Why is "Flower in the Mirror" a banned book?

Because in terms of ideological content, this book opposes the superiority of men to women and criticizes traditional moral thoughts, it was banned in the Qing Dynasty.

"Flowers in the Mirror" is a novel written by Li Ruzhen, a literati in the Qing Dynasty. The first half describes the story of Tang Ao, Duo Jiugong and others traveling overseas by boat. The second half tells the story of Wu Zetian's selection of talented girls in the imperial examination and her birth by Baihua Fairy.

The story of Tang Xiaoshan and one hundred talented girls entrusted by other flower fairies to pass the exam and make a difference in the court.

The creative technique is humorous and interesting, and it outlines a gorgeous color picture of the heavenly wheel.

The connection between "Flowers in the Mirror" and "A Dream of Red Mansions" "Flowers in the Mirror" imitates the character structure in "A Dream of Red Mansions" to describe the different qualities of women.

Give them the method of "dividing people into groups", so that the world can taste their different levels of character, knowledge, appearance and temperament in these "twelve" and "twelve".

The vying for supremacy among the flowers in "Flowers in the Mirror" is almost the same as the one among the flowers and fairies in Dream of Red Mansions. What it wants to express is the so-called "smells that match each other", and "qi" in a woman is the temperament, and "flavor" is the

Metaphorically referred to as interest and interest.

Therefore, women of different levels naturally have different pursuits of different tastes and temperaments.

This is why both of them divided women into twelve.

The number twelve is based on the twelve hours and the twelve zodiac signs in China since ancient times. The author’s implication is that the readers can use this to distinguish the ugly Yinmao meaning of the woman in question.

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