The three-act drama Peking man takes the economic decline of the Zeng family, a typical declining scholar-bureaucrat family, as the clue of the overall contradiction and conflict, and takes the Zeng family as the protagonist to start the conflict between good and ugly, rebirth and decay, light and darkness in the family. Through these conflicts, we went deep into feudal families, trying to reflect the devouring of people by feudal spiritual rule, people's pursuit of life under this spiritual rule, and the inevitable bankruptcy of this spiritual rule.
The Image of Fang Lu and Its Aesthetic Value
Su Fang in Peking Man is a relative who lives between Zeng and Zeng Siyi, and is also the character that Cao Yu depicts most attentively. She was born in a famous family in Jiangnan. Influenced by the ideology and culture of feudal scholar-officials, she was gentle and quiet, bearing the heavy burden of old ideas, traditions and culture. After her parents died, she lived in her uncle Ceng Hao's home for a long time, watching people and living, and endured the mental torture of Ceng Hao and Zeng Siyi. She always wants to give something to people and life, at the expense of any sacrifice.
She takes "we should help all the poor" as her life creed. The author deeply explores the subtle relationship with Zeng and the sharp contradiction with Zeng Siyi, and explores the rich connotation of this character's character. What has aesthetic value in this character's character is not the kind of "tolerance" that is close to "resignation", but his moral sentiment that he would rather sacrifice himself and hope to make others happy.
The author describes her inner world delicately in the fierce conflict between good and ugly, rebirth and decay, light and darkness. The core strength of Su Fang's character lies in her sincere interpretation of life. Her conversation with Ruizhen shows her strong side, and under her kind and gentle feelings, there is a warm pursuit of real life.