The most suitable one for the Dragon Boat Festival is " The Legend of White Snake ". Today we will talk about a classic old drama, but with a role that few people talk about:
She is the first person to steal the spotlight in domestic dramas, a supporting role who appears in the middle, and steals the heroine. The character played in 20 episodes;
she, the founder of the love brain, chased the male protagonist starting from his brothers, which can be called the earliest "man tea" in history;
she, the pioneer of catering to men, strongly advocated anxiety about appearance, and committed murder. I want to be white and thin;
She, the top saint, falling in love is like doing charity, burning herself to finally fulfill the male protagonist and his childhood sweetheart;
...
This person is the "Legend of the New White Snake" (hereinafter referred to as "New White") ) in Hu Meiniang is also.
Yes, I know some people have looked down on her since they were young. "New White" is her turn to be released online, just like
than " Wulin Gaiden " Nangong Canhua appears, and "The Legend of Zhen Huan" enters the Ganlu Temple copy.
But I have a lot of empathy, but she is always the one I can get the most in the drama.
The story of "The Legend of White Snake" is still too fateful and a human myth. On the contrary, this little monster who wandered in made me taste the humanity in "Legend". How to say
.
is probably a kind of stupid person who wants to take a chance on the God-given marriage and destined ending of a superior person even though he is just a make-up existence.
A tmi, "New White" is mainly based on the Qing Dynasty's "White Snake Prequel". It was originally planned to shoot only 30 episodes, which would be the end of Bai Suzhen being subdued by Leifeng Pagoda.
However, because the broadcast effect was so explosive, the showrunners temporarily decided to add the content of "White Snake", which resulted in the current 50-episode version. In the original work of
, Hu Meiniang was originally a villain, a vixen who turned into Bai Suzhen and seduced Xu Xian.
But in the drama version, she became the jade rabbit spirit who was demoted to the earth. She practiced for five hundred years to become a human being. By chance, she had the appearance of Bai Suzhen and became the real heroine. Why did
suddenly come to the table for dinner?
Mainly, the showrunners considered that only Zhao Yazhi could carry the show, but Bai Suzhen stayed in the tower for the rest of the plot, so they simply whitewashed the face-stealing monster so that she could continue to act legitimately.
I hate the ancient lip liner makeup
With this buff, Hu Meiniang's configuration is actually not bad:
has some fairy blood, is good enough, and she also changed her face to become a peerless beauty.
But looking at the story of "The Legend of White Snake" from another angle, it is actually the same as the officialdom and the workplace.
is about qualifications and background.
Hu Meiniang is far from the best in both.
Think about it, the marriage between Xu Xian and Bai Suzhen was planted thousands of years ago, and the one behind the scenes was Guanyin Bodhisattva.
In other words, theirs is an arranged marriage of the highest level, and it is the American imperial cp that all the big bosses of the Six Paths use. How domineering is
? At 17 minutes and 20 seconds into the second episode of
, these two people just started talking, and at 42 minutes and 49 seconds, they came to court.
plays the setting of flash marriage, this drama is the ancestor.
As for the background, the couple’s biological son:
Xu Shilin.
When he was still in Bai Suzhen's belly, Guanyin Bodhisattva and the Antarctic Immortal gave Bai Suzhen a "Purple Micro Star" in one mouthful to facilitate Bai Suzhen's travels and lend a helping hand, as if to save his face.
Note: "Ziweixing" is only mentioned in these two places in the play. It symbolizes the emperor, which is inconsistent with the plot or is a clerical error. The later plot was renamed "Wenquxing"
What's even more outrageous is that when Xu Shilin suffered from illness or disaster, these old gods who usually couldn't hire him actually took the initiative to come to his house to provide services.
Xu Xian, who almost died several times but had no one to care for him except his wife:?
In traditional Chinese mythology, "distance" often appears last.
The Cowherd and the Weaver Girl, Dong Yong and the Seven Fairies all fell in love at first sight. After the babies were born, a fairy mother-in-law suddenly appeared, and they had to be physically isolated.
When Hu Meiniang and her crush first met, there was already an insurmountable gap:
Xu Shilin was startled by her original face, and said indiscriminately:
You are so ugly!
In the face of instinctive reactions, no matter how much knowledge or etiquette you have, they are all in vain, and Wenquxing's descent to the earth is no exception.
Many people don't like Hu Meiniang. The reason is that she entered into a relationship that did not belong to her in someone else's face, and interfered with other people's fate for her own selfish desires.
In other words, she doesn't deserve it at all.
But now we should have seen through that the so-called "worthy or not" in human society is not essentially the logic of "big feet wear big shoes".
It is often a cultural contradiction, and it is also a class contradiction.
After Hu Meiniang's self-esteem was hurt, she cried to Caiyin, her sister who depended on each other, that she was ugly.
Caiyin's reaction was to chuckle, and then retort to her seriously: You are not ugly at all!
I'm a little bit drunk. What's going on?
This smile is not sarcastic. Caiyin simply thinks Mei Niang is cute. What's wrong with
? Because in their world of little monsters, there is no such thing as beauty or ugliness. It’s good to be alive.
Look at what Mei Niang said about herself: She is not a face that pleases "people".
It can be seen that aesthetics is a product of a certain cultural environment, and it is also a privilege that only those in the world and heaven who are free from the pressure of survival can enjoy.
Before meeting the young man, these two little demons had no idea about their conditions.
And the privileges of the upper class do not end there.
Buddha says that everything is a combination of causes and conditions, but in the real world, people at the bottom of society are called "partnerships", and only those with capital have the chance to meet each other thousands of miles away.
The red thread behind two destined people, even if it is not Guanyin Bodhisattva, must be basic material conditions, personal freedom and...face.
These two great beauties in the Hong Kong circle are also from the general trend
Hu Meiniang's preliminary diagnosis results are out: It is obviously Baojuan's fate, but Qingwen's disease.
As a result, Hu Meiniang became an alien who rashly broke into this well-known fairy love.
There are no destined coincidences or encounters in her love, only purely artificial arrangements and designs.
Hu Meiniang's Love Strategy Step One: Pay tribute to Zhu Yingtai.
In ancient times, it was not etiquette for a woman to pursue a man head-on. Changing into men's clothing would get twice the result with half the effort and create a greater sense of distance.
The second step of Hu Meiniang's Love Strategy: Settling in strongly and building surrounding supporting facilities.
After the two became familiar with each other, Hu Meiniang quickly settled next door to Xu Shilin's house, resumed her daughter's identity and opened an embroidery shop. Other stories were about falling in love with the boy next door, but she went to be the neighbor of the boy she fell in love with.
Needless to say, this time he blended directly into Xu Shilin's core life circle.
The romance of meeting on a broken bridge is incomparable. Hu Meiniang has no support from God, so men can only chase her on their own.
In my opinion, this actually gives her a rather modern character.
mentioned before that traditional Chinese mythology praises "madness" to the level of superstition. Jingwei wants to fill up the ocean, and the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl want to cross the Milky Way to fall in love.
"Leifeng Pagoda fell, West Lake water dried up" is also such an incredible oath.
Many people will interpret this infatuation as the stalwart struggle against destiny, the heroism of using the weakest strength to achieve the myth of love.
But if you think about it carefully, you will find that this kind of "obsession" is really moving, but it is difficult to talk about resistance.
In the face of the unbreakable destiny, didn't White Snake enter the pagoda, Xu Xian became a monk, and Jingwei also hovered above the stormy waves forever for a hatred?
They are persistent, and persistence often symbolizes not rebellion, but unconvinced obedience.
In film and television, there are not many truly rebellious adaptations.
is the version of Nezha from "The Devil Boy Comes to the World".
But the prerequisite for him to resist the destiny is the powerful power of the magic pill to destroy the world. Like Xu Shilin, he is not a good fetus, but he is a god-like fetus, also known as the fetal god (nonsense).
Well, we are back to the previous "identity background theory".
If there is another one, it has to be Hu Meiniang.
Many people mind that Hu Meiniang deceived Xu Shilin and never showed her true self.
But looking back, Bai Suzhen never deceived Xu Xian?
Who turned the haunted house into a white mansion? Who takes credit for stealing the treasure? And who is it that showed up and sent her husband away during the Dragon Boat Festival?
Xu Xian went to jail, was tortured, was exiled, and even went to hell because of Bai Suzhen's various lies. A young man with no great ambitions was tortured to the point of becoming an immortal. Have you found
?
Even if the background is so tough, Bai Suzhen is still not confident about her marriage to Xu Xian.
stole the treasure to let Xu Xian open a shop quickly, and even stole the magic weapon just to show off to him.
This kind of love is not practical, but goes beyond his needs and directly provides benefits. In other words, it is to please and please.
The internal reason is that even though the two have been married for thousands of years, Bai Suzhen still does not believe that love can defeat heaven.
In comparison, Hu Meiniang's confidence in love sometimes surprises me.
The older girl pursues her sweetheart, picking flowers and offering them to him, as natural as breathing.
In front of the other person's childhood sweetheart, he openly admits his feelings without any concealment.
This is not a matter of "deservingness".
Rather, in the concept of Mei Niang, love is a very pure giving. She wanted nothing from Xu Shilin, so she didn't need to think about whether he was worthy or not.
As for "marriage"?
She didn't seem to realize the existence of these things.
This is the only time this argument is mentioned in the drama. Instead, he is making excuses for himself:
I am so obsessed with him, maybe I owe him in my previous life, right?
Don’t think about it, sister, how can a scarce commodity like marriage be distributed casually to ordinary people like us?
Meiniang is of course also crazy, but her crazy method is not to fill the destined gap, but to be a bird with a pebble in its mouth.
Her eyes were so focused that she couldn't see the sea, and she ran towards the other shore with determination.
Destiny can be violated or not, and it makes no difference to her. She just wants to release her love freely and freely.
If you think about it carefully, the statement "I have no control over my destiny" indirectly acknowledges the power of "destiny".
And the more complete resistance may be like Mei Niang, who always ignores its existence and only believes in her own heartbeat.
Of course, we all know that Hu Meiniang's love did not end well.
You can just think of this story as a workplace matter:
As soon as it comes, "special cases" cannot be opened randomly or too much, and it is even more taboo to push the rules too far.
The fate of the previous generation of the Xu family has been favored by heaven. Now this generation has created another couple. Is it easy to talk as a leader?
Secondly, everything should be done on a first-come, first-served basis and with evidence.
Xu Shilin was married to his cousin before he was even born. How can Mei Niang, who is dishonest and unruly, compare to the one appointed by the emperor?
The cruelest thing is still class.
html Fahai predicted more than 20 years ago that Xu Shilin would be the top scholar in high school, which would also be the day when Bai Suzhen would emerge from the tower.But Xu Shilin's landing also represented the return of Wenquxing. From that moment on, he was protected by the Holy Light, and evil spirits could no longer intrude.
And in this mythical system, Hu Meiniang naturally belongs to this type of intruder.
Didn’t she know the ending before? Of course
knows it.
People like Xu Shilin, who was born at the finish line, naturally have a customized legendary script.
Mei Niang, an outsider with a humble status, can see more clearly the gap in destiny between people.
Your father
is still a monk at Jinshan Temple
Your mother
has been pressed under Leifeng Pagoda for twenty years
They are all waiting for you
Waiting for you to win the first prize
Go and knock down Leifeng Pagoda
The family is reunited
Don't be too childish. A person like you came to this world just to win. How can you be with someone like me?
In the last scene, before she died, what she was thinking about was still the reputation of the No. 1 Shen of Xinke, which could not be tarnished by herself.
I personally think that the most extreme love brain is not to lose yourself in love. When one is terminally ill, one becomes too aware of oneself.
The ending of Hu Meiniang's love is that Xu Shilin blocked the big boss's killing move, and then disappeared.
is exactly what all stories tend to do.
Marius’s destination is Cosette, and Eponine’s destination is dust.
Love that is too selfless makes it even more weightless.
Before she was reincarnated, Mei Niang went to congratulate Xu Shilin's married cousin, and also apologized for her "intrusion".
This is God's will
Why should I force it?
Many people say that this is the ironclad proof that she is the top green tea, and even changing her character cannot change the origin of the vixen.
But I want to say the simplest truth. The prerequisite for intervention is that the other party is a couple first.
Shilin and Bilian are both hesitant. They are burdened with such a heavy thing as "God's will", but they are not very sure about each other.
It goes without saying that Shilin, but Bilian, who has always been considered loyal, did not reject Brother Baoshan, who had been pursuing her for a long time, until Mei Niang passed away and the dust settled.
If "keeping a spare tire" is too malicious a term for women, we can at least speculate that she does not have absolute confidence in the so-called "God's will".
Mei Niang's resurrection is the final push to achieve this God-given marriage.
It’s funny to say that during the Dragon Boat Festival holiday, I happened to watch the animated movie " Robot Dream " with great reputation, and its plot made me constantly think of Hu Meiniang.
This is a very classic story, but it uses a very fresh way of telling it:
The protagonist, a dog, lives a lonely life, so he orders a companion robot, and gradually develops a real relationship with him.
But its direction is not the classic cross-species love. The
robot broke down at the beach, and the beach coincided with the closure, and it would not reopen until the following summer.
The dog tried his best to rescue the robot at first, but later, he gradually forgot about his partner.
In fact, whether Hu Meiniang, Eponine or the robot, they all represent the humbler and cowardly aspects of our relationships.
Viewed according to fashionable values, it is a heinous love brain.
To some extent, I agree with this realist argument.
The puppy that lost the robot continues to live a life alone, sometimes lonely, sometimes lively, and in the cracks, it occasionally thinks of its old love still lying on the beach.
Human nature is like this.
If one party is instrumentalized at the beginning of a relationship, then the possibility that he or she will eventually influence everything through love and achieve equality and go in both directions will be infinitely close to zero.
But I have always felt that being able to love is an amazing superpower.
In order to support each other, isn't it also a kind of bravery to shake the deep-rooted rules with one's own body?
You can refuse to be irrational, but don't refuse your ability to love, because it is this power that makes the whole world beautiful.
is like "Robot Dream" leaving us with a trace of tenderness after reality:
Everyone will eventually have the opportunity to meet a fate that is more suitable for him or her.
The "destined" tone has long been buried in the past.
The modern love myth is written by ourselves.
