On the female image under the traditional feudal thought from Yu Hua's Living.

I have read Yu Hua's work Alive several times. Many people will discuss the protagonist Fu Gui, write about the sufferings of life and explore the meaning of living, but I want to write the female image oppressed by traditional feudal thoughts through Jia Zhen.

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She is a typical wife and mother.

Jia Zhen was originally the daughter of Mihang. She went to night school. It was beautiful. She is a knowledgeable and educated woman. Later, the young landlord Fu Gui took a fancy to him and became his wife.

She is a typical wife and mother, gentle and kind, hardworking and dedicated, tolerant and forbearing. Husband Fu Gui indulged in gambling and lingered in brothels, and eventually his family wealth declined. In the face of these sufferings, Jia Zhen silently endured, obeyed everything and had a meek personality like a sheep.

Although Jia Zhen is a good girl, she has no spoiled temper at all. Suddenly, the family became poor. She took off her cheongsam and put on linen clothes, doing rough work and never complaining.

When Fu Gui was addicted to gambling, she came to the casino with a big belly and knelt on the ground silently. Fu Gui told her to roll over and hit her, but she didn't retort. She just "covered her face with long hair and wept". Finally, she was dragged out of the door.

"She stood up on the wall. It was completely dark at that time, and she walked slowly back alone. ",walked to the door of my father's Mihang." She stood there crying for a while and walked away. "Her heart was full of grievances and she didn't even want to say anything about her father.

Jia Zhen would rather be wronged than do any resistance, let alone stage a drama of cursing the street and cursing the mother. She is a traditional woman who is willing to give in to male chauvinism. Even if there were more grievances in her heart, she never complained at all.

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She is a gentle victim.

(1) Face the cruelty of suffering with gentle tears.

A famous person once said, "A woman cries easily because she can't resist the pressure of life."

Women's tears are sometimes fragile and helpless, and sometimes they can be regarded as a gentle way to face suffering directly.

Jia Zhen's life is full of suffering. Every time she faces suffering, she will cry. Most of her tears are for death-death is the greatest pain in life.

"Jia Zhen cried there without shouting" (in the face of her father-in-law's death),

"Jia Zhen's face became sad and tears flowed from the corner of his eyes" (in the face of his son's death),

"My neck is getting wetter and wetter, and I know it is Jia Zhen's tears."

"Tears welled up" (at my son's grave),

"Tears immediately fell out" (in the face of Chunsheng who indirectly killed his son),

"those eyes are fixed ... they don't cry or shout" (facing the death of their daughter) ......

Jia Zhen's tears are her most direct and true response to the sudden misfortune. As soon as her tears stopped, the next blow came. Every blow is fatal, which is enough to dry her tears.

Her tears are the hope after despair, the "indisputable struggle" against fate and suffering, and a woman's way of life in suffering.

(2) Declare the true meaning of life with silent silence.

"In our China language, living is full of power. Its strength does not come from shouting or attacking, but from enduring, enduring the responsibility given to us by life, enduring the happiness and pain given to us by reality, boredom and mediocrity ... "

The death of a loved one, the torture of illness and the threat of death are all the sufferings entrusted to Jia Zhen by fate. The heavy responsibility of life falls on an ordinary woman, which can be described as "a close call." She has more reasons to die than others, but she is still alive.

When illness and death approached step by step, Jia Zhen gradually saw the essence of death in the whole process of suffering. Nothing made her feel desperate, so "don't despair, don't even despair because you don't despair. When everything seems to be at the end of its tether, a new force rises from your heart, which means that you are still alive. "

This kind of power announces to the world what is "alive" in a silent way-no hatred, no abandonment, no complaints-and makes itself live in harmony with fate, no matter whether it is good or bad.

(C) to realize the richness of life with an open-minded and grateful heart

Jia Zhen experienced a lifetime of suffering, and her closest relatives died before her, but she still treated the world kindly, without any complaints, never caring about fate, but full of gratitude for life.

Jia Zhen's life is an ill-fated one. Lost all his possessions, turned back to Fu Gui to turn over a new leaf and become a husband who knows how to respect and love her; Lost a rich life, in exchange for the care of family members; Losing health made her understand the essence of existence better ... Jia Zhen's life was a life of subtraction and addition. Every time she loses something, she always compensates her in another way. She always accepts the legacy of suffering with a grateful heart.

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Traditional ideas and the background of the times make her such a person.

(A) the role of traditional feudal ideas on women

In the farming economy society, men become the main labor force due to physiological reasons, and they are in a dominant position in economy, politics, culture and other aspects, while women are only vassals of men.

This can be seen in many works of China: Women's Commandment by Ban Zhao in Han Dynasty, The Analects of Confucius for Women by Song Ruohua in Tang Dynasty, Internal Training by Ren Xiaowen in Ming Dynasty and Nu Wa Jie Lou by Wang Xiangmu in Qing Dynasty, all of which advocate that women are subordinate to men and that men are superior to women.

They are just tools and supporting roles for social reproduction in the "father-son world". No matter how wronged or even insulted they are, they never resist, let alone want to change. They can only bear it silently with tears.

(B) the destruction of human nature caused by the background of special times

The history from 1940s to 1980s is a painful one: the war of liberation, anti-rightist, left-leaning thoughts, three-year natural disasters and the Cultural Revolution. This special troubled times gave birth to a miserable living environment, which honed and tested people's "melting pot" one by one.

Jia Zhen struggled in such a "melting pot" all his life. She has experienced great changes in her material life from being extremely rich to destitute, experienced many embarrassments and misfortunes brought to her by sports, and even witnessed her relatives die in front of her again and again.

Whether it is a natural disaster or a man-made disaster, what we see is the heroic sacrifice of the times.