Pu Songling and Almodovar "Shemale" and "The Skin of My Habitat"

Kattie 2021-11-28 08:01:19

In "Strange Tales from a Lonely Studio," there is a chapter called "Shemales". It talks about a man who pretends to be a woman, mixes with a good family woman, teaches female sewing workers, and claims that he is good at massage and massage, and cures all kinds of gynecological diseases, but it must be in the middle of the night. If you want to come, you know what he is going to do. There are already more than a dozen women who have been succeeded by him. Intent on attacking a woman, unexpectedly, after the mantis catches the cicada and the oriole, she has long been photographed by the woman's husband. This woman was also enlightened and heroic, and Po Weng called her "exclusive and romantic", and made a plan with her husband for a way out of Zhaozhi and Hanzhi. In the middle of the night, the lights were turned off, the fake woman was full of heart, massaged her hands, teased in every way, consciously the time was ripe for a good thing, and she touched her crotch and she was "struck on her wrist"! It turned out that the woman's husband had already been changed. The fake woman was fleeing in panic, and her husband was on fire. How could she (?) go, grabbed him and smashed Huanglong, she was actually "a great weapon"! They all wanted tofu, but they were all overwhelmed by a hard shot. The husband is also a character. If he doesn't do it, he will give the fake woman to the palace. Since then, he has been raised as a concubine, living together at night, and sweeping during the day, forming a harmonious family.
The old saying goes: Whoever harks to his wife and daughter will be harried by others. Here it became: Whoever harlots his wife or daughter will be harlotted.
The story that Po Weng Chayu heard after dinner is probably a pastime of people, it is difficult to tell the truth from the false, but there is indeed something involved behind it. The fake woman in the story is named Wang Erxi, and her brother is named Wang Daxi. His name is in "Geng Si" and "Records of Emperor Shizong of the Ming Dynasty". But it's not a good thing, this great joy can be entered into the history books thanks to his master. This person is awesome, and his name is Sang Chong. What subjects does he teach? Just look at Erxi's set and you'll know it. This Sang Chong may be regarded as the most powerful prostitute in Chinese history. She was dressed as a woman. For 10 years, her prostitution was spread across 45 prefectures and counties. Tian Boguang, a lone traveler in Jin Yong's works, will also be willing to go downhill. Under the social atmosphere at the time, women were plucked for flowers. Such a shameful shame is absolutely impossible to say, otherwise this life will be over. In addition, there are also some people who are "excited and romantic." When encountering such a thing, it is just like Ganchai encounters a raging fire, and they are more happy in it. Therefore, Sang Chong has never revealed his deeds in the past 10 years. As for the final arrest and meeting with officials, the process is exactly the same as that of Wang Erxi in Pu Weng's writings. He boarded a member of his family and did not move. Unexpectedly, his son-in-law was a hungry ghost who didn't care about strategy. When I want to come to that Sang Chong is torn down, my mind must be full of "My life is over!", when the son-in-law outside of the staff gets started, he will definitely not have the tendency of "touching the wrist" as mentioned by Po Weng, but it is different after all. ! The son-in-law outside the member felt sick, so he was arrested and went to see the officer. Under the torture, a flower-picking case that shocked the whole country finally came to light. Sang Chong confessed that his master was named Gu Cai (the old man had already returned to the west after enjoying the Yanfu for a lifetime, and Tie made him cheap), and he also had seven other apprentices, including Wang Daxi. This case was passed directly to Emperor Ming Xianzong, and the emperor said in his heart: You are better than Lao Tzu, you guys playing wild guns, Shangliang's family, that's not good, just Ling Chi! Immediately a large-scale anti-pornography campaign was launched across the country, and seven apprentices including Wang Daxi were also picked out, all of them sluggish.
How did Erxi escape? Po Weng wrote that some people suspected Erxi during the anti-pornography action. They were reported. The government found a few old women to verify their body. There was no need to take off their pants, and there was nothing! Just escaped a catastrophe.
At this time, Wang Erxi, how grateful he was being castrated! This is called losing the car to save the handsome, losing the dick to save your life. It's still very planned.
The couple in the "Shemale" story is really strange. The husband is a strange man and the wife is a strange woman. Her husband Qi Zai is bisexual and takes both men and women. His wife Qi is not jealous and very open-minded. But the wife is more weird, relatively speaking. Bisexual men are not uncommon in ancient times. It is very common to raise male pets in large households. This couple is just an ordinary family, and they certainly have no such ability. Since they are delivered, they are not rejected. This wife can be said that she is not bound by ethics and education at all. She has the three obediences and four virtues of your mother. Maybe she planned to help her husband earn a girl, and then she ran out to steal the man. The fake woman Wang Erxi was taken into the account by the palace and her husband. Po Weng didn't even write about her envy and hatred. It must be a great pleasure for the three of them to sit together. Po Weng’s love for this woman is revealed throughout the entire "Strange Tales from a Lonely Studio". His own wife, Liu Shixianhui, is silent, and his two sister-in-laws are typical shrews. In the "Yasha" he wrote: There is a Yaksha at the bedside of every family.
Want to come to Sang Chong, Wang Daxi, Wang Erxi and others to pretend to be women, what a demeanor! Women can't see the flaws, and men are even more contemplative. Nowadays, pseudo-girls can reach the realm of "two rabbits walking next to each other, and I can distinguish me as a male and female" through layers of makeup. There was such a clever makeup technique in ancient times! In Huangmei Opera's "The King of Tigers Grabbing His Marriage" and "The Story of the Prefect Qiao Chaotic Spots" in "San Yan", it is said that the man pretends to be a woman. Of course, the male protagonists in these stories are all positive images, unlike Sang Chong and others, who plan to make a living from this, without retiring.
Back to Wang Erxi again. Earlier I wrote: "It's a great pleasure for three people to sit together." There is an absurdity here, and it's not pleasant. It's probably just the husband and wife. Can Erxi have fun? Ordinarily, if he can become a Sang Chongman, he must be a real man, and his sexual orientation is no problem. But he ended up being castrated, and he had to be crushed by another man every night. How did he feel?
It will definitely be upset, but no matter how troubled it is, the fear of death can't be overwhelmed. Erxi was very timid, and Pu Songling revealed a detail in the story: When Erxi was about to attack the "woman", "the trembling voice said: I am Qing Chao Ye for the lady doctor." The word "tremor" is used really wonderfully. One word depicts Erxi's mentality vividly and vividly. One is that the working time is relatively short and unskilled; the other is that he is a little courageous and is afraid of women's resistance. It was because of his timidity that he did his housework honestly and worked hard to be a woman in the decades since he was castrated. Maybe afterwards, he really regarded himself as a woman.
I don't know if the great director Almodovar has heard of this story. His 2011 work "The Skin of My Living" is quite similar to Wang Erxi's story. The daughter of a plastic surgeon who was suffering from depression was attempted rape by a young man and fell ill again, and finally committed suicide by jumping off the building. The doctor kidnapped the young man, performed sex reassignment surgery on him, and performed plastic surgery on the young man according to the appearance of his deceased wife. In the doctor's own villa, the youth who could not escape was completely transformed into a delicate, charming woman. The doctor fell in love with his work, and he regarded the "woman" as his wife. The "woman" promised that she would not leave the doctor. In a fierce sex, the "woman" shot the doctor to death, fled back to her home, and said to her mother: "I am Vincent.
" The similarity between "Shemale" and "My Living Skin" The difference is that the stories revolve around men turning into women. The difference is that one recognizes his fate and the other does not. In the transformation of the appearance, Wang Erxi is very different from Vincent. The doctor gave Vincent a perfect female appearance, and the carefully carved female genitals can also be used normally. But Erxi was so crude that he could only squat and pee like a eunuch. Then why did Erxi stay with the man all his life, but Vincent killed the doctor?
Human gender conversion is not as simple as one in a group of hens becoming a rooster. If there is no change in internal hormone stimulation, simply changing the external physical characteristics and even the genitals will not be able to completely change the gender. In the end, it will be a man in a woman's skin. Pu Songling did not tell us whether Erxi had changed his orientation due to being castrated, so we can only judge that the biggest motivation for his survival is fear. After all, there are eight predecessors who have been Ling Chi as role models. Vincent is different. He has hatred in his heart. After being given a water-like soft appearance, his heart is still filled with flames of humiliation and anger. I don't know if he can get pleasure when being raped or having sex with a doctor. What is certain is that his physical feelings are much better than when Erxi is pressed under his body. He never forgets his anger. He is a young man with short hair, motorcycle uniform and beard.
"Shemale" can be heard as a joke, and "The Skin of My Habitat" can be analyzed as a psychological case. It is not that which is higher and lower, Pu Songling and Almodovar are not people in time and space at all. 300 years ago, Mr. Pu put tea under the willow tree at the head of Pu’s village and chatted with the village women about slang village dialects. Someone told the story of Wang Erxi. The family’s eyes widened, and then he laughed. While criticizing the government, society, and religion in Spanish, Waze pointed the camera at Penelope Kroz's breasts.
I still like Pu Songling. Because like him, I can only listen to or narrate some nasty paragraphs in my life, climb on the bed to fantasize about the fox fairy sister, and then "touch the wrist and collapse."

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  • Naomie 2021-11-28 08:01:19

    What a bizarre story, the ending is a bit weak~

  • Kaya 2022-03-30 09:01:03

    No matter how much suffering or how long it takes, it's so precious to be able to stay true to who you are. Pedro Almodovar ! This director has a level. Same-sex, bastard, stone incest, transgender, whatever!

The Skin I Live In quotes

  • [last lines]

    Madre de Vicente: Why are you crying?

    Vera Cruz: I'm Vicente.

  • Marilia: The things the love of a mad man can do.