Keywords: Tanchun's character, talent, ability and ending
Tan Chun is one of the many characters in A Dream of Red Mansions. Her body exudes a pleasant fragrance, giving people a refreshing feeling. She is a woman without women's sympathy. Like men, she can't escape the barrier of women's fate. She has strong financial management and housekeeping skills, but she can't play them out; She has her own political pride, but after all, she can't get rid of the shackles of feudal ethics. Cao Xueqin's description of perfect female quality embodies her, and also entrusts his expectation for the transformation of feudal declining families. Studying this character will help us find the root of Jia family's decline and further examine the feudal ethics.
First, the survey of tanchun
Jia Tanchun, nicknamed Jiao Xiake, Jia Zheng was born out of wedlock, ranking third among the sisters. Tanchun is the third young lady of the Jia family. She has a slender waist, a slender figure, an oval face and delicate eyebrows and eyes, and is looking forward to flying. This is a description of Tanchun's position and appearance in Jia's house. Compared with other sisters, she is generous, broad-minded, without the cowardice of welcoming the spring and the loneliness of cherishing the spring. She is a manly woman, but not as careless as Xiangyun.
Judging from the arrangement of Tanchun's boudoir, she is also obviously different from other sisters: Tanchun likes to be generous, and three rooms are connected into one. There is a big box of Guilin marble in the room, which contains all kinds of famous people's calligraphy, pen and ink inkstone. Mi Fei's Misty Rain Picture and Yan's Mo Bao are hung on the wall. Compared with other sisters, including Baoyu, the layout of Tanchun Room is very simple. Qinqi calligraphy and painting is a common pastime in ancient ladies' toilets. The calligraphy and painting in Tanchun Room does not mean that she is knowledgeable. In terms of literary talent, Tan Chun is inferior to Baochai and Daiyu, but she also has a unique style. He can write poems that admire both elegance and popularity, such as chrysanthemum and residual chrysanthemum, and he can also say, "I know that my temples are cold and stained with three classics, and Ge Zhongxiang is stained with nine autumn frost." Good sentences like that. The lively poetry club activities in the Grand View Garden have brought all the sisters' talents into full play, but the initiator of this activity is her, which makes people have to agree with her organizational ability and her pursuit of elegance.
Tanchun is particularly strict with girls. When she was eating, the maids on both sides kept silent, but the other sisters couldn't do that. For example, Yingchun can't command her maids and spinsters at all, and even loses her temper with these people. At this point, none of the sisters in the Grand View Garden does not admire her. Lian Ping also said: "She is a girl's family and is not convinced. This is her respect. You despise her and bully her. It really stirred up the atmosphere, and Second Grandma (Wang Xifeng) dared not do anything. " She also said, "Second Daughter-in-law should also give her five points on her eldest sister-in-law." It can be seen that Wang Xifeng also admires her sister-in-law
Second, Tan Chun's ability to manage money and family and her statesmanship.
In Cao Xueqin's works, Tan Chun belongs to the orthodox women in the Grand View Garden. Among the orthodox women, there are Wang Xifeng and Xue Baochai, and Tan Chun is one of them with political grace.
Tan Chun is very different from other orthodox women because she has her own life ambitions. She said it herself ... I'm a man, but I can go out. My heart is long gone, and I have a career. I had my own reasons at that time. "I'm a girl's family, there's nothing to say. ..... "This shows that Tanchun is not at ease to be a rich lady or a rich lady.
Tan Chun's talent is more reflected in her actions of managing family and managing money. First, at the fifty-fifth session, Tanchun's uncle Zhao died. She didn't care too much about the relationship between the deceased and herself and the crying of her mother, Aunt Zhao. Instead, she gave a gift of twenty taels according to the rules. Of course, there are also factors that Tan Chun doesn't regard her uncle as a relative, but we can also see that her business is business-like and selfless, but few daughters-in-law who are in charge do so. Secondly, she exempted Baoyu, Jia Huan and Jia Lan from going to school, but actually spent her monthly money on Xiren, Aunt Zhao and Li Wan. Although this incident aroused the dissatisfaction of others, no one said anything against it, because everyone knew in their hearts that Tanchun had done the right thing. After this incident, Wang Xifeng asked Pinger to say, "Although she is a girl, she knows everything in her heart, but she is cautious in her words. She knows more about reading and writing than I do, and now there is a saying that' catch the thief first'. If she contradicts me, don't contradict me. The more you respect others, the better you can say yes. Don't think about being afraid that I will lose face. It's not good to fight with her. " It can be seen that this phoenix pepper, which has always been fearless, is also afraid of tanchun. Look closely at the ability and self-sufficiency of this sister-in-law housekeeper.
Tanchun did two admirable things without violating Wang Xifeng's interests. First of all, she exempted every young lady from buying twenty taels of silver for hair oil and powder every month, because these girls already have two or two months' money every month. Here, Tan Chun found the phenomenon of "comprador" in Jia's family economy. Although I just bought some girl powder, I have a great disadvantage. The comprador either delayed delivery or bought some inferior ones, which made the girls unable to use them and had to buy them again. Tanchun forgave the money, which did little harm to the girls, but dealt a blow to the comprador evil forces. Secondly, during this year, she saw the management method of Leda Garden, and thought it was good, so she sent someone to manage Jiafu's garden in the same way. As long as the managers can take out a small amount of girls' hair oil and powder money every month, the profits in the park will all belong to them. This economic method, which even has the concept of modern agricultural production, comes from a girl's hand, which is really not easy. Looking back, Cao Xueqin's title is "Exploring Spring, Promoting Benefits and Eliminating Lodging Disadvantages", and the word "min" shows that Cao Xueqin also paid great attention to this third young lady in his works and gave her incomparable wisdom.
Because Wang Xifeng was ill, Tan Chun managed the housework. Besides Tan Chun, Li Wan and Xue Baochai replaced Wang Xifeng. The other two didn't attract much attention in the process of managing the family, because Tan Chun did a lot of things to promote the advantages and eliminate the disadvantages, which attracted all eyes. She is knowledgeable, correct and smart, no less than Wang Xifeng, and people are used to comparing her with Wang Xifeng, a daughter-in-law who has been a housekeeper.
Wang Xifeng is greedy and ruthless in financial management, just like her. Her main income is exorbitant taxes, but she doesn't develop industry. Of course, this is not entirely her responsibility, it is the inevitable development of that society. What stands out in Wang Xifeng's financial management is her right to falsify. Wang Xifeng's usury and bribery kept the rest of the family in the dark. It was really her own way. It was not until the 105th time that officials of Jinyifu raided Rongning House and copied a large number of IOUs in her room that everyone knew that she was still lending usury privately. Wang Xifeng's financial management is extremely selfish Everything she did was to enrich herself. However, Tanchun's financial management is not the case. Tanchun forgave the young ladies and maids the spare money of rouge, and the allowance of others' pockets. In the name of borrowing the spare money from the boys' school, he gave the garden to the servant for "contracting". From these things, we can see the style of tanchun financial management, that is, "increasing revenue and reducing expenditure" with great positive significance. Tanchun saved seemingly small "small money" and used extremely simple methods, but it was these practices that made the declining Jia family "make the best use of everything, make the best use of the land, make the best use of everything", with a little enterprising breath, and also made people up and down respect and fear her. It can be described as the best of both worlds. Unfortunately, this is just a glimmer of light. When Wang Xifeng is well, everything will remain the same, and the management will still be under the jurisdiction of the Foreign Affairs Office. Internal improvement measures will be swept away, and there is no chance.