The complete plot when Dou E was beheaded and before she was beheaded

Since she was a child, Dou Duanyun, the heroine of the wedge, was sent to the Cai family as a daughter-in-law (that is, a child daughter-in-law) because her father Dou Tianzhang had no money to repay her debts, and changed her name to Dou E.

Less than two years after the first marriage, Dou E's husband died; Dou E and Cai Po depend on each other. Cai Po asked Dr. Sailu for debts, but she was almost strangled to death when she was unsuccessful, and happened to be rescued by Zhang Donkey's father and son. Unexpectedly, Zhang Donkey was a hooligan, and after taking the opportunity to move into Cai's house, he coerced his mother-in-law and daughter-in-law to marry their father and son, but Dou E sternly refused.

In the second fold, Cai Po wanted to eat tripe soup, and Zhang Donkey wanted to occupy Dou E by poisoning Dou E's mother-in-law (Zhang Donkey threatened to report the attempt to strangle Cai Po and asked for poison from Dr. Sailu), but he was mistakenly eaten by his father and poisoned his father. Zhang Donkey then falsely accused Dou E of murder. Taishou Taozhu tortured to extract a confession, and Dou E couldn't bear to suffer her mother-in-law together, so she unjustly confessed to her father-in-law and was sentenced to beheading.

The third fold, Dou E was escorted to the execution ground. Before the execution, in order to show his grievances, Dou E swore to the sky that after his death, he would splash blood on the ground without blood, cover his body with three feet of flying frost (snowfall) in June, and the drought in Chuzhou for three years, and the results were all fulfilled.

Three years later, Dou E's unjust soul complained to her father, who had already served as an envoy to the incorruptible government; The case was retried, and the Sailu doctor was assigned to the army, and the unconscious official Tao was dismissed from his post and never used, Zhang Donkey was beheaded, and Dou E's grievances were revealed. In the end, Dou E's unjust soul hoped that his father Dou Tianzhang could take his in-law Granny Cai to his residence and fulfill his filial piety instead of Dou E, Dou's father agreed, and the whole play ended.

In feudal society, the people were not only oppressed in terms of personal rights and political economy, but also poisoned ideologically. According to the concept at that time, heaven, earth, ghosts and gods knew what was right and wrong in the world, and the host was fair. In order to fool the people, feudal officials always take advantage of the blue sky.

Dou E was also influenced by theocratic thought at the beginning, believing that the "Blue Sky Master" could preside over justice, reward the good and punish the evil. In the face of the cruel reality, she woke up and saw the social truth that "the yamen has been open to the south since ancient times, and there is no one who is not wronged". In the song "Rolling Hydrangea", she violently accused heaven and earth, ghosts and gods of not distinguishing between turbidity and confusion, causing wicked people to run rampant and be good and wronged.

Dou E's bold condemnation of theocracy is in essence a strong indictment and fundamental negation of feudal rule. Her angry words, like magma bursting like a mountain flood bursting embankment, reflect the heroine's awakening consciousness and spirit of resistance, and also reflect the spirit of resistance of the people at that time.

As for Dou E's three vows before her execution, they are a reflection of the contradiction in the writer's worldview. On the one hand, Guan Hanqing cared about the people's feelings, had insight into reality, and expressed his hatred for feudal officials and sympathy for the oppressed people through Dou E's reprimand of heaven and earth, and the fulfillment of three vows. On the other hand, the author was, after all, a playwright in the feudal era, who, although concerned about the suffering of the people, could not realize the power of the people themselves; Although he hated feudal rule, he could not find a way out to change reality, so in the end, he let heaven and earth move the Qing officials to redress grievances and solve the problem, which also reflected the class and historical limitations of the writer.

Of course, the heavens were moved by Dou E, which also shows that Dou E has a deep hatred.

The father is on top, and the daughter bids farewell to her father with tears, originally hoping to be reunited with her father, but now it is indeed extravagant, when you see this letter, the daughter may have gone away with grievances.

Since I was separated from my father, my mother-in-law and my father-in-law treated me very well, and the years were quiet, but I didn't expect a sudden change, my father-in-law died, my mother-in-law was seriously ill, and I didn't dare to slack off before serving the bed. There is a donkey once saved the mother-in-law's life, we were very grateful, how did this guy have evil thoughts, want to mistreat his daughter, harassment many times, secretly treacherous, mother-in-law tried her best to stop, but was poisoned by it, this guy saw that once the incident happened, back bite me, framed me for poisoning my mother-in-law, I accepted and argued, how can Zhang donkey bribe the county officials, dumb officials, do not distinguish between black and white, to beat the daughter into a trick, the daughter can not bow her head if she swears to die, how can people be lonely, unable to return to the sky, I am afraid that I will not be able to avoid death, but ask his father to know that I am wronged, for my rehabilitation, although my daughter is dead, she wants to leave her name alive, and her daughter Dou E is unique!