The Fable Function of Yu Ming's Yu Ming

From beginning to end, the author told the readers this story through grandma Liu: this is a lie. Granny Liu made it up. Not credible. This is just a cover-up! But the main idea of A Dream of Red Mansions is: what is false is true, and what is really true. It seems nonsense, but every sentence is true. Cao Xueqin's writing style is so magical!

It is worth noting that when the old lady stopped Baoyu from asking about firewood, everyone talked about giving his seat to Shi Xiangyun. Because Shi Xiangyun just personally invited the ladies and concubines of the Grand View Garden to have a delicious crab feast, and as a courtesy, the Jia family also invited her to have a meal. This is a necessary etiquette in ancient times, called "returning to the seat". To put it bluntly, it is to find a reason for these idle ladies and gentlemen to get together to eat, drink and have fun. Then Baoyu suggested, "The old lady likes rain and snow. Why don't you wait for the first snow and invite the old lady to enjoy it? It is even more interesting for us to recite poems under the snow. " At this time, Lin Daiyu said a joke: "Shall we recite poems under the snow? In my opinion, it is more interesting to get a bundle of firewood and smoke it under the snow. " Daiyu's remarks are obviously a satire on Baoyu, because she wants to vent her dissatisfaction and jealousy. Lin Daiyu loves Jia Baoyu deeply. She cares about everything Baoyu says and does, and her heart only follows Baoyu. So when Baoyu shows interest in other girls, Daiyu is definitely not satisfied, even if the girl is just a shadow. This psychology of Daiyu is the common psychology of all girls in love, and it is deep love. So after Grandma Liu left, Lin Daiyu once ridiculed Grandma Liu: "She is that kind of grandmother, just call her' mother locust'." Only this sentence, how many readers who love Lin Daiyu can't lift their heads, and later the world said that Lin Daiyu was bitter and didn't know how to pity the poor and cherish the old. Even Mr. Zhou said, "So, I really don't have a good impression on her."

Mr. Zhou knows knowledge, but he may not know Daiyu or even women. Lin Daiyu is a woman among women, and the love of women is exclusive. In fact, Lin Daiyu was not out of contempt for Granny Liu's identity, but was deeply dissatisfied with a case-solving story about "Mingyu" that she casually made up. It was Granny Liu who inspired Baoyu to be so serious that he must find a temple with a statue of Mingyu. Out of jealousy of girls, Dai Yu can't have a good impression on Granny Liu. Don't say that Daiyu is mean, if a girl in love is too tolerant, it can only show that she doesn't love deeply enough!

On the other hand, Lin Daiyu's sarcastic remark seems more meaningful. The so-called "firewood" for making a fire is actually just dead wood. Think about Lin Daiyu's paintings. Aren't they just two dead trees? If the hint is not clear enough, grandma Liu went on to tell everyone clearly that the girl who smokes firewood is called Mingyu. As we all know, the word "jade" in A Dream of Red Mansions is not an ordinary word, and few people have jade in their names. Xiaohong, the maid in Baoyu's room, was originally named Hongyu, but she changed her name to Xiaohong to avoid conflict with her master. It can be seen that the word "jade" is precious and not everyone can use it. Grandma Liu has been to Jia's house for the second time, and she knows that Jia's baby grandson has the word "jade" in his name. With granny Liu's IQ, she should avoid it. Here, Granny Liu did not hesitate to put the girl's name into Yu Ming. What does this mean?

Further analyze the name: Mingyu. Of course, Ming refers to tea. And the word "Ming" is also Baoyu's favorite word. He named his favorite personal servant Baking Ming, and later renamed it, and he never left the word "Ming". And what color is this tea? It's dark blue, which is exactly the same as the color contained in Lin Daiyu's Dai characters. The so-called Yu Ming is Daiyu.

However, Miss Mingyu in this story is not a person, but a ghost. He was seventeen when he died.

Seventeen is another surprise!

Judging from the age process of the characters in the book, Lin Daiyu died at the age of seventeen. Before his death, he knew how to read and write, and his appearance was extremely beautiful. His parents regard him as a treasure. The second time, when the author introduced Lin Daiyu, he used the sentence "(Lin Ruhai) husband and wife have no children, so love is like a treasure. Seeing that he is smart and handsome, I also want him to read a few words. "The background of Daiyu and Mingyu is exactly the same. Then, who is this Miss Mingyu, if not Daiyu? So Daiyu really played a joke on herself: the protagonist of smoking firewood under the snow is herself!

Why did the author invent such a story out of thin air? For the ending, of course. The thirty-ninth time, Baoyu ordered Yan Ming to look for the ancestral temple and the statue of Mingyu mentioned by Granny Liu, but he couldn't find it for a day. He came back and said: the statue of beauty was not found, but the statue of red-faced athel loren was found. Baoyu coaxed him, "Don't worry. You can find it another day. If he lied to us, it would be gone. If there is, isn't it a ghost? I will reward you. " Of course, the following article did not write the words "find this jade". After this time, Baoyu basically decided that Granny Liu was out of thin air, and her words were not credible, and she continued to live a leisurely life of eating, drinking and having fun. But when did Baoyu send Yan Ming to find this Mingyu ancestral hall? Forty-two times, granny Liu visited the Grand View Garden the next day, and Xifeng's daughter fell ill:

Pinger took out the jade sagger and looked at it. Cai Ming turned it over and read: "On August 25th, the patient must meet the flower god in the southeast. Use forty pieces of five-color paper money and send it to the southeast in forty steps. Good luck. "

If we infer from this time, Granny Liu's time to visit the garden is August 24th, and the day before that, Baoyu sent Yan Ming to find Mingyu Ancestral Temple on August 23rd. It was just after the Mid-Autumn Festival. The redology circle has long concluded that Daiyu died shortly after the second Mid-Autumn Festival after the 76th Mid-Autumn Festival couplet poem. August 23rd here is the real death date of Daiyu in the future. The hibiscus blooms in autumn, which is in line with the prediction of Daiyu's fate in the previous flower sign.

What is certain is that Mingyu's story will not end there. In the eightieth edition of A Dream of Red Mansions, Baoyu must have seen the ancestral temple mentioned by Granny Liu, but it was not Mingyu who was enshrined, but Lin Daiyu. Eighty times later, it was followed by the death of Jia Mu. After the death of Jia Mu, Lin Daiyu had no one to rely on, so she had to "be bullied" and soon died in tears. When Lin Daiyu died, the Jia family was not completely ruined, so it was not a problem to give Lin Daiyu a beautiful funeral. Mrs. Wang felt guilty. She probably built a small ancestral temple for Lin Daiyu to show charity. In fact, it was a kind of repentance compensation for not being kind to Lin Daiyu. In the thirty-ninth episode, the author borrowed Jia Baoyu's words and said, "Our old lady and wife are good people, and our family also loves to build houses, temples and carve gods ..." It should be a matter of course to build an ancestral temple for Lin Daiyu. But what followed was the decline of the Jia family. Jia's son and brother can't even keep their own food and clothing. Who else will burn incense and stir the fire for Lin Daiyu's ancestral temple? Therefore, Daiyu's ancestral temple must have been destroyed. Only Baoyu, who is distressed by her, will think of incense and think that Lin Daiyu is a "fairy".

Here, the author uses flashback narrative method to write this funeral of Daiyu. Fate is a strange thing. It seems that everything has been written, just waiting for you to practice. Unfortunately, it is too late to understand this truth now.

There is also a saying that the sound of "Ming" is the same as that of "Ming". In the last days, Yu Ming died in seventeen years, which is a metaphor for the death of Chongzhen in the late Ming Dynasty. Wood is dead wood, that is, the wood of death (the alliance of wood and stone), which means that Daiyu was seventeen when she died. Yan Ming searched hard for a day, and found a blue-faced and red-haired god of plague in the ruined temple in the northeast corner, but it was not the idol of Mingyu, which made Baoyu quite disappointed, so he also scolded Yan Ming. Judging from the author's usual methods and the topic of this reply, the author's intention of metaphor to readers is already obvious.