Who introduced Zhen Fu and Zhen Baoyu in A Dream of Red Mansions?

False is true, true is false —— Analysis of Zhen Baoyu

The book A Dream of Red Mansions is the easiest to reach the knowledge of * * *, which is nothing more than "writing on the opposite side", "painting on the back", "telling stories on the opposite side", "derogating from the real name, praising the real name" and so on. The so-called "true when false is true" is also true. Zhen He is the first one to appear in the opening, which coincides with a large number of obscure and tortuous symbols, hints, riddles, poems and so on called "telling the truth". In the article, the author's intention is to convey the main idea to the reader, not to reveal it. Words such as "true" and "false" are also one of the author's hints. The book also wrote "Zhen" and "Jia", each of which has a Baoyu, and Jia Baoyu is the protagonist, and the author focuses on Jia Fu.

& ltbr & gt But after reading through the first eighty chapters of A Dream of Red Mansions, Zhen Baoyu's pen and ink are really few, which makes people feel that the author only writes Zhen Baoyu as the shadow of Jia Baoyu. Although he is very similar to the protagonist, his spirit, joys and sorrows are far less vivid than Jia Baoyu's. In addition, the last forty chapters are misleading and inconsistent with the original description. It makes it more difficult and biased to understand Zhen Baoyu's character and even Cao Xueqin's intention. Many people think that Zhen Baoyu and Jia Baoyu were like one person in childhood, but they seem to be separated in adulthood, becoming the successors of the landlord class and the rebels of feudal forces. Typical representatives such as "Zhen Baoyu Zan" cloud "Flower Escort":

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& ltbr & gt "It's so forgetful, then it's sentimental, and then it's sentimental. You can't ask when it's time to be melodramatic. Zhen Baoyu can't be too forgetful, and he is the second sentimental person. In terms of economic articles, it is melodramatic. Then Zhen Baoyu is a secular great man and a sinner of Jia Baoyu ... "

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& ltbr & gt This view can still be seen from time to time in the works of the Red Chamber after Protecting the Flower Lord, but in my humble opinion, it is actually a misunderstanding of the original work, mainly from the rewriting in the last forty chapters. After reading the first eighty chapters, we have reason to believe that Zhen Baoyu and Jia Baoyu are very similar in appearance, heart and even life experiences, and will have an important influence on Jia Baoyu.

& ltbr & gt First, the images of Zhen Baoyu and Jia Baoyu should be consistent.

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& ltbr & gt There are only two places where Zhen Baoyu was mentioned in the first eighty chapters, both of which were quoted from the nearby population, and I didn't see any trace. Both of them are to emphasize the similarity between the two Baoyu.

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& ltbr & gt Once, the second Leng Zixing's On Guo Rongfu is about Jia Yucun, who, like Jia Baoyu, is "a man with both good and evil along the way", and at the same time leads to Zhen Fu, who is also a poet and an old relative of Jia Fu. According to the logic in the book, this kind of person is "born in a rich family, but infatuated with love", so Zhen Baoyu should be like Jia Baoyu. He is headstrong and inhuman, and he "will never take the road of feudal orthodoxy to be an official" and "is willing to be driven by mediocrity" to the bad habits of millions of people. In other words, they are all rebels of the landlord class. This time, the special mention of Er Baoyu's respect and consideration for women (symbolizing the denial of feudal orthodox culture) and the vulgarity of Erzhai women can be said to set each other off.

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& ltbr & gt Another time, in 1956, Zhen Fu went to Beijing, which was said by the maid of the Jia family. The similarity between these two packages is still emphasized, which makes it difficult to distinguish them from each other. Jia Baoyu didn't know that there was such a "pair" who was so similar to himself and even had the same name (Shi Xiangyun). Later, he had a dream, in which he saw an identical Baoyu. Before saying a few words, the dream woke up. It must be because your sister is ill. You are worried and resentful. "It can be interpreted as a testimony that the goals and experiences pursued by the two Baoyus in life are similar (centered on love experience).

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& ltbr & gt The similarity of Zhen Baoyu's and Jia Baoyu's life experiences is also reflected in their family fate: the Zhen Shi family, like the Jia family, has gone through the process of ups and downs, and the rebels among them have gradually matured.

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& ltbr & gt This can be inferred from the other five references to the Zhen family in the previous eighty chapters. Five times, the first three times played up Zhen Jiafu, which was closely related to the Jia family, and the last two times talked about Zhen Jiafu's decline.

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& ltbr & gt See the seventh time: Xifeng returned to Lady Wang and said, "I have received what the Zhen family sent me today. When his family returns by new boat next year, why don't we give them everything we gave him? Mrs. Wang nodded and said, "The Zhen family is closely related to the Jia family, and the Zhen family is closely related to the royal family. Sixteenth time: "Zhao Momo said,' ... and now the Zhen Shi family in the south of the Yangtze River, alas, what a powerful faction! He has driven alone for four times. If we didn't see it with our own eyes, we wouldn't tell anyone who wouldn't believe it. Don't tell me that silver has turned into dirt, because there is nothing in the world that doesn't pile up and block the sea. It's a pity that the word' guilty' is neglected.' And' Jia Qiang said,' You don't have to take it from Beijing, and the Zhen family in Jiangnan still charged us 50,000 pieces of silver ...' The 71st time:' Feng Jieer said,' ...' There are only twelve big screens in Zhen Shi in the south of the Yangtze River, and the red silk is covered with mud gold, which is first-class ...' The next seventy-fourth time, when the swindler raided the Grand View Garden, Tan Chun had a unique insight: "You didn't say Zhen's home when you got up early today, but you really raided your home today. We're getting here. We know that such a big family can't be killed for a while if it is killed from the outside. This is what the ancients once said,' Hundred-legged worms die without being stiff'. " It points out the irreversible trend of Zhen's self-destruction and decline from prosperity; Then, the seventy-fifth time: "(You Shi) was about to go to Mrs. Wang, and the old nurse who followed quietly replied:' Grandma, don't go to the house, only a few people from the Zhen family came. Some things I didn't know were confidential. I'm afraid grandma is not convenient to go. You Shi listened:' I heard from your grandfather yesterday that the Zhen family committed a crime because of reading treasure. The old nurse said,' Just now, some women have just arrived. They are pale and flustered. There must be something to hide from others. The building collapsed, and the Zhen Shi family' fireworks' is a foregone conclusion, which indicates that the Jia family will embark on this road in a few days. It's just "sighing that his life is not long, so I know I will return and die"!

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& ltbr & gt According to Pang Ping, Zhen Baoyu will officially appear in the post-80s and directly associate with Jia Baoyu. As early as in Yuan Chun, when the provincial relatives ordered drama books, Fei Ping said, "In the dream of Handan, Zhen Baoyu gave jade." "The booked drama contains four things, which is the key to the book." The status in Zhi Yanzhai's works is comparable to the "big festival and big key" of the death of a prodigal family. It can be seen that the description of Zhen Baoyu in the first eighty chapters is really "a grass snake with a gray line and a thousand miles of veins", and there will be strange stories behind it, but it's a pity that I can't see them.

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& ltbr & gt Second, the sequel distorted the image of Zhen Baoyu.

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& ltbr & gt There are some words in the Fat Review, such as "Explain clearly the section on mending jade, and give an ambush to' mistaken theft'" (the eighth time). The story of Jia Baoyu's loss of jade in the forty chapters is not made up for no reason, but far-fetched. When psychic Baoyu came back, he first wrote that Zhen Baoyu and Jia Baoyu were at odds, then that Jia Baoyu was groggy and unconscious, and then that a monk sent jade. It will be troublesome after a long time, and it is difficult to give it to him.

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& ltbr & gt What is particularly unconvincing is the paragraph about the change of Zhen Baoyu's outlook on life written in the 93rd paragraph. In the sequel, it is said that Zhen Baoyu also dreamed too many dreamlands, and found that Pink was a skeleton. Since then, he has changed and become an orthodox figure. As we all know, the dreamland is the realm of pure beauty carefully created by Cao Xueqin. There lives a police fairy who is full of sympathy, love and concern for the "spoony species" in the world, and it is she who urges Jia Baoyu to embark on the road of rebellion. Furthermore, the story of "Wandering in Fantasy" certainly endows Jia Baoyu with illusory, mysterious and fatalistic thoughts, but more importantly, the realistic brushwork in the book reveals that the rebels were actually educated in the living environment and matured step by step before breaking with their own class. The formation, development and maturity of "rebellion" are the result of the joint action of subjective and objective reasons, and can never be arranged at will. It's not good to draw out any gods. Simply blaming the great changes in characters' personalities and images on a dream is really "a joke is not enough, and the gods are together." No matter how you write it, it's incredible. This is the fundamental reason why the original fantasy makes people feel cute, amiable and respectable, but the continuation of the image of the same name in the book (later Jia Baoyu revisited his dream place) gives people a sense of dullness.

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& ltbr & gt In terms of length, the proportion of descriptions of Zhen Baoyu in the last 40 chapters is much larger than that in the first 80 chapters, and he also appeared in person. The former Zhen Baoyu is a figure hidden behind the scenes, but the latter book stands in the foreground, which certainly gives a deeper and clearer impression. But this is a disguised image. The real "Zhen Baoyu" has been covered up and distorted, and a misunderstanding of him has also arisen.

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& ltbr & gt Third, Zhen Baoyu is indispensable in the book.

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& ltbr & gt There is no doubt that the central figure in A Dream of Red Mansions is Jia Baoyu. Whether it is the love of a dead woman, the tragedy of marriage, the misfortune of many unfortunate girls and young women, or the decay of four big families and even the whole feudal ruling power, we all feel the experience from Jia Baoyu's eyes (that is, the stone of "no talent can fill the sky"). It can be said that A Dream of Red Mansions takes Jia Baoyu as the key link and various characters' activities as the line.

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& ltbr & gt Some people may think that as long as the author mentions the Zhen Shi family, he must say "Jiangnan", which means "the real Jiangnan family", that is, the Cao Shi family. Zhao DOG said that when Mao imitated Shun Tour, the Zhen family took the bus four times, which coincided with Kangxi's six southern tours and four times living in Cao family. So A Dream of Red Mansions is actually a novel written by Cao Xueqin about his life experience, and so on.

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& ltbr & gt Of course, when a writer is creating, his own fate will inevitably have an impact on his works. A Dream of Red Mansions is indeed the crystallization of Cao Xueqin's refining and sublimation of his own experience. It is not surprising that Cao Xueqin and Cao Jia are in the book. However, if we only read A Dream of Red Mansions as the history of Cao Shi's family, we would really underestimate this masterpiece. Real artists also disdain to regard their works as a simple allusion to reality. Therefore,

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& ltbr & gt On the surface, it seems that the author doesn't pay much attention to Zhen Baoyu, and even feels a little careless. Indeed, if all the paragraphs mentioned in the first 80 chapters are deleted, there will be no influence on the writing style and story telling of the article. How could Shi make such a low-level mistake? Besides, there are only a few paragraphs, which is not enough to form a space. Without careful consideration, this kind of writing will never appear.

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& ltbr & gt In fact, the appearance of Zhen has already predicted this. People all know that Zhen is a homonym of "the truth is hidden". According to the following statement, if it is understood as "Zhen Shi hiding", then we can understand the writing of this kind of hiding from Zhen Shi and Zhen Baoyu: Zhen Shi's family "hiding", but "hiding" is different from "nothing", so we should mention it from time to time: it is written in the book.

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& ltbr & gt In my humble opinion, Zhen Baoyu is a "bright" image, and he played a very important role in Jia Baoyu's choice to "pull back from the brink" and completely break away from his family. Mr. Lu Xun once said: "The mist of sadness pervades Hualin, and only Baoyu breathes and understands it", referring to Jia Baoyu. However, the appearance of images such as Zhen Baoyu makes people feel that rebels are not alone.

& ltbr & gt are like stars in the night sky. Although the dark forces are so powerful, their light is so weak that they can't take care of each other. The scenery of "scattering the sky and jumping into the sky" is only one star away from the darkness all over the sky. The former gives people hope, while the latter makes people pity. We can say with certainty that Cao Xueqin wrote A Dream of Red Mansions not only to sing an elegy for the suddenly collapsed feudal buildings, but also to give people hope. Encourage rebels to keep forging ahead on the road of life. The so-called "nihilism" is actually inconsistent with the author's original intention. Therefore, although the party represented by Jia Baoyu in the book is in absolute weakness (this is particularly obvious in the comparison of Baochai's strength), what is really powerless is the "hundred-legged worm" who is "dead but not stiff" and will surely perish completely; Although Jia Baoyu and others finally experienced great hardships and tragedies in life, they can be generous and sad.

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& ltbr & gt When Zhen Baoyu was told by Jia Yucun for the second time, Yucun first said, "You don't know, I have traveled all over famous provinces and met two strange children in the past two years since I was dismissed from my post. So when you mentioned this Baoyu just now, you guessed that he was also a figure of this faction. " It means "two strange children" ("two" means "many"). It doesn't matter.

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& ltbr & gt From this, we can infer Zhen Baoyu's activities in the following paragraphs. At the sixty-third "Shouyi Red Party Group Banquet", at Baochai's suggestion, Fangguan sang a piece of Shang Huashi, which was just selected from "Dream of Handan". Chen Geng's version recorded the whole song, until the Cheng family's version only wrote a few explanation songs. As we all know, Cao Xueqin is good at using metaphors. However, due to the loss of later books, many foreshadowing has become a bottomless mystery. This piece of music has changed so much in Cheng Jia's version. The only explanation is that in the manuscript obtained by Gao E and Cheng Weiyuan, this clue has been broken, and its importance can't be seen, so it will be explained carelessly. The wine order at the banquet is another manifestation of Fang Qun's fate, and this piece of music is a prediction of Jia Baoyu's fate. Therefore, this paper is based on the following points. I kept repeating "Ren is ruthless and touching" (a poem painted by Baochai). After listening to this song, I looked at Fang Guan and said nothing. "Metaphor he married Baochai in the future and was" transformed "by Zhen Baoyu.

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& ltbr & gt Why did Zhen Baoyu "transform" Jia Baoyu? The answer can be found in Handan Ji. "Handan Ji" tells the story of Lv Dongbin's consumption of Lu Sheng, and Lu Sheng is precisely the "dream man" often mentioned in the book-Jia Baoyu. Shang Huashi is He Xiangu's expression that she wants Lv Dongbin to spend the time with Lusheng in heaven to sweep flowers for her (the job of "sweeping flowers" coincides with the identity of "waiter in Shen Ying"), and Baoyu is relieved to hear this name. Looking at Zhi Yanzhai's evaluation of "Zhen Baoyu sent jade", we can see that the impact of this incident on Jia Baoyu can be compared with falling out of favor, family destruction and lover's death, while Zhen Baoyu's role is unknown.

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& ltbr & gt Don't just give Jia Baoyu the aura of "rebel of feudal forces", even joining Lin Daiyu and others is not enough. The feudal society has reached the end of the road, and there are countless rebels (of course, the writing method will be to write other images except the main characters, but you can't pretend to be the master, so you didn't see dragons in the first eighty times in Zhen Baoyu). Although every rebel is under great pressure and their strength is very weak, there are many reasons why Jia Baoyu became a "real Baoyu" and really left his family. Zhen Baoyu's influence also contributed.