Episode 26 of "Eastern Palace": Annoyance and wine are combined with anger, material feelings can only be true when drunk (3)

In the Qingning Palace, the queen slowly wrote the word "virtue" on the sand table, followed by half of the word "good". Let me first analyze the screenwriter's use of these two words. The symbolic meaning of sustenance.

According to Li Chengyin’s childhood memories, he was raised strictly by the queen. He endorsed the words to the queen. If he couldn’t recite them, he was slapped on the palm. To be close to the people is to strive for perfection." This is the first sentence in "The Great Learning". "The Great Learning" is selected from "The Book of Rites of Xiao Dai", which expounds the idea of ??a gentleman cultivating himself, managing his family, and governing the country to bring peace to the world. Later Li Chengyin also said to Pei Zhao, "A true man brings peace to his family, governs the country, and brings peace to the world, but I can't even think of my wife." They couldn’t protect each other well..." How... The story took place in the Tang Dynasty. "The Great Learning" had not yet become one of the "Four Books", let alone a required reading for the imperial examination. The screenwriter asked the queen to write the first sentence of "The Great Learning" The two words "virtue" and "goodness" themselves represent the queen's consistent educational thoughts for Li Chengyin, which is to hope that Li Chengyin will govern the world with Confucianism and become a benevolent and wise king.

So, why was Li Chengyin so favored by the Empress Dowager and considered him a kind and virtuous prince worthy of the position of prince? The fundamental reason is here - the queen spared no effort in educating Li Chengyin. Li Chengyin was indeed the Queen's very proud son. He was very talented and could read well at once. He was completely different from King Rong who did not like to study. The Queen was also completely different from Wei Xiuyi who was not good at teaching King Rong. It can be said that Li Chengyin, who was kind-hearted at this time and had not yet completely turned dark, directly benefited from his mother. However, the emperor did not approve of the way the empress dowager and empress educated Li Chengyin. In order to gain power, Li Chengyin gradually abandoned the education his mother had given him since childhood, and became more and more cruel and ruthless.

After the queen finished writing the word "virtue", Rong Shuang on the side smoothed the sand table so that the queen could continue writing. Rong Shuang's move also has symbolic meaning. It is the screenwriter hinting that in the court, "virtuous government" is just an unrealistic fantasy. In the previous scene, the emperor taught King Rong that he relied on to secure the throne. This is not a sarcastic comment, but the emperor's art has different approaches but the same effect.

The Queen continued to write, and Rong Shuang on the side said, "My Lady, I heard from the servant of Chengyi Palace that King Rong went to see the Holy Emperor yesterday and discussed the affairs of his relatives in politics. I'm afraid it was another matter. Something to point out."

On the surface, the queen has her own eyes and ears in Chengyi Hall, and she has successfully learned about Prince Rong's current situation, which can be said to be a powerful influence in the palace. But in fact, the Chengyi Palace was the place where the emperor handled political affairs and met with foreign ministers. It was impossible for the emperor to let the queen know the things of the previous dynasty that he did not want the queen to know. At the beginning, the queen was involved in Li Chengyin's frame-up by King Xuande. She wanted to go to the Chengyi Palace to plead for mercy, but the emperor refused to see her. Therefore, this was definitely a rumor that the emperor deliberately spread to the queen in order to provoke Li Chengyin to fight for the crown prince position. The emperor and the empress used different educational methods to teach their beloved sons. Li Chengyin has received support from the emperor, empress, and high ministers. It is only a matter of time before he ascends to the throne.

After hearing this, the queen smiled slightly and said, "Someone can't sit still! He is making insinuations against me and the prime minister, and he is planning to nominate himself for the crown prince position! Our honorable king But he didn't have such thoughts, it must have been his clever mother who gave him the idea."

1. The queen has been a queen for many years, and she knows the thoughts and temperament of the people in the harem very well. The queen doesn't take Prince Rong seriously. How can Prince Rong be compared with my Cheng Yin? The queen didn't even take Wei Xiuyi seriously, saying that she was smart and thought she could get the crown prince position by suppressing me and the Prime Minister!

2. However, the queen did not see the emperor’s intention of provoking Cheng Yin to fight for the crown prince. She thought that the emperor really wanted to reuse King Rong, and that the emperor might even appoint King Rong as his crown prince. Prince.

The Queen was so sincere towards Li Chengyin, so of course she would not sit idly by. She knew that in order to capture the thief and capture the King, as long as she dealt with Wei Xiuyi, King Rong would be finished.

The queen soon had an idea. She no longer thought about writing. She called Rong Shuang over and gave her a few instructions in a low voice. Rong Shuang understood immediately and said "yes" .

What did the queen order? The screenwriter didn't say it clearly, but she hinted it to the audience by relying on the word "good" that the queen didn't finish writing. For the sake of her son Cheng Yin, the queen would never do anything wrong. She had to drive the mother and son out of the court who dared to block her son's way.

There is a problem here, that is Li Chengyin. In episode 26, Li Chengyin seems to have done nothing to fight for the crown prince position. This is of course because Li Chengyin has realized that King Rong is concerned about the head and not the end when doing things, while King Yun is hesitant about doing things. If he is too hesitant, it is not him. opponent. Li Chengyin didn't know the emperor's sincerity towards him. He thought that the emperor was too afraid of him and would never make him the prince for the sake of his throne. Therefore, he continued to hide his capabilities and bide his time, letting Gao Xianghe The queen took action to help him deal with the two princes who dared to fight with him. Li Chengyin, who pretended to be stupid to the end, was exactly contrary to his father's wish that he fight for the crown prince for himself. Therefore, after the death of King Xuande, It took several more episodes for Li Chengyin to really become the prince.

However, there is a factor that motivates Li Chengyin to transform, and that is Xiao Feng. Li Chengyin was obviously afraid of his father. He had always believed that his father did not want to give him the crown prince position. However, after Li Chengyin allowed the queen to smooth over Prince Rong, he simply could not wait for the queen and the prime minister to take action. King Yun was also kicked out, of course because of Xiao Feng. In the next episode, Li Chengyin and Xiaofeng went to the market hand in hand. He wanted to get his sweetheart so much. The wedding date Xiaofeng had set with King Xuande was coming soon, so he couldn't help it anymore and took the He took out his childhood crossbow to threaten King Yun, telling him to invite himself to Jiangnan to recuperate. The emperor was finally satisfied and felt that Li Chengyin was finally willing to fight for the crown prince, so he immediately took out herbal tea to test and hint Li Chengyin, and then promoted him to the crown prince.

After reuniting with her biological father, Mingyue dressed plainly and arrived at Chai Mu's residence to serve her father. She washed her father's clothes, cooked vegetables and soup with her own hands, and ate with her father.

Mingyue asked, "Dad, I saw you and Brother Gu drinking together that day. When did you meet each other? Was it recently? Brother Gu never told me about it."

Of course Mingyue felt strange. Gu Jian knew that he was alive and that you were alive, but he didn't tell me that you were still alive so that our father and daughter could recognize each other. Mingyue also felt that Gu Jian might have met his biological father again recently, just like he met me again recently. However, this does not make sense. Why didn't he immediately tell me that you were still alive? Did he just tell you?

Chai Mu knew that this matter could not be hidden, so he honestly told his daughter everything, saying that he had been with Gu Jian twenty years ago. This shocked Mingyue, but she immediately remembered that Gu Jian had told her that he was rescued by an old friend twenty years ago, and later went to Empress Mingyuan to save his life. Mingyue suddenly understood that it was my father who saved Gu Jian's life.

Chai Mu explained to his daughter how he had saved Gu Jian's life, which made Mingyue extremely depressed. Mingyue asked, "Why? Why didn't you go home to find me and my mother first after you escaped? Haven't you ever thought that at that time our family also..."

In Mingyue's heart, she I simply couldn't believe that my father would ignore me and my mother and only care about his best friend.

Therefore, Mingyue asked her father, "Have you never thought about it?" If something happens to you, something will happen to our family too!

After discovering that her biological father could not answer, Mingyue said with clarity, "Have you thought of it?" Mingyue was so angry that she stood up immediately, "You have thought of it, haven't you? You have thought of it, but you didn't come to save us. !"

Mingyue collapsed completely, and she told her biological father about her experience that day, "That day... dozens of our family were buried alive, and my mother protected me in the loess, and she breathed her last. At that time, she was still saying to me, 'Don't be afraid, Yan'er... Don't be afraid, Yan'er... your father will come to save you! '" Mingyue remembered the scene before her mother died and cried to her biological father, "At that time! Where are you? The Gu family is important to you, aren’t my mother and I important to you? ”

One detail that appeared here was Mingyue’s mother. Mingyue, don't be afraid, your father will come to save you! In the eyes of Mingyue's mother, she knows best what kind of person Chen Zheng is. She knows that her husband values ??loyalty more than his wife and will never care about her. Even if he survives, he will only care about his old friend. , will never come to save himself. She just firmly believed that her husband didn't care about her, but he would never care about her biological daughter, who was his own flesh and blood! (Ming Yue’s mother sometimes resembles the queen. The queen was used by the emperor to raise Li Chengyin. When the emperor insisted on expelling Li Chengyin from the capital, the queen still tried to protect Li Chengyin to the end. In the eyes of the queen , His son is more important than the emperor's favor, and she is not afraid of breaking up with the emperor for Cheng Yin. )

This is the sad thing about women in a patriarchal society. Because she married a man, she became his vassal. She gave birth to children for him, but it was not as good as the man's "family and country justice". She was directly implicated by him and was buried alive. She still thought about it. That man could save his daughter's life for the sake of family ties. But what about Chai Mu? He only had the ridiculous "righteousness of family and country" in his heart. He allowed his wife and daughter to be killed because he insisted on saving Gu Jian, who was not related to him by blood. Moreover, after saving Gu Jian, he did not resettle Gu Jian first before leaving. He went directly to Xizhou to find his wife and daughter who were buried alive. It is a joke that the screenwriter insists that Chai Mu devote his life to his career, and that he must die for the "righteousness of his family and country" that he deeply believes in, so that he is willing to do so.

In fact, our society has not made much progress. Many people scolded Sese for being shameless and scolded the drama Yin for not being as cruel as the book Yin. They did not give Sese death, but instead wanted to end all the tragedies at the end of the story. The root cause - Li Chengyin made excuses, as if being loved by a man was a woman's greatest value. Li Chengyin coaxes Sesu for his own power, just like he coaxed Xiaofeng and slaughtered Danchi. He will only criticize Sesu for being too arrogant and daydreaming. How dare you expect to get Li Chengyin's love? A bit of ridicule, a bit of contempt, even the voice of a woman - it shows how malicious our society is towards women. There is still a long way to go to achieve equal rights for men and women.

?Chai Mu defended himself, "I'm sorry, I have my own reasons."

Mingyue cried, "My reasons? For your so-called hardships, can you abandon your wife and children? ? ”

Of course Mingyue knew what her father was talking about. Wasn’t it because he had to keep his loyalty? Therefore, for your loyalty, my mother and I were sacrificed by you like that (just like the general who defended the city killed his concubine for the soldiers to eat, and was praised by history books); for your loyalty, you have never found anyone in the past twenty years. I, after Gu Jian told you that I was still alive, you didn't come to recognize me, and you still wanted me to reunite with you by chance, and then I discovered the truth of that year!

In my eyes, all morality and law must be based on the premise that everyone is equal, otherwise it will be pseudo-morality and bad law. Morality and law should conform to human nature, rather than letting human nature conform to morality and law. Protecting family ties and family is also a benchmark that must be respected in modern laws and morals. People who are related should not be allowed to accuse each other of crimes.

Therefore, what Chai Mu said (and what the Empress Dowager was about to say) were very ridiculous in my eyes. The screenwriter also relied on the absurdity of the plot itself to profoundly expose this ridiculous set of "family and country justice."

Moreover, Chai Mu’s explanation for himself, “I have difficulties”, is exactly the same as Li Chengyin’s explanation for himself at the end of the story. He said to Xiaofeng, "The more dangerous thing than the imperial palace is the East Palace, and the more difficult thing to be than the emperor is the prince. You don't know the hardships I have experienced along the way." Yes, Xiaofeng does not know his difficulties, but even if Xiaofeng knows his difficulties, it does not mean that Xiaofeng recognizes his difficulties, because the so-called difficulties of the powerful Li Chengyin are based on cold-blooded killing. of. Xiaofeng doesn't want to get involved, Xiaofeng is still afraid, she will definitely leave Li Chengyin like this. This is what I like about Xiaofeng very much. She really doesn’t love power, and she doesn’t want to give up freedom for love. It’s just that she realizes that she is a little late, but she can’t escape and can only do it for Li Chengyin in the name of love. Forced to death.

After Mingyue learned the truth, she completely broke with her father. She said to her father, "Mr. Chai, my father Chen Zheng died twenty years ago. I am alone." After living for so long, I can live alone in the future. I don’t need a home, just like you.” After saying that, Mingyue left her father without looking back.

There is a detail here, that is, Mingyue said, "I don't need a home." So why did she come to her father's place to serve him before? Her coming here shows that Mingyue hopes to have a family. It's just that her father's behavior of abandoning his wife and children made her think that she recognized her father's true face.

Moreover, what Mingyue said, "I don't need a home" was actually a lie. She actually needed a home and someone to care about her, so she later fell in love with someone who cared about her. The emperor wanted to stay by his side; so, after she recognized the true face of the emperor and learned that her father was dead, she resolutely committed suicide while pregnant.

This is the sad thing about Mingyue, a strange woman. She cannot achieve the chicness and detachment of Yongning. After all, she does not understand that the place where I am is my home, and I am who I am. My own family, I can form a family by myself. Apart from my parents and relatives, there is no need to get involved with any powerful and unreliable man. Moreover, the reason why Mingyue wanted to get close to the emperor was to avenge her mother at first. Later, she slowly wanted to fulfill her father's wish. In other words, as a woman, Mingyue was sacrificed by her father when she was a child and buried alive by people sent by the emperor; when she grew up, she went to satisfy her father and committed herself to the emperor because of the grievances imposed on her and her mother by so-called men. She was also a complete and utter villain. Sad character. Like Xiao Feng, she had no choice but to die in order to escape this unfair world and punish the man who had hurt her like that.

Yongning asked, "Xiao Feng, this wine of yours tastes really good. Did you sneak out of the palace again?"

Xiao Feng hurriedly hissed, "This is I got the new wine from my friend. After a while, I buried it under the plum trees nearby and drank it in the spring of next year. It’s delicious!”

Xiao Feng is a little kid! A drunkard, she liked the wine from Xizhou the most, so she sneaked out of the palace and asked Milo for this new bottle of wine. Since Xiao Feng is good at wine, he naturally knows that if the newly brewed wine is buried under the roots of flowers, over time, it can slowly absorb the fragrance and essence of the flowers and trees, and complement its own wine aroma, making it even better than before. In the previous plot about the Hongwen Museum, we have analyzed that Xiao Feng is a plum blossom who admires her beauty and is independent from the world. The plum blossom itself is a symbol of Xiao Feng, so Xiao Feng chose to bury her most cherished wine in the Under the plum tree.

Of course, the screenwriter wrote this plot with a metaphorical meaning. The wine comes from Xizhou and is still new. It should symbolize Xiaofeng, who has just arrived in Fengchao from Xizhou and has not long since started his second love affair with Li Chengyin.

The wine was buried under the plum tree. Xiaofeng said that she wanted to dig it out and drink it next year. But in fact, Xiaofeng soon discovered the fact that her husband died in the hands of Li Chengyin. After the marriage, Being neglected again, she basically lost the leisurely spirit of her girlhood. She forgot about the jar of wine and did not dig it out at all. Therefore, this jar of newly buried wine should symbolize Xiaofeng’s character buried deep under the plum tree, and Li Chengyin’s love for Xiaofeng. After Xiao Feng passed away, everyone in the palace thought that Li Chengyin had no feelings for his former crown princess. He never mentioned her, nor did he send anyone to pay homage to her in person or by sending anyone to pay homage to her. Their unparalleled love, Thus hidden from the eyes of the world, only Pei Zhao knew Li Chengyin's pain from beginning to end.

At the same time, because the third incarnation of the show was severely deleted, which means that many plots that coincide with the previous ones have been deleted in large strokes, so this is most likely a foreshadowing. . Don't forget, besides Xiaofeng knowing that the wine was buried under the plum tree, she also told Yongning, Luo Xi and Li Chengyin. Yongning later became a monk, and Luo Xi also married Pei Zhao. Like Xiao Feng, they might forget the jar of wine, but Li Chengyin wouldn't. He might point out to Pei Zhao that his princess had died long ago. Later, when he dug out the jar of wine, the aroma of the wine that had been buried for half a life filled the air. Li Chengyin drank the jar of wine and walked to Xizhou to find the hunter who had led him to find the White-Eyed Wolf King. I want to find Wangchuan so that I can jump off Wangchuan and die for my love.

When Xiaofeng saw the brocade box that Luo Xi was holding in her hand, she asked, "Luoxi, what do you think this is?" Xiaofeng touched something inside and said quickly, "Don't move!" Yongning said with a smile, "Don't grab it from her, she treasures the things in her box!"

Yongning is She doesn't love anyone, so she won't let go of the opportunity to tease Luo Xi, so she doesn't forget to joke about the infatuated Luo Xi, and tells Xiaofeng that she doesn't care about that thing anymore, so you better not provoke her.

You see, because Yongning doesn't love anyone, he won't pay attention to something like this that can attract a man's attention, let alone the needlework of a female worker. He would only treat such ribbon-cuttings with contempt as a trinket. This is the true sense of elegance and detachment! Opposite Yongning are Luo Xi and Se Se. They both wanted to use female workers to attract the attention of their favorite men. One was cutting ribbons, and the other was doing embroidery. lt;/ lt;/ lt;/