"The Kingdom of Daughters" is the "dark new world" written by Wu Chengen. It can even be said that in the past hundreds of years, before the emergence of modernism, no one at really understood the chapter of the Kingdom of Daughters.
I checked many documents and ancient annotations, and I still feel that people have underestimated this chapter too much, and even many ancient literati think: "Isn’t this just lust, why is it so difficult? One difficulty".
Many great writers, or artists, are beyond the times. Precisely because they have surpassed the time they are in, their lives are often unknown. No one cares about them before they are alive, and they only acquire big names after death, such as Kafka and Du Fu. No way, the price of surpassing the times is that no one understands the times.
is not an exaggeration to say that the "daughter country" transcends the times, even in our time, it can still be said to be a pioneer.
In Journey to the West, there are about fifty-three chapters and fifty-four chapters in the kingdom of daughters, but to truly understand the kingdom of daughters, you have to read 47 chapters and 48 chapters.
The world of the Western Liang Women's Kingdom is actually a separate world of , , it was the writer who went on a desertion and wrote a shocking short story under the name of Journey to the West.
Tongtian River is the river leading to the daughter country, and it is also the Jingwei and Jingwei of this world.
To read Journey to the West, we have to put aside the influence of ideology and read it "inhumanly" and "unculturally" in order to see the world and all beings.
The other side of the Tongtian River: the daughter country
Tang Seng and his apprentice came to the daughter country by accident. Before Tang Seng and his disciples came here, the daughter kingdom already existed. How does this all-women society work?
introduced the Xiliang Women’s Country, Wu Chengen was an old woman in the suburbs of the daughter country:
I am the Xiliang Women’s Country. Our country is full of women, and no men, so I am glad to see you. The water your master ate is bad. That river is called the mother river. Outside my King’s City, there is a Yingyang Pavilion Post, and there is a "Zhaotaiquan" outside the post gate. I am here, but I have to be over twenty years old to eat the water in the river. After drinking, I felt abdominal pain and fetus. After three days, go to the Yingyang Hall to take photos of by the water. If there are double shadows in the photo, a child is born.
This reveals the method of reproduction of the daughter kingdom: the son and mother are pregnant-zhaotaiquan double shadow-give birth to a child. Note that if there are double shadows in the photo, you will have a baby. What if there are no double shadows or single shadows?
set up a birth spring here. The original book said: "It's just that there is a Xieyang Mountain on Zhengnan Street. There is a broken hole in the mountain, and there is a "falling birth spring" in the hole. It took a bite of the water from the spring to relieve the fetal gas."
Tang Seng and Bajie happened to drank the water from the Zimu River and became pregnant, so the Sun Wukong had to go to the abortion spring to fetch water and help them have an abortion. .
I used to think that women in the daughter country only give birth to women, but then I thought, if you only give birth to women, why keep the birth spring?
Moreover, the location of the Falling Baby Spring is too strange: a Jieyang Mountain (relieving the male Yang), there is a broken hole in the mountain (breaking the male tire), and there is a "Lost Baby Spring" in the hole. Xie Yangshan and Po'erdong are very deliberate. Everyone who writes a novel knows that this is specially set by the author for fear that the reader will not understand it.
put it plainly, daughter country women can give birth to men, but their social mechanism has established a screening system for men . This is somewhat similar to Spartan's selection of races, but a more intuitive horizontal comparison is the phenomenon of female infant drowning in ancient China or modern India. It's just that it was not a girl who was drowned, but a male fetus. Because of this, the daughter country is a woman for generations.
The patriarchal society advocates that men are superior to women and women are vassals of men. Under this alienation of thought, people have developed a deformed and extreme patriarchal thought, and also gave birth to the strange phenomenon of aborting female fetuses, drowning female babies, or discarding female babies. During the period of the Republic of China, these strange phenomena still occurred in parts of our country, and even worse during the Ming Dynasty when Wu Chengen lived.
Wu Chengen turned the patriarchy upside down in the novel. The daughter country is an out-and-out feminist country, which places extreme emphasis on women over men. The population reproduction mechanism they established is: pregnancy in the mother-in-law-zhaotaiquanzhaoying. If it is the daughter of Shuangying, then give birth to the child; if it is not Shuangying, it is a boy, then go to Luotaiquan for abortion. This is actually the literary expression of China's extreme gender difference consciousness, which can be regarded as breaking the pot of the entire human patriarchal society.
Feminism is the core ideology of the daughter country. If we use the patriarchal thinking mode to interpret, of course what we see is the lingering story of the old Journey to the West-the king of the daughter kingdom of , , wants to marry the Tang Seng, but also to give up the throne to Tang Seng. Although Tang Seng has a heart Moved, but under the heavy responsibility of learning, he had to refuse the king of the daughter country. "The world is safe and secure, and it will live up to the Tathagata and the Qing." Although this is romantic, it is far from the original spirit.
A feminist country that calls men a contemptuous "race" and directly aborts male fetuses, how can they give birth to equal and even humble love for men?
Or, let's change the gender: a male king, will he have feelings or desires for foreign and good-looking women who pass through his country?
In the values of the daughter country, men are humble and women are respected. Even if the king of the daughter country has love for Tang Seng, it is a kind of similar to the owner's love for pets, not equal love. Tang Seng is a pet, not a lover. The verbal concession of is more of a kind of bait, which proves that he "loves the country and the handsome guy more", but after possession, or after the desire is satisfied, it will inevitably end up as a human flesh sachet.
I must say: Journey to the West is a black myth. Wu Chengen constructed an extreme gender society. In this society, farmers, businessmen, businessmen are women, fishermen, woodcutter, farming, and herding are all red makeup. In a word, women have completed all the social division of labor. At the same time, women can give birth independently. This is what feminists say: "Women can make money and have children by themselves. What is the use of having men?"
simply, the daughter country really does not want men, and even the daughter country has instituted a system to eliminate men. The design, from Zimu River to Zhaotai Spring, and then to abortion spring, cut off the possibility of giving birth to a man.
A male friend sounds uncomfortable, but if you change the gender, isn’t it the history of ancient China?
However, even if reproduction and desire are completely separated, desire still exists. Women in the daughter country still have one appeal to men: primitive desire. How does
satisfy this desire?
This bank of the Tongtian River: Chenjiazhuang
daughter country has never seen a man.
For example, the wife of the daughter country said: "I have four or five children in my family. They are all of a few years old. I have stopped all the troubles, so I will not hurt you. If you go to the second home, old man The small crowd is big, the small person that year will let you go! He will have sex with you. If you don’t, it will kill you, cut off your flesh and make sachets."
The implication of the sentence is that if the mother-in-law is younger, she will still do affair and want to have sex with men.
Even, there is a tradition in the daughter country that if a man fails to follow it, he will cut off the man’s body and make a sachet. Moreover, the old woman said it lightly. It can be seen that in the daughter country, men are not even fertility machines, but are simply tools for venting.
Moreover, when the four masters and apprentices first entered the daughter country, the women on both streets applauded, and smiled and said: "The race is here! The race is here!" If you have never seen a man, you should be surprised, even fear.
So where do the men from the daughter country come from?
Xiliang Women's Country first appeared in Journey to the West, the 48th time.
Chen from Chenjiazhuang introduced: "There is a female country in Xiliang over the river. People are doing business in this case. Things with a hundred dollars on my side are worth tens of thousands of dollars there; things with a hundred dollars on the other side, It can also be worth tens of thousands of dollars here. Benefits are important, so people don’t care about life and death. There are five or seven people in a boat, or a dozen people in a boat, passing by."
actually buried a lot of foreshadowing here: What does Chenjiazhuang sell to the daughter country? What can Chenjiazhuang import from the daughter country?
If you read the original work carefully, you will find that even though the Chen brothers said that concubines have children, there is no female character in the book. His child was about to be sent to the tribute table, but the biological mother did not even cry or even show up.
A third-rate writer writes like this, of course, there is no problem, he will not notice these details at all. But a first-rate writer writes like this, and he has no ingenuity. Wu Chengen was implying that the virgin boy and girl who gave the tribute had no mother at all. He even reminded readers of this by letting Tang Seng and Zhu Bajie become pregnant-the continuation of
Chenjiazhuang is also through the water of the Zimu River.
People in Chenjiazhuang are very wealthy: "There are 40 or 50 hectares in paddy fields, 60 or 70 hectares in dry fields, and 80 or 90 pastures; there are two or three hundred buffalo cattle, thirty or twenty donkeys and horses, and pigs, sheep and chickens. There are countless geese. There are also unsatisfied old grains and unwearable clothes under the shed. The family property and property are also counted. "
This wealth comes from, just think about it, it is to resell the things here to the daughter's country to make money. Gains. What does
sell? What is there that the daughter country does not have but Chenjiazhuang has?
is actually obvious: man.
Chenjiazhuang is the source of the original desires of the daughters of the country. Chen Jiazhuang’s business is probably selling men.
In the world of Journey to the West, buying and selling people is really nothing. Even Monkey King knows: can buy fifty taels of silver to buy a virgin; for one hundred taels of silver, you can buy a virgin.
The "import and export trade" between Chenjiazhuang and the daughter country is that Chenjiazhuang exports men and imports the river water from the daughter country. Product. The
inspiration king is the local monster. According to Chen Lao: "We have hundreds of families living in this place. This is under the jurisdiction of the Yuanhui County of Chechi, and is called Chenjiazhuang. This king will worship once a year, he wants a virgin, a virgin, pigs and sheep. Sacrifice is offered to him. He eats a meal to keep us in good weather; if we don’t sacrifice , we will bring disasters and disasters."
How does the king of inspiration keep the weather smooth? It has been revealed in the following story-the magical power of the king of inspiration is to control the weather, snow, freeze, and control the Tongtian River, and this river is the channel for Chenjiazhuang's import and export trade, and is the livelihood and financial source of Chenjiazhuang. If the river can't go, the population trade won't have to be done. Therefore, Chen Jiazhuang does not hesitate to feed the men and women of the tribute to the inspirational king, but also to keep this trade channel.
From this, Wu Chengen constructed a dark world, a feminist civilized society that stands on the opposite side of a patriarchal civilized society.
Chenjiazhuang, to a certain extent, is a "male country" in a feminist society. It faces its daughter country across the Tianhe River, and lives in a daughter country. Wu Chengen reversed the social structure of patriarchy and feminism, and on the opposite side of Journey to the West, he designed a country of men from the perspective of feminism. He has great ambitions. He wants to set aside all cultures, consciousness, and thoughts and seek the law of the evolution of the universe.
Wu Chengen's works have no humanity and no gender. The Kingdom of Women is not about women, nor about feminism, but about the cold cosmic logic.
not only reverses gender rights, he also reduces people from the primates of all things to animals. He personified the animals, that is, the spirits, and then the humans. Human skins can be used as clothes, and humans can become food on the animal table. He deconstructed human civilization, tore off the grass skirts we put on, and laughed at the creation of human civilization, but he was deceiving himself. There is a saying in the three-body
: gives civilization to the years, not to civilization.
I always remember this sentence when I was studying in the daughter country. The civilization is not static, but dynamic. People are giving time to write civilization, not time giving people civilization.
In the modern interpretation, the mother-child river is the way of gestationThe change of human civilization, under the variable of gestation method, has been rewritten, and then presents a form completely opposite to the civilized world we live in.
This also allows us to see: human civilization, in the face of the changes in the universe, appears so fragile and small.
This is a poetic scene. A Tongtian River, this bank is Chenjiazhuang, and the other bank is the daughter country, the Tongtian River flows quietly, just like time, while Chenjiazhuang and the daughter country live by the river and live by the river. They need each other and fear each other. All this is just another stage of human civilization. Although the daughter country is small, it hides the entire universe.
