Wang Xifeng’s character traits:
1. A combination of intelligence, competence, viciousness, and desire. In addition, she also has character traits such as all-around, eloquent, and witty. .
2. Beautiful and moving, like a divine concubine. She has a pair of red phoenix triangular eyes, two curved willow-leaf eyebrows, a slender figure, a coquettish physique, a pink face that contains spring power without revealing it, and a red lip that smells red before she smiles. Here, Cao Xueqin uses direct description to portray Wang Xifeng as a graceful and noble beauty, giving her a handsome and charming appearance, showing her unusualness.
3. Sharp-tongued and eloquent. Leng Zixing said that she is "extremely beautiful in appearance, eloquent in speech, and extremely thoughtful. She is a woman that no man can compare to." Zhou Rui's family praised her, "If you have to bet on articulation, even ten men who can talk would say she is not good enough." "Xing'er's feeling is that she is vicious in her heart and sharp in her mouth." Jia Mu's feeling is that "she is alone here talking and laughing, and she has less time than ten people."
4. Prominent background and famous family. Wang Xifeng was born in the Jinling royal family, where "the East China Sea lacked white jade beds, and the Dragon King came to invite the Jinling King." The Wang family, the Jia family, the Shi family, and the Xue family were collectively known as the four major families of Jinling. They had been married for generations and supported each other.
The main plot of Wang Xifeng:
1. Wang Xifeng poisoned and set up a lovesickness trap
Seeing Xifeng and Jia Rui becoming lustful, Xifeng pretended to understand and asked Jia Rui to go to the west at night He walked into the hall, locked the east door, and let Jia Rui drink all night. When he returned home, he was punished by his grandfather Jia Dairu. But the evil intention did not change, Sister Feng invited him to an empty room in the small corridor behind the house, asked Jia Rong and Jia Qiang to catch him, wrote a note, and poured urine and feces all over him. I got sick when I came back. Because he was taking the wind and moon as a mirror, he died without treatment.
2. Wang Xifeng assisted in the management of Ningguo Mansion
After Qin Keqing died, Ningguo Mansion held a large funeral. Because Jia Zhen's wife, Youshi, was ill and unable to predict the situation, she asked Sister Feng to assist her. With her keenness and ability, Sister Feng quickly saw the various shortcomings of Ningguo Mansion and immediately rectified them one by one in a targeted manner. Kill decisively and enforce orders and prohibitions. After that, everyone worked hard and did not dare to be lazy.
3. Wang Xifeng took control of the Iron Kan Temple
Sister Feng stayed at the Mantou Temple next to the Iron Kan Temple for the funeral of Qin Keqing. The old nun in the nunnery told her: Li Yanei, the brother-in-law of the Grand Master of Chang'an Mansion, was watching The daughter of a rich man, Jin Ge, was chosen, but Jin Ge was already betrothed to a guard's son. The two families fought and a lawsuit broke out. The old nun asked Sister Feng to settle the matter, and Sister Feng took the opportunity to ask for three thousand taels of silver. Sister Feng got the money and sent a letter to the chief judge. Defensive had no choice but to accept the Zhang family's return gift. As a result, Jin Ge hanged himself, and the guard's son also died in love.
There are three views on Wang Xifeng’s comments:
One view is that Wang Xifeng is a representative figure of the feudal landlord class and a negative image of Cao Cao. Because her philosophy of life and moral standards are the same as Cao Cao in "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms", "I would rather teach me to betray the world than teach the world to betray me."
The second view is that Wang Xifeng’s image is the prototype of my country’s earliest bureaucratic bourgeoisie. Some people even believe that Wang Xifeng is my country’s earliest “advanced youth”. Because her behavior "exceptionally clearly reflects the bad nature of the bourgeoisie since its birth", that is, money and plunder are their soul and their "human nature". It is said that Wang Xifeng is an "advanced young man" because she does not respect "reason" at all, does not believe in "reason", and is not filial. It is also appropriate to say that she "never believes in any retribution from the underworld and hell."
The third view is that Wang Xifeng is a typical image full of contradictory characters, including beauty and ugliness, good and evil, danger and weakness, fineness and roughness, self-improvement and inferiority, viciousness and timidity, and far-sightedness. A combination of great knowledge and short-sightedness, straightforwardness and compromise, he is a typical character in a typical environment.