For Chinese, the most important and grandest festival is undoubtedly the New Year. New Year is not like other festivals, this day has passed, the festival has passed, strictly speaking, Chinese New Year, from "children and children, don't be hungry, after the eighth is the year", to "February two dragons look up the big warehouse full of small warehouses" ends.
This is the longest festival of the year, just like the "Taisho Moon" we often talk about during the New Year, and the word "big" in it explains the special nature of this festival. This most "long" festival, the taboo in all aspects of speech and behavior, is also the most taboo in the year, which is reflected the most in the twentieth episode of "Dream of the Red Chamber".
Sister Feng said to Aunt Li: ... The old lady under the big festival only liked a day, you are an old man, others are loud, you still have to take care of them, don't you know the rules, shout here...
Taboo one: Don't shout loudly.
Grandma Li He Xuren, she is Baoyu's nursing mother when she was a child, and she is also a representative of the "fish-eye Qing" type described by Baoyu, and the psychological distortion is nothing wrong. She had already appeared on the side of the eighth time, took the tofu skin bun that Baoyu had left for Qingwen, and drank Baoyu's maple dew tea, which triggered Baoyu's temper after being slightly drunk, and Baoyu, who had always pitied Xiang Xiangyu, smashed the tea bowl and reprimanded Qianxue.
This time, because she lost money and had nowhere to go, Aunt Li ran to Baoyu's residence to rely on the old and sell the old, and became angry with innocent and sick attackers. Bao Yu and the crowd did everything to appease them, fortunately, Sister Feng appeared in time, both to persuade and remind Shang in the Middle Of the Year, "Others are loud, you still have to take care of them, don't you know the rules, shout here", this is "thanks to this gust of wind, the old woman went".
Since ancient times, the New Year has been more exquisite and harmonious. Legend has it that at the beginning of the new year, the gods and immortals will sometimes go to the homes of mortals to take a look, and if they see that the family is harmonious and happy, it means that most of the people in this family are good and peaceful people, and the gods and immortals will become adults and give them more blessings. Loud noise is bound to turn away the blessings of the gods and immortals, of course, it is forbidden.
Bao Yu said to Jia Huan, "What are you crying in the Taisho Moon...".
Taboo two: do not cry.
Because in the first month, "the school is closed in the school room, and the needle and thread are avoided in the boudoir, but it is all idle time", Jia Huan, who has nothing to do, comes to Baochao and plays Go with Ying'er and others. Jia Huan, who could not afford to win or lose, played Lai Pi, and Lai Ying'er's money was ridiculed by Ying'er, "A grandfather, still rely on our money, even I don't pay attention to it." Before I was stubborn with Second Master Bao, he lost those, and he was not in a hurry. The rest of the money is still grabbed by a few little girls, and he just laughs." Jia Huan, who had been poked in the sore, cried incessantly, and was just bumped into by Bao Yu, who had come to visit Bao Chao.
Baoyu, as the elder brother, said a few words to Jia Huan. The reason why Baoyu is so disgusted with Jia Huan's crying is first of all that the New Year Festival is the first festival of the year, it is a festive festival, and crying will bring bad luck. Moreover, the boy has tears and does not flick, Jia Huan, as a boy, is still a Houmen gongzi, because of a little thing, crying and crying, into what body, Bao Yu as an older brother also hates iron and steel, teaching two sentences is also the duty of the brother.
Sister Feng said to Aunt Zhao, "What happened to dazhengyue?" Ring Brothers Little Kid's House, half wrong, you only teach him, say what these nonsense do...".
Taboo three: Do not scold the child.
Jia Huan was said a few words by Bao Yu at BaoChao's place, and after returning home, he told his mother Aunt Zhao that he did not get comfort but was scolded by Aunt Zhao, just by the passing Feng Sister through the window, Feng Jie stopped Aunt Zhao's scolding.
According to the generations, Aunt Zhao should be Sister Feng's aunt, but because Aunt Zhao is a concubine, "Mei Xiangbai's sons are all slaves" and her status is low, so As a "junior", Sister Feng can still say to her face that she is "crooked and evil, and the fox is overbearing", which is also very unfair and sad. But Aunt Zhao is really not right, in ancient times, scolding children in the first month will make children scolded for a year, not to mention that the vulgar Aunt Zhao is still so ugly, "Who told you to go to the high platform?" Obscene faceless stuff.".
Moreover, educating children needs to be corrected by emotion and reason, is it a scolding, which also gives modern parents who scold their children a wake-up call, if you want to prevent their children from growing into "Jia Huan", do not scold children, and set an example for their children by example.
Of course, this time Baoyu's mention of Jia Huan and Feng Jie's warning to Aunt Zhao all laid the groundwork for the two brothers and sisters to be "evil demons" later.
Bao Yu said to Dai Yu, "He bitterly came, in the Taisho Moon, dead and alive."
Taboo four: you can't say "die".
Shi Xiangyun came to Jia Mansion, Baoyu came from Baochao to meet, and the careful-eyed Daiyu was jealous and began to be angry with Baoyu again. Baoyu was worried that she would be angry and hurt her body, but she made Xiao Sex say, "I have broken my body, I die, what do I have to do with you?" The word "death" has always been taboo, even in everyday life, let alone in festive and peaceful new years. As the saying goes, "good should not be, lai should be", saying such unlucky words in the Taisho month indicates that the year will not go well, of course, this is with superstitious colors. Dai Yu's words of death and life this time are not only the characteristics of her smallness, but also the embodiment of her pessimism.
Of course, in the twenty-first time, there are also some taboo words and deeds. For example, in order to show his determination to the attackers, Baoyu "picked up a jade hairpin to the pillow and fell twice." In ancient times, if you break something in the first month, it heralds more than a bump in the new year, which is not smooth. Moreover, Baoyu still deliberately did it.
In the twenty-second time, Baoyu said to Xiangyun, "I am for you, but I am not coming out." I want to have an outer heart, immediately turn into ashes, let ten thousand people trample", Xiangyun replied, "In the Taisho month, less nonsense...", don't say "these evil vows that don't matter, gossip, and crooked words"; Baoyu was influenced by Daiyu and Xiangyun's splint, "went back to the room and lay on the bed, just stared", the attacker said Baoyu "In the Taisho Month, the ladies and sisters like to have fun, how do you go about this scene", and the Taisho Moon can't be saddened; and when people guess the riddles, they face the firecrackers, abacuses, kites, and kites of the fourth spring of Jia Province. The mystery of the sea lantern in front of the Buddha, Jia Zheng, who has always been rigorous, fell into meditation, "Now that it is the Festival of the Yuan Dynasty, how can we all make this ominous thing a drama?" The more I thought about it, the more stuffy it became", and even the more I looked at it, "the more I felt bored, the more I felt sad, so I subtracted eighty-nine-tenths of the spirit of the right talent, and only hung my head and meditated", and finally withdrew early, which shows the taboo of "ominousness" in the Taisho month.
Although there are many taboos in the "Taisho Month", they all epitomize the psychology of people to avoid evil and pray for well-being, and hope that the new year will be happy and full of peace and joy, all of which contain expectations and pursuits for a better life in the future.
Author: Warm Forward, this article is to read less of the original works of the Red Chamber.