The third time, when she appeared for the first time, she dressed up as "colored embroidery, like a fairy princess: wearing a bun embroidered with gold silk and eight treasures, and hanging five phoenix beads in the morning sun;" Wearing a red gold plate around his neck; The skirt is tied with bean green uterine tapestry and Pisces rose; Put on a wisp of golden butterfly, a narrow red satin coat, a colorful carved stone green silver mouse coat and a jade crepe skirt. " [3] The overall color of the dress is "colored embroidery", mainly gold, which shows her wealth and luxury, implies her prominent position and aggressive personality in Jiafu, and shows her vanity and greed. Colorful costumes are dazzling, which not only reflects Feng's complacency, but also exposes her low cultural accomplishment and vulgar aesthetic taste. This is quite different from the aesthetic taste of the Qing people. "Women's clothing is not expensive but expensive and clean, not expensive and elegant, not expensive and commensurate with home, but expensive and suitable for appearance." [5] "If a white-haired and black-haired beauty is surrounded by jade beads and gold beads, but no one can see the gold, the flowers are hidden at the bottom of the leaves, and the moon is in the clouds, .................................................................................................................... Although she is smart and capable, after all, her cultural accomplishment is too low. She only knows how to fight for power and profit on weekdays, and she doesn't have much spiritual life to speak of. Her clothes fully show her coquettish and vulgar character and empty and greedy soul.
When she went to pick up Second Sister You, her dress was completely different from usual. When I first got off the bus, I was "wearing plain silver on my head, a white satin jacket, a blue satin cloak and a white satin skirt." [3] She made such a meaningful dress. The second sister married Jia Lian, who stopped his wife in national filial piety. If she picks it up with great fanfare, I'm afraid it will arouse the dissatisfaction of Jiafu people, and simple and elegant clothes can hide people's eyes and ears. In order not to be too ostentatious and let the opponent be caught off guard, it needs to be simple; But she suddenly dressed so simply that she didn't arouse the suspicion of Jiafu people, so she pretended to make a wish at the Guzi Temple, and everyone didn't care. Plainclothes greatly restrained her usual aggressive tiger and wolf, and let the second sister relax her vigilance, thinking that she was a good person and would be fooled. As the saying goes, "a woman should be beautiful and filial", and you Erjie, who wears simple but elegant clothes, wants to compare beauty secretly. This dress really makes her look very beautiful. "Zhi Tao is beautiful in three spring, and chrysanthemums are clean in nine autumn". All these fully show Xifeng's calculating and competitive personality.
To sum up, clothing description plays an important role in expressing the character and temperament of the characters in the book, which has rich cultural implications.