The story of Du Shiniang's sinking of the Hundred Treasure Chest in anger is still heard by a lot of people nowadays. The story tells of a woman's helplessness and tragedy, and because of its ingenious structure and appealing subject matter, it has also been widely circulated in China. I think people who have read this story will wonder, for Du Shuniang at that time, looks beautiful and so rich, why at that time chose the road of death. Today we will reorganize the story and then to analyze this question.
Du Shiniang is a famous head of ancient times, is Feng Menglong wrote the novel "Alarmist Tongyin? Du Shiniang Sinks the Hundred Treasure Chest in Anger". Du Shinniang's original name was Aimee Du, and because she was the tenth in line among the sisters in the greenhouse, she was called Du Shinniang by everyone in the building. Because of the outstanding appearance was very early pimp hit, raised in the building, so Du Shinniang can be said to have grown up in the greenhouse, very young began to learn to receive guests, many of the city's princes, grandchildren and aristocrats have fallen under her pomegranate skirt, in the eyes of the pimp, she is one of the biggest money tree.
If you really understand Du Shuniang's beauty, maybe you won't be surprised by these sights, the book's description of Du Shuniang is? The book describes Du Shiniang as having an elegant body, a delicate fragrance all over her body, two eyebrows painted with the green of distant mountains, and a pair of eyes bright with autumn water. Face like a lotus calyx, clearly Zhuo's Wenjun; lips like a cherry, how to reduce the white family Fan Su. Tasting these words reading these words, we can feel the image of Du Shuniang ah, is a bit of flavor.
In general, in the greenhouse, inside the woman is a little vulgar flavor, not to mention in the greenhouse grew up in the woman, but DuShuniang is not, she is not at all like the hook bar selling women, but more like a gold noble everyone woman. That's why there was also a saying circulating in the community at that time, ? If you knew Aimee Du in the courtyard, you would be like a ghost in a thousand houses. This saying is very interesting, saying that in front of Du Shinniang, all those big ladies were set off like ghosts, so it can be seen that Du Shinniang's that appearance is how amazing.
From the age of thirteen, Du Shiniang began to receive customers, to the age of nineteen, seven years of time for Du Shiniang to read countless people, their own emotions have long gone to the edge of numbness. Although the life inside the greenhouse was not hard, and the food and drink were superior, but in Du Shinniang's heart, the greenhouse was just a shackle for her, and the seven years of picking up clients made Du Shinniang sometimes disgusted with herself.
When this feeling of loathing accumulates, her desire to leave the greenhouse becomes more and more resolute, and she continues to look for someone in the process of receiving clients, hoping that there will be someone worthy of committing his life to bring her to escape from this shackle. In the land of the moon and paper, a handsome and beautiful, and a bit dull and loyal Li Jia instantly stirred the ripples in Du Shiniang's heart. Li Jia's body of the kind of tenderness and warmth so that Du Shinniang for the first time feel the feeling that she is a woman pleased with a person.
Li Jia, who has never been in love, saw Du Shuniang such a woman, of course, and other men like y into Du Shuniang's tenderness, not only abandoned their studies, at home is also full of Du Shuniang, in the free time to come to the building to look for Du Shuniang, their hands of silver is like running water as constantly spent out. Although Li Jia is not the most powerful and wealthy man, but in Du Shiniang's heart, he is the most worthy of a lifetime of commitment, can be met but can not be asked for a good man. The two of them hit it off right away, meeting every day and getting sticky, just like an ordinary couple in love.
Li A is a government official, but the money on hand in the end is still limited, which every day like running water out of accounts, there will be a day or empty. When Li A's money is not, the pimp's face is of course also also began to become sour, afraid of him all day sticking to Du Shiniang hindered other rich and noble gentleman to see Du Shiniang, it is to change the way to stimulate Li A, looking for an opportunity to send Li A. Instead, Du Shinniang's feelings for Li Jia grew deeper because of his lack of money. In Du Shinniang's eyes, the more penniless Li Jia was, the more sincere he was to herself.
The pimp, of course, was not happy, and the clever Du Shinniang kept stimulating the pimp with her words, which eventually made the pimp say that as long as Li Jia could come up with 300 taels, Du Shinniang could go with him. The pimp was also caught in Du Shinniang's scheme, with Du Shinniang's value, 300 taels is far from enough. After a lot of tossing and coaxing people to put together the money, Du Shinniang finally got a free body, joyful and constantly envisioning a better future, Du Shinniang took the treasure chest and Li Jia home.
Li Jia did not know that Du Shinniang had so many valuable things on her body, and was only worried that she would not be accepted by her family if she took Du Shinniang home and lost the right to inherit all her properties. The worried Li Jia just met a rich merchant, Sun Fu, who took a look at Du Shuniang and fell in love with her like any other man, and the last thing he needed was money, so he approached Li Jia to make a deal to take Du Shuniang away from him. Li Jia's worries just matched this idea of Sun Fu's, and the timid and cowardly Li Jia ended up selling Du Shinniang back to Sun Fu.
At that time, Du Shinniang had already left the brothel and had so much money in her hand, why should she end her life with death? In fact, this and the background of the times and the overall direction of the story is very relevant, with the eyes of the Dream of the Red Chamber to look at the story, if you look at the name Du Shiniang, there is a kind of ? The name Du Shuniang has a kind of "Dushu" (笃实). The harmony of the name also indicates that Du Shiniang is actually a dead man, once you identify a person, it is very difficult to turn back, if the illusion is shattered, then they would rather be shattered together than to live in the world.
Li A's name is a bit ?
The name Li Jia is a bit of a ? The meaning of the name, from the inside is false, but also alludes to the surface of the man's disguise and for the later betrayal of the ambush. This is a factor, there is another factor is that at that time, Du Shuniang is a famous prostitute, want to ransom for her that of course is countless, and Du Shuniang is not willing to from the good, must choose one of their own favorite, shows that her love for their own love in fact, is very chaste.
When she saw Li Jia's betrayal, it was as if her own kind of heart was broken all of a sudden, and she lost the faith to continue surviving. In the Ming Dynasty, the division of classes was also very strict, and women of the wind and dust belonged to the untouchable at that time, and despite Du Shiniang's beauty and intelligence, there was no way to break free from the kind of class shackles at that time. She was no longer willing to go back to the green house, to the place where she had made herself a doll, and elsewhere, Du Shinniang had nowhere else to go, so she could only end her life with death. She did this as a contempt for the treacherous villainous heartless man, a revolt against the cruel feudal society of the time, and a strong criticism of this social phenomenon of the time. Du Shiniang's ending makes people feel sad and sigh, and likewise makes people admire and regret.