Female images in "Water Margin"

(3) The female images in "Water Margin" The female images in "Water Margin" can be divided into three categories: 1. The three "heroines" of Liangshan with the number of Tiangang and Earth Demons: Sun Erniang, Gu Dasao, Hu Sanniang; 2

, The second category that left a deep impression on readers is the four prostitutes: Er Pan, Yan Poxi and Lu Junyi's Mrs. Jia; 3. "Water Margin" describes a chaste lady: Lady Lin.

In addition, there are some characters, such as two old women, one is Yan Poxi’s mother Yan Po, whose face is not clear, and the other is the hateful face of Wang Po.

? Sun Erniang is the proprietress of a black shop. She runs a human meat bun shop at the cross slope of Mengzhou Road. She is nicknamed the dominatrix.

Her image as a "dominatrix" is "wearing a bright red silk skirt, applying rouge and powder on her face, opening her breasts, revealing a peach red gauze waist with gold buttons on top", "a murderous brow, and a fierce look in her eyes." Moreover.

The relationship between a Dominatrix and her husband is reversed.

Her husband's martial arts skills are not as strong as hers, and the shop's surname is not Zhang, but Sun. Why?

Sun Erniang's black shop is inherited from her ancestors. Her father's name is Shanyaksha Sun Yuan. He is a senior in the world and is well-known in the green forest.

This image and her actions may be difficult for us to accept.

What Wu Song saw in this black shop was "a few human skins hanging on the wall and a few human legs hanging from the beams." Is this considered a hero?

Is it a peasant uprising?

In any dynasty, whether it is ancient or modern, I am afraid that there will be legal investigation.

After all, Sun Erniang is a woman who is skilled in the underworld.

? The one that readers have the deepest impression of the three heroines on Liangshan should be Hu Sanniang.

Because Hu Sanniang is beautiful, beautiful, and heroic, but she is a very unsuccessful literary image. No matter how heroic Hu Sanniang is written in "Water Margin" and how heavy and colorful it is, as a character image and as an artistic image, it is weak.

, no character at all, marrying Wang Xiaohu was already a great misfortune in her life, and she died a violent death in the end.

From here we can see the author's contemptuous attitude towards women.

She is just a concept, a symbol.

A mute beauty.

This symbol is: capable of fighting, beautiful.

Pan Jinlian is one of the most successfully created characters in the novel.

After "Jin Ping Mei" was added, "Pan Jinlian" became a typical and synonymous with "whore".

Actually this is unfair.

Pan Jinlian was originally a law-abiding woman who wanted to live a peaceful life.

She is a woman with pursuits. From her harmonious relationship with Wuhan University to her final poisoning of her husband, Pan Jinlian experienced a gradual decline.

Pan Jinlian has a gradual decline process.

At first she still had pursuits and some independent ideas.

Zhang Dahu coveted her, and she could have been given the title of a concubine. But when she refused, the rich man retaliated by marrying Wu Dalang, a "three-inch Ding" and a "gu bark", and "a piece of mutton fell into the dog's mouth."

” (which is now said to be “a flower stuck in cow dung”).

I was dissatisfied in my heart, and after being instigated by outsiders, I walked step by step towards the abyss.

In the middle, it is also described that she had a pursuit, saw Wu Song, and was rejected by Wu Song.

In Pan Jinlian's case, it should be said that her desire is greater than her morality.

She had no sense of morality. Of course, she was born as a maid, and she probably didn't know a few words or had much knowledge. Maybe her natural attributes were higher than her social attributes, and her instincts overwhelmed her reason, so she went to destruction.

There is a wonderful passage in "Water Margin". Chapter 23 of the novel is about Wu Song meeting his sister-in-law.

Jin Shengtan commented: Anyone who has called "uncle" thirty-nine times and suddenly changes it to "you" is really heartbroken!

Jin Shengtan commented: The previous article about Wu Er's encounter with a tiger was really like a mountain shaking and the earth was shaking, making people's hair grow taller; suddenly this article about Wu Er's encounter with his sister-in-law was really like a willow flower, making people's hearts flutter.

In "Water Margin", why are these female characters so shaped and arranged?

Why is the author's view of women so backward?

Why are Liangshan heroes "not close to women"?

First, "Water Margin", like "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms", writes about the world of men, and is basically "male literature".

Robbery of homes and houses, wars in the north and south, this is a man's business, women have no share.

But in order to highlight the true nature of male heroes who are not close to women (such as Wu Song), they must have lewd women as foils (such as Pan Jinlian); in addition, in order to attract audiences and readers, novels that evolved from storybooks must also

Only some "meat" food appeals to the appetites of ordinary people.

Second, the projection of the dominant male-dominated culture and the "women are the source of trouble" theory in traditional culture.

Pan Jinlian's lewdness reached a terrifying level.

Why does our culture create the image of Pan Jinlian as an unreasonable evil woman and a lustful woman?

In the final analysis, it is the male writer's fear of his own desires that he projects onto women.

So this kind of woman with desires is particularly scary.

She didn't have a happy death, so her fate is a kind of moral concept of the writer that comes into play here.

Even if a woman has desires, especially a woman who wants to control her own desires, our culture will sentence her to death.

I would like to warn women in real life that it is better for you to be gentle and go back to being good wives and mothers.

Third, it is the "concept of Jianghu" that causes trouble.

"Water Margin" describes the story of rivers, lakes and green forests.

So the norms and concepts in the world are different from those of ordinary people in general society. This is a concept of strong men.