Wei Zi's wedding dress

I'm sure everyone has heard of it. The main line of this drama is not only the house fight, but also the three daughters of the Sheng family, mainly the story of unmarried and married. Four girls, Moran, have a gentle and calculating mother, Lin Xiaoniang. As a concubine, she is completely restless. Instead, she charms her master like a fox every day, blowing a pillow breeze at night, and even cajoling and cheating can get some land titles.

As a daughter, Moran naturally got a biography, completely copied and pasted her personality, and was good at rhetoric. She is usually coquetry, fooling around, pretending to be wronged, pretending to be weak, and she will put on a reasonable look at critical times. Although she is an unmarried woman, her father likes her best and dotes on her most. However, this advocate is arrogant and sneaky. No matter what he does, he is strong. He won't let his two sisters annoy her. He studied writing and tea ceremony very hard. It is because he is arrogant and narrow-minded, so his two sisters are bullied by her. Finally, regardless of the face of the Sheng family, she cheated with Liang's son in the temple. After the incident, everyone in the Sheng family was humiliated, but she also married Liang Jia as she wished, wearing a green wedding dress when she got married.

Secondly, Rulan, born to the first mother, is naturally a distinguished first daughter. She grew up under the love of her mother and sister, and completely inherited her mother's character of doing things. As the first daughter, she often sends "tasks" to Ming Lan and quarrels with her sister Moran from time to time. However, Rulan is kind in nature, but she likes to play a little temper, and her brothers and sisters are not to be taunted. At the same time, she can't compete with Moran, who has a deep mind, so she can only be used in passive Ming Lan in Nuo Nuo. Juran has a very clear understanding of his marriage. Although the first lady wants her to marry in Plutocratic family, she knows that wealth and prosperity are all floating clouds in the end. With the lessons of elder sister and Moran, she completely broke the idea of marrying into a rich family. Finally, she fell in love with the scholar at first sight and persuaded her mother to give up her prejudice against her family. Finally, she married love as she wished and wore a red wedding dress when she got married.

Finally, Ming Lan, the protagonist, was very determined and brave when she was a child, and won back the dowry for her big sister by throwing a pot. She also made a big noise, but watching her little mother die in childbirth, because she was framed by Lin Xiaoniang, and her little mother told her before she died: Don't show off. This sentence was deeply imprinted in Ming Lan's mind, and she grew up with her. Fortunately, the old lady took her in and regarded her as a treasure, but Ming Lan was careful in everything and didn't dare to show off. She lives in the cracks like her dead little mother. Later, she and Xiao Qiheng went to school together since childhood, and they had a mutual affection. They also promised to go to the end together. Ming Lan even went against his grandmother's wishes, but this relationship died because of the strong opposition of Xiaoye's mother.

I believe everyone will have questions. Why do Ming Lan and Moran wear green wedding dresses, while Juran wears red wedding dresses? Let's look at the title of the play first. It originated from Li Qingzhao's dream. The meaning of this poem is also easy to understand. It's about a stormy night, or a young lady in the boudoir. Li Qingzhao was slightly drunk and fell asleep until she got up the next morning and found that her drunkenness had not subsided. Then he asked his maid, what happened outside? The maid replied: the begonia flowers outside are in full bloom as usual. However, you should know that in this season, green leaves should be flourishing and the withering of safflower is inevitable. Through these short sentences, we can see how comfortable and comfortable a rich woman's life is. So why are there differences in the colors of wedding dresses in the Song Dynasty?

In fact, China's ancient wedding dresses also experienced a long evolution. Before the Han Dynasty, women's wedding dresses were all black, and only in the Tang Dynasty did red wedding dresses appear, but red wedding dresses did not become the mainstream, and blue and green wedding dresses were really popular in the Tang and Song Dynasties. It was not until the Ming Dynasty that the red wedding dress was officially popular in civil marriages, because the emperor of the Ming Dynasty was surnamed Zhu, and at that time Zhu represented red and also symbolized dignity. The background of this play is the Northern Song Dynasty. Wedding etiquette at that time was unisex. In order to follow the ancient system, the green wedding dress was chosen in the play. However, there is another saying: What color a woman wears at a wedding depends on the status and position of her husband's family. In the play, Ru Lan married a poor scholar, and her husband's family was not a noble family, and there was no rich official. Rulan was demoted to their home, so she wore a red wedding dress.

Let's review this poem by Li Qingzhao, which is about 16 years old. The essence of the whole word lies in the sentence "green and fat and red and thin" In fact, in the impression of many people, red and green really don't match, and there is a saying that "red matches green", but we can't look at ancient times with modern eyes. Let's look at the words "fat" and "thin" first. In this word, they are used to describe flowers and leaves. But in the world's cognition, flowers should be prosperous and should compete with each other. In this word, "thin" is used to describe flowers. The ancients generally used leaves to render bleak scenes, while the words used fat to describe leaves.

The superficial meaning of these four words is that this season is the season when the red flowers are gone and the green leaves are flourishing, which most people can understand. But the deeper meaning is that the leaves should have been "fat", because it rained a lot last night, so it grew prosperous and fat; The reason why flowers are rare is mainly because after a heavy rain, many flowers fall again and again.