Li Wan's personality is similar to that of Mrs. Wang and xiren. It can be seen that Li Wan is Mrs. Wang's daughter-in-law, and she is also very disappointing, which fully meets Mrs. Wang's expectations. She soon gave birth to Mrs. Jia Zheng's grandson, and after her husband died, she could live a plain life.
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Jia Baoyu has a wonderful comment about Li Wan, which is hidden in the book. When Jia Zheng took a large group of public servants "xianggong" and Jia Baoyu to enjoy the Grand View Garden for the first time, Jia Zheng and others first went to see the Xiaoxiang Pavilion where Lin Daiyu later lived. It was called Feng at that time, and later he saw Daoxiang Village where Li Wan later lived. Jia Zheng asked Baoyu how Daoxiang Village compared with Xiaoxiang Pavilion. How did Jia Baoyu answer? He said, there is no Vondo! That is, Daoxiang Village is far worse than Xiaoxiang Pavilion! What is worse? Because Daoxiang Village is obviously artificial and unnatural, there are many places that suppress nature and pretend to be simple. Baoyu's evaluation is that it is inhuman to ask young widowers to live a martyr's life. This is a man-made ideological imprisonment that does not respect human nature! In the season when flowers are in full bloom, at the tender age of youth, it is natural to live a pale and boring life like a dead tree.
Taoist Jia Zheng is not in a hurry when he hears these words? Baoyu hasn't finished yet, so be sure to cross him off the account! Cao Gong designed this Baoyu who was not afraid of death and dared to refute Jia Zheng's plot. It is nothing more than asking Baoyu to tell Zuo Zongtang that he has severely criticized the unfair treatment in feudal ethics that requires women to be widowed and men to remarry!
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Unfortunately, Li Wan in the book is a feudal martyr! Although she is a scholar's daughter, it's a pity that her parents only received the feudal ethics education full of benevolence, righteousness and morality, so the education for her is only a decadent thing that imprisons women's thoughts, such as The Biography of Women, and she has become a victim of her own destiny, which is a natural development! Li Wan could have remarried, or at least developed other talents, managed her own finances and so on, but it was useless. Not only can't remarry, but also can't interfere in housework. I can only raise my son and accompany my sister-in-law!
Does Li Wan appear in the official book of the Twelve Women in Jinling because of her position in Jiafu? Or because of her tragedy? In the unfortunate department, every girl has her misfortune. The twelve people in the official book, including Baochai, are all unfortunate incarnations, representing a damaged fate. Is it because Li Wan is a young widowed representative who is willing to be at the mercy of fate? Look at Li Wan's pictures and judgments in official books. "There is a pot of Maolan painted behind, and there is a beauty wearing a rockhopper and a beautiful gown next to it. There is another saying: after the spring breeze of peaches and plums bears fruit, who will end up like an orchid? If the ice water is so empty, it is a joke with others. " The fate revealed in this picture and the judgment is that Jia Lan lived up to her widowed mother's expectations and finally succeeded in the imperial examination, so she was Maolan, and Li Wan naturally became an official, which made her prosperous in the future. Unfortunately, the years are old and the youth is gone. When I was young, I was haggard and looked down upon. I live like a log. Now that I am old, even if I have endless jewels and wealth, what can I enjoy? So, if you are like ice water, you will be jealous and you will play a joke on others. As Jia Baoyu said, how can this be natural? Obviously it is man-made, and it is a practice of destroying and distorting human nature!
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Has Li Wan ever lamented her bad luck? There are also! You see, when I entered the village for the thirty-ninth time, my grandmother was talking nonsense, and my brother was determined to get to the bottom of it. Many people get together to talk about the benefits of every girl in the room. Li Wan said, "You are a natural person. Fung Wong-Nui is also a creature. I think when your uncle Zhu was in Japan, there were never two people. You think I'm still the one who can't control people? I see the two of her uncomfortable every day. So when your uncle Zhu is gone, I will send him away while I am young. If I can keep it, I will have arms. " As he spoke, he began to cry. When Li Wan talked about Pinger and thought of herself, she was so sad that she burst into tears! This is Li Wan's rare true feelings! Yes, the released girl still has a life to look forward to, but she can only be like a log. Is it envy or sadness? Li Wan's tears are lamentable!
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On Baoyu's birthday night, Li Wan also attended a banquet in Justin. She also painted many flowers, especially wintersweet. According to the book, Li shook, pulled out one and said with a smile, "Great." Look at this. This is an interesting thing. "Look at that sign. There is an old plum tree with the words' first frost Han Xiao' written on it. The old poem is: Caotang wishes. Note: "Have a drink by yourself and roll dice at home." Li Wan smiled and said, "That's interesting. You can throw it. "I'll just have a drink myself, and I won't ask you about waste and happiness." This flower sign indicates the future fate of the lottery, and Li Wan's fate is also predicted in it. Chimonanthus praecox is a flower that stands out in the bleak cold wind of winter. In other words, when the Jia family fell, all the sisters withered like flowers and fell down one by one. Because of the success of Jia Lan's imperial examination, Li Wan became an old monarch, outshining others! In addition to this layer of meaning, there is another layer of subtle meaning, that is, wintersweet blooms in winter, although it is snowing proudly, but it is already the end of the year! Therefore, although Li Wan finally had a proud day, her life came to an end. Li Wan has been like this for most of her life, and she didn't really enjoy wealth until the end of her life. But can this upside-down life be happy?
Li Wan's miserable life is actually far better than her!
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In Li Wan's judgment, there is a remark that plays a joke on others, which is obviously an ironic sigh. Although Li Wan's life was misplaced, she was unhappy when she was young and could not enjoy happiness when she was old, but after all, she brought up Jia Lan. Why can he be a joke? This sentence obviously has something in it! A passage about Li Wan in A Dream of Red Mansions is kindness in the mirror, which is more worthy of a dream of fame! That beautiful youth went to He Xun! Don't mention the embroidery account again. Only by wearing a pearl crown and a phoenix coat can we resist impermanence. Although it is, life should not suffer from old age and poverty, but also need to accumulate children and grandchildren. Wearing a tassel on the head, wearing a tassel on the head, and having a gold seal on the chest; Wei Hehe, Mr. Lu, Wei Hehe, Mr. Lu, faint and miserable, near the yellow road. Can ancient generals still exist? In name only, everyone respects each other.
This description of Li Wan's fate is almost ferocious. She said that although she had the intention to train Jia Lan as an adult, the road to death was near. It is also said that although Jia Lan became a high official, Li Wan did not accumulate virtue for his descendants, which seems to imply that Li Wan has done immoral things, and Jia Lan's fate may be affected by karma! So besides her bad luck, what's wrong with Li Wan? I think Li Wan is selfish, because she is a widow and has a young son, which is understandable. To some extent, Li Wan is one of the few people in Jia's family who has a sense of hardship. Her husband died young, her children were young, she was widowed, and she had no other source of income except her extended family, so she was very concerned about money. According to the treatment given to her by Jia Fu, she could have avoided worrying about money, because her annual income is far greater than her expenditure, but Li Wan is very frugal and very economical. To put it bluntly, it is because Li Wan has a sense of urgency and knows that the tree is falling apart and that the feast is coming to an end. She needs to support and cultivate Jia Lan, so she must always be frugal. It is stingy and selfish to show it to the outside world.
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In the first eighty chapters of A Dream of Red Mansions, Li Wan's meanness is reflected in both brightness and darkness. The public writing place was when the sisters opened a poetry club. Because Li Wan came to ask her for money with her sisters, Feng calculated an account for Li Wan half jokingly and half seriously. After calculation, Li Wan earns four or five hundred dollars a year, which is still net income. Before the decline of Jiafu, Li Wan earned a lot of money, so after the decline of Jiafu, she continued to cultivate Jiafu. Although she has so much income, Li Wan never wants to squander it. She always does everything and never spends a penny, so she is a stingy image in the book. But then again, Li Wan has a high income, but it is also her only income. In addition, feudal ethics limited her thinking, and she was only cutting back on expenditure, so her meanness was actually a reason. Moreover, when Jia Fu was defeated, it was obvious that her care and caution were not superfluous.
Her stingy secret is that when Grandma Liu came to the Grand View Garden to see her off, everyone gave her some help, but Li Wan didn't. You see, Feng and Li Wan are sisters-in-law, Feng is from Jia She's side, and Feng has given a lot of gifts. Li Wan should at least show it! But Li Wan didn't send anything. It was written in secret, and Tsao Gong wrote it very delicately. He won't say that Li Wan didn't send anything, but he will list the givers and the gifts one by one so that you can see at a glance. Hey, why don't you just give Li Wan nothing? ! This shows Li Wan's meanness.
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Besides being stingy, Li Wan is also very selfish, which can be seen from Li Wan's lottery ticket! Li Wan's flower sign is wintersweet, and the poem is not to ask others to waste it and prosper. How to understand this sentence? In other words, I don't ask how you are, I only care about myself! This sentence is selfish, but at that time Li Wan was a widow and in troubled times. Just mind yourself and Jia Lan, who cares about others? ! Because of this selfishness, earlier, when Jia Baoyu visited the dreamland, he heard that Li Wan and his gang were singing "The Youth in a Dream of Red Mansions", and they said that they should accumulate virtue for future generations, not just themselves.
What has Li Wan done that is immoral and does not accumulate evil? I think after the downfall of the Jia family, there was a huge deficit to make up for. Li Wan refused to give money to help, which made everyone poor. Baoyu Baochai wants to sell xiren and other maids when she gets married, and Li Wan doesn't care. Later, the Jia family was raided, their property was confiscated, and everyone except the guilty became civilian slaves. If you want to save the convicted person, you have to redeem the money and get through the relationship. In this case, Li Wan refused to spend money to help relatives get out of prison. Because in her opinion, you have the final say in the future, so save the money! Therefore, no matter how good the relatives used to be, they can't take care of them now. We can only take the road of cultivating Jia Lan. Therefore, whether Baoyu and Jia Lian needed redemption or Baochai and Qiaojie needed help, she didn't come forward to redeem or spend money to help. As Jia's eldest sister-in-law, it is really selfish to watch her brother, sister and niece suffer, but she is indifferent and just takes care of Jia Lan's growth and education. How can we save the family from ruin when the gold and silver are gone and come back? But Li Wan made up her mind not to ask others about waste and prosperity. As a result, the Jia family tree fell apart and everyone was looking for a way out.
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How is Li Wan's property preserved? This seems a bit puzzling, because since everyone's property has been seized and looted, how much money has Li Wan saved and turned it over to the state treasury? In chapter 13, Qin Keqing sealed the dragon and forbade Wang Xifeng to assist Ning. When Qin Keqing died, she had a dream for search and told her that Jia Fu would soon fall, and what to do after the fall. Qin Shihuang had an important explanation. Qin Shihuang said: "Although my ancestors sacrificed at four o'clock, they just didn't have a certain amount of money;" Second, although home schools have been established, there is no certain supply. Personally, there is no shortage of sacrifices and supplies in today's prosperity, but when it declines in the future, where will these two things come from? In my opinion, Mo Ruo will use today's wealth to build more granges, houses and fields near his ancestral home in order to prepare for the sacrifice. All the supply costs come from here, and his school is also located here. Contract family, all ages eat, made a rule, in the future according to the house in charge of this year's land, money, food, sacrifices, for. There is no competition in this way, and there are no disadvantages in sales. Even if you are guilty, you can enter the official. This sacrificial industry does not even enter the official. It was defeated, and the descendants went home to study and farm, and there were setbacks. The sacrifice was sustainable. It is not a long-term solution to think that today's glory is endless without thinking about the future. There is another very happy event recently. It is really full of fire and flowers. You know, it was just a moment of prosperity and joy. Don't forget the phrase' a feast must end'. " If we don't worry about the future now, we will regret it in the end. "
This passage is a way for Qin Keqing to teach Wang Xifeng to avoid disaster. From what Qin Keqing said earlier, we can know that Jia Fu is doomed, but the disaster is inevitable, so we can only cope. How to deal with it? Qin Keqing spoke very carefully, but it's a pity that Wang Xifeng didn't listen. She just watched the cooking oil boom of the fire. Qin's method is to put more granges, houses and acres of land near Zuyi, that is, if you are guilty, you can enter the official position. This is a sacrificial industry, and even officials are not allowed to enter. It was defeated, and the descendants went home to study and farm, and there were setbacks. The sacrifice was sustainable.
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Therefore, as long as you buy more granges, houses and acres of land near your ancestors, you will be guilty, and the sacrificial industry will have to be preserved. This is the way Li Wan uses it. But this is what Qin Keqing told Wang Xifeng in a dream. Even Wang Xifeng herself didn't take it seriously and left it behind. Why did Li Wan do this? If you look back at chapter 56, when Min Tanchun promoted the advantages and eliminated the disadvantages, Baochai probably explained what to do with the money earned after the contract of Daguan Garden was divided. According to the book, Pinger said with a smile, "Although these cases are small, let's count them once a year, saving 420 silver." Baochai said with a smile, "Here we go again. One year in 400 yuan, two years in 820 yuan. We can also buy a few rented houses and add a few acres of thin land. Although there are some left, they have worked hard for a year and have to be told to leave some glue to repair their home. Although it is the key link to promote profits and save money, it should not be too stingy. Even if we save two or three hundred dollars, we will lose the system, which is outrageous. Therefore, in this line of work, it is not difficult to spend four or five hundred dollars a year in the foreign house, but they have to make up for it.
The discussion on promoting advantages and eliminating disadvantages was conducted among Li Wan, Baochai and Tanchun, but it was Baochai and Tanchun who gave advice. Li Wan doesn't know, but she is a real abacus person, so the speaker here is interested and the listener is interested. Although Li Wan just listened, she recognized her heart and inspired her. In the past, she could only save money. Now, when she saw this good idea, she began to buy a house on land. With Li Wan's caution, she will not fail to consider where to land. As I said before, Li Wan has a sense of hardship. Although she earns a lot of money every year, she scrimps and saves and refuses to spend more. Actually, it's anxiety. Although she is a piece of wood and her eyes are not blind, how can she not worry when she sees all kinds of troubles inside and outside the Jia family? So Li Wan must have bought a lot of land near Zuzuo. No matter who commits a crime in the future, it won't hurt her head. This is the cleverness of Li Wan. This is also the reason why Li Wan's property can be preserved.
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Although Li Wan kept her and Jia Lan's small home, it was painful for her to see everyone defeated and displaced. However, Li Wan, who has been educated by three obedience and four virtues for many years, regards raising weak children and achieving fame as a top priority and thinks that this is the duty of being a widow. Everyone else has their own destiny, which is beyond her control. In fact, there is nothing wrong with this idea. Although it was not the idea of doing good, it was difficult for Li Wan to take care of others at that time. After all, she is a widow and has no other income to support her children. In feudal society, a widow can't make money in public, so Li Wan's future is also confused. Besides, everyone's destiny is made by himself. Think about it, too. When he is rich, he enjoys all the splendor, but he completely ignores the future trouble. When Wang Xifeng collected money, did she ever think about sharing it with Li Wan? Qin Keqing's dream told her that it was completely ignored. She just wants to collect money everywhere under Jia Lian's signboard, and how many evils she has done. She thinks she can dominate the world and run amok. Who knows that the day of liquidation finally came, and when this day came, Wang Xifeng was completely unprepared. She only wanted to use silver to lend usury and refused to use glistening silver to land, but in the end she handed over all the money she had accumulated. Besides, Xifeng forgot Qin Keqing's entrustment. More likely, she is more willing to save money than buy real estate, considering that she will eventually return to Jia She. So she deliberately ignored Qin Keqing's entrustment, and after she thought enough, she handed over the task of buying real estate to Baoyu's wife. She gained both benefits and a good reputation for advice. It's a pity that people are not as good as heaven. Before this day, Jia Fu was defeated.
Although Baoyu and Baochai are both brothers and sisters cherished by Li Wan, they have gone from enjoying all the splendor to having no food, no clothes to keep out the cold and no food. However, they are adults, and it is their destiny to be poor at the moment. If we help them, the money saved by Li Wan may not support Jia Lan to grow up and become famous. Therefore, Li Wan does not provide relief.
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Having said that, it is understandable that Li Wan does not help the poor, but it is unreasonable not to help the poor. In life, although it is very important to achieve fame and fortune, although it is very important to raise orphans, there are still many things out of human nature, and we should not lose our conscience because of our selfishness. Wang Xifeng is guilty, but what is Qiaojie's crime? After all, she was born to irresponsible parents. She is also Jia Lan's cousin. She is a simple young girl. She also has the right to live, just like Jia Lan. Li Wan's attitude of not giving relief at all is too absolute, too cold and too inhuman. For a poor child like Qiaojie, as a village woman, Granny Liu still can't bear to ignore it. For an old master like Baochai Baoyu, Xiren, who was sold to his master, still served Jiang Yuhan wholeheartedly. Will these people live better than Li Wan, who has saved money for many years and bought many properties? Not necessarily, but they still have humanity. They know the affection and warmth of affection, and Li Wan, after years of widowed career, has lost humanity.
However, who can blame Li Wan for being unreasonable? It is this society that made her. When she was young and widowed, people asked her to abstain from sex. Avoid 10 thousand things, just take care of your son's sister-in-law At that time, people did not think that she should be human, but hoped that she was a panting wood and a shriveled mummy. Her happiness, her needs, who cares Everyone thinks it's her destiny. Let her live only for Jalan for so many years. Now Jia Fu is in decline, but I hope she can quickly restore her humanity, stop living for Jia Lan and become a kind and caring person. How difficult it is! Li Wan's heart is long gone. With the shackles of feudal ethics and the persecution of feudal families, Li Wan was no longer lonely. It's really hard to ask her to be a man now.
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Therefore, everything in the world has a cause and effect, not suddenly formed. Li Wan is hateful, but isn't it more hateful to turn her into such a society? As early as that year, when Jia Baoyu accompanied Jia Zheng to visit the Grand View Garden, he commented on the comparison between Daoxiang Village and Youfenglaiyi (Xiaoxiang Pavilion), criticizing the suppression and persecution of human nature in feudal society, replacing nature with human beings, and making flowers wither in early spring. Now that the wind and rain are coming, it is wishful thinking to hope that the dried flowers will see the light again. How difficult it is! Li Wan is more sympathetic and pitiful than hateful.