The female images in Water Margin can be divided into three categories:
1, the three "heroines" in Liangshan, with the highest number of days and the lowest number of places: Sun Erniang, Gu Dasao and Hu Sanniang;
2. In the second category, four prostitutes impressed readers deeply: Erpan, Yan Poxi and Mrs. Jia written by Lu Junyi;
3. The Water Margin describes a chaste lady: Lin Niangzi. In addition, there are some characters, such as two old women, one is Yan Poxi's mother Yan Po and the other is Wang Po, who is ugly. ?
The proprietress of Sun Erniang joint shop opened a pork bun shop on the cross slope of Mengzhou Road, nicknamed bitch. Her "bitch" image is "wearing a bright red silk skirt, with rouge and lead powder on her face, her chest open, revealing the main waist of pink yarn with a gold button on it" and "fierce eyebrows and eyes." The relationship between Hag and her husband is just the opposite. Her husband is not as good at martial arts as her, and this shop is not named Zhang, but Sun. Why? Sun Erniang's black shop is ancestral. Her father's name is Sun Yuan. He is a senior in the Jianghu and is also famous in the green forest. This image and her behavior are probably hard for us to accept. What Song Wu saw in his eyes was "several skins hanging on the wall and several legs hanging on the beam". Is this a hero? Is it a peasant uprising? I'm afraid any dynasty, whether ancient or modern, should be investigated by law. After all, Sun Erniang is a woman who knows the underworld. ?
Among the three heroines in Liangshan, Hu Sanniang impressed readers the most. Because Hu Sanniang is beautiful, beautiful and brave, but she is a very unsuccessful literary image. No matter how heroic Hu Sanniang is in Water Margin, as a character image and an artistic image, she is thin and has no personality. Marrying Wang was a great misfortune in her life, and finally she died. From this we can see the author's contempt for women. She is just a concept, a symbol. Stupid beauty. This symbol is: it can be used for fighting, beautiful and beautiful.
Pan Jinlian is one of the successful characters in the novel. Coupled with the emergence of "Jin Ping Mei", Pan Jinlian became a typical and synonymous with "adulteress". In fact, this is unfair. Pan Jinlian was originally a quiet woman who wanted to live a quiet life. Pan Jinlian is an ambitious woman. From living in harmony with Wu Da to finally poisoning her husband, Pan Jinlian has gradually degenerated.
Pan Jinlian experienced a gradual decline. At first, she still pursued something and had some independent ideas. Zhang is drooling over her. She could have got a concubine, but she didn't. She was retaliated by the rich man for marrying Wu Dalang, a "three-inch golden man" and a "grain bark", and "a good piece of mutton fell in the dog's mouth" (that is, "a flower stuck in cow dung" as now said). Dissatisfied, egged on by outsiders, he stepped into the abyss step by step. In the middle, she also described her pursuit, saw Song Wu, and was rejected by Song Wu. In Pan Jinlian's view, it should be said that desire is greater than morality. She has no moral values. Of course, I gave birth to a servant girl and probably didn't know a few words. She has no knowledge. Perhaps the natural attribute is higher than her social attribute, and instinct overwhelms reason, so she went to ruin.
A wonderful literary novel in Water Margin is about the wife of Song Wu in 23 times.
Jin Sheng sighed: Anyone who called "uncle" thirty-nine times suddenly changed the word to "you", which is really heartbreaking!
Jin Shengtan's comments: The first article wrote that Wu Er met a tiger, which really shook the mountain and made people stand on end; A sudden visit to this article is about the encounter between Wu Er and his sister-in-law. It's really a hundred flowers blooming, which makes people's hearts flutter.
Why are these female images shaped and arranged in Water Margin? Why is the author's view of women so backward? Why are Liangshan heroes "not close to women"?
First, The Water Margin, like The Romance of the Three Kingdoms, is about men's world, which is basically "male literature". Fighting in the north is a man's business, and women have no share. However, in order to highlight the true nature of the male protagonist who is not close to women (such as Song Wu), it is necessary to have lecherous women as foil (such as Pan Jinlian); In addition, in order to attract listeners and readers, novels evolved from scripts have to be accompanied by some "dirty materials" to meet the tastes of ordinary people.
Second, the patriarchal culture in traditional culture and the projection of "female disaster theory". Pan Jinlian's lewdness is terrible. Why does our culture portray Pan Jinlian as an unreasonable evil woman and a dissolute woman? In the final analysis, male writers are afraid that their desires will be projected on women. So this kind of woman with desire is particularly terrible. She doesn't have a happy ending, so her fate ending is a moral concept for writers to work here. It is a woman with desire, especially a woman who wants to control her desire. Our culture will sentence her to death. Warn women in real life that you'd better be docile and go back to be a good wife and mother.
Third, it is the "concept of rivers and lakes." "Water Margin" describes the story of green forests in rivers and lakes. Then, the principles and their ideas in the rivers and lakes green forest are different from ordinary people in the general society, and they are a concept of strongman. For example, killing people, stealing goods and opening a black shop are actually gangs. Why do tramps despise women so much? Because rivers and lakes have their own rules, they are all fugitives, gathering mountains to rob their homes. They think women's wives and children are a burden. Physiological needs can be caught temporarily. So there are many descriptions in Water Margin. The bully robbed Mrs Zhai and Wang and did the same thing. The so-called Mrs. Zhazhai is not a real "lady", but actually a sexual tool. If the officers and men come to suppress it, all the women in this fortress will be killed by their own men, or they will die as the families of bandits after being captured.
History can prove that, for example, Li Zicheng and Zhang have done similar things. In the 12th year of Chongzhen, Li Zicheng was defeated by Tongguan Garden and fled to Shangluo Mountain. At that time, he felt that he was at the end of the road and wanted to commit suicide several times. His adopted son Li Shuangxi dissuaded him, and his general Liu Zongmin killed his two wives when he went back to help Li Zicheng make a comeback. Then some other strong men, Li Zicheng's best friends, went back to kill their wives when they saw General Liu Zongmin doing such a thing. In fact, these wives are all Mrs. Zhazhai, and they are all plundered women. After killing him, he said that he would fight the court again. Li Zicheng made a comeback like this. This concept regards women as a burden, as objects, and puts them to death like burning huts. Those women have no status. You can see the author of Water Margin here. He is also such a mentality, looking down on women, treating women like dirt and insects like ants.
Fourth, it is the need of plot development. For example, the appearance of Hu Sanniang and the plot of Wang Douhu Sanniang are all related to the plot that Song Jiang wants to find a wife for Wang in 3 1. Pan Jinlian's entanglement with Wu Da, Song Wu and Ximen Qing is an inevitable process for Song Wu to enter Liangshan.
Fifth, the wrong concept of "health preservation" is at work. For example, Chao Gai is a rich man, rich, honest in Dongxi Village, generous in aiding needy people and making friends with heroes all over the world. Song Jiang's appearance age in the book is about 34 or 5 years old. When meeting with Classical, he said that Classical's brother was ten years old and Classical was in his forties. In novels, I write classical novels, but I don't marry. I just like to make a good gun and exercise my muscles all day. In other words, these greenwood people at that time thought that practicing martial arts and getting close to women were contradictory. This is an ancient health preserving theory of China. The ancients believed that martial arts should first preserve people's innate vitality. Therefore, despising women is also a matter of interest. ?