Cui Yingying in Wang Shifu's "The Romance of the West Chamber" is a young girl with a budding heart and longs for love, so she boldly pursues love and responds enthusiastically to Zhang Sheng; Being suppressed and restrained by feudal ethics, they are particularly hesitant and weak in the face of love.
(1) The girl who is in love for the first time
As a girl who is in love for the first time, Cui Yingying is as beautiful as a flower. The author of "The Romance of the West Chamber" took the trouble to describe Yingying's appearance in detail from different angles again and again. Yingying's beautiful appearance is vividly displayed in front of our eyes through Zhang Sheng's eyes in the first chapter of "The Romance of the West Chamber": "I've seen thousands of things, and it's so delightful to be like this." It's rare to see her, it makes people dazzled and speechless, and her soul is flying in the sky for a long time. She is teased by everyone, with her shoulders draped, she just smiles and smiles... She is shy in front of others, and her cherry blossoms bloom for a long time. Just like a warbler singing outside a flower, Jie Wu’s waist is delicate and soft, and she is as graceful as a weeping willow in the evening breeze."
When they appear, they wear different clothes and jewelry. Moreover, before I saw her, I heard her voice first, "I heard a sudden sound from the corner door, and the fragrance of clothes lingered everywhere where the wind passed by." When she left, there was still a scent of orchid and musk, and the sound of the ring gradually faded away. ".
It was precisely because of Yingying that she was so charming and charming that Zhang fell in love with her, and her continuous pursuit of her in every possible way laid the foundation for the subsequent development of the story. Just imagine if Yingying had a fat head, big ears, and a strong back and a strong waist. Zhang Sheng would not even look at her, he would avoid her for fear, let alone miss Pujiu Temple, and Sun Feihu would not steal her bride, so why did he talk to her in the West Wing?
As a young girl, Yingying is going through adolescence, a stage of life development. Adolescence is also going through a "passion period" and a "danger period". Young people in this period will have a lot of thoughts about themselves. The other half has many fantasies about what he looks like, what kind of temperament he has, what kind of education level, economic conditions, etc. Over time, the object of your fantasy will form a basic outline framework in your mind. If one day you accidentally meet someone who is similar to your fantasy somewhere, you will immediately feel good about it. Therefore, when Yingying saw Zhang Sheng, she couldn't help but "look back and look at him". Zhang Sheng was "interested" in "the moment of her passing". Then on a bright spring night in the sky, strangers heard Zhang Sheng's signal and immediately expressed their feelings with a poem: "The orchid girl has been lonely and idle for a long time; I expected that the singer would sigh with pity." Exchange feelings.
When the old lady "defied the marriage", she was full of resentment because her mother broke up her marriage. Her ideals suffered a devastating blow. She asked the matchmaker again and again to see Zhang Sheng. When she got I know that "Zhang Sheng's face is really ugly when he is thin. He doesn't think about food and tea, and is afraid of moving. He looks forward to good times at dawn and night, and forgets to sleep and eat. At dusk and clear day, he looks at the east wall and his eyes are filled with tears. Patients, need to "An, except for a few winds and sweats." At that time, I felt really sad, and immediately wrote a letter to the matchmaker, "When the moon is under the west chamber, the door facing the wind is half open, and the shadows of the flowers on the partition wall are moving. It is suspected that the beauty is coming. ." Letter of appointment with Zhang Sheng...
These behaviors are completely different from Yingying's usual calmness and reserve, which shows that she is indeed in love as a young girl.
(2) A lady deeply bound by feudal ethics
Cui Yingying was born in a famous family and was the daughter of the Prime Minister. He has been influenced and restrained by feudal culture and ethics since he was a child, not to mention the discipline of an old lady who is known as "serious in running a family and has a frosty attitude".
From the conversation between Yingying and the matchmaker, we can see how strict the old lady’s discipline is to her, “Matchmaker, I will take a nap on a silk pillow. The matchmaker said: "If you don't want to be a matchmaker, let me follow my sister." Yingying said: "My mother is so boring! She is so wary of people these days; Xiao Meixiang is waiting for her." "Technetium, the old lady is very restrained, because she is afraid that my daughter will lose her temper." It was in such an environment that Yingying became a well-educated, dignified, calm and steady lady. It is not difficult to imagine what such a lady wants to do. Breaking through the strict shackles of feudal ethics and pursuing the freedom of marriage is a long and difficult road.
When Yingying "took up the slips of paper, pressed the makeup box, opened the cover and looked carefully at it, turning it over and over without getting upset", it showed that she missed Zhang Sheng urgently.
But then she thought about it and felt something was wrong. The letter would definitely not come by itself, and Zhang Sheng would not deliver it. If it could be brought by the matchmaker, then she must know that Zhang Sheng wrote the letter. As an orthodox lady, how could she act so outrageously? So she became furious: "You little bitch, where did this thing come from? I am the lady of the Prime Minister. Who dares to tease me with this simple post? How many times have I seen it? This kind of thing? Report it to the madam and cut it off, you little bitch."
Yingying read the letter, first she was surprised, then she became angry, and the situation suddenly changed. Yingying's sudden change of heart is reasonable. Austrian psychologist Freud divided human consciousness into three parts: "Id" is the most primitive part, which is composed of some innate impulses, desires or energy and acts according to the "pleasure principle"; "Ego" is formed after birth under the influence of the external environment and follows the "reality principle": "Superego" is formed by individuals under the influence of social moral norms, especially the internalization of social moral concepts under the discipline of parents. Become and act according to "moral principles". Deep in Yingying's heart, that is, her "self", she particularly likes Zhang Sheng's letter and is particularly eager to know about Zhang Sheng's situation. But the "superego", that is, the moral level, tightly restricted her. Thousands of years of solid feudal ethics and social morality prevented her from reading this kind of letter. In order to protect these, she suddenly mutated like this, and even got angry at the matchmaker. When Yingying Zhang Sheng was seriously ill with lovesickness recently, he felt very sad and wrote a letter: "Under the moonlight in the west chamber, the door facing the wind is half open, and the shadows of flowers on the partition wall are moving. I suspect it is a beautiful woman coming." , take the initiative to invite. But when Zhang Sheng really jumped over the wall and couldn't wait to hug Yingying, Yingying suddenly became angry: "Zhang Sheng, what kind of person are you! I am burning incense here, and you are here for no reason; if the lady hears it, there is He Li said! "Yingying changed her mind.
There is no doubt that Yingying loves Zhang Sheng, and her date with Zhang Sheng is also sincere, but after all, she is a lady of the family, a rich lady, and she must maintain her dignity and face as the lady of the country under any circumstances. . Western psychologist Jung said, "Everyone has a personality mask to express a person's public social identity. In our common saying, it is the same as "sing whatever song you go to the top of the mountain." It is very important for a person to attend For meetings, you generally don’t dress casually, but very solemnly. On the contrary, if you are casual and entertaining, you will not restrain yourself in suits and ties.
Personal masks are a product of real society. It is the certain economic foundation, political system, laws, morals, and customs that shape people. Yingying's change of heart is caused by this reason. Although her love for Zhang Sheng is sincere and she voluntarily takes the initiative to make an appointment. She must maintain her dignity no matter what. She really hopes to have a tryst with Zhang Sheng as soon as possible, but she is afraid of crossing the "thunder pond" and eating the forbidden fruit because "chastity" and "conduct" are the measures of a woman in the feudal ethical society. The most important criterion for good or bad is that once a woman has a relationship with someone, she has to rely on him for the rest of her life. If the man changes his heart and the woman is abandoned, there will be no happiness in her life. Even though Yingying is a lady, she will not dare to I promised not to be abandoned, so I expressed my worries to Zhang Sheng at that time: "I have a body of thousands of gold, if I abandon it. This body is all under your feet, don't let it go if you see it one day, causing my concubine to sigh with gray hair. "When bidding farewell in the pavilion, what Yingying was most worried about was not "their wealth and fortune" but "the divorce of her wife", so when Zhang Sheng asked Yingying if she had anything else to say, Yingying repeatedly asked Zhang. Health; "You don't have to be good at everything, but I am afraid that you will stop marrying and marry again." Don't expect "no news from spring fish and geese"! I, Qingluan, have a lot of letters that I need to send, but you don't say, "You will never return without a name on the gold list." ”
Zhang Sheng is repetitive, hesitant and duplicitous about Yingying’s love, which just shows the low status of women in feudal society. He has no sense of security in marriage, and Yingying is a woman who is deeply educated in feudal ethics. Cui Yingying, a lady who has been nurtured by everyone, must consider her identity, status and influence in every move she makes.
Cui Yingying in Wang Shifu's novel is a young girl with beautiful appearance, passionate feelings and the beginning of love, like a clear breath. The spring water is so lovely, but this lovely spring water flows from the tall Xiangguo Mansion, so it is inevitably mixed with the thick sediment of feudal ethics.