"The Gong'e's Resentment" is a chapter-style novel, describing the Jiajing emperor of the Ming Dynasty who followed the old feudal dynasty rules and had thousands of maids in his harem. These young girls lived like slaves year after month in the gloomy Forbidden City miserable life.
They were young and beautiful, and originally full of beautiful yearnings for life and love. However, the sinful feudal system represented by the emperor ruthlessly killed their human feelings and humanity, causing their bodies and souls to be brutally tortured and tortured. torture. Yang Jinying and other ten maids, who could not bear it, rose up to resist, and on a dark night, they wanted to strangle the emperor...
The novel is written in the chapter-turn style, with popular text, twists and turns of the plot, and a strong sense of intrigue. readability. Readers can learn the inside story of the sinful life in the palace of feudal society.
1. Content: Yang Jinying and "The Change of Renyin Palace"
"Gong'e's Resent" mainly talks about "The Change of Renyin Palace", and the ending of the story is this palace change.
To be more detailed, the novel talks about the background and reasons for the "Renyin Palace Incident": During the reign of Emperor Jiajing of the Ming Dynasty , the people were in dire straits, and the women in the harem were living in dire straits. The 10 palace ladies had no choice but to choose They attacked Jiajing but failed.
The history books of the Ming Dynasty regard the emperor as the most respected person. Yang Jinying, as a "heinous" and "treasonous" person, is naturally a villain, and the secrets of the palace are not enough for outsiders, so the history books only record the process of the "Renyin Palace Incident" , processing results, there is no mention of the faults of Emperor Jiajing and why Yang Jinying and others took the risk to attack Jiajing. Today, people can only speculate on the possible reasons through historical data.
"Gong'e's Resentment" is based on the simple records of the "Renyin Palace Incident" in historical books, adapted and fictionalized to form this novel. It focuses on Yang Jinying and focuses on why she and other palace maids did what they did in the end. choice.
The novel takes Yang Jinying as the protagonist, and writes about her growth experience and harem life during the Jiajing period from her perspective.
Yang Jinying was a miserable person. When she was less than 3 months old, her mother was selected to be a nurse in the palace. When she was 12 years old, both her father and grandmother died under the harsh rule, and she was tricked into entering the palace.
At the beginning, I thought she would meet her mother after entering the palace, but she did not. It can only be explained that her mother had already died in the palace, which further illustrates the horror of the palace.
Her experience in the palace was relatively simple: she first entered the palace and was punished as a coolie. Later, due to Yan Bin's conspiracy, she was transferred to Yan Bin's side and met Yan Bin's eldest maid Cao Ziying. Cao Ziying became Cao Duanfei , she became Concubine Cao Duan's eldest maid.
Yang Jinying was originally a lively and free-spirited person. She contradicted Jiajing when she first met him. Later, she stayed in the palace for a long time and was constrained by palace rules. She was forced to look up to others and be cautious in her words and deeds.
But around Concubine Cao Duan, because she and Concubine Cao Duan were sisters, her nature was released and she often contradicted Jiajing. Yang Jinying is just one of the palace ladies in the huge harem of Jiajing. Through her, we can see the fate of countless palace ladies.
The novel touches upon countless harsh policies of the Jiajing Dynasty. The most impressive one is Tao Zhongwen "Innate Red Lead" - a human tragedy caused by using virgins as medicine.
These virgins were selected into the palace and had a worse fate than ordinary palace maids. Among the palace maids who murdered Jiajing, Liu Miaolian and Yao Shucui were both drug-induced virgins. It wouldn't be a tragedy if these virgins just gave up their menstrual period, but once they entered the palace, they were bullied by the eunuchs and stable women. They were beaten or scolded by them, and the way they took the "medicine" was also very rough. What Liu Miaolian saw was "the miserable situation of every medicine girl riding a bottle between the legs and intubating a tube."
Therefore, the name of the novel is "Gong'e's Resentment", and it focuses on describing the tragic fate of the palace ladies.
2. Theme: Female competition is unnecessary, and hugging together for warmth is not worth the imperial power
In the Jiajing harem, women can be roughly divided into three levels: queen, concubine, and maid.
The maids want to be concubines, the concubines want to be queens, and the queens want to stabilize their status. For every woman to achieve her wishes, there is a prerequisite, which is to be favored by Jiajing.
Therefore, becoming a queen does not necessarily mean you will have the last laugh. Jiajing's preferences and the rivalry of concubines and maids can make the queen fall off the throne.
The novel writes about the three queens of Jiajing. These three queens were all in a huge mental internal friction:
In their hearts, they were extremely jealous of their concubines being favored (this is actually a very normal human feeling), and they themselves Also, she must carry her status as a queen and not show jealousy or invite favors - the throne of the queen is both an honor and a shackle.
Neither of the first two queens had a happy ending: Empress Chen was jealous of Concubine Zhang Shun, and was so frightened by Jiajing that she had a miscarriage and died. Concubine Zhang Shun became the queen, and Empress Zhang jumped into the trap set by Wei Bin and was thrown into the cold palace and died in the cold palace - - In one sentence, Queen Zhang defeated Queen Chen and was defeated by Wei Bin.
At the end of the story, Queen Fang successfully attacked Concubine Cao Duan, but after Concubine Cao Duan, would Jiajing no longer have a favorite concubine?
These harem masters are already like this, and the lives of the palace ladies lower than them are even more miserable. The master was happy and asked the palace maid to bark like a chicken or a dog. When the master was unhappy, he beat or scolded the palace maid.
There was also female competition among the palace ladies. The beautiful palace ladies around Queen Zhang all wanted to be favored by Jiajing, and they were wary of each other, fearing that the other would be favored first and "upgrade". However, in the end, Queen Zhang was deposed and one of the palace ladies was taken over by Jiajing. He was killed, and the other maids followed him into the cold palace.
After such an experience, Su Chuanyao, the palace maid next to Queen Zhang, saw through it, and her initial expectations for Jiajing turned into resistance and rejection of Jiajing. There were countless concubines in the Jiajing harem, and this situation in Queen Zhang's palace was just a microcosm.
The characteristics of Jiajing in the novel are: superstitious about ghosts and gods, seeking immortality, lustful, pursuing personal pleasure to the extreme, mean and unkind, and moody.
We often say, "If you keep a dog for a long time, you will have feelings for it." This does not exist here in Jiajing.
He once liked Concubine Zhang Shun very much and raised his sword against Queen Chen for her to make her the queen. However, he also raised his sword against Queen Zhang amid the concubines' conspiracy and sent her into the cold palace without hesitation.
He once doted on Wei Bin, but Wei Bin had a conflict with his favorite Taoist priest , and he denounced Wei Bin.
There are many women who he favored once and then forgot about. In the novel, he wrote about Luo Nu and Zhang, the maid in the imperial kitchen. Luo Nu began to fantasize about being canonized because of that favor, and she became stupid. When Zhang was 14 years old, he was favored and suffered from gynecological diseases. Before his death, he left a bloody poem: "I have never seen the face of the king, so abandoning him is like losing my life."
In Jiajing's eyes, there is no difference between the queen, concubines and maids. If he is happy, he can turn the maids into concubines and the concubines into queens. If he is not happy, he can also depose the queen, demote the concubines and kill the maids.
It is not difficult for the women in the harem to make him happy for a while, but it is too difficult to make him happy all the time and keep liking him for a long time.
As mentioned before, in such a story, palace fighting is inevitable.
When Queen Zhang was there, both Yan and Wei regarded her as a target and tried hard to dislodge her, and eventually Queen Zhang was deposed. Empress Fang regarded Concubine Cao Duan as her enemy, attacked her overtly and covertly, and finally defeated Concubine Cao Duan.
But these "palace battles" are relatively "low-level", and they are nothing more than surrogacy, wall climbing, abortion, witchcraft, etc., and they cannot withstand scrutiny, because palace battles are not the focus.
Through these "palace fights", the author wants readers to understand that in Jiajing's harem, there is no need for women to fight around. The difference between the queen and the maids is only a hundred steps and fifty steps.
The first death Yang Jinying experienced personally was her father and grandmother. After entering the palace, the first death she experienced personally was that of her colleague Yue Qin who lived with her.
Yueqin's work as a coolie was originally the result of palace fighting. Yang Jinying watched Yueqin secretly have a tryst with the eunuch, and watched Yueqin commit suicide after her secret was discovered.
This incident actually caused a great psychological shadow on Yang Jinying, so much so that she kept "seeing" Yueqin in her future life.
When she arrived at Yan Bin's palace, she watched Yan Bin "give birth" to the prince and be loved by all. She also watched Yan Bin's tryst with the Taoist priest after the prince died in infancy, watched the sisters with whom they were close followed the queen into the cold palace, and looked at Yan Bin's side. Cao Ziying became Concubine Cao Duan - she had seen too many ups and downs in other people's lives.
Although she herself has always been an inferior palace maid, her job has changed a lot. When doing coolies, she was physically and mentally tired, but in the palace of the concubines, she was not tired physically and mentally. Under excessive depression, she She imagined another self - in today's terms, she had a schizophrenia.
At the end of the story, Yang Jinying and other poor palace maids who had been manipulated by fate all came to Concubine Cao Duan's palace. This arrangement was because Concubine Cao Duan was also a palace maid, and these palace maids huddled together for warmth and comfort each other.
However, their yearning for a better life was ruthlessly broken. Unable to bear it, they rose up to resist.
3. Artistry: imitation of "Red Mansions", with exciting plot, three-dimensional characters, and contagious language
"Gong'e's Resent" is about "Renyin Palace Incident", and the protagonist is Yang Jinying. Readers who have a little knowledge of this period of history should read it. From the beginning, you know what the ending will be. However, the novel is still fascinating.
The reason is: the plot is wonderful, the characters are three-dimensional, the language combines elegance and vulgarity, and it is infectious. In the words of the novel's official introduction: "The novel is written in chapter style, with popular text, twists and turns of the plot, and is highly readable."
"The Romance of the Three Kingdoms" is "seven parts fact and three parts fiction", and "Gong'e's Resentment" is This novel may be "30% fact, 70% fiction".
The novel fictionalizes the plot and describes the characters on the basis of the history of the Jiajing Dynasty. The background of the times, policies, etc. are all based on history. The character of Jiajing is basically shaped according to historical records.
After all, there are many first-hand information, and research materials about him, so there is not much room for development. Life in the harem is not the focus in history books, and the author has a lot of room to play.
The novel has traces of imitating "A Dream of Red Mansions". For example, Yang Jinying's other personality said, "I live above the heaven of love and in the sea of hatred. Because the filth in this forbidden palace is too strong; the strict hierarchy is squeezed and squeezed, and the tolerance is Without true feelings and true nature, it only makes people weak and dissipated, leaving behind With your flesh and blood, I went to the fantasy world. "
Jiajing entered the fairyland in his dream and saw the Virgin. The Virgin said that she would marry my beloved maid to you, so that you can appreciate the beauty of this fairyland. I'll settle your romantic debt." Jiajing woke up from his dream and saw that Cao Ziying was the fairy in his dream.
In the novel, since Yang Jinying entered the palace, the struggle in the harem has roughly two stages.
In the first stage, Queen Zhang defended the ring. Yan and Wei both attacked the queen, and Queen Zhang was eliminated first. Concubine Yan competed for favor by giving birth to a son, and placed spies around Queen Zhang twice; Concubine Wei killed Yan Concubine's son, set a witchcraft trap for the queen, and had an affair with a Taoist priest to give birth to a son and favor her.
Under Wei Bin's operation, Yan Bin's son died in infancy and the queen was deposed. However, Wei Bin's son died in less than a month, and the queen position she imagined was given to Concubine Fang. Wei Bin fell out of favor and was reviled, and mentally escaped into Buddhism. . At this stage, it is a three-lose situation with no winner.
In the second stage, Concubine Cao Duan defended the ring, Queen Fang took the initiative, and Concubine Cao Duan was destined to be eliminated. Concubine Cao Duan had no intention of competing with the Queen, but Jiajing's favor made Queen Fang regard her as a thorn in her side. A new round of "palace fighting" began until Yang Jinying and others rose up to resist.
In fact, before these two stages, there was a fight between Concubine Zhang Shun and Empress Chen, but the novel only touches on it from the side. Among these intrigues, Wei Bin's methods were the most brilliant, but she was still the loser in the "palace fight".
Although the methods of these "Palace Fights" are not very clever, readers will still feel frightened as they read it, because there are always losers in "Palace Fights". As the saying goes, "There is no flower that lasts for a hundred days." Today's winner may also be Tomorrow's losers. As the mother of a country, the queen can be deposed and thrown into the cold palace at will, let alone the concubines and maids?
The novel focuses on Wei Bin’s methods, and also focuses on her life after falling out of favor. After she fell out of favor, she was spiritually satisfied by practicing Zen and chanting sutras, and materially lived by selling off her assets as a palace maid, but as an adult woman, she still When her normal physiological needs were not met, she ultimately had no choice but to self-mutilate.
In a novel, the plot and characters are the easiest to capture readers. The plot must be twists and turns, the conflict settings must make readers eager to know what will happen next, and the characters must be able to resonate with readers.
From these perspectives, this novel is successful. The language of the novel is often hidden behind the plot and characters. And why we pay attention to the plot and characters of the novel is due to the appeal of the novel's language.
"Gong'e's Resentment" is a chapter-style novel with a total of 33 chapters. It is not long. Overall, it deserves the praise of "excellent literary talent".
Each chapter is in the form of seven-character or eight-character couplets, such as the first chapter "Walking through thorns, family members lost their lives, dreaming of tigers, wolves, and Jin Ying entering the palace", the fourteenth chapter "The traitors are greedy and evil, and they use poisonous schemes to bring injustice to an end." "Dove and cloth structure" are neatly matched, and is equal to .
There are also many poems and songs in the novel, which can be seen to be original works by the author. For example, in the first episode when Yang Jinying witnessed the tragic death of her grandmother and father:
"There was the song "Plum Blossoms", and she described her state of mind at this time: Ah! Seeing her father lying in a pool of blood, she only dared to cry and howl, and could only bear the resentment and worry. I was so frightened that I was so stupid! , Where can I escape in this barren mountain? I can hear the roar of the hungry tiger, which makes my hair stand up, and I feel so sad and miserable."
A poem written by Yan Bin's "Gunner" Luo Nu:
Shen Yin doesn't miss Hua An at all. The words come suddenly bring joy.
The sunshine is still suspicious of red shadows and dampness, and the wind breaks through the cold blue sand in the evening.
I have exhausted my charm in the clouds, but I am happy that the remaining spring comforts the peonies.
I was worried that my eyes would not be clear at first, so I hurriedly held the blind to look.
Whoever wants to see flowers has stopped, why should the beauty suddenly invade his eyes?
Brocade clouds appear in the palace, and layers of dark iron rise from the building.
Kaixiang Liyuan is really rich, and the golden house is more romantic.
Looking at the relevant points, the sorrow of spring will be over soon.
4. Shortcomings: The logic is flawed.
"Gong'e's Resentment" is a fiction based on historical facts, which means that the author has no relevant experience and can only use his imagination based on historical data. Once the imagination deviates from the facts, it will be full of flaws.
There are many unofficial plots quoted in the novel, such as concubines sleeping in bed, wrapping themselves naked in a cloak and letting eunuchs carry them there, etc. After sleeping, you can press acupuncture points to "not leave them", etc. These unofficial plots are inherently illogical and illogical. It cannot withstand scrutiny.
In addition, illogical plots abound in the author's own fictional plots.
For example, Yang Jinying was brought to the capital by human traffickers, and then directly dragged into the palace by the eunuchs. There was no "political trial" in the process; the virgin who made medicine escaped and entered the palace of Concubine Cao Duan, and Concubine Cao Duan said she was One's own maids, a roster can expose her lies;
Jiajing wanted to be lucky to Suchuan Yao, but Suchuan Yao was deceived into wearing a ring that signified menstruation. He wore it for a month. Suchuan Yao didn't know the meaning of the ring, but Jiajing was sure I know, wearing it for a month will obviously cause problems.
"Low-level" palace fighting tactics, such as Yan Bin planting spies around the queen, Wei Bin using a palace maid to fool the queen into engaging in witchcraft, Wei Bin sending red charcoal to Yan Bin, etc., can only show that the other party is weak. In the official synopsis of the novel
, the purpose of writing is: "The sinful feudal system represented by the emperor has ruthlessly killed their human feelings and humanity, causing their bodies and souls to be brutally destroyed and tortured."
This introduction has a deep imprint of the times (the first edition of this novel was in 1987), which is also the author's limitations caused by the influence of the times. For this "anti-feudal" goal, many illogical plots were invented.
However, we still have to remember that the theme of the novel is that palace fighting is not advisable and there should be no female competition. This is better than 99% of online novels today.
From this perspective, all those who have fantasies about feudal society and like to watch palace fights and house fights should read this novel.
Author: Zhuan Peng Piaopiao
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Reference: "Gong'e's Resentment".
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