Xue Baochao is one of the heroines in "Dream of the Red Chamber", she and Sister Lin are tied for the first place in the Twelve Books of Jinling. As the daughter of the declining Xue family, she enjoyed a short and happy childhood, but because of the death of her father and her brother's lack of learning, she had to end her childhood early. Learn to do business, learn to behave in the world.
Xue Baochao stayed in Jia Province, and through her sleek and sophisticated way of dealing with the world, she was unanimously recognized by everyone. Although she entered Jia Province after Lin Daiyu, her reputation in Jia Province was much better than that of Dai Yu. As stated in the original text:
I don't want to suddenly come to a Xue Baochao now, although the age is not much, but the character is square, the appearance is rich, and most people say that Dai Yu can't reach it. Moreover, BaoChao's behavior is open-minded, and when he follows the division, he is not higher than Dai Yu and promises himself, and his eyes are not dusty, so he is bigger than Dai Yu and has the heart of the people. It is those little ladies who are also happy to joke with Baochao.
Of course, such a reputation naturally does not show that Xue Baochao is better than Sister Lin, and the two of them have their own beauty and shortcomings.
The beauty of Lin Daiyu lies in the temperament of the wind flow, in the uninhibited character, and in the wind of Wei Jin. Her shortcomings lie in her sad feelings and negative attitude towards life. And what is the beauty of Xue Baochao?
Perhaps, if we want to truly enter her heart, we only need to read this "Willow Words" to understand.
The seventieth time of "Dream of the Red Chamber", the activities of the Daguanyuan Poetry Society, which had been abandoned for a long time, were reunited again under the organization of Lin Daiyu, which was the "Peach Blossom Society". However, because of the small episodes that occurred during the period, the date was changed again and again. In the end, because of a willow poem written by Shi Xiangyun, the Grand View Garden Poetry Society was finally finalized this time.
Is it embroidered velvet that spits out, rolls up half a curtain of incense mist, and comes with a thin hand, and makes the crane cry out for jealousy. Live, live! Don't let the spring light go.
With the theme of willow silk, limited to various minor tones. After reading Shi Xiangyun's willow words, the crowd was eager to try. The last poetry club activity of daguanyuan was officially launched.
The little girl lit a sweet dream, and everyone expressed their hearts in this calm and quiet environment.
Willow silk is an image that is used very frequently in poetry. It began in the Han Dynasty and flourished in the Tang Dynasty, and among the many poems about Liu Shu, the most used is to leave sorrow. For example, the Sui Dynasty Ming Song:
The willows are green and the yang flowers are hanging on the ground, and the yang flowers are long and stirring up the sky. Wicker folded and flew away, borrowing to ask pedestrians whether they would return?
This poem is borrowed from wicker and willow silk, expressing the poet's endless parting and looking forward to leaving people and returning early.
At the same time, willow silk is also a rootless and rootless thing, drifting away with the wind, and symbolizing the wanderer who wanders away from home and the life that drifts with the wind. The most well-known is what Wen Tianxiang wrote: The mountains and rivers are broken and the wind is fluttering, and the life is floating and raining. He compares the broken mountains and rivers to the willows in the style, and the floating and sinking life to the floating ping in the rain.
In the "Peach Blossom Society" this time, the willow words of the people are also very similar to the imagery of the consistent willow silk. However, only one person, in another way, wrote the rootless willow and the willow that originally represented the negative into a personal life pursuit and life attitude.
She is Xue Baochao.
Bai Yutang danced in front of the spring, and the east wind rolled evenly. The bee colonies are in disarray. How many have passed away with the water?
Will it be dusty? Thousands of threads will never change,
Let him go with the gathering. Shaohua Xiu smiled at the rootless, good wind frequently borrowed power, sent me to Qingyun!
Shi Xiangyun only read the first sentence written by Bao Chao, then smiled first, and praised her for writing the sentence "The East Wind is evenly rolled". The image is slightly playful, without a hint of negativity.
When the crowd watched it, they also applauded the case, praising the willow words she wrote were really different, sweeping away the negative feelings of the crowd.
In fact, if we carefully taste this word, we can also feel that it contains a life attitude of not believing in life, not recognizing life, stubborn and understanding. As it is written: The thousands of threads will not change, let him gather and divide.
Of course, if we want to truly enter Xue Baochao's heart and understand Xue Baochao's feelings, we must be inseparable from her past memories.
In "Dream of the Red Chamber", Xue Baochao is a dignified, calm and knowledgeable woman. When Zhou Rui's family sent palace flowers, her mother, Aunt Xue, once said that she had a strange personality and did not like to make things like flowers like palace flowers. Xue Baochao lived at home, and his clothes were extremely simple.
As Xue Baochao, who is equally famous as Lin Daiyu, she is also a very beautiful woman herself, just as the author wrote back: Yang Fei plays butterflies. Even Jia Baoyu, who had always kept a distance from her, was also made a stupid goose by her lips not pointing and red, her eyebrows were not painted but green, her face was like a silver basin, her eyes were as beautiful as water apricots, and her slender crispy arms.
But obviously, the upright, young and beautiful Xue Baochao did not use his strength on beauty, unlike Sister Lin and many sisters in Jia Fu, who often played with rouge gouache.
Jia Mu took Grandma Liu into the Grand View Garden, and came to the Garden for the first time, and was calmed by the scene of Baochao's room like a snow cave.
The decent, dignified, magnanimous and exquisite Jia Mu could not accept such a simple furnishing in Xue Baochao's room.
And into the house, the snow cave is general, there is no one-color plaything, there is only one earthen bottle on the case, the bottle contains several chrysanthemums, and two books, tea cups, and tea cups. The bed is only hung with a green gauze curtain, and the mattress is also very simple.
Therefore, Jia Mu sighed, this child is too honest.
According to the strong economic strength of the Xue family, according to her close relationship with Lady Wang. She had enough strength to dress up the room with the grandeur of a noble lady. But she didn't, why?
Because in her heart, she has seen through the essence of life, and those gorgeous decorations and extravagant enjoyment are nothing but a kind of depraved poison.
Speaking of this, it reminds Xiao Bai of the scene when Lin Sister first entered Jia Province, and the six-year-old Lin Sister entered Jia Province for the first time from Yangzhou, facing everyone in Houmen, it was step by step to pay attention, always caring, afraid of making a little mistake and making people laugh. Even the first dinner in Jia Province, the tea drunk after the meal, were carefully observed by the people. At this time, Sister Lin was so careful.
However, because of Jia Mu's love and Bao Yu's care, Sister Lin after staying in Jia Fu for a few years, the kind of caution she had when she first entered Jia Fu had disappeared, and instead, she was integrated into this Jia Mansion that only knew pleasure and everyone had a pair of rich eyes, sneering at Zhou Rui's family and satirizing Grandma Li. It's just that she may have forgotten her identity as a guest in Jia Province.
Compared with Sister Lin, Xue Baochao was different, although she was in the Jia Mansion, she was just like when she first entered the Jia Mansion. Always maintain the original color, strictly require personal words and deeds, greet Jia Mu and Madame Wang morning and evening, and joke with the sisters after doing needlework.
Neither detached from this environment nor forgotten her true heart.
Compared with the carefree Jia Fu Sanchun, compared with lin Daiyu, who was born noble, Xue Baochao was much more unfortunate. She was born in the lowest level of the "scholar farmers, industrialists and merchants" in the merchant family, and after her father's death, she had to work hard to support this family, and lived into what Jia Baoyu said was "ruthless and moving" as an adult who did not fit her age.
Aunt Xue's family entered Beijing and originally sent Xue Baochao into the palace to participate in the election, but because of her brother's life lawsuit, the xue family's only imperial business status was not guaranteed, naturally, she was not eligible to participate in the election.
Therefore, she had to accept the second way to save the Xue family: to pursue the golden and jade good fortune, and to gain political power by climbing the Jia Mansion.
However, we often overlook that perhaps for her, whether it is participating in the election or competing with Lin Sister for Jia Baoyu, it is not the life she wants to live.
But she didn't have a choice.
Like the willows that flew in the sky, they could not decide and could not see the purpose. However, despite this, Xue Baochao, who compared himself to a willow silk, was still unwilling to admit his fate, even if he did willow silk, he also wanted to be the best bundle of them, and once the good wind helped, he could go straight to Qingyun.
The willow words written by Lin Daiyu are good, but they are too negative:
Ball after ball.
Drifting is also like a thin human life, empty, say wind and current!
The grass and trees are also worried, and Shaohua is white-headed!
Sigh who picks up who in this life?
Marry with The East Wind Spring, don't care, go with Er, and endure drowning.
As the saying goes, words are born from the heart, and Daiyu's willow words show her pessimistic and sad attitude towards life. Originally living in Jia Province, she indulged her body and mind in desire and the pursuit of everyone, blindly enjoyed, and lost herself. Like the three springs in Jia Province, they are content with wealth and worry about tomorrow.
Bao Chao is different, just like the phrase in her favorite opera "Parasitic Grass": red stripes come and go without concern. Although she lives in Jia Province, she has always maintained an extreme carnival with everyone, and has never forgotten to enrich herself and pursue spiritual fulfillment.
Therefore, whether rich or poor, she can accept it. I believe that when the Jia Fu Mansion collapsed, in the face of the rapid changes in life, she could still keep her heart and live a plain and full life!