TV series "Frost Leaves Red Like February Flowers" is based on Mao Dun 's novel of the same name and was adapted by Yu Hua, and portrays a noble, virtuous, shrewd, capable and visionary traditional woman in the old era.
Zhang Wanqing and her cousin Liangcai were childhood sweethearts, and they fell in love with each other, but they could not get together under the arranged marriage in the old era. Liangcai was forced to marry someone else under pressure from her mother, while Zhang Wanqing married Liangcai's closest friend My friend Huang Heguang became the eldest grandmother of the Huang family.
Qian and Huang are family friends, and their husband and Qian Liangcai have such a close relationship. Naturally, the two often meet each other, but they both keep their friendship in their hearts.
Huang Heguang couldn't get married due to physical problems, but Zhang Wanqing never gave up on him and took good care of him. When she saw Huang Heguang frowning, she took him everywhere to find a doctor and ask for medicine. Wanqing cared for her husband like a mother. And considerate, after Huang Heguang fell, she still did not choose to give up, but tried her best to save this decadent and fragile husband.
With the help of Wanqing and Liangcai, Heguang finally repented and regained his strength. In order to prevent her husband from falling down again, Wanqing encouraged him to go out and take a look at the outside world. He loves Wanqing, and Heguang also feels that he has delayed Wanqing for so many years, and he feels very guilty. He decides to get drunk on Wanqing, complete the beautiful marriage between the two, entrust Wanqing to Liangcai to take care of him, and choose to run away to pursue his ideals, Wan Qing did not choose to accept Liangcai, but was waiting for her husband's return. Liangcai never pursued Wanqing, and chose to take care of Wanqing silently behind her back.
In the past few years, the times have changed, and the revolutionary wave has been surging. At this time, the Northern Expedition has already hit Wanqing's hometown.
At this time, Wanqing received a letter from Huang Heguang. From the letter, she learned that her husband had participated in the revolution and was fighting the enemy on the battlefield. She could be reunited with herself soon, and Wanqing was looking forward to reuniting with her husband.
- Not long after Jiang and Wang launched a counter-revolutionary coup, massacred Communists and revolutionary masses, the cooperation between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party broke down, and the whole country was plunged into white terror. Wan Qing saw him again in the enemy's prison.
The two hugged tightly in prison and told each other how much they missed each other.
Wanqing sees her husband's new look, full of national righteousness and revolutionary fighting spirit. Her years of hard work and hard work have not been in vain. Wanqing is both proud and sad. She is proud that her husband has finally become a man in the sky, an ideal husband in her mind. Sadly, her husband will soon be separated from her, and there will be no future.
"I like the smell on you", this is Zhang Wanqing's most affectionate love for Huang Heguang.
Liangcai decided to rescue Huang Heguang personally after learning that Heguang was arrested, but was stopped by Wanqing in time, because doing so was tantamount to hitting a stone with an egg. She could no longer lose the most important relative in her life, and sent him away in time. Before leaving, she said to Wanqing, "I will definitely pick you up when you settle down there." Wanqing looked at Liangcai silently. After leaving Liangcai, he looked at the boat that went away, and gradually disappeared from Wanqing's sight.
Wanqing personally sewed new clothes for him before he came to be executed, so that he "come clean and leave clean". Before He came to the execution, he instructed Wanqing not to be a widow for himself. It was Heguang's greatest wish to make his wife and Liangcai a pair. Wanqing hugged her beloved husband deeply and shed tears of reluctance.
The people around Huang He came to see him off one after another. The most dazzling one was Wanqing. Wanqing saw off her husband in person. The enemy was killed, and Wanqing lost her husband and son.
At this time, she is less than 30 years old, but she is already in her waning years, and she no longer has the style of the past. She is guarding two tombs, and she is completely desperate...
A fire burns down the Huang family's workshop industry. ...
's relatives have passed away one by one, so what's the use of guarding the family business.
The heroine of this drama accepted the new culture movement , the new ideas brought about by the May 4th Movement, she was also educated in the West (the Western-style school she went to) but still abides by the traditional Chinese culture. She has a natural sense of rejection of Western culture and despises the behavior of foreigners and foreigners. She likes it the most. She also reads books such as the Four Books and Five Classics, and is a modern young woman with the beauty of Chinese classical charm.
But in the face of the arranged marriage arranged by the family, she chose not to take the initiative to accept it, but to ask her younger brother to inquire about Huang Heguang's character in advance, and deliberately pretended to be a maid to test each other. Knowing that Huang Heguang was dissatisfied with the arranged marriage, she chose to take the initiative on the wedding night. At the showdown, he took off his hijab and gave Huang Heguang a profound ideological education. He no longer had the reservedness of an old-fashioned woman. From then on, Huang Heguang obeyed Wan Qing like a well-behaved child. On the wedding night, the couple had a night out. At this time, Zhang Wanqing really fell in love with this man. Wanqing played the guqin, Huang Heguang played Changxiao, the husband and wife sang and followed, and Zhang Wanqing followed him all the way. The husband and wife were inseparable. The only regret of
is that Huang Heguang is infertile. When Heguang confessed her problems and encouraged her to find someone else, Wanqing took the initiative to accept the sexless marriage and refused Huang Heguang's request.
Because in her opinion, marriage is not about tying two people together tightly. In addition to sexual desire, it should also pursue honesty, responsibility and harmony between husband and wife.
"I thought that in the spring and autumn seasons of and , you and I traveled all over the famous mountains and holy waters, and saw the scorching and cool world. If the road sees injustice, you and I will help you. Helping the poor and the poor, spending money like soil, planting flowers and grass, writing poetry and drinking, this is a The life of an immortal. Why do you have to turn the phoenix upside down to be considered a joy?"
Her thoughts on marriage have actually surpassed the limitations of that era.
After her parents-in-law passed away, she chose to take the initiative to take on the family responsibilities and become the head of the family. She appeared everywhere to do business, in order to make the Huang family's industry bigger, stronger, and carry forward. This is her ideal.
She supports the revolution and actively donates money. She is very clear that the revolution is to seek happiness for the people.
She actively cultivated and guided Huang Heguang, and Huang Heguang gradually grew up under her influence, and eventually participated in the revolution and was willing to sacrifice for it.
Zhang Wanqing not only has the feminine beauty of women, but also has a strong and enterprising character. She manages the finances and manages the house in an orderly manner; .
The reason why Mr. Mao Dun created a different ideal image of women in the past is probably the fundamental psychological motivation. Zhang Wanqing has the figure of Mao Dun's mother, which is beyond doubt, and Wanqing's description of her husband's almost maternal love reveals that in this woman The character is pinned on the plot of his mother.
