Cao Xueqin is not unfamiliar to everyone, but his name has a more peculiar feature, Xueqin is neither his name nor his word, which is a relatively peculiar existence among the ancients.
Ancient celebrities have been passed down to the present, and everyone either calls them by their first names or call them by their words.
For example, Li Bai, Du Fu, the general surname + a word is usually a surname + name, of course, Li Taibai, Du Zimei, we all know who it is. It is also common for names to be two characters, such as Wang Xizhi (字逸少) and Wang Anshi (字介甫), which are also surnames + names.
Surname + word, such as Liu Bowen (Liu Ji), Hu Xueyan (Hu Guangyong), there are also many people, but after getting used to it, we are either familiar with the name or familiar with the word.
Who is Yan Qingchen? It is estimated that many people will be relatively unfamiliar, Yan Qingchen is Yan Zhenqing, and Qingchen is his word. Also, to say that Fan Zhongyun everyone knows who it is, to say that Fan Xiwen may have to hesitate.
Like Su Shi Su Dongpo, Tao Qian Tao Yuanming, Tang Yin Tang Bohu, Naran Sex DeNalan Rongruo, etc., this kind of celebrity whose names are very common will not be unfamiliar to everyone.
So since Xueqin is not his name or his word, what is Cao Xueqin's name and word? It is estimated that many people have a hard time saying it all at once. Cao Xueqin's name is Xia, the word Mengruan, the number Xueqin, also known as Qinxi, Qinpu.
Who are Shi Er, Robben, and Wu Ruzhong? Yes, they plus Cao Xia are the original names of the authors of the four famous works. Shi Nai'an, Luo Guanzhong, and Wu Cheng'en are all their characters, why did they become trumpets here in Cao Xueqin, and they were passed down like this?
In fact, Cao Xueqin rarely uses the name Cao Xia, and Xueqin can basically be regarded as the name he changed for himself.
The name Xia was given by his father, and it rained for three days when he was born, and this rain happened to be a timely rain after a long drought, and his father was happy and named him "Xia" (Tong Zhuan). This word is taken from the "Book of Poetry, Xiaoya Xinnanshan": "Both excellent and rich, both wet and sufficient, born of me a hundred grains." ”
From the poems exchanged between Cao Xueqin and her friends later and the eulogies given to him by friends, we can see that everyone has a general agreement on the fact that his name is Cao Xueqin.
Duncheng "Sending Cao Xueqin", Dun Min's "Small Poems On Behalf of Jane Sending Cao Xueqin", Zhang Yiquan's "And Cao Xueqin's Western Suburbs Walking Around the Original Rhyme of the Abandoned Temple", Duncheng's "Sabre Wine Song" Prologue: Autumn Dawn, Meet Xueqin in the HuaiYuan. It can be seen that friends are used to calling him Cao Xueqin.
Why did Cao Xueqin change her name to Xueqin, which is related to the foodie Su Shi.
Mr. Zhou Ruchang explained the word "Xueqin" in the "New Certificate of the Dream of the Red Chamber", believing that it was from Su Dongpo's "Eight Songs of Dongpo", of which the third one:
Clay parsley has a root, and an inch is alone.
When the snow buds move, the spring dove can be moved.
Su Dongpo wrote this poem in the background of his poverty and lack of food when he was degraded to Huangzhou, and his friends helped him apply for some fields, and he wrote this poem by himself by cultivating the land and cultivating it.
Later, "snow bottom celery sprouts" also became a famous dish in Jiangsu, but the original main ingredient, spotted dove meat, has now been replaced by other ingredients. Su Dongpo also specially commented in the "Eight Songs of Dongpo", "Shu Eight Gui, Celery Bud Stew, Miscellaneous Dove Meat for it". "Ji Rongtian is in the water, spring color willow hidden bridge", the happiness in embarrassment is enough!
His younger brother Su Rui also wrote a poem based on this:
The family swirled and pasted the head to win, and the father of the garden first picked the snow bottom parsley.
If you want to get the spring to be afraid of the Spring Festival Gala, the spring will be like Izumo Mountain.
It can be seen that Su Shi can still maintain an optimistic spirit with food when he is poor, and of course, it is worth Cao Xueqin's allusions to motivate himself or find comfort in the same disease when he falls in the middle of the family road.