{"id":8913,"date":"2019-11-14T02:25:25","date_gmt":"2019-11-14T02:25:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/chinese-reading\/jinghuayuan-jing-hua-quot-flowers-in-a-mirror-quot\/"},"modified":"2019-11-14T02:25:25","modified_gmt":"2019-11-14T02:25:25","slug":"jinghuayuan-jing-hua-quot-flowers-in-a-mirror-quot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/de\/jinghuayuan-jing-hua-quot-flowers-in-a-mirror-quot\/","title":{"rendered":"Jinghuayuan \u955c\u82b1\u7de3 &quot;Flowers in a Mirror&quot;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>This novel by Li Ruzhen \u674e\u6c5d\u73cd (1763-1830) tells the story of a Daoist fairy named Fairy of the Hundred Flowers \u767e\u82b1\u4ed9\u5b50 that has fallen grom grace and tries to gain back her immortality. Li Ruzhen, himself failing to attain a higher examination degree, uses allegories to describe the caption of a human being between appearance and reality, the temporal and the eternal. This background gives the whole novel a touch of fantasy, fleeing from reality like the banished fairy that travels to strange countries. Coming back to China, she encounters the Tang \u5510 empress Wu Zetian \u6b66\u5219\u5929 and passes examination to be reunited with her earthly father. The describing of a woman&#8217;s dynasty makes this very perso<em><\/em>nal novel looking like an attack on the social co<em><\/em>nditions in traditio<em><\/em>nal China, like a kind of feminist pamphlet. But looking more exactly at the end of the story, the fantasy of a woman realm has to cede to the reinstalling of the Co<em><\/em>nfucian tradition. Braking out of his own society, the worldy unsuccessful author has to come back to reality. <br type=\"_moz\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"chine-tie-zi-nei-rong-zhi-hou\" id=\"chine-2118835519\"><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-1889418300638825\" crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script><ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display:block;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-1889418300638825\" \ndata-ad-slot=\"7273022922\" \ndata-ad-layout-key=\"-gw-3+1f-3d+2z\"\ndata-ad-format=\"fluid\"><\/ins>\n<script> \n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); \n<\/script>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This novel by Li Ruzhen \u674e\u6c5d\u73cd (1763-1830) tells the story of a Daoist fairy named Fairy of the Hundred Flowers<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[46],"class_list":["post-8913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chinese-reading","tag-examination"],"views":167,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8913","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8913"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8913\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}