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Snow Tong
The fifteenth day of the first month is the Lantern Festival. In my hometown in northeast China, everyone rarely mentions the word Lantern Festival, and generally calls "the fifteenth day of the first month" or "the fifteenth day of the first month". The old people always say that "the fifteenth is the year", and the fifteenth day of the first month is more like a sublimation climax of the lively year, and then, this year, it is really over.
When I was young, I remember that on the fifteenth day of the first month of a certain year, my parents took me to see the lights. The reason why I don't go every year, or the number of times I go is very small, is entirely because the outdoors on the fifteenth day of the first month in the northeast are really too cold. I can't remember what flower lanterns I saw, only that my hands and feet were frozen. When I crawled home with a rolling belt, I really didn't want to leave the heating and the TV broadcasting the Lantern Party.
There are many depictions of the Lantern Festival in "Dream of the Red Chamber". The bridge section of the whole family guessing the riddle of the lamp, the tense and lively drumming and passing the plum, the articulate joke of Sister Feng, the metaphor of "the deaf man let out the battle - scatter it"... Whether it is a blatant celebration or an undercurrent of decay, it is a wonderful story.
In the book, there are two people who are deeply related to the Lantern Festival. One, let this day become the highlight moment for yourself and even the whole family; the other, let this day become the darkest moment for yourself and the family behind you. And these two people are also poor people in the book of thin lives. The former is Jia Fei Yuanchun, and the latter is Zhen Yinglian.
Jia Yuanchun has no face in the book. As soon as she appeared, she hugged forward and backward, and the phoenix crowned Xia Shuai. Maybe it's the whole body of pearls, flowers, too dazzling; maybe it's because the status is too high, everyone can only bow their heads. Therefore, the Portrait of Yuan Chun painted by the Qing Dynasty painter Gai Qi is the back of a woman sitting in an armchair. I thought it was very expressive.
From the beginning of Yuan Chun's entry into the palace, she was the "Niangniang" of the population. She is no longer the granddaughter of Jia Zheng and Lady Wang. She did not have Jia Yuanchun's name, and all her family members had to kneel and prostrate in front of her.
She prepared New Year's gifts in the palace and gave them to the elders and brothers and sisters of her mother's family; she wrote the riddle for the sisters in the family to guess, and also asked the family to write the riddle for her to guess. She can only use this kind of unseen interaction to let her return to her self before entering the palace.
Yes, she has been always looking back at herself, the self she was in Jia Province. She lingered, she was afraid that she would forget what joy was. But in the end, she was still alone, alone, in the vast palace, thinking back to her former self.
Xiangling is a bitter girl. She is the first daughter to appear in the book, and she is only three years old when she appears. But she was also the first woman to encounter misfortune, and she was abducted by abductors at such a young age.
When she reappears, she changes from Yinglian to Xiangling. If you don't know, you will only say "I can't remember." I really can't remember, or I don't dare to remember, what this weak woman has experienced, people can't bear to think back.
This girl, who had the appearance of "the grandmother of Xiao Rong in the East Mansion", erased her past, not knowing who she was, where she came from, and where she was going, until she spontaneously began to learn poetry. Her inner spirituality began to flash, and we saw what she should have been, as she should have been. It turned out that she was the woman with the scent of her soul.
Yuan Chun and Yinglian were both well born, and they were the envy of feudal society. Yuan Chun is Miss Qianjin of the Gongfu, and Yinglian is also the only small family jasper in the eunuch family of Gusu Township. They are all innocent and good origins, and their parents love like pearls in their palms.
Both men are superior-looking and have good personalities. Yuan Chun was selected into the palace, and his appearance was needless to say. And Xiangling, who has a new name, in addition to being praised by the Zhou Rui family, is also praised by Jia Lian, who accidentally glimpsed it, as "a good neat appearance". Yuan Chun's title when he was a concubine was called "Xiande Concubine", and the word Xiande fully explained Yuan Chun's character. And Xiangling was called in Sister Feng's mouth:
"The appearance is good or the last rule, but his behavior is different from other girls, gentle and quiet, and almost the master girl is not on top of him..."
Origin, appearance, and personality are all first-class, and there seems to be no reason not to allow them to have a happy ending. But the sky is not the way people want.
Yuan Chun Province, it is said that Cao Xueqin wrote from the real battles of the Kangxi Emperor during his southern tour in history. Because there is no record in history of the return of the mother-in-law in the palace to her mother's home.
From the release of the wind in the palace, to the fact that the provincial relatives are sitting solidly, and then to the construction of the provincial relatives villa, the fifteenth day of the first month, all the Jia Province greets the Yuan Spring. I carefully looked at the time cut-off point in the book, and the day of the provincial relatives was almost from 7:15 p.m. to 1:45 a.m., which lasted six and a half hours (calculated from the original text of "I am only afraid of getting up at the beginning of the year" and "When it is ugly for three minutes, please drive back to Luang").
For these six and a half hours, Jia Fu tossed for several months, and the silver was spent like running water. The fire tree and silver flowers do not sleep in the sky, and the yuan spring that returns to the mother's house, tears ripple.
First I saw the female relatives and cried.
To the main room of Jia Mu, to perform the family ceremony, Jia Mu and others kneel and stop. Concubine Jia was full of tears, Fang went forward to see each other, one hand hugged Jia Mu, the other hand hugged Madam Wang, the three people had many words in their hearts, but they couldn't say it, just whimpered and cried. Lady Xing, Li Feng, Wang Xifeng, Ying, Tan, and Xi were all around, weeping and speechless. Half a day later, Concubine Jia fang couldn't bear to laugh bitterly, and comforted Jia Mu and Mrs. Wang: "Since I was sent to that place where no one could see people that day, it was easy for the ladies and children to go home today for a while, and instead of laughing and laughing, they cried." After a while I went, and I didn't know how early or late I would come! Speaking of this, I couldn't help but choke up again. Lady Xing waited for her to come up and explain. Jia Mu waited for Concubine Jia to return to her seat, and saw them one by one again, and she couldn't help but cry.
Then he saw his father through the beaded curtain and spoke to his father with tears.
There were also Jia Zheng to greet Ann outside the curtain, and Jia Concubine hung the curtain to participate in other things. And the curtain tearfully said to his father: "The house of the farmhouse, although it is salty and clothed, can finally gather the joy of heaven; now although the wealth is extreme, the flesh and bones are all parties, but in the end there is no interest!" ”
Thinking about the old father must be bitter in his heart, and he also replied with tears. Without going into detail, they are all words of encouragement.
Whether it is the fervent self-talk between the female relatives or the official words of the father and daughter, they only explain one problem - Yuan Chun is unhappy, and the eldest sister wants to go home.
"Once you enter the palace, the gate is as deep as the sea", Yuan Chun exists as the patron of Jia Province. I think her parents and family had the same idea when they first sent her to the palace. It can only be said that miss Jia Family is angry and consecrated, and the concubines are provincial, so that the mother's family has earned enough dignity, but it has also made her sorrow and sorrow fall deeper.
Over the years, watching the palace fighting drama a lot, it is inevitable that it will be born, and none of the women in the palace will be happy. All kinds of intrigues, step by step, the quality of a slightly poor will immediately "receive a box lunch". In such an environment, where is life, it can only be said to be survival.
In the sequel, Yuan Chun died because:
The saints are solemn, the body is blessed, and it is inevitable that the action will be laborious. Daily living fatigue, sputum disease. Because the previous day the waiter went back to the palace, he occasionally got cold and aroused old diseases. Unexpectedly, this time it was very profitable, and it was so bad that the phlegm was congested and the limbs were cold.
By the time Jia Mu and Madame Wang entered the palace to visit, it was already:
Sputum is stuffed and salivating, unable to speak.
In the blink of an eye, it passed:
It is the 18th day of December in the year of Jiayin, and the day of the Yuan Concubine is the 19th of December, and the year of Yin is the age of forty-three.
There are many doubts about the age of forty-three, and we will not make more inferences according to the sequel. However, this is really not the same as the judgment of the Fifth Yuan Chun. The verdict reads:
For twenty years, the right and wrong have been distinguished, and the durian flowers have blossomed to the palace. Three spring battles and early spring scenes, tigers meet big dreams.
There are also those who do "Tiger Rabbit Meet Big Dream Return", and the ending in the sequel is more like "Tiger Rabbit" theory.
Such a good Yuan Chun, in the end, it is such an ending.
The first Lantern Festival in the book appears in the first time, that is, on the night of this festive festival of watching flower lanterns, the cute little Yinglian was abducted by a kidnapper and has not been missing since. Immediately after, the Zhen family quickly went to ruin. This is the same as the fate of Jia Fu after Yuan Chun's death. It's all because there is no one, and then there is no home.
Habitual pampering laughs at your stupidity, and the rhombus flowers are empty to the snow. After the Lantern Festival, it is time for the smoke to extinguish the fire.
If I was walking down the street with my young child in my arms, and there was a crazy and stupid person who said such a paragraph to me and my child, I would ignore him even if I was of high quality. This is indeed a very "nonsensical" bridge section, how can we hear the meaning of early warning from it?
The slave named "Huo Qi", like the NPC in the game, lost the master's miss, and he escaped and disappeared. Next, the Gourd Temple exploded into flames, and the Zhen family burned into a field of rubble. After that, Zhen Shiyin, who lived in Yue Zhang's house, finally responded to the lame Daoist's "Good Song", put on his back, and the two of them drifted away.
The fourth time, the "gourd monk arbitrarily sentenced the gourd case", or it was inseparable from Yinglian. This is also the first time that Yinglian has been able to get out of the sea of suffering. Of course, it did not succeed, and Yinglian became Xiangling from then on.
Fortunately, Aunt Xue was kind and generous, and although Xue Pan was a dumb bully, he did not scold her. Xiangling had a few years to live in peace. When Xue Pan was still out, he had a beautiful picture of living with Bao Chao in the garden and learning to write poetry from Dai Yu.
The impression of Xiangling is particularly feminine, the eyebrows are a little rouge, do not feel flawed, anti-moving. I remember that she had stained her pomegranate skirt, and that she was helpless to cry and panic; and I liked her obsessive persistence when she was writing poetry alone. Xiangling is not a flower, Xiangling is only a foil to the green leaves of the main flower, but it has its own fragrance, its own wind and bone, which is admirable and finally good.
Such a beauty was still tortured and killed by Jin Gui to death. In the sequel, it is said that Xia Jingui himself had committed suicide by committing suicide, and Xiangling was later corrected and spent the second half of his life with Xue Pan, who was released from prison. Isn't this like the eight-o'clock dog blood family ethics drama?!
"The water is dry and the mud is dry, and the lotus is dead", this is the real ending of Xiangling. It is really tragic, but this is in line with Cao Gong's original intention.
It is also the Lantern Festival, which gives the Yuan Chunfeng unlimited light and also makes the Xiangling family break away. Behind the seemingly beautiful scenery is the gorgeous robe crawling with lice, seemingly discrete surface, but inside is the inheritance of cutting high-quality genes.
Yuan Chun relies on memories to find her former self, but Xiangling does not care about the past, she is trying to find her inner self and paint a beautiful future. Based on this, I appreciate Xiangling's living method even more.
When we say the Lantern Festival now, we are talking about celebrating reunion, but the Lantern Festival in "Dream of the Red Chamber" is either a precursor to falling apart or a hypothetical that is barely maintained. Therefore, remembering the line that is always said in Hong Kong dramas, the family is to be neat and tidy.
Yes, as long as it is neat and tidy, where to use so much care is not the Lantern.
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