At the same time, she is increasingly dissatisfied with the old lady's restraint and angry with the matchmaker's questioning. The old lady promised to get married in public and then went back on her word, which not only gave Cui and Zhang the rationality of marriage, but also gave Cui and Zhang the rationality of love. It is this rationality of both internal and external cultivation that has become the potential driving force for Yingying to dare to break through the shackles of the old lady and make a promise to Zhang Junrui.
However, it is still more difficult to break through the inner psychological cage than to break through the external artificial constraints, so Yingying's "making Jane" and "relying on Jane" came into being. Yingying's "pretending Jane" is not only to test whether the matchmaker is reliable and whether Zhang Sheng is sincere, but more importantly, it reveals the repetition and difficulty that Cui Yingying should have in overcoming traditional upbringing and female taboos.
When Changting saw him off, Yingying was worried that Zhang Sheng would fail in the exam and his marriage would eventually go up in smoke. She is more worried that Zhang Sheng will change her mind after passing the exam, and she will be abandoned and bear such a heavy mental burden.
The Romance of the West Chamber profoundly reveals Cui Yingying's love psychology, that is, he wants to love but dares not love, but can't help but not love; It also shows in detail the whole process of her inner strong demand gradually overwhelming and overcoming external repression, traditional imprisonment and psychological cage.
Struggle with one's own feudal ethical code brand
After the old lady broke the contract, Zhang Sheng was very depressed. At this time, Yingying obviously missed Zhang Sheng and asked the matchmaker to visit. However, when she saw the matchmaker bring back Zhang Sheng's simple post, she "suddenly lowered her pink neck and changed Zhu Yan" and told the matchmaker angrily that she would sue the lady and cut you off as a little bitch. "
When the matchmaker said that she would give the sticker to Mrs. Jane, she added, "I'm kidding you" and eagerly asked about Zhang Sheng. This kind of words and deeds that humiliate the identity of a young lady is a struggle between "desire" and "courtesy". She hid in front of the matchmaker, but she couldn't help worrying about Zhang Sheng.
However, her love for Zhang Sheng was timid and vacillating at first. On the one hand, she has girlish feelings and desires. On the other hand, as a Miss Guo Xiang, she grew up under the supervision of such a mother, and at the same time received more feudal moral education, which constituted the contradiction between her thoughts and actions.
She replied to Zhang Sheng's poem, "Gui Lan has been lonely for a long time and has nothing to do with spring: those who expect to sing should pity others." , expressed her unwilling loneliness depressed mood, also revealed her desire for the opposite sex. While listening to the piano, she was deeply moved by Zhang's eager call, so that tears filled her eyes, but she didn't have the courage to see it.
At this time, in her mind, there was a fierce conflict between the shackles of feudal ethics and the love for Zhang Sheng, and finally love finally defeated ethics. Therefore, when she received Zhang Sheng's love poem, she finally got the nerve to write a poem entitled "Three Nights in the Bright Moon" and made an appointment for Zhang Sheng to meet on the evening of 15.
"Under the west wing of the moon, the windward door is half open: flowers move on the wall and jade comes." In just 20 words, Yingying resolutely embarked on the road of rebellion.
In the subsequent Lai Jian, she said: "I am burning incense here, and you are here for no reason. What's the point if your wife hears about it? " "I don't care about the matchmaker's face, so I drag you to the old lady's house to see how dare you meet the elders in Jiangdong?" If your wife finds out, why should your husband be safe? "Three words of insipid, is to mention the old lady.
Although Yingying is far away from the old lady at the moment, the majesty of the old lady still hangs over her, giving her a sense of fear. Besides, until now, she has no sufficient reason to trust the matchmaker completely, which is one of the reasons that prompted her to change her mind, and this time she changed her mind out of necessity.
Therefore, when she saw that Zhang was lovesick and dying because of what she had done, she put down all her worries and took bold action. She took the initiative to express her condolences and love to Zhang in the middle of the night. At this point, Yingying's rebellious character finally reached its peak.
In addition to her rebellious character, Yingying also embodies some other qualities of women in China, such as beauty, Minhui, affection, kindness, gentleness and talent. After she fell in love with Zhang Sheng, she loved him wholeheartedly and was gentle and considerate. This is the typical virtue of the feudal women in China as seen by the author and given to the characters in the play.
However, Cui Yingying in The West Chamber is no longer the weak woman who is always in the tragic image of male social gender slavery and norms. The author endowed her with distinct personality and connotation.
Although Yingying is a woman deeply branded with feudal ethics, she is also a woman who pursues her own love and dares to affirm her own destiny. Although she can only pin her love fate on men, Yingying's success is full of ideals like many women in the future such as Du Shiniang and Fan Yi, but after all, she has her own clear pursuit. She has a new awakening than her predecessors, which highlights the rebellion in her character and inspires future generations.
Extended data
Creation background
Although the story of Cui Yingying and other months in The West Chamber was originally written in Yuan Zhen's Biography of Yingying in Tang Dynasty, it was actually born out of Dong Jieyuan's The West Chamber. Wang Shifu served as Shaanxi county magistrate and Shaanxi provincial supervisor. Later, because he was dissatisfied with the filth and anger of the officialdom at that time, he resigned and decided to express his melancholy by writing a script. So he returned to Zhongshan House, where he was born, and began to write zaju.
In the Jin Dynasty, there was a man named Dong, who adapted Yuan Zhen's Biography of Yingying in the Tang Dynasty into A Tale of the Western Chamber, and wrote Yingying, the hero of the story, as a native of Boling County. Dingzhou in Sui Dynasty was called Boling County, so the story of Yingying and Zhang Sheng was widely circulated in Boling area. According to legend, Cui Yanshi in Dingzhou has a tomb of Cui Yingying.
Based on this, Wang Shifu began to write his zaju "The West Chamber of Cui Yingying" in Zhongshan Building. The play was written in the years of Yuan Zhen and Dade (1295~ 1307).
character introduction
cui yingying
Cui Yingying was born in a noble family, and she was a beautiful and talented girl. Her father Cui betrothed her to Zheng Shangshu's son. Under the strict constraints of feudal ethics, she strongly pursued love and happiness. She met scholar Zhang Junrui in Pujiu Temple. Zhang's infatuation and talent won her admiration, but her status as a young lady and her upbringing made her feel distressed, and she could not freely express her love.
When the siege of Pujiu Temple was untied, Zhang Sheng should have married her, but the old lady's change of heart gave her a heavy blow and her rebellious consciousness began to awaken. She gradually liberated from hesitation, timidity and worry, and finally broke through the bondage and married Zhang Sheng happily. ?
Zhang Sheng (Zhang Junrui)
Zhang Sheng's late father was an official and attended the ceremony, so it can be seen that he was also born in a scholarly family. Under the influence of this environment since childhood, he studied hard and learned a lot in order to be the number one scholar. Bad luck, in our nature, many times should lift, all fall in Sun Shan, so "sword falls, travel everywhere". It can be seen that Zhang Sheng's wish is: but seek fame and honor his ancestors.
However, when this learned man met Yingying, he threw all his fame and fortune outside the cloud nine, put 23 years of hardships and efforts in eighteen layers of hell, and put the pursuit of free love at the top of his list.
So the subset of classics and history became the cover of his pursuit of love. In his later years, he became lovesick, not to mention studying. In Pujiu Temple, heroes save beauty and rack their brains for love. I finally hoped for love, but Mrs. Cui refused. Zhang Sheng wanted to go to Beijing to take the exam on the grounds that "three generations of my family didn't recruit a white son-in-law". I didn't expect his love to be based on fame.
Refutation, don't come to see Mrs Cui. "Indeed, the power of love is enormous. Before meeting Yingying, Zhang Junrui "had both fame and fortune and wandered around. "After meeting Yingying, he had answers and won the first prize.
intermediary/Middle Men
The matchmaker is not only the bride, but also the liaison in and out of the play. As the author's spokesperson, she directly reflects the author's intention. The author puts his own thoughts and consciousness on her, and she affects the development of the plot and plays an important role.
The matchmaker ran between Cui and Zhang to deal with the feudal forces represented by the old lady. The old lady defends feudal principles and family interests, and upholds the ethical code of "parents' orders and matchmakers' words". To break it, she needs a chivalrous role like a matchmaker, with a bold spirit of resistance and a sense of justice of compassion. She is brave and rebellious, and she is willing to be "jack shall have Jill"?
lady
The old lady is the parent of a weather-beaten and declining feudal family. Her husband has just died, and her youngest son, who can take on the pillar of the family, is still young. In an instant, the prominent Xiangfu family became only "three or four relatives", and she knew nothing about the trouble she would encounter when she lived in Xiao Temple.
The old lady lost her husband, and the unpredictable suffering in the future is beyond the understanding of Miss Yingying, who is uncontested in the world. The old lady is the first character in Cui Yingying's The West Chamber. Her lyrics of "lonely children and poor roads" reflect her coldness in front of the door and the sadness of the world, which is very important for the formation of the old lady's character.
It is precisely because she feels left out in the cold and in a miserable situation that she especially wants to find a marriage for her daughter that can not only maintain the social status of the Cui family, but also bring happiness to her daughter. Therefore, people like Zhang Sheng are definitely not the ideal candidates for the old lady.
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