Who is Zhi Zhai Yan? Is there a brief biography of him?

Category: Culture/Art gt; gt; Literature gt; gt; Novel

Analysis:

Who is Zhi Zhai Inkstone

Liu Quanfu The postscript Jiaxu version once said: Zhi Yan and Xue Qin lived at the same time and witnessed various things, so they did not base their criticism on assumptions.

He paid attention to Zhi Yanzhai, but everything was taken for granted, and he had no way of knowing who Zhi Yanzhai was. The relationship between Zhi Yan and Xue Qin is so close, are they more than just "simultaneous people"? The first person to mention Zhiyanzhai was "Siyuanzhai" (Yu Rui, author of "Zaochuang Xianbi"). He said: I have seen manuscripts, and the front volume of the manuscript has comments written by his uncle Zhi Yanzhai, citing that the events at that time were very accurate; the name was changed to "A Dream of Red Mansions".

Yu Rui was born not too late, but "Zaochuang Xianbi" is a very late book. Although the year of its creation cannot be determined, the book's internal comments include seven kinds of "Dream of Red Mansions" and "Flowers in the Mirror" , it can be seen that it is something from the Jiadao era, but it is far away from when Xue Qin was alive. The author concludes the last forty chapters of Gao Ben by praising Xue Qin's original work and denounces Gao's Xu Diao and the subsequent "Xu Meng" and others for their evil deeds. This is extremely penetrating and insightful. It is really the first textual research and falsification of "A Dream of Red Mansions" one person. But it's a pity that when he mentioned the anecdotes about Xue Qin's family affairs, he couldn't help but look at the wind and catch the shadow, which was not entirely reliable! There are also errors in the quotations quoted here. However, he said that Zhi Yanzhai was Xue Qin's uncle, and the reason for this theory probably lies in what he said: the person who heard him call Baoyu refers to someone of his uncle's generation, and is not a reflection of himself. Since he believed this rumor and saw that Zhiyan and Baoyu spoke in the same generation, he said that Zhiyan was also Xueqin's uncle. His "hearing" itself is just a disguised form of "auto-legend", a small transformation, but the essence is different. Therefore, Si Yuanzhai's inference that Zhi Yan is his "uncle" is just a side-note.

Secondly, there is Hu Shi’s research. He took possession of the official title of Jiaxu. It can be seen that: "Zhi Yanzhai is a clan member very close to Xue Qin... He is probably Xue Qin's direct brother or cousin. ... Song Zhai seems to be his cousin, and Zhi Yanzhai is his alias ." After he saw the Zhibu in the Gengchen edition, he said: Now that I have read this edition, I believe that Zhiyan is the rouge-loving Baoyu, Cao Xueqin himself. ..."Zhi Yan" is just a stubborn stone that loves to eat rouge. It is the author's name, and there is nothing suspicious about it.

But when we compared the three original manuscripts, we knew that was not the case at all. The most powerful evidence is an eyebrow comment in the first chapter of the Jiaxu Book: "Tear Pen" in "Jiawu August". Earlier it was mentioned that Xueqin had passed away, and later it was said: From now on, I only hope that the Creator will give another Qin. Zhi, what kind of book is this? The other two people are also very happy to follow Jiuquan!

This is clearly the words of Zhi Yan. He specified "one qin and one fat", and also said "the remaining two people". The remaining two people are one cinnamon and one fat. Qin is dead, and fat is mourning. Just sad and dead. How can we still say that fat is celery?