As the pinnacle of Chinese literature, the Dream of the Red Chamber has been widely discussed in terms of its profound ideological and tragic nature, and many people have been very profound in the thinking of this novel.
Especially when talking about the tragedy of this novel, many people have praised it vigorously, saying that Cao Xueqin is one of the few writers in China with a tragic spirit, and most of China's literary works do not like tragic endings.
Therefore, many people think that the theme of the Dream of the Red Chamber is emptiness, and from the beginning of the stubborn stone of the Great Desolate Mountain's nonsense cliff, it tells the reader that everything is empty.
Watching him rise from a tall building, watching him feast on guests, watching his building collapse, everything that the Dream of the Red Chamber performed in the end all became a dream, and all this prosperity was like a passing cloud, and there was nothing left.
The white expanse of the earth is really clean, which is the impression of many people after reading the dream of the Red Chamber, but is this really what the author wants to express, remember the beginning of the book, how did this book come about?
It was the head of the spirit stone that recorded all this prosperity and disillusionment, but after this monk finished reading it, he changed his name to a love monk, which is very interesting.
A monk, who is obviously the four great voids, read this story of ultimate disillusionment, which should be more understood the true meaning of emptiness, how can he change his name to a love monk?
Because this book, while emphasizing emptiness, is more about intercession, about all the beautiful things in the world, the love between Baoyu and Daiyu, the feelings of the daughters in the Grand View Garden, and the human feelings in the colorful life, in short, all of this is so exquisite and pleasing to the eye.
The Dream of the Red Chamber spends a large number of chapters, telling what the life of the nobility is like, the food, clothing, shelter and behavior are no big and small, telling their daily life, exquisite and gorgeous but restrained and graceful, which is what life looks like.
The depiction of the Grand View Garden, but also the development of Chinese aesthetics to the extreme, mourning Hongxuan, Lotus Champs, XiaoxiangGuan these poetic names, corresponding to the different styles of the house, the decoration inside, and correspond to the different qualities of the owner.
The daughters of the Red Chamber, in the Grand View Garden, live the most enviable life, they live a variety of seasonal festivals, enjoy the flowers in spring, eat crabs in autumn, and form a poetry club, showing the beauty of this place in the most beautiful years of youth.
Especially that kind of elegant life temperament, understand life, will live, Tanchun wrote to Baoyu, wanted to start a poetry club, a short letter, literary accomplishment, elegant words, are difficult for many people to look back on.
These people have turned their lives into poetry, into paintings, and the beauty is intoxicating, here is simply a beautiful ideal world, fresh and unworldly, so that countless people yearn for it.
But suddenly there was a thunderclap on a sunny day, the Grand View Garden soon fell, Jia Fu was raided, a heavy snow fell, and everyone died tragically, and before they died, they did not know how much humiliation and suffering they suffered.
Baoyu finally realized, he was out of the house, on a white snowy day, he wore a big red orangutan cloak, and prostrated his father' head.
In the end, it is still an emptiness, which is actually not difficult to understand, the dream of the Red Chamber essentially has a dual theme, both to prove the feelings and to prove the emptiness, and perhaps in the end it is indeed an empty illusion, but as long as there is something beautiful in it, there are things worth cherishing, we are still satisfied, and we need to work hard to cherish.
There are two themes in this book, and there is no higher, sentient and empty, which is originally parallel in this world, and the spring flowers bloom and are intoxicatingly beautiful.
In the winter, the snow is white, and the once-civilized plants have withered or even died, and when you can't say that the flowers have not bloomed, as long as they have existed, they are meaningful, and they are worth cherishing, and we can't deny the beauty of the process because of the ultimate emptiness.
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