Bi Feiyu's "Corn" series shows the daily scenes of rural and urban life in China in 1970s, and describes the tragedy of women being hurt again and again. The three heroines in Corn, Yu Xiu and Yuyang have different personality characteristics and ideal pursuits. From a macro point of view, as the three sisters of Wang, secretary of the Party branch of Wangjiazhuang, their life background and fate are strikingly similar: they all have the yearning for a happy life and the pursuit of freedom; They have made unremitting efforts to realize their self-worth and improve their embarrassing living situation; As women, they all have their own insurmountable weaknesses of same-sex jealousy and struggle; Under the shadow of the powerful patriarchal ethics society and the old feudal forces, they were persecuted both mentally and physically without exception.
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For Bi Feiyu, Corn, Yuxiu and Yumiao are three independent women with blood relationship, and they are also three issues he is concerned about. The female world in his works can be roughly divided into three types: the first is tough and generous corn. They are the strongest among women, capable and scheming, and they are in a dominant position among women, and both men and women respect them equally. The second category is beautiful and beautiful. They are blessed by heaven, with beautiful appearance and women's unique cleverness. They are the prey of men's malice and the envy of women. There is also a simple jade seedling. They are the silent majority. They have neither charming appearance nor outstanding specialty. They can't hear their voices in public, and they are neglected women. Bi Feiyu's thinking about the fate of these three types of women shows his infinite concern and anxiety about the overall fate of women.
Corn is a nearly perfect woman shaped by Bi Feiyu. She meets all the standards of China traditional culture for women: beautiful and dignified, competitive, thrifty and housekeeping, and is a conscious defender of the patriarchal ethical society. Corn had the same beautiful love as Ma Yinghua (Zhang Xianliang's Greening Tree) and Qiaozhen (Lu Yao's Life), but she had more desires and pursuits than them. Besides love, she also wants fame, interests and power. Under the multiple blows of his father's fall from power, the rape of his two sisters and the withering of love, corn further realized the preciousness and magic of power. So she gambled on power with her youth and beauty: she married Guo Jiaxing, deputy director of the commune revolutionary Committee as big as her father, to fill the house without hesitation. The woman in her mind should be like this: first, don't be too beautiful, everything should be decent and generous. You can be beautiful, but you can't show off. It's your fault to attract men's evil eyes. Who let you be a fox? From here, it is not difficult to understand why after Hachi was born, Corn would hold him door to door and silently humiliate those women who had an affair with his father. "The corn stands one by one, but it is actually exposed one by one. No one wants to escape the net." Such a move is a declaration of war and a strategy. Hachi is her "only weapon" to avenge her mother. The crime committed by the father with the help of power is borne by the poor victim, which is also the narrowness of corn. Second, corn thinks that women should also do housework well. "Women live for the sake of what? Just looking after the house. " When I was a girl, I learned to take care of children and do housework very early. In the future, I will have a companion, walk around the house, get up in the morning to be a neat new wife and be a good wife. Never looked down again and secretly looked at her mother-in-law's face out of the corner of her eye. "This traditional and universal understanding of women, corn is determined to lead by example. Therefore, she fought tenaciously with Yu Xiu and the romantic women in Wangjiazhuang represented by Liu Fenxiang. She finally gained the respect of good women, the fear of bad women and the fear of men, but at the same time she swallowed the bitter fruit she had caused.
Jade show belongs to the most eye-catching category among women. She is a bit flattering and likes to dress herself up and play tricks on women. Her beauty and charm made her the first victim after the fall of her father Wang. Beautiful women who have lost their virginity are also on sale. In the shadow of China's traditional culture, she broke the first rule of "being a woman" and violated the golden rule of male chauvinism, and was doomed to get a happy marriage. Yu Xiu, who grew up under feudal moral education, loves to show off his beauty, but he can't get rid of the shackles of Confucian ethical culture. She also thinks that she has committed shady crimes and can only spin around on the edge of happiness. Beauty is unfortunate, and Yu Xiu is like a kind little fox. She doesn't mean to hurt anyone, but she should be alert to all kinds of traps set by hunters everywhere. If she is not careful, she will fall into the abyss of perdition.
Yuyang is the seven maids of the Wangs. She has neither the ability and calculation of corn nor the beauty and intelligence of Yu Xiu. Under the brilliant aura of her sisters, she can't enjoy the love of her parents at all. She is like "a bubble in the Yangtze River, not as much as you, and not as much as you." In her lonely life, she only pinned her hopes on reading, and by rote learning, she was admitted to the normal school in the town. The long silence made her sudden outburst particularly dazzling. Even the corn said, "This girl doesn't rely on anyone, just sends herself to the city one by one." This is particularly excellent, especially not simple. " However, the serious discrimination between urban and rural areas in the school made Yumiao's light dissipate quickly, just like a flash in the pan, but the applause of flowers was so deep in Yumiao's impression that she could no longer bear this long-term loneliness. The strong desire for attention quickly distorted her psychology, harming others and herself, and gradually embarked on the spiritual demise under the catalysis of the depressed concentration camp-style life atmosphere and inferiority complex.