What are the similarities and differences between Ximen Qing and Jia Baoyu?

People who like Jin Ping Mei like to compare it with A Dream of Red Mansions, and often think that Jin Ping Mei is better than A Dream of Red Mansions because Jin Ping Mei is more real and realistic.

In fact, no one is more real and realistic than writing Jin Ping Mei in the street and A Dream of Red Mansions in the nobility. The two are comparable to the level of human life and the spiritual realm of life.

A Dream of Red Mansions describes aristocrats: the luxurious funeral of Qin Keqing, the mother of Yuan Chun, is rich and romantic; Poetic and picturesque, the crab is full of poetry; There are golden birds, hairy birds, white snow and red berries in the glazed world ... This kind of life is far away from us, although guqin, tea, Hanfu and Kunqu have all been revived.

"Jin Ping Mei" is about street life: vendors are walking up and down the street, wives and concubines are intrigued, Ximen Qing is an official, drinking and having an affair with women, and sworn brothers have an autumn wind to shoot ... People's hearts and feelings, ancient and modern. We all have the anxiety, weakness, confusion and greed of street people.

What do women wear in Ximen Qing?

Wu Yueniang, the eldest brother, said, "Everywhere, we wear bright red brocade, and all the animals wear kirin satin sleeves and robes, and the waist is decorated with precious stones. There are towering Baoji, Impatiens on the head, double-inserted, pearls piled up, gold embroidered on the chest, necklaces scattered, and it is forbidden to step on pearls in the skirt ... "This is the 43rd time that Jin Ping Mei has thorns. Wu Yueniang saw Mrs Joe's clothes and went into battle.

Ximen Qing's wives and concubines wear "silver striped gauze shirts" and close-fitting colored gauze skirts in summer, dragging their feet. Li Pinger is scarlet burnt cloth, and Jinlian is silver-red armor. They are all made of sheepskin gold piping and eyebrows. ".

Ci-Hua Ben likes to describe clothes better than Xiu Xiang Ben. Just skirts are: Insert Huang Kuan? Embroidery, yellow thread pick, green everywhere, blue woven gold, green satin, blue satin, red brocade, green leaf flower dragging mud, five-color thread sheepskin gold pick oil yellow silver striped yarn ...

Red and green are highly saturated colors, and every fold is full of desire.

Although the background of Jin Ping Mei is Song Dynasty, it is actually written in Ming Dynasty. At that time, due to the development of water transport trade, the dock became a small town. The Qinghe River where Ximen Qing lives is near Linqing Wharf. The commercial economy has cut off the connection with people and land, and it is no longer "settling in the fields and not traveling far". Everyone is doing business.

This is a brand-new world. People are confused, their desires are rising, everyone is an adventurer and restless-

Wang Po does everything to make money. Does Song Huilian want to wear silver? In the bun, Wang Liuer wants to change her new house. Pan Jinlian cares about leather clothes. Li borrows usury from Ximen Qing, and the count is busy as a middleman. Even Xue Jiazi is going to cheat Wu Yueniang of his money. ...

Ximen Qing is the most adventurous among them. He first opened a drugstore, married a rich widow and made a windfall, opened a silk shop, a wool shop and a pawnshop, and ingratiated himself with a man named Cai in Tokyo and served as his deputy. If you have money, you have rights, and if you have rights, you have more money. So you build ancestral graves, buy houses, make clothes, and pick up girls without stopping.

Ximen Qing is the darling of business and the darling of the times.

As the richest man in Qinghe County, if you don't return home with a full load, won't you travel at night? Money talks. Of course, there is no shortage of sedan chairs in Ximen Qing. Sworn brothers always pay tribute at the right time.

Ximen Qing, who just became an official, bought a rhinoceros horn belt from the king for 70 taels of silver. The count praised it: This is a large bandwidth, but it is a water rhinoceros horn, not a dried rhinoceros horn, and all the money in Beijing can't buy it!

Eunuch Liu sent several pots of chrysanthemums, which should be approved by the count. It's an official kiln double-ring Deng paddle pot, which is a top grade.

Ximen Qing's happiness is bursting, due to the well-informed count. The so-called happiness comes not only from my being richer than you, but also from being at the same level as you, but "I have you but I don't". Therefore, whenever there are rare things, such as sweet clover lotus wine, bad shad and Yimei, Ximen Qing keeps them for the count.

The nouveau riche loves conspicuous consumption, not only in Ximen Qing, but anyone who can climb to the top will be eager to show off.

When Pan Jinlian was Wu Da's wife, she wore "woolen cloth with big sleeves and Hunan short skirt with silk and silk yarn". When I got to Simon's house, there were red, gold and silver everywhere? Small bread. On the Lantern Festival, I went to Lion Street to watch the lights. I deliberately exposed the sleeves of my gold jacket everywhere. I leaned out to eat melon seeds, revealing six golden horse pedal rings on my hands.

Before Wang Liuer hooked up with Ximen Qing, she wore "purple silk coat, dark satin shining armor, old crow satin sheepskin and golden cloud head shoes", which were dark in color and had no jewelry. What about silver? Steamed buns, emerald hoop and goose yellow skirt are all available, and every cell is shouting: I have money!

In contrast, Song Huilian failed. Ximen Qing seduced her with a emerald blue satin with four seasons flowers. The beads and gold lamp pendants on her head are yellow and red. Is there a red shop under the clothes? There are three or four fragrant tea barrels on my trousers, and I spend two San Qian dollars a day to buy flowers and melons.

But she committed suicide and was obsessed with silver? I didn't wear a bun either.

This kind of bun was used by women in Ming Dynasty to tie their hair. Grading of materials: the poor are made of hair, and the rich are made of silver? The most expensive steamed bread in Li Pinger is heavily paid? Small bread.

The top luxury in Jin Ping Mei is Li Pinger's leather coat.

The 46th time, Wu Yueniang took all his wives and concubines to visit Wu Da. It's cold. Tell him to go back and get a fur coat. Pan Jinlian didn't. Moon Niang said that other people's leather clothes, golden lotus is stronger, and disgust is the product, just like yellow dog skin, which makes people laugh.

After Li Pinger's death, Pan Jinlian asked Ximen Qing for a bottle of fur coat: "Your wife will treat you, wearing two red gold crane sleeves and a white silk coat."

Ximen Qing said, This leather coat is worth sixty taels of silver. Wear it and it will shake.

60 taels of silver, in today's RMB, is conservatively estimated to be 500,000, which is similar to the mink of the Northeast Sambo. White died, that leather coat was worn by Pan Jinlian. The collection of 65,438+000 western pearls and several boxes are soft, and they have become Wu Yueniang's bag. Things are different, life is geometric, but unfortunately no one can see through it.

In Jin Ping Mei, everyone can only grasp the present, and there is no tomorrow. Only desire, no time to care about others: eat chicken, duck and fish, fold bowls and plates; Dressed in bright red and green, full of jewels; Desire flies like strong wind and dust.

In A Dream of Red Mansions, even Zhang Dai, a scholar from a wealthy family in the south of the Yangtze River in the Ming Dynasty, has to hold her breath, not to mention Ximen Qing.

As "Zhong Ming's Shi Ding family, the hometown of poetry, calligraphy and painting", the Jia family has flourished for a hundred years, and Baoyu is the fourth generation, with its own rich flavor.

Cao Xueqin, who has experienced the prosperous times, writes about the daily life of the nobility and is full of confidence.

Grandmother Jia has a cursive poem with rosewood wood carving and red yarn embedded in it. Suzhou Huiniang is hand-made and belongs to a private tailor. This is not for sale. Hui Niang died young, and embroidery is rare. It is called "Wen Hui" and only a few official families collect it. This is a real luxury, and no amount of money can buy it in Ximen Qing.

There is also a kind of "soft smoke" that even Wang Xifeng has never seen. According to her, for example, it is good to use products made internally today. Grandmother Jia said: It used to be a window drawer, which looked like smoke from a distance, so it was called "soft smoke". Colors are after a storm comes a calm, Chou-heung, Song Bailv and silver red. I also asked Xifeng to bring a silver-red one and stick it on Daiyu's window, with bamboo inserted outside, which is also beautiful. The blue one is for granny Liu, and the rest is for the girls to make curtains and vests to avoid mildew.

Dealing with luxury goods is as simple as using Hermes as a grocery bag.

There is also a bird's golden hair for Baoyu and a bird's hair for Baoqin. One is peacock's hair and the other is wild duck's hair. Baoyu accidentally burned a hole in the sparrow's golden hair, and all the tailors in Beijing could not mend it. Qingwen is very clever and stayed up all night to mend it.

The most extravagant person in a dream of red mansions is Wang Xifeng.

The third time, she appeared, "wearing golden silk and eight treasures to save pearls, hanging pearls with the five phoenix in Chaoyang;" Around his neck, there is a red golden pot; The skirt is a bean green official sash, and the roses are double balanced; Wearing a golden butterfly, wearing a narrow coat of red satin, wearing a colorful carved azurite silver mouse jacket; Under the jade crepe skirt "

Red jade is also gorgeous, but "colorful embroidery is brilliant, like a fairy princess", not bad. Because the colorful carved silver mouse jacket on the outer cover is stone blue. Stone cyan is slightly red and black, with red and jade, which is "warm and colorful" and unobtrusive. If it is Wu Yueniang, it must be agarwood or emerald blue, like a dyehouse.

Grandma Liu met Wang Xifeng for the first time She is wearing a pink coat, a scarlet crepe silver mouse leather skirt and a turquoise cloak with a little pink and red at the corners, which looks warm and noble.

What does Daiyu wear?

In the forty-ninth session of "Glass World, Snow White and Red Plum", she put on "Little Boots of Squeezing Gold and Digging Clouds and Red Sheepskin", and a white fox put on red feather yarn, tied with a four-in-one sash of green, gold and flashing green rings, and put on a snow hat on her head.

The sisters are all bright red orangutan blankets and feather satin cloaks with white snow as the background, which is particularly bright and moving.

This is the most beautiful group photo in the Grand View Garden.

The sequel to the last forty chapters made Daiyu wear a "moonlit embroidered gown and a silver mouse vest"; She wears a simple cloud bun on her head and a red gold plaque on her hairpin. There are no flowers. Yang Fei's embroidered brocade skirt is tied around her waist. "It's nothing petty, but it still has the market spirit of Jin Ping Mei. Daiyu also ate spiced kohlrabi, which the count should despise! Even so, some people say that the last forty chapters were written by Tso Gong!

As soon as Daiyu entered the mansion, Mrs. Wang took her to see Jia Zheng, and went all the way to the three small first rooms in the East Corridor-a kang table with books and tea sets on it, and a half-old green satin backrest as a pillow. Next to the three chairs, there is a semi-old ink-playing chair.

Why is it semi-old? Some people say that this is Jia's "next life", and everything is simple. However, I don't know whether "semi-old" is appropriate or homely. For example, Baochai wore a "honey-colored cotton-padded jacket, rose-purple-gold silver mouse jacket and onion-yellow silk cotton skirt", all of which were semi-new and not old, with low-key luxury.

This is the aesthetic restraint, the accumulation of years, belonging to the old money. Only the nouveau riche, only the whole body logo, everywhere novel, dazzling thief light.

Those who can write such a scene must have witnessed the prosperous times and know what a real aristocrat is and what a decent aristocrat is.

Mr. Mou Zongsan, a master of Confucianism, said: "Nobles have their own places in morality and wisdom." In all fairness, aristocrats often represent the peak of the times in culture, aesthetics and morality.

There are not many aristocrats in China, let alone write about them. The title of the first volume of Shi Shuo Xin Yu is: "Morality, speech, politics, literature, founder, magnanimity, knowledge, appreciation, taste, discipline, enlightenment, admiration and generosity". The celebrities in the book all come from aristocratic families, and these words are actually aristocratic literacy, morality and aesthetics.

A Dream of Red Mansions is the only novel that describes aristocratic life in all directions-from diet to manners, to etiquette, to culture and aesthetics. When Daiyu enters Jia's house, be careful everywhere. It's not a gift, it's upbringing.

Baoyu rode out to the door of Jia Zheng's study. His family said that his master was away, but he insisted on dismounting. This is also education.

Many people don't like Jia Zheng, but Cao Xueqin said he was "modest and kind, not a frivolous official." It's true. Jia Zheng was shocked to hear that Jin Zhe had jumped into a well: Nothing like this has ever happened in my family! Since our ancestors, they have always been "lenient and soft". "Outsiders know where the ancestors' faces are!"

Compared with Jia She, Jia Zheng tried to support his family with generosity, diligence and responsibility. As for the result, it is not for him to decide. When I was young, I watched A Dream of Red Mansions and paid attention to Baodai's love. As I grew older, I understood Jia Zheng's seriousness and the dignity and decency he defended.

Many people say that A Dream of Red Mansions is "anti-feudal", but they ignore that the beauty cherished by Cao Xueqin is based on family background. Only when there are princesses in the province can there be villas and grand view gardens in the province; In A Dream of Red Mansions, flowers and trees are luxuriant, gentle and rich. Rich, exquisite and high-spirited culture and aesthetics can't be found in Ximen Qing's world, and it's hard to find in Granny Liu's world. Without suitable soil, there would be no grand view garden.

Entertainment, poetry and aesthetics are the values and significance of the Grand View Garden-Daiyu buried flowers, Baoyu lost flowers; Xiangyun is drunk and Xiangling studies poetry; People like "Autumn Frost Zhai married Haitang Society", "There are white snow and red plums in the glazed world", "Night banquet of the red square group of the shroud" and "Sad and lonely poems in the concave crystal pavilion" can live poetically.

Only the Grand View Garden can accommodate these useless and beautiful souls.

Some people say that Baoyu and Ximen Qing are actually the same. It's just that Ximen Qing wants to possess more women physically, while Baoyu possesses them spiritually.

The same is desire, one is "skin abuse", and I can't wait to fuck all the beautiful women in the world; One is "psychosexuality", willing to bow in front of beautiful women. This is true understanding and humility.

A Dream of Red Mansions is a "popular novel" as well as a romantic novel, which is beautiful and has a bit of bourgeois sentiment. Baoyu and Daiyu live in a noble world, with desire, free will, noble consciousness and soul.

Jin Ping Mei is about people's hearts and desires, as well as their heavy bodies. In the world of Jin Ping Mei, everyone has only one mouthful of food, one suit of clothes, only wine, sex and wealth. They all die blindly like the subjects of tyrants, and never take themselves and the world seriously. Where can I care about academic qualifications and decency?

From Ximen Qing to Jia Baoyu, from Pan Jinlian to Wang Xifeng and Lin Daiyu, from Song Huilian to Qingwen, it was a complete transformation. Cao Xueqin turned stone into gold. Turn desire into sublimation and enter a richer and higher realm.

Jin Ping Mei is a dark place of human nature, and A Dream of Red Mansions is a warm and bright place of life, with dignity and beauty. Although the white land is really clean in the end, that kind of beauty will last forever and become an immortal memory.

From "Jin Ping Mei" to "A Dream of Red Mansions", from cross-flow of desire to decent life, from Ximen Qing to Jia Baoyu, the road is long and Xiu Yuan is Xi.