1. Please analyze the image and significance of singing lotus among Su Tong's wives and concubines.

Song Lian is a young woman who dropped out of college after one year and was bathed in the May 4th movement. She inherits the simplicity, sensitivity, thoughtfulness and pursuit of life ideals of new women. The novel tells the scene of Song Lian meeting Chen Zuoqian for the first time. "Chen Zuoqian went to see the lotus for the first time. Song Lian closed the door and didn't see it. She threw a word from the door and went to meet the western restaurant. " No traditional woman will date in a western restaurant. Chen Zuoqian also felt that ode to lotus was different from the common people, and the beautiful and clean female college students with fine-flowered silk umbrellas made him feel novel as never before. Song Lian's vision of the future is alternating between beautiful ideals and heavy reality. In the western restaurant, she took out a lot of small candles from her handbag, and she whispered to Chen Zuoqian, give me a box of cakes. This box of cakes is the end of a stage for Song Lian. She heaved a long sigh and blew out the candle. Chen Zuoqian heard her say, celebrate your birthday early, and you will be finished at the age of 19. " At the beginning of the novel, we can see that Song Lian's appearance and some details of her beginning in Chen Jiagang are as simple as other new women. The words "a female student in a white dress and black skirt", "with ear-length short hair and a sky-blue ribbon, her face is round, but she looks a little pale without makeup", "her figure is thin and slender, giving off a dull smell like a paper man" and "wiping her sweat with sleeves instead of handkerchiefs" vividly describe the appearance of this new college student who came to the Chen family. When she saw the first wife, she took Chen Zuoqian's arm and said, "Is she a hundred years old, so old?" And when she saw the kind-hearted second wife, she quickly called Sister Zhuo Yun because of her warm reception. Song Lian's inexperience is undoubtedly revealed at this moment. In the novel, although she can't win dignity, Song Lian still hopes to win the independence and autonomy that belongs to new women from time to time. For example, when Chen Zuoqian first asked her for a bed because of her functional degradation, Song Lian refused. Her dignity led to her falling out of favor step by step.

It is precisely because Song Lian is a woman who has been baptized by the May 4th New Culture Movement that some new women's characters in her body are incompatible with the heavy, depressed and feudal Chen family. Song Lian refused to give up on herself and had to give up on herself. After she refused Chen Zuoqian's unreasonable sexual demands, she lost her favor at the same time. She gave up her reason and belief, obeyed Chen Zuoqian's insults and derogatory remarks, and obeyed the oppression of male chauvinism. Conflicts again and again have created compromises again and again, and she stubbornly insists on exploring the secrets of the dead well, self-doubt, self-denial, and her own pressure and external pressure are clamped down, which eventually leads to her mental disorder. "Sitting under the wisteria frame, sometimes turning around the abandoned well and talking to the well."