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Mochou refers to the fictional character in the TV series iron teeth and copper teeth Ji Xiaolan, played by Chinese Taiwan star Yang Lijing.

In the play, Mo Chou is a chivalrous woman in Yunzhou. She pleads with her fiance Huang Keming, her sister Du Xiaoyue and many other chivalrous men for the help of the victims and struggles with local corrupt officials. During this period, she meets Ji Xiaolan and Emperor Qianlong, who makes a private visit in Weifu. In the struggle with local officials, Huang Keming was killed. After the peace in Yunzhou, Mo Chou and Du Xiaoyue settled in Ji Xiaolan's Yuewei thatched cottage to assist Ji Xiaolan in his work, and both were loved by Emperor Qianlong. Mo Chou once served as the Deputy Supervisor in the northern expedition to Luocha, and went to southern Fujian to investigate corruption with Shangfang's sword.

In the process of getting along with him, Mochou was favored by the empress dowager, and gradually fell in love with Qianlong. Although Mochou refused to name his child's biological father, Qianlong admitted and agreed to accept Mochou as his concubine. However, because Mochou was born in a rough family and different from Manchu and Han, princes and ministers refused. Although the Empress Dowager gave in to Emperor Qianlong's insistence and ordered Mo Chou to be a noble man, she gave Mo Chou an abortion because of the purity of the royal family. In order to protect Mochou's son, Qianlong was willing to abdicate. In order to prevent Qianlong from abdicating, Mochou almost had an abortion and was dissuaded by Ji Xiaolan. On the day of Mochou's birth, Qianlong came to visit, but the Empress Dowager also heard about it. When Mo Chou had difficulty in giving birth, the Empress Dowager's mother germinated and delivered the baby in person. The Empress Dowager admitted that the baby was the prince and Mochou was the noble. Mochou was finally connected to the palace and became a member of Qianlong's harem.

Personage introduction

Mo Chou was originally a chivalrous woman in Yunzhou. She was the righteous sister of Du Xiaoyue. In the process of vindicating the victims, Mo Chou met Ji Xiaolan and Emperor Qianlong. He mistakenly thought that Emperor Qianlong, Ji Xiaolan and he Lu were high officials and took them hostage. Later, Mo Chou was seriously injured in order to protect Qianlong who was searching for the mystery of his life (in fact, Fu kang'an deliberately set up a bureau to frame the fourteenth Prince), and his fiance Huang Keming was also killed Officers and soldiers were killed.

After the storm, Mochou and Du Xiaoyue live in Ji Xiaolan's Yuewei thatched cottage. In order to help Ji Xiaolan protect a dream of Red Mansions, Mo Chou was beaten by fukang'an and hurt himself. During his expedition to Luocha, Du Xiaoyue and Mo Chou were appointed by Emperor Qianlong as the chief and Deputy supervisors to help him defeat Luocha. Mo Chou also took Qianlong Shangfang's sword to investigate cases in Southern Fujian to find out corrupt officials and eliminate harm for the country. He also pleaded for Ji Xiaolan, who was reduced to gate officer by Emperor Qianlong's anger, and made Ji Xiaolan angry He was able to return to his original position.

In the process of helping Qianlong, Mochou was loved by the Empress Dowager because of her good massage skills, and was regarded as her own by the Empress Dowager. The Empress Dowager wants to point out that she married Mo Chou to Yin De, the son of he Lu. Mo Chou politely refuses to say that she already has a sweetheart. It turns out that she has already been in love with Qianlong. Mochou then found that he was pregnant when he got along with Qianlong, but Qianlong was at a loss because of the rule that he could not marry a Han woman. Mo Chou refuses to tell the birth father of the fetus in her womb, so she is expelled from the palace by the angry empress dowager to return to the thatched cottage, and Ji Xiaolan is punished for this. During this period, Mo Chou recognizes third aunt Tao as the godmother. Under Ji Xiaolan's design, Qianlong finally admitted that he was the biological father of Mochou's child, and was willing to give Mochou a title. However, the Empress Dowager and many princes and ministers did not agree that Qianlong married Mochou, a woman of the Han family who was born in the rough land. After all the ministers knelt down all night to admonish him, Qianlong retreated for a time, but he was not reconciled. He tried to find a way to punish and dissuade the ministers. After Ji Xiaolan's persuasion, he realized that they were loyal ministers and rewarded them. The empress dowager, who is still fond of Mochou, also thinks that as long as Mochou has no children, she will not confuse the royal lineage, so she persuades all princes and ministers to make an exception to make great contributions to Mochou's rescue, allowing her to enter the palace and become a noble person, but causing her to lose her fetus. Qianlong couldn't accept this. He didn't take Mochou into the palace. In order to protect Mochou's fetus, he said to the Empress Dowager that he would rather abdicate. In order not to abdicate Qianlong, Mochou is willing to sacrifice her flesh and blood. Ji Xiaolan advises her to give up the abortion medicine given by the Empress Dowager. In order to prevent Qianlong's abdication, he is willing to join hands with Ji Xiaolan. In order not to hurt the fetus, Ji Xiaolan broke the cigarette and declared to quit smoking. During the Mid Autumn Festival, Emperor Qianlong came to visit Mo Chou in micro clothes. However, the Empress Dowager also heard that Mo Chou happened to have a difficult labor. Tao Sangu, who claimed to have rich experience in midwifery, actually couldn't deliver a baby. There was nothing she could do. At the critical moment, the Empress Dowager personally came in to deliver Mochou, who gave birth to a boy. When the Empress Dowager was overjoyed, Ji Xiaolan deliberately repeated the Empress Dowager's intention of abortion and asked for the drowning of the baby, which aroused the Empress Dowager to deny that she had this intention on the spot. Ji Xiaolan also deliberately said that the baby's identity was unknown, so the Empress Dowager announced that the newborn was the prince, and the prince's biological mother Mochou was precious.

At the grand finale, Emperor Qianlong called Ji Xiaolan and Tao Sangu into the palace. Mo Chou was also accompanied by his imperial concubine, which showed that he was a member of the harem.

Aunt Tao claimed to be damned, and Mochou forgave her. When he Li and his son, Fengshen Yinde, came to invite An'an, Qianlong said that he was willing to recruit Fengshen Yinde as his son-in-law, but he wanted Fengshen Yinde to find a real princess among the seven palace maids, and even if he admitted his mistake, he would marry him as his wife. Fengshen Yinde has no idea. Heshen asks Ji Xiaolan for help. Ji Xiaolan tells him that none of the seven people are princesses by Mochou's gesture. Heshen thanks Mochou and Fengshen Yinde has to marry a princess. The Empress Dowager also came with the prince born by Mochou. It turns out that this son has always been loved by the Empress Dowager since he was born. The Empress Dowager has always held the child in person and refused to be held by others. Not only Mochou could not rob her, but even Qianlong had to apply to the Empress Dowager every time he wanted to hold the child. Qianlong was grateful to Ji Xiaolan for breaking the cigarette pole to protect her children. He gave Ji Xiaolan a gold cigarette pole. Wherever he went, he was like the Emperor himself. He allowed him to beat corrupt officials and uphold justice for the injustice of the world.

Conflicts with history

In the play, Emperor Qianlong's rule that the emperor of Qing Dynasty could not marry a Han woman led to many obstacles in the process of naimochou becoming a concubine. Even if the opponents later made concessions, they only agreed to allow Mochou to enter the palace, but still opposed to let her give birth to a prince or daughter with Han blood. But in fact, the Qing Dynasty restricted the intermarriage between flag people and non flag people. If Han people were in the flag, they could also intermarry with Manchu people. In history, it is not uncommon for the Qing Dynasty emperors to accept Han women as concubines. Emperor Kangxi had ten Han concubines. It is obviously fictional to mention in the play that Emperor Kangxi's imperial edict did not allow subsequent emperors to marry Han women, and the imperial edict could not be preserved in the Empress Dowager's Palace.

In the play, there are also pro noble ministers who object to Mo Chou's admission to the palace on the ground that he was born in a rash family. However, before Emperor Qianlong ascended the throne in history, there were Su's and Chen's daughters in the prince's mansion; after he ascended the throne, he successively brought two Lu's daughters and one Chen's daughter into the harem. Later, the Su's family became imperial concubine Chun Hui, the first Chen's was imperial concubine Wan GUI, the first Lu's was imperial concubine Qing Gong, the second Chen's was imperial concubine Fang, and the second Lu's was imperial concubine Lu. The imperial concubines of Chunhui had two sons and one daughter, which shows that the royal family of Qing Dynasty did not restrict the Han concubines to have children. Wei Jia, the imperial concubine of Emperor Qianlong, was a Han nationality who was born in the house of internal affairs. She had four sons and two daughters. One of them was Emperor Jiaqing, who later succeeded to the throne. Therefore, the imperial concubine was named empress Xiaoyi. It can be seen that the royal family of the Qing Dynasty did not forbid the son born by Han women to succeed to the throne.

There is also a certain degree of confusion between the age information of the characters in the play and that in history. For example, Emperor Qianlong married ten princesses to Yin De, a Fengshen. In 1789, Emperor Qianlong, who was set as the love of Mochou, the father of the fetus and the ultimate husband, was already 79 years old, and the Empress Dowager had died for 12 years. In history, after the ten princesses, Emperor Qianlong had no more children.

In history, Emperor Qianlong's son's birth mother was Shu Fei, the tenth elder brother's birth mother. As the prince's birth mother, Mo Chou was only a noble person. At the end of the play, although Mo Chou was honored as the "empress" who was not inferior to his concubines, there was no direct description of her being promoted in the play.

Highlights of the play

Role evaluation

Although the actors are dedicated to their performances, due to the limitation of their roles, Mo Chou is criticized by the audience, and the voice of opposition is also the highest. Scholar Zi zhongyun once wrote "must we be reunited" to the emperor for the grand finale of Ji opera? 》He questioned the so-called happy ending of Mo Chou, a chivalrous woman who wrote the screenplay to kill her fiance, who was powerful and brave, full of courage and heroism, and had a grudge against corrupt officials. Mo Chou thought that the emperor insisted on making mistakes, and Mo Chou went to seclusion The end is more in line with the historical common sense and better set, and in the ancients' concept, the court life should be cruel. However, the ending of the two female owners in the play, one is the imperial concubine and the other is the princess (DU Xiaoyue was accepted as the adopted daughter by the Empress Dowager and granted mingyuege), is actually the beautification of the court life.

Follow up development

Perhaps because of the criticism from the audience, in the follow-up works 2, 3 and 4 of iron teeth and copper teeth Ji Xiaolan, although there are some plots involving the empress in the palace, Mo Chou and her son do not appear again, and the play does not explain her whereabouts. It is only mentioned in some dialogues of the main actors. For example, in the second part, Du Xiaoyue once recalled that she "met Mo Chou sister" In the fourth part, Ji Xiaolan thought that Emperor Qianlong was Qianqian's biological father. When Emperor Qianlong thought he was Qianqian's biological father, he mentioned that Emperor Qianlong had made Mochou pregnant.

In the first episode of iron teeth and copper teeth Ji Xiaolan 3, the Empress Dowager comforts the frustrated empress and says, "women of the Han family, he (Emperor Qianlong) has great courage and dare not take them to the palace". In the third episode, he reminds Emperor Qianlong to abide by this precept, and Emperor Qianlong does not raise any objection. All these are different from the plot of Mo Chou, a woman of the Han family, who finally enters the palace as a concubine in the first finale Shield.

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