Miaoyu's life story?

The wonderful jade in A Dream of Red Mansions is very special. There is no blood relationship or marriage relationship with Jia family, but she does live in the grand view garden of Jia family with dignity. Don't worry about Daiyu's "food and clothing are the same as their girls, and those little people don't take me seriously", and don't need Xiangyun's female workers to sew late into the night, even in Jia's house. The red plums outside the temple where she lives are also well repaired, which not only makes Li Wan, who has been a widow for a long time, feel that they are "interesting to open. She wants to put one in a bottle, but she can't stand Miaoyu". Even Grandmother Jia praised Hongmei and Baoqin.

Although Miaoyu stayed in the Grand View Garden, she seemed to be financially dependent on Jia's family. Moreover, judging from her expenses, her family economic conditions before becoming a monk were not worse than Jia's, and maybe even better than Jia's. So who is Miaoyu?

I think Miaoyu should also be a lady of a big family. As Zhou Rui's family said, "She was originally an official's family". Miaoyu didn't come from an ordinary official family, but was probably an official family with a better family background or status than Jia family, probably Zhen Shi in the south of the Yangtze River.

The Zhen Shi family in the south of the Yangtze River mentioned many times in their novels that the Jia family had to build a villa when they were visiting Yuan Fei. When it comes to driving (or driving an emperor, which is much higher than driving an imperial concubine), Jia Jiahe each takes a ride and spends money like water. "Let the world have it, such as filling the mountains and filling the sea, but it is a pity that it is four words." But the Zhen family rode four times. How did the Zhen Shi family get a lot of wealth? The situation of Cao Xueqin's family is similar. Because the emperor trusted him, he sent a well-paid job to the front, and in order to take over the driving, he misappropriated the public funds of Ren Shang. Even ordinary servants know that "with the money of the emperor's family, who has so much money to buy that vanity?" This sentence also explains the reason why Cao Xueqin's family came down in real life. When Cao Jia was convicted, an important charge was deficit. When the Zhen Shi family in Jiangnan secretly learned that the emperor was going to criticize their property, they left some of their property to their relatives and friends in advance. It is mentioned in the book that when the Jia family celebrated the Lantern Festival, several Zhen family members came to deposit money in a panic. Since everything can be saved, so can people. In the Qing dynasty, criminals' property was confiscated, not only for sale, but also for "beating, killing and selling" domestic maids. Then, after learning that the emperor's property was seized, the Zhen Shi family did not expect the disaster faced by the family. Zhen Shi's family can transfer ownership before the real estate, which shows its extensive contacts and activities. Since Jia Fu and Zhen family are family friends, and they can promise to help hide the property, the government can't just raid the Grand View Garden in the villa built for Yuan Fei, which is Miaoyu's best choice.

As can be seen from the reasons why Miaoyu was forced to come to Beijing, punishing Xiuyan means that she was "not allowed by the powerful, so she devoted herself to it", which shows that the Zhen Shi family had lost power and influence in Jiangnan at that time, and it is not surprising that local officials took credit for the Zhen Shi family at this time, so Miaoyu naturally became the fish on the chopping block of local powerful people. The emperor may have raided the Zhen family's property more than once, just like the Cao family in reality, or many times. Therefore, the Zhen family was not destroyed at one time, but was finally destroyed after many blows. Therefore, when the Zhen family heard that the court was going to liquidate the old debts, in order not to make the family a slave, they could separate the adult women from the family by marriage and the underage women by becoming monks. Miaoyu has been practicing with her hair, so that the Zhen family can survive this storm and become secular. If you really want to practice wholeheartedly, the rules of Buddhism do not allow two old mammy and a little girl to wait around. Therefore, Miaoyu's borrowing monks to avoid Buddhism is also a way of self-protection. Moreover, Miaoyu said before coming to Jia's house that "back door kung fu will overwhelm people with money, so I won't go", which means that she must have fled from other expensive homes for a while, and then left those back door kung fu.

The above is purely personal, welcome to discuss.