Chapter 15 "Three No" Miaoyu: No name, no surname, no Buddha heart

There are different reasons for ancient women to become nuns: some really broke through the world of mortals and converted to Buddhism; This method can avoid marriage and completely play "female sexual liberation". Therefore, in ancient times, people had doubts about nuns and Taoist aunts. The "three aunts and six women" have always been negative models, and nuns and Taoist aunts ranked first among the "three aunts", and they were the object of criticism in ancient society.In the storybook novels, nunneries and female Taoist temples have always been portrayed as places of adultery and adultery. People usually think that nuns and Taoist nuns enter ordinary people’s homes to do dirty and obscene things. It is more convenient and less restrictive, which creates favorable conditions for their "undesirable activities".Of course, the close connection between monks and "sex" is also inseparable from traditional Chinese culture.Confucianism regards sex as one of the natural nature and needs of human beings; Buddhists believe that most of the gods and Buddhas are homosexual, and they are both male and female; .Even with such a "gorgeous" cloak, the ancient monks and nuns still had too many excessive "sexual" incidents, all of which were of course caused by desire!The most famous female Taoist in ancient China was Yu Xuanji, a poetess from the Tang Dynasty. She married Li Yi as a concubine at the age of sixteen, and was not tolerated by her wife, Pei, so she had to go to Xianyi Temple to become a monk.Later, unwilling to be alone, she made a splash with her beauty and talent, from an abandoned woman to a slut, living a half-nurse and half-prostitute life.Yu Xuanji made friends with powerful people in the name of poetry, and became the most famous woman in Tang Dynasty for a while. Later, her maid Lu Qiao had an affair with her lover Chen Wei. Out of jealousy and anger, Yu Xuanji killed Lu Qiao and buried her in the Under the vines in the back garden, in the end, he was discovered, and Yu Xuanji was executed at the age of twenty-four.

This is a very special case in Chinese history, but it can still reflect some of the dark side of the ancient system of monks and nuns.In "A Dream of Red Mansions", there are also many descriptions of nuns and Taoist nuns, such as Zhizhier in Shuiyue Temple, who is a romantic little nun who had an impure "love relationship" with Qin Zhong.In addition, old nuns such as Zhitong from Shuiyue Temple and Yuanxin from Dizang Temple are out-and-out human traffickers.Of course, among these monks, not all of them are of low moral character, such as Miao Yu, who is an exception. Speaking of Miaoyu, most readers know that she is a mysterious character in A Dream of Red Mansions.Her origin is extremely unclear, even more so than Qin Keqing.Although Qin Keqing in the book is a child adopted by Yangshengtang (orphanage), the background and official title of his adoptive father are also clearly stated.But Miaoyu, who is ranked sixth in the Twelve Beauties, has a very vague background: she is originally from Suzhou, and her ancestors were also a family of scholars and officials.It's a very simple introduction, not even mentioning anyone's real name, it's quite mysterious.The seemingly bright and dark appearance, the ending of nowhere, every point is fascinating.Not only that, but in the book, Miaoyu's appearances are very few.In the first 80 episodes, there were only two frontal appearances, and none of them were extremely important scenes, second only to Qiaojie, who was the last in the official book of Twelve Hairpins. How could such a character be ranked in the top twelve? What about the sixth place in the book of hairpins?It is still a mystery.Many commentators speculated that after the 80th chapter, Miaoyu will play a very important role and play a very important role in the decline of the Jia family.But this is all a later story, at least today's readers have no chance to see it, and can only get to know this character based on the verdict on Miaoyu in the fifth chapter and her two positive appearances.However, in these two only positive appearances, Miaoyu's performance did not score too high in the readers' minds.Although her identity is a nun, the reason why she became a nun was not to convert to Buddhism after seeing through the world of mortals, but because she was frail and sick, and feared that her life would not last long, so she had to leave her family to become a nun, or lead her hair to practice. The heart of Buddha can be said.

Except for the title of "Miaoyu", the author did not give this character too many external titles.No name, no surname, and no Buddha heart are the most essential characteristics of Miaoyu.This "three noes" nun has left countless curiosity and questions to future generations. Now, we will solve them one by one.