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What are the impressive female tragic images in China's literary works?

Tragic women, Xianglinsao is certainly a typical representative. A character in Lu Xun's novel Blessing: Lu Xun really wrote this novel after the Revolution of 1911. He thought that after the end of the imperial era, people lived and worked in peace and contentment, and everyone was equal, but the reality could not be so beautiful. The arrival of the landlord era has led a large number of poor people to live a miserable life. At this time, Mr. Lu Xun created the novel "Blessing".

It tells the story of a man who has been away from home for a long time. After returning home at the end of the year, he stayed at a relative's house and saw the story that the maid of this relative's house eventually went to extinction. The maid is Sister Xianglin. Her husband died at a young age, and she waited on her mother-in-law honestly at home, but her mother-in-law was disgusted with her. When she learned that her mother-in-law decided to sell her, she made a determined escape and finally ran to Luzhen, where she was taken in by Master Lu's family and became a servant at home. She is very capable of supporting three servants by herself, and it is not too hard to be satisfied, which makes the wife at home very satisfied. Who knows, my mother-in-law also came to me soon, and just snatched Xianglinsao back, forced her marriage and sold her. Sister Xianglin didn't want to, but no one could hear her cry. Finally, she got married and gave birth to her son Amao. I thought it would be nice to live like this, but her second husband died and her son was gone.

In order to make a living, she can only choose to go back to Master Lu's house and continue to be a servant. Sister Xianglin, who was married twice, was ridiculed by many people. She lives like a sinner. No one takes her seriously, even she looks down on herself. She wants to atone for her sins, starve and buy a threshold for the land temple. Body double, as her own body, will give millions of people a sense of guilt in this life, hoping not to suffer after death and seeking peace of mind. But people around her still think she is guilty, which makes her very unhappy. Finally, Master Lu kicked her out of the house and froze to death in the ice and snow.

Xianglinsao was a typical rural woman in China at that time. Such a thing was very common at that time, and the prejudice of others could easily kill a person.