What kind of person is Baoyu in a dream of red mansions?

Jia Baoyu is the first hero in A Dream of Red Mansions. It is an artistic image created by Cao Xueqin, who is full of ideals and passion, devoted his efforts and talents. This is the first brand-new immortal mode in the history of China literature. Zhi Yanzhai called Jia Baoyu "an unprecedented person" and said that "such a person has never been seen in the world, that is, reading ancient and modern novels and legends, and such words have never been seen." At the same time, Jia Baoyu's image is full, profound and vivid, which is still popular in life and will last forever.

The newcomers in the old world are often regarded as eccentric and unreasonable by the secular, and even considered as crazy, crazy, stupid, stupid and unreasonable. This is the common destiny of enlightened people. Jia Baoyu not only became the object of "a thousand sarcastic eyes" in A Dream of Red Mansions, but was regarded as crazy, stupid, dull and stupid, and was called "the bane of evil" and "the devil on earth" by Mrs. Wang. Even in the eyes of readers and in A Dream of Red Mansions, he has different views. Some people think that Jia Baoyu is a traitor to the feudal aristocracy; Some people say that he is a representative of the emerging citizen class; Some people say that Jia Baoyu's democratic thought is "ancient" and his rebellious character is the inheritance and development of ancient democratic tradition. It is also said that the formation of Jia's rebellious character is due to the influence of the "daughter country" of the Grand View Garden. What is Jia Baoyu's image? What is his position and role in the book? What is the social significance and aesthetic value of this image? This is worthy of further study.

About Jia Baoyu's life experience, A Dream of Red Mansions begins with an absurd and profound story. Nu Wa tried to mend the sky by refining stones, and it turned into 36,000 pieces. As a result, there was only one piece left, abandoned at the foot of Geng Qingfeng, a ridiculous cliff in a big barren mountain. This stubborn stone has passed the training of Nu Wa, but it can be big or small. Originally a monster with a height of 12 feet and a square height of 24 feet, it became a fan of Zhui Er, a bright and clean treasure jade. One day, I met a vast scholar, an ethereal real person. I wrote a few words on it and took it to a prosperous country, a house of poetry and ceremony, a prosperous land of flowers and willows, and a gentle and rich country. Thus, a son was born in Stone Town and Guo Rong Building. As soon as he was born, he had a colorful jade in his mouth. This is the illusion of hard rock under Gengqingfeng on the absurd cliff of the great barren mountain.

Originally a stubborn stone, ignorant; Calm, calm and peaceful in the wild, long and lasting. It happened that he was spiritually enlightened and became a man. He has feelings, friendship and soul. He has enjoyed all kinds of beauty in the world and eaten up all kinds of pain in the world. But in the end, it will turn to stone, and it will return to the foot of Gengqingfeng, a ridiculous cliff in the barren mountain. This is a cycle with no beginning and no end. This is not only Jia Baoyu's history; It is also the history of the universe and mankind. -Now let's get down to business. Let's analyze the image of Jia Baoyu.

Love, respect and worship for women are the most prominent characteristics of Jia Baoyu. A Dream of Red Mansions repeatedly describes this feature, and sometimes emphasizes it with myths (such as the story of the waiter and the crimson pearl fairy grass, the description of the "dreamland") and exaggerated pen and ink (such as "grasping Zhou Ji" and taking grandma Liu's nonsense as true). Before he appeared, others introduced his children when he was seven or eight years old: "Daughters are made of water and men are made of mud." Later, the book wrote his thoughts: "Where the beauty of mountains, rivers, sun and moon is only for daughters, men with beards are just scum." He has a soft spot for many young girls. Not only for the living, but also for the beauty in the painting. She was lonely and deliberately "comforted". Since he has feelings for many girls, he can't help suffering. On one occasion, both Lin Daiyu and Shi Xiangyun were dissatisfied with him, so he couldn't help but "think too much and be annoyed"-"There are only two people now, and they haven't compromised yet. What do they want in the future? " Once again, Sunny wanted to quarrel with Aroma. He said sadly, "What should I do? No one knows how to break this heart. " Although it is impossible for him to get all the girls' tears when he dies, his obsession with girls has not changed. This is what Mr. Lu Xun summed up: "Love knowledge and work hard". It is also called "psychosexuality" by the police fairy. This summarizes and describes Jia Baoyu's personality characteristics, not only because Jia Baoyu grew up among girls and loved them as much as possible, but also because his love is not only between men and women, but also for the unfortunate people around him in a broad sense. The so-called "love bo" or "love in a broad sense" seems to contain two meanings: first, this kind of love is broad, including closeness, love, consideration, respect and sympathy; So second: this love object is more extensive. Not only Dai, Chai and Xiang, but also Sunny, Yuanyang, Pinger, Xiangling and so on. Because of its "fraternity", it is "heartbreaking". Imagine that Jia Baoyu has only one Daiyu in his heart. How can he work so hard! Worrying about others, being punished by others, and being a servant to a girl are simply too numerous to mention in Jia Baoyu's "behavior". For example, the paragraph "Pinger makes up" has nothing to do with Baoyu. But he sympathized with Pinger's misfortune, not only for his "hard work" and makeup, but also for his life experience "worry" and sigh. He thought: "Jia Lian only knows how to be lewd and please himself, but he doesn't know how to raise powder;" Pinger has no parents, brothers and sisters, and is alone, supplying Jia Lian and his wife. Jia Lian's lewdness and Xifeng's power, he can be considerate and decent, and he has been poisoned today. I think this kind of life is thin, especially in Dai Yu. However, because he can wear Pinger's makeup, he compensates for his "hate" that he can't "devote himself wholeheartedly" on weekdays, and he actually feels "the joy that he doesn't want in business today". It is also a great pleasure for Xiangling to ask xiren to change her into the same dress after she soiled the pomegranate HongLing skirt with fighting grass, and to get such a considerate opportunity of "meeting unexpectedly". Later, he buried the husband and wife Hui and Bing Dilian collected by Xiangling while mowing grass in the ground with fallen flowers, so that Xiangling called him "disgusting". It can be seen that Baoyu did not blind his eyes because of his love for Sister Lin, and ignored the misfortune and pain of many other daughters. He has a broad mind. That is to say, as far as his love for Lin Daiyu is concerned, if it is only pure sex, it will not be "tired" to that extent. His love for Daiyu is based on sympathy, care, respect and mutual understanding. Compassion and love are naturally two different things, but sympathy can be the starting point and pillar of love. Here, a "burial poem" has not been sung; Over there, it has fallen on the hillside. It shows that Baoyu has the deepest observation and feelings about Daiyu's life experience, situation, illness and mind, which is by no means tolerated by pure sex. Jia Baoyu's "much love" does contain sympathy and concern for the misfortune and pain of the weak. Love of this nature may be called humanism!

A dream of red mansions describes and exaggerates Jia Baoyu's character with a lot of pen and ink, which makes it extremely distinctive and prominent, and it is so important: without it, there would be no Jia Baoyu. This is why this rebel can be clearly distinguished from other rebels in literature and history. This is the unique creation of Cao Xueqin.

Jia Baoyu's worship of women is consistent with his whole rebellious spirit. Feudal society is "men are superior to women". Jia Baoyu turned over a child: "Women are pure and men are turbid." This is a kind of rebellion in the eyes of feudal rulers, which will naturally lead to "hundreds of ridicule"; Moreover, after Jia Baoyu completely denied the path set for him by his family, apart from the purity and loveliness of the girls, there was nothing worth his youth and life in real life, especially his unswerving love for Lin Daiyu, which became his only spiritual pillar. The seventy-first time, Yuanyang and Tanchun told the contradictions and troubles of the extended family. You Shi said that Baoyu "only knows to laugh with his sisters" and "has no worries about the future". Baoyu said, "I can live day by day with my sisters, and when I die, it's over." What's wrong? " Although this sentence is a joke, it is very sad. Why does Baoyu love being close to girls so much? How to explain the characteristics of his "goddess worship"? Back to the seventy-eighth, Jia said her opinion of Baoyu:

I can't figure it out, and I've never seen such a child. Other naughty things should be done, but he is more difficult to understand because he is good with girls. I'm worried about that, too Every time I look at him coldly, I only mess with girls. It must be that the people are big-hearted and know about men and women, so they love to be close. On closer inspection, this is not the case. Isn't that weird? Presumably the girl gave birth by mistake.

This is like the question that the author asked us to answer. The second time, Jia Yucun explained the problem. He said: there is no distinction between good and evil in heaven and earth, and when they meet, they will fight each other. If a person is born with this spirit of alternating good and evil, he is an excellent scholar if he is born in a poor family with poems and books, an excellent person if he is born in a poor family, an excellent person if he is born in a poor family, and an infatuated person if he is born in a rich family. Of course, we will not agree with this explanation. But how should we understand and explain this image? This must be found in the material world and living environment where Jia Baoyu lives.

Young men and women tend to love each other. Jia Baoyu lived in that environment and was close to many beautiful and intelligent girls. And those men and married women don't or rarely make him like, only girls are innocent and pure, and those girls who are oppressed into slaves are more likely to arouse his sympathy. Jia Baoyu said that "a daughter is flesh and blood made of water", which is a poetic concept, and it is very consistent with Lin Daiyu's metaphor of flowers. "Daughters" are as bright, beautiful and fragrant as flowers, as clear, crystal clear and clean as water, and their youthful lives shine with the brilliance of truth, goodness and beauty. It is from them that Jia Baoyu saw the value of life and found a beautiful soul and pure love. This moved him so much that he even forgot himself. His love for girls is pure and selfless in essence. This embodies his humanistic ideal.

However, Jia Baoyu's worship of women is not infinite. He once said, "An unmarried girl is a priceless pearl. Without marriage, I don't know how to get into many bad problems; Although it is a bead, it has no luster. This is a dead bead. The older you get, the more you change. It's not a bead, it's a fisheye. How can you change three things when you are alone? " Chun Yan, the little girl in the book, commented very correctly. She said, "Although this is a mixed statement, it is not bad." Why not say it's not bad? This is because in feudal society, both married women in the ruling class and their maids have more and more bad habits with their age. When the Grand View Garden was raided, Zhou Rui's wife's aggressive attitude of dismissing chess once deeply angered Jia Baoyu. Pointing to hatred, he said, "Strange! Strange! How come these people only smell like men when they are married, and they are mixed up, which is more lethal than men. " This shows that Jia Baoyu doesn't hate married old women for no reason, but that they have contracted bad habits, lost their simplicity, and regarded their sufferings as others.

Jia Baoyu's attitude towards women reflects his democratic and humanitarian thoughts. This is not "sexual beauty", but full of social ideals. Jia Baoyu loves the oppressed weak, and he hates only the oppressors and their minions. In an objective sense, there is a demand to liberate women from the oppression of feudal ethics. This preliminary democratic and humanistic thought is consistent with Jia Baoyu's rebellious character. There are other aspects that constitute Jia Baoyu's rebellious character, such as his opposition to feudal marriage system, imperial examination, stereotyped writing and feudal ethics. He is a traitor to the feudal aristocracy; He is typical of the new citizen class. His appearance is undoubtedly an impact and destruction on feudal society, which means that feudal society "suddenly looks like a building"!

From the above discussion, we have understood the profound meaning of The Story of the Stone created by Cao Xueqin with his high imagination, and what is the essence of psychic Baoyu. The core of the original question is: Jia Baoyu is the heir of Guo Rongfu; His talent of "cleverness and wit" made this noble family place extremely high demands on him. However, not only did he not intend to make a name for himself and run the country, but he completely despaired of that country and embarked on the road of betrayal. He and his father are so incompatible. He wants to read books he doesn't like; He doesn't like to do stereotyped writing, but he has to do it; He didn't like to socialize with those guys in Emei, so he forced him to go out to socialize. He believes that only the girl's world is a pure land, his father always pulls him out of this pure land, his mother always destroys this pure land, and his uncle, brother and nephew always defile and trample on this pure land. Especially those he loves, it is forbidden to love; He doesn't want to get married. He just wants him to get married. "If there is no romance, I will meet him in this life; You said that fate is strange, how can your heart be empty? " This role is in such a tangled and contradictory pain. The so-called stone turning into a psychic treasure jade is nothing more than an explanation of this tangled contradiction. That is to say: the essence of Jia Baoyu was originally a useless stone of feudal aristocratic families; But his position and talent made him a "treasure jade" in the eyes of aristocratic parents. It's really "it's true when it's fake, it's true when it's fake, and nothing can be done."