New Year’s Sacrifice

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The story is a case of traditional Chinese beliefs.

The woman, who is alluded to as Xiang Lin’s Wife, is frequently minimized. In her life, woman lost her first husband and kept running from whatever was left of her family to work for a family somewhere else. As a widow she is looked down on as it isn’t the custom.

Regardless of her desire to have a tranquil and basic life she is later found by the family she kept running from. This family drives her to remarry for their own capital gain. The lady battles to get away from a second marriage which conflicts with all her religious convictions.

Lu Xun truly demonstrates the issues in convictions and can depict them through this story such that will make one think and say to themselves “this isn’t right.” She is then once again faced with tragedy as her second spouse perishes and her child is killed by a wolf. She comes back to the town she once worked in, she is only met by superstition and treatment merited by an untouchable.

These sad events cause her to address what her religious eliefs have in store for her and Lu Xun again can indicate Chinese beliefs in a sort of twofold standard held over ladies in these conventional perspectives. These sorts of goals are held over religions all around the globe. This is only one prime case of how we as a general public all in all should be the one to change these beliefs.