In Lin Yutang's work "Jinghua Smoke Cloud", there is a big difference between the role of Niu Suyun and the TV series.
She is not as straightforward and filial as in the TV series, but is pretentious, greedy for vanity, greedy for pleasure, and has no bottom line.
After carefully reading the original work of "Jinghua Smoke and Clouds", you will find that there are women like Yao Mulan and Yao Mochou who are well versed in the charm of life, but there are also women like Niu Suyun who are naturally obsessed with vanity.
For Niu Suyun, when she glimpses those women shuttling in ***, she will feel envious, thinking that this is the life state she dreams of. In the eyes of the Yao sisters, choosing to become a prostitute is undoubtedly a huge shame, but in Niu Suyun's eyes, this is the ultimate happiness she can experience.
In the original work, there was such a description of Niu Suyun's voluntary fall into the dust:
In front of Lao Jin, Su Yun became two completely different people. Her arrogance and self-esteem, her social status, and her pretentiousness are all swept away, just a fun-seeking **, and fooling around with Lao Jin does find joy.
When spending happy time with her beloved, So-yun's heart is unreservedly revealed. She is obsessed with this "money and pleasure" lifestyle, so when the prostitute Yingying throws her the ** to become a prostitute, she accepts it without hesitation.
She has forgotten, as the daughter-in-law of the Zeng family, she has forgotten her husband Zeng Ya. She even wrote to her husband, Zeng Ya, that she was enjoying a happy life and that her lover Lao Jin was a kind and good person.
In fact, we often impose our values on others, mistakenly believing that what they are doing is depraved, but for the person in question, what they are doing is only pursuing the life that their hearts desire most.
And the life that Niu Suyun wants most is a life of money, greed, and pleasure like the prostitute Yingying.
When Niu Suyun's scandalous deeds were revealed, she pretended to commit suicide to escape Zengya's discovery.
However, she can no longer win her husband's sympathy, because in Zeng Ya's eyes, a famous lady like Niu Suyun has been reduced to a situation where she is not even as good as a maid.
Zeng Ya said:
I cut her off. I was cut off from all the rich girls. If I have the opportunity to marry again, do you know what kind of young lady I should marry? In Shanxi, I saw so many lovely country girls. Whoever I marry, she will be grateful to me.
You may find it hard to believe that a mere $300 a month is enough for a country girl to rejoice. She would take good care of me, be loyal, and be content. However, the current situation is one of daily quarrels.
When you first read Zeng Ya's words, you may think that he is not worthy of Niu Suyun. His ability was limited, so he only asked a woman from a poor family to give her some money, which he regarded as the only support in his life.
However, after reading it many times, you will find that this is not his sorrow. He was accused of incompetence and suffered from marital betrayal, but he still had to endure such a wife, and he had to pay her five hundred dollars a month for pleasure. And all this is just because Niu Suyun was born in a wealthy family, and the two families are right.
However, only he knows how painful it is to spend time with a woman who is as insatiable as Niu Suyun. He would rather choose a woman who had fled the famine, who had served as a slave, who had endured hunger, and who had even been a nun, as long as she was not Niu Suyun.
In the end, he did marry Yao Mulan's maid Dark Xiang. In Zeng Ya's heart, the maid of Dark Fragrance is far better than Miss Niu Suyun.
A man who longs for a stable life meets a woman who only pursues drunkenness, disgusts each other, and their breakup is nothing more than the arrival of their true souls in their hearts.
Eventually, he was dismissed by his father-in-law.
Niu Suyun followed the prostitute Yingying away.
A long time has passed, and she has not returned to Zeng's house. And the disgraceful incident between her and Yingying was finally ** in the newspaper. At that time, Zeng Ya had already developed a good impression of Dark Incense, and originally planned to make Dark Fragrance his concubine. However, Niu Suyun's scandal made him determined to marry Dark Xiang as his wife.
Although Mr. Zeng was hesitant at first, after seeing Niu Suyun's report, he personally drafted the divorce agreement and signed his name to indicate that the relationship between the Zeng family and Niu Suyun had completely broken down.
At the same time, Niu Suyun's situation is no longer limited to her personal indulgence. She has become a "white-faced queen". As a Chinese, she forgot her identity, and for her own selfish desires, she began to endanger her compatriots.
Niu Suyun has no children and is not close to her mother's family, and her in-laws have long since recognized her. All she had left was money. She had thought she would live a carefree and affluent life.
However, in her later years, she realizes that money is no longer a vital thing for her. This is because as she grew older, she began to realize that she no longer needed a lot of expenses. She gradually longs for the warmth and joy of family, but finds that she has squandered too much in the past years to be irretrievable.
What's even more disturbing is that she only has that money left and therefore has to hold on to them because losing it means she will have nothing. In order to keep the money, she became extremely selfish by any means.
Frankly, many years ago, I didn't fully understand why Mr. Yao would intercede for Niu Suyun on his deathbed. After all, Niu Suyun has caused great harm to many Chinese, and it stands to reason that she should be severely punished. However, Mr. Yao interceded for Niu Suyun at the last moment of his life, and he said to Niu Suyun:
If Afeiru lets you go, everything will be on you ...... person in the futureBut I'm telling you, a big war is coming. When the war starts, remember that you are a Chinese.
In the original book, Niu Suyun's fate is embarrassing.
She was bent on dying, and when she became the **, her hatred for the Japanese was full of blood, and her heart was filled with endless anger and despair. In the end, she chose to leave this world, and at the moment of her departure, people still can't understand why she gave everything for those people in exchange for being killed.
Those people even said she was a spy. And now I finally understand the deep meaning of Mr. Yao's redemption of Niu Suyun.
In China at that time, not only did people like Manniang need to stand up, but they also need to gather all the forces that can unite and fight together for the future of the country.
However, Niu Suyun's character, her character is extremely bad, and she has brought deep harm to many Chinese. However, we must realize that it is precisely because such people also keep in mind their Chinese national identity that we can finally win this victory.
We don't want the "freedom" that Niu Suyun is pursuing.
On the road of life, there are always some key words, such as "freedom" and "do as you like", which often become the goal we pursue. However, for many women, these two words can be the key to going astray.
In the vast family system of marriage, everyone has their own roles and responsibilities. Wives need to fulfill their duties as wives, daughters-in-law should respect their elders, and mothers should care for their children. These roles and responsibilities form a tight web of relationships that bind each woman tightly to it, preventing them from acting as they please.
Because of this restriction, women tend to have a lot of grievances and dissatisfaction.
Just like Niu Suyun, she longs to get rid of her mother-in-law's interference and her husband's weakness, and live freely like a warbler. However, married life in reality is often not so ideal, and we need to find a balance between these roles and responsibilities in order to achieve true freedom.
In this process, we need to learn to adjust our mindset and accept the imperfections in reality, but also strive to improve our abilities and strive for more rights and status in our families and society. Only then can we truly achieve freedom and live the life we want.
She longs to walk the streets, to dance, to find companionship in times of loneliness, and to pursue a better life. In a sense, there was nothing wrong with her thinking.
However, the premise of the pursuit of freedom is not opportunistic, hurting others, fantasizing about pie in the sky, nor squandering youth. More importantly, when we only focus on ourselves, the interpersonal networks such as family and family will leave us to some extent.
Therefore, in the pursuit of freedom and living according to the will of the heart, we need to think carefully about whether we will regret it for the rest of our lives.
And Niu Suyun in the original book also regrets his actions, so when we watch **, we should also reflect on our lives on the fate of the characters in **.
If all of us act unchecked, we may end up losing the ability and power to act aggressively and reach our potential in the future.
May we be able to enjoy what we have gained while facing what we have lost.
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