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After completing the previous issue of Danmei Literature Development History , many friends gave us The message requires that you want to listen to the mirror image of Lily Literature. Today, I am here to satisfy everyone’s curiosity.
Compared with Danmei who has found its place in the modern cultural industry, Lily has not developed a mature system and a fixed consumer group, so its development stage is still in the early stage of commercialization. So in this article we mainly talk about the girls who bravely broke through the worldly taboos and opened the door to a new world in feudal society.
Late Qing Dynasty: Silk Reeling Factory, Xia Nanyang and Self-combing
At the end of the Qing Dynasty, a social phenomenon called self-combing occurred in Guangdong.
At that time, unmarried women in the Pearl River Delta generally left a long braid to hang behind them, and when they got married, they combed it into a bun, which was considered a marriage ceremony. Self-combing refers to women who have reached the marriageable age who are unwilling to marry and actively set their hair up to indicate that they will not marry for life.
Self-comb girls will be independent from their natal families and live with the women who choose self-comb together. They raise money to buy houses, cultivate fields or go to factories to work. Their house is called “aunt’s house”.
Historians have discussed and studied this phenomenon and made many points,
One is to avoid marriage. In the old society, men and women were seriously inferior. If a woman marries into a poor family, she will soon become a childbirth’s childbirth and labor tool; if she marries into a wealthy family, she must learn house fighting skillsYes, it is too tired to contend with the concubine for the husband’s favor, and to fight for the power of family finances with the mother-in-law. Many women weighed their attribute tables and found it difficult to live to the end of the story like Minglan, and simply stopped playing. Under the feudal marriage system, regardless of whether rich or poor, women are able to end their lives or rely on the personal character of their husbands. However, at the time of “fate of parents, matchmaker’s words”, it was impossible for them to know what a husband was before marriage. People, so they began to escape marriage.
There is also the theory of economic independence. In the agricultural society, income generation mainly depends on farming, and there is a natural gap between women’s physical strength and men’s, but farming is not possible; family property is also inherited by men, so women have no financial independence. But adults, the times have changed-in the late 19th century, women could go to Nanyang to work and do business, or they could enter the silk reel factory at their doorstep to become workers. When the wages of workers can be much more than farming, and because the light industry, such as the silk reeling factory, only requires female workers, a group of women quickly became economically independent. With economic independence, naturally there is the consciousness and right to pursue marriage independence.
These theories are very orthodox and objective. But with the deepening of research, some historians have noticed, Hey? How come so many love stories have happened in the female group? For example, Peng Yulin in the Qing Dynasty once wrote: “The reason for the Jinlanqi knot is that the sister’s affection is too serious. The bond is not broken, the husband does not follow the husband.” The description is that the self-combine is behind the Yijie Jinlan. Followed by the phenomenon like a couple.
In 1997, based on the love story of self-combating girls, Orange Sky Jiahe Film Company filmed the movie “Self-combing” of the same name, starring Carina Lau and Yang Caini, telling the love and hatred of self-combating girls in the big era. Carina Lau plays the jade ring in the blue building. She fights with other warlord wives in the film and fights secretly, but she regards the role played by Yang Caini as a confidant. The two have nothing to say. Over time, the feelings between the two people gradually surpassed the friendship and sprouted love, but in the end, because of the war, they were forced to separate for fifty years.
This movie Douban scored 8.4, it is still worth watching, if you are interested, you can take a look.