Fun Kan Red Chamber 269: Drumming and passing flowers, Ci Jia Mu tells jokes, the language is ridiculous, and the daughter-in-law drinks monkey urine
On the Lantern Festival, Jia Mu set up a banquet and brought her children and grandchildren together. However, many of the stories that happened at the banquet had complicated meanings. First, there was Hui Niang's Hui pattern decoration that Lin Daiyu Hui would be injured; then there was Jia Zhen and Jia Lian toasting to reflect the etiquette of the Jia family; and Lin Daiyu fed Jia Baoyu wine in public, forcing Jia Mu to break the lie through "Feng Qiu Luan". The middle interpolates Jia Mu's dissatisfaction with the attackers, and the foreshadowing of Xue Baochao and Jin Yuliang's opposition.
Finally, the "storm" has passed, the Lantern Night Feast is still the same, Jia Mu showed the heritage and elegant taste of what is called the "Shuli Family", so that the twelve small dramas of Lixiangyuan showed the real Yangchun White Snow.
As a result, the "lie-breaking record" caused by Lin Daiyu feeding wine Jia Baoyu completely passed. Wang Xifeng appropriately enlivened the atmosphere, proposing that while the female ancestors were there, everyone beat the drums and spread the flowers to order the scene, which was appropriate.
Jia Mu was also happy to hear it, and the big festival blindly said some unhappy things to add to the blockage, it was better to play happy and brainless. However, since you want to play the game of drumming and passing flowers, of course, you have to say something, and Sister Feng suggested that it is best to tell jokes.
Notice that the deep meaning of Wang Xifeng's proposal to tell jokes stems from the overly depressing atmosphere of two previous events.
First, Lin Daiyu fed Jia Baoyu wine, too intimate to let the hearts of the people "play drums".
Second, Jia Mu used "Feng Qiu Luan" to break the lie and beat it insinuatedly, and everyone received it one by one.
Wang Xifeng proposed that telling jokes was the best way to enliven the atmosphere and divert emotions.
So the woman beat the drum, and the crowd began to spread the flowers. Of course, the result was not unexpected, and MeiHua stopped at Jia Mu's place. Everyone laughed and said that the old lady should "rejoice" first, and everyone should follow "hi".
In the Tradition of the Chinese New Year, auspicious words are spoken when opening and closing one's mouth. "Hi" is the most common thing to say in the New Year. And "shou" is the most commonly used for the elderly. For example, Wang Xifeng drank wine and drank Jia Mu's "wine in the cup", saying that it was "begging for the old lady's life", which was the meaning of blessing Jia Mu a long life.
Of course, Wang Xifeng deliberately used Jia Mu's wine glass to drink, which also echoed Lin Daiyu's feeding of Jia Baoyu before, diluting people's impression of that incident. It is customary for the Jia family to "love to use" other people's wine glasses. Lin Daiyu is like this, Wang Xifeng is also like this, don't make a fuss.
Although it is said that it is an afterthought to cover up the mess, readers must also understand Wang Xifeng's thoughts.
The plum blossoms here stopped in Jia Mu's hands, and the old lady could only tell a joke to everyone.
Jia Mu smiled: "There is nothing new to laugh at, and it is not necessary to say one with a thick face." Inuyasha said, "The family has raised ten sons and married ten daughters-in-law." Only the tenth daughter-in-law is the most clever and clever, the heart is clever, the in-laws are the most painful, the clever, the heart is clever, the in-laws are the most painful, and the Cheng ri family says that the nine are not filial piety. The nine daughters-in-law were aggrieved, so they discussed: 'We nine are filial in our hearts, but we are not as clever as the little hooves, so the in-laws are old, and they only say that he is good. ’”
Jia Mu joke is relatively long, let's divide it into three paragraphs to interpret. Let's start with this first paragraph, the story of "the old man's eccentricity".
"Old people's eccentricity" is a common thing in large families. Children and grandchildren cannot be flattened in a bowl of water in the hearts of the elderly. Those who have relatives have not kissed. Family conflicts often arise as well.
Although Jia Mu is said to be the high-ranking Lady of the Rongguo Gong, it is inevitable that she will face this worldly problem.
Jia Mu's youngest daughter Jia Min, who is Also Lin Daiyu's mother, hurts the most. This can be seen from the fact that after her daughter's death, she immediately sent someone to pick up her granddaughter Lin Daiyu.
But Jia Min is not involved in the issue of family property, and no one will really care.
The second is Jia Zheng, Jia Mu not only lives with him, Jia Zheng can obtain the inheritance right of the RongGuo Mansion and become a family member, there must be a parent factor.
Jia Zheng is a stable and dignified person, more suitable to be the heir than Jia Amnesty, and more insistent on the Policy Of the Jia family abandoning Wu Congwen, but he is the younger son.
According to the system of primogeniture, Jia Zheng is said to have no right to inherit. He was lucky enough to obtain the hereditary inheritance qualification of the Duke of Rongguo, and judging from his name "Zhengzi Cun Zhou", following the story of King Xianwu of the early Zhou Dynasty, it was a legitimate inheritance.
The Jia family is hereditary, and the Jia family cannot decide for themselves. No amount of Jia Mu's eccentricity could decide the ownership of Rong Guofu. Which son is in charge, the right to make the decision is in the emperor's, and it is customary to be inherited by the eldest son. Unless there is a problem with the eldest son, the Jia family will select the meritocracy.
As the eldest son of Jia's mother, Jia Yu must have also set thousands of pets from an early age. Jia Mu loved him, his grandmother loved him, and the old grandmother loved him... The result is that the loving mother has many corrupt children and has been raised badly!
Jia Pardoned Enhou, and from his name, he also knew that he lost the inheritance of the Rongguo Mansion as a family member and was only given the title because he had made a big mistake and was disqualified from the inheritance. He was able to inherit the title, or his father Jia Daishan asked the emperor before his death.
As for Jia Daishan's death, it is not excluded that it is also related to the misfortune of Jia Shu, who is not XiaoZi. The relationship between Jia Mu and Jia Yu was tense, and it should start from then on.
Jia Mu did not like Jia Amnesty, and he also complained about his mother, believing that it was "eccentric" for his brother to gain the right to inherit and let him lose rong guofu as a family member, and Jia Mu told this story, which undoubtedly alluded to this.
Older people like to make filial piety superficial. Impatient and fighting with the younger generations.
Similar to Wang Xifeng's "colorful clothes", it is best, since filial piety must be shown. Just saying filial piety in the heart does not express, but also let the old man himself "enlightened", where is the true filial piety!
The nine eldest daughters-in-law in Jia Mu's joke are inferior to the little sister-in-law, which is a satire of "true filial piety" and "false filial piety".
It may be that the children and grandchildren are filial piety, but they will behave like Wang Xifeng, always around the old man, and put the old man first, which is the true filial piety.
Those who can't show it, "filial piety" can't feel it, like the nine eldest daughters-in-law, it can't be considered "true filial piety"!
But it should be noted that what Cao Xueqin really wants to express through jokes is actually the Jia family's "loyalty" to the emperor. The old courtier could not put down the shelf, just like the nine eldest daughters-in-law. The little daughter-in-law is flattered like the Prince of Zhongshun. The Jia family is as arrogant and arrogant as Jiao Da, of course, it is not favored, and there is no benefit!
(Fifty-fourth time) Jia Mu said, "... The eldest daughter-in-law had an idea, so she said, "Let's go to the temple of Yama to burn incense, talk to Yama, ask him, ask us to give birth to people, why just give that little hoof a good mouth, we are all stupid." The crowd liked it and said it was a good idea. The next day they all came to the temple of Yama to burn incense, and all nine of them fell asleep under the offering table.
The "eldest daughters-in-law" are typical of the elm heads that do not learn and blame the "difficult problems". How can people talk to please their mother-in-law with their own stupid mouths, and what is the use of finding Yama? They obviously have complaints about their mother-in-law in their hearts.
Jia Mu is educating her children and grandchildren, and don't make excuses when you encounter problems. Stupidity has the benefit of being stupid, as long as you are not stupid. It doesn't matter if you can't speak, but you have to have your heart in hand.
What makes people think about it is extremely frightening that these daughters-in-law ask for the wrong person, do not think about how to make the mother-in-law change her opinion, but ask the "King of Yama", it is not uncommon to ask God and seek the Tao, and it is not uncommon to ask the King of Yama to "find death" himself!
The practice of several "daughters-in-law", if extended to say the Jia family, the emperor did not want to see them, it was because they were disloyal and disobedient. Not to say that it is easy to change course and be loyal to the emperor, but to form a party with the king of Northern Jing to confront the emperor, is not looking for death!
Cao Xueqin has never been far from a central point, which is the story of the Jia family's raid. Moreover, Jia Mu's joke is also a foreshadowing for Wang Xifeng's joke in later Literature. That is the real foreshadowing of the Jia family's copying of the family.
(Fifty-fourth time) Jia Mu said, "The nine souls are waiting for the king of Yama to arrive, and the left cannot wait, and the right cannot wait." He was in a hurry, only to see Sun Xingren come with a douyun, and when he saw the nine souls, he was going to beat them with a golden hoop stick, scaring the nine souls into kneeling down and begging. Sun Xing asked why, and the nine people busily told him. Sun Xing listened, stomped his feet, sighed, and said, "This is the reason why he met me, waiting for the king of Yama to come, and he must not know." When the nine men heard this, they begged, 'The Great Sage has mercy, and we will be all right.' Sun Xinger laughed and said, "It's not difficult." On that day, when you were ten children, I happened to go to the king of Yama, because I sprinkled urine on the ground, and your little sister-in-law ate it. Now you have to be clever and obedient, and some of them are pee, and then you will soak them and eat them. When he finished, everyone laughed.
The nine daughters-in-law did not wait for Yama, but waited for Sun Wukong. This innuendo is interesting.
Sun Wukong revealed the answer as soon as he came, saying that the reason why the little daughter-in-law was clever and obedient, she would please her mother-in-law, mainly because she drank "monkey urine", and if they wanted to be obedient, they also had to drink monkey urine!
Jia Mu joked in the end only to find that it was originally to ridicule Wang Xifeng, which showed that the old lady's mouth was strong.
Jia Mu's general manager Feng Jie nicknamed "Monkey Er", and said that her mouth would happen. Nowadays, when telling such a story, everyone knows that it is a joke Wang Xifeng, and it is also a joke before "fighting back" that Wang Xifeng ridiculed her for "breaking the lie". The ladies come and go, and they are happy.
However, it is still necessary to interpret the Joke of Jia Mu in connection with the Jia family's raid on the family.
What is "Nine Daughters-in-Law"? The King of Northern Jing plus the Eight Dukes is the "Nine". They were ostracized by the dissatisfaction of the emperor (mother-in-law) and confronted by the Unity Party. Cao Xueqin used the story to allude to the Jia family's involvement in the rebellion of the King of Northern Jing.
Why is "Monkey King" appearing? All because the Qi Tian Dasheng made a big fuss in the Heavenly Palace to "rebel", innuendoing that the Jia family was raided, that is, the King of Northern Jing wanted to rebel!
Why "Sun Walker"? All because after Sun Wukong took refuge, he obediently went to learn the scriptures, which was Shuntian. Therefore, the little daughter-in-law drank monkey urine, which will especially please the mother-in-law. Foreshadowing the loyalties of the emperor, the emperor is happy.
Cao Xueqin borrowed Jia Mu to tell the story of "monkey urine", which pointed out that the Jia family and the King of Northern Jing had formed a party, and like Qi Tian dasheng, they were destined to "see the King of Yan". It is also implied that if the Jia family wants not to be raided, it needs to be a "Sun Xing", obediently to please the emperor, loyal and obedient.
There is no idle pen in "Dream of the Red Chamber", and his story has two main themes, one is the fate of the three people of Bao Daichao, and the other is the rise and fall of the Jia family.
The story of monkey urine told by Jia Mu is to lay the groundwork for the destruction of the Jia family and give a good recipe for self-help! I don't know if you understand? To find out what happens next, look at the next breakdown!
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