Many readers who have read the Red Chamber for the first time have a roughly similar evaluation of Lin Daiyu: speaking harshly and meanly, so that the little sex, crying and crying all day, is not sad spring and autumn, or sheds tears in the wind, is a sentimental girl.
For example, Zhou Rui's family sent her palace flowers, people are well-intentioned, she came up is a harsh sentence, I know, others do not pick the rest and do not give me. For example, Aunt Li advised Baoyu not to drink alcohol, and she stopped and said, this mother, he ate wine, and took us to wake up again.
She was mean to Zhou Rui's family, and Zhou Rui's family did not say a word, after all, she was Jia Mu's most painful granddaughter, who dared to do anything to her? She was mean to Grandma Li, and Grandma Li was not like the Zhou Rui family," she said, "Really this Sister Lin, say a word, sharper than a knife." ”
Speaking as sharply as a knife, this seemed to confirm Daiyu's reputation as a mean little child, especially when she faced Bao Yu, that mean little sex was even more. But if we read the Red Chamber a few more times, we will find that this Cao Gong's most admired and favorite first heroine is not what we look like.
As the old saying goes, both listening is bright, partial belief is dark, Dai Yu certainly has a mean and small side, but this is only a small part of her personality, the real Dai Yu, in fact, is a very good to get along with a very interesting girl.
You see Dai Yu, who first entered Jia Province, although she is young, but the mind that pays attention to every step of the time, the cautiousness of walking and sitting and randomly responding, can be called a graceful lady who knows etiquette and understands the world, and there is no shadow of the mean little sex at all.
You see lin daiyu after handling her father's funeral and returning from her hometown, she did not have empty hands, she brought gifts to her sisters, one for each. There is also the hymn poem made by Dai Yu when he was in yuanchun province, there is no hunger in the prosperous world, why should he be busy with cultivation and weaving. Dai Yu is very sensible and understands human feelings.
Dai Yu was born in the Lin family in Jiangnan, the fourth marquis of the Lin family, both the family of Zhong Ming Ding and the family of poetry and books, this is not a new upstart, with such a deep family lineage as a support, and dai Yu was carefully taught by her parents when she was young, and asked famous teachers to teach, so how could she be a mean person who was full of small sex?
In fact, her meanness and smallness are more reflected in two aspects, on the one hand, when facing Baoyu in love. On the one hand, it is the psychological performance when she lives in Jia Province as an orphan girl.
In Bao Dai love, the sensitive and suspicious Dai Yu, seeing that Bao Yu is not a sister or a sister, not only her alone, she has no sense of security, she can only keep saying words to test Bao Yu, to stimulate Bao Yu, so she often says what gold and jade what unicorn, and even with Bao Yu to make sex, either cutting the sachet or dying to live, these performances seem to be extremely inconsistent with her identity as Miss Qianjin, but she is a teenage girl, the most common performance in the face of feelings.
Therefore, her small nature, the most common object of attack, is not everyone, but Jia Baoyu alone. Of course, for Baoyu, he could all bear it, otherwise she would not be Lin Daiyu. Moreover, Bao Yu can still do a small low for others, let alone for his Lin sister?
In fact, Daiyu's meanness and small nature when facing Baoyu is also the embodiment of her heavy affection, just as she said when Bao Dai dissected each other's hearts, I am for my heart. It is for this heart that although she has a full heart, she cannot say it, and in the end she always shows it with the temptation of a mean child.
Speaking of the other side of Daiyu's meanness and smallness, as mentioned earlier, the reason why Dai Yu will be mean to the Zhou Rui family is actually where she is mean, but the snobbish slave group of the Jia Family represented by the Zhou Rui family.
Jia Mu knew that those slaves in Jia Province, more than one rich heart and two decent eyes, how could someone so intelligent as Dai Yu not feel it? As soon as Jinlanqi exchanged Jinlan's words, she once said to Baochao, I am not their serious master here, I was originally helpless and ran away, and they already hated me a lot.
Dai Yu's words all wrote out the pain she sent to the fence, so her sometimes meanness and smallness are not only a kind of self-protection, but also an open resistance, but also a manifestation of her blindness. The so-called mean little sex is her sharp and hard armor that does not hurt herself.
She couldn't look into the eyes, and what was relevant to her, she wouldn't be silent. At first, when she was wronged, she would not endure, but would take out the money of the lady, she was not a tiger and wolf in the step, still talking about the cause and effect of yingchun, nor was it Xi Chun who directly drew a line with the family, she just wanted to expose the ugly faces of those people with unruly harsh words.
Of course, although Dai Yu, who lives in Jia Province, is facing the situation of three hundred and sixty days a year, the wind and the sword are severe, but most of the time, Dai Yu is still very praiseworthy for his handling of people.
The little girl will send her money, she will grab a reward at will; the old woman will brave the rain to send her bird's nest, she will order the purple crane to take the money to tip; Xiangling wants to learn poetry, she volunteered to be a teacher... With Baoyu, Baochao, Xiangyun and others, it is more interactive and harmonious. She even has a very clear understanding of jia fu's daily expenses and the tanchun li family.
In addition to being mean and small, Dai Yu is a sophisticated, understanding, talented, humorous, warm-hearted, and kind girl.
Author: Xi Si Shao, this article is to read less of the original works of the Red Chamber.