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Talking about the Concubine Gao in "Strategy of Yanxi Palace", our first impression of her is nothing more than two points:
is strong and stupid.
Let's talk about the first point first: strong. From the moment
appeared on the stage, Concubine Gao looked like an invincible one. He was lifted by eight people on the sedan chair, and for a while he glanced at him. When
saw the queen, he was not polite and looked reluctant. Speaking of show girls, the queen said that show girls do not pay attention to appearance but more to character. She wants to say that if you choose something crooked, it will affect the appearance of the emperor. In front of the queen, such words and deeds are really a bit shameless.
As for the other harem sisters, she is even more arrogant and does not leave any affection. In order to save Yu-bi, Yi-bi offended her, so she let her subordinates slap Yi-bi in public, making Yi-bi unbearable and hanged herself. Treating pure concubine and xian concubine is often cynicism.
As for Gao Guifei's "stupid", it is mainly manifested in two aspects:
is in Gongdou, Gao Guifei is not smart enough. She didn't beat the pure concubine, the concubine Xian and Yingluo at all, and Jiabi had been giving her advice along the way. However, if the ranks of Jiabin are not enough, it is often the result of insufficient success and more failure. After Jiabi's death, Concubine Gao was soon framed by the pure concubine with the fifth elder brother, which led to her being imprisoned. Z3z
In terms of knowledge, compared to the erudition of other concubines such as the Queen, she often speaks crudely, giving people a feeling of ignorance and incomprehension. The emperor sent the harem palace training picture. She said that the emperor asked them to plant the land. The noble orchid picture, but she said it was all leeks.
Generally speaking, the early Gao Guifei is a savage and stupid person in the hearts of the audience.
However, as the plot progresses, the characters of Concubine Gao gradually become fuller and more three-dimensional. We slowly discover that the so-called arrogant, stupid and ignorant are actually fakes and are pretended by Concubine Gao.
As for the reason behind, it is also embarrassing.
02 Arrogance and domineering is a fragile protective color
was framed by the pure concubine, Gao Guifei was decadent all day long, and his father Gao Bin came to visit her.
Concubine Gao asked if his father looked down on herself and wanted to give up her chess piece. But her father accused her of not seeking to be motivated and lost the Gao family's face. He also threatened that without her, he still had two young and beautiful daughters in the palace.
Hearing this, Gao Guifei lost control of her emotions instantly: "I, Gao Ningxin, did not fall, and I will never fall."
From this father-daughter quarrel, it is not difficult to find that Gao Guifei is afraid of his father. She is useless and has no use value to the Gao family.
Psychologically, there is a kind of people who are often eager to prove their worth, that is, people with low self-esteem.
These people are sensitive and lack self-confidence. They often need the approval and affirmation of others to prove themselves. At the same time, the more they lack, the more they have to show what they have.
is like Gao Guifei, she is strong on the surface, but fragile and uneasy on the inside. She has always worried that she will not be recognized by her family or others, so she pretends to be an invincible look and creates the illusion that she is very powerful.
Some people may say, Gao Guifei is so inferior and vulnerable. In this regard, we can find the answer from her native family.
's mother died of her father's early years, and has not been buried in the Gao family. After the father remarried, she gave birth to several children. Since childhood, her father had no affection for her. After she became an adult, he even gave her as a chess piece to the emperor who was still the fourth elder brother.
The lack of parental love made Gao Guifei feel insecure since she was a child. Although resenting her father, driven by her sense of inferiority, she desperately wanted to prove her worth to the Gao family, as a revenge for not loving her, so that he could feel that she was wrong.
Gao Guifei uses toughness to make armor, striving for favor, and brushing up on her presence. Compared with the Hua Fei in "Zhen Huan's Biography", this kind of "dominant" is like a paper tiger.
So when her father said to find someone to replace her, she was hit at the heart of the shot, and no one yelled to replace her.
once read this sentence: There is a kind of strength, it is an uneasy bluff.
used this sentence to describe Gao Guifei.
's sense of inferiority made her pretend to be arrogant, but only sheI know that behind the strong is a fragility and anxiety that has no place to settle. When
03 pretended to be stupid just for the love of her heart, many viewers expressed their dismay when Gao Guifei went offline.
Compared with the disgust at the beginning, the audience has become more and more aware of this poor woman who seems stupid but is actually smarter than anyone else.
Her words are vulgar, but she just wants to be maverick, not like the pure concubines. For the elegant sentence like "Zhilan was born in a valley, it's not as if there are no one but it's not good", she can also open her mouth.
She is brave and insidious, but it does not mean that she does not understand the imperial checks and balances. She is very aware of the political ties between her family and the emperor. His father was in a prominent position and was a member of the E Party. The emperor was not at ease with both of them.
So she is willing to play stupid, not only to balance the relationship between the two, but also to dispel the emperor's concerns and get the emperor's care and favor. In the eyes of Concubine Gao, love is far greater than family interests.
She clearly knows that she has a family mission, but she has never said a good word to the Gao family in front of the emperor;
she knows that the emperor is jealous of her, and she is near and far away, but in her eyes, the emperor is still the best ; Z3z
She obviously wanted the emperor to bury her dead mother, but she understood the emperor’s inability to deal with the family affairs of his courtiers, and she was willing to say it until she was about to die.
All of this is because of a love letter.
includes opposing the queen, but also because the queen gave all his tenderness and affection to the queen. But that warmth was something she couldn't get no matter how hard she worked in this life.
Gao Guifei really loves the emperor miserably. Sadly, this sincere feeling has not received the response it should have. The emperor
should be the only person in the play who sees through the nature of the concubine Gao. He knew her bluff, and knew her pretending to be stupid. The only thing that the emperor did not see through was the innocent heart of Concubine Gao Gui.
So when Concubine Gao was seriously injured and died, he told Concubine Gao that the two of them could start anew regardless of the previous suspicion. However, it was too late. In order to preserve the beautiful image in the heart of the emperor, Concubine Gao chose to end her life by suicide. Before she died, she thought in her heart the emperor who would never see each other again.
There has never been a real fool in this world, some are just foolish people who play stupid voluntarily for love.
Concubine Gao Gui was foolish for love for half her life, but she could not die well. This ending of
may be the fate of most of the women in the palace at that time.
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Looking back at Gao Guifei's half life, she has been fettered by two forces.
is the Gao family and the emperor.
She wants to be a useful daughter in the eyes of her father, and a concubine in the eyes of the emperor who has no offensive power and no threat.
But in the end, she only forgot how to be herself. As she said in the play:
"In the eyes of the Gao family, she is the emperor's chess piece. In the eyes of the emperor, she is a tool for the Gao family to flatter. After a long time, even I don't know who I am anymore."
In this life, the most painful thing is not being able to be yourself.
Instead of losing one's own nature in order to win the attention of others, it is better to learn to accept who you are.
If Concubine Gao can reconcile with the past, reconcile with her own inner stubbornness from the beginning, she will not be someone's daughter or concubine, but Gao Ningxin. Perhaps her ending will be very different.
Life is short, and I hope we can live out ourselves in the most authentic posture and live irreplaceable.
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Author: July, Tang little writing class students write v fleeting, for the living, but also for poetry and distant.
