Irrefutable Philosophy and Helpless forbearance —— Jia Yingchun and Li Wan in Soft Sculpture

Endeavor, struggle, struggle, hard work, and even curse with a smile, and so on, all acts that prove their existence value are manifestations of vitality. After all, people have to live a wonderful life, so they can always remember those women with distinctive personalities, such as Xifeng, Tanchun, Daiyu, Xiangyun, Qingwen and Yuanyang, who dare to love and hate. Those who have no conditions to publicize their personalities are often regarded as "living dead" who have no interest in life, just like Yingchun and Li Wan, who are always the people with the lowest sense of existence in the Red Chamber. One is Miss Jia Fu Er, who is called "Ermu", and the other is a young widow like "dying embers". There is nothing about "fighting for" in their lives, just like a stagnant pool. Even if provoked, it will soon restore the original calm. Many times, they are willing to be the foil of everyone. Against the background of the Grand View Garden, they never seem eager to be the focus of everyone. Obedience, cooperation, compromise, escape ... all for one purpose-immunity. However, are there finished eggs under the nest? Fight or not, all roads lead to the same goal. Just having such a life is not entirely because of personality. What makes people feel sad and helpless is that they have neither the right to choose nor the opportunity to show their vitality.

As concubines, the situation of Yingchun and Tanchun is very different. Although personality determines fate, compared with Tanchun, Yingchun's life seems to have no active reason. In fact, my mother died young, and my father and my only brother Jia Lian ignored her. By the way, Yingchun has no siblings to take care of. From birth, she was an "island" without the love and sisterhood of her parents. How can a person who has never experienced love have the power to care about others? What she can do is to keep herself away from right and wrong and spend her life quietly. Anyway, it's not up to her to decide whether to fight or not. As long as she obeys her fate, she can live in peace. In her world, it seems that there is only the book "Too Sensational", and "inaction" is her belief. What's more, how many men are timid in her life, why can't she? In Yingchun's eyes, since women don't have the right to take the initiative to choose, why fight for it? Why look for Excellence? Since talking about cause and effect, it is better to be duckweed and lie flat completely.

Li Wan's image is much more complicated, but she shows an "unquestionable" attitude like Spring Festival. Fortunately for Yingchun, Li Wan was the apple of her parents' eye before she got married. She was educated and trained to be the hostess of a big family. After marriage, she also felt the taste of happiness, but all this vanished because of her husband's early death. It's not her fault that a teenager is widowed, but she has to pay the price of being lonely all her life. Not only that, without a man, she would have no opportunity and stage to display her talents. The most embarrassing thing is that no matter how she cooperates with this era, obedience has not brought her any good luck, and forbearance and concession have not won her more respect and love. Different from Yingchun, Li Wan has a longing in her heart. If Yingchun is confused about "why to fight", then Li Wan's pain lies in "how to fight". She could have been Wang Xifeng, even better, but her life was completely rewritten because of her husband's death.

As far as talents are concerned, Yingchun and Li Wan are not the most dazzling in the Grand View Garden, but this does not mean that they are really mediocre and useless, but only proves that they are meaningless in their situation. It is said that Yingchun is weak and incompetent, honest and timid, and her poetry and literary talent are not as good as her sisters. In everyone's eyes, Yingchun seems to be a person without any bright spots, but Yingchun herself doesn't care at all, and is even satisfied with such an evaluation. The only thing she cares about is that no one or anything can disturb her to lie flat completely. For her, maintaining such a numb state seems to be a kind of practice. When a person regards "numbness" as an act and carries it out seriously, it is hard for me to agree that she is really numb and incompetent. From the incident of "Le Jinfeng's disappearance", we can see the meaning of welcoming the Spring. It is a very simple and easy thing for anyone to solve, but Yingchun would rather turn the situation upside down than hear it. This behavior is not because of incompetence, but because she thinks it has nothing to do with her "practice", as if she would ruin her work if she intervened. I have only seen Yingchun's extraordinary determination and "execution" in action art, the most outstanding and intense woman in the contemporary era.

Of course, it is exaggerated to say that Spring Festival is a performance art, but it is by no means useless. Yuan Ying's four sisters, Tan, correspond to Qin Qi's calligraphy and painting (such as the name of a servant girl). The book only mentions that he is good at calligraphy, and Chun is good at painting, and his level is excellent. It can be inferred that Yuan Chun's piano skills and Yingchun's chess skills are definitely not bad. When it comes to Go, we naturally think of counselors who are full of worries and hide their talents. Not to mention how profound and mysterious the wisdom and pattern of Go is, it is impossible for ordinary people to control the computing power of that day, and it is impossible for a mediocre and incompetent person to become a master of Go. Since Yingchun is good at chess, her IQ and ability are certainly not weak, but she is not contending with the world because she sees through the world of mortals like Gao Shi in Wei and Jin Dynasties. How can a person who has not "lived" see through it? She just can't find any internal driving force worthy of her subjective initiative. Even Go, the only game she is good at, is the same as herself in the Grand View Garden, and there is not much difference. Few people ask that the last game of poetry is the mainstream, so the Grand View Garden is destined to be Lin Xue's world, which has nothing to do with the Spring Festival. The so-called cowardice, honesty and fear of things are just a self-enclosed "shell" deliberately chosen by Yingchun. If she has any emotions, this is her way of expressing her protest, and the book "Too Feeling" has become her only spiritual outlet. Even though this book looks old-fashioned and negative to a teenage girl, ironically, it is the only reason that Yingchun can convince herself to live.

Li Wan's inner world is not as calm as that of Yingchun. She is also a famous official. In the process of her growth, she never imagined that at the best age, she became a widow. She has been educated for many years and wants to be an excellent manager. She does have this ability, but because of her status as a widow, she must restrain herself and not be too ostentatious. It is not so much the evaluation given to her by the outside world as the image she deliberately created, because only Bai Muhui's life conforms to the norms of this society, and only in this way can she be safe. However, her heart is not completely resigned. The best example of Li Wan's inner enthusiasm is that when the poetry club was established in the Grand View Garden, she actively participated and volunteered to be the president, which was completely different from usual. Even if her poems are inferior to others, she doesn't care. What she cares about is that, as the president, she finally has a chance to develop her management skills. Even though years of study and preparation are like playing house, it is the most rare freedom in her life. In addition, when Tan Chun reformed the Grand View Garden, he "inadvertently" put forward some profound opinions, which were quite meaningful. These behaviors all reflect her unwillingness and enthusiasm. After all, besides being a widow, she is also in her prime.

But what's the use? In the well-mannered Jiafu, she not only had no choice, but also could not be understood by anyone. When Baoyu was beaten, Li Wan heard Mrs. Wang calling Jia Zhu's name outside the house and couldn't help crying, but everyone just perfunctorily comforted her why she was sad. At the crab feast, she teased Pinger with alcohol and even held Pinger. In public, she expressed her love and appreciation for Pinger, but in fact, she envied everything that Wang Xifeng had. She envied Pinger's waist as the key to power, but how did the unmarried girl across the table understand her longing and pain? When the dignified and steady eldest sister-in-law suddenly loses control, everyone will only be more embarrassed. No one can understand her embarrassing situation of losing her master and children, and naturally she won't understand how this "good man" praised by everyone can be so stingy. For people with true temperament, these behaviors are hypocritical and annoying, but from Li Wan's point of view, what she did is not difficult to understand. Li Wan received the most orthodox feudal education. Almost all "traditional" women can find some shadows in Li Wan, but she is also a young woman. She has the needs and struggles as a "person" and has never accepted her fate from the bottom of her heart. Since there is no husband to accompany, then there is no godson? So she buried her grievances, unwillingness and even resentment in her heart. No matter in the range of personal cognition or social tolerance, only serving Jia Lan wholeheartedly is the only way for her to realize her self-worth.

But neither Yingchun's passive resistance nor Li Wan's dormant forbearance finally got a better ending than others. Especially for Yingchun, she never imagined that the "shell" in her heart could be extremely hard in a family rich in poetry and calligraphy etiquette, but it was vulnerable in front of a vulgar and bloody warrior. This terrible world is far beyond the imagination of a boudoir lady. So Yingchun finally had the first emotional outburst in her life. What she doesn't understand is that she can't even be a "living dead"? However, Yingchun's answer is Jia Fu's silence and Jia She's indifference. Maybe Jia Fu is counting on Yingchun to survive this robbery, and maybe Sliding will help the declining Jia Fu in the future. At this point, the world of Yingchun completely collapsed, let alone cared, and even no one ever cared about her life and death. It turns out that allowing herself to be a "living dead" is the greatest happiness she can enjoy in this life. Sun Shaozu is indeed the end of Yingchun's life, but in fact Yingchun died at the moment when Jia's family was silent. At this time, what she believed, insisted on and even protested seemed so ridiculous and childish. Since living is an embarrassment to everyone, it is really better to die.

However, Li Wan almost copied her first half of her life in the latter half. She was born in an era when she had no choice. Let's just say that her luck is not very good. No matter how hard she tried, it was in vain. Even though Jia Lan finally got a high salary, she realized her wish to have a mother and a child. But when Jia Lan died, he still didn't escape the ending of "being old and poor". Perhaps it was on her deathbed that she could recall the best time. The judgment given to her by the author is also very meaningful. "I am jealous of changing ice for water and air, and it is useless to play a joke with others." Even today, 400 years later, there are many traditional women like Li Wan around us. They care about each other, teach their children, follow the rules, try to cater to everyone's preferences and try to be a good person in others' eyes. But in fact, no one feels really good about themselves no matter how hard they try, because once they lose themselves, they are no longer attractive. It's just that we still have a choice today, and Li Wan of that era had no choice. At least in fact, she didn't do anything wrong. She is a model of women in feudal times. Ironically, however, if such a "standard" life will become a joke to others, then whatever you do will not be better. Li Wan's life is not so much a joke as the demand for women in this era. I think if Li Wan lived in the present age, she would never become "Li Wan".

For a long time, Ying Chun and Li Wan seem to be relatively negative images, but we think that although the twelve women in the Red Chamber are different, none of them are lifeless, just because their backgrounds, experiences and personalities are different, so their expressions are different. Even Lian Yingchun has its fiercest side. I can think that the cutest look of Yingchun is when reading. Even if she reads pedantic and boring, it is her character. She just chose another way to deal with her misfortune. And Li Wan is by no means a rigid image of a good wife and mother in our hearts. As a "person" in the prime of life, she has her vision and enthusiasm. I believe that she is the truest when she is laughing and slapping with a group of young teenagers in the Grand View Garden. I also hope everyone likes the Spring Festival and Li Wan we created.