Since "Dream of the Red Chamber" is a novel, it is inevitably integrated into the subjective thoughts of the author Cao Xueqin. Although there is disagreement about whether Cao Xueqin is the author or not.
Junji Yakan Honglou believes that Cao Xueqin is the author of "Dream of the Red Chamber", as to whether it is Jiang Ning weaving Cao Jiazi, whether it is a real name or a pen name, it does not affect our readers to read, do not need ordinary readers to pay too much attention.
This article does not talk about the author's topic, but I want to talk about Cao Xueqin's interesting setting. Who is the real "enemy" in "Dream of the Red Chamber"? Not a villain nor a scheming ambitionist. It is father-in-law and son-in-law, uncle and nephew.
In fact, the essence of uncles and nephews is still father-in-law and son-in-law. Cao Xueqin set the relationship between Weng and her son-in-law as a naked "interest", cold-blooded and ruthlessly calculated. Especially the "fathers-in-law", all of them are "wolf hearts and dog lungs".
The first "father-in-law" to go out of the circle was Feng Su.
After Zhen Shiyin lost his daughter, his home was made white by a fire in the hulu temple next to him. The land was also subjected to natural and man-made disasters, so he had no choice but to sell it, and according to the customs of the time, he went to his father-in-law to seal it.
Sealing is a "custom", and it is a custom for a son-in-law to be in distress in that era and to rely on his father-in-law's family to help him survive.
When Feng Su saw his son-in-law who had come in distress, he not only did not have the heart to help, but also "half coaxed and half earned, and some of them had to be with him in a thin field house." "And people before and after complained that they were not good at living, and only blindly ate good food and laziness and so on...
(The first time) Zhen Shi secretly knew that he could not surrender to others, and his heart was full of regret, and then he was frightened by the previous year, he was anxious and bitter, he had accumulated injuries, and the people in his twilight years, poor and sick, gradually revealed the situation of the next life.
The so-called next life is a "sign of death." Zhen Shiyin was dying under the internal and external difficulties, although it was just a lame Daoist who appeared and went away. In reality, Zhen Shiyin can be seen as dead.
The second "father-in-law" out of the circle is the Wang family.
The four major families of Jia Shi Wang Xue, the Wang family married two daughters into the Rongguo Mansion. Lady Wang married Jia Zheng, and Wang Xifeng married Jia Lian.
However, the Wang family stabbed the Jia family in the back, fell into the well, and plotted and calculated. Cao Xueqin wrote three things that made people chill.
First, Prince Teng betrayed the Jingying Jiedushi that the Jia family entrusted to him to the emperor in exchange for his own peace.
As the guardian of the capital and the emperor, "Jingying" has been in control since the time of the Duke of Ningguo, and is a chip for the Balance between the Jia family and the emperor.
The third generation of the Jia family was not suitable for re-election, so they trained Prince Teng to take over, seeking internal control of the Jingying and continuing to control the security of the capital.
But Prince Teng failed the Jia family and stabbed his brother-in-law's family in the back in exchange for the prosperity of the Wang family.
Second, Prince Teng, as Yuan Chun's uncle, "engaged in tacit understanding" with the emperor and encroached on the rewards that originally belonged to the Jia family.
Yuan Chun promoted Xiande Concubine, and Emperor Yu was willing to reward her mother's family, but because of Prince Teng's reasons, he gave the benefits to his maternal uncle, which weakened the Jia family in disguise.
Third, the Wang family planned a golden and jade marriage behind it, and encroached on the whale Tunjia family.
Lady Wang's marriage to Jia Zheng is the head of the Rongguo Mansion, Wang Xifeng's marriage to Jia Lian is the future heir to the Dukedom of Rongguo, and Xue Baochao's marriage to Jia Baoyu is the future Rongguo Mansion's family...
The Wang family continued to marry the daughter of the Wang family's bloodline into the RongGuo Mansion, that is, to devour the Jia family's living forces through the "mother locust" strategy.
The Wang family was able to rise, not because Prince Tengduo was capable, but because the Jia family gave him cultivation. They even married their daughters as in-laws. But the Wang family stabbed the knife in the back, sacrificing the interests of the Jia family in exchange for the prosperity of the Wang family. Just like that seal, the wolf heart and dog lungs.
It was precisely because the Jia family was repeatedly sacrificed by the Wang family that the rivers and rivers would decline day by day and lead to the final raid.
In addition to the above three events, Cao Xueqin also wrote about the several contacts between Jia Baoyu and his uncle Prince Teng, and all of them had "bad things" happen.
For example, when his aunt came back on his birthday, he was burned by candles.
For example, my aunt came to visit the next day, and as soon as she entered the door, she was magically spelled by the five ghosts.
For example, the uncle's birthday was burned by the fire, and Qingwen struggled for her life.
"Fire" is a plague, locusts are locust plagues, and the Jia family "died" in the Wang family.
As for Wang Xifeng's final "crying to Jinling and mourning more", Sister Qiao suffered a "fierce uncle", why is the fierce uncle not also Jia Baoyu's uncle Prince Teng?
The Wang family was too ruthless.
The third "father-in-law" out of the circle is the Jia family.
Jia Yuanchun was made a virtuous concubine, and the Jia family became the "abbot" family. It can also be counted as the emperor's "old man".
It is said that both father-in-law and son-in-law should watch over each other. The Jia family should be loyal to the emperor and loyal to him.
However, the Jia family was stabbed in the back by the Wang family, and this side was also stabbed at the son-in-law emperor.
At the funeral of Qin Keqing of the Ningguo Prefecture, the specifications were arrogant, and the illegal use of the coffin of Prince Yizhong's old chitose was disrespectful.
Secretly communicating with the King of Northern Jing, privately forming a party is not a subject.
Enthusiastically responding to the will of the Emperor Taishang and turning his back on the emperor's will was for the sake of disobedience.
Disrespectful and disobedient, involved in a power struggle against the emperor similar to the "Change of ma Songyi", is for disloyalty.
The Jia family was disloyal and disobedient to the "son-in-law" emperor, and only then did they end up raiding the family, which was really deserved!
The fourth "father-in-law" to appear is the mother-in-law, Aunt Xue.
Junji Yakan Speculated that after the Jia family raided their home, Jia Baoyu and Xue Baochao were released and homeless, only to defect to the Xue family, which did not affect too much.
With the support of his mother-in-law Aunt Xue and his brother-in-law Xue Pan, they can live a smooth life.
It is said that the four major families are not "one glory and one loss", that is the era of the Second Duke of Ningrong, and it cannot be talked about in the later period.
The Jia family is suspected of plotting rebellion and has little to do with the Xue family.
However, at that time, the Xue family was afraid of the involvement of the son-in-law, although they did not turn their daughter and son-in-law away, but they were also like Feng Su treating Zhen Shiyin, and the rumors were constant, and even Xia Jingui could not let the sister-in-law's family eat white rice, which caused Jia Baoyu to run away from home in frustration.
Jia Baoyu's "cliff relegation" is similar to Zhen Shiyin's "next life", the so-called monk is also a symbol of the death of people in the world!
The above are all manifestations of the father-in-law's wolf heart and dog lungs, including the uncle. This is not to mention the uncle's mother,Madame Wang's niece Lin Daiyu, and the Shi family's bad behavior towards the daughter Shi Xiangyun who married off.
Of course, the in-laws also have good ones. For example, Liu Grandma fought against her son-in-law. Jia Mu adopted Lin Daiyu.
But if Grandma Liu doesn't help her son-in-law, how will her son-in-law raise her? What would happen to Lin Daiyu if she didn't have a grandmother?
Cao Xueqin should have suffered the loss of her father-in-law, grandfather or uncle. So much so that he was extremely rude to his father-in-law and uncle. Although readers do not know the author's experience, from the abominable faces of these parents-in-law and uncles, they can also deduce one or two, and the right is after tea and dinner!
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