"Dream of the Red Chamber", as the highest peak of Classical Chinese novels, has a huge abundance of content and is all-encompassing, involving literature and art, garden architecture, Buddhism and Taoism, folk customs, etc., all of which are everywhere, and even the most hidden "male style" is almost hidden from time to time, running through the whole text. What is "male style"? It is "male color", that is, the same-sex love between men and men, and it alludes to the same-sex sexual behavior between men, and the male style appeared very early in ancient China, when it was prosperous and declining, and when it declined.
In the fourth episode of "Dream of the Red Chamber", the male style is involved, that is, the man Who died the most unjustly, Feng Yuan. Feng Yuan was clearly stated this feature when he appeared from the mouth of the door.
"This beaten ghost is the son of a small local squire, named Feng Yuan, whose parents died early since childhood, and has no brothers, so he lives alone with some thin births." Growing up to eighteen or nineteen years old, he loved men's style and did not like women."
Feng Yuan's "love of male style" should have a great relationship with his growth experience. From the perspective of modern psychology, a person who lacks the love from his parents from an early age, especially the lack of paternal love, or the relationship between his parents is not harmonious, can easily cause a lack of security and powerlessness in his heart, and always wants to find dependence and shelter.
Feng Yuan, whose parents died since childhood and had no brothers and no brothers, lacked a complete and stable environment and timely education guidance in his growth experience. In this loveless and orphaned environment, Feng Yuan will focus on strong men who can bring him a sense of security and shelter, coupled with the influence of some bad social atmosphere, which is easy to cause same-sex sexual orientation.
After Feng Yuan met Xiangling, why was it normal again? One is that as described in the book, "previous life wrongs" can be understood as the power of fate; the other is that Feng Yuan is a pseudo-same-sex person, once there is a strong stimulus in the surrounding environment, the psychology will undergo a huge change, but unfortunately "straight" and also dead.
The next step was Xue Pan, who directly ruined Feng Yuan's happiness and indirectly wanted Feng Yuan's life. In the ninth episode of "Naughty Boy Haunting school", Xue Pan also appeared indirectly, "It turned out that after Xue Pan came to live with Madame Wang, he knew that there was a school, and there were many young children in the school, so he could not help but occasionally move Longyang Zhixing, so he also came to school and read, but it was three days of fishing, two days of drying nets, and sending some gifts to Jia Dairu, but he did not have some children to benefit, only to make some brothers." In this passage, two words need to be circled: "Long Yang" and "Qi Di".
What is "Longyang"? In ancient times it referred to homosexuals, out of an allusion. In the Warring States Policy. In wei ce, it is recorded that the king of Wei had a male pet named Long Yangjun, who was delicate in appearance and beautiful in appearance, and the king of Wei was very fond of this male pet. In order to express his "single-minded" intention to Long Yangjun, the King of Wei even issued a decree to the whole country: If someone proposed another beautiful person in front of him, he would cut the door full of cuts.
Later, "Longyang" was used as a reference for gay men. Longyang Zhixing is also the act of homosexuality, and similar to the meaning of "Longyang Zhixing" are the "Joy of Broken Sleeves" between the Han Dynasty Han Emperor and the man Dong Xian, and the "love of peach" between Wei Guo Wei Linggong and the male pet Mi Zi flawed in the Spring and Autumn Period.
What is a "brother"? Qidi, in Mandarin, means brother, brother who is not related by blood, and "qidi" in Fujian Fuzhou dialect refers to male prostitutes or gay men. Xue Pan's brother in the academy was represented by Jin Rong, and at this time Xue Pan had already robbed Xiangling.
Also in the twenty-eighth feng ziying family banquet, Xue Pan and the prostitute Yun Er of jinxiangyuan were also greasy and crooked. In the forty-seventh time, Xue Pan also tried to develop Liu Xianglian into a "brother", and Liu Xianglian also calculated, using "male sex" to trick Xue Pan, "I still have two wonderful children there, never went out", and beat him up violently.
Later, Xue Pan married Jin Gui and Zhan Bao Toad. Xue Pan is obviously different from Feng Yuan, he is "originally a duckweed heart, today loves the east, tomorrow loves the west", suddenly "bent" suddenly "straight" completely casual, should be a "bisexual" person.
The goodness of a brother like Xue Pan is completely the preference of a clumsy prince, the family is rich, there is nothing to do, full of warm thoughts and lust, and the woman with a beautiful face and a beautiful face has been aesthetically tired, so she specially finds some "brothers" to bring new stimuli. This type not only has Xue Pan, but also Jia Lian, who is looking for Qingjun xiao to make a fire during the period of avoiding acne for women.
Jia Zhen of Ningguo Mansion is also suspected, and in the ninth "Naughty Boy Haunting School", there is a description in the book when Jia Qiang appears:
It turned out that this one was called Jia Qiang, who was also the righteous grandson of Ning Province, whose parents died early, and who had lived with Jia Zhen since childhood, and was now sixteen years old, more handsome than Jia Rongsheng. ...... The people of Ning Province were full of miscellaneous mouths, and those undesirable slaves were capable of making words and slandering their masters, so they did not know what villains were slandering and slandering. Jia Zhen thought that he didn't smell very good, and he also had to avoid some suspicions, but now he was divided into houses, and ordered Jia Zhen to move out of Ning Mansion and live by himself.
Here, why should we emphasize that Jia Qiang is "more handsome than Jia Rongsheng", just imagine if Jia Qiang looks like Jia Huan, it will not attract the attention and interest of others. As the saying goes, there is no wind and no waves. Why did the slaves of Ning Province have "slanderous words", why did Liu Xianglian say that Ning Province, "Except for the two stone lions in your East Mansion, I am afraid that even the cats and dogs are not clean", and even the eldest lady of Ning Province, Xi Chun, said, "Now that I am older, even I am inconvenient to go to your side." Moreover, in recent days, I have heard a lot of unbearable gossip behind people's backs."
If Jia Zhen walked the right way, how could she be afraid of these arguments, and let Jia Zhen move away from Ning Mansion in order to avoid suspicion? Obviously with a bit of a thief's heart. Even Bao Yu was suspicious, and he and Qin Zhong and Jiang Yuhan, the male servant who opposed Xiao Dan, were suspected of being of the same sex.
Let's talk about Jiang Yuhan. Speaking of Jiang Yuhan, even if bao yu is abandoned, he is inseparable from the "male style". He was a play in prince Zhongshun's palace, a red man in front of the old prince, "but this Qiguan answered randomly, cautiously and sincerely, and even fit the heart of my old man, and even decided that there was no one to be allowed to do so." This clearly has the shadow of the social atmosphere of the Qing Dynasty.
In the early Manchu Qing Dynasty, the rulers learned the lessons of the Ming Dynasty's absurdity and subjugation of the country, and specifically stipulated in the "Laws of the Great Qing Dynasty" that civil and military officials who prostituted and ate flowers and wine should be beaten with sixty sticks, and those who were pimped should be beaten with thirty sticks. As a result, the "clever" dignitaries and nobles blazed another trail and created a "private apartment" system, and it became a common practice for officials and rich businessmen to cultivate each other.
These big families bought small boys with beautiful eyebrows for their masters to enjoy, called "male style", and children were called "Xianggong" or "Elephant Gu". Fox Xianggong, play elephant girl, visit Xianggong Tangzi (male prostitute), the style of cunning is popular among officials, and the rich merchants and dignitaries have bought young men with beautiful eyebrows as male pets.
In a sense, Qiguan Jiang Yuhan was the male favorite of the old prince of Zhongshun. These male pets will also be like social flowers, brought to various parties by the host, such as at the gathering of Feng Ziying's family twenty-eight times, in addition to Jiang Yuhan, there are several small squatters who can sing. There is also the seventy-fifth time, Jia Zhenju during the funeral of the night party in the name of riding and shooting, "the small squatters here are all children under the age of fifteen, if the men of Chengding can not get here", of which the toast to the uncle of the punishment is "two sixteen or seventeen-year-old prostitutes who prepare wine, all dressed up in pink makeup and jade".
Mr. Lu Xun defined "Dream of the Red Chamber" as "a novel of the qing people's feelings", which fell in the eyes of different people and showed different characteristics, "the scribes saw "Yi", the Taoists saw the adultery, the talents saw the entanglement, the revolutionaries saw the Paiman, and the gossipers saw the secret affairs of the palace." Why do Taoists see "fornication"? The "male style" that looms from this time will make Taoists scoff. Even "Dream of the Red Chamber" was banned and destroyed in the Qing Dynasty when his creation was born, which has a great relationship with this.
The reason why "male style" pervaded from time to time in "Dream of the Red Chamber" was due to the social fashion at that time, and Cao Gong was just showing it with his enthusiasm and love.
Author: Warm Forward, this article is to read less of the original works of the Red Chamber.