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"Geng Lou Zi" by Wen Tingyun

The willow branches are long, the spring rain is fine. The sound of flowers leaking out is far away. It startles the geese in the frontier and wakes up the crows in the city. There are golden partridges on the painting screen.

The thin fragrant mist penetrates the curtains. I am melancholy in Xie's pool pavilion. The red candle is behind me, the embroidered curtain is hanging. I dream of a long time, but you don't know.

"Golden partridge on the painted screen" is a line from the lyrics of Wen Feiqing. Wang Guowei commented on Wen Feiqing's works, saying: "Golden partridge on the painted screen" is Feiqing's line, and his lyrics are similar to it."

This means that Wen Tingyun's poems, though beautiful, lack vitality. "Golden partridge on the painting screen" - the partridge embroidered with gold and silver threads on the painting screen is extremely gorgeous, but it is difficult to spread its wings and fly. It looks good, but at the cost of losing the ability to fly.

In a half-forced, half-voluntary situation, Lu Qin lived a life close to that of a "golden partridge in a painted vase".

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1. The story of "Butterfly"

Can Lü Qin become Zhu Yingtai?

Can she become a butterfly flying freely in the sky?

Maybe it was possible once.

But she is not Zhu Yingtai after all. She is brave but not brave enough, and she succumbs to fate but feels unwilling to do so.

It's twisted, but I think this is the reality. After all, the reason why "Liang Zhu" can be sung for so many years is because most women in the world can't become "Zhu Yingtai".

The butterfly in the cage was suddenly released. It forgot that the string of the Lu family was still tied to its feet. It thought it was free. So it fell in love happily. It was so happy that it flew with another butterfly, imagining a better life in the future...

Later, the family took back the thread, the butterfly was pulled back, and finally it was embroidered on the screen.

The family gave this screen to a cat. The cat likes this gift very much. It often teases the butterfly. After some fun, the cat discovered that the beautiful butterfly on the screen can move. This quiet and beautiful butterfly is not as it seems... Over time, this beautiful butterfly has become its own cat teaser, at least that's what the cat thinks.

Maybe Butterfly will slowly fall in love with this playful cat on days like this.

Who knows?

2. Does being well matched mean being equal?

The first question: Is today's society a patriarchal society? My answer is - of course.

Many men may say: "No!!" - There are so many women in this world who are richer than me, so many women who are more educated than me, and so many women who have a higher social status than me... How can we say that this society is still a patriarchal society? I will not answer this question. If you don't understand, then think about it again.

Second question: In terms of social structure, are women the weaker sex? Generally speaking, women are of course the weaker sex.

People are shaped by society.

Therefore, Lv Qin's two escapes from the family were both based on dependence on another man, one was a spiritual dependence (Yan), and the other was a practical dependence (Wu).

Okay, the third question based on the above two questions: Wuqin is well-matched, but does being well-matched mean being equal?

At first glance, the young master and the young lady from a noble family seem to be equal. But in fact, they are not at all.

I'll just talk about love and sex. Young masters like Wu and Naoya have abundant sexual resources. Theoretically, the maids and girls from the branch families can all become their sexual objects. They can violate these women without being punished by the law or family rules.

Is Lü Qin the same? Feng Xingtong said that Lü Qin is the "apple in the palm" of Lü Ci, the Tenth Lord. The funny thing is that this pearl doesn't even have the freedom to fall in love.

An excellent man is the family's "treasure" and the heir. What about an excellent woman? She graduated from a prestigious school, she is beautiful, she is even very talented...but she is still an "exchangeable good" with the nature of a commodity.

Some things are not written in the text, but you can guess. For example, the ex-boyfriend was only beaten and his memory was deleted, and Lu Ci and the Lu family received no subsequent punishment at all.

Why? Is Lu Ci so kind?

Not really. Because Lu Ci knew that this young man did not destroy Lu Qin's "commodity value" (you know what I mean).

Lu Ci must have known that Lu Qin was in love. His control over Lu Qin was beyond Lu Qin's imagination, so Lu Qin booked a flight ticket in the afternoon, and Lu Ci could catch her at the airport in the evening.

If it was just a simple romance for fun, Lu Ci could still tolerate it and thought it didn't matter much. As long as it was his first time, he could still sell this "commodity" at a high price.

So, with all the material conditions so abundant, why is Lü Qin still dissatisfied? Because people need dignity, because people have self-respect.

? 3. Is the heroine Lu Qin stupid?

Some readers in the comment section said that the heroine is stupid.

Is she stupid? She is not stupid.

First of all, she actually uses her advantages. She is a woman who takes advantage of the rules of a patriarchal society.

It's just that she didn't play by the rules. She lacked some social experience, but her relatively closed living environment didn't allow her to grow. Her parents' family and her husband's family both temporarily refused her true growth in the name of "protecting her".

Secondly, she is actually very clear about her situation.

She only disobeyed Lu Ci once, and in other cases, she was always obedient to Lu Ci. Even her daughter Xing knew about this kind of obedience: "When mom meets Grandpa, it's like a mouse meeting a cat." Because Lu Ci is the person in power in the Lu family and her strongest backing in her husband's family. She was afraid of Lu Ci and hated Lu Ci, but habitually obeyed Lu Ci. And her behavior of confronting her father just shows that she has a clear understanding of her own and others' positioning. She knows that her father Lu An is nothing in Lu Ci's eyes, just a useless grandson. If Lu Ci is asked to choose, whether to save her grandson Lu An or her great-granddaughter Lu Qin, there is no need to think, Lu Ci will definitely choose Lu Qin.

Let’s look at her husband’s family. For example, in her and Wu’s sexual life, she almost never refuses her husband. Even if she is not too happy, she will compromise and put satisfying her husband first. Because she knows that this is an obligation, she knows that the source of her power in this family is her husband, he is her boss, and everything should be based on him first. And the usual small quarrels are all fun. The daughter Gojo An said, "Dad likes to make Mom angry" - this is the innocent perspective of a typical child, and this is actually the parents flirting. Here, even the daughter is part of their play.

Of course, she also has her moments of confusion, and when she gets emotional, she loses control. She confronts her husband head-on for some reason, which is actually a manifestation of her immaturity.

The biggest problem of Lu Qin is not that she is "stupid", but that she has no social experience and is immature. This immaturity makes her look "stupid".

How can we tell that she has no social experience?

(1) To elope.

This is completely a child's escapist thinking.

Did she really understand the extent of Lu Ci's control over her? Lu Gong knew that she was in love in college and could even accurately name the man. But Lu Gong was not really in the decision-making circle or core of the Lu family. What about Lu Ci? How much did he know?

(2) Advise your classmates not to drink alcohol.

Did Tanaka Mie say she didn't want to drink the wine? This shows that Lu Qin doesn't understand the Japanese workplace at all.

She may think that since she also works, Meihui should be the same as her. She thinks that her working state is normal. In fact, her "working state" is too abnormal.

Haha, what kind of job can allow her to take a month off casually? What kind of job can completely avoid overtime? Do people open companies for charity? Of course not. Lv Qin can do this because she is not an employee of the company at all. She is the company's cash cow. The salary that the editorial department translation agency pays Lv Qin every month is probably not as much as the change that Gojo Satoru pays the translation agency every month. To put it bluntly, her superiors and colleagues are just playing along with her to make her feel that she is working a "normal" job.

(3) An overly high sense of morality.

"Get rid of your student spirit, increase your aggressiveness, integrate into this dirty society from the bottom of your heart, and let the mud come more violently. You have to fight back against this society. Do you want to succeed? I will help you. ... The more heartless you are, the faster you will be promoted. You have to hit others mercilessly and make them afraid of you." This is what Bausset said to Rastignac.

————Balzac's "Old Goriot"

Lu Qin actually has a strong sense of morality based on her school education. She resists using the Soul-Brightening Technique and basically won't use it on her own initiative. She is unwilling to use the Soul-Brightening Technique on those who have no ill will towards her, such as Zhang Chulan. The same is true for Gojo Rin. She even calls her use of the Soul-Brightening Technique on Rin "offensive."

Her "college-style moral sense" allows her to blend in well with ordinary people, and she doesn't think she's superior to others just because she has special abilities. But it also makes her unaware of the troubles and dangers that may be lurking around her.

In fact, with her talent of "Minghunjutsu" (double-handed), she can stir up trouble as a bad person. After all, she can delete and change her memory after doing bad things. She is the kind of person who kills your whole family, and you still "be friends" with her the next day and thank her. That's Voldemort. Not to mention anything else, just controlling Gojo Satoru is enough for her to do, which is why Xiayou Jie thinks it is dangerous for the Gojo family to keep her next to Satoru.

But what about her? She has a strong sense of morality. She even feels guilty about her "invisible cheating". She is actually in great pain in the tug of war between the two men.

It is shown in Chapter 11: Every time this happens, she feels that her soul and body are separated. Her soul has not forgotten her former lover, but her current body is enjoying the pleasure brought to her by her husband. This reminds her of the words of He Shuhuan, the male protagonist in the bloody Qiong Yao drama "Love in the Rain" that she watched in her previous life: "I am not the only man in the world who is moved by two women." Thinking of this, she couldn't help but laugh at herself.

She thought that falling in love with two men was immoral, so she felt guilty and uncomfortable.

This article is the first chapter in the character analysis series. I hope you like it.