Is light a pot of fire or darkness a knife? -a brief comment on Wang Xifeng's personality

In A Dream of Red Mansions, the author created a negative image of success, that is, Xifeng. In her body, on the one hand, it shows that she is a capable, smooth and delicate housekeeper, on the other hand, it embodies the class essence of the feudal ruling class, greedy, fierce, cruel, vicious and cunning. It can be said that through the author's successful description, the image of Wang Xifeng is more stereoscopic, which makes readers not only impressed by his eloquence and ability, but also amazed by his vicious and cunning character. The servant Xing Er commented on Wang Xifeng: "The heart is vicious and the mouth is sharp." "Bitter in the mouth, three knives on the surface. My head is laughing and my feet are stumbling. It is simply a pot of fire, a knife in the dark. " Ming is a fire-showing off eloquence in front of grandma and other dignitaries, won grandma's love; Darkness is a knife-from the twelfth time, the author showed the true face of Xifeng's character through the description of the big plot. The Bureau of Poison and Acacia wrote about her viciousness, Associate Ning wrote about her talent, and The Iron Threshold Temple of Thrones wrote about her greed and fraud. These descriptions make readers more aware of the dark side of their character. Unlike Jia Zheng and Wang Fu, Feng wears a mask of generosity and kindness. She did bad things consciously but boldly. She once declared that "I never believe in things circulating in the underworld, so I will do whatever I want", indicating that she dares to challenge any force that prevents her from doing bad things. In this sense, Xifeng's philosophy of life is probably the same as that of Cao Cao: "I would rather teach me to be negative to the world than to teach the world to be negative to me." But people will never confuse her with Cao Cao. At the same time, because of her greedy and vicious nature, coupled with Feng's softness and intelligence, she is good at catering to language and making herself more subtle and complicated. On the one hand, she has a high IQ and a high EQ. "Everything is clear and learning, and human cultivation is an article." Under the feudal bureaucratic mechanism of Jiafu, Wang Xifeng was like a duck to water. On the other hand, however, she is "manipulating the Iron Threshold Temple", and the old nun of Shantou Temple begged Xifeng to break up Zhang Jinge's marriage. As a result, Xifeng got 3.2 thousand pieces of silver and forced a couple to marry. However, just after using the relationship between Jia and Wang to make the plot succeed, "Xifeng is more courageous and will act arbitrarily in the future", and her greedy and vicious character is also exposed. The author's "conclusion" to Wang Xifeng is that "the authorities are fascinated and can't calculate your life." My heart was broken before my death, and my sex was ethereal after my death. It is better to have a rich family, but eventually a family will die and everyone will go their separate ways. It's a waste of time to hang on to your heart for half your life: it's like swinging for three times. Suddenly like the first floor, suddenly like Yi Deng. Ah! One happy and one sad. Sigh that the world is hard to decide. "The successful description of Feng's character not only reflects the ugliness of the feudal ruling class and the darkness of the feudal society at that time, but also makes the image of Feng deeply rooted in the hearts of the people.