What is the image of Wang Xifeng in A Dream of Red Mansions?

Wang Xifeng's artistic image is rich and complex. Since the publication of A Dream of Red Mansions, there have been many comments on Wang Xifeng in the history of redology. She is regarded as "a capable minister who manages the world and a traitor in troubled times", and is called "female Cao Cao" and "rouge tiger", that is, tigress. In many comments, it is "hate Wang Xifeng, scold Wang Xifeng, but miss Wang Xifeng", which is probably the feeling that every fan of A Dream of Red Mansions will have.

First, the uniqueness of the characters.

The character Wang Xifeng plays a very important role in A Dream of Red Mansions, and it can be said that this image is unique. She has the function of supporting, focusing or radiating in the sense of artistic structure and artistic noumenon. Because A Dream of Red Mansions is not only about the love and marriage between Xue Baochai and Lin Daiyu, but also about more than 400 characters in this big family. If there were no Wang Xifeng, what would be the result of a dream of red mansions? It can be said that if the Jia family's complicated interpersonal relationships, such as seniority, seniority, intimacy, humility and subjectivity, are compared to a net, then the character Wang Xifeng is in a relatively central position. This highlights the uniqueness of this character's image. She has to deal with all kinds of characters, so-called three-level in-laws, including countless uncles, sisters-in-law and even aunts, maids and concubines, as well as a large group of lower-level housekeepers, servants, maids and pages. The relationship between Wang Xifeng and any one of them is either related or contradictory, or both, which is a reflection of certain social relations. Supposedly, in the whole Jia family, Wang Xifeng's qualifications are very low. She is a granddaughter-in-law. How can someone like Rainbow Xifeng be in charge? This reason is also the result of the development of various contradictions. She has the background of "King Jinling", Jia's support, the contradiction between Mrs. Xing and Wang, and of course the subjective conditions of her own desire. At the same time, Wang Xifeng was pushed to the crater and became the target of public criticism. The result of many old contradictions has become the cause of new contradictions. She is an extremely complicated role! It can be said that Wang Xifeng summed up all kinds of contradictions, a kind of housework that parents manage short, so-called uncles and sisters-in-law, and so on, which is not the case. Because in China's feudal patriarchal society, home and country are isomorphic and have always come down in one continuous line, and home is a simplified form of country. The ups and downs, factional disputes and factional struggles of the feudal emperor's power to "rule the world" can be seen in the family. Therefore, the contradiction from that Wang Xifeng, concentrated on her, or radiated by her, gives people a sense of depth and cannot be regarded as a family contradiction. As far as the breadth of social life tolerated by the artistic image of Wang Xifeng is concerned, it is also beyond the reach of other images, such as borrowing money and earning interest. Wang Xifeng took out the money of the month to lend usury. In the novel, written more than once. Pinger said, "You have to pay a thousand pieces of silver every year at least." Even the amount is very specific. It is impossible to put such economic details on others. For example, the old lady won't do such a thing, and she doesn't bother to do such a thing. The young lady doesn't manage money at all, and only Wang Xifeng can bear it. Therefore, the social tentacles of the image of Wang Xifeng are the longest, which can go beyond the walls of the Jia family and extend to the government, Buddhism and the court. In other words, Wang Xifeng's artistic image is irreplaceable and indispensable in reflecting the depth and breadth of life. Without Wang Xifeng, A Dream of Red Mansions would be greatly discounted in reflecting the depth and breadth of life, and it would not even be called A Dream of Red Mansions.