Will the behavior of Pan Jinlian in Water Margin (except for killing her husband) still be reviled in modern times?

Pan Jinlian, "Water Margin" in the emergence of the character, because of cheating with Simon Qing, killed her husband Wu Dailang, after countless theater stage literature interpretation, can be described as sultry, lewd, vicious typical , has become hundreds of years of everyone knows the bad woman model. After all, Water Margin is a novel, whether or not there is this character in history is not to say. All of her behaviors made people not want to look at her.

Pan Jinlian in Water Margin is a guilty person. But her sin was that she killed people, not that she was a degenerate. She should not be subjected to centuries of Chinese people have been "slut" and other moral scorn. Especially when we go further to investigate why she killed, how to embark on the path of murder, and the moral content, we will find that Pan Jinlian's life, is a great misfortune, a great tragedy.

But life finally did not let Pan Jinlian along this tragedy, but turned to another tragedy. After all, Pan Jinlian is a living person, after all, young and beautiful, no matter how repressed, after all, she needs emotional life, needs sexual comfort. All this, Wu Daolang can not give her. In this case, the meeting with Wu Erlang will make Pan Jinlian's consciousness of emotional life awakened, and as long as the dry wood meets the fire, a hair and can not be recovered. But in the net of the feudal moral system, divorce is not possible, to be regarded as treason. She had to take the same path that many women in unfortunate marriages took: cheating on their husbands. This is an inhumane social oppression out of the not "moral" behavior ; is a sinful moral system under the oppression of the perversion of the power to grab life struggle.

Pan Jinlian in people's eyes is a woman who does not abide by women's morals, watery woman. But is she really like that? Maybe! But it may also be a lonely boudoir nowhere to relieve the boredom of the poor people only. "Wu Dalang five short body, Wu Erlang and so uninterested, only Simon the great official can slightly solve the pain of the slave's lovesickness. But her cheating behavior itself is against morality. Now it's even more intolerable for cheating and cheating, and she'll only be scolded even more.