RPAGF Chapter 317: Completely Subverted Female Image
Chapter 317: Completely Subverted Female Image
[Tang Zhenguan 4th year Li Jing: Huh?!]
[Cheng Yaojin, the fourth year of Tang Zhenguan: Xue Rengui is a good boy!]
[Tang Zhenguan Year 4 Xue Rengui: …? ? ? ]
[Su Shi in the fourth year of Song Xining: It seems not right]
[Emperor Zhengde of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Houzhao: I remember that the play about Xue Pinggui and Wang Baochuan was not about Xue Rengui, right?]
[Ming Hongwu Emperor Zhu Yuanzhang: Ming novels! Don’t talk about Ming and Qing novels!]
[Emperor Qianlong of the Qing Dynasty Aixinjueluo Hongli:? My Qing Dynasty was the most prosperous time for novels!]
[Emperor Yongle of Ming Dynasty Zhu Di: Humph, three of the Four Great Classical Novels are from the Ming Dynasty, and Dream of the Red Chamber may also have been written in the Ming Dynasty [eating melon]]
[Emperor Zhengde of Ming Dynasty Zhu Houzhao: Hey, I still remember what Guangmu said before, "Han Fu, Tang poetry, Song Ci, Yuan opera, Ming novels, Qing treaties", as for what treaties they are, I think everyone should know [dog head]]
[......]
[Princess Taiping of Wu Zhou: ... Di Di Dao Dao? What is this?]
[Li Qingzhao, Year 2 of the Chunxi Period of the Song Dynasty: Are there still people who like feudalism? Just hearing about the lives of women in the Ming and Qing dynasties...]
[Scholars during the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty: Pan Jinlian and Pang Chunmei, who are not faithful to women, should both be thrown into a pig cage! Evil women do not deserve a good ending!]
[A woman in the 25th year of Kaiyuan in the Tang Dynasty: I really hope the light curtain can have a shielding function. I don’t want to see the decadent old men of the Ming and Qing dynasties at all…]
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Everyone is interested in what the Taoist said, and they wonder if it’s talking about the direct lineage of Taoism…?
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Tang Dynasty, the fourth year of Zhenguan
Since meeting His Majesty, Xue Rengui has practiced martial arts even more diligently and successfully followed Li Jing.
When marching to war, Li Jing was also happy to take this young man with him.
I was confused and angry at the fact that Xue Rengui was disliked by the light curtain, but then I saw Xue Rengui's future deeds...
"It's really amazing." Li Jing nodded with satisfaction, "A good strategy can put an end to the war, and three arrows can conquer Tianshan."
Xue Rengui just laughed foolishly when he was praised, his heart was in turmoil. It would be a lie to say he was not envious of the achievements displayed on the screen!
Xue Rengui clenched his fists. He could be even more powerful than that "Xue Rengui"!
...
Li Shimin laughed out loud and said to Du Ruhui, Fang Xuanling and others: "Xue Rengui is filial and serious in his work. I really like this young man!"
"He is the divine general of the Tang Dynasty!"
Because the subsequent comments on the screen shifted to discussing Xue Rengui's achievements, no one cared about the story of Xue Pinggui and Wang Baochuan.
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Ming Dynasty, the 27th year of Jiajing
Emperor Jiajing Zhu Houcong suddenly felt that he was being feudal... He couldn't understand what was said on the light screen video...
There must be some fictional parts in the events of "Jin Ping Mei". How come he remembered that the Ming Dynasty had relevant regulations on the promotion of concubines to legal status and marriage?
People as rampant as Ximen Qing... Zhu Houcong was stunned. They still exist.
Ignore laws and regulations and act recklessly.
"I didn't know that the Ming Dynasty had reached this point!"
His Majesty suddenly became angry, and the eunuch accompanying him knelt down immediately.
Zhu Houcong walked to where the memorials were piled and flipped through them casually.
The more I watch, the worse I feel!
"A person who deceives his superiors and subordinates!"
"Treacherous minister!"
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[The change in social customs and the decline of morality in the middle and late Ming Dynasty led to changes in the corresponding standards for judging women.
"Virtue" is no longer the primary criterion for measuring women. In Jin Ping Mei, it is difficult to see women who perfectly meet the "virtue" standard. First, after Ximen Qing died, his wives and concubines hurriedly remarried, and the men did not care about their backgrounds or how many times they had remarried, and there was not even a saying about "unlucky husbands". In Jin Ping Mei, what men care about is their looks, money, and a pair of three-inch golden lotus. These seem to be the natural capital of women.
It is also in this social context that ladies can watch lanterns during the Lantern Festival, play on garden swings, and exude their charm everywhere. The book also seems to deliberately downplay the authority between men and women in family relationships. Women are also in charge of the family and are in a superior position. When women are in a superior position, they have the power to make decisions and decide the fate of women below them.
For example, Pang Chunmei's humiliation and oppression of Sun Xue'e, and Wu Yueniang's selling of Pang Chunmei and Pan Jinlian, are all manipulations of the fate of other women by superior women.
In the world of Jin Ping Mei, social order is in chaos, and Confucian legal principles such as the Three Bonds and Five Constant Virtues have been abandoned and subverted by everyone. Evil officials are in power, and bending the law for personal gain is also a subversion of the ancient system of rulers ruling and subjects serving...
In this abnormal relationship, women have gained a certain freedom. But freedom also comes at a price. On the one hand, the women in the book have gained liberation and freedom from the destruction of order, but on the other hand, they themselves are affected by this inverted order. Therefore, they bear all the bad consequences.
The female characters in the novel are not all individual, some are virtuous and supportive, for example, Li Yanei is obsessed with Meng Yulou and is willing to give up everything for her. Later, with Meng Yulou's company, he finds a quiet place to study. They live a stable and happy life, and we can guess that they may achieve fame in the future.
The women in "Jin Ping Mei" are neither perfect fairies that are out of touch with reality or imaginary ideals, nor are they feminine and sinister skeleton beauties. They have become normal, ordinary, flesh-and-blood, emotional and sexual women. But in the book, no one can pull them out of the morass of corruption, and no one can save them.
In "Jin Ping Mei", without anyone to redeem them or sympathize with them, they are more likely to oppress each other and destroy themselves. In fact, it is rare to see this in ancient novels. Lanling Xiaoxiaosheng's description of women completely transcends the times. 】
【"Jin Ping Mei" is not an erotic novel, but a realistic novel that describes the true nature of human beings. 】