In the study of old novels, there is a school called the "Suoyin School", which is believed to have originated in Hongxue, and even regarded it as a branch of the old Hongxue, and regarded it as a signed "Dream of the Red Chamber Suoyin" published by Wang Mengruan and Shen Zhen'an in the fifth year of the Republic of China (1916) [1].
"Dream of the Red Chamber"
However, this book is the first large book of the novel Suo Yin, but the word "Suo Yin" is actually derived from "Zhou Yi", and as the title of the book, it first appears in Sima Zhen's "History of Suo Yin", which means "to explore strange stories, to collect allusions, to solve what is not understood, and to declare what is not declared"[2].
As for the novel Suo Yin, it should be based on the meaning of the novel plot being attached to history or philosophy and over-interpreting, and this kind of criticism can be pushed back to the middle and late Ming Dynasty at the latest, such as ye Zhi's "Journey to the West" criticized by Li Zhuowu, which says that "those who read "Journey to the West" do not know the purpose of the author, and make a drama theory." Yu Wei pulled out one by one, and Shu Ji did not bury the author's intention" [3].
Comparing the plot of the novel with the characters, there is another Zhao Tang's "Miscellaneous Records of the Pavilion"——
Zhong Bojing's "Fengshen Yanyi" is absurd and illusory, and cannot be inexhaustible. However, they all secretly pointed out the matter, with Shenzong as the concubine, Zheng Guifei as the concubine, Guangzong Changluo as Yin Hong, and Wang Gongfei as the Queen of Jiang. Zhang Weixian is a person who has heard of Zhongzhong, and he is also subordinate to his behavior. Zhu Xizhong is a Huang Feihu with the surname Ofe Ye.
Xiqi, alluding to Yang Yinglong, Bozhou. With Sun Piyang as Yang Ren, because of his home in Kansai, he has little knowledge, and his subordinates are also the eyes and ears. Zhu Liao is particularly inferior to Simingya. The Three Sects of Taoism allude to the three parties of Qi, Zhejiang, and Chu, and The King of Tota alludes to Li Sancaiye, Deng Jiugong, Zheng Zhilongye, Shen Gongbao, and Shen Shixing.
As for Zou Yuanbiao and other jiang right-wing people, it is particularly slanderous. The man who eats the hair and tramples the soil, and slanders his king as Xin Yi, actually writes to the book, his people can be cursed, and his board can be axed! And it is still passed down in the world, and it can also be blamed.
Miscellaneous Records of the Pavilion
This is an earlier special article of Suo Yin's criticism, and it can also be said that it is the first work of Suo Yin in the "Fengshen Yanyi". Zhao Tang was born in the forty-first year of Qianlong (1776) and died at the end of the ninth year of Daoguang (1830), nearly a hundred years earlier than the books of Wang and Shen, even if the time of publication is calculated, this book was published by Jiu Si Tang in the sixth year of Guangxu (1880), which is still thirty-six years earlier than the Book of the Ershi, which can be regarded as the precursor of the Suoyin school.
In addition, Wang Minyun's "Diary of Xiang qilou" also has criticism of the "Fengshen Yanyi", and his diary wrote on the twentieth day of the first month of the nineteenth year of Guangxu -
The "Fengshen Yanyi" was originally written in the "Water Margin" and "Journey to the West", and also copied the "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", and its text has "Wolf Flute", after Ming Jiajing, and the common people have great credit, so as to change the divine name. So far, the Four Heavenly Kings, Hum Ha, the God of Wealth, and the Wen Pox have all been the original, and they have become the classics of the city.
Yu Tongshi was pleased that Taijitu had the misfortune of burning himself, and Gai intended to ridicule Emperor Taizong for killing Fang Zhengxue. And his words pig dog ZoBai ape general Rong, to ridicule Li Jinglong's generals, thinking that each has its own meaning. However, its text is derived into hundreds of thousands of words, and it will have a destiny, but it will be able to perform. And those who have heard about it, they are also afraid of Zhang Jiangling's failure to learn. His words Jiang Huan also clearly rebuked the attack.
Ming ren likes to be the words of the legendary speech, and this monopoly is not fair, and many accusations are rebuked, and it is roughly based on wealth as a warning, so the sole zhao gongming brothers and sisters, the wealth is the brother, and the color is the sister, and there is no one who has no wealth and can delay the color. Those who are placed in the middle of the ten are multi-faceted, and the middle-aged are especially in the wealth. Ten immortals are broken and kill immortals, and ten thousand immortals are cursed and monkey crowns. From the Shu people to the Heavenly Son, it is not possible for the TaijiTu to fall into the soul of the fallen soul. Therefore, it will be easy to grass people with the Taiji Diagram, and it is not allowed to enter the Taiji Diagram, which is the work of the angry and the cynical.
Great words and wisdom all help the rebels, slander and evil are gods, only animals and beasts can reach the heavens, and even evil Taoist words, doubting Li Zhuowu's actions. In the past, it was suspected that he had the saying of Jindan's medical prescription, and he wanted to evaluate it, but now he knows that he is still pedantic, so he marks his intention as such. As for the name of his god, there is no one to examine if it does not begin here.
"Xiangqilou Diary"
The nineteenth year of Guangxu was 1893, 23 years before the Ershi. In addition, at that time, there were still:
I. Yan Nan was born in the thirty-fourth year of Guangxu (1908) in the Baoding Zhili Official Bookstore typeset "New Commentary on the Water Margin", Shang Sheng's name is unknown, the book says "Shi Jin" means "History" and evolution, "Lu Da" means the lu country's great people, that is, Confucius, etc., this book is actually earlier than "Dream of the Red Chamber Suoyin", so the opinion that "Dream of the Red Chamber Suoyin" as the first book of the novel Suoyin is untenable.
2. Deng Fanyan published "The Dream of the Red Chamber" published by the Shanghai Civil Rights Publishing Department in the eighth year of the Republic of China (1919) and "Water Margin Transmission suoyin" published in the eighteenth year of the Republic of China (1929) at the Dadong Bookstore. His real name was Deng Yuli, a native of Jiangling, who participated in the imperial examination in the 29th year of Guangxu (1903) and was a member of the Provisional Parliament of Hubei Province during the Republic of China.
3. "Water Margin Transmission Suoyin" published by "Lu Gong" in the 20th year of the Republic of China (1931) at the Civilization Book Company, this life is not known, the book has not been seen, and the holder of the book may use his name as Zhao Beilu, I do not know no.
"Water Margin Transmission Suo Cain"
4. Ma Juntu published the "First Series of Ma's Series" in the Twenty-third Year of the Republic of China (1934) at the Peking Zhonghua Printing Bureau, Ma Shi is an Islamic citizen, who founded Jincheng Chongshi Middle School, which is accompanied by three articles: "Reading Suoyin", "Fengshen Chuansoyin", and "White Snake Chuansoyin", all of which are able to be attached to the meeting, of which the article "Fengshen Chuansoyin" is also found in pages 10-13 of the first issue of yanhuang shuowang magazine in the twenty-seventh year of the Republic of China (1938).
Therefore, the origin of the Suoyin school is not due to the red study, and the Suo Yin works of the Republic of China period are by no means limited to the works of the red science. Only later, Mr. Hu Shizhi developed the new red science, which was based on the life of the author Cao Xueqin, which must be contrary to the old red science characterized by puzzles, so the red science Suoyin school is independent of the suoyin of other books, and it is not an important target left in the history of scholarship.
Although the articles of the Soyin school often have in-depth thinking behind the literary imagery, due to the lack of understanding of the author's creative era and respect for the author's original intentions, the conclusions drawn are often unrelated or even contrary to the original work.
"Stone Notes"
As an example of suo yin of the two kinds of "Fengshen Yanyi" mentioned in the above article, Wang Minyun believes that the image design of Zhao Gongming's brothers and sisters is to show that "wealth is a brother, and color is a sister", in fact, Zhao Gongming is certainly the god of wealth, and Sanxiao Niangniang is named "Pit Three Girls", that is, the god of the toilet, not the god of sound and color, and the Nine-Curved Yellow River Array it is not a tool for seduction, if it is a goddess, it is a symbol of lust, then the Golden Spirit Virgin, Princess Longji, Deng Chanyu, etc. are all goddesses or female generals. It doesn't make sense to think of the Three Heavenly Ladies as a symbol of lust in any case.
Similarly, yuan hong's innuendo of Li Jinglong is also very unreasonable, in history, Zhu Di despised Li Jinglong very much, and Li Jinglong also suspected that Qu could make his army defeated for personal reasons, but Yuan Hong in the novel brought a deep disaster to King Wu and Jiang Ziya, killing Famous generals such as Yang Ren, Long Suhu, and Zheng Lun, not only with other Meishan six monsters, but also with Gao Ming, Gao Jue, wu wenhua, and so on who came to help the battle, which is by no means comparable to Li Jinglong. Moreover, after Li Jinglong's defeat in the Battle of Jingnan, he was still made crown prince by Zhu Di, which was far better than Yuan Hong's death at shanhe shejitu.
Portrait of Li Jinglong
As for the difficulty of the Taijitu turning Yin Hong into fly ash innuendo fang xiaoru, it should be understood that the Taijitu is the "TaijiTu Theory" of the Crown of Science, which can only be regarded as Wangwen Shengyi; Jiang Huan's attack on the prince and the attack on Zhu Youxiao, who was the prince at the time, did have similarities, but the "Fengshen Yanyi" was engraved in this magazine during the Apocalypse, and with this plot blatantly alluding to the emperor at that time, it was not popular in folk literature, not to mention that this kind of court infighting had long been a precedent in books such as "Zuo Chuan" and "Warring States Policy", and originally did not need innuendo to write.
When Ma Juntu's "Fengshen Chuan Suoyin" was published in the "Yanhuang Shuowang Magazine", it simply wrote that "breaking the three-hundred-year-old riddle, Fang Zhi "Fengshen Biography" is a revolutionary book of national significance", holding that "the faintness of Ming Xizong, Zhuang Lie, Fu Wang, Gui Wang, etc., with Xiqi and The Western Zhun Ti, and then with The Introduction of Manchuria has never believed in Buddhism, Fei Zhong and You Hun are used to imitate Wei Zhongxian Party, the Gui Ling Mother is used to imitate the Ke clan, and Fei Lian and evil are used to impersonate Du Xun and Wang Dehua."
"Fengshen Chuan Suo Cain"
This is simply unreasonable, because the earliest surviving version of the "Fengshen Yanyi" is the Heavenly Revelation JinChang Shu ZaiYang Ben, at this time Chongzhen has not yet ascended the throne, Li Zicheng has not yet attacked Beijing, there is no du xun, Wang Dehua generation, nor is there any fu wang and gui wang to call the emperor. At that time, Manchuria Fangxing, if you compare this to the King wu of Zhou respected by the Confucians, it is tantamount to giving Manchuria political correctness, on the one hand, praising the taboo of the imperial court in the middle of the enemy army, on the other hand, it also hurt the feelings of the remnants of the late Ming Dynasty.
Judging from the situation when Ma Shi wrote this article, it is only a follow-up to Yannan Shangsheng's old wisdom in criticizing the "Water Margin", Shangsheng used "Water Margin" as the starting point of constitutional government, and Ma Juntu used "Fengshen Yanyi" as an implicit connotation of revolution, but he did not know that it was completely unconvincing.
"Fengshen List Story Exploration Source"
In 1960, Wei Juxian published the first two volumes of "Exploring the Source of the Story of the Fengshen List" published by Wei Xing Printing in Hong Kong, following the idea of Ma Juntu. The author of this book has not seen it, but as far as the citations of other papers are concerned, Wei Believes that the "Fengshen Yanyi" is the work of the Qing people entrusted to the Ming people, and thinks that the Second King of Wenwu is an allusion to Wu Sangui's rebellion against the Qing Dynasty, and the Western sect leader is an allusion to Lamaism, etc.[4], but the various versions of the "Fengshen Yanyi" are still there, and its non-Qing people can see it. Therefore, Wei's opinion, I think, can always be self-defeating.
exegesis:
[1] Guo Yushi, "Half Brick Garden Zhai on the Red Study Suoyin School", Fudan University Press, May 2016 edition, p. 11.
[2] (Tang) Sima Zhen: The Hidden Order of the History of Suo.
[3] (Ming) Ye Tian: Li Zhuowu's Criticism of Journey to the West (Shangxia), Tianjin Ancient Books Publishing House, October 2006 edition, p. 9.
[4] [Japanese] Kazuo Yamashita: "The Examination of the Western Teachings", Yuanguang Buddhist Journal, No. 3, pp. 241-262.