What is the purpose of the mirror edge?

Jing Hua Yuan is a novel with chapters. Before each return, a single sentence or two antithetical sentences are used as the title, which is called "Uighur" and summarizes the story content of this return. Therefore, the contents of each time in the mirror flower margin book are as follows:

The female champion Beidou was the first to hang down, and the old lady gave a banquet in Xichi.

The second time, it is said that Huaxian should punish her sister Yue who helped Feng Kuang in time.

The third time, Xu Yinggong asked the uprising soldier Luo Zhu to write a book and send it to his good friend.

The fourth time, singing snow poems, gambling on wine, getting drunk and urging garden flowers.

The fifth time, Gong Qiaoe praised marigold and Wu Zetian angered peony.

The sixth time, all the butchers visited the garden and the flowers were sent to the world of mortals.

The seventh time, under the moon, young talented women and old literary scholars heard good results in their dreams.

The eighth time, abandon the hubbub and travel around the world together, looking for scenic spots, mountains and mountains.

The ninth time, eating gravy prolongs life, and eating Zhu Cao becomes sacred and extraordinary.

The tenth time, the beauty of the blade was punished, and the arrow was applied to hit the strange bird, and the strong man competed for the air.

Artistic feature

Mirror Flower Edge inherits some materials from overseas western classics and wild western classics in Shan Hai Jing. After the author's re-creation, with his rich imagination and humorous style, he created a novel with unique structure and novel conception by using exaggeration, metaphor and contrast.

The book describes countries such as scholar country, daughter country, intestine-less country, dog-sealed country, Nie 'er country and Gu Xuanguo. These works are characterized by people's unique talents and learning skills, local customs, or local historical sites, which show the author's fantasy of expanding the ancients and his desire to discover different countries and people outside China.

On the surface, the text of Mirror Flower Edge shows all kinds of illusory, romantic and quiet worlds, but in its depths, it has collided with the deep and sad universal consciousness supported by the great tension of love, persistence and death and doubt. This questioning of the basic problems of human existence is the most attractive part of this novel.

Through the description of dozens of countries in the Mirror Flower Garden, including positive comments and side satire, it is not difficult to see that it advocates and opposes the following points: First, it advocates equality between men and women.

It requires women to learn from an early age and take the same exams as men. Oppose men's oppression of women, especially foot-binding and ear-piercing, and express anger and protest. Hu Shi praised: "This system is the general way to solve women's problems in Li Ruzhen."

Chapters 11 and 12 of Jing Hua Yuan contain a large section of "scholar country" and put forward twelve social problems. Among them, article 10 is "women's foot binding" and article 11 is "fortune telling for marriage".