The sixty-second time of the Dream of the Red Chamber, Baoyu ushered in his birthday, for this reason, Baoyu opened a grand birthday party, everyone was present, it can be said that all the parties gathered, Qi He Hua Wang's birthday.
But there is only one important person missing, who is it? It is the man outside the threshold, Miaoyu. Although Miao Yu did not show up that day, he sent someone to send a birthday post, "The threshold outsider Miao Yu Gong Su Yao Fang Chen." ”
As the birthday of Jia Baoyu, the flower king of The Cave, Baoyu carried out a grand ceremony to seal the flower god on that day, and many people on that night drew their own flower sticks, Baochao's peony, Daiyu's hibiscus, Tanchun's apricot blossom, Xiangyun's begonia, the peach blossom of the attacking people, the old plum of Li Feng, the dragon flower of the musk moon, and the flower of Xiangling.
For this reason, people can't help but ask, what kind of flower is Miaoyu, who is the sixth place in the Twelve Books of Jinling?
Some people say that Miao Yu is a monastic practitioner, it should be the sea lamp in front of the Buddha, Miao Yu is a hair cultivation, not a monk, and there is no dust, so it is the sea lamp that is Xi Chun, not Miao Yu.
Miao Yu's first appearance was in the forty-first time, Li Cui'an tea plum blossom snow, as soon as he appeared, he brought a high-pressure tea drink plum blossom snow, which surprised a large number of people, even the always arrogant Dai Yu was compared to her, her nature was strange, and it was more difficult than Dai Yu. This extremely elegant plum blossom snow has since become the symbol of Miaoyu and has always been talked about by people.
From Miao Yu's mouth, we learned that Miao Yu's previous residence was in Panxiang Temple, and this statement was later confirmed by Xing Xiuyan, "I have been neighbors with her for ten years, separated by a wall." She was practicing at the Panxiang Temple, my family was originally Humble, and she lived in a house, so she rented the house in her temple, lived for ten years, and went to her temple as a companion. All the words I recognize are given by her. She and I are poor friends and half-teachers. Because we went to our relatives, we smelled that she had thrown herself here because she was inappropriate and her power was not tolerated. Now that the fate of heaven is right, we have to meet, and the old feelings are not easy. Admit her green eyes, better than that day. ”
It turns out that the two are not only poor friends, but also half teachers and half friends, so it seems that Miao Yu is not as lonely as people say, she is also eager for friendship, from her sending Baoyu birthday post, sending everyone red plum blossoms can be seen, the so-called sending people roses, hands have afterscent.
Panxiang Temple, pan is the cockroach, describing the branches of plum blossoms like a curved dragon, incense is plum blossom incense, the temple is named after incense, it can be seen that the temple must be planted with plum blossoms, so there is a ghostly face of green plum blossom snow.
Miaoyu's first appearance is associated with plum blossoms, if Miaoyu's first appearance is to use a positive description, equivalent to Miaoyu's biography, then Miaoyu's second appearance is a side description.
This time, the retrospective is called the Glass World White Snow Red Plum, and it can be seen from the title that the red plum is the protagonist of this time.
Like Baoyu's birthday, Miaoyu did not appear this time, although she did not appear, but the red plum blossom of Kuritsui'an became the protagonist of the day. From the description in the book, we learn that red plums are planted in Li Cui'an, and we know that Miao Yu prefers red plums, from Panxiang Temple to Li Cui An, only red plums are accompanied by Miao Yu, accompanied by her cold life. Compared with the external heat and internal cold of Baochao, Miaoyu is external cold and internal heat, like a red plum blossom, which blooms in deep snow but is fragrant for the Yi people.
There is a wonderful description in the middle of this, Baoyu looked at the red plum blossoms from afar, "Along the foot of the mountain, just turned around, I already smelled a cold fragrance blowing on my nose." Looking back, it was in front of the Myoyu Gate, there were more than a dozen red plums in the Li Cui Nunnery, like rouge, reflecting the snow color, which was particularly spiritual, so it was not interesting! Baoyu stood still, carefully appreciating and playing for a while. ”
Looking at the red plum from afar is looking at the miao jade, the treasure jade and the mysterious jade have the same heart, both of them are unexpected people in this world, here, the red plum has become a symbol of the mysterious jade, and the flower metaphor has always been an important technique of Cao Xueqin.
Some people say that the plum blossom already belongs to Li Feng, and what Li Feng has drawn is an old plum, and the wood is dead and ash-like, which is very in line with her willing state of mind in the bamboo hedge hut. Li Feng must have liked plum blossoms, but she was an old plum, which was in stark contrast to the brightness and splendor of plum blossoms.
Perhaps this is a complex and delicate mentality in Li Feng's subconscious towards Miaoyu, both envy and rejection, she envies Miaoyu's youth, fancy youth, although she often accompanies the green lantern ancient Buddha, but she is holy, noble, not to stir up dust, and even she envies Miaoyu's untamed, she can't do this, there is a faint repulsion in her heart, just like she herself said, she doesn't like Miaoyu.
Li Yi, who has never liked Miaoyu, likes the red plums of Li Cui'an, and only Li Cui'an has red plums in the huge Grand View Garden, "I just saw that the red plums of Li Cui'an are interesting, and I want to fold a branch to insert the bottle." But I hate Miaoyu as a person, and I ignore him. Now punish you to take a branch. ”
This is why Baoyu visited Miaoyu to beg for red plums, and it was precisely because of the proposal of Old Mei Li Feng that he brought a fragrant and pure red plum blossom to everyone. Here, the crowd made a detailed description of the red plum blossom that Bao Yu begged for, "On the one hand, everyone looks at the plum blossom." It turned out that this plum blossom was only two feet high, and there was a horizontal branch next to it, about five or six feet long, and the small branches in between were divergent, or like cockroaches, or like zombies, or lonely like pens, or densely gathered like forests, flowers spit rouge, fragrant orchids, each rewarded. ”
That red plum blossom is the embodiment of Miaoyu, the symbol of Miaoyu, which echoes miaoyu's temperament as beautiful as lan and talent.
Lu You has a bu operator. Wing Mei wrote plum blossoms wonderfully: the outside of the station broke the bridge, lonely and opened without a master. It was already dusk alone, and the wind and rain were even greater. There is no intention of bitterly fighting for spring, and Ren Qunfang is jealous. Zero fell into the mud and dust, only the incense was as it was.
The plum blossom itself has the meaning of loneliness and coldness, which is in line with the spiritual temperament of Miaoyu, and this poem is simply the spiritual portrayal of Miaoyu. Zero fell into the mud and dust, only Xiang Rusu this point also coincided with the final outcome of Miao Yu, poor gold and jade, and finally fell into the mud.
Author: Xiao Yue Linglong, this article is less read of the original works of the Red Chamber.