YanTaitai is a character in Lu Xun's reminiscence essay "Flowers at Morning". Appeared in two articles: notes and father's illness.
When Lu Xun's father died, she always encouraged him to call his father, encouraged the children to eat ice spinning, encouraged Lu Xun to read pornographic books and periodicals, encouraged Lu Xun to steal his mother's jewelry, spread rumors, and always expected the children next door to do bad things. Generally speaking, YanTaitai is an image of unscrupulous, disgusting, selfish and shirking responsibility.
Role prototype:
YanTaitai's character prototype is a menstruation of Lu Xun. In the Zhou family in Banpenqiao, Shaoxing, the "smart house" to which Lu Xun belongs is divided into three branches:, and. YanTaitai is the wife of Zhou Zichuan, Fang Cheng's uncle. Zhou Zichuan has a brother named Zhou Zilin, so he called YanTaitai "mistress" or "Zichuan's grandmother".
Lu Xun sympathized with women all his life, but there were at least two women he hated most in his life: one was Yu Taixin, the wife of Zhou Zuoren, which was proved by Lu Xun's pen name "Yan Ao (meaning being driven out of the house by Japanese women)"; The other is this "YanTaitai", which can also be proved by Lu Xun's Trivial Notes.