The Twelve Books of Jinling - Xi Chun
Jia Xichun
Painting: An ancient temple with a beautiful person sitting alone in the inner reading of the scriptures.
Verdict: The three spring scenes are not long, and the clothes are changed to the makeup of the past years; the poor embroidered houmen woman lies alone next to the green lantern ancient Buddha.
【Appreciation】 In front of the sentence is "an ancient temple with a beautiful person sitting alone in the reading of the scriptures." Yu Xichun became a nun. Xi Chun is the daughter of Jia Jing of ningguo province and the younger sister of Jia Zhen. She is the youngest of the four thousand gold of the Jia family, who has hated the world since she was a child, yearning to be a nun, playing with the little nun of the Steamed Bun Temple, and later becoming friends with Miaoyu. Xi Chun saw that the eldest sister Yuan Chun who became a mother-in-law died of a short life, the second sister Yingchun was tortured to death shortly after she got married, and the third sister explored Chunyuan to marry in a foreign country, and there was no good encounter, so she "saw through the red dust" and resolutely left home. According to Li Yanzhai's comments, she will have the experience of "begging for food in shaoyi" in the future, that is, she will have to live by begging along the door, which is really pitiful. In the first sentence of "the three spring scenery is not long", "the three spring scenery is not long" is a pun. It literally refers to late spring, that is, late spring, so the scenery is not long. In fact, it refers to the suffering of the three sisters of Xi Chun, namely Yuan Chun, Ying Chun, and Tan Chun, so it is said that "the scenery is not long". In the second sentence, "The dress is changed from the makeup of the past years", the dress refers to the black clothing worn by the nuns. These two sentences mean that Xi Chun saw from the suffering of her three sisters that the good times of the feudal ruling class were not long, and she was determined to get rid of the world and escape into the empty door. The third and fourth sentences, "Poor embroidered household Houmen daughter, lying alone next to the green lantern ancient Buddha" specifically points out that Miss Jia Fu Xichun finally became a nun, and was no longer a public government, but lived a life of "begging for food". Of course, "begging" here does not necessarily mean begging for food like a beggar, but life is difficult, and the fate of displacement is difficult to escape. This sentence writes that Xi Chun was premonitioned by the unfortunate encounter of his three sisters that he would not have a good result in the future, and decided to become a nun. But this path of escapism is bleak and lonely, and it still doesn't work. The sympathy and regret expressed in the poem clearly reflect the author's ambivalence.
The Twelve Books of Jinling - Wang Xifeng
Wang Xifeng
Painting: An iceberg with a female phoenix on the mountain.
Verdict: All birds come from the last days, they know and love this life, and one from two to three people, cry to Jinling matter even more mournful.
【Appreciation】 The painting before the sentence is "an iceberg with a female phoenix on it". The power of the Yu Jia family is just an iceberg, and as soon as the sun comes out, it will melt. The female wind (Wang Xifeng) stands on the iceberg and is extremely dangerous. Wang Xifeng was the lady of the Wang family who said that "the Dragon King came to invite the King of Jinling" as the "Talisman"; she was married to Jia Lian of Rong Province. Her aunt was Jia Zheng's wife, Lady Wang, the mother of Baoyu. The book says that the four major families of Jinling are "all connected and related", which refers to this category. The era when Wang Xifeng was in charge of the stewardship of Rong Mansion was already a period of decline for this family. When preparing to greet princess Yuan's provincial relatives, Sister Feng sighed: "I hate that I am a few years younger, if I had been born twenty or thirty years earlier, now these old people are not thin, I have not seen the world." It can be seen that the rich life written in the book is far worse than the heyday of her family, and then tends to decline, so it is said that she "came from the end of the world." Wang Xifeng was actually the axis of daily life in Rongguofu. She was beautiful, intelligent, articulate, shrewd and capable, and Qin Keqing said to her in her dream: "You are the hero of the fat powder team, and even those men with the crown can't pass you." When Qin Keqing was funeral, she assisted Ning Guofu, which was a typical performance in front of the reader's eyes. From the chaotic state of the thousands, she found the key at once, and then killed and decided, three times five divided by two, the Ningguo Mansion inside and outside the orderly, really have the talent of daily reason, if she is a man, she can become a politician in the feudal era. However, she has a vicious heart, in order to satisfy the endless greed, withholding moon silver, lending usury, accepting huge bribes, for which she can kill people without blinking, and she can do all the things that lack morality, and she is a female demon king who eats people and does not spit bones. Her talents and her sins are kneaded together like water and noodles. Therefore, when the Jia family fell, she was the first to be unlucky, and she was about to end her short life miserably. "Fan Bird from the End Times" refers to the misfortune of fengjie, a capable strong woman born in the last days, and "fan bird" is the traditional word "phoenix", which also alludes to Wang Xifeng. The word "mortal bird" is taken out from the phoenix character as a metaphor for mediocrity, borrowing Lu An's allusion to xi and pointing out "phoenix", which is naturally a kind of irony. The iceberg on which the female phoenix in the painting is leaning refers to the patron symbolized by the melting Jia Fu. "One from two to three people wood" refers to the change in her husband Jia Chain's attitude towards Feng Jie. After the new marriage, she first "obeyed", obeyed her in every way, and listened to her in everything; the "second order" was interpreted as "cold", which referred to her husband's gradual indifference to her and the beginning of giving orders to her; "three people's wood" with "word breaking method" refers to her fate of finally being abandoned. "Crying to Jinling is more mournful" is a portrayal of her sadness that she cried back to her mother's house after being abandoned. In the feudal society of that time, it was very tragic to be abandoned. (To be continued)
Cao Xueqin