The ancient merchant's house and the tanhua house were two completely different modes of life, and they also had very different status and reputation.
Merchants' homes may be very wealthy, but they are often not respected by the world, "scholars, farmers, industrialists", merchants rank last, because merchants are chasing profits, which is a disgraceful thing in ancient times. The Tanhua Family, on the other hand, is undoubtedly a scholarly family, "all things are inferior, only the reading is high", which is also one of the most respected families.
In the matter of reading, it is definitely the Tanhua Family that has more say. However, can you imagine that? In "Dream of the Red Chamber", there was an ancient strange thing that the daughter of a merchant taught the daughter of Tanhua how to read.
This story happened between the two heroines, Lin Daiyu and Xue Baochao.
Lin Daiyu's father, Lin Ruhai, the former probing flower, and counting further, the Lin family ancestors also had four hereditary knights, which was unspeakably expensive; Xue Baochao's father, a white-clothed man, with the connections left by his ancestors, hung a name in the household department and served as an imperial merchant. To put it bluntly, it is actually a businessman.
Although she was the daughter of a businessman, Xue Baochao did read a lot of books since he was a child, which also gave Xue Baochao the confidence to teach Lin Daiyu.
The cause of this incident is also because Lin Daiyu said two verses from "Peony Pavilion" and "West Chamber" when she was performing the liquor order. Xue Baochao sneered, "A good Miss Qianjin, a good girl who doesn't come out of the boudoir, what is said in her mouth?" Just tell the truth! ”
When Lin Daiyu realized her mistake, she smiled and said, "Good sister, I didn't know, I said it casually, and I won't say it again." ”
If the story ends here, there is nothing wrong with Xue Baochao. After all, in ancient times, for Miss Qianjin, it was really not possible to read those "miscellaneous books". However, Xue Baochao's next words will inevitably be a little too self-righteous.
"Therefore, our girl's family, it is better not to recognize the words." Men who don't read are unreasonable, and it's not as good as not reading, let alone you and me? Even writing poetry, writing and other things, it is not a matter within the responsibility of you and me, in the end it is not a matter within the responsibility of men, men read and understand, assist the country and govern the people, this side is good. It's just that now I don't hear that there are such people, reading books, but even worse, this is the book mistaken for him, but unfortunately he also wasted the book, so it is better to cultivate and buy, there is no big harm, you and I should only do some needlework, the spinning thing is, partial and recognized the word, both recognize the word, but pick those serious ones to see ..."
This is Xue Baochao's view of reading, and she instills this concept of her own into Her Brain to Lin Daiyu, the daughter of Tanhua.
As a former detective, is it possible that Xue Baochao, the daughter of Lin Ruhai's businessman, will not educate her daughter? Lin Ruhai raised her daughter as a son, told her to read and write from a young age, and hired a former jinshi to be a tutor, which definitely has her own reason.
Should a girl be illiterate all her life and be deceived by others? Even Wang Xifeng, who was so shrewd, originally did not know words, and for the convenience of the housekeeper, he had to learn to recognize some words. Xue Baochao himself, obviously, also got the benefits of reading, in order to help his illiterate mother to take care of the housework, but he said that "reading is useless", and he said that he taught the other girls in Jia Fu, "You and I should only do some needlework and spinning things."
Du Fu's grandfather, Du Zhenyan, was also a famous poet in the Tang Dynasty, so Du Fu once wrote a poem with great pride, "Poetry is my family affair, and people pass on the world's feelings." For Lin Daiyu, the daughter of Tanhua, reading is also an indispensable thing that has been handed down from generation to generation in her family. However, when she became acquainted with Xue Baochao, the daughter of a merchant, she had to begin to be taught the concept of "our girl's family, I don't recognize the words well".
Xue Baochao, the daughter of the merchant, so shamelessly taught Lin Daiyu, the daughter of the flower hunter, whether to read, even if he read, how to read, zhenzhen'er is a strange thing in the history of literature, which is both absurd and ridiculous.