Widow, originally a gender-neutral word, refers to a woman who has lost her husband and has not remarried, and who is alone in the family. In the Chinese tradition, because of discrimination and prejudice against women, the word widow often has a derogatory connotation in the vocabulary. The initial cause of this pejorative meaning is the death of the husband - no matter how this death is caused, it will be blamed on his wife for no reason, and it will be regarded as "restricted" by the woman, which becomes the "original sin" imposed on the widow by religion, culture, and the world. Because of this "unwarranted" "original sin", widows are discriminated against and rejected by others; Despised and bullied. "Bullying the weak" does not know whether it is a common human disease or a unique virtue of the Chinese, and I have not studied it deeply. What I know is that this vice extends to the group of widows in China, and it has become the so-called "right and wrong in front of the widow" of the Chinese, and it has become the real situation of widows as the main body of film and television works, literary works, vulgar stories, and colored jokes. The above is a common image of widows in Chinese history.

But the widow is not without scenery. Regarding the group role rebellion of widows, it is the long-standing "Twelve Widows Expedition to the West", that time, the widow turned over, and it was a gorgeous counterattack with the group image, and the stereotypical widow impression that has been sluggish has been raised for a long time.

I remember someone once said that "war makes women go away", in the eyes of feminism, there may be some male power in this, but in my opinion, the compassion of protecting the weak cannot be erased. The rule of the Song people, starting from Zhao Kuangyin, was faintly afraid of the seizure of power by the warriors, and its favor to the literati was mostly praised by later generations. However, the disorder of the armed forces and the weakening of the military forces have led to the situation of defeat and retreat of the ruling group when dealing with foreign disputes. This situation not only made the contemporaries at that time feel strangled, but also made future generations sigh when they read the relevant records. Since the men can't clean up the scene, why not push the women to the forefront, and go one step closer, and let the widows who are despised and bullied among the women fight. Not only to let them fight, but also to show their wisdom, courage, talent, bearing, pattern, tenacity, strength and other excellent personality and qualities in the battle; Not only for the widows to fight, but also for them to win perfectly. In this, how many ridicules and ridicule of the soft regime and the soft men. This is the glorious age of widows.

More than a thousand years after the end of the glorious age of widows, the age of mistresses arose.

The word "mistress" seems to have always been a derogatory term in my mind. It seems that no one has blatantly proudly boasted after being a "mistress". This is completely different from widows, because among widows, there are also those who keep their innocence and become "festival women" or "martyrs", this kind of widow is not only commended by the imperial court, but also supported and recognized by the people in the social atmosphere at that time - no matter whether this support and recognition is right or wrong, and what kind of mentality it is, at least it can prove that the positive elements of the word widow; It can also be proved that widows can be preached and exemplified. Under the monogamous legal system, there is also a tacit understanding of universal morality, that is, the mistress is not regarded as a glorious thing.

Since the atmosphere of the whole society is not in favor of the identity of the mistress, will the "mistress" have the glorious era of "twelve widows marching to the west".

Judging from the current situation, the "mistress" is menacing, and the glorious era of the mistress is not far away. How many people first fell under the mistress's pomegranate skirt, and then fell under the mistress's ruthless exposure and blood and tears accusation.

After the renewal of the concept of marriage, remarriage has become a natural phenomenon, and the word widow is going to the grave of history. The stories about special groups of women seem to be at a low ebb. Fortunately, there is also the rise of "mistresses", history will not repeat, but history sometimes has too many similar faces.

The age of widows ends, and the age of mistresses rises, although the interval between them is a little far, but there is no difference between the bustle and bustle of the two women's eras.

I hope that talented people will come out and make another mistress drama as generous and tragic as "Widow Expedition to the West".