Chapter 28 of A Dream of Red Mansions: How to Understand Baoyu's "Standing Wild Goose"

The wild geese are migratory birds, they are punctual and migrate in spring and autumn. Maybe it is the season when the wild geese head south. Wild geese also played an important role in ancient weddings. Wild geese were used in five of the six steps. This was Daiyu's joke about Baoyu's forgetfulness of Baochai. This "silly wild goose" was spoken by Daiyu. She was obviously making fun of Baoyu's "forgetfulness". In fact, she was talking about herself. The wine order of Xiangyun later gave the best explanation: "The falling clouds and the solitary swans fly together." , the wind is rushing over the river and the sky is passing by, but it is a broken-footed goose, and its cry makes people cry. "

Introduction to "A Dream of Red Mansions"

"A Dream of Red Mansions", one of the four classic Chinese masterpieces. The first is a chapter novel written by Qing Dynasty writer Cao Xueqin. In the early days, only the manuscripts of the first eighty chapters were circulated, and the parts after the eighty chapters were unfinished and the original manuscripts were lost. The original name is "Zhi Yanzhai's Re-Evaluation of the Story of Stone". Cheng Weiyuan invited Gao E to collaborate and compile and publish the complete version of 120 chapters, naming it "A Dream of Red Mansions". There is also a version called "Golden Jade Fate".

"A Dream of Red Mansions" is a world-influential human romance novel, universally recognized as the pinnacle of Chinese classical novels, an encyclopedia of Chinese feudal society, and a master of traditional culture. The novel takes the rise and fall of the four major families of Jia, Shi, Wang, and Xue as the background, with the family trivial matters and boudoir leisurely affairs of the Jia family as the center, and the love and marriage stories of Jia Baoyu, Lin Daiyu, and Xue Baochai as the main line. The story of good and evil centered on the Twelve Hairpins of Jinling endows lovers with human beauty and tragic beauty, praising the rebellious characters who pursue the light. Through the tragic fate of the rebels, it foresees the inevitable demise of feudal society and reveals the crisis of the feudal apocalypse.

The author of "Dream of Red Mansions" has preliminary democratic thoughts. He is deeply concerned about the real society, including the darkness of the palace and officialdom, the decadence of the feudal aristocracy and their families, the feudal imperial examination system, the marriage system, the slave system, The hierarchical system, as well as the corresponding social governance ideas, namely the Tao of Confucius and Mencius, Cheng-Zhu Neo-Confucianism, social moral concepts, etc., have been deeply criticized, and vague ideals and propositions with a preliminary democratic nature have been put forward. These ideals and propositions were a tortuous reflection of the budding factors of the capitalist economy that was growing at that time.

"Dream of Red Mansions" encourages itself to "talk about love in general and record the events in detail". It only follows its own circumstances and circumstances, follows the traces, gets rid of the old stereotypes, is fresh and unique[1], and has achieved extraordinary results. artistic achievements. In particular, the special writing style of "the truth is hidden, the lies remain" aroused the strong curiosity and desire of snooping in later generations of readers, and various speculations and theories became more and more bizarre.