Jia Yuanchun and Jia Baoyu are siblings of a mother, both born to Jia Zheng and Lady Wang, and among the sisters Jia Yingchun, Jia Tanchun, and Jia Xichun, she is a woman who is good at playing the piano, and unlike the other three sisters, Jia Yuanchun entered the palace as a female historian, and was later selected as a concubine by the emperor.
In short, the rise and fall of Rong Guofu and Ningguo Mansion was closely related to the favor and fall of concubine Jia Yuanchun in the palace. Jia Yuanchun's status as a concubine is actually closely related to the draft system of the Qing Dynasty. According to the narrative in "Dream of the Red Chamber", Jia Yuanchun was sent to the palace at a very young age and became a female historian.
Female history is to serve the emperor, the prince, the prince, if you can be favored by the emperor, or follow the prince, the prince, the status can be improved, if the prince later succeeds to the emperor, you can also become a concubine from a concubine, the mother's family will become an imperial relative. In the Qing Dynasty, according to the rules, the daughter of the flag man reached a certain age and would be sent to the palace to participate in the draft, and Xue Baochao originally went to the palace to draft.
The selected showgirl, if favored by the emperor, will be given the status of Chang Zai, Promised, Concubine, Noble Concubine, etc. Jia Yuanchun was first selected as a female history, and later favored by the emperor, and was crowned as a virtuous concubine. The glory of the Jia family also reached the peak at once, however, before Jia Yuanchun was made a concubine, what Qin Keqing said to Wang Xifengtuomeng also implied Jia Yuanchun's tragic fate.
Qin Keqing: There is another very happy thing to see in the near future, it is really a fiery cooking oil and flowers. You know, it is only a momentary prosperity, a momentary joy, and we must not forget the saying that 'the feast will be scattered'.
"Very happy event" refers to the great joy of Jia Yuanchun being named a virtuous concubine and returning home to his relatives in the province, but "the prosperity will decline", in addition, among the twelve nobles of Jinling, Jia Yuanchun ranks third, and is also a person in the "Thin Life Division", which shows that Jia Yuanchun's fate is tragic and short-lived.
So, what does Jia Yuanchun's "thin life" look like? In Gao Yan's last forty continuations, Jia Yuanchun died of illness. When Jia Mu and Lady Wang went to visit Yuan Chun in the palace, they found that she "had phlegm in her mouth, could not speak, was fat, and after seeing Jia Mu and Lady Wang, she only had the form of sorrow, but no tears." After that, Jia Yuanchun died of illness.
Gao's continuation is different from Cao Xueqin's last twenty-eight drafts, because Gao Yu did not have Cao Xueqin's personal experience of family destruction, he simply changed Jia Yuanchun's ending to illness and death, in fact, in Cao Xueqin's original draft, Yuan Chun was not sick and died at all.
In the first eighty times, Cao Xueqin had already buried the "grass gray snake line" of Jia Yuanchun's cause of death, and when she was provincial, she ordered a total of four plays, and Li Yanzhai's comment was "the big key to the great festival of the Tongbu Book." One of the plays is "Qiqiao", which is one of the Qing Dynasty opera "Hall of Eternal Life", which mainly tells the story of Emperor Tang Ming and Yang Guifei, and The criticism of Li Yanzhai here is "The Death of Concubine Fu Yuan".
From this, it can be seen that Jia Yuanchun was like Yang Guifei who "died in the court struggle for power", and in addition, Jia Yuanchun's prototype also said the answer.
Cao Xueqin's aunt, married to the Qing Dynasty Pingjun King Narsu, became a princess, Narsu was involved in the struggle of "nine sons to seize the wife", later, Yongzheng four years, Narsu was "imprisoned" and died at home, as his princess, Cao Xueqin's aunt naturally lived in fear and had a miserable fate.
Cao Xueqin's "Dream of the Red Chamber" seems to be writing about the Jia family, but in fact, everywhere is writing about the Cao family and writing about themselves.