pregnancy. It was also at that time that Meizhuang no longer had any hope for the emperor's favor.
Meizhuang has long known that her other half is the emperor, and everything she has learned Xi is centered on the emperor. But even if she has to share a man with many women, Meizhuang is also eager for love, and she needs to be respected and loved by the emperor.
In other words,In Meizhuang's subconscious, she is self-aware, the sentence she likes [I'd rather die with incense on the branches than blow down in the north wind] is the best proof.
Meizhuang had been pushed forward by the glory of the family before, and she handed over her trust and obedience to the emperor during the draft. But after the fake pregnancy incident, Meizhuang found that the way of getting along with husband and wife taught at home was of little use to the emperor.
Meizhuang and the emperor are equivalent to being married by order, there is no concubine, and there is no love foundation. The emperor was kind, Concubine Hua chose to forgive, and the queen chose to compromise, but Meizhuang chose to divorce and took refuge in the queen mother for the safety of the family.
Meizhuang is proud, she has her own style and bones. At the same time, Meizhuang is also sober, she knows that even if she rebuilds the old friendship with the emperor, she still has to return to Israel to serve people, in order to compete for favor and live a frightening life, it is better to serve the queen with all her heart and feel at ease.
Meizhuang's self-consciousness was awakened after the false pregnancy incident, and she began to learn to protect herself and learn to fulfill herself.
Meizhuang's feelings for Wen Shichu are an explosion of her self-consciousness.
If Meizhuang is in the winter of life, then Wen Shichu is the warm sun in winter. Meizhuang fell in love with Wen Shichu, which confirmed the sentence "Companionship is the most affectionate confession".
The relationship between the two violates the ethics of the monarch and the minister, and runs counter to what is taught in "Women's Rules" and "Women's Training", but why is Meizhuang so happy?Because she is rebelling against the exploitation of women in this patriarchal society, she is perfecting herself.
The more repressed things are, the more they are looking around the bush to find a way outMeizhuang's feelings for Wen Shichu are like this, and so is Meizhuang's suppressed personality.
There is no woman who does not crave love, especially a woman who has been soaked in love since childhood. Meizhuang's love for Imperial Physician Wen is that she began to follow her heart's desire for love.
In the whole play, Meizhuang is the one who lives the most really. Except for the time when she burned herself to get rid of Concubine Hua, Sister Mei basically did not participate in the [Female Competition], she was not hypocritical, she was not hypocritical, and she lived as herself.
[What's the use of being sober and restrained all day] It's better to get drunk once!
In stark contrast to Meizhuang, it is Concubine Duan. She knew that the emperor was unkind, and she knew that the emperor used herself to beat Concubine Hua's child and let herself be tortured by Concubine Hua.
But Concubine Duan didn't hate the emperor, she only hated Concubine Hua, and even loved the emperor all the time. Concubine Duan is the poor person under the patriarchal system, and she was soaked in the taste of "Women's Rules" and "Women's Training".
In the Osho Sutra, there is a sentence that roughly means something like this:
Usually we are not conscious and conscious, we do things out of Xi or biological instinct. Enlightenment is when you become so conscious, so full of light, that it overflows your life, your being. You can share it.Sister Mei is like this. In the early days, she was doing things out of Xi and the instinct of the patriarchal system, [centered on the emperor and imperial power].
When her self-consciousness awakened, she saw the light, she was illuminated by this light, she was overwhelmed, and she was willing to eat it.
When Meizhuang finally died, he left this world with a smile. She is fighting against this iron cage woven by patriarchy with her life, she has lived as herself, she died in the arms of love with incense, and she has never been blown down into the north wind.
Before Meizhuang entered the palace, her aunt said to her: "The waist is softer, the emperor will like it", but Sister Mei's waist has been straight for a lifetime.
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