Old Yang Family: Mutated and Distorted Ethics
In the 1920s, an era of saying that the new is not new and the old is not old, the outside world is in chaos, the warlords are separated, the army is in chaos, and the frontal confrontation between new ideas and old cultures has just begun. All of this is still very far away for a small mountain village surrounded by mountains. The continuation of the small mountain village is the simple but quiet life that has been consistent for hundreds of years. Here, there is no government, no kingly law, instead, there are clans. In a village governed by a clan, the patriarch is the authority, the etiquette must be observed, the ancestral precepts cannot be violated, and the ancestral legacy must be inherited and carried forward. The story takes place in a remote small mountain village, the old Yang family that has been passed down for about 900 years. In the ancestral hall of Lao Yang's family, there are two couplets. The first picture, "Ren Siwen followed Taoism and Shaoxian Confucianism, compiled and deciphered the characters to make a book for the future study". Judging from this couplet, the ancestor of the old Yang family should be Yang Shi, the great scholar of the Northern Song Dynasty and the protagonist of "Chengmen Lixue", Mr. Guishan. Yang Shi wrote "Jie Zi Shuo", and worshipped Confucius from the time of Yuan Huizong. Yang Shi was under the tutelage of Cheng Hao and Cheng Yi, and was one of the four major disciples of Chengmen. He succeeded Ercheng and inspired Zhu Xi. He was the backbone and key figure of Cheng-Zhu's Neo-Confucianism, and he also made great contributions to the spread of Neo-Confucianism. The core proposition of Cheng-Zhu's Neo-Confucianism is "to preserve the principles of nature and eliminate human desires", emphasizing the establishment of an ideal personality through conscious moral cultivation. However, after a long period of change, Cheng-Zhu Neo-Confucianism became the social ideology mandated by the rulers, while "Tian Li" gradually changed into a feudal ethics and morality that strengthened the control of social ideology, such as three cardinal guides and five constants, and became a tool to control others and lost it. The role of self-cultivation. Therefore, the second most conspicuous couplet in the ancestral hall, "Accumulate Virtue Wins Relics, Keep Your Body Like Jade" is full of irony and warning. Accumulating virtue means cultivating one's own virtue, and guarding one's self means cherishing one's own reputation. This is the original meaning of Cheng-Zhu's Neo-Confucianism and also the original meaning of Confucian morality. But after thousands of years of inheritance, it has changed beyond recognition, leaving only the shackles of human nature. Yang Jinshan, the owner of the old Yang family dyeing workshop, just like his name, guards the Jinshan of the old Yang family. But he cherishes gold like his life, whether it is Judou or Tianqing, he must work diligently for him. Perhaps the greatest virtue Yang Jinshan has accumulated in his life is to adopt the orphan Yang Tianqing next door, but in fact, it is just to find a free labor. He never regarded Tianqing as a son. In order to avoid people who eat more, Tianqing is 40 years old and refuses to marry him a wife. What kind of reputation can Yang Jinshan, who cherishes gold as his life and treats people as oxen as horses, thinks horses are more important than people? The two rascals who came to take the job called him "old man" without any respect. "Accumulating virtue wins legacy Dyefang: An ethical siege that cannot go out Pushing open the door of Lao Yang's Dyeing Workshop, the first thing you see is a dye pool, scaffolding and a patio with bamboo poles of various colors. This is the old Yangjia dyeing workshop, surrounded by blue-gray tiles, brown-gray wooden doors and windows, and mottled white walls, the only place where you can see the sky. Behind the colorful dyeing workshop, there is a decaying and ancient ancestral hall with long burning incense candles. On the second floor of the ancestral hall, it is Yang Jinshan's bedroom. For a big feudal family, the continuation of the incense is the biggest rule. There are three kinds of unfilial piety, no descendant is the greatest. But the old Yang family is facing the crisis of breaking the incense. None of the golden generation of the old Yang family has given birth to a son. Yang Jinshan is the youngest of the golden generation, and the pressure of childbirth is ultimately on him. On the other hand, Yang Jinshan is a sexually incompetent person, who has no fertility at all, and even more so when he grows old. The pressure of childbirth distorted his mind and made up for his impotence by taking pleasure in abusing women. His first two wives were tossed to death by him. But this could not dispel the fear that the Yang family was about to ruin his hands. He didn't dare to admit the fact that he was incompetent, and he didn't dare to face the future of the Yang family. So he bought his third wife, Judou. At night, Yang Jinshan put the saddle on Judou, whipped her with a leather whip, poured wine on her, and slandered her with words - "My Yang family will be ruined in your hands sooner or later, you useless thing". Although he knew very well that it was himself who really ruined the Yang family; it was himself who was really useless. He couldn't bear the moral pressure brought about by breaking the incense inheritance, so he had to transfer the responsibility to his wife. In women weaker than him, Yang Jinshan found his dignity as a man through abuse and relieved the pressure of infertility. The root cause of Yang Jinshan's psychological distortion is the oppression of human nature by feudal ethics. His wife, just as the prop "saddle" is a metaphor, is just a tool for him to be a cow and a horse and have children. And Yang Jinshan itself is just another component of this set of tools. The core of feudal ethics is husband and wife, parents and children are an extension of the relationship between husband and wife, and the relationship between ruler and subject is an extension of the relationship between father and son. However, the union of men and women under the feudal morality is nothing more than "men should be married and women should be married", which is to continue the incense, not because of love. The foundation of feudal morality seems to start from the family, but in fact there is no human nature at all. Even Judou and Tianqing had an affair, not because of love. When Judou found the small hole in the stable, she collapsed. She not only had to endure Yang Jinshan's abuse, but also Yang Tianqing's voyeurism. She plugged the small hole, panicked and frightened, but had nowhere to go. Judou was sold to Lao Yang's family. Young and delicate but sold to another person as a wife, this is the first tragedy in her life. Her incompetent and abused husband was her second tragedy. The father guides the son and the husband guides the wife. This is what feudal ethics requires. But in fact, Ju Dou's family and husband are relaying the persecution of her. What's even more tragic is that although Judou has a strong desire to resist, he also subconsciously believes that the only person who can save him can be another man. Husbands and wives are different, men and women are different. This is the social morality and social status quo created by feudal ethics. When the screams of the pigs were heard in the distance, Judou couldn't help complaining to Tianqing: "Listen, that pig is crying for its life." Isn't Judou crying for her own life? How to fight against your own destiny? The only one around who can save her is the old bachelor Tian Qing. Judou is a smart woman. She found out from the peeping hole that Tianqing has a desire for her, and this desire is something she can use. After a brief conversation at the village entrance, Judou found her concern and sympathy for her again. After being abused again, Judou shows Tianqing the scars on his body through the peeping hole, hoping to arouse Tianqing's sympathy. While he was working, he gave Tian Qing his fate that he would be tortured by the old thing next, and stimulated him with "don't stop him", hoping that he could help. What Judou can give is only his own body. While Yang Jinshan was out to see a doctor, Judou took the initiative to seduce Tianqing. The hints during the day were fruitless, and the door could not be opened at night. The next day, Ju Dou had to make it clear, "I'll keep this size of my aunt." The dyed cloth rolled down, and the red dye pool rippled. Sex, the most primitive desire of human beings, was released freely under the oppression of feudal ethics. The purpose of sex is to live. In exchange for Yang Tianqing's protection through sex, or by giving birth to a son to satisfy Yang Jinshan's wishes, he will no longer be abused. In the process of cheating, the two fell in love. Sex for the purpose of reproduction led to Yang Jinshan's psychological distortion, and Judou was abused; sex that was not for the purpose of reproduction brought love. Betrayal gave Judou a child, free from abuse, and gave her love and real support, but she could not take her away from this dye house, let alone the oppression of feudal ethics. The hope she found, Yang Tianqing, was just another distorted figure under the oppression of feudal ethics. chrysanthemum once Ask, "Tianqing, what are you afraid of?" Tianqing is afraid of his uncle. Since childhood, Tianqing has lived under the oppression of his uncle. This is mental inertia. When Ju Dou was pregnant, Tian Qing only dared to ask a few secretly, "Don't let the old things run into her." Tian Qing was afraid that others would see it, so he understood Ju Dou's hint, but he didn't dare to take a step up the stairs, instead he went back to the house and locked the door. Ju Dou commented on him, "You are a good person, you have no courage to do anything, you are a ghost." In a village dominated by a clan, there is no personal privacy at all, and anything that challenges the ethical order is not allowed. Everyone has a defined position and role in the ethical order, and no outrageous behavior is allowed, otherwise they will be condemned by the public opinion of the group, or even judged by the patriarchal law. An old man of Lao Yang's family, but complained that he didn't have a good name, and was questioned, "You are more knowledgeable than your ancestors". Betrayal, because of the parent-child uncertainty it brings, directly endangers the inheritance of a family or even a family's incense, and has always been regarded as a great challenge to social ethics. Incest is the most severe challenge to ethics. Under the oppression of such ethics and morality, in fact, whether it is Tianqing or Jinshan, they have no courage. Feudal morality requires not the brave and the rebellious, but the obedient. Everyone has his own place and must live under the mask of ethics and morality. Therefore, Judou was excited to expose the fact that Tianbai was Tianqing's son, but Yang Jinshan did not dare to make any publicity. The villagers said he was lucky, so he could only endure it and shouted in front of the ancestral tablet when he returned home. Once it is revealed that Tianbai is not his son, he will lose all face. But Tianqing and Judou can only have an affair behind closed doors. When Jinshan was normal, the two's cheating pregnancy, Jinshan, was a blindfold; when Jinshan was paralyzed, Judou's pregnancy would definitely expose their adultery. Therefore, while unscrupulously cheating under the eyes of Jinshan, Judou is particularly worried about her pregnancy. Judou secretly found the nun of the nunnery and found a way to not get pregnant, but after using it a few times, he found that it was just chili noodles. (How can a nun know the method of contraception if he has to abide by the strict rules and regulations of Buddhism? This is another mockery of ethics and morality.) Judou, who has suffered from physical pain and fearful torture, once again proposed to take Tianbai with him, or open up Live, Ren village people scold them. Yang Tianqing refused again, "It doesn't matter if it's scolding, it's impossible to live if people know it." "It's impossible to live" is exactly the response of people to those who challenged ethics under the feudal ethics and moral regulations. It's not that Yang Tianqing has no chance to leave. He has left the village alone more than once to send cloth outside. He has seen the outside world. from real life From a perspective, the outside world is in chaos, leaving the village will face great risks. From a psychological point of view, Yang Tianqing's experience of losing his parents at a young age made him extremely insecure, which is why Yang Tianqing showed an extremely strong desire for Judou's breast-feeding breasts. The old Yang family also has a strong psychological dependence. Yang Tianqing has lived in the old Yang family since he was a child, and his life under the feudal ethics for more than 40 years has worn away all his edges and corners and courage. Furthermore, all his production and living materials come from the old Yang's dye house. If he leaves here, he will directly lose his life support, and his childhood nightmare of losing his parents will be awakened again. Even though Yang Jinshan treated him badly, Yang Jinshan was actually equivalent to Yang Tianqing's father. Yang Tianqing was deeply abused by Jinshan and was always worried about being discovered by him, but it was always difficult for him to summon the courage to kill the first obstacle to their affair. Not only because of Yang Tianqing's kindness in his heart, but also because he could not bear the charge of "father murder" (killing the elder). Men and women who are cheating on love can be killed, but parents and brothers cannot be killed. This is also a requirement of feudal ethics. Whether it is the tragedy of personal fate or the shaping of feudal ethics, Yang Tianqing is almost destined to become a spiritually impotent man, who has no courage to leave his current life, let alone take Judou to escape her tragic fate. Spend a lifetime in. After the adultery was revealed, and after finding out that Tian Bai was not his son, Yang Jinshan, who was so embarrassed, also waited for an opportunity to take revenge. While the two were having an affair, he tried to kill Yang Tianbai; while Judou and Tianbai were sleeping, he climbed downstairs, locked the door, tore off the cloth, and set fire to the house, but all failed. The desires of the characters continue to expand in the dye room, and are constantly suppressed and distorted. Tianqing and Judou decided to take good care of Jinshan, let him live spiritually, and watch the two of them cheat, in order to avenge Jinshan's oppression and abuse of them. Later, Yang Tianbai ran home alone and dyed the dog's tail grass in his hand red in the dye vat. Yang Jinshan wanted to push Tianbai down the dye pool, but he was evaded by Tianbai several times by accident. Yang Tianbai turned around and called him "Father", Yang Jinshan smiled happily. What could be more enjoyable than such revenge when your own son calls others to call him father, but you call him brother? In the thrill of perverted revenge, Yang Jinshan fell into the dye pool and ended his life. Yang Tianbai laughed for the first time in his life. Yang Jinshan, who was physically impotent and psychopathic, Yang Tianqing, who was cowardly and weak in mental impotence, and Judou, who dared to love and hate but couldn't help but raised them together, is such a dark and cold, more twisted and perverted Yang Tianbai. Yang Tianbai is the crystallization of the love between Tianqing and Judou. This kind of love is happy for any couple and children. However, because Tianbai was born of an affair, and his incestuous behavior was despised by the society, Tianbai could not feel any happiness from it, only the shame, and the indifference of his biological parents to him when he had an affair. The sky is blue and the sky is white, pure and innocent, everything around him, even his name seems to be laughing at his birth. All the resentments were stored in his heart, so he never opened his mouth to call them. The unexpected death of Yang Jinshan seems to have brought a turning point in the lives of Tianqing and Judou. What they have always wanted to do but dare not do has suddenly come true. The power that oppressed them seems to have disappeared, but the old people of the old Yang family still Now, the power of feudal ethics is still there. A few words from the patriarch and the old rules of the ancestors decided the next life of Tianqing and Judou. Judou was not allowed to remarry, but she had to do her best to keep her virginity; Tianqing moved out of the dye house and slept at Lao Wang's house at night to avoid suspicion. Whether they like it or not, since they cannot leave, they will inevitably compromise with the feudal ethical order. Wearing an old-fashioned navy blue cotton robe, you can only be a sneaky underground couple and endure the gossip of the villagers. Once again, Judou said to Tianqing, get out of here and go far. Tian Qing refused again. So many days have passed, how can the next days not be able to survive? He could never muster his courage. Her incompetent husband who abused her, Yang Tianqing, her cowardly lover who loved her, and Yang Tianbai, who always hated her biological parents, lost her fertility due to cheating... As the years passed, Judou was completely reduced to A victim of feudal ethics and morality. No matter how many brightly colored cloths there are in the dyeing workshop, no matter how bright they are, they can no longer be worn on Judou. As she gets older, will she remember the time when she used to wear a light yellow short jacket? No matter how high the brightly colored cloth hangs in the dyehouse, it cannot break out of the surrounding gray, black, and white world. Before them, how many young men and women had suffocated their lives in this dark and old world? The Crypt: The Desperate Moan of Living Life The last time Tianqing and Judou were husband and wife was in the cellar of the dye house. The cellar has a flight of steps and a relatively wide abdominal cavity, resembling a female vagina and uterus. Yang Tianqing is taking out buckets of dye from here, and dyeing the innocent and white cloth with various colors. Colors symbolize different desires of different people. Judou's original desire was yellow, which symbolized lust. When Jinshan died, he fell into a red dye pool that symbolized blood and killing. Against them, the world they live in is the dull gray, and the navy blue and black that wrap them in layers. Sex is the most primitive desire of human beings and the root of beauty and art. Sex, originally the origin of feudal ethics and morality, has in turn shackled countless creatures. Tianqing and Judou's affair is their most thorough resistance to feudal ethics and morality. Starting from a small hole that is curious and peeping about sex, and ending with a big hole to be a couple again, they desperately resist, but the space left for them is getting narrower and narrower, and the air that allows them to breathe freely is not enough. getting thinner. The cellar is a symbol of the power of eating and drinking men and women to pursue freedom, and it is also a symbol of the persecution of feudal ethics and morality. It can also be said that the cellar is a small and enhanced dyeing workshop. The dye house has a patio that can withstand the sun and rain, and hangs colorful floral fabrics, and the cellar has only a covered airtight cover. Tianqing and Judou can get out of the cellar, but they can't get out of the dyehouse; they can get out of the dyehouse, but they can't get out of Lao Yang's house; they can get out of Lao Yang's house, but they can't get out of the deep-rooted feudal ethics. Here people who yearn for freedom and escape are groaning in despair, lying in silence, waiting to die. And it is impossible to lie down and die in despair. Men and women who pursue freedom will also accept the counterattack of feudal ethics. Tianbai carried Tianqing out of the cellar, threw it into the red dye pool that drowned Jinshan, and gave Tianqing another blow. The red cloth fell down, just like when Tian Qing and Ju Dou first had an affair. Judou witnessed Tianbai killing his biological father, Yang Tianqing, and shouted in horror, climbed down from the second floor, but was powerless. It was exactly the same as when Jinshan climbed down the stairs and set fire to the house. The house in Jinshan that was not burned at that time, chrysanthemum beans were burned. The dyeing workshop has led to the tragedy of Yang Jinshan, the tragedy of Judou, the tragedy of Tianqing, and the tragedy of Tianbai. If it burns, everything will cease to exist, and it will end up in a vast expanse of white land that is really clean. But will the persecution of feudal ethics and morality disappear? If Yang Tianqing knew something underground, he wondered if he would remember the nursery rhyme he used to hum in his happiest days--Linger Linger tingling and walking to Wang
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