Previous Humble Article (For details, see "Walking" to the Red Chamber" Series Humble Article 70 ""Huaijin Mourning Jade", is it really "profound"? A preliminary discussion of the "gold" and the mourning "jade" in the "Dream of the Red Chamber" of "HuaiJin Mourning Jade" are the twelve jade represented by the "gold" and the "jade" dai, and the "gold" and "jade" are ultimately due to the "outline of this book, the big bito, and the great irony" (the seventh fat criticism), and this humble article will further explore this topic.
1. "Gold" with "great meaning", "jade" with "great meaning"
Bao Yu's too vain dream, the dream and the dream are all used "this book outline, the big bito, the great irony" of Qin Keqing, the fat criticism pointed out: "I don't know what the intention belongs." Therefore, the fifth time concerning the intention of the Tongbu Book is a crucial part of the text of "Zhen Shiyin", in which there is a hidden "Zhen Shiyin" that Li Yanzhai cannot explicitly say.
In the dream, Baoyu saw "its bright and feminine, similar to Baochao; the merry Yuanna, then like Daiyu", the milk name "And Beauty", Qin Keqing, whose name was "And Beauty", pointed out that "Both Beauty" and "Cover refers to Xue Lin"." (The Fifth Fat Batch). The sixteenth lipogram pointed out: "Where it is cleaned up with baoyu, everything is the big key", and this detail of the fifth time comes from Baoyu's eyes, bringing together "the outline of this book, the great bito, and the great irony" Qin Keqing and Zhu Fang's representatives, which is obviously the "big key" that concerns the intention of the Tongbu Book and the "Zhen Shiyin" that cannot be explicitly said by Li Yanzhai.
In addition, people in the world have to eat, drink and sleep, no one can avoid secular life, in addition, it is more or less affected by the times determined by national politics, but Qin Keqing implicitly refers to the deposed prince Yin Rong, who is nicknamed "secret", and his extraordinary origin makes him more closely associated with the politics of the home country than ordinary people in addition to the secular life, and to a considerable extent, the importance of the family country politics in his life is far more than the worldly life, and even determines everything.
Baochao, who takes the "cold incense pill", "Ren is ruthless and moving", and when he is divided, he does not lose the ambition of "good wind and strength, send me to Qingyun", and is the greatest master of the wisdom of life in the text, so as the representative of "Jin" in "Huaijin Mourning Jade", Baochao metaphorically refers to Qin Keqing's secular life part [Note 1].
Daiyu's past and present lives are closely related to "Mi", which, as Yin Rong's nickname, has political implications; her nickname, "Concubine Xiaoxiang", is also a classic of the subjugation of the country, corresponding to the tears of her life, and also has political significance, so as the representative of "Jade" in "Huaijin Mourning Jade", Lin Daiyu metaphorically refers to the political part of Qin Keqing's home country [Note 2].
2. "Mourning Jade with Gold", a metaphor for a tragic era
Yin Rong, an extremely important historical figure born in the imperial family of the Qing Dynasty, was made crown prince early on, but when almost everyone was optimistic that he would inherit the Great Qing Dynasty, he was deposed twice, and finally forced to hang himself in the second year of Yongzheng [Note 3], his life experience of ups and downs, "ascending to heights and falling heavy", even among all the princes, is also a rare sight, condensing the turbulent political struggle history of the Kangyong period, and its impact even affected the "Hongchen Rebellion Case" in the early years of Qianlong, which can almost be said, He marked an era.
Therefore, as the representative of "Jin" in "Huaijin Mourning Jade" and the representative of "Jade" in "Huaijin Mourning Jade", "both beautiful" in Qin Keqing, with secular life and political connotations of home country, in the Red Chamber text of "Zhen Shiyin" performed in the "Jia Yu Village Dialect", it is a metaphorical symbol of the era marked by Yin Rong.
The sixteenth lipogram pointed out: "In the Book of Stones, there are many texts of the Heart Transmission Society", from which it is not difficult for us to realize that the "Huaijin Mourning Jade" of "great meaning" actually mourns not only a certain family or some boudoirs represented by Chao Dai, but also an era, an era marked by Yin Rong.
Since the twelve are all dreamers who have entered the illusory realm of "Bo Mingji", this era is a tragic era. The fifth lipogram points out: "The title is only twelve, but no one has nothing to do, and nothing is prepared", therefore, although the text is intended to "make the boudoir zhao" and "cherish the gold and mourn the jade", it "Zhen Shiyin" a tragic era, from which we can glimpse the whole picture of a tragic era, and the text is therefore full of sadness and sorrow, but also everywhere there is compassion.
3. What kind of era did "Zhen Shiyin" in "Huaijin Mourning Jade"?
At the beginning, as soon as the leper monk saw Yinglian, he cried that he was "fateless and unlucky, and he was involved with his father", and Li Yanzhai was full of emotions about it: "Looking at the first woman he wrote in the open volume, he used these two words to determine his life, then he knew the purpose of the meaning of the pretext, who said that he was alone in a 'love' word? The three points of Wu Hou, the second emperor of Wu Mu, the hatred of the two sages, and the inexhaustible situation of the present, the grass of the present! The "hatred of the two sages" stems from the unfulfilled ideals of orthodox politics, so there must be a hidden hatred of orthodoxy in the text that is "inexhaustible today."
As "the outline of this book, the great bito, and the great satire", The Qin Keqing, who alludes to Yin Rong, is of course the orthodoxy in the text; Jia Jing, who is "The Decadence of Ji Qiu is from Respect", alludes to Yongzheng, of course, the unorthodox in the text. Because there are both Qin Keqing and Jia Jing within the Jia family, therefore, the "sorrow of the partridge and the power of Tang Di" within the Jia family of "writing falsehoods and knowing the truth" (the second fat batch) are not only artistic reproductions of the author's family past, but also allude to the orthodox and unorthodox disputes between the princes, therefore, the text hides an extremely turbulent era of fierce fighting between orthodox and unorthodox, and the hatred of orthodoxy means that the end of orthodoxy must also be defeated, and the symbol of orthodoxy Qin Keqing is of course a tragic figure, and she is bound to enter "Thin Life Division".
As a symbol of orthodoxy, Qin Keqing's own life was a complete tragedy--by-political high and low, "ascending high and falling heavy", and finally even losing his personal freedom. Even if he was far away from the political center stage and returned to secular life, he could not die well, and in the second year of Yongzheng, he was forced to commit suicide by hanging a beam on a tall building. Therefore, Qin Keqing, who entered the "Thin Life Division", was not actually "obscene funeral Tianxiang Lou", but died because of the orthodox defeat.
In the so-called "jianmei" of Qin Keqing, who entered the "Bo Life Division", there are both plutonium and dai, so "it can be lamented and stopped, and it can be pitied." Hanging in the jade belt forest, buried in the snow of the golden hairpin" is also included in the "Thin Life Division", or the crown of zhufang. One of them died in tears, one of them was "good luck and lost gold and no color", after the prosperity was over, "everywhere was troublesome", and like Qin Keqing, who was "both beautiful", they were also victims of the demise of orthodoxy and the unorthodox power. Of course, most of the other twelve chao, who painted portraits of this tragic era together with Qin Keqing and Chao Dai, and who were also included in the "Bo Ming Division" [Note 4] were also the same.
Therefore, the "mourning jade with gold" that "has great meaning" is a tragic era of orthodox defeat under the tragic struggle between orthodoxy and unorthodox, how many people are trapped in the whirlpool of suffering and cannot extricate themselves, and how many beautiful lives have disappeared because of it. At the time of the eighth "Golden Jade First Gathering", there was the last two sentences of the so-called ridicule poems of posterity, "White bones are like mountains and forget surnames, nothing but princes and red makeup", and at the same time, Fat Pi pointed out that "the last two sentences seem to be impherent to the topic", and said that "the approval is good, it is a very appropriate language", which is why this is the reason.
Therefore, the text presented in the form of a dream is actually a literary magic mirror and a wind and moon treasure book on the front of the "great purpose of love", but what is reflected on the back is the profound social theme of "Heart Transmission of God", "Huaijin Mourning Jade", that is, the era of mourning orthodoxy gradually drifting away until it dies, feeling nostalgic for all the tragic lives under this era, and the text thus appears both dreamy and realistic.
4. The author's "bitter tears"
In his final comments, Li Yanzhai pointed out: "There are bitter tears in the solution, and weep into this book", so how can we see the author's "bitter tears" from the text of "Zhen Shiyin" that uses "Jia YuCun Dialect"?
The era marked by Yin Rong, that is, the "three disasters" mentioned by the first crippled monk to the leper monk, and the so-called "thought is the fable of the ninety spring light". In the "Ninety Spring Lights", orthodoxy is not without good times, on the contrary, the orthodox side once had an overwhelming advantage, but the author was born before and after the unorthodox side was about to replace the orthodox side.
Such a life is not timely, so that the author's life is ups and downs, upside down and displaced. All this has a profound impact on the author, and it will certainly be presented in the Red Chamber text of "writing false is knowing the truth".
In the text, Bao Daichao and other so-called misdeeds and wrongs are born in the last days. In the dark end of the world, at the end of the story, Baoyu, who "jade asks for a good price in the coffin", can only "mourn Dai" in "Dream of the Red Chamber" and "Mistrupt Eyebrows", and lament the Zhu fang represented by Chao Dai, but also feels his own tragic life; Dai Yu has no other way but to die of tears; Bao Chao, who "flys when he stays in the dream of the Red Chamber", also has no chance to "fly when he flies". Baoyu is the author's "self-yu" (fat batch), and Bao Daichao is one[Note 5], so in the "Huaijin Mourning Jade" of "great meaning", the author who was born at the end of the world has infinite feelings for his untimely life encounters.
The author who was born a genius and also had the ambition of the world, like Daiyu, was talented and talented, and also as erudite and talented as Baochao, and integrated hundreds of families, but he was born in the last days, and finally was firmly enclosed in the "椟中" and "奁内" of the times, not only "no chance to make up for the heavens", but even normal life was difficult, which is the source of the author's "bitter tears".
However, even so, the author is still like Xue Baochao, who "sent me to Qingyun with the strength of a good wind", although the red dust gave him so many tribulations, he still eagerly embraced this desolate world; although the last days abused him thousands of times, but the scarred him, he still treated life like his first love, still "time must be cherished, wind and rain and clouds change", and has a beautiful vision for the future.
Therefore, the author's "bitter tears" are not synonymous with despair and decadence, but a symbol of stubbornness and unyielding. It is precisely because of this that there will be such an immortal legend of "Huaijin Mourning Jade" presented in the form of a dream.
Note 1: For details, see the "Line" Walking in the Red Chamber" series of humble articles 30-37 Daiyu part
Note 2: For details, see the section of Baochao 41-44 in the series of humble texts of "Walking the Red Chamber"
Note 3: The painting of Qin Keqing in the twelve books is "a high-rise building, there is a beautiful person hanging himself from a beam", which implies that the final outcome of Yin Rong was forced to hang himself, of course, this is the history of "writing false to know the truth" in the text. For details, see "Walking" in the Red Chamber series 2 "The Death of Qin Keqing"
Note 4, the use of "dadu" instead of "du", the reason is that although the twelve chao are in the orthodox symbol of a large view garden, but not all belong to the orthodox side, for example, Li Feng has a son Jia Lan who is like a shadow with the unorthodox party representative Jia Huan, "after the three springs are gone", but she is the beneficiary of the unorthodox side's power, following the son of the spring wind, becoming a rebel of the Grand View Garden, and running with the unorthodox side to the end of "falling into a white expanse of the earth is really clean". This will be further explored in a follow-up article.
Note 5, for details, see the series of humble articles in the "Line" Red Chamber" 57 "Bao Dai Chao is integrated in Qin Keqing"
Author: Guo, this article is to read less of the original works of the Red Chamber.