Cao Xueqin is a genius literary master, and the use of the method of splitting figures to describe characters is a major literary feature of "Dream of the Red Chamber".
The historical archetype shadow of Jia Mu is, according to expert analysis, as the daughter of Li Xu.
According to expert research, the prototype of Jia Mu in the book is Cao Xueqin's great-grandmother, and Li Xu's daughter Li Shi served as Kangxi's grandmother and had a deep affection for her. Kangxi once introduced Li Shi to people and said: This old man of my family is also.
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In addition, his son Cao Yin was his playmate and companion, so Kangxi took good care of Sun's family, and four of the six southern tours were taken over by the Cao family. Li's husband, Cao Xi, served as a weaver in Jiangning for many years until his death in office in 1684.
The position of Jiang Ning weaving is not a general meritorious title that can be hereditary. However, Cao Yin was immediately ordered by Kangxi to succeed his father, and after Cao Yin's death, Kangxi allowed his son Cao Yin to succeed him as Jiangning Weaving. Unfortunately, Cao Yong also died two years later, and Kangxi asked his brother Cao Quan's son to pass on to the Li clan and take over the position of weaving, which should be said to be a very concerned nursing mother.
According to Leng Zixing's speech at the beginning of "Dream of the Red Chamber", Jia Daishan, the Duke of Rongguo, died early, and even Jia Pardon Jia Zheng's brothers could not remember their father's appearance, and the emperor showed compassion for the Jia family and ordered the eldest son to give him another release, which is the author's innuendo of true history:
"As soon as Dai Shan's last will was on the book, the emperor, because of his sympathy for his former subjects, immediately ordered the eldest son to attack the official, asked how many sons there were, and immediately introduced them, so he gave the elder a title of chief. ＂
Compared with the book that Jia Fu started his career because of military merit, it should be more similar to the Lai family in the early days of the Cao family.
It can be said that the three generations of good women Wang, the name of Jia Mu in the book, means that the prosperity of Jia Fu began from her, which can be described as well-intentioned.
In the book "Dream of the Red Chamber", Jia Mu is the highest and oldest among the living people in the entire family, out of filial piety and etiquette, in addition to her status, she also has a special identity, that is, in the name of the wife of the Duke of Rongguo, she enjoys the title of Lady of the First Pin.
Cao Weng can be called her by the extremely honorable Shi Taijun, but he will call her "Jia Mu", making her the only woman in the whole book with the surname of "Jia" and the honorific title of "Mother".
As Mr. Wang Meng said, the old lady is the mother of the earth, like a big tree sheltering the descendants of the Jia family. Since Jia Mu's prototype Li Shi is a nursing mother, it is actually very obvious to find out the shadow of Jia Mu in "Dream of the Red Chamber".
The shadow of Jia Mu's old age is Lai Mama, the mother of Lai Fu Chuxing.
First of all, Jia Mu and Grandma Lai are both old and decent.
Grandma Lai was called Grandma Lai by Jia Qiang, and Grandma Lai commented that the two brothers were often beaten by the old man, and the boss Jia Yu was beaten very badly, and he was a blind bear child since he was a child. Judging from the tone of her comments to Ning Rong's second public opinion, she may be the person who has served Ning Rong's second mother, or she may be a housekeeper and a duck-like housekeeper around Jia's mother-in-law.
Jia Mu and the people also had great respect for her attitude--not only could she sit and talk to the old ladies and wives, but the young masters also gave her face.
On the occasion of Jia Mu's fundraising for Feng Jie's birthday, Grandma Lai said that there should be less than the fewer grandmothers, and Jia Mu did not allow it, saying that the old mothers were all rich lords, although their status was not as good as that of the young masters, the money was not necessarily less, and they had to take out twelve or two, which was mainly aimed at Grandma Lai, whether it was financial or status.
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Secondly, both are pioneering grandmothers, powerful family members, and female representatives with high intelligence.
Grandma Lai, like Jia Mu, is a wise person and is very good at talking. For example, when Feng Jie had a birthday, Wang Ren asked Zhou Rui's son to bring her a birthday gift from her mother, and as a result, she drank and misbehaved. Sister Feng was originally very angry with him, and she must be thrown out, not even his mother herself.
But Aunt Lai interceded for Zhou Rui's son, and then she said that Zhou Rui's family was Madame Wang's companion room and should give Madame Wang face. In fact, Sister Feng had to give her face, and in the end, the son of the Zhou family only punished forty boards and was left behind.
In addition, the Lai Family Garden is a low-grade version of the Grand View Garden.
Cao Xueqin cleverly arranged once in "Dream of the Red Chamber", Jia Mu was invited by Lai everyone to take a group of people to visit the Lai family garden half-day tour, which is clearly Jia Mu taking Liu Grandma to visit the Grand View Garden.
Although there is no real writing for the forty-fifth time, she borrowed Grandma Lai's self-talk, indicating that her family also imitated a garden of "generally buildings and halls", and the grandson Lai Shangrong won the shizhi county, and the Lai family also set up wine and sang a big drama in the garden, which lasted for three days.
The Lai family is the slave of the Jia family, and the Jia family is the slave of the emperor, in this sense, such a pomp and circumstance is comparable to the Yuan Concubine's provincial relatives.
In addition, both have a baby grandson, but unfortunately they are disappointed in the end.
Jia Mu had two sons, Jia Zheng, and Grandma Lai also had two sons, Lai Da Lai, who were the grand stewards of Rong Ning's second house. And they are all such a grandson who is not familiar with the world, a Jia Baoyu, a Lai Shangrong.
Jia Baoyu is the heart and liver treasure of Lady Jia Muwang, and the people of the Grand View Garden are all around him, needless to say; Lai Shangrong, the grandson of Grandma Lai, who is very distressed, is also "like a phoenix in the hands of his wife and tits", spending money and laboriously raising him, reading books like Baoyu, the prince of the family, and donating officials.
Mamma Lai's family has been living for two generations and has great respect for the owner of Jia Province. Whether it was her grandson who became an official, or chatted with Feng Jie and other people on weekdays, she had a humble attitude and closed her mouth to entrust the blessing of the master, saying that it was the grace of the master, and the position was very correct, never relying on the old and selling the old like Jiao Da.
And Jia Fu and Jia Zheng confessed to the Yuan Concubine that they were loyal and conscientious to the emperor, how similar.
There is a way that the predecessors are not as strong as the future generations, and the rise and fall are the reason why the future generations are ineffective. Her grandson Lai Shangrong, in the end, forgot the root. Not only did he not return to the house to ask for peace, but later Jia Zhengfu old lady coffin returned to Jinling, borrowed hundreds of taels of silver from him, and was proud and complacent, ungrateful and offended Jia Fu, and eventually brought disaster.
This is no different from jia mu's high hopes for the heart and liver treasure Baoyu, who did not learn no techniques, but finally ended up with no success, and was no different.
Linked to the Cao family because the Li family is happy for the emperor's nursing mother, it is not difficult to understand that Jia Mu's shadow is Lai Mama. Therefore, the Mandarin Duck can be seen as the shadow of Grandma Lai's youth, and it can be said that the Mandarin Duck is the shadow of the young version of Jia Mu's grassroots.
But if you put aside the consideration of historical background, Jia Tanchun, who is similar in sex, is the youth version of Jia Mu in reality.
Jia Tanchun behaved decently and was astute and atmospheric. The Qiu Shuangzhai furnishings where she lived, from the wall of the large ancient paintings, the large table enlarged the ancient Ding, large vases, large plates of grand Buddha pen holder inserted like a forest, this scene and Jia Mother's house to use a ladder to open a large box and large cabinet, really have a fight.
Jia Mu is the eldest lady of the Shi Hou family, and when she was young, she was naughty and left a "lucky pit" in the water of the Pillow Pavilion, which must be no different from the atmosphere of the spring exploration.
Although the reform of Daguanyuan is a small test, it can be seen that her courage does not lose her grandmother; when mandarin ducks resist marriage and Jia Mu is angry, it is she who stands up to break the siege...
Unfortunately, she is a Miss Qianjin, and she can't finally get the regret of a man working hard in the world, doing a dojo in the screw shell of the Grand View Garden, and she can't open her hands and feet. If she is a grandson, she may be able to save the Jia family from decay, at least she can support the previous generation.
Just as Jia Mu looks majestic, she can only slightly admonish her disdain for her children and grandchildren, but she cannot take a thunderous shot to rectify it like her father, and it is too sad to have a strong heart and no chance, and to watch the prosperity end.
In addition, Grandma Liu, who is well-trained in human feelings, seems to be able to see the shadow of the grassroots elderly version of Jia Mu's general affection. After all, the son-in-law Wang Dog'er's family also relied on her veteran to get out of the horse and go to the Rongguo Mansion to fight the autumn wind and get rich gifts.