In the second episode of A Dream of Red Mansions, Cao Xueqin expressed such a view through the words of Leng Zixing and Jia Baoyu: "Daughters are made of water and men are made of mud. Seeing my daughter refreshed me; When I see a man, I feel turbid and unpleasant. " Jia Baoyu often calls himself a man with eyebrows, but this view is not unique to Jia Baoyu. When Jia Yucun talked about the students he taught, his students also had a similar statement, "This daughter is extremely noble and noble, even more noble than the titles of Amitabha and Yuanshi Tianzun!" . When Jia Baoyu was in a dreamland, the fairies saw Baoyu, and they all called Baoyu a turbid thing. Jia Baoyu naturally felt filthy. When I first heard about Jia Baoyu's daughter, I thought it was just some nonsense. After reading A Dream of Red Mansions, I realized that "daughters are made of water and men are made of mud" was originally a deliberately expressed view of Cao Xueqin.
So are all women made of water, and men must be ugly? In the fifty-ninth session, Cao Xueqin borrowed Chun Yan's words and Jia Baoyu's words: "Unmarried girls are priceless pearls; Without marriage, I don't know how to change many bad problems. Although it is a bead, it has no luster. This is a dead bead. When I get old, it will not be beads, but fisheye. " When Zhou Rui's family left the Grand View Garden with Siqi, Jia Baoyu hated it: "Strange, strange, how can these people only marry a man, dye the smell of a man, and become assholes, and they can kill more than men!" It can be seen that not every woman is made of water, or that women are not all made of water, and it is very likely to become more turbid than turbid things. Then why did Jia Baoyu say that women are made of water?
Since a woman's body is made of water, it is a beautiful body in the world. It is said that Jia Baoyu will not be angry with a woman made of water. However, Shi Xiangyun is advising Jia Baoyu not to grow up among women. He should often meet those who work as butchers for officials and learn more about career economics. Jia Baoyu was annoyed at once and said to Shi Xiangyun, "Miss, go and sit in other sisters' rooms. I have carefully polluted your economic knowledge here. "Even if Xue Baochai advised him, he would leave without mercy. He said: "A clean and white daughter learned to gain fame and joined the ranks of traitors and ghosts. This is always causing trouble for no reason, clear pronunciation and mellow voice, which is originally a foolish thing to guide future generations. Don't want me to be unlucky, I also caught this wind in Qionggui Xiuge. It really has the beauty of Zhong Ling. "It can be seen that whether it is flesh and blood made of water does not seem to be a simple gender difference, and it is certainly not the reason why women cry or the proportion of water is large. Jia Baoyu said that women are made of water. It was Cao Xueqin who revealed his outlook on life and values through Jia Baoyu.
In Jia Baoyu's era, women were virtuous without talents, and it was their duty to teach their husbands and children and weave textiles. Women in rich families read and play chess just to cultivate their temperament and add some interest to their lives. Talent and reputation are not important. As Xue Baochai said, "So it's good that we girls can't read. Even writing poems or something like that is not your job. " You and I should just do some knitting. ""A woman without talent is a virtue. Chastity is always primary, and female workers are secondary. The rest of the poems are just boudoir games, with or without them. "Wait a minute.