Why does the "brothers don't know how to laugh" in The Book of Songs Meng laugh at the heroine? Brother means family? Laugh at her for what?

"Brothers don't know how to laugh" means that brothers don't know my situation and everyone laughs at me. This is the heroine's guess, which can better express the protagonist's mood. Embarrassment and shyness are even more sad, but the hostess's final performance is firm and positive (her brother is her mother's brother). When she returned to her parents' home, she was ridiculed by her brothers.

This sentence can help the reader understand the mental stress she suffered at that time and the resulting inner contradictions.

You know, ancient women who were abandoned by their in-laws usually went home. Ancient women were driven out of their husbands' homes because of moral integrity or moral problems. Here, it is considered a personal moral problem that the protagonist goes home without his family to pick him up. At the same time, because women had a very low status in ancient times and had no right to speak, men had a high-spirited mentality psychologically. Jokes are inevitable.

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Creative background:

Feng Weimeng is a folk song in the Spring and Autumn Period. During the Spring and Autumn Period, productivity was still quite backward. Women are not independent economically in the family, but form a subordinate relationship with men in personality. Once a man changes his mind, he can abandon her without care.

At that time, the ideological system of feudal relations of production and hierarchical system was gradually formed. Women's love and marriage are often bound by ethical codes, interfered by parents and censured by customs, which further forms women's spiritual shackles. The poem Feng Wei Meng reflects the heartbreaking story of an infatuated woman.

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