"A Dream of Red Mansions" - Part 1 "A Letter to a Senior in Red Studies"

Dear senior:

Hello! The letter sent by the entruster has been read. I read your emotional poem: "I wasted my whole life working on the Red Mansion, every word is full of blood and sorrow. Who would have thought that the gold mine was not in place, digging through the earth and shedding tears." I really don't know what to say.

At that time, I showed you the Tianhuang seal of "Cao Yin's Seal" and saw your old man's frustrated and disappointed expression. I really couldn't bear it. Am I going too far in blaming myself? Why should I wake you up from the Dream of Red Mansions that has been dormant for decades? It's also my fault that I'm not good at cultivation. Why should I let you know the truth? But I couldn't help it anymore. You were talking eloquently at that time, saying that the masters in red studies had left one after another, and you were the one...the most authoritative one left. You were not only a university professor, but also a master's and doctorate... …Returning the world with peaches and plums, who would you rather study red learning?

I couldn't bear it anymore. My attitude towards experts and scholars has always been one of respect, not blind obedience. Seeing the kind of flattery you have from your fans here, I only want to make you "de-saint". I really didn’t expect that you were so frustrated that you were almost hysterical. You muttered incoherently, “How could this happen...How could this happen...”, and then as if you had found a life-saving straw, you said: “This is not a lie. "Cao Yin's Seal, right?" Why did you create such a thing? , my doubts are no less than yours, but I don’t have your fears and disappointments. When playing with collections, first suspect it is fake and then prove it is true.

Who would use such expensive top-grade Tianhuang stone to create a seal of Cao Yin? Who would care about who Cao Yin is if he doesn’t study Red Mansions? What's more, it is extremely uneconomical from an economic point of view to have his name "Ziqing" and the year of Jiaxu engraved on it. If you want to make one, let’s also make one’s emperor’s seal! It is really unnecessary to create a square field yellow seal stone that does nothing but is worth a lot of money. The historical traces on the seal, the pictures on both sides depicting Cao Yin's mental journey, the sandalwood board and fan on the top of the seal, especially the gourd on the seal button, all of a sudden brought up the entire Dream of Red Mansions.

From the characters inside and outside the Calabash Temple in the first chapter to the characters in the 120th chapter, they all appear one after another.

In the first chapter, "Zhen Shiyin's Dream Psychic Channels Jia Yu Village's Feng Chen and Pregnant Lady", Zhen Shiyin is a country eunuch who lives next to the Calabash Temple. Went. And Jia Yucun, who "asked for a good price and waited for the right time to fly", didn't wake up until the 120th chapter. Although he woke up, he "still fell asleep". Generally speaking, Jia Yucun is regarded as "fake Yucun". In fact, Jia Yucun has another meaning: "fake stupidity" - really smart. Of course, "Smartness leads to mistakes", and this brings Wang Xifeng into question again.

In Chapter 120, although there is no clear word referring to the gourd, there is still an explanation based on the gourd. For example, when talking about Baoyu's escape into the empty door, Shi Yin said: "No! I could foresee such a strange fate. In the past years, I had met my husband before we talked at the door of our old house in Renqing Lane." That "Renqing" "The entrance to the old house in the lane" is next to the Calabash Temple. In fact, the entire Dream of Red Mansions tells the story inside and outside the Calabash Temple, and it all focuses on the "impermanence" medicine sold in the Calabash Temple. The Grand View Garden is just a big gourd. The inside and outside of the garden are the inside and outside of the gourd. Take a closer look and that’s it.

Thank you for introducing me to the Red Society. It’s hard to respond to you in front of your boss. I really don’t have the slightest interest in these meetings. I know and have interacted with all the former Red Scholars you mentioned. Mr. Zhou Shaoliang, a master of red learning, was the vice president of the China Collectors Association when it was established in 1996. Zhao Puchu not only inscribed the name of the association, but also served as the honorary consultant of the association. With his rich knowledge of Buddhism and Dunhuang studies, Mr. Zhou Shaoliang was involved in the study of the Dream of Red Mansions. He also wrote the book "A Detailed Description of the Red Mansions". I often heard him share his views on the Dream of the Red Mansions.

As for your opinion that Mr. Feng Qiyong is a domineering leader in the red academic circle, I don’t feel that way because I have never been in the red academic circle. Instead, after the establishment of the China Collectors Association, I worked for the "Chinese Collectors" 》magazine, I have dealt with Mr. Feng. I feel that he is a modest gentleman, and I have asked him to write several articles, all of which were about collections, and most of them discussed the topic of purple clay teapots.

I bought a copy of Mr. Feng's oral autobiography "A Life of Wind and Rain", and there is a chapter in it that says:

"Ouyang Jian of Nanjing published an article in which he believed that all the Zhiyanzhai manuscripts were fake. They were all done by later generations, and only Cheng Jiaben was Cao Xueqin's earliest writing. After reading Ouyang Jian's article, I felt that it had no basis and was simply untenable. My friends in Nanjing at that time strongly opposed Ouyang Jian's view. They asked me to write an article, and I was ready to write an article, but I didn't write it immediately.

Why didn't I write it at that time? Because there are several chapters in "Zhi Yanzhai's Commentary on Stones". 》The original text in the manuscript is Zhi Pi's text, which was copied into the main text by the copyist at that time. Because the comments at the bottom of the text are two lines of small characters, some of them were accidentally copied into the main text as a sentence. I count five similar situations, which can be extracted separately from Cheng Jia's book and used as proof against the original text of "Zhi Yanzhai's Re-Evaluation of Stones". , but it will become the main text when it comes to the Cheng Jia version.

Ouyang Jian is sorting out the Cheng A version and preparing it for publication. If I publish the article, he will make modifications based on what I pointed out in the article. My point out will become the main text. I wanted to help him with the forgery, so I kept silent. Later, the version of Cheng A that he edited was published, and I saw that he had indeed printed the version with punctuation as it was. At that time, Malaysia happened to invite me to participate in the national standard "Dream of Red Mansions" held by them. seminar. Before going to the meeting, I wrote a paper on my evaluation of Cheng Jia’s version, pointing out that there were five places where Cheng Jia’s version mistakenly included Zhi’s criticism into the main text, which proved that Cheng’s version was much later than Zhi Yanzhai’s criticism. It further proves that Ouyang Jian’s statement is baseless.”

Every time I see this section, I want to laugh, and there will always be an image in my mind of Mr. Feng holding a shotgun and waiting for Ouyang Jian’s “prey” to appear. scene, I always feel that the old man is not kind enough in this regard. In fact, there is another situation in the world of edition collection, that is, things that come out later are deliberately copied wrongly, so that others think they are genuine copies and made later.

Senior, please remind me that the seal of "Cao Yin's Seal" alone is not enough to overturn the conclusions of previous generations. Your reminder is worth taking seriously and thank you very much.

Mr. Feng Qiyong has said in "A New Examination of Cao Xueqin's Family History":

"But in our traditional scholarship, the first thing is 'disbelief without evidence'. You cannot believe without evidence." Another point is that 'isolated evidence does not stand up'. You cannot believe it even if there is only one piece of evidence. A thing must have two or more pieces of evidence to prove it. If there is only one piece of evidence alone, there is still something to worry about. ”

< p> When playing with collections and doing knowledge, we must pay more attention to "isolated evidence does not stand up, but the support of many people makes it sincere".

It has been 226 years since Cheng Yi's version was finalized in 1792, and 97 years have passed since Hu Shi finalized the book "A Textual Research on A Dream of Red Mansions" on November 12, 1921. The author and version of "Dream of Red Mansions", which Mr. Hu "boldly hypothesized and carefully verified", has yet to be determined.

In fact, Yu Pingbo, another master who studied "Dream of Red Mansions" at the same time as Hu Shi, clearly wrote in his later years: "Hu Shi and Yu Pingbo were guilty of cutting the Dream of Red Mansions in half. Cheng Weiyuan and Gao E were responsible for preserving the Dream of Red Mansions. It's a big deal!"

Hu Shi went to the other extreme when he opposed Cai Yuanpei's method of "finding hidden things", especially basing his argument on Yuan Mei's "Suiyuan Shihua" of the Qing Dynasty. This volume In the second chapter, there is this sentence: "His son Xueqin wrote a part of "Dream of Red Mansions" to record the prosperity of Fengyue. Among them is the so-called Grand View Garden, which is the rest of the garden."

There have been many The article demonstrates Yuan Mei's random fabrication. In fact, Yuan Mei just wants to set off his house - "Suiyuan".

The People's Literature Publishing House has published a series of famous writers' talks about "Dream of Red Mansions", one of which is called "Ke Fei Tan "Dream of Red Mansions"". I believe you have read this book before, but you belong to the "mainstream" "Red Studies" may not be interested in these things, but Mr. Kefei believes that "Yuan Mei is the source of no water, and Hu Shi made it a big river."

These views are quite interesting, and Mr. Hu Shi has verified them. , Cao Xueqin is not Cao Yin’s son but his grandson. So far, it is undecided whether Cao Xueqin is Cao Yin's son - the son of Cao Yong or the son of stepson Cao Fu. However, Cao Xueqin's age is also uncertain. Because this method of researching sourceless water is inherently uncertain.

The truth is: there is no such person as Cao Xueqin.

When I was chatting with you, I said that I used the three-in-one method of "wenzang (collection of cultural relics), documents (materials between the royal family and the Cao family), and texts (120 chapters of the novel "A Dream of Red Mansions" written by Cheng Yi). "Method" to examine the author and version of Dream of Red Mansions.

Cao Xueqin’s name appears twice in the first chapter and the 120th chapter of the text.

So who is the author of Dream of Red Mansions?

There is no Cao Xueqin in the world.

Don’t mistake Lu Xun for Ah Q.

I think Cao Xueqin is just a name. In the text of Dream of Red Mansions, "Cao Xueqin" appears in the first chapter and the 120th chapter, and he is not said to be the author.

The first chapter of the Chinese classic "Dream of Red Mansions" published by Zhonghua Book Company:

From then on, Taoist Kongkong saw color from the sky, generated emotion from color, conveyed emotion into color, and realized the emptiness from color, so he changed his name Love Monk, changed "The Story of Stone" to "Love Monk Record". Donglu Kongmeixi wrote the title "Fengyue Baojian". Later, Cao Xueqin read it for ten years in the Mourning Hongxuan, added and deleted it five times, made it into a catalog in seal script, divided it into chapters, and titled it "Twelve Hairpins in Jinling", which is a unique title. This is the origin of "The Story of the Stone", the poem goes:

A paper full of absurd words, a handful of bitter tears! It is said that the author is crazy, who can understand the meaning?

The 120th chapter of the Chinese classic "A Dream of Red Mansions" published by Zhonghua Book Company:

Taoist Na Kongkong kept this statement firmly in mind, and he did not know how many lives and calamities he had passed. I went to mourn the red pavilion, and saw Mr. Cao Xueqin reading ancient history there. Taoist Kongkong then told Jia Yucun about it before showing him the "The Story of the Stone". Then Mr. Cao Xueqin smiled and said: "It is indeed 'Jia Yucunyan'!" Taoist Kongkong then asked: "How come you recognize this person and are willing to narrate it for him?" Seeing Mr. Xueqin smiled and said: "You are empty, it turns out you are It's really empty. It's a "false language", but there are no contradictions and contradictions...

In the first chapter, Xueqin just "reads" and "adds and deletes". It is not a book;

In the 120th chapter, Mr. Xueqin just "passed on" Jia Yucun's "Jia Yucun Yan"

Taoist Kong Kong concluded: "It is indeed true. Perfunctory and ridiculous! Not only the author doesn't know it, but the copyists don't know it, and the readers don't know it either. ”

Cheng Jia’s preface makes it very clear, “The novel “Dream of Red Mansions” is originally called “The Story of the Stone”. The author is said to be different, and it is unknown who the author was. However, it is recorded in the book that Mr. Xueqin Cao made several edits. "Besides, the literary inquisition in the Qing Dynasty was quite powerful. It was written that "Cao Xueqin" wrote "Dream of Red Mansions" directly referring to the Cao family. Doesn't it mean that the royal family was notified to seize the descendants of the Cao family?

So who exactly is this book? Written by?

I believe that Cao Yin first had the outline of the book and was completed by Cao Fu and several others.

Let’s go back to "A Dream of Red Mansions" first. "Cao Yin's Seal" has the "Jiaxu" year on the seal. This year is 1694, the 33rd year of Kangxi, the second year that Cao Yin took over Jiangning Weaving. He left Suzhou Weaving in November 1692 to take up the post of Jiangning Weaving. He went to Jiangning, that is to say, he returned to Jiangning in the eighth year after his father Cao Xi passed away (Cao Xi died of illness in Jiangning in June 1684). It was Sangge who took over Cao Xi's weaving in Jiangning (from the 23rd to the 31st year of Kangxi's reign). Year).

The author of the collector's edition of "A Dream of Red Mansions" published by People's Literature Publishing House has been marked as "written by Cao Xueqin, continued by Anonymous". I think it is extremely unserious. Since Gengchen's version is used as the original version, The 120 chapters following Cheng Jia's edition should be realistically written with the words "Compiled by Cheng Weiyuan and Gao E". In addition, the preface of this collector's edition reads: "In the second year of Kangxi, Cao Xi took up the post of Jiangning weaving for the first time. After serving for a long time, he died of illness while serving as Jiangning Zhizao in the 23rd year. Kangxi immediately appointed his son Cao Yin to be Suzhou Zhizao. "Wen Yun Mansion" and other books were published in Yangzhou. "The "soon" here is not accurate. As everyone knows, a "swirl" lasts eight years. In these eight years, the one who succeeded Cao Xi as Jiangning weaver was "Sangge".

In 1684, when Cao Xi died, In November, Emperor Kangxi visited Shangyuan on his southern tour, and Cao Yin was ordered to "assist in charge of Jiangning's weaving affairs". In December of the same year, Masanggezuo's commander Wai Lang was sent to Jiangning to weave, and Cao Yin was ordered to "assist in charge of Jiangning's weaving affairs". Withdrawal, that is to say, Cao Yin only took over his father's work for a month before he was dismissed.

In 1690, Cao Yin was appointed as a doctor and assistant leader by Emperor Kangxi to manage Suzhou weaving. There is a chance to return to Jiangnan from Beijing.

It has been six years since Cao Xi passed away.

If we review Cao Yin's resume, we will have some enlightenment about his motivation and ability in creating "A Dream of Red Mansions".

Cao Yin, born in 1658 and died in 1712, had the courtesy name Ziqing, Dongting, Lixuan, and Xueqiao (people who play textual research do not write this, because It is disadvantageous for them to regard Cao Xueqin as Cao Yin's grandson, because the word "Xue" is taboo). In 1663, the second year of Kangxi's reign, he went to Nanjing with his father when he was six years old. In other words, he grew up with Kangxi in Beijing before he was six years old. Yin's mother, Sun, was Kangxi's wet nurse. Kangxi was four years older than Cao Yin. It's hard to say how much Cao Yin could remember about the days he spent with Kangxi in the palace before he was six years old. He could still recall the experience of growing up together. Cao Yin studied in Jiangnan from 1633 to 1675 and accompanied his father in Jiangning. In 1675, when he was eighteen years old, he was selected as a bodyguard and accompanied Kangxi again. He was also a bodyguard with Nalan Xingde and became friends.

From 1675 to 1682, Cao Yin served as a bodyguard for seven years. In 1682, when he was 25 years old, he served as the Chief of the Zhiyi Zhengzheng and the fifth counselor of the Zhengbai Banner Coating, the third flag and drum assistant.

In 1684, the twenty-seven-year-old Cao Yin was promoted to the internal secretary Kou and assisted in the weaving affairs of Jiangning. This year, I traveled from the capital to Nanjing to accompany my sick father. In June of the same year, his father died in office, and in November he was ordered to assist in the weaving in Jiangning. The second volume of Cao Yin's "Dongting Poetry Notes" "Reflections on Planting Willows in the West Garden" says: "I have been ordered to bear the brunt of my kindness, and I will go to the court." "You dare to forget the training."

When he wrote this sentence, Cao Yin was "accepted" as "the internal secretary and co-manager of Jiangning's weaving affairs." However, only one month later, Cao Yin was "violated" and withdrawn. Difference. What "rule" was violated is unclear in historical records. Cao Yin's poem "Reading Zhu Chixia's Poster Tao Manhe" in the third volume of "Dongting Poetry Collection" says: "The government office stopped to dress in violation of the rules and regulations, and when I was sick, I took pills to avoid the rules." ”

After his father died, he was immediately evacuated, and the family left the south of the Yangtze River and returned to Beijing. The hardships involved dealt a heavy blow to Cao Yin, causing him to fall deeply into a state of sadness and despair. A poem called "Letting Go". One of the lines is "For thousands of years, I dare not express my sorrow." The depressed and indescribable feeling of frustration is fully expressed in the poem. The death of his father, the blow of his evacuation, and the sudden death of his friend Nalan Chengde soon after, all constituted multiple blows to Cao Yin. It was not until ten years after Nalan's death that Cao Yin had "every family competing to sing "Drinking Water Ci" "Who knows Nalan's heart?" I wrote about my deep memory for Nalan, and the sadness caused by this deep memory: "Recalling the past stay in Wei Mingguang Palace, the people of Langjia Mountain were beautiful; Maying Dog Prison* It was difficult to laugh at, but now it hurts and withers."

This certainly gave Cao Yin the opportunity to write the eternal masterpiece "A Dream of Red Mansions".

Leaving the foundation his father had built in Jiangning, he was suddenly withdrawn. This not only involved the fact that the lucrative job of Jiangning weaving fell into the hands of others in the competition, but also reflected the imperial power of Kangxi’s envoys. He beat and pulled, and moved freely, uprooting Cao Yin's family's foundation in Jiangning and letting him return to the capital. Cao Yin served as a bodyguard and stayed with Kangxi for nearly 15 years. If his childhood life with Kangxi in the palace when he was six years old was included, Cao Yin served Kangxi for 21 years.

In 1685, the 24th year of Kangxi, Cao Yin returned to the north with his coffin and served as a member of the Department of Punishment and Punishment of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. In the same year, Kangxi issued an order to the Ministry of Internal Affairs: "Nowadays, we see that there are very few people in charge of the Ministry of Internal Affairs who are good at shooting and good at reading and writing. We can set up a special school and select those who can be taught to learn books and archery. Those who are good will be hired, and those who are bad will be dismissed." The school should be established in a place where I often see it, so that those who study can work hard."

It can be seen that Kangxi required the servants of the royal family who trained the Ministry of Internal Affairs to be well versed in both civil and military skills and personally supervised them, especially those who had played with him since he was a child. The eldest nanny Cao Yin even let him experience in different departments of the Ministry of Internal Affairs until he was stationed in Suzhou as a weaver in 1690.

Cao Yong's son Cao Yong was born in Beijing.

Cao Yin’s experience and life in the capital also laid the foundation for him to gain Kangxi’s absolute trust, and also provided him with rich life experience and rich life materials for writing Dream of Red Mansions.

Cao Yin is not only proficient in poetry and poetry, but also good at writing scripts. In 1692, he relied on a boat to compose "Beihong Fu Ji". You Dong had an inscription and praised Yin as "the book on the desk and the music on the stage are so wonderful that even though Zhou Lang was revived, An Neng could not take care of them." ?”

Cao Yin not only sang and sang with a large number of famous literary figures in the south of the Yangtze River, but also often organized performances and rehearsed plays, and had many contacts with playwrights such as Hong Sheng.

"A Dream of Red Mansions" was originally called "The Story of the Stone". Many of Cao Yin's poems were related to the writing of this great book, but everyone fell into Hu Shi's trap and focused on "Cao Xueqin" "On the body. For example, in Cao Yin's "Wuxia Stone Song", many researchers believe that the non-existent "Cao Xueqin" was inspired to write "Song of Stone" by his "grandfather" Cao Yin.

"Wuxia Stone, Wuxia Stone, is dark and colorful. Mr. Zhou carries a piece in his bag, which looks like the liver of a warrior after he has been cut open. When passing by the guests, he was afraid of killing his hands, so he held it without saying a word and drank wine. There will be no meteor spirits, gods will eat them, thunder axes will cut through the sky and destroy thunderbolts, Emperor Wa will collect and refine ancient relics, and they will not be used for grinding."

Do you remember, in the first chapter of Dream of Red Mansions: "But he said that. When the Nuwa clan was refining the stone to mend the sky... there was one piece left unused and abandoned at the foot of Qinggeng Peak."

Senior, I digressed, let's go back to the "Cao Yin's Seal". "The Year of Jiaxu" Let's see what was recorded back then and why Cao Yin carved this square seal in the Year of Jiaxu.

The Jiaxu Year was 1694, the thirty-third year of Kangxi. Cao Yin was 37 years old and returned to Jiangning for his second year as a weaver. At the end of 1692, he was transferred from Suzhou Weaving to Jiangning Weaving. There was a poem at that time that said: "In the past, sad trees will be young again."

In the Jiaxu year, Shi Shilun and Cao Yinyou sang poems to each other, and Shi Shi just sang in 1693 He was appointed as the prefect of Jiangning. Shi Shilun (1659-1722), courtesy name Wenxian and nickname Xunjiang, was born in Jinjiang (now Jinjiang City, Fujian Province), and was Shi Langzhongzi. In the 24th year of the reign of Emperor Kangxi of the Qing Dynasty (1685), he was granted the title of magistrate of Taizhou in the first year of his life. He was promoted to the right minister of the Ministry of War and the right deputy censor of the capital procuratorate. When he was an official, his political achievements were remarkable and his reputation spread far and wide. He was once praised by Kangxi as "the most honest official in the world".

Shi was a good friend of Cao Yin. In the Jiaxu year of 1694, Shi Shilun gave Cao Yin a few coins as a gift, and Yin wrote a poem to thank him. Shi Heyun replied:

Name The garden is secluded with several rafters accompanying each other, and the green mountains are visible like eyebrows. The guests retreated to the neem pavilion to chat and test their ink. They spent time writing poems on the flowers in the office.

There is no need to accompany me when Wupi is here, so why should I repay you with green jade? Fortunately, the virtuous and powerful people wipe it frequently, and the traces of dust will remain hidden for a long time.

This poem reveals two messages. 1. Cao Yin gave Shi Shilun "green jade". In addition to "a few", Shi Shilun also gave "black jade" to Cao Yin. "Wpi" is also a kind of field yellow jade.

Of course, the square field yellow jade "Cao Yin's Seal" may not have been given by Shi Shilun, but it is definitely true that dignitaries gave each other field yellow jade stones to play with.

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In "A Dream of Red Mansions", Qin Keqing once warned Wang Xifeng with the same words.

There are two paintings on both sides of the chapter "Cao Yin's Seal". One is a wave crashing on a mountain peak, which is thrilling and helpless in the face of pressure. As Cao Yin said: "Officials in ancient and modern times are afraid of the road. Those who travel thousands of miles without stuttering are destined. In the relationship of one's position, they are afraid of falling, unable to advance, unable to retreat, who is standing on the skipper? There is comfort above the crotch. "How can you have such a profound understanding without being in danger?" In the second chapter of "Dream of Red Mansions", Jia Yucun reads the couplet at Zhitong Temple: There is so much left behind that I forget to shrink my hands, but there is no way to turn back. This is what you meant, does your senior think so?

The other side of the seal has a picture of a hut in the mountains. Cao Yin said in "Sleeping Well" in Volume 7 of "Dongting Poetry Notes": "Every time I sleep on the pillow, I get up and enter the heart of the mountain." , I urge you to have a glass of wine and express your eternal love."

The seal is left blank, which echoes the line in Chapter 120 of "A Dream of Red Mansions": "Jia Zheng was about to go forward, but all he saw was a vast expanse of white. There is no one in the wilderness." This corresponds to the situation in the first chapter of "seeing color from the sky, feeling from the color, conveying the emotion to the color, and realizing the emptiness from the color".

Yifang Seal performed a Dream of Red Mansions from beginning to end.

"The Seal of Cao Yin" interprets a Red Mansions, and it also allows us to understand the original reason why "Nuwa mended the sky and made stones", that is, "Lingyu descended to earth", experienced tribulations, and then returned to "Dahuang Mountain" . Cao Yin used his wonderful pen to write from "heaven" to "the world", describing the "impermanence" of worldly affairs, the mutual changes of yin and yang, ups and downs, and "seeing color due to space, generating emotion from color, conveying emotion into color, and self-color". The principle of "Wukong" is demonstrated through a 120-chapter Dream of Red Mansions.

Jade needs to be polished and people need to practice.

The book "The Red Mansion" shows a lot of jade, "Jia Baoyu", "Lin Daiyu", "Miaoyu", "Jiang Yuhan"... and the collection of jade is also the hidden secret of the Cao family in the Red Mansion.

That "one monk and one path" descended from the "Taixu Illusion Realm" in the sky to save Jia Baoyu. This piece of jade shrunk into a fan pendant has already been branded with "one monk and one path", not to mention that there are still It involves the religious culture of Shamanism believed by the Manchu people. The "Great Wilderness Mountain" is actually another name for Changbai Mountain, the sacred mountain of Shamanism. "One Monk and One Way" is nothing more than the transformed presentation of the "big shaman" and "two shamans" in the practice of shamans.

In Chapter 18 of Dream of Red Mansions, when Concubine Yuan is planning a wedding ceremony, there is a play called "A Banquet" from the Ming Dynasty opera "A Handful of Snow", which tells the story of the antique merchant Mo Huai's ancient jade cup. Don't let your family be ruined because of a jade cup. There are many jade in Dream of Red Mansions. Could it be that the family died because of "jade"? The Cao family also has a jade cup similar to "a handful of snow".

In fact, the Cao family was ransacked when they arrived at Cao Fu. In addition to being involved in the fight for heirs between princes, "transferring property" was also a very important part. The "lion" mentioned many times in the book actually comes from the "Jade Lion Pixiu" transferred by the Cao family. In the sixty-sixth chapter: "Except for those two stone lions, everything in your Dongfu is clean!"

In the sixth year of Yongzheng's reign, after the Cao family was ransacked, it was discovered that the ninth prince Yunzhen was hiding in Cao Cao's house. This is a gold-plated lion made privately by the Cao family. The prototype of the lion is the jade brave kept privately by the Cao family.

The Cao family also fired porcelain in violation of regulations and stole porcelain. Kangxi had a decree to scold Cao Fu. The Cao family had dealt with three generations of emperors, and it was Cao Fu who was praised by Yongzheng for his writing skills as a "tongjia". His brother Cao Yong (Cao Yin's son) was also praised by Kangxi as a versatile scholar in both civil and military affairs. The painful experience of the Cao family being confiscated and deposed during the Yongzheng period was all written by Cao Fu in the 40 chapters after Dream of Red Mansions.

Cao Yin drew up the outline of the book Red Mansions, and Cao Fushun drew up the draft of 120 Rounds. These two people not only had life experience and experience, but also had the strength and ability to complete the draft of this book.

And those so-called fat versions are actually based on the far-fetched assumption that the author is Cao Xueqin. The so-called "one celery and one fat" fake version that is so close and fake is just to cover up the "Cao Xueqin" Almost, it has just been revealed that these versions have nothing to do with the Dream of Red Mansions. Of course Yu Pingbo and others knew in their later years that they could not make up this "lie".

Cheng Weiyuan has revealed in the preface to the 120th chapter of Cheng Jia's edition: "It is not arrogant to think that since there are hundreds and twenty volumes of this book, how can it not be complete? Yuanwei tried his best to collect it, from book collectors and even old papers. Note that over the past few years, I have only accumulated more than 20 volumes. One day, I accidentally found more than ten volumes on the drum, so I bought them at a high price. ”

“I got more than ten volumes from Gudan, so I bought them at a high price.”

This is really the key. Cheng Weiyuan spent a lot of money to buy the last forty volumes, but the “source "Keep it secret and return it to "get it from the drummer."

After the Cheng Jia edition was published in 1791, in 1792 he "reassembled all editions and revised them in detail." In fact, it has almost increased by more than 20,000 words. Just like in Chapter 105, "Jin Yijun raids Ningguo's Mansion", the clues can be seen from just the "property raiding list".

The 120-chapter edition of Dream of Red Mansions had already appeared in 1756. When Emperor Qianlong read the manuscript of Dream of Red Mansions presented by He Shen, he said with emotion: "This is a family matter written about Mingzhu." This sentence is certainly not true. Nonsense, Qianlong was familiar with this period of history and understood all aspects involved in Mingzhu's family affairs. The "Twelve Golden Hairpins on Enamel and Engraved Porcelain Disks from the Qianlong Period of the Qing Dynasty" collected by the Liaoyuantang Museum were the royal palace objects at that time. This exquisite set of 12 gold hairpins was probably completed before 1756, which was the period when "A Dream of Red Mansions" was written. . When Qianlong played with the twelve golden hairpins on this set of enamel porcelain plates, he was naturally filled with emotion. Tang Ying died in 1756. The exquisiteness of enamels in the late Qianlong period after Tang Ying was not as good as before, even though the ceramics fired during Tang Ying's time had been criticized by Qianlong many times. This is also the reason why we date this set of twelve golden hairpins before 1756.

Other twelve golden hairpin porcelain plates will be released one after another with the article

Of course, Dream of Red Mansions is based on "The Story of the Stone", "The Record of the Love Monk", "Feng Yue Bao Jian", "Jinling Ten The writing method of peeling bamboo shoots layer by layer from "Er Hairpin" to "A Dream of Red Mansions" gradually presents the "impermanence" medicine sold in the gourd to the readers, and uses the metaphor of "fake stupidity" and true wisdom in "fake language" , hides the historical truth in the novel, and runs through it the true story of the nine kings of the Qing Dynasty who seized the throne. It not only hides the true story, but also clearly tells you that "it is really Yin" and Cao Yin is the real author.

By the way, seniors hope to read my book "A Dream of Red Mansions" as soon as possible. To be honest, the draft of the book has been completed, but it may not be published publicly, and I have no intention of getting involved in "Red Studies" research. The most expensive consumption in a person's life is his "life". It only comes once. "A Dream of Red Mansions" can be played and read happily in your free time. You must not invest your limited life in guessing whose child "Cao Xueqin" is. go.

Thank you, senior!

Written by Zhou Detian in Hong Kong

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