In the dream of the Red Chamber, Jia Yuanchun is the big miss of Jia Fu, and also the key figure of Jia Fu to usher in the final glory. For Jia Fu, yuanchun's concubine was a great joy of "cooking oil on fire and flowers with brocade", but for Yuanchun, this happy event was filled with tears, and even hid the secret of her death.
Jia Yuanchun's first official appearance, that is, the Lantern Saves Pro-Time. The strange thing is that Yuan Chun's provincial relatives are not during the day, but at night, and they come and go at night, just as Yuan Chun described life in the palace, it is the "place where no one can see people", and her provincial relatives also seem to have some kind of mysterious that cannot be revealed.
What is even more strange is that when yuanchun lantern was provincial, a play ordered - "Beggar Qiao", the criticism given by Li Yanzhai was: the death of Fu Yuanfei in the Hall of Eternal Life. That is to say, the end of Yuan Chun is death. Its sentence also says: Three spring disputes and early spring scenes, tigers meet big dreams. It also foreshadows the end of Yuan Chun's death.
So the question is, when did Yuan Chun die? The first eighty times we have seen the dream of the Red Chamber at present, there is no mention of Yuan Chun's death, but it is not difficult to infer the time of Yuan Chun's death by carefully studying the clues left by Cao Gong between the lines and the hints of the two Lantern Festivals.
Twenty-second times in the original text, after Yuan Chun Province returned to the palace, because it was the Lantern Festival, she sent someone to send out a riddle from the palace, this riddle is: can make the demon fearful, the body is like a bundle of thunder. A shock shocked everyone, and the prime minister looked back to see that it had turned ashes.
This riddle is not difficult to guess, the mystery is a cannon fight. When I first read it, perhaps many people will not associate it with the fate of Yuan Chun, but the criticism of Li Yanzhai clearly writes: This mystery of Yuan Chun is a fluke, and the life expectancy is not long, sad!
That is to say, the riddle of this cannon battle hints at the fate of Yuan Chun's short life. Although the cannon bamboo was "as tall as a bundle of breath" and looked "tall", as Qin Keqing said when he dreamed of Wang Xifeng, it was nothing more than "instantaneous prosperity, a momentary bustle", and in the blink of an eye, he "went back to the prime minister to see that it had turned ashes".
According to the Yuan Chun Lantern Riddle and the Comments of Fat Yan Zhai, we can conclude that the time from the concubine to the death of Yuan Chun is very short, and only in this way can we write the sadness of Yuan Chun's fate and the speed of the fall of Jia Fu! So when did Yuan Chun die? We may wish to look at the second Lantern Festival ushered in by Jia Province.
In the fifty-third and fifty-fourth times of the original text, Cao Gong focused on describing the lively scene during the New Year's Festival in Jia Province, where should such a big scene be written? Cao Gong wrote in detail about two festivals, one was the Chinese New Year's Eve Ancestral Shrine, and the other was the Lantern Festival Night Feast.
At this Lantern Night Feast, Wang Xifeng played with colorful clothes, and by the way, he also told a joke, and this joke was like this: Several people carried a house-sized cannon to the outside of the city, attracting tens of thousands of people to follow. One of the anxious people couldn't wait, so he stole the incense and lit it. Just listening to the "poof" sound, the crowd burst into laughter and dispersed. The man who carried the cannon complained that the cannon was not strong enough and scattered before it could be released.
Where is the joke? After Shi Xiangyun asked, Wang Xifeng said the answer: This person was originally deaf. So much so that later there was a pause: the deaf man fired the cannon battle - scattered.
In fact, where there is a "big cannon battle in the house", this is clearly a metaphor for the Yuan Chun concubine, that "attracted tens of thousands of people to see", obviously also a secret letter for the Jia family because of the Yuan Chun concubine. The man who was impatient and impatient, and the others who raised the cannon, were obviously a secret letter to the descendants of the defeated jia fu, and it was in the hands of these indisputable descendants that the jia fu quickly fell.
The cannon battle "poof" was ignited, which was actually a metaphor for the death of Yuan Chun. Jia Fu's biggest dependency is gone, and naturally it will soon usher in defeat, followed by the dispersion of descendants. A careful reading of the Red Chamber will also find that the Lantern Festival in Jia Fu this year seems to be lively and abnormal, a large family gathers together to laugh and have fun, but between the lines, it is said "scattered" everywhere.
The cannon battles in the first Lantern Festival were still only cannon battles, lively and sad, and only after exploring the mystery of the spring lanterns, they mentioned things such as "future defeat" and "scattered descendants"; while the cannon battles in the second Lantern Festival were cannon battles that had been fully ignited, followed by "everyone laughed and dispersed." "The two Lantern Festivals are talking about the cannon battle, and the cannon battle is the riddle of the Yuan Chun lantern, which is a metaphor for her fate."
According to Zhang Ailing's "Nightmare in the Red Chamber", the old lady mentioned in the dream of the Red Chamber immediately after the Lantern Festival is actually Jia Yuanchun in the original text, and this old lady is from "insecurity" to "already dirty", which is also the process of Yuanchun from illness to death.
It was precisely because of Yuan Chun's death that Jia Mu and others would enter the dynasty to follow the sacrifice, and then Jia Fu exposed various contradictions and chaos that had accumulated deep shortcomings. It is also because of the death of Yuan Chun, Jia Mu and others left home, Aunt Zhao waited for the opportunity to "avenge", you see what she said: take advantage of this time to hit the corpse of the corpse, stand up the bed, quarrel, everyone don't have a pure heart, it is also considered revenge.
The collision of corpses here is obviously about Jia Mu and others who entered the dynasty to accompany the sacrifice, while the upright bed refers to the meaning of human death, which obviously refers to the death of Yuan Chun.
If the old lady died, aunt Zhao was stupid, did she dare to say so? If she is reported, it will not be her alone, her own children, Jia Fu will be implicated. But if it is Yuan Chun who died, although she is a noble concubine, but she is also the big miss of Jia Fu who went out, Aunt Zhao has now seized the opportunity to take advantage of no one to vent, who dares to say anything?
For Aunt Zhao, Yuan Chun died, Jia Mu and others were not at home, Jia Fu was chaotic, and she was usually powerless, and finally waited for the opportunity to take revenge and even turn over, just as the so-called: there is no tiger in the mountains, and the monkey is the overlord. Aunt Zhao naturally thought of "eager to try".
When Yuan Chun Lantern saved her relatives, the play text hinted at her death, and after returning to the palace, the riddle of the lamp that was passed back to her mother's house once again hinted at her death, and when there was another Lantern Festival in Jia Province, Cao Gong borrowed Wang Xifeng's mouth and once again confessed to Yuan Chun's death through the joke of the cannon battle.
In fact, through the harmonic sound of the Lantern Festival, we can also roughly guess the time of yuanchun's death, and the lantern harmonic "yuan elimination", that is, the meaning of the demise of yuanchun. Therefore, we can basically conclude that Yuan Chun died around the Lantern Festival in Jia Province.
When Yuan Chun was in the province, the time to return to the palace was three moments of ugliness, that is, at 2:45 a.m. today, returning to the palace in the middle of the night was actually the best hint that Yuan Chun had to go and not return to his life soon, and her lyrics also clearly wrote: Xi Ronghua is just right, and hate impermanence has arrived. ...... Therefore, I told my father and mother in their dreams: The child's life has entered the Yellow Spring...
That is to say, Jia Yuanchun died when "Xi Ronghua was just right", which is in line with the liveliness of the Lantern Festival in Jia Province, from her concubine to her death, the time is very short, and after her death, she once dreamed of her parents to explain the aftermath, according to Zhang Ailing's research, "Yuan Fei Tomeng is probably entrusted to Jia Zheng, because it is related to the overall situation in the family." Maybe Madame Wang was present in the dream, but it doesn't seem to be a couple dreaming together. ”
Author: Xi Si Shao, this article is to read less of the original works of the Red Chamber.