Dream of the Red Chamber: What is the final outcome of Jia Baoyu? Cao Xueqin has hinted 22 times that it is related to a play
Mr. Lu Xun believes that "Dream of the Red Chamber" is a book of wisdom for people to live in the world, and The poetry Lu Feng shares the essence of the Red Chamber with you from the perspective of human feelings and sophistication.
Text/Poetry Green Phoenix
Zhang Ailing once said that there are four major hates in life: one hates begonias without fragrance; two hates anchovies that are thorny; three hates Cao Xueqin's "Dream of the Red Chamber" is incomplete; and four hate Gao Jaw's delusion to solve "Dream of the Red Chamber" - death has more than enough to do.
The last forty times "Dream of the Red Chamber" written by Gao Hu was completely not at the same level as Mr. Cao Xueqin, it was criticized by many people.
It is a pity that Mr. Cao Xueqin only wrote "Dream of the Red Chamber" to the 80th time, and did not finish the storyline, but Gao Yan continued to write the last 40 times on the basis of Cao Xueqin's first 80 times, so that we saw a complete version of "Dream of the Red Chamber" with a beginning and an end, from this point of view, no matter how inferior he is to Cao Xueqin, his continuation of "Dream of the Red Chamber" is still worth affirming.
Based on Cao Xueqin's first eighty times, Gao Yan's sequel completes the story content of Jia Baoyu and Lin Daiyu, the theme of love tragedy, and the tragic endings of some of the main characters also roughly follow the meaning of Mr. Cao Xueqin, so that "Dream of the Red Chamber" will not be incomplete, so that we can see a literary masterpiece with a beginning and an end.
Gao Yan was also basically loyal to the tragic clues of the original work, and on the basis of the first eighty times, he boldly innovated and continued the contradiction and conflict between the characters and tragedies in the book, so that Jia Baoyu and Lin Daiyu were separated, a monk, a melancholy death, and finally a lover could not become a family, which was roughly in line with the purpose of Mr. Cao Xueqin's writing of this book, faithfully defended the spirit of the original work, echoed with the first eighty times, not prominent, so that the book could be widely circulated in the folk. This point, Gao Hu's contribution is indispensable, and it is also the reason why the sequel is recognized by society.
However, Gao Yan's continuation book has many failures, which is the reason why Zhang Ailing, a talented woman in the Republic of China, deeply resents it. Gao Hu distorted Mr. Cao Xueqin's original intention in many places, and could not and was unwilling to write about the decadent atmosphere of that era, and the last forty times he continued to write lacked the profound theme ideas and fighting spirit of the first eighty times, and lacked the temperature and thickness of the original work. The sequel gives the comedic ending of Jia Fu's "comeback of the family road", as Mr. Lu Xun said: "Although the sequel is also sad, and Jia's finally 'Lan Gui Qifang', the family business has resumed, it is not like a vast white land, and it is really a clean person." Not only that, but in the last forty times, many places are bland and tasteless and cannot withstand scrutiny, and the delusion that "Dream of the Red Chamber" is a major failure of his.
The important thing to say is that the final ending of Jia Baoyu, Cao Xueqin did not mention a word, and the ending of Jia Baoyu given by Gao Hu's sequel book is worth mentioning.
The ending of Gao Yan's continuation of Jia Baoyu begins with Jia Baoyu entering the family school twice, taking the exam in one fell swoop, and finally receiving the imperial title of "Wen miao Zhenren", and then using the conversation between Zhen Shiyin and Jia Yucun on Jia Baoyu's evaluation of Jia Baoyu at the rapids of JinjueMidu Ferry, to supplement Jia Baoyu's ending: "Gao Kui Guizi, fang seems that this jade is a treasure of heaven and earth spiritual refining, extraordinary and comparable. The meaning of this sentence is that Jia Baoyu only won the township kui and gave birth to a noble son with Baochao, his life is perfect, and he will not come to the world from Qinggeng Peak in vain.
Gao Then Gao Yan further gave Baoyu's ending with Jia Zheng's description of Baoyu's escape:
"Where do you know that the great heavenly stars, the old monk in the mountains, the spirit in the cave, he has a disposition of his own. You see how Baoyu is willing to study, if he is a little careful, there is nothing he can do. ”“...... I'd rather have a Buddha in our family, but a grandfather, a wife's accumulation of virtue. ”
Borrowing Jia Zheng's words, Gao Hu compared Jia Baoyu to a star in the sky, an old monk in the mountains, and an elf in the cave, a Buddha. In Gao Yan's vision, Jia Baoyu became omnipotent, far superior to Jia Baoyu of the Divine Ying Attendant.
In the end, Gao Yan borrowed Jia Baoyu's bare head, barefoot, and cloak with a big red orangutan hair to bid Jia Zhengsi farewell before returning to Qinggan Peak, and then gave Jia Baoyu the final ending with the scene of the lame Daoist monk and the leprosy monk. That is to say, Jia Baoyu's final end was to become a monk.
The reason why Gao Yan let Jia Baoyu end up being a monk was not an empty wind, he echoed Cao Xueqin's description of Jia Baoyu in the 22nd time.
Cao Xueqin wrote in the 22nd "Listening to Quwen Baoyu Enlightenment Zen Machine, Making Lantern Riddle Jia Zheng Sad Sayings" that at Baochao's birthday banquet, Baochao ordered a play of "Lu Zhishen's Great Trouble on Wutai Mountain" in order to please Jia Mu, and Jia Baoyu did not like this play very much after listening to it, saying "I have never been afraid of these hilarities", note that this sentence is very important, it is Cao Xueqin's grass gray snake line pen. Bao Chao read to him the words in "Parasitic Grass":
Tears of the hero, away from the virgin's house. Xie Mercy, shaved under the lotus platform. There is no fate, and the blink of an eye is separated. Red stripes, coming and going without concern. Where to please, smoke and rain rolls a single line? A ren of the shoes of the broken bowl with fate!
This is a play sung by Lu Zhishen when he bid farewell to his master when he was forced to leave Wutai Mountain after he killed Zheng Butcher, came to Wutai Mountain to avoid disasters and came to Wutai Mountain to become a monk, and because he was drunk and damaged the monastery and monks.
Bao Yu was greatly pleased after hearing this, "joyfully clapping his knees and drawing circles, praising the reward", Bao Yu did not think that this action laid the groundwork for him to become a monk in the future to bid farewell to his father at Bilingyi.
It is worth mentioning that when Gao Hu described Bao Yu's last appearance, he designed a "cloak draped with a collar of red orangutan felt", and Gao Hu's design has a deep meaning. At that time, Jia Baoyu was a man, had a noble son with Baochao, and was given the title of "Wenmiao Zhenren" by the Emperor, and the fame and fortune status of marriage and noble son, and the common interests in the red dust were readily available. Gao Yan used the cloak of the great red orangutan felt here, in addition to emphasizing the grandeur of Jia Baoyu's rich origin, it also implied that Jia Baoyu would retreat when he saw it, which was the best destination for him.
At the end, Gao Hu specially asked Jia Baoyu to pray to his father Jia Zheng reverently for four times, which was intended to show that at this time, Jia Baoyu had let him go to a private school to study and receive education through his father, and he had turned back to his prodigal son and was full of gratitude to his father. Jia Baoyu's move wrote out that the licking was deep, touching, and made people cry, and also left Jia Baoyu's imagination space for Jia Baoyu to run away from home in the cold loneliness and even some sadness, leaving a warm pulse and evocative imagination space.
The information in this article is mainly quoted from: "Fat Yan Zhai Reappraisal of the Stone Record Jia Shu Ben", "Dream of the Red Chamber 120 Returns to the Passbook"
Three thousand red dust, do not ask about the wind and rain, only the truth.
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