allonlinenovel Chapter 316 Song: We really didn’t do this
Chapter 316 Song: We really didn’t do this
＜So the author wrote a lot of explicit parts deliberately＞
＜First of all, this assumption is impossible to come true, because the Qing Dynasty's entry into the country would definitely restrict people's thoughts [eat melon] ＞
＜Yes, the beginnings of capitalism appeared in the south at the end of the Ming Dynasty. I hate it, but I was bullied in various ways afterwards! [Sigh] ＞
＜On the one hand, they cannot even express their most basic desires, and on the other hand, they use extreme means to express their dissatisfaction with the real society＞
＜Open your eyes and look at the world. Ordinary people in the Ming and Qing dynasties were badly harmed by Neo-Confucianism＞
＜There are really many thinkers in the middle and late Ming Dynasty, such as Yangming School of Mind, Li Zhi, Huang Zongxi... ＞
[Song Renzong Zhao Zhen: This dynasty does not require women to remain widows and not remarry]
[Song Shenzong Zhao Xu: It is very common for women to remarry or divorce]
[An old man from the seventh year of the Wanli reign of the Ming Dynasty: Starving to death is a small matter, but losing one’s chastity is a big matter!]
[Song Zhezong Zhao Xu: To be honest, we really didn’t promote the chastity archway]
[Ming Hongwu Emperor Zhu Yuanzhang: ...because the previous dynasty...]
[Kublai Khan: Huh?! Are you talking about us? The Yuan Dynasty used many things from the Southern Song Dynasty...]
[Li Qingzhao, Year 2 of the Chunxi Period of the Song Dynasty: Hmm… Although I have heard the saying “It is better to die of hunger than to lose one’s chastity,” it has not yet had much influence at this stage]
[A pedantic scholar in the 27th year of the Jiajing reign of the Ming Dynasty: The theories of the two Cheng brothers are not wrong at all!]
[Song Xining 4th year Cheng Yi: …]
[Song Xining 4th year Cheng Hao: Is it possible that our meaning is not what you understand?]
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People in the Song Dynasty began to make various clarifications to prove that they really did not do those things.
After all, the Song Dynasty’s reputation was not very good among all dynasties, and it couldn’t get any worse.
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Wang Shouren, Li Zhi and Huang Zongxi, seeing the light curtain, once again affirmed their thoughts and theories, and further strengthened their inner beliefs.
Wang Shouren gradually realized his doctrine from the difficult environment and various situations in a remote place...
Although Li Zhi was young, he was well-educated and determined to take the exam next year to eliminate corruption in the country.
In the third year of Chongzhen, the 20-year-old Huang Zongxi studied hard to prepare for his success in the imperial examination and his career as an official. At the same time, he joined a poetry club with his classmates to constantly enrich his knowledge.
He knew very well that his current self was nothing like the "Huang Zongxi" praised by the light curtain, but the Ming Dynasty was completely different now, and he would be different too. No one could predict the future path.
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Emperor Hongwu Zhu Yuanzhang closed his eyes and said, "I have already withdrawn those unreasonable regulations."
"Well, some backward areas still believe in it." Zhu Di thought of the memorials he had read. No one dared to deceive their superiors and subordinates under the old man's nose.
“It’s a long journey.”
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[Subversion of the traditional female image]
[The female image created in "Jin Ping Mei" breaks through the template characteristics of previous female descriptions and has a clear secular tendency.
The development of commodity economy in the middle and late Ming Dynasty made the whole society full of various contradictions of prosperity and extravagance, openness and decadence, liberation and debauchery. Various thoughts coexisted chaotically. The urban lifestyle of the rising citizen class began to expand to the whole society. People had various questions about society and began to reflect on the ethics and morals they had always followed.
Traditional novels have changed. People no longer like to read about the achievements of emperors and generals, or stories about talented men and beautiful women, or all kinds of magical legends... They began to desire to read secular novels based on daily life, and the image of the female character portrayed in Jin Ping Mei perfectly fits this point.
There is no absolutely pure, kind, noble and elegant woman in Jin Ping Mei. If we use traditional concepts to look at the women around Ximen Qing, we will find that most of them are of bad origin or in low status.
Although middle-aged Mrs. Lin and Li Ping'er were noble ladies, they did not show the dignity they should have, and Pang Chunmei even went from being a maid to a lady. From this, we can see that noble ladies at that time did not necessarily have to be dignified and elegant ladies from a noble family.
Others are widows, prostitutes, maids, wives of servants, etc. These are different from the ladies from noble families, beautiful girls from small families and smart and talented women in the stories of talented scholars and beautiful women. They are more about women in the market who are intertwined with reality and hypocrisy, ugliness and desire.
Apart from the last chapter, it can be said that the women in Jin Ping Mei who are particularly bold and daring and dare to fight for their personal desires, such as Pan Jinlian and Pang Chunmei, are the real winners.
The concubines of Ximen Qing in "Jin Ping Mei" not only had to please him and compete for him among many women, but also had to seduce men to relieve their desires. These things were the only things they could do in their boring lives and in their small world. Of course, they could also find temporary escape and comfort in Buddhist scriptures like Wu Yueniang.
Why the sexual descriptions in "Jin Ping Mei" make people sick is because behind them is full of disappointment and despair in life.
The book also says that once people indulge in their desires, they will gradually deviate from the right path of human ethics and lose all sense of shame. For example, the consequence of indulging in desires of Pan Jinlian and Pang Chunmei is that they are trapped in the vortex of desire again and again, unable to extricate themselves. In the end, they become beasts and no longer human beings.
Into the abyss of death. 】
＜This seems to be true. In the novels written by ancient people, the image of women is often hardworking, gentle, and devoted...＞
＜Guess you want to say Wang Baochuan [eating melon]＞
＜Hahaha, just because of the story of Xue Pinggui and Wang Baochuan, I hated Xue Rengui for many years [covering face] I only found out later that Xue Pinggui was fictitious ＞
＜There seems to be a saying that it was adapted from the story of Xue Rengui and Liu Yinhuan＞
＜Speaking of which, I also hated Xue Rengui for many years because of this reason... Later, I understood more about history, and I really admired Xue Rengui. He fought for more than 20 years, defeated the Nine-Surname Tiele, subdued Goryeo, and defeated the Turks. "A good strategy to stop the war, three arrows to conquer Tianshan" [thumbs-up]＞
＜The content of this video brought back my lost high school history knowledge... It was mentioned in the chapter about the prosperity of Ming and Qing novels. Because the citizen class expanded, the demand also expanded blah blah... ＞
＜It seems that in the Ming Dynasty, "Water Margin" was more popular than "Romance of the Three Kingdoms". This may be the reason. Water Margin has more colloquialisms and tells more stories of heroes... again, it perfectly matches people's preferences＞
＜Well, the women in these stories all have distinct personalities, and they are not just confined to house fighting. It turns out that today's female authors of ancient Chinese novels are more feudal than the ancients.＞
＜Absolutely right, he always says it in a very straightforward way [covering his face]＞
＜In fact, if written in the current popular style, Pang Chunmei in "Jin Ping Mei" can really be the villain heroine. She started as a maid and became a concubine. After Ximen Qing died, she quickly found someone who liked her. She was first a concubine, and then she became the wife after giving birth to a child... She is a complete heroine in a cool novel＞
＜Although I haven't read Jin Ping Mei yet, from what the up master said, I can see that the author must be very conflicted. On the one hand, he wanted to break traditional concepts and obey his desires, but on the other hand, he died because of excessive indulgence.＞
＜It's not a contradiction, it's just that society was like that. The ethos was abstinence, but we all know that people in the Ming Dynasty did all kinds of things in private, such as copper smelting and abnormal sexual fetishes... Many of the lewd scenes described in Jin Ping Mei can be regarded as reality＞
＜Alas, it is true. Once desire is given, it is difficult to retract it, and the end is often miserable……＞