Chapter 2 Detailed discussion of Ningguo Mansion
Section 1 The mystery of "Jia Jing's innuendo of Jiajing"
Stopped for a few days, something was on my hands. If you don't write any more, you will immediately be lazy again.
For the idea of "Jia Jing innuendoing Jiajing", it existed a hundred years ago, because it was too simple, and it was a big "harmonic" flaw that the author of "Dream of the Red Chamber" deliberately missed to the reader, as if you were afraid that you would not find it. Originally, there was no need to discuss, but this chapter is all about the hidden imperial lineage of the late Ming Dynasty in "Dream of the Red Chamber", and I have to take it out and echo it.
We already know from the previous chapters that Emperor Mingwuzong Zhengde Emperor Zhu Houzhao was the founder of the "Ningguo Mansion" in "Dream of the Red Chamber", Emperor Jiajing of the Ming Dynasty was his successor, and in "Dream of the Red Chamber" he played the role of Jia Jing, a figure who appeared a small number of times but was extremely important in the Dream of the Red Chamber. Jia Jing was the grandson of Jia Yan, the Duke of Ningguo, who in his early years was a member of the Imperial Household, attacked the official, and gave birth to a son, Jia Zhen, and a daughter, Xi Chun; later, he was blindly good and only loved to burn Dan to refine mercury, and the rest were not at all in their hearts, and they wanted to be gods.
It is reasonable to say that Jia Yan, the founder of Ning Guofu in the book, should be Jia Jing's grandfather, but Zhu Houzhao is only Zhu Houxi's cousin, two generations behind, is there a bit of a problem? Yes, it's a problem, but it's not a problem, because it's a novel, not a history textbook. The book "Dream of the Red Chamber" also clearly states that Jia Yan, the founder of Ningguo Province, gave birth to four sons [Fat Batch: Jia Qiang, the ancestor of Jia Fungus, it is self-evident that it is also known]; after the death of Ning Gong, the eldest son Jia Daihua attacked the official, and also raised two sons, the long name Jia Shi, died at the age of eight or nine, leaving only the second son Jia Jing to attack the official; to Jia Zhen and Jia Rong, there were five generations [Fat Batch: To Rong Five Generations]. Jia Yuan, the founder of Rongguofu, is the younger brother of Jia Yan, the second generation of Jia Daishan, the third generation of Jia pardoning Jia Zheng Jia Min, to Jia Zhu and Jia Lan are also five generations.
Let's take a look at the generations from Emperor Wuzong to Emperor Mingsizong: the first generation of Zhengde Emperor Zhu Houzhao, the Jiajing Emperor Zhu Houxi, the second generation of Longqing Emperor Zhu Zaikun, the third generation of Wanli Emperor Zhu Yijun, the fourth generation of Taichang Emperor Zhu Changluo, the fifth generation of Tianqi Emperor Zhu Youxiao, the Chongzhen Emperor Zhu Youjian, a total of five generations, no more, no less. But we need to know that writing novels cannot be compared one by one, that is to seek one's own death. From the analysis of the ancestral names of these Jia Provinces, it is the harmonic pronunciation of "Shi Yan" and "False Generation", of course, the author also deliberately made a name of Dai Shan to confuse the public and lead people to the wrong way (Dai Shan is the second son of Qing Taizu Nur Hachi). In fact, the name of the second generation of Jia Fu is Jia Dai (false generation) and Jia Hua (false), and you don't have to worry about it.
Here appears a name of "Jia Shi", is the eldest son of Jia Daihua, died at the age of eight or nine, we came to find the corresponding person. Emperor Mingmuzong Longqing Zhu Zaiyuan (1537-1572), who reigned for less than seven years from 1566 to 1572, was no different from dying at the age of eight or nine, and emperor Zhu Youxiao reigned for only eight years. Longqing was the most non-existent emperor in the history of the Ming Dynasty, and even many friends who were interested in history rarely knew him, and he was not the eldest son, and rarely received the love of his father. This Longqing Emperor Zhu Zaiyuan is not Zhu Zaiyuan, and even the "History of Ming" compiled by the Qing Dynasty actually wrote the emperor's name wrong, which shows that the history books sometimes mislead others and cannot be fully believed.
Jiajing had a total of four sons, two of whom died of illness immediately after meeting him, and from then on, Jiajing followed the advice of the Taoist monks that "the two dragons should not meet" and tried not to meet with the remaining two sons. Before Jia Jing's birthday, he specially explained to his son Jia Zhen: You can treat them well at home, you don't have to send me something, even you don't have to come the day after tomorrow, if you want to come the day after tomorrow, and follow how many people make trouble with me, I will not rely on you. Until the sixty-third time Jia Jingbintian, Jia Zhen did not visit his father in the Taoist Temple.
This is a reason for Jia Jing's desire not to see Jia Zhen after the cultivation. As for why Jiajing's son Longqing became Jia Jing's brother Jia Shi, I can only say that the author made the necessary changes for the design of the Ningguo Mansion and the Rongguo Mansion in "Dream of the Red Chamber", and why the design of the two houses was done, I have already made it clear in the previous section, you can go through the previous content.
So how do you know that Jia Jing is alluding to Jiajing?
In the later period of the Jiajing Emperor's reign, he gradually lost his enterprising spirit, became increasingly corrupt, abused the people's strength to build major events, and superstitiously believed in alchemists and respected Taoism, and was good at the art of immortality. In the twenty-first year of Jiajing, the Jiajing Emperor ordered the palace women to collect manna and mix ginseng juice in the early morning in order to prolong the year, causing hundreds of palace women to fall ill. The palace ladies could not bear it, and the palace women led by Yang Jinying almost strangled the Jiajing Emperor to death, which was a rare "change in the palace" of the palace maid in history. Since then, the Jiajing Emperor has moved to Xiyuan, set up a drunken alchemy, superstitious Taoist heresy, health cultivation, and did not return to Danei for more than twenty years, so that Yan Song, the first assistant of the corrupt and perverted law, ran amok for 20 years, and the law and discipline gradually relaxed. Taking advantage of the jiajing emperor's superstition of dreaming of immortality and the phenomenon of lingrui, the alchemists and Taoist monks repeatedly practiced fraudulent tricks to fool the Jiajing Emperor and make it possible to continuously repair the jaija every year, causing huge expenses. The Jiajing Emperor believed in the Elixir of Life, and took a lot of Dan medicine, and one day in October of the forty-fifth year of Jiajing, he suddenly spat out white foam in his mouth, and his chest was stuffy, and he spat out three cups of clear water, and soon he was whimpering.
And Jia Jing also did not care about the affairs of the Ningguo Mansion, only outside the capital city and the Daoist monks Hu Hong, so that Jia Zhen acted recklessly in the Ningguo Mansion but no one could take care of it. Jia Jing did not want to go home on his birthday, and the eldest grandson's daughter-in-law Qin Keqing refused to go home when he died, only relying on Jia Zhen's cooking, Jia Zhen saw that his father did not care about it, he wanted to be extravagant, and even used the wood that the bad Prince Yizhong wanted to make a coffin for Qin Keqing. Jia Jing's death was even more strange, good and no disease, suddenly gone, and the stomach was hard as iron, the skin and lips burned purple wrinkles, the doctors' explanation was to swallow the gold cloth sand, burn and die.
At a comparison, we know that Jia Jing and Jia Jing have many similarities:
1, the pronunciation is exactly the same, this should be more than a coincidence, right?
2. Both of them made a difference in the early stages, Jia Jing won the Yi Ji Ke Jinshi, gave birth to children and attacked the officials; the Jiajing Emperor worked hard in the early stage to make the country's governance prosperous.
3. In the later period, both of them were superstitious alchemists, respected Taoism, and were indifferent to the family and the major affairs of the state, so that the Ningguo Mansion and the Ming Dynasty were chaotic. One lived outside the capital, Xuanzhen temple, and the other lived in the Wanshou Palace in the Western Garden of the Imperial City, calling himself "Flying Xuan Zhenjun".
4. Both of them have been practicing Dan For a long time, taking Dan Medicine, and both died of Dan Medicine.
From this historical prototype of Jia Jing, we locked in the Jiajing Emperor of the Ming Dynasty.
Regarding the decline of the Ming Dynasty, there is such a sentence: Ming died in the apocalypse, died in Wanli, and died in Jiajing. In the song "The End of Good Things" in "Dream of the Red Chamber", there is a sentence that "Ji Qiu is decadent and depraved, and the family affairs are the first sin to die." After this sentence, there is a fat criticism: deep meaning others do not understand. What is the meaning? In Qin Keqing's judgment, "Rambling is glorious, and the beginning of the provocation is really rather than ning", isn't this exactly the comparison between Jia Jing and Jia Jing? The ming dynasty began with Jiajing, and the death of Jia Fu began with Jia Jing.
In addition, the date of Jia Jing's death in "Dream of the Red Chamber" is exactly after the old lady returned to Xiaoci County, and the prototype of the old lady in the fifth section of the first chapter of this topic, "The Old Lady Returns to Xiaoci County", is Jiajing's mother, Empress Xiaocixian(孝慈仙), which perfectly matches "Xiaoci County", and Jiajing (Jia Jing) only dies in the back, so that in terms of time, the plot arrangement will not conflict, and the reliability of the argument will be further improved.
Point attention, do not get lost, take you to explore the fog of "Dream of the Red Chamber", please see the next section of decomposition.