A ramble on A Dream of Red Mansions

Full of absurd words, a bitter tear. Dou Yun's author is crazy, who can understand the taste?

The best feeling after reading is the self-evaluation of Cao Xueqin and Cao Gong at the first time. The phrase "Who knows the taste" has made many future generations addicted. A Dream of Red Mansions has been studied by so many people now, but who can understand its taste? How many mysteries are left after tasting? Who can solve them? This is meaningful and memorable.

? Before speaking, some words need to be written in front, which will help interesting people to understand the whole article and also serve as their ruminant aftertaste on the book The Red Chamber.

First of all, the tone of this book.

1, A Dream of Red Mansions is an unfinished novel. Zuo Gong only completed the first eighty chapters, and then it was continued by an anonymous writer, edited and published by Gao E and Cheng Weiyuan. Due to this special creative background, there are quite a few versions circulating in the society, and there are too many to mention. However, there are two versions of A Dream of Red Mansions to be understood: one is the most widely circulated mainland version 120, called Cheng Gaoben; Secondly, the fat version, namely "Notes on the Stone by Zhi Yanzhai", can be divided into JOE version, bazaar version, Chen Geng version and Sanzhi version. Only the first 80 times.

A Dream of Red Mansions is a novel written by Cao Gong. In fact, it is a novel written by Cao Gong based on his own personal experience. It has its profound connotation and historical basis. The prototype of Jia Jia's second home in the Red Chamber is Cao Xueqin's Cao home. So the book used a lot of obscure methods and wrote a lot of things of the court nature at that time, which was also one of the driving forces to attract redology scholars.

3. A Dream of Red Mansions is famous for its description of love, but this is only one aspect of Cao Gong's description of the characters in the work, and it is amazing to write scenes around the narrative of the characters; The cultural self-restraint shown by quoting classics in the description is amazing! Therefore, don't just define A Dream of Red Mansions as a romantic novel.

4. The relationship between the characters in A Dream of Red Mansions needs readers' efforts to remember carefully, because every character in it has a unique metaphor of Cao Gong, not only Twelve Women in Jinling, but also any of its maids, attendants, neighbors and distant relatives have their irreplaceable unique sense of story. If readers don't understand the relationship, there will be considerable aesthetic loss.

Second, the extension of characters.

1, Cao Xueqin is a man, not a woman!

2. Jia Baoyu's prototype is Cao Xueqin and Cao Gong!

3. The word "fat book" in the previous article means that "red inkstone" is the approver. According to the textual research of mainstream redologists, Zhi Yanzhai is the cousin of Cao Gong and the prototype of Shi Xiangyun in the book.

Jia Baoyu is not a real person in the book, but a stubborn stone left by the goddess of mending heaven, and a "fool" in the ugly friendship between the waiter and monk Lai, so it is natural for him to behave differently from ordinary people. Seeing this, you will ask, since Jia Baoyu is not a man but a stone, how can he become a handsome man with a face and red lips like Yu Wen? Don't worry, keep reading.

5, Shen Ying waiter, Shen Ying waiter is a fictional character in A Dream of Red Mansions. He once gracefully irrigated the crimson pearl fairy grass beside the Sansheng stone. He is also one of the three people that "Hard Stone" knew before he fell into the world of mortals. Compared with the ugly image of monk Lai, I believe that even you, as a reader, know what kind of person you should become after the fall of the world of mortals.

6. The crimson pearl fairy grass is the hostess Lin Daiyu. Because the "waiter in Shen Ying" was kind to her, she had to come down to earth to repay her kindness with tears, so she finally died of tears. The crimson pearl fairy grass was born as the daughter of Lin Daiyu, a salt supervisor.

7. Zhen Baoyu, "Everyone knows the fake Baoyu, but do you know the real Baoyu"? Zhen Baoyu was a waiter who came down to Shen Ying by accident, and also the object that Lin Daiyu, a crimson fairy grass, really wanted to repay.

8. True Yin Shi, are homonyms true?

9. Jia Yucun, is reading homophones a "fake language"? Why are you doing this? Have you ever heard of the cruelty of the literary inquisition in Qing Dynasty?

Third, the new words in the text

1, Ludu (second sound) moth, which means moth. Running water does not rot, which means it will not be eaten away. There are stingrays that destroy words, indicating that fish can eat books. Lu Wei refers to a person who is only committed to pursuing a salary position.

2. Xing Xiuyan Xiu (fourth sound)

3, concave-convex tile (the first sound) Gong (the third sound) But now only the "depression" sound is recorded and used as a place name, but the "arch" sound has been removed, I don't know why. Don't read convex and concave.

4. V V (fourth sound)

5. Kish: Manchu. The original meaning is grace, giving. Refers to the gift of the emperor.

Unconsciously, there are as many words written in front as 1326, just like the so-called "I will say one last thing" when the leader speaks on stage. Ha ha ha, just kidding. The following is what I want to talk to you after watching the Red Chamber.

It's not easy to say the red chamber. Tell the truth! Because there is really nowhere to say that fine needles can be inserted seamlessly, and every sentence can be said to be interesting. On second thought, let's focus on the fear of the first 80 years.

Let's talk about the first 80 times of the Red Chamber. The first title of A Dream of Red Mansions is "Zhen Meng psychic, dusty and pregnant with a good family", and the beginning is to tell everyone that my story is deceptive, and all true stories will be hidden, whether you like it or not. Such a maverick start is different, so is its content as shocking as the title? The answer is-yes! General novels go straight to the theme, design main lines and branches around the theme, and unfold characters, stories and scenes. But A Dream of Red Mansions is obviously not written according to this novel routine. It was not written directly to four families, but started from the town of Yin Shi, a township official who lived in seclusion in the south of the Yangtze River. Therefore, Zhi Yanzhai's criticism of A Dream of Red Mansions more than once is not divorced from the routine of ancient and modern novels. Why did Cao Gong open the first novel of A Dream of Red Mansions? In fact, it is simply to hide the truth and keep it from others. As mentioned above, the real Yin Shi means that the truth is hidden, but decades of efforts can't be hidden, so we should borrow what Jia Yucun said to preserve it and pass it on. Just like the couplet "When the false is true, there is no way to tell the true from the false" in "Fantasy", it also reminds me of what the Diamond Sutra says: Everything has its own way, like a dream, like dew, like electricity, and should be treated like this.

Therefore, Zuo Zongtang set "truth" and "Jia Yucun" throughout the whole text, closely following the words "dream" and "illusion", which is the composition. Zhi Yanzhai once approved "if you don't leave, come" as a monk, which led to the downfall of Jia's family. Maybe it's "Jia didn't go, why are you here?" When it dispersed, it was Zhen who was ordered by the police to return to the dream. This is another story.

What is a dream? For me, I fell asleep after reading the poem in the text; The literary accomplishment revealed by a poem is that few people can directly achieve illusion. Huh? And talk to readers about poetry? Ok, let's talk about people. Nine times out of ten, I can't understand these poems. When Zuo Gong was writing, he also combined poetry with character events perfectly. Every time I read it, I feel that these poems are written by characters in the book, but I don't realize that the real author of these poems is Mr. Cao Xueqin. Then let's arrange the talents of Tsao Gong's Zhong Ling girls.

Personally, I prefer Baochai, and I have to say that Baochai's gentle atmosphere makes her particularly like me. But as far as the story described in the book is concerned, Daiyu is still slightly better, Baochai is slightly lower, and Xiangyun and Miaoyu are tied for third place. Generally speaking, Daiyu's works include Daguan Garden Poetry, Chrysanthemum Poetry, Chrysanthemum Poetry, Chrysanthemum Poetry, Chrysanthemum Poetry and so on. Rainy autumn windows, riddles, wine orders, five beautiful poems, peach blossoms, Tang Duoling? Catkin can't wait for more than 20 songs, and there are two couplets, Lu Xueguang's instant scene couplet and the 35 rhymes of the instant scene couplet in the Mid-Autumn Night Grand View Garden, both of which are taken, ranking first in the number of red mansions. Among them, Poems of Burying Flowers and Poems of Five Beauties are both famous works. I believe that people who have seen or have not seen the Red Chamber are familiar with the story of "Daiyu burying flowers". At the same time, Daiyu and Baoyu set up a poetry club called "Haitang Club". Later, because Daiyu wrote "Peach Blossom Tour", which won unanimous praise from the partners, she changed the "Begonia Club" to "Peach Blossom Club" and Lin Daiyu became the owner of the Peach Blossom Club. Baochai also said, "No way. Peach blossom poems are never the most, and they can be written vertically, which is not as good as your ancient style. Need to be redrafted. " That is to say, everyone writes peach blossom poems except Daiyu. Not only is it a peach blossom poem, but when Dai Yu chanted chrysanthemum poems, he won the top three with the first "Chanting Chrysanthemum", the second "Asking Chrysanthemum" and the third "Chrysanthemum Dream", which was really favored by Tso Gong.

Daiyu deserves to be the first in the club, and Baochai is slightly better at singing outside the club. Baochai's "Crab Singing?" "Boudoir singing and cuddling" is also the only poem I recited in the Red Chamber:

After reading it, everyone said, "This is the swan song of eating crabs. These small topics were originally great talents with a theme, but they were too poisonous to satirize the world. "

Xiangyun and Miaoyu tied for third place, which is also my personal subjective feeling. If anyone has their own interesting opinions on the above contents and wants to discuss and learn, I won't go into details.

At this point, it suddenly dawned on me that all brothers and sisters in the Red Chamber, whether vulgar or elegant, can bluff out a few poems and classics, not to mention twelve girls. That was really a slip of the tongue. Now we are far away from Manchu, and there are many kinds of entertainment. I don't know how many. Unlike them, there are orders, orders, orders at every party. I always wonder, if time and space go back, return to the prosperous time of Kanggan, and come to Jia Mansion, can anyone in our society make rhyming poems with them? Do friends who study history and Chinese language and literature fly over the flowers formally?

From the aspect of poetry, I talked about the two female masters in Cao Gong's works, and then I talked about some other characters in Cao Gong's works through some impressive scenes.

Of course, the first is Jia Baoyu. There is a true and false the Monkey King in The Journey to the West, and there is also a Jia Zhen Baoyu in the Red Chamber. Ha ha ha ha, have fun. It is said in the book that Zhen's daughter-in-law visited Jia's house and told Jia's mother about the monsters in the house. Zhen surnamed Baoyu! The same skin is white and lips are red, the same naughty is difficult to control, and the same likes women and hates men. After reading this, I know there must be Gan Kun here, and I suddenly remembered the "stupid thing" that the waiter Shen Ying and the monk described in the first chapter crossed. In a trance, I can read several simple metaphors: Zhen and Jia Baoyu wrote in a way of hiding the truth from the reality and transmitting images in two directions. Finally, I understand that Jia Baoyu was turned into a fake by the hard stone left by mending the sky, and the treasure jade inside was turned into a fan-shaped hard stone by the monk, that is to say, in fact, Jia Baoyu is the embodiment of the hard stone. He has no appearance. He just saw the waiter in Shen Ying, so Jia Baoyu and Zhen Baoyu are exactly the same. It is the waiter in Shen Ying who irrigates the crimson pearl fairy grass, and it is also the waiter in Shen Ying who wants to repay her kindness. The two of them and other girls from the unlucky department really came to Du Jie. The stubborn stone just longed for the excitement in the world of mortals, begging a monk to take him down and be entrained in it. Therefore, it can be said that Daiyu and Baoyu were predestined friends from the beginning, and Daiyu was wrong in tears.

5 1 link, Hu Yongyi was scolded by Baoyu behind his back, and he was deeply impressed. The book describes that he cursed to death only because he added more drugs such as Fructus Aurantii Immaturus and Herba Ephedrae to the prescription, and only because he thought the drugs were too heavy for the girl's body to bear. At this time, Baoyu compared himself to an old poplar tree that had grown in a wild grave for decades. His girl is like Bai Haitang in autumn. Old poplars can't afford medicine, and neither can Bai Haitang. Seeing these affectionate and crazy words, I couldn't help laughing. I was longing for it.

The fifty-eighth time: "Baoyu was about to see Lin Daiyu, but he got up on crutches to say goodbye and came from Qin Fang Bridge. I saw gold thread hanging on the willow tree, and peaches spit out Danxia. After dinner, a big apricot tree is full of flowers, with thick leaves and many small apricots the size of beans. Baoyu thought to himself, "You have been ill for a few days and failed apricot blossoms! I don't think the green leaves are covered with branches! "So I looked up at apricots. It also reminds me that Xing Xiuyan has chosen a husband. Although this is very important for both men and women, she can't help but look at it, but she is a good daughter. However, in two years, editors will also be' full of green leaves and lush foliage'. In a few days, the apricot tree will be empty. In a few years, the smoke will be as black as silver and the beauty will be beautiful. I can't help but feel sad and sigh for the apricot tree. " It's really hard after reading it. It is normal for Baoyu to think about people when he sees things, but it is a psychological activity to feel sad when he sees the scenery. However, through the psychological description of "falling flowers and beans", "falling branches and empty branches" and "black hair like silver and beauty like water", it took less than 100 words to put Baoyu's complex tenderness on the paper, and the last sentence ended with "crying and sighing apricot". It is hard to imagine what kind of life experience and literary savings can be so relaxed and happy, but you know, this is for a young man with a weak crown as a daughter.

The second is tanchun. Back to the 74th time, the description of Jia Tanchun Huduzi was really enjoyable, so I had to call her and give her heartfelt praise. At the same time, I told other experts, especially Jia Xichun, that he was "ruthless" ~ Hey, he is a boy. ...

And the deaths of You Sanjie and You Sanjie. I can only say that it is the sorrow of being born in such a lewd place as Ningguo House. This is Liu's fault, especially this one! No matter whether your second sister You Sanjie is really the kind of person with bad conduct, bohemian and dissolute incompetence, if you compare Daiyu Buried Flowers, everyone says that Daiyu buried flowers is very tragic, and she couldn't help herself after reading it. But when I read the plot description of You Sanjie's suicide by swallowing gold, I really felt palpitation and pain, and I couldn't let it go for a long time.

There is nothing worth talking about in the last forty chapters. The only thing I can't help but say is spit. The first time 1 18, after receiving Jia Zheng's letter, Baoyu put away all his favorite books such as Zhuangzi, "but he really worked silently". Baochai told xiren about this situation: "fame has its own destiny, so you don't have to study hard sooner or later." I hope he will stick to the right path and never touch those evil spirits again. "As soon as I saw the words" curry favor with ","evil spirits "and" knowing good and evil "associated with fame and fortune, and the word" Keshi "in the following article, I panicked. Such explicit utilitarian rhetoric is really far from the last one. For a long time, everyone thought that the last forty chapters were the continuation of Gao E's works, and this erroneous view dominated for a long time. Speaking of it, Liu's sequel to A Dream of Red Mansions was quite wonderful. He dared to be the first redology scholar in the world, opposed the mainstream redology viewpoint, stood on his own feet, and made his own building of Qinxue. This move has received mixed reviews on the Internet, and comments from netizens can be published in another book, A Dream of Red Mansions.

Compared with the first eighty chapters, the last forty chapters have many shortcomings. The scenes in the previous chapters are repeated frequently and the words used are obviously immature. There are no more brilliant poems and aphorisms. The most regrettable thing to read is that the description of the characters is superficial, unable to integrate with the narrative, the text is plain and pale, and the literary talent is rare. For me, if there is no comparison, it is remarkable; However, because it is a sequel to Anonymous, countless people copied it, revised it, reprinted it, and then made up for it with the eighty works before Zuo Zongtang. Oh ... there's nothing to say ...

Finally, after reading Cheng's book 120, I understand why so many readers say "the dog's tail continues to mink". Perhaps in the early days of Ms. Xie's life, I had a general understanding and expectation of the book The Red Chamber. Seeing that Guan Ju took Baoyu High School as the background and ended in parting, everyone in the Red Chamber happily summarized the full text, and I could clearly feel the sense of loss in my heart. The thought of Jia Baoyu's seventh place in high school and being made an official made me faint and unhappy. With the chapter of "expounding and summarizing", this book finally draws a conclusion. Before reading, I was worried that "Rong Ning was defeated" and "the whole family was imprisoned" had no trace in Cheng Gaoben; The expected feeder lines are Xiaohong, Jia Yun, Xiren and Jiang Yuhan. Are hidden.

After reading a complete book, I feel empty, lacking a kind of satisfaction and losing more. Perhaps this is the beauty of a dream of red mansions! In fact, I believe that regardless of the ending, regardless of the ending geometry, the book "The Red Chamber" is like Ms. Xie's instruction: "This is a book worth reading all your life", and the Red Chamber is a life that you can't finish reading all your life.

Finally, I would like to thank Xiaohong scientist Ms. Xie Xiaorong for her careful guidance.