In "Dream of the Red Chamber", the Jia family finally ended up with a tree falling down and scattering, which cannot be described as tragic. Several girls from the Jia family and their relatives and friends were not spared, and they all ended tragically. Among them, Dai Yu died early; Bao Chao was a young widow; Xiang Yun was also a widow early; Yingchun was abused a year after marrying, and finally went to Huangquan; explored Chunyuan to marry, and it was difficult to meet with her family; Xi Chun left home; Sister Feng may be abandoned and finally died of illness; Li Feng did not accumulate yin virtue, although there was a good time for a short time, but it was not long before huangquan road was near.
From the reader's point of view, among these women, except for Feng Jie, who has done wrongdoing, the rest of the women have hardly done anything harmful to nature. Why the ending is still so tragic. It is true that what Cao Xueqin wants to present is an end times, in which they will not be able to escape the fate of thin lives, whether they have talent or virtue. But if you skip this relationship, the Jia family girl's thin life is actually an ending with cause and effect.
Yingchun and Baochao are girls who have read "Taishang Induction" together. In Daiyu's words, the Taishang Induction is a book about cause and effect, and the first sentence of the book has "There is no way out of misfortune." But man calls himself", and says, "The retribution of good and evil." It's like a shadow. ”
Yingchun is a wooden knotty head, if she has done evil, I am afraid that no one will believe it, and it is appropriate for a book like "Taishang Induction" to tell Wang Xifeng, who is the kind of person who needs to restrain her personality. However, there is a folk saying that the father repays the debt, even if Yingchun is gentle and cowardly, her father Jia Shu is a dimwitted, confused and dangerous villain, and has committed many evils, and there are still human life lawsuits in his hands.
Why is Jia Yu a villain? The things that this bad old man did, even Jia Mu couldn't see it.
Jia Mu said that when he was old, he did not maintain his body well, nor did he do a good job as an official, but instead became a small wife and a small wife, drinking with his little wife all day long. Not only that, Jia Yu also looked at Jia Mu's close-fitting mandarin duck.
Jia Yu looked up to the Mandarin Duck, and even let his eldest wife go to Jia Mu to ask for the Mandarin Duck, just from this one thing, he knew that Jia Yu did not think about Jia Mu at all. Jia Mu is an elderly man, naturally there is a great need for competent people to serve around, Jia Yu wants Mandarin ducks is not difficult, but the difficulty is that Jia Mu from then on by whom? Everyone knows that Jia Mu left the Mandarin Duck, and could not eat the food, Jia Yu completely ignored his mother, and there was also a suspicion of coveting his mother's property, because Jia Mu's big and small things were managed by Mandarin Duck, and with Mandarin Duck, it was equivalent to knowing jia mu's big and small things very well, which showed that his intentions were sinister.
Jia Yu did not please Jia Mu, and even the mediocre daughter Yingchun was also ignored by Jia Mu. This is a bit unfair to Yingchun. At first, it was only when princess Taifei on the south bank wanted to meet the girls of the Jia family, she did not let Yingchun come out, and later, when Jia Yu wanted to give Yingchun xu to Sun Shaozu, Jia Mu was not satisfied in her heart, but did not stop it.
It was Jia Mu who did not obstruct it, which indirectly led to Yingchun's death. As a personal uncle, Jia Zheng knew that it was not good to be so close, so he also persuaded him several times, but his brother Jia Yu insisted on not listening, and Jia Zheng could only give up. Yingchun, who was married to the Sun family, was tortured to death in only a year or so. But if you go back to Yingchun's father, Jia Shu, he married so many wives, and later he gambled and spent eight hundred taels of silver to buy a handmaiden named Yan Hong as a little wife, and his little wives and the old lady's Mandarin ducks are actually as young as Yingchun! If Yingchun's marriage to Sun Shaozu is a disaster, then this misfortune is not caused by herself, but brought to her by her father Jia Yu.
According to Sun Shaozu, he said that Jia Yu used his five thousand taels of silver, because he could not pay it back, so he married Yingchun to him. Although judging by Sun Shaozu's character, the credibility of his words is not high, judging by Jia Shu's character, he may not be able to do such a thing. Jia Yu can ignore people's lives for a few antique fans, and with his greed and profligacy, it is entirely possible that he owes others money and human kindness. And when he can't pay back or encounters problems that can't be solved, it's entirely possible to use his daughter to pay off his debts.
The misfortune of Yingchun was brought about by his father Jia Yu, while the tragedy of Xichun was mainly brought by his brother Jia Zhen. In short, most of these men in the Jia family have become incompetent and morally corrupt children, and the decline of the family and even the disaster of raiding the family are all affected by them.
Xi Chun saw through the dirty mess of ningguo mansion and finally decided to leave the family, Yingchun was implicated by her father, these girls became the victims of their father's wanton splurge, and they were innocent. However, from the perspective of jia shu's little wives such as Yan Hong and other girls' parents, Yingchun's death can actually make them feel relieved.
The Jia family had almost no opinions about the happy events later, and the family declined more and more. According to the Taishang Induction, if there is no way out of blessings and misfortunes but people call themselves, then the misfortunes of the Jia family, that is, they themselves have caused, just as people have said that many acts of unrighteousness will kill themselves.
Jia Fu started with military merit, and had made meritorious contributions to the society in those years, but it was precisely because of his meritorious deeds that his descendants were proud of their merits and had wealth, wealth, and power, which was the blessing that the Duke Rongguo of Ningguo brought to the family and his descendants; later, Jia Yu Jia Zhen and others and even Feng Jie and others forgot what they wanted, did whatever they wanted, and regarded human life as a child's play, which was a disaster they themselves summoned, and at the same time implicated the family, wives and children.
If a family or individual frequently encounters bad things, then it is necessary to reflect carefully on whether these evil things are inspired by their own words and deeds, otherwise how can they be so surprising? In most cases, the heavens have good virtues, bad things do not appear in a person over and over again, and if this is the case, it is necessary to reflect on whether you are virtuous and bad.
Regardless of whether the karma advocated in the "Taishang Induction" is superstition or not, a person can always learn from it, find his own shortcomings, and most importantly, regulate his own words and deeds, do more good, and do less evil.
References: "Dream of the Red Chamber Fat Collection", by Cao Xueqin, Comments on Fat Yan Zhai, Yuelu Book Club.