"Dream of the Red Chamber": Xue Baochao's family has been living in the Rongguo Mansion and has never left!
Text: Zi Fan shine
Since Xue Baochao's family came to the capital, they have lived in Jia Province. Because Aunt Xue and Lady Wang, the hostess of Rongguo Mansion, are sisters, the two have not seen each other for many years, and they get along extremely intimately; Aunt Xue is widowed, and it is not easy to take care of and help from relatives; Aunt Xue especially wants to use the power of Jia Fu to forbid her indisputable son Xue Pan, so she camped in Rongguo Mansion and lived for a long time.
Aunt Xue's family entered Beijing, although they had tried their best to follow Jane, but they also brought four or five family members, two or three old grandmothers, as well as Aunt Xue's two servants Tongxi and Tonggui, Xue Baochao's yakuza warblers, Wen Xing, Xiangling and Xiangling's yakuza Zhen'er, Xue Pan should also have several small squatters to follow, so that Aunt Xue's family was at least twenty or thirty people, and then Xue Pan married relatives, and there were more Xia Jingui, Bao Toad and a few more of them. Such a large family of people has been living in Rongguo Mansion for a long time, and even readers are anxious for them, is it not too cheap. Therefore, the reader also has several kinds of arguments about the residence of Xue Baochao's family.
It is believed that the identity of the Xue family's sojourners has not changed from the beginning of entering Kyoto to the end of the eighty times.
The house they lived in belonged to the Rongguo Mansion, but the living expenses were all the responsibility of the Xue family; even if Xue Baochao stayed in the Courtyard of the Grand View Garden, all the expenses of the servants and mother-in-law of the envoys were also at the expense of the Xue family, so that the Xue family could live in peace of mind, so this was the advantage of the relatives.
Analyzing this problem, we cannot be separated from the social environment at that time, the houses in the past were not as expensive as they are now, some people may not be able to afford to buy a house in their lifetime, and the big cities are even more scarce, and several families and even generations are crowded in the square inch, which is really inconvenient. The larger the city, the more people are afraid of relatives coming to live, and it cannot be said that it is all a weak relationship, and the narrowness of the place is an objective reality. However, at that time, the Jia family, Ning Rong Erfu occupied most of the street, which was very magnificent. Jia Mu left Grandma Liu to stay and said, "Although we are not bigger here than your yard, there are still two empty rooms." "It can be seen that there are many vacant houses in Rongguo Mansion, and it is not difficult to give Aunt Xue's family a place to live, this is the arrogance, and we should not think of the relationship between the Jia family and the Xue family as too small."
From the specific analysis of the Xue family's residence, it is an independent courtyard. The Xue family has several houses in the capital, Xue Pan is the most fond of eating, drinking and having fun, at first he was worried about living in his uncle's house, it was inconvenient to have the uncle's jurisdiction, but after moving in, because there was a door through the street, his behavior could completely get out of his uncle's sight, so he dismissed the idea of moving. Even Xue Pan felt that there was no discomfort in living there, which showed that the Xue family's residence was indeed very cheap, and it was the Xue family behind closed doors.
When they first entered the Rongguo Mansion, Jia Mu and Jia Zheng arranged for the Xue family to live in Lixiangyuan, located in the northeast corner of the Rongguo Mansion:
It turned out that this LixiangYuan was the place where Rong Gong was recuperating in his twilight years, small and clever, with about ten houses, and the front hall and back hall were complete. There is another gate through the street, and Xue Pan's family will go through this door to enter and exit. There is a corner door in the southwest, which leads to a sandwich road, and the exit is the east side of Madame Wang's main house. Every day or after dinner, or in the evening, Aunt Xue would come over, or chat with Jia Mu, or talk with Madame Wang. Bao Chao Ri and Dai Yu Yingchun sisters and other places, or reading books and playing chess, or making needlework, but also very happy.
"Dream of the Red Chamber" the fourth time
There are more than ten houses in the front hall and back house of Lixiangyuan. The southwest corner gate of Lixiangyuan leads to the residence of Madame Wang in the backyard of Rongguo Mansion, which is convenient for the internal relatives to walk.
After the seventh time he wrote that Grandma Liu had left, Zhou Rui's family's return to Madame Wang said, "Who knew that Madame Wang was not in the upper room, and when asking the servants, Fang Zhi went to Aunt Xue's side to gossip. When zhou Rui's family heard about it, they turned to the East Corner Gate and went out to the East Courtyard and came to LixiangYuan."
The walking route of the Zhou Rui family further explains that the Lixiangyuan is located in the east courtyard of the Rongguo Mansion, and we know that the Eastern Courtyard is the old garden of the Rongfu, which is cut out and lived by the big house Jia Hui, then the LixiangYuan should be located behind the Jia Hui Courtyard.
Lixiangyuan has a "one-door street", which should be the back door, leading to the north-facing street of Ningrong Erfu, which is consistent with the direction of the back door of Rongguofu. Because after the death of Second Sister You, Jia Lian parked the coffin of Second Sister You in the main room of Lixiangyuan, "Jia Lian felt that the back door was out of the spirit, so she opened a gate to the main wall of Lixiangyuan." This also shows that when Aunt Xue's family lived in Lixiangyuan, there was no south gate and main gate, only the back door of the north-facing Tong street, and Xue Pan and the men in the family came in and out from here.
Princess Yuan took out Lixiangyuan as a living and practice place for small dramas, when Aunt Xue moved to a quiet house in the northeast. Since then, Aunt Xue's family has lived in a quiet house in the northeast until the end of the eighty times. The "northeast" mentioned here should be relative to the location of Ewang-in, in the northeast direction of Ewang-in.
To clarify the location of the Xue family, we must first find out the relative position of Lixiangyuan and Daguanyuan. Lixiangyuan is inhabited and rehearsed by the small dramatists, mainly for the convenience of waiting for the performance, and it should be very convenient to go from Lixiangyuan to the main hall of the Grand View Garden. The thirty-sixth time, Jia Baoyu felt the lixiangyuan and wanted Ling Guan to sing a song "Yuan Qingsi", "When he came out of the corner door to find out of his mind, he saw that the Baoguan Yuguan was in the courtyard." Jia Baoyu lives in Yihong Courtyard, Jia Baoyu went out of the corner door to LixiangYuan, Jia Qiang can freely enter and exit Lixiangyuan, therefore, Lixiangyuan is located outside the Grand View Garden, and it is not far from Jia Baoyu's Yihong Courtyard.
On Baoyu's birthday, he first went to the Ancestral Hall of Ningguo Mansion to pay his respects, "Out on the platform, he also worshiped Jia Mu, Jia Zheng, Lady Wang, and so on." Yi Shun went to You's upper room, performed the ceremony, sat down once, and returned to Rong Mansion. First to Aunt Xue, Aunt Xue repeatedly pulled, and then met Xue Tadpole, let go again, Fang came into the garden." It shows that Aunt Xue still lives in rongguo mansion, but outside the Grand View Garden.
Let's take a look at the specific locations:
"In the Rong Province, Lai Datian sent people to ding for the night, and closed both halls and courtyards, and everyone who should enter and leave should go to the small corner gate on the west side." At sunset, he ordered the door to be closed and no one was allowed to enter or leave. The front and back corners of the garden are also locked, leaving only the door for Lady Wang to enter and exit after the big room, and the corner door for Aunt Xue to pass to the east, and these two doors do not have to be locked because they are in the inner courtyard." (59th)
As soon as he entered the corner door, Bao Chao ordered his mother-in-law to lock the door and ask for the key to be held by himself. Bao Yu said busily, "Why should this door be closed, and not many people will leave?" Moreover, the aunt, the sister, and the sister are all in it, and if you or the family goes to get something, it will not be troublesome. Bao Chao smiled and said, "Be careful not to overdo it." If you look at your side, there are no people on our side in the past few days, and you can see that this door has an effect. If it is open, it can't keep the person who tries to go smoothly, cut a short path from here, who is it? It is better to lock it, even my mother and I are forbidden, don't go. Even if there is a problem, there is no one on this side. (62nd)
Xue Baochao moved away from the Grand View Garden and said to Madame Wang, "Since I am in the garden, the small corner door in the southeast is often open, it was originally for me, and those who can't keep in and out will try to go from there, and no one will check it, so if something happens from there, it will not hinder the face." (Seventy-eighth)
The southwest corner gate of Lixiangyuan is connected to Madame Wang, and when Aunt Xue moved to the house where she later lived, it was located behind the large house where Madame Wang lived, indicating that Aunt Xue lived further north. That is to say, when Aunt Xue lived in Lixiangyuan, the south-facing main entrance of Madame Wang's main room could be taken to Madame Wang's residence, and after moving to the northeast house, she could go to Madame Wang's main house and take the north-facing back door of Madame Wang's main house. And Xue Baochao said that the southeast small corner gate is often open, in order to facilitate her access to walk, is relative to the Xue family's residence, the southeast corner gate, if relatively large view garden is the southwest corner gate, if relative to The Lixiangyuan is also the southeast direction.
Xia Jingui and Xue Pan quarreled, and Xue Pan stomped his feet anxiously and said, 'Stop, stop! Watch people hear jokes. ’...... Therefore, the people of Ning Rong's second house, up and down, all know, all sigh. Xue Pan's intention was naturally because he lived in rongguo mansion, afraid that the people of the Jia family would listen to jokes, which also showed that the Xue family still lived in rongguo mansion even after Xue Pan married his relatives.
In the round place, the doors of the big mansions in the past are all square, and they will never be obliquely slanted out. In summary, Aunt Xue's family has always lived in the Rongguo Mansion, which is just a relatively independent courtyard.
In addition, according to the Ningrong Second Mansion described in "Dream of the Red Chamber", it is a very grand architectural complex, which should be full of laneways. For example, the main room where Madame Wang lives, there should be multiple laneways left and right, and there are four square corner doors outside the main gate and the back door, which can lead to Jia Mu's place, Feng Jie's place, Sanchun sister's original residence, Aunt Zhao's residence, leading to Lixiangyuan (Rongguo Gongyuan Qing Xiu), Aunt Xue's later residence, and so on. For example, Lixiangyuan has a back door through the street, Jia Lian later opened a main entrance, between the back door and the street alley, between the main entrance and the Jia Yu courtyard there are road houses and so on. For example, the Xue family's later residence was also an independent courtyard. The large building complex is covered with small buildings, and there are many small courtyards in the large courtyard. Think about the Jia family up and down, large and small masters, must have a separate residence, their residence is not a simple few houses, basically a courtyard of several doors, the masters in addition to the size of the bedroom, but also have a large and small study, even if the Jia family slaves hundreds of people, but also to follow the principle of male and female difference, avoidance, where they usually live, where to work, naturally there is a place, therefore, you can imagine in all the laneways, corner doors, gates, back doors are there are houses, then, The whole Jia Mansion was very grand, and the small courtyard where Aunt Xue lived was not a big problem.