When I first read the original text, I thought it was a story about love. Meng Jiangnv met Fan Xiliang and her parents ordered her to get married. Before marriage, there were no stories of vigorous love and dying love. After getting married, she fell in love deeply, and even the myth that the Great Wall would never fall was broken by a blow in front of her emotional crying. At first, I thought it was decided by China's traditional conservative and simple love view. But later, after reading the text repeatedly, I felt that it had a deeper connotation.
This story implies a more important level, that is, the growth process of an ordinary woman, which is permeated with narrative details and fantasy factors. Therefore, this may be a story of women's growth. In the process of Meng Jiangnv's growth, the long-term value orientation of women in China has been gradually clarified. For example, a woman was born, met her husband, got married, separated from her husband, found her, and cried over the Great Wall. Every link contains China's unique culture of treating women. For example, one of the links is to meet her husband. After Meng Jiangnv's garden was broken into, the man saw her taking a bath and had to marry him. This is a helpless move. According to the requirements of China culture, you must be faithful after marriage. If the plot is not to be peeked at in the shower, but to see Wan Ziliang, it is another China cultural story. For example, after Meng Jiangnv met Wan Ziliang, she proposed to get married, but her parents couldn't beat her daughter or were optimistic about Xiliang's character, and the marriage was completed. According to the parents' orders, this is Meng Jiangnv's self-exploration and active choice, and it is also a sign of her growth. At that time, she was happy, but then Wan Ziliang was arrested to repair the Great Wall, and her happy life went up in smoke. Meng Jiangnv lives alone and misses her husband. Finally, I became strong and decided to find a husband, which is also the requirement of China culture for women's loyalty. At this time, the weak boudoir woman is facing her own life crisis, loss, loneliness and despair, but under this sentimental stimulus, she resolutely went to Wan Li to find a husband, which is another sign of her growth (somehow, it reminds me of the ugly duckling going out, hehe). Finally, Meng Jiangnv went down the Great Wall in tears and found Fan Xiliang's remains, which is also a landmark event of the story. The towering Great Wall is the imperfection of Meng Jiangnv's world. The collapse of the Great Wall can return Meng Jiangnv's world. In a sense, this achieved Meng Jiangnv's goal, so that she regained the integrity of life growth.
I think there is a deeper meaning besides the story of women's growth, that is, women's dissatisfaction and resistance to male society. This is the root cause. To put it bluntly, women in feudal society were not satisfied with men controlling the world and wanted to resist. In reality, we can't resist, we can only rely on myth and imagination. The Great Wall represents the strength of male society. Originally, she was a happy woman, but the Qin Emperor who built the Great Wall took away her happiness. So there are two aspects of resistance, one is hegemony headed by Qin Shihuang, and the other is male society. In addition, women's psychology reveals ambivalence everywhere. For example, on the one hand, they want to resist the patriarchal society, on the other hand, they can't live without men. They can only find husbands on the one hand, and dream of overthrowing the Great Wall, which symbolizes male chauvinism.
In this sense, this story mainly describes the true portrayal of the inner spiritual world of women in feudal society. The collapse of the Great Wall, on the one hand, implies the collapse and loss of men's spiritual support in women's reality and mind, on the other hand, it also reflects the subversion of men's self-expanding political privilege. Compared with the male group, the oppression and domination of women are twofold, which is why they have so much energy to cry about the Great Wall. Guo once pointed out that the female group "not only accepts the rule of cultural hegemony with the ruled male group, but also has to be dominated by male values at the gender level, because it is usually the male group that controls cultural hegemony." Compared with the male group, the oppression and rule of women are twofold. " Because of the accumulation of two oppressive counterattack forces, monarchical power and husband power, such great energy will erupt. This is a kind of ideological resistance. From Crying Down the Great Wall, we can see how strong this imagination is! This is a great resistance in the subconscious.