Love Poems of Baoyu and Daiyu

This song "Red Bean Qu" can be found in the 28th chapter of A Dream of Red Mansions. It is an outline describing the two heroines Jia Baoyu and Lin Daiyu in the book.

This song has ten sentences, with the fourth sentence as the core. This sentence shows that the theme of this song is: Jia Baoyu and Lin Daiyu "can't forget the worries of old and new." The whole Dream of Red Mansions describes Jia Baoyu and Lin Daiyu in this way: they worry endlessly for no reason, and they live and die sadly. This is completely in line with the theme of Red Bean Qu.

The first eight sentences of this song are almost the same as those of Jia Baoyu and Lin Daiyu described in A Dream of Red Mansions.

The first sentence is about Jia Baoyu and Lin Daiyu. In their grief, they revealed their immortal love affair with "endless acacia blood and tears". The word "tears" appears quite frequently in A Dream of Red Mansions. How many times have Jia Baoyu and Lin Daiyu shed tears of lovesickness? It is inconvenient to count them. Anyway, it can be said that A Dream of Red Mansions is a "history of blood and tears" that records two people. From the first story "Back to Tears" to the 98th story "Bitter crimson pearls leave the heaven to hate", the description of Lin Daiyu shows that she was immersed in the blood and tears of acacia, and she was born with tears. In the words of the book, "I don't know why, I often cry." <1> For the first time, it is exaggerated to say that Jia Baoyu and Lin Daiyu are persistent in their lovesickness tears ("Think about how many tears are in your eyes, how can you stop autumn from flowing to winter and spring from flowing to summer!" ), from the 98th time "Should be sick, the God is in a land of tears" to the 8th time11,the last time I wrote that Jia Baoyu heard Zi Juan mention Lin Daiyu, "I felt sad for a while, and my tears had already come down". Many descriptions of Jia Baoyu before and after this show that he shed tears not only before Lin Daiyu's death, but also after her death. In short, A Dream of Red Mansions objectively tells readers that as long as Jia Baoyu and Lin Daiyu are still alive, their lovesickness blood and tears will drip down. As the saying goes, "silkworms in spring will keep spinning until they die, and candles will cry dry every night." 〔2〕

The second sentence not only shows Jia Baoyu and Lin Daiyu's worries about natural scenery such as spring willow flowers, but also shows their sadness as "endless spring willow flowers" The description of A Dream of Red Mansions vividly illustrates these two meanings. For example, the famous "Flower Burial" in the 27th chapter shows that it was after seeing the scenery such as spring willows and spring flowers that Lin Daiyu aroused her sadness about spring, which led to her "Flower Burial". Starting from the fact that flowers are easy to find but hard to find, she thought of her bleak life experience, so she "self-mutilated" and "killed" her Hua Hudie. For example, at the beginning of the twenty-eighth chapter, Baoyu heard Daiyu's funeral speech, which caused a "* * * sound" in his thoughts and feelings. Facing the spring willow, spring flower, spring garden and spring mountain, he has a deep feeling that "people will die and things will change". In the end, he couldn't explain "this sadness". Undoubtedly, it is "How much sadness can I ask you?" Like a building full of spring willows and flowers. For example, in the fifty-eighth time, Baoyu thought of Du Mu's poem "Green Leaves Full of Branches" in the Tang Dynasty from weeping willows and fresh peaches, especially green apricots, that "Xing Xiuyan has chosen a husband", that she will have a son, that "this apricot tree" will be "empty" and that Xing Xiuyan will be "beautiful as a girl". From this perspective, in addition to the atmosphere of the times and the family environment, there are also natural influences that have created Jia Baoyu. For example, at the end of 1986, Daiyu thought of the natural growth law of willow by looking at flowers. Through this rule, she saw life, full of sadness.

The third sentence says that Jia Baoyu and Lin Daiyu are preoccupied at night. This sentence is just the abbreviation of the 45th chapter of A Dream of Red Mansions. According to this book, under the screen window, in the wind and rain, after dusk, Lin Daiyu "couldn't sleep well" because she "heard the rain pattering on the bamboo leaves outside the window, and the cold penetrated the curtain". The internal cause was "I missed Baochai and once admired my mother and brother; Once again, I thought Baoyu used to be pleasant, and he was finally suspected. " We can sum it up as follows: the main reason is that she "can't forget the new worries and old troubles". No wonder the ancients said that "the phoenix tree is raining and dripping at dusk. This time, what a sad sentence! " 〔3〕

What is the root of Jia Baoyu and Lin Daiyu's "new worries and old troubles" mentioned in the fourth sentence? The seventeenth to twenty-ninth chapters of A Dream of Red Mansions describe the "trivial matters" and "quarrels" between them in the first love stage, and depict their "getting better for a while and getting bored for a while". What is commendable is that it reveals the truth that their troubles are the beginning of goodness; They got well and planted these uncomfortable root seedlings. They are annoying when they are good, and they are annoying when they are good; If you don't bother, you will be bad; If you want to be a good person, you must worry. It tells readers that their "quarrel" cannot be endless, and their "new worries and old troubles" are constantly produced and repeated. A Dream of Red Mansions describes their "trivial matters" and "quarrels" precisely to prove that they can't forget their new worries and old troubles, which is very clear. In addition, after the process of "testing" each other, when their love has developed to a new stage and there is no "quarrel", why will there be "new worries and old troubles"? In A Dream of Red Mansions, the thirty-second chapter "Tell me that I am fascinated by Baoyu", the thirty-fourth chapter "Love is my sister" and the eighty-seventh chapter "Feeling the autumn sound touching the piano and mourning the past" are all written in great detail. In short, they all hope to get married in the future. If this ideal is not realized, there will inevitably be "new worries and old troubles" one day.

The fifth sentence says that Jia Baoyu and Lin Daiyu are also worried about eating and drinking. The famous joke in A Dream of Red Mansions ―― The eighty-ninth story "The snake shadow cup bows out clear grains" describes the scene that Daiyu "can't swallow jade grains because of" heart disease "and" suspicion ". Her heart trouble is that she can't marry Baoyu. Her suspicion is, "I heard it during the day, like Baoyu's wedding; "Yi Hong Yuan sees people, no matter up or down, like Baoyu getting married." After Daiyu's death, Baoyu's "heart disease" worsened, and he often "choked his throat". For example, in the ninety-eighth chapter of A Dream of Red Mansions, he wrote: "When I went home, Baoyu became heavier and heavier, and he couldn't even sit up the next day; Day after day, not even soup. " Another example is the reply in article 1 15: "After a few days, Baoyu became more and more confused and couldn't even eat. Everyone was in a hurry." Needless to say, the main reason why they came to this point is not that they are in an "affluent era and affluent days", but that they "can't forget new worries and old troubles".

The sixth sentence said that Jia Baoyu and Lin Daiyu were still worried when they were washing and dressing. "A Dream of Red Mansions" mentions "small rhombic mirror" twice. The first time was in the 57th time: "Baoyu smiled and said,' I saw two or three mirrors on your letterhead. Please leave me the one with the small diamond flower. I put it next to the pillow, so that I can take good photos when I fall asleep and I can take it with me when I go out tomorrow. Hearing this, Zijuan had to accompany him. First, I ordered someone to deliver something, then I said goodbye to everyone and went back to Xiaoxiang Pavilion. "The second time was at the first time 1 13:" When Baoyu saw that there were few people in the room, he remembered:' I didn't say anything personal to Zijuan when he arrived here, and I was indifferent to him. As for him, it's not as good as the autumn pattern of Musk Moon. I can play it. I remember when I was sick, he accompanied me for a long time, and now his little mirror is still with me ... "These two descriptions echo each other from afar, which means that Baoyu looked at the mirror for a long time. This coincides with the meaning of "inexhaustible" in the sixth sentence In the eighty-ninth chapter of A Dream of Red Mansions, Lin Daiyu looked in the mirror: "Then Daiyu looked at herself in the mirror. After reading it again, the tears of the beads fell off again and again, and Ropa was soaked. " In the fifty-eighth chapter of A Dream of Red Mansions, Baoyu and Daiyu were specifically asked to "describe thinness": "Baoyu was puzzled when he heard this, so he had to stroll to Xiaoxiang Pavilion to see Daiyu, and he became thinner. By asking, it is better than before. When Daiyu saw that he was thinner than before, she couldn't help crying when she remembered the past. " In this way, A Dream of Red Mansions is based on the meaning of the sixth sentence and appropriately interspersed with relevant plots. What we need to add is that these plots in A Dream of Red Mansions imply that no one understands their "new worries and old troubles". "When I am sad and lonely," they have to look at themselves in the mirror and face the thin shadow in the mirror. They will do whatever it takes to pursue a beautiful ideal. Their common aspiration is: "I will not regret that my belt has widened, and I will languish for Iraq. " 〔4〕

The seventh sentence said that Jia Baoyu and Lin Daiyu were worried when they sat stiffly. Of course, they also said they were worried when they walked. The third time in A Dream of Red Mansions introduced Baoyu in this way: "A natural charm lies in the brow; There are thousands of feelings in life, and I am aware of the corners of my eyes. " Daiyu introduced it this way: "Two bends are like frowning brows, and a pair seems to be happy but not happy." This shows that their eyebrows are good at conveying complex thoughts and feelings. Imagine that they have so many "new worries and old troubles". How can they unfold their "brows" that are good at conveying complex thoughts and feelings? A Dream of Red Mansions didn't specifically mention that Baoyu couldn't "brow" because he was worried, only mentioned Daiyu. For example, in Chapter 27, I said, "Doing nothing is just sitting, not frowning, not sighing ..." A Dream of Red Mansions did this, of course, to avoid the repetition of its characterization techniques.

The eighth sentence says that Jia Baoyu and Lin Daiyu are more worried at night. A Dream of Red Mansions has repeatedly described the situation that Baoyu and Daiyu are rarely "more leaking". For example, in the seventy-seventh time, Baoyu was hard to get "more leakage" because "Qingwen was driven away"; In the eighty-second chapter, I wrote back that Daiyu had nightmares and thought that she was not engaged to Baoyu, so it was rare to "leak more"; Back to 104, I wrote that Baoyu suffered more leaks because of "the death of Daiyu" and so on. A Dream of Red Mansions also mentions other reasons why Daiyu can't sleep at night. For example, the eighty-third time wrote: "Then Wang Dafu said to Zijuan:' This disease is often accompanied by dizziness, eating less and dreaming more; I wake up several times every time I get to the fifth watch. ""Generally speaking, the reason why they feel' too much leakage' is mainly because they have concerns. This has fulfilled the old saying: "Those who are ambitious cherish the short day, and those who are worried know the long night." 〔5〕

The last two sentences of this song are figurative sentences. What is their "ontology"? Let's first look at the tune of The West Chamber [Ji Xianbin]: "Although it is out of my sight, it is in my heart;" You can not only pay attention, but also frown early. I forgot to keep it, and my evil thoughts are endless. Most people have an inch of eyebrows. How can they wrinkle? The new sorrow has recently followed the old sorrow, and it is difficult to distinguish the old from the new when mixed together. Old worries are like Taihang Mountain, and new worries are like natural rivers. "Red bean is the same as some of its words, and it is based on it. If we imitate its conclusion sentence and restore the words omitted from the conclusion sentence of Red Bean Qu, that is:

Old worries can't be covered like green hills.

New troubles are like flowing green water.

Thus, the "noumenon" of the ending sentence of Red Bean Qu is "new sorrow and old sorrow". In a sense, they closely cooperate with the core sentence of this song and serve it.