1. From the vast master, the humble real person to the leper monk, the lame, from the real to the illusory
Some people may wonder how a monk with "extraordinary bones and a very different abundance of gods" in the wedge, that is, the vast master and the humble real person, after zhen shi disappeared into a dream and woke up at the beginning of the main text, how did he become a leper monk with a "leprosy head and a lame foot", and he was also crazy and crazy, saying some unspoken talk that was difficult for ordinary people to understand and accept?
Could it be that the author has done more than this and added to the snake? The answer, of course, is no, with lipograms stating that "the author is not empty of pen and pen" (the thirteenth lipogram), which actually involves the question of truth and illusion unique to the text of the Red Chamber presented in a dreamlike form.
In the first general batch of returns, Li Yanzhai pointed out, "The author Ziyun: Because he had experienced a dream, he hid the real thing, and the book "Stone Record" was also written, so it is called 'Zhen Shi's hidden dream knowledge'. The forty-eighth time Li Yanzhai also pointed out, "A big book, from the beginning is a dream, Baoyu love is a dream, Jia Rui is a dream, the Qin family's family is a dream, and the poems of this day are also dreams, and the wind and moon are also all from the dream, so the 'Dream of the Red Chamber' is also." Yu Jin's criticism is also in the dream, especially for the dreamer, specially for this large number. "Therefore, the text of the Red Chamber is presented in a dreamlike form. So, in a fantasy text, what is true and what is illusory?
In the wedge, the vast master and the vague real person who are "extraordinary in qi and bones and very different in abundance" appear, and the fat batch points out: "This is the true image, not the illusion", and the later vast master performs illusion to transform the stone into a "psychic treasure jade". As soon as the wedge was finished, Zhen Shiyin quickly fell into a dream, and when he met the Second Immortal in the dream, and was about to look at the "Psychic Treasure Jade", the monk said that he had reached the illusionary realm, and The fat critic pointed out: "Click the word "illusion" again, and the cloud book has entered the illusionary realm."
Since then, what appears in the text is not the "true image" of the vast master and the vague real person "extraordinary in spirit and bone, and the abundance of gods and gods", but the leper monk and the lame path, and the fat criticism points out: "This is an illusion, the so-called all realms are like a dream to see also"; at the same time, the stone is also gone, and it is also its illusion of "psychic treasure jade". Therefore, from the first time zhen shi in the main text into the dream, the text has entered the dream time.
There is much evidence to prove this in both the text and the lipogram, such as the eighth time, when the text describes that the stone had written down his illusion and the seal engraved on it, and the lipogram pointed out: "And he made this number of words, and made it true with illusion, and made it illusory with truth." At the same time, the text also mentions that the eight characters on the Baochao Jin Yongluo were sent by the leper monk, and the fat critic also pointed out: "It is also eventful for the monk to do such a thing in the illusion. The twenty-fifth time, when Jia Fu was in a hurry and had nothing to do because Jia Baoyu and Feng Jie were dying of the Nightmare Law, in the courtyard of such a deep mansion in Jia Province, he smelled the faint sound of wooden fish, and heard the voice of the leper monk limping, and The fat critic pointed out: "The author is a phantom pen, and the house furniture is a phantom ear, can it be heard?" And so on.
Therefore, the transformation from a vast master and a humble real person to a leper monk and a cripple is an important symbol of the transformation of truth and illusion in the dream text. Of course, from the stone in the wedge to the "psychic treasure jade" in the main text, too.
2. The theory of true and illusory relativity
All seemingly contradictory sides are not distinct absolute opposites, but are interconnected and even interchangeable. For example, truth and illusion, usually what people see and feel when they are awake is real, and dreams are illusions, but dreams are both a reflection of reality, and there are also people's subconscious flowing, which is another kind of presentation of real experience and real heart, so there is also a communication between truth and illusion, that is, the so-called "why not dream?" Why not? "Illusion in illusion, why not illusion", just like Zhuang Zhou Mengdi, "I don't know that Zhou's dream is a butterfly and a butterfly?" Butterfly Dreams for Weeks and? In the Red Chamber text of "true and false when pretending to be true, and there is nothing to do and nothing to do", truth and illusion are even more so.
On the twenty-fifth occasion, the leper monk and the crippled monk went to rescue Baoyu and Fengjie, who were dying due to the magic of the nightmare, and The fat batch pointed out: "Take the illusion as the truth, take the truth as the illusion, and the reader should also look at it as lucky" One by one, one of the monks who "have extraordinary bones and different rich gods", that is, the two immortals of the vast master and the misty true person, the fat batch pointed out: "This is the true image, not the illusion." The author describes it himself. The "true image" of the "author's own description" of the vast master and the vague real person say some clouds, fog, and immortal fantasy, and can also perform magic tricks to turn the stone (the real image) into a piece of beautiful jade (illusion).
The "true image" and the stone described by the author himself are true and real, but the text is presented in an extremely mysterious way, which is "taking the truth as an illusion"; from the time Zhen Shi disappears into the dream, the text enters the illusion, and since then, the "illusion" (fat batch) of the vast master and the vague real person have been leper monks, cripples, and the "illusion" of the stone, one by one, "psychic treasure jade", but the text presents a realistic plot, which is "illusion as truth".
The fifth lipogram pointed out: "Cover the author's self-cloud, what he has experienced is nothing more than a dream ear of the Red Chamber", although the author had to use the "false language village dialect" to hide the real thing, but the realism of the text of the illusion of "illusion as true", art reproduces everything that the author experienced in the last days, which is full of the author's insight into the real world and profound thinking, flowing with the author's endless "bitter tears" that have no reason to "go to the heavens", sending a deep sense of life.
3. Who is really "sick"?
The Great Master and the Obscure True Man are the "author's own description" (fat batch), and their "illusion" (fat batch) leper monks and lame paths can also be called the author's embodiment in the illusion of "illusion as truth". The genius author deserves the vast master and the faint real person who is "extraordinary in bones and different in abundance", but in the illusion of "illusion as true", why should the author show the leper monks and lame people one by one with the sick image of madness and madness?
The author is certainly not masochist, and there is a lot of meaning in this!
The last days in which the author lived was the product of the demise of orthodoxy and the rise to power of the unorthodox under the tragic struggle between orthodoxy and unorthodoxism[Note 1], in which the supreme rulers who had won a great victory were intoxicated by the illusory glory of the so-called Prosperous Kangqian Dynasty, and could not hear the death knell that had faintly sounded, and "the poor are tired of food and clothing, and the rich have insufficient hearts, even if they are idle for a while, there are greedy and lustful, good goods and sorrows", they are all charming in the "sea of psychedelic fantasy", and they have not been able to see clearly in the red dust of the last days like an illusion, but there are some happy things. But you can't be attached forever. In addition, there are eight words of 'fly in the ointment, good things and many magic'. In an instant, it is extremely happy and tragic, and people are not exchanged for things. Whether it is the first dream, all the worlds are empty", will not think or even feel the social "disease", of course, will not understand what is the way to liberation, only know that insensitively indulge in their own world of desire, ignorantly and unconsciously with the doomed end of the world, running to the faint future.
However, the author's talent and profound knowledge, coupled with the ups and downs of a dreamlike life, give him extraordinary insights into life, society, and the ultimate problems of mankind. He keenly perceived that society was really "sick", and foresaw that this society would eventually perish, and knew more clearly the way to the liberation of wisdom, so that the leper crippled dao, who appeared from time to time in the illusionary realm, as the embodiment of the author, was actually the embodiment of wisdom, and had already attained the realm of "being born and awakening" (the third lipogram), and the lipogram also pointed out: "In the general book, under the pretext of the leper monk and the lame, it is pointed out that there are several people in the sea of psychedelic illusions" (the third time).
Therefore, it is not the author's incarnation of the leper monk, the lame madness, but the end of the world that the author used as "false language village dialect" and "real things hidden" like a dream bubble is too crazy to be one by one, "suddenly new and suddenly defeated, suddenly beautiful and suddenly decayed, has seen repeatedly", "meritorious promotion is not instantaneous, robbery and bitter struggle, joy and fear" (the first lipogram).
However, in the last days of "everyone in the world is drunk", the author, as a rare sober person, seems to be out of place with the world, and in the eyes of the world who is "sick", he is a madman, but as Tang Yin said in "Peach Blossom Temple", "Others laugh at me for being too crazy, and I laugh at others who can't see through it." Therefore, the author appears in a sick image in the dream-like end times of his artistic reproduction, more or less implying indignation and injustice.
The real world, which is already "sick" and "sick" not lightly, makes people so helpless, since "there is no one to talk about in the world" (the thirty-eighth Dai Yu Yong Ju poem), then in the literary dream he created, indulge in it, indulge in venting!
4, we are not "sick"
In the dream of the Red Chamber, "The magic is all about the pen of striking the east and the west, striking the grass and frightening the snake, if you look at it to write one person, you will be this one person to see, sir will stay." (Third lipid batch). It is clear that Baoyu is the author's "self-contained", so there is a magical connection between Baoyu, who is also in the illusion, and the author's incarnation, the leper monk, the lame path. Jia Baoyu's "behavior is remote and obedient", it seems that there is also a "disease", and his predecessor, the God Ying Attendant, is from the Chi Flaw Palace, and the fat batch also points out that the flaw is "jade has a disease".
However, this is also the treasure jade in the eyes of the world who are really "sick". The fifth time in the text mentions that Baoyu is "a piece of stupidity and remoteness that comes from nature", but the lipogram points out: "The four characters are extremely bad, but they are wonderful." Just don't be fooled by the author. Bao Yu," because of his "foolishness and remoteness," "regards his sisters and brothers as one's own, and there is no difference between relatives and estrangement," and Li Pi also pointed out: "Such a contrarian foolishness is being written from the will of the world." At the same time, it was mentioned: "Xian Gu knows that he is highly talented and has a brilliant temperament", and The fat critic pointed out: "The pen in the middle of the general department deprecates Baoyu, everyone mocks Baoyu, and the language slanders Baoyu, but now he suddenly wrote these eight characters in the warning illusion, which is really unexpected." This method is also not found in the book. In the last days when he was not born at the right time, the so-called "sick" Jia Baoyu was actually the one who really did not have "disease", and was "a person of superior wisdom, who fell into the devil without enlightenment, and was willing to degenerate" (the nineteenth general batch).
At the same time, we can convey the spirit of the gods" to the fact that the so-called diseases of the so-called diseases of the last days are actually the diseases of the end times when they stage countless wonderful dramas with Baoyu.
The contradictory description of the reasons for Miaoyu's renunciation and her entry into Beijing to the Grand View Garden also implies that Miaoyu's "illness" has great significance. The eighteenth time, Lin Zhixiao reported to Lady Wang, Miao Yuzu was a family of reading eunuchs, because of his illness since childhood, he bought many stand-ins that were not useful, in the end this girl personally entered the empty door, only to be good, so he brought his hair to practice, and then because he heard that there were Guanyin relics and Baye relics in Chang'an, he came up with the master. However, Xing Xiuyan, who was "a poor friend and a half-teacher" with Miaoyu for the sixty-third time, introduced herself to Baoyu that she was "out of place and her power was not tolerated" before she threw herself here from Jiangnan Panxiang Temple.
From the contradictory description of the text, we can "convey the spirit of the heart" to the "disease" of Miaoyu, which is actually the "disease" of "inopportune and intolerable to power", and the so-called "appropriate time" and "power" are actually the hidden words of the unorthodox side, so the "disease" of Miaoyu is actually the "disease" of the end times.
Similarly, the great villain Jia Yucun's wonderful theory of the two characters of good and evil in the second text is also of great significance. The so-called misdeeds headed by Bao Daichao are actually the positive dreamers of the red chamber who are praised by the author, and of course they cannot belong to the evil side. However, when they came to the mortal world, it was already the end of the unorthodox era, and the unorthodox side that was even more arrogant would of course say that what they represented was orthodoxy and justice, and that the social feast under their rule was Heqing, that is, the so-called "YunlongZuo Dynasty, the Taiping And Inaction World" in Yucun, and Bao Daichao, who was not willing to go along with such orthodoxy and justice, could only become marginal people between good and evil. The theory of the two characters of good and evil is actually the author's indignant words.
Because of the author, Jia Baoyu has a magical connection with the leper monk lameness, in fact, the leper lameness is the spiritual destination of Jia Baoyu in the future. Jia Baoyu will eventually leave Xue Baochao, and in the text of "There are metaphors in the table" (lipogram), it means that he has given up the happiness of worldly life, achieved the transcendence of great love, and become a "unforgiving" love monk. The "unforgiving" love monk is similar to the leper monk who "points out that there are several people in the sea of ecstasy and illusion".
The second lipogram pointed out: "The wind and snow dance, the reverse wave of the gorge, and the other methods that are not in the novel." In the wedge, the empty karate people copied the "Book of Stones", "From then on, because of the emptiness, from the color of the love, the transmission of love into the color, the self-color Wukong, so the name changed to the love monk, changed the "Stone Record" to the "Love Monk Record". This process is actually the general summary of Jia Baoyu, who went down with the illusion of the stone that "thinks quietly and thinks of the earth, and makes a number out of nothing" - the jade of "disease" and the "psychic treasure jade", and after experiencing the wind and moon and waves recorded by the stone, he became a "unsympathetic" love monk.
Therefore, the so-called copy of the "Book of Stones" is actually the author Cao Xueqin himself.
Note 1, for details, see the "Line" Walking in the Red Chamber" series of humble articles 11-13 "Jia Family One by One is both the Cao family and the royal family"
Note 2, for details, see the "Walking" Red Chamber" series of humble articles 54 "Try to analyze the "lifelong mistakes" and "false eyebrows"" 55 "Heroic tears in the "lifelong mistakes" and "false eyebrows""
Author: Guo, this article is to read less of the original works of the Red Chamber.