The real aristocratic life is not a big fish and meat every day, eating sea plugs, nor wearing gold and silver, shouting five and drinking six. In "Dream of the Red Chamber", Jia Mu, who has experienced a lifetime of prosperity and wealth, shows the reader a true aristocratic style.
As the saying goes, "Three generations produce an aristocrat." The real nobility is not something that can be bought with money, but is cultivated through the edification of culture and the precipitation of time, and the cultivation of a kind of temperament, a kind of cultivation, is also a unique spiritual expression.
Jia Mu in "Dream of the Red Chamber" is a real nobleman cultivated in such an environment. Jia Mu's father was Shang Shuling and Baoling Hou. This determines the extraordinary cultural atmosphere of historians, in such a family, the children raised, from an early age, must have a very unique aesthetic and different tastes from ordinary people. Therefore, those very stylish scenes in "Dream of the Red Chamber" are often slowly presented to readers under the leadership of Jia Mu.
The arrival of Grandma Liu opened up a new world for the people of Jia Province. On a whim, Jia Mu ordered people to set up a banquet in the Grand View Garden to feast on Grandma Liu and everyone in Jia Province.
As he was talking, a gust of wind blew through, and the sound of drumming could be faintly heard. Jia Mu asked, "Who will marry?" It's close to the street. Madame Wang laughed and said, "Where can I hear it on the street, this is a dozen girls in our family practicing blowing!" Jia Mu then laughed and said, "Since they are acting, why don't you ask them to come in and practice?" They also walked around, and we had fun again. "..."It was laid out on the water pavilion of the Lotus Pavilion, and it sounded better by the sound of the water, and when we came back, we ate wine under the Pavilion, which was wide and audible."
Lotus Champs, a landscape in the Grand View Garden, "covered in the pool, with windows on all sides, curved corridors on the left and right, also across the water to meet the shore, and behind it there are zigzag bamboo bridges." ”
Twelve girls from Lixiangyuan practiced music in the lotus champs in the middle of the pool, and Jia Mu and others ate wine at the Jin pavilion on the shore, and across the water, the sound of music came, bringing the water's clarity and freshness, which would be more clear. Such a way of appreciation, in "Dream of the Red Chamber", probably only Jia Mu can think of it.
The sound of the flute at the Mid-Autumn Festival night feast is similar to this time Jia Mu led everyone to "enjoy the music across the water".
Jia Mu was more wonderful and cute than before she saw the middle of the moon, because she said: "Such a good month, you must not smell the flute." Because the orderer passed the girl on the juban, he said, "There is a lot of music, but it is not elegant, only use the flute, blow it far away, it is enough." ”
What kind of effect will this way of playing be? Jia Mu and the others continued to eat wine, "I just listened to the whimpering and whimpering under the osmanthus tree in the wall box, and the more it seemed that the bright moon was fresh and the sky was clean, it was really annoying to understand, and all worries were removed."
This quiet and elegant flute sound is not only Jia Mu's excellent taste for music, but also the real aristocratic style that Jia Mu has been cultivated since she was a child. With Jia Mu present, it would definitely not be like the singing in the Ningguo Mansion, making a lot of noise and deafening noise.
Xue Baochao once identified Jia Mu as an elderly person and liked "lively drama texts", in fact, she really misread Jia Mu. Jia Mucai is not such a vulgar old lady. Jia Mu's taste was also far from what Xue Baochao could understand.
Of course, Jia Mu's taste is far more than the two things of enjoying music across the water and smelling the flute in the Mid-Autumn Festival, but also hidden in many details of "Dream of the Red Chamber".
She saw that Lin Daiyu's window screens were all green and old, and she immediately asked Madame Wang and Wang Xifeng to replace Xiaoxiang Pavilion with "silver-red Xiaying Yarn", only such window screens were worthy of Xiaoxiang Pavilion without peach and apricot trees; she saw that Xue Baochao's room furnishings were too simple in the Xiaoxiang Garden, and immediately ordered Mandarin Duck to send a few fresh and elegant stubborn utensils from her collection to Xue Baochao to put on them, "safe and pure and generous."
In Jia Mu's room, there was also a picture of Qiu Shizhou's "Double YanTu", which showed white snow and red plums, not the pictures of Fulu Shou or Flowers blossoming and wealth that were common in the homes of the rich people. From this detail, we can also see that Jia Mu's good taste and the elegant aristocratic style that are displayed everywhere in her life.
From this point of view, many protagonists, including Lin Daiyu, cannot be compared with Jia Mu. Jia Mu's aristocratic style is a sense of heaviness that has been brewed up after years of precipitation.