At the beginning of the opening chapter of "Dream of the Red Chamber", Jia Fu has been in a depressed state, only the outer shelf has not fallen, and then to the "eating birds and throwing forests, falling into a white expanse of the earth is really clean" in the lyrics of the Dream of the Red Chamber, it can be known that the final defeat of the Jia family is an indisputable fact.
In this way, the magnificent mansion and the home of Zhong Mingding Food have finally embarked on the end of the road after a hundred years of glory and wealth.
So, as the head of the four major families, how did Jia Fu fall?
01 The natural law of turning from prosperity to decline
When Qin Keqing dreamed of Wang Xifeng, there was such a passage, which was of great significance and worth pondering. She said: It is often said that "when the moon is full, it loses, and when the water is full, it overflows", and it is also said that "if you ascend high, you will fall heavily". Now in our family, Hehe Yangyang has been living a hundred years, a day or a happy and miserable life, if you answer the saying "Hu fell down and scattered", wouldn't you be a vain old family of poetry and books!
In fact, Qin Keqing had already seen the inevitable decline of Jia Fu, and after everything developed to a peak, it would fall and enter a valley bottom. Today's Jia Province, which has already passed the most prosperous peak, is already in decline.
You see what she said about "the moon is full and the water is full, and the water is overflowing" and "ascending to the heights will fall heavy" and "happy and sad" are all concepts that this kind of thing must be reversed, and she knows very well that Jia Fu cannot prosper all the time, because "no pole Tai Lai, honor and disgrace from ancient times, how can manpower be kept." ”
That is to say, prosperity and decline are the laws of nature, and cannot be recovered by human beings. Don't say Jia Province, it is the feudal dynasties we are familiar with, such as the Tang, Song, Yuan, Ming, and Qing dynasties, and which dynasty can do ten thousand lifetimes?
Later, Shi Xiangyun also talked about this topic when discussing yin and yang with Ya Gui Cui. She said it more clearly: the two words yin and yang are still just one word, when the yang is exhausted, it becomes yin, and when the yin is exhausted, it becomes yang, not when the yin is exhausted, there is a yang that is born, and when the yang is exhausted, there is a yin that is born. This classic is well worth a look:
02 Descendants losers
Jia Rong is the son of Jia Zhen of Ning Province, opened a "Dream of the Red Chamber", saw the ambiguity between him and Sister Feng, flirted with the You sisters during his grandfather's funeral, and actively "advised" Jia Lian to marry the second sister... Regarding Jia Rong, there is no place in the book that describes the positive brilliance of this character. Xue Pan was lured ten times worse when he came to Jia Province, and Jia Rong "contributed" a lot.
Bao Yu is the son of Jia Zheng, the heart and liver of Jia Mother, the phoenix of Jia Province, and Jia Rong, like Jia Rong, is also a proper rich second generation, although absurd is not as good as Jia Rong, but also has no ambition, every day only in the daughter pile, get empty to flirt with rouge, joke with Ya Gui, occasionally stay in the palace bored, or go to the Northern Jing Palace to visit the door, or drink a small wine with Xue Pan and others. Except for the private affairs of his children, he has never been seen considering the fate of the family.
And like Jia Huan, not to mention, although they are out of the house, they are the descendants of Jia Fu after all, but at the instigation of Aunt Zhao, they have become a small frozen cat with a sparse demeanor and a small character. Although Jia Lian can do things, she is also a clumsy child and a lustful person.
As Leng Zixing said, Jia Fu's children and grandchildren today, there are many people who are rich and honorable, and there is no one who strategizes and strategizes, and it is not as good as a generation.
03 Weekdays are too extravagant
In "Dream of the Red Chamber", the extravagance of Jia Fu is eye-popping, from repairing houses and building houses, marriages and funerals, to small clothes and food, boats, cars and horses, all of which are the best and not afraid of the most expensive. Qin Keqing's funeral was extravagant and luxurious, the time of stopping the spirit was the longest seven seven forty-nine days, the coffin was the top with the tree used by the royal family, and even in order to be nice and have a better appearance, he did not hesitate to take out 1,200 taels of silver to give Jia Rong a dragon forbidden lieutenant.
For the sake of Yuan Chun's provincial ceremony for several hours, it also spent a huge amount of money to build a carved beam painting building, a magnificent provincial pro-family grand view garden, even Yuan Chun, who has seen the world, could not help but "see this garden inside and outside so luxurious, because silently sighed luxury fees", even Jia Zhen could not help but sigh "two years and then back to the provincial relatives, only afraid of net poverty."
Not only in these major events, Jia Fu is extravagant, and in a meal and a dish, it is also not tired of fine food, not tired of fine, and the degree of consumption is amazing. When Jia Mu went to QingXuguan to fight, Wu Press occupied the car on the street, and Jia Mu's palanquin had gone far away, and the door had not yet been finished.
Even when the lady raided the people back to her mother's house, she also followed two cars and several old mothers and children. When Liu Grandma entered Jia Province, the eggplant dish that she ate was made of "eggplant" that had no eggplant flavor, and it was the flavor of more than ten chickens to make, just imagine how much silver it takes to spend on this dish alone?
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Therefore, there are internal and external causes for the decline of Jia Province, just as Qin Keqing said to Wang Xifengtuomeng: "When the moon is full, it is lost, and when the water is full, it overflows", "If you ascend high, you will fall heavily", "The trees will fall and scatter", and in the end it is just "after the three springs are gone, all the fangs are exhausted, and each must find its own door".
There are many hidden hints in "Dream of the Red Chamber", there are deep meanings everywhere, and there are many hints in many seemingly inadvertent things, and there are philosophies and foreshadowing. Cao Xueqin spent her life writing a book; she also spent her life writing about the Chinese nation. Perhaps, this is why "Dream of the Red Chamber" is worthy of obsession from generation to generation.