Goose heart is higher than the sky, life is thinner than paper. Yaner is the servant girl of the Chen family. She is influenced by her wives every day, beating their feet and lighting their lights. She became greedy and liked this sense of superiority, and eventually became a puppet of the feudal hierarchy. As soon as Song Lian arrived at the Chen family, Yaner gave her a disdainful look, and her words were full of jealousy and dissatisfaction. Yaner thinks the fourth wife's seat is hers, and Song Lian takes her seat. Every time Song Lian washes clothes, she spits on them. In fact, she is also the object of spitting. Her wish to be a wife didn't come true. Unwilling, she hung red lanterns at home, dreaming that she would be spoiled. The red lantern is a symbol of human feelings, and it also represents that life comes out of the red light, and Yaner's life dries up with the burnt-out red lantern oil lamp.
Yaner's death is sad, but not pitiful, because everything is caused by herself. She doesn't know her identity and dreams of a better life. I didn't see clearly the conspiracy between everyone and my second wife, but when she was punished for lighting a lamp, her second wife didn't put in a good word for her. Life gave her a chance to be born again. She didn't catch the lantern, so as long as she admits her mistake, she can muddle through. But she was stupid and stubborn, watching the lantern burn and fainted in the snow coldly.
Unlike Song Lian, she was uneducated, with deep-rooted feudal ideas and didn't know a word, let alone advocating a new education of equality and democracy. She was born and raised in a mansion. Chen Jiahao's house means the world to her. In the film, we can clearly see Yan's stubbornness and persistence, and concubinage is her only ambition in her life. Therefore, there are no shortcuts in life, and taking shortcuts will cost you.