The poetry of the talented women in "Dream of the Red Chamber" is an important part of the book.
From Jia Yuanchun's return to Jia Fu Province, to the Begonia Society, Lin Daiyu's Peach Blossom Society, Shi Xiangyun's invitation to the "Crab Feast" to write chrysanthemums, and then to the snowy day Lu Xue'an's joint sentence, "Dream of the Red Chamber" never skimped on the poems written by the sisters.
Write again and again.
Interestingly, at the seventy-fifth Mid-Autumn Festival family banquet, Jia Baoyu, Jia Huan, and Jia Lan's brothers and nephews wrote poems one after another, but the book only wrote "poems" and "rewarded" "poetry", without mentioning the content of the poem itself.
Dai Yu wrote "Flowers are full of flowers and flowers flying in the sky", and Xue Baochao wrote "Good winds send me to Qingyun with strength", but what did Jia Huan Jialan write?
I don't know, the book completely skips the content of the poem itself.
You may say that this is caused by different stages of the story process, and obviously this is not the case, Lin Daiyu and Shi Xiangyun's famous sentence "Cold Pond Crane Shadow, Cold Moon Burial Flower Soul" was made by the two people in the later stages of this Mid-Autumn Festival event.
At the end of the day, the difference between writing and not writing may lie in the following points.
The first point is the difference between expression and performance.
In "Dream of the Red Chamber", Lin Daiyu and Xue Baochao write poems, all of which are expressions.
Lin Daiyu wants to dispatch her own sorrows from living in another country and sending people under the fence;
Xue Baochao wants to express the lofty ambition of "sending me to Qingyun";
Poetry is like its person, and poetry is the same as its situation.
The poem itself is a confession, which can well express the personality and mentality of the writer.
On the other hand, Jia Lan and Jia Huan, neither of them is good at writing poetry, nor do they really love poetry, and the reason why they write poetry at the family banquet is purely because Bao Yu is rewarded for writing poetry, and they should make up for it.
It doesn't matter what's written here, it's just "why they want to write it too" and "what happens after they write it."
Whether it is writing a poem or telling a joke, singing and dancing, there is essentially no difference.
For Jia Lan and Jia Huan, poetry has nothing to do with their own ambitions and emotions, but only entertainment and performance.
Jia Baoyu was originally also a person who sincerely expressed his love of poetry through poetry, but here at the dinner table, he was bent on coping, and temporarily wore a performance mask to fool around.
Second, the readability is different.
Jia Huan did not learn any techniques, and there was no ink on his chest.
Of course, the standard of his poetry is not high, at most it can be regarded as a "number of treasures", and it does not need to be placed in the book.
Jia Lan is enthusiastic about fame and is obsessed with reading old-fashioned utilitarian books, and he is not good at poetry, and his works are not readable.
On the other hand, the poems of Lin Daiyu, Xue Baochao, and Shi Xiangyun sisters are just a sentence of "Cold Pond Crane Shadow, Cold Moon Burial Flower Soul", which makes people impressed.
Their poetry is an indispensable part of the dream of the Red Chamber.
Third, the different levels of evaluators cannot form an effective "writing-reading-appreciation" closed loop.
After the poems are written, readers are needed, and several girls who are good at poetry in the Grand View Garden are very good at appreciating and writing.
At this Mid-Autumn Festival family banquet, Jia Huan and Jia Lan performed and wrote poems, Jia Huan and Jia Zheng were responsible for evaluation, and the people who wrote were not at a level, and the people who commented were also quite amateurs.
The old-fashioned Jia Zheng has always despised and even hated poetry, and is neither good at writing nor evaluating.
The absurd and vicious Jia Yu could only pretend to know some fur.
The more so, the farther away this activity of "performing and writing poetry" is from the real poetry.
Cao Weng only writes about the content of Jia Lan Jiahuan's poetry itself, and this "not writing" is the most brilliant writing.