How difficult it was in ancient times to be a good person but still want to be a wife.
With the ending of " Meng Hua Lu ", the story of the heroine Zhao Pan'er has also been talked about. Compared with the original work " Save Fengchen", the adaptation of "Menghualu" is indeed larger. Zhou She's role is gone, and Song Yinzhang has become Zhao Paner's foil. The original vision was limited to brothel singers and local stories, but expanded to a higher level of political struggle. Every experience of Zhao Pan'er is connected with political and other major events, shaping the heroine's character more thoroughly. It allowed us to see a brand new heroine, and at the end, it also gave Zhao Paner, Song Yinzhang and other women a satisfactory ending.
But is this ending realistic? In fact, it is far from the actual situation. As a humble and upright woman, Zhao Pan'er was right to pursue her own happiness, but in the end, marrying a loyal minister like Gu Qianfan would be too idealistic. Why do you say that?
1. People with low status, the bottom of society
First of all, Zhao Pan'er's identity. Zhao Pan'er was originally from an official family, but because his father was impeached and convicted, Zhao Pan'er was implicated and was demoted low status , and his status was low.
In fact, the humble class also belonged to a special social class in ancient times. In the feudal society era, the four major classes of scholars, farmers, industry and commerce were the legal social classes. The class attributes of the humble are actually similar to those of slaves, but compared to the feudal society era, the status of the humble is still much stronger than that of slaves.
However, people with lowly status have the lowest status. The lowly status is passed down from generation to generation and cannot be changed. They are not allowed to take part in the imperial examinations, cannot be officials, are not allowed to purchase land and property, cannot marry ordinary people, and engage in what is called "lowly industry" in the society at that time, and they will never be able to turn over. . From this point of view, once you fall into a lowly status, it will affect not only the current generation, but all future generations.
Many people feel that ancient times lacked means of information exchange and household registration management was not strict. On the contrary, the ancient household registration management system is more strict. The number of people, circulation, etc. between various places are all clearly established by the government. In addition, the living space in ancient times was small. Even if you managed to escape the government's jurisdiction, you would have nowhere to go. If you crawled into the mountains and forests, it would be no different from committing suicide. Therefore, even if he is demoted to a lowly status, he can only accept it.
In the Song Dynasty, it was not true that there were no people who married singing prostitutes or people from music families. For example, Su Shi 's concubine Dynasty Cloud was West Lake a famous prostitute. She was loved by Su Shi and took her as a concubine. Moreover, Su Shi was very good to Wang Chaoyun and loved him extremely, but he never corrected him. Su Shi's two wives, Wang Fu and Wang Runzhi, were both daughters of scholar-bureaucrat families and had noble status.
In ancient times, birth was extremely important. When men and women got married, they had to be from the same family, and their status and class were different. It was extremely difficult to get married, and they would be ridiculed by everyone. And the ancient government would also interfere with this behavior.
The humble status began in the feudal dynasty and was not completely abolished until the Yongzheng period.
2. It is not easy for a person from a humble background to be good.
People from a humble background may have a low status, but they are not without outstanding people. For example, Liu Rushi in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties, when the Qing army went south, he wanted to die to express his ambition, but was stopped by Qian Qianyi.
Then there is Queen Zhang Xianmingsu Liu E who is known as Song Dynasty Lu Pheasant.
Although she was a queen, Liu E was also a singer and songwriter, so Liu E had no choice but to fall into this position.
Liu E is a standard official family, grandfather Liu Yanqing was the general of You Xiaowei in Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms Later Jin , Later Han , and his father Liu Tong was the commander of Hu Jiedu in Song Taizu make. But bad luck didn't work out. Not long after Liu E was born, her parents died and she became an orphan. When she grew up, she was forced to make a living as a singing prostitute.
Therefore, compared with Zhao Paner in "Menghua Lu", Liu E was not demoted to a lowly status by the government, nor did she break away from the upper class, but such social experience also made Liu E suffer a lot.At that time, Emperor Zhenzong of the Song Dynasty wanted to appoint Liu E as his queen, but he was strongly opposed by the ministers, who made a big fuss about Liu E's experience as a singing prostitute.
It can be seen that in the Song Dynasty, when the number of literati and officials was increasing, it was very difficult for a lowly person to marry as a real wife. This situation is very common. It is a romantic affair for scholar-bureaucrats to go to brothels and taverns, but if they want to marry a brothel girl, it is immoral.
Therefore, in "Menghua Lu", it is actually very difficult for Zhao Pan'er to become the main wife. This is just the idealization of the screenwriter.
