What is the meaning of "A good wife in the family will prevent the husband from getting into trouble"?

"If there is a good wife in the family, the husband will not suffer any misfortune" means that if there is a good wife in the family, the husband will be able to avoid any misfortune for no reason.

Origin: A satirical novel written in Wu dialect in the Qing Dynasty, "He Dian" (何典): "The white midge ghost heard about it and said happily, 'If there is a virtuous wife in the family, the husband will not be struck by any unexpected calamity. Your calculation is not bad at all."

Expanded:

p>There are four main commendable points in He Dian:

One is the strong anti-traditional tendency. He canon" throughout the use of dialect, a change in quoting the eight style, read friendly, popular, and the traditional literary creation of the set of resistance.

This was highly praised by Liu Bannong, Lu Xun, Wu Zhihui and other literary greats. Lu Xun, in particular, not only liked this ghost book, but also did a great deal of work on the publication of He Dian. The anti-traditional tendency of "He Dian" is similar to Lu Xun's literary advocacy, which is one of the reasons why Lu Xun honored it.

The second is its compact structure and concise language, which often makes a storyline clear in only three words. While there are many words that add comic touches, they don't feel like they're dragging.

The author has put a lot of thought into the portrayal of ghosts, such as living ghosts, dead ghosts, female ghosts, descriptive ghosts, old ghosts, mourning ghosts, drunken ghosts, life-supporting ghosts, hungry ghosts, death-defying ghosts, wild ghosts, colorful ghosts, smelly ghosts, daredevil ghosts, wrongdoing ghosts, big-head ghosts, ghosts that take the blame for the death of a person, ghosts that steal food, and ghosts that touch the wall, and so forth, which are more than 40 in number.

There are also called stinky flower lady, vinegar eight sister, male and female, Rakshasa female, and many unnamed ghosts, can be described as many ghosts, vivid, let people read not only do not feel horrible, but also make people happy, each relationship explains the clarity of a little bit not feel complicated, showing the author's extraordinary writing skills.

Third is the spicy irony, molding the human world vivid and lively. These very interesting names of ghosts, can be completely with the description of the various types of characters on earth one by one correspondence, everything, very ironic. In between the laughter and scolding, the depth of cynicism, to a certain extent, reveals the social conditions of the world at that time.

The funny writing of "He Dian" has some rough wildness, its structure, its coloring, and its technique are just like the Peach Blossom Garden prints which are glittering with cleverness and wisdom, plain and unadorned, friendly and lovely.

Fourth, the dialect allusions are skillfully used, almost becoming a canon of Wu dialect. As Lu Xun said in the "Inscription of He Dian", "Talking about ghosts and things is just like the earth, using the new canon as classical".

"He Dian" in a large number of collection of Wu dialect idioms, slang, and often use their transitive and borrowed meanings, hand pick up, open mouth, unrestrained ink and writing, exhaustive phase, often make readers laugh, is a dialect literature of the chic work. However, the author is overly focused on this, can not help but lose in the oily and shallow.