What poems in A Dream of Red Mansions suggest the fate of later characters?

The poems and songs in A Dream of Red Mansions often imply the future fate of the characters. The seventieth time, Xiangyun saw the willow flowers dancing and occasionally wrote a poem. Baochai and Daiyu felt fresh after reading it, so they invited everyone to write lyrics while they were interested, and decided by drawing lots with catkins as the topic.

Xiangyun wrote "Like a Dream": "It's embroidered velvet and residual vomit, rolling up half a curtain of fragrant mist and picking it up with her hands, which makes the cuckoo cry and envy. Live, live! Don't let go of spring. " This word is full of catkin metaphors, which is actually a hint to Xiangyun's future. Xiangyun later married Wei and got married happily. But the word changed from occupying spring to cherishing spring and staying in spring, so emotionally helpless, indicating that her so-called happy marriage will not last long.

Tanchun came to Nankezi and wrote only half a poem: "It's hard to bind, it's hard to tell east, west, north and south." Baoyu came to "Die Lian Hua", but he couldn't write it and wanted to give up. After reading this half of Tanchun, he continued: "Don't regret when you leave, I won't know until you fly." When Yinger is worried about butterflies, see you next spring, every other year! " Tan Chun only wrote half a poem, one of the reasons is that the meaning of "Tan Chun got married later and never came back" has been written in the first four sentences.

The second reason is that "hanging in the air" and "difficult to hold" can also mean that Baodai will go where you want to go in the future. Even if Baoyu fills in the words, it will inevitably be repeated. "Falling" is a metaphor for Daiyu's death. "Yinger is tired of butterflies, and the sunset glow is fragrant" means "beauty is dying", and "every other year" means to bid farewell to catkins, unless it is reborn, unless it is the afterlife.

When Daiyu came to Tang Duoling, she wrote, "The powder falls into a hundred flowers, but the fragrance stays in the Yan Lou. Each component pair appears. Wandering is also like a thin life, empty and romantic. Every grass and tree knows sorrow, but youth is bald! Alas, who will give up and accept this life? Marry Dong, anyway, go by yourself, and endure for a long time. "This word conveys Daiyu's deep sorrow over her unfortunate life experience. Taking catkins as a white man who is young and old because of sadness, it implies Daiyu's grief and indignation that her love ideal is about to be disillusioned.

Baochai came to Linjiang Fairy and wrote, "Before Bai Yutang danced in spring, the east wind rolled evenly. Bees and butterflies make a mess. On several occasions, with the passage of water, it was necessary to appoint Chen Fang. Never change, let him get together and let him leave. Shao Hua smiles without roots, and the good wind sends me Qingyun. "

Baochai has always been noble, proud of "dancing" and taking "uniformity" as her music word. Her life and ideological character are different from those of Daiyu. After Daiyu's death, there is bound to be a "golden wedding" opportunity, Baochai will rise to the peak, but Baochai will eventually be abandoned. This is what the word "rootless" means.

Writing catkins is actually writing people, vaguely depicting the respective experiences of the lyricists and suggesting the future fate of the characters. From this prophetic expression, we can see that every time Cao Xueqin writes about a person, his mind is full of the overall situation and his eyes are always open.

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Wang Xilian, a master of flower protection in Qing Dynasty, commented: The Story of the Stone also talks about dreams, but it is a new way of thinking. Before and after the two big dreams, they all went to the dreamland. One is a real dream, although reading and listening to songs, but at a loss; First, fugue, destiny takes a hand's fate, clearly remember. While half of Zhen's dreams are dreamland, Jiang's dreams are vague, Zhen Baoyu's dreams are changing, and Lin Daiyu's dreams are becoming more and more infatuated.

When Liu Xianglian woke up and became a monk, Xiangling dreamed of writing poems. Baoyu's dream combined Zhen Baoyu's dream of Miaoyu and Xiaohong's infatuation. The dream sister of Second Sister You advised to behead a jealous woman, and the dream girl of Xi 'an robbed the brocade horse. Baoyu's dream went to the nether world, attacking people and dreaming about Baoyu, Qin's, Yuan Fei and other things. Baoyu wanted to dream without dreams. It is different from other novels about dreams. A scholar's mind is incredible.

In a book, Momo wrote poems and songs, artistic letters, operas, couplets, riddles and storytelling jokes, all of which were excellent works. Skills include piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, medical astrology, and crafts, planting flowers and fruits, raising birds and cooking with needles.

There are evil characters, chastity and stubbornness, virtue and heroism, strength and cowardice. The female generals, foreign poets, immortals and ghosts, nuns, prostitutes, slave servants, thieves and demons, drunkards and rogues of the previous generation all have colors; The deeds include grand banquets, extravagance and vulgarity, incorruptibility, court ceremonies, celebration of ups and downs, imprisonment of Jingkou, satirical scriptures, profit from trading, and everything.

Even at the end of his life, he died suddenly, accidentally, committed suicide, jumped into a river and jumped into a well, was forced to hang a beam, swallow gold, take poison, and smashed steps to get rid of sperm. It can be described as all-encompassing, all-encompassing, which is invisible in other novels!

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