The first figurative appearance of Jia Fu in "Dream of the Red Chamber" is brought to everyone through Lin Daiyu's perspective.
The second time, it is written that after Lin Daiyu abandoned the boat and boarded the case, he took a small car to the Rongguo Mansion, got off the palanquin, supported the hand of the mother-in-law, and entered the weeping flower gate, on both sides of which were the scribe verandas, which were through the hall, and there was a large interstitial screen of rosewood shelves and marble.
Rosewood we all know, is the Qing Dynasty royal wood, the value is extremely high, rosewood is not China's native wood, is imported from India, and rosewood into the wood for a very long time, ten sandalwood nine empty and other growth factors, to the middle of the Qing Dynasty rosewood stock is quite small.
Late Ming Dynasty Rosewood inlaid with clay stone interstitial screen
Collection of the Guanfu Museum
The interstitial screen made of rosewood is placed in the hall, showing low-key luxury.
Later, Dai Yu and Jia Mu met relatives, followed Lady Xing to meet the eldest uncle, and then returned to Jia Mansion to meet the second uncle. Then I saw the display arrangement of the RongGuo Mansion.
And look at the original text: entering the hall house, looking up to meet a large plaque of red gold and nine dragons, the plaque is written on the three big characters of Dou Da, which is "Rongxi Hall", followed by a line of small characters: "In a certain year, month, and day, the book was given to Jia Yuan, the Duke of Rongguo", and there was also "the treasure of Wanji Chenhan". On the large rosewood carved mantis case, there is a three-foot-tall green bronze ding, hanging to be leaked with the ink dragon painting, on one side is a golden slug, on the other side is a glass sea. Sixteen nanmu chairs slipped on the ground, and there was a couplet, which was an ebony joint card, inlaid with silver handwriting, and the road was: The pearl on the seat shows the bright moon, and the front of the hall is full of color.
From here, we can clearly see the configuration of the ancient nave: plaques, large paintings, couplets, cases, furnishings, chairs.
The middle hall, equivalent to the current living room, is a place to meet guests. Looking at the middle hall, you can see the status of the family. We look at the middle hall of Jia Province, which is grand and has connotations.
How grand is it? The first is that the room is large, "sixteen nanmu chairs on the ground".
Sixteen chairs, we can imagine a little bit to know how big the living room is.
Ming Wanli Huanghuali Double Dragon Ruyi Cloud Head Pattern Backrest Chair
The chair is to add the shape of the circle chair on the top of the bed, which not only satisfies the comfort of the chair, but also represents the status of the identity, we usually say: "Who will sit on this top chair?" "What do you mean?" It was a hand-held sitting. And Jia Fu slipped away from sixteen chairs, which was both grand and low-key and connotative.
Look at the small words behind the large plaque of Rongxi Hall's red gold nine dragons and green land: "In a certain year, month, and day, the book was given to Jia Yuan, the Duke of Rongguo." Who gave it? Later, he followed with the sentence "There is also the 'Treasure of Ten Thousand Chenhan'." What do these words mean? A few, the same machine. Wanji, that is, everything, describes the emperor's many administrative affairs, which means "daily rational and ten thousand opportunities". Chen, Beichen, that is, the North Star. The emperor sits north facing south, so the emperor refers to the emperor with the north chen. Han, ink, calligraphy. Han Chen, the emperor's handwriting.
"The Treasure of Ten Thousand Chenhan" is the text on the Emperor's seal! Therefore, the "Rongxi Hall" is a plaque given by the emperor himself, and the middle hall is equipped with such a plaque, and hundreds of people in the family have a kind of pride on them.
In the middle of the Qing Dynasty, rosewood gantry several cases
Large rosewood carving, rosewood wood is stable, so it can withstand the carving of fine ornamentation, and the rosewood case of dragon pattern highlights the style.
What is on display on the case? Bronze Ding, Golden Worm Yi, Glass Sea.
The Golden Worm Yi, a bronze sacrificial vessel with an original cockroach-shaped pattern. It is a valuable decoration vessel along with the bronze ding. The glass sea is a kind of wine container, but the material of glass was very rare in ancient times, and only the nobles were able to use it.
It is no wonder that Lin Daiyu is the "fragrant jade of the salt colin old master's family", and he naturally recognizes these treasures since he was a child.
Waiting to leak with the great painting of the ink dragon in the dynasty, waiting to leak, refers to the time when the minister of the feudal era went to the imperial house before the fifth change to wait for the upper dynasty. The dragon symbolizes the emperor, so this painting is a metaphor for the king of his majesty.
The ebony couplet, as the saying goes, "A home with an ebony half square is better than a chest of treasure." "It is conceivable that the value of ebony is extremely precious, and the use of ebony and silver not only pursues the contrast and beauty of black and white, but also a good mortal."
The middle hall is often the most intuitive representative of the family background, and we can get a glimpse of the hall house in Jia Fu from the display of the middle hall of the mahogany hall in the home hall of the Guanfu Museum.
Guanfu Museum, Furniture Hall, Mahogany Exhibition Hall
Generally, the plaque is the central idea of the middle hall, where "Baoshan Hall" refers to wealth and goodness refers to morality. Baoshan is the master's dual pursuit of material and spiritual.
There are couplets on both sides of the black lacquer poetry pillar: Tianshui is clear in ancient times, and the earth mountain is to take the breath and ruochun, which is to express that people should be modest, low-key, gentle and indisputable, and the body is clean.
On the mahogany case, in the middle is a root carving Antarctic immortal, on both sides is a large bottle of filigree enamel, in front of it is an eight-immortal table, two Taishi chairs, and underground are four tables, eight chairs, representing four flat and eight stable.
You can see that these four pairs of eight chairs are not the same, in order to let everyone feel the different chair designs in ancient times.
In the dream of the Red Chamber, Jia Fu opened up a gorgeous picture of the life of the upper class nobles in ancient times with a "middle hall", while in ancient and modern China and abroad, there are many treasures, and how many treasures are "collected" in the Dream of the Red Chamber?
Count more treasures,
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