Author : Lin Wanyang Source public number: Wanyang woman
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I'm Wanyang. Because of writing about the fate of a little palace maid in "The Legend of Zhen Huan", many readers in the background said that they vaguely remembered that I wrote Su Ying in "Golden Branches Desire" a long time ago, and she is also a character who makes people feel a lot of emotion.
So I'm going to share this with you today:
When I watched "Golden Branches Desire" in the past, I didn't notice Su Ying at all.
She is just the most ordinary maid in Concubine Ru's palace, just like those last-class sprinkler maids in Jia Baoyu's Yihong Courtyard, not to mention whether she can get into the eyes of her master, but Concubine Ru probably doesn't know about her existence at all.
Everyone said that it was Concubine Ru who killed her.
However, in fact, how Su Ying was born and how she died, Concubine Ru neither knew nor asked, because the class difference between the two people was too far, how could a person with great fame and power in her hands pay attention to those people in her palace who lived in the corner and had to keep their heads down all their lives.
Su Ying belongs to the kind of person who can disappear at any time as long as the big maid and the big eunuch under the concubine move her mouth.
It's a bit like the pendant in "Dream of Red Mansions", Qingwen, Raider, and Musk Moon can decide her fate.
Therefore, when I read "Dream of Red Mansions" for the first time, I didn't notice Shen'er, thinking that she was just a little girl, and she did something wrong, and she deserved to be taken away.
Of course, it's because I'm young and frivolous, and I always feel that I'm the most special one, so whether it's reading books or chasing dramas, I will only substitute for those characters who have enough scenes and the author has a lot of ink-
After chasing "The Desire of the Golden Branch", I felt that even if I was a maid, it must be Ann Qian's kind, with both beauty and wisdom, and she would have the opportunity to change her fate at any time;
Watching "Dream of Red Mansions" will also substitute myself into Baochai, Daiyu, and Xiangyun, and have endless pity for them, at most, those compassion and sympathy will be given to big girls such as Mandarin Duck and Qingwen, as for Shen'er, there will be a little ridicule in my heart, who is she? As far as she deserves to be compared to Qingwen?
However, later, when the years eroded away the contempt and ignorance in me, I remembered the sentence in "Dream of Red Mansions" more: "Mei Xiang worships the master, they are all slaves." ”
At this time, looking at the fate of Su Ying and Shen'er, it is infinitely embarrassing, and there is even a little sadness of cold lips and teeth - her life is really cheap, but who is not living in fear?
In "The Desire of the Golden Branch", the treasure cicada who controlled Su Ying's fate had to walk on thin ice in front of Concubine Ru; In "Dream of Red Mansions", Qingwen, who took away Shen'er, was expelled from the house by Mrs. Wang in a blink of an eye.
As for Concubine Ru and Mrs. Wang, their fate is not up to them, there are always people who stand taller than them.
Everyone is coping with a life.
We are both masters of life and servants of life at the same time. And the transition between these two identities is related to the first hand we draw innate with the cards, and it is also related to our own character and ability.
After understanding this, I watched "Golden Branch Desire" later, and I felt that the character of Su Ying was very well written and very real, and it really scraped off a little wall ash in the cracks for the audience to see.
After chasing dramas over the years, it is rare to see a character like Su Ying.
When writing court dramas, there are not many people with a maid as the protagonist, but they often write this maid as talented, with luck and ability beyond ordinary people, like Wei Yingluo in "Yanxi Raiders".
Even in TV series like "The Legend of Zhen Huan", which is already very good at shaping the diversity of characters, the maids in it are often smart and obedient.
Liuzhu is smart, Huanbi is deep, Songzhi is smart, and even Cuiguo next to Concubine Qi is also a person who knows how to protect herself with the power of the Queen Mother, and she has seen the true face of the queen early on.
I have watched too many dramas like this, and I often have the illusion that none of the women in the harem are simple, and everyone lives smartly and transparently.
But in fact, no matter what era it is, this world must be dominated by ordinary people.
It wasn't until I saw Su Ying in "The Desire of the Golden Branch" that I finally found a little resonance with ordinary people.
What kind of person is Su Sakura?
It's the most common kind around us, a little simple, a little timid, an ordinary girl who laughs when she's happy, cries when she's homesick, and works steadily when she has a job arrangement for herself.
She is very obedient, very obedient to the rules, never runs around in the palace, and after two years in the palace, she will get lost when she walks from the palace of the concubine to other places.
She has never wanted to get ahead in the harem, for two years, she is still the kind of lowly palace maid, she usually does some chores, and she is full of thoughts that after the age of 25, she can go out of the palace to reunite with her family and live the most ordinary life.
She is not smart or sensitive, she doesn't know how to calculate, and she can't see the twists and turns in other people's hearts.
But she also knows that the harem is complicated, so she is cautious and tries to avoid right and wrong, and belongs to the kind of person who can't provoke others and avoids others.
Later, she accidentally brought trouble to herself, and her first reaction was not how to solve the problem, but she was so frightened that she hid in the well, because that is her philosophy of life all along-if you can hide, you can hide, and if you can't hide, then talk about it.
To be honest, I think this is probably the true portrayal of many palace maids - more often than not, they live by luck.
Su Sakura is a person who has not escaped bad luck.
The character of Su Ying is written too tightly in "Golden Branch Desire", and her character and the fate she later had are not abrupt at all.
"Golden Branch Desire" created the character of Su Ying, firstly, to show the sadness of "human life is very cheap, and the lower the status, the cheaper the life" in the harem, and secondly, it is actually to let the audience see the shaping power of character on fate through the characters who compare with each other.
Written in contrast to Su Ying, it was Ann Qian.
is also a palace maid, Anqian's character is smart and decisive, knowledgeable, and more capable of self-preservation, so her later fate is different from Su Ying, her fate is struggling upward, although full of helplessness, but Anqian has the energy of "breaking free", which makes people always see "hope".
is like Xiaohong in "Dream of Red Mansions", who is also a woman who relied on her own ability to get out of the original cage of fate.
They are all a touch of the tragic undertone.
And Su Ying can't get out of the fate of being controlled, and even she doesn't think so much about these things, she doesn't have such a keen sense of smell, she is a person who lives by a dull sense, easy to get happy, but also easy to be crushed by fate.
"Golden Branch Desire" is advanced here, it does not describe any psychological pain of Su Ying in detail, and always writes her very lightly, as if she is a person who has been anesthetized and lying on the operating table.
But most of the viewers who rewatched "The Desire of the Golden Branch" left tears for Su Ying.
Because of the unfortunate fate, if they are numb, then the sadness felt by the audience is the strongest.
I used to think that it was already sad to write about grief with music, but later I realized that the real grief is silent, ignorant and unconscious.
The author of this issue: Lin Wanyang. Official account: Wanyang Woman.