Why is Xian'er's fate so tragic in "Crossing Guandong"?

I remember my drama teacher once said something about tragedy. He said tragedy is to take apart and destroy beautiful things in real life for others to see. Tan Xian'er's artistic image creation in "Crossing Guandong" is exactly in line with the form of tragedy.

When talking about Tan Xian'er, we have to mention Zhu Chuanwu, who is closely related to him. The two people rely on each other and complement each other throughout the play. Next, I will combine the two to tell why Tan Xian'er is so tragic.

1. The setting of the plot, a series of coincidences, and a series of mistakes.

(1) On Zhu Chuanwen’s wedding day, Chuanwen’s childhood sweetheart Tan Xianer suddenly appeared, causing everyone to panic. As Chuanwen’s fiancée, they saw that he was married to someone else. It's a tragedy.

(2) Zhu Kaishan found out that Tan Xian'er and Zhu Chuanwu were hugging each other. His second son Zhu Chuanwu fell in love with Tan Xian'er and kept saying that he wanted to marry Tan Xian'er. Zhu Kaishan was so angry that he immediately said that he wanted to recognize Tan Xian'er. Being a daughter means rejecting Xian'er, which is a tragedy.

(3) After Chuanwu and Xian'er escaped, they were accidentally separated by the bandits. When they reunited again, they found that they were on opposite sides of each other. One is a soldier, the other is a bandit; one is already a husband, and the other is followed by the person he likes. This is another tragedy.

(4) The last meeting was on the anti-Japanese battlefield, where Chuanwu and Xian'er fought against the Japanese together. The family finally agreed that the two of them would be together, and Chuanwu promised to go home and marry Xian'er after the war. However, in the face of the national crisis, Chuanwu did not care about the love of his children, and Chuanwu died in the battle. Even to death, she was unable to marry Xian'er. It is the greatest tragedy to be unable to stay together if we love each other.

A series of coincidences, a series of mistakes, the screenwriter's unique imagination, and clever settings made the two people not together after all, which makes people sigh.

2. The victims in the context of the times, the cowardice of the two people in the early stage, and the blind resistance regardless of the consequences.

(1) In the 19th century, the lower reaches of the Yellow River suffered from successive disasters. Bankrupt farmers ignored the ban and "broke" into the Northeast. This is the origin of "Breaking into the Guandong". At the end of the Qing Dynasty, foreign countries competed to expand their power in the Northeast, building railways and plundering resources, which required a large number of laborers and forced North China to go bankrupt.

In the context of an era where livelihoods were difficult to maintain and minds were relatively closed, Chuanwu and Tan Xianer stumbled towards their own path of resistance.

(2) Due to their closed minds, Xian'er, as Chuanwen's fiancée, and Chuanwu, as Chuanwen's younger brother, dare not look directly at their feelings, even if Chuanwen has married Nawen, they Still unable to let go of the shackles, the cowardice of the two people intensified the tragedy.

(3) When the two people finally plucked up the courage to resist, they did so blindly and recklessly. When Chuanwu was about to marry Xiuer, the two had sex in Chuanwu's wedding room, and then... Escape responsibly. These factors laid the foundation for Xian'er's tragic life.

Speaking of this, I still want to open up my imagination. In fact, to a certain extent, Xian'er is not as miserable as shown in the play. It's just that Chuanwen's sacrifice highlights the tragedy of Xian'er's fate. climax.

In the end, the Anti-Japanese War was victorious, and Xian'er became a hero in her and her family's hearts for saving the country and the people.