Ying Ning is a pearl in Liaozhai. Ying Ning is a kind of warmth deliberately rendered by Pu Songling. As if laughing, treat the bleak world with joyful laughter and deal with secular diversity with Yiyi. Pu Songling not only wrote her innocent and charming personality, but also described the living environment of "laughter" in that mountain. She was born in a more beautiful garden than Taohuayuan, where the grass is delicious and the flowers are bright. Outside the park, there are "chaotic mountains, empty and refreshing muscles", while inside the park, there are "fine grass carpets, Yang Shuhua". She is a bit like a fairies with beautiful scenery. This is not only an ode to beauty, but also a denial of the dark and sad society of Nocturnal Music. Surprisingly, however, this lovely Ying Ning did an outrageous "immoral thing". It seems that the ruthless Wang Xifeng in a Dream of Red Mansions set up a lovesickness bureau to kill Jia Rui and deceived a neighbor who envied her beauty. Many commentators in modern times said that this was a great failure of Pu Songling, which destroyed the beauty (see Huang Reading). In fact, it may not be so.

Ying Ning is Pu Songling's ideal figure, but not our ideal figure. She "came to the world because of fantasy" (Lu Xun's evaluation of Liaozhai) is a portrayal of her life at that time. Even in modern times, the living people in life and the real artistic typical in artistic reflection are not perfect; On the contrary, the fat comment in A Dream of Red Mansions put it well: "True beauty is flawed." Ying Ning's image, Pu Songling refers to two characteristics, one is "assiduous smile, seemingly heartless", and the other is "a prank under the wall, nothing". Naive and cunning, this is Pu Songling's understanding and design of Ying Ning. Cunning is Ying Ning's weakness and Ying Ning's truth, goodness and beauty. On the one hand, Ying Ning was born in a valley and grew up in a ghost fox. She doesn't judge three obedience, doesn't know four virtues, doesn't care about the order of the young and the old, doesn't have to advance and retreat, despises everything with laughter, and shakes everything with laughter; On the one hand, marrying into the world and obeying the scribes is not afraid of the cold in prison, but also abides by the feudal morality of men and women, and laughs and severely punishes obscenity. She can't jump out of the social environment at that time, and she is a real beauty who can't break through and get rid of it. This is the case in Ying Ning, where foxes mate with people, and so is Xiaocui, where foxes are born. Xiaocui is almost as beautiful and naive as Ying Ning, but didn't she give it to an idiot who didn't even know the personnel without complaining? Isn't this the feudal dregs of marrying a chicken and following a dog? Pu Songling can only create characters according to the ideals endowed by life and life. His outstanding talent is reflected in the complexity of Ying Ning. The complexity of Ying Ning's image is the victory of the writer's creative method of being loyal to life. To remove Ying Ning's "defects" is not only a perfect destruction, but also a requirement divorced from historical reality.

In addition to this "immoral thing", Ying Ning also had a remarkable sad cry-crying for her husband to move away and bury her mother. This sad cry is the key to our understanding of the relationship between Ying Ning's complex personality and Ying Ning's naivety and cunning. We are easily confused by Ying Ning's laughter, but she is not only a naive girl, but also a deep and precocious girl who only regards life as joy. Laughter is her means of testing life, coping with life and winning. She explained herself from laughing to crying and said:

If you look at each other from the perspective of the sun, you will be shocked by what you say. I went to see Gu Helang today. I love them for not cheating. Why didn't you just tell me you were afraid? My concubine was born in forks. When my mother left, I entrusted Guimu to my concubine. It took me more than ten years to get there. I have no brothers, but I depend on you. Old mother cenji mountain, no one sympathizes. Jiuquan needs mourning. If you take the trouble to let the underground people eliminate this resentment and intimidation, ordinary adopted daughters can't bear to abandon it.

She is still so reluctant to reveal her inner wishes to the elderly who are both close relatives and grandmothers, or even the lovers who share the same bed. It is necessary to examine the rear carefully and talk about her inner wishes. How deep and meticulous Ying Ning's heart is, and how good she is at controlling it! Pu Songling said: "I am so sad for Guimu that I can't laugh or cry. I'd rather hide in Xiao Yu. " Ying Ning is a "smiling face" carved by years. She lives alone in the valley, dressed in Luo and Li, but still can't sweep away the dust of social intrigue, so she has to put on a veil of "laughter" This shows how pervasive and powerful the power of society to destroy human nature is. This is the social origin of his personality and the starting point of Ying Ning's naivety.

Although the feudal society had such a powerful force, Ying Ning still won with a weak girl, which was of course due to Pu Songling's love for her. Why did Pu Songling favor her and give her the longest space? Because she is not only an innocent and lovely girl, but also a beautiful woman, a strange girl who wants to replace men with women to fulfill her mother's wishes. Ying Ning's choked speech to her husband was actually a Hamlet-style monologue that shocked her heart. It has long been pointed out by predecessors that a Liaozhai can be summarized as "punishing evil and promoting good", but punishing evil in Liaozhai is promoting good. Filial piety is the most important part of kindness in Liaozhai. Filial piety runs through the serial and is supreme. As the daughter of Fox Fairy, Ying Ning was abandoned by her parents and grew up in the rain and dew in the mountain village, which was a miserable and helpless life for the bottom farmers. Gui Mu's recognition is a manifestation of the sympathy of farmers who care about each other. It was to enable Guimu to live in seclusion that she went out for an outing, smiled through tears and winked at her aunt, brother and prince. After attracting the prince's clothes, he pretended to be dementia, didn't know how to share a bed, and even seemed to know something he didn't know. He said foolishly, "How can you carry your old mother behind someone else's back?" To hint at your old mother's position in her heart. It is this filial piety that has become the guide of all Ying Ning's words and deeds. However, it should be pointed out that Ying Ning was born in a secluded valley, and she is actually a farmer's child. Her filial piety is not the filial piety advocated by feudal literati, but the ideal filial piety of farmers to "raise their children and prevent their old age" Poor farmers attach great importance to labor, not just men to inherit cigarettes; Ying Ning's ideal of giving priority to the weak women was the embodiment of the farmers' ideal at that time, especially the working women's ideal, and it was also a criticism of the abandonment of baby girls in rural areas at that time because of their livelihood. This is the brilliance of Ying Ning's image and the eye-catching place of Ying Ning Pearl.