The sixty-second time of "Dream of the Red Chamber", the target of the return is "Xiangyun drunkenly sleeping peony dress, dumb Xiangling love to dissolve the pomegranate skirt", the first half of the time mainly writes Baoyu's birthday feast, Xiangyun is drunk in the peony bush because of too much punishment. This is the most adorable description of Xiangyun, let's put it aside for the time being, and first talk about a topic related to birthdays.
(Xiangyun Drunken Sleeping Peony)
In this episode, there is a conversation about the birthdays of the people:
Tanchun smiled and said, "It's kind of interesting, twelve months a year, and there are several birthdays in the month." There are many people, so coincidentally, there are three one-day and two one-day. The day of the New Year's Day is not white, and the big sister occupies it. He can't blame him for being blessed, and his birthday is ahead of others. It's Grandpa Taizu's birthday again. After the Festival of Lights, it is the old lady and the treasure sister, and their mother and son meet each other by chance. The first day of March is the wife, and the ninth day of the first month is the second brother of Lian. No one in February. ”
Tanchun is taking stock of the birthdays of the people in the Red Chamber, so we feel it is necessary to take stock of the birthdays of the main characters in the entire "Dream of the Red Chamber". "Dream of the Red Chamber" has many characters, so we can only take stock of the main characters, and because whenever the Red Chamber writes and celebrates, most of them are based on the lunar calendar date, so the inventory here is also based on the lunar calendar:
Zhengyue: Jia Yuan, Jia Yuanchun
On the first day of the first lunar month, Jia Yuan and Jia Yuanchun had their birthdays. The second time, Leng Zixing gave a speech on Rong Guofu, saying: "Only because the current big lady was born on the first day of the first lunar month, her name is Yuan Chun." The above Tanchun said: "The first day of the New Year is not white, the big sister occupies it, and she complains that he is blessed, and the birthday is better than others." It's Grandpa Taizu's birthday again." According to the Chinese generation ranking, the grandfather here refers to Jia Yuan, the Duke of Rongguo. "Yuan" and "Source" all have a source, the meaning of the beginning, Jia Yuan is the source of the wealth of Rong Province, Yuan Chun is the reason for the current wealth of Rong Province, Yuan Chun is the cause of Rong Province's current wealth, Yuan Chun died, then Rong House was defeated.
(Jia Yuanchun)
On the twenty-first day of the first month, Xue Baochao's birthday. It is also Jia Mu's "dark birthday" (Jia Mu's explicit birthday is in August). Twenty-second time: Sister Feng (to Jia Lian) said, "The twenty-first day is Sister Xue's birthday, how are you doing?" The above Tanchun said: "After the Festival of Lights, it is the old lady and the treasure sister, and the two of them meet by chance." "Obviously, Xue Baochao's birthday and Jia Mu's birthday are the same day, but this conflicts with the later seventy-first time that the first three days of August are Jia Mu's birthday, which is likely to be a loophole that has been added and deleted several times, but it may also be Cao Xueqin's deliberate arrangement." The number "twenty-one" has the meaning of "second beginning" and "second revitalization", and Jia Mu and Xue Baochao are considered to be the second generation of "big ladies", with the mission of "rejuvenation" (whether it can be revived is another story).
(Baochao)
February: Lin Daiyu, Raider, Aunt Xue
February 12, Lin Daiyu and Raider Birthday. Also this time, Tanchun forgot Daiyu's birthday, saying that no one had a birthday in February, and attacked: "February 12 is Lin Girl, why is there no one?" It's just not our family. Tanchun smiled and said, "What's wrong with my memory!" Bao Yu smiled and pointed at the attacker, "He and Sister Lin were one day, so he remembered." "February 12 is the birthday of the god of flowers, Dai Yu is the god of flowers, and the surname of the attacker is Hua, so the author chose this birthday, not to mention these two people, one is Bao Yu's spiritual partner, one is Bao Yu's life partner, is a "pair" character, so the author chose to let them have a birthday on the same day.
(Lin Daiyu)
There is no exact date for Aunt Xue's birthday, and there is a theory that she was born in May (see below). The fifty-seventh "Hui Zi Juan Love Words Try Busy Jade" wrote: "Now is Aunt Xue's birthday", according to the plot calculation, "at that time Meng Chun, Dai Yu committed another thief disease", Meng Chun is January, Feng Jie will be raised for a month after the Spring Festival, that is, in February, it is still not good, so he let Jia Tanchun, Li Feng, and Bao Chao act as agents for family affairs. "Wishing my mother is coming to dig up bamboo shoots and repair poles", "Xueyan wondered that in the spring, all people with disabilities are sick, dare he be sick?" All this indicates that Aunt Xue's birthday was in the spring, around February, but there was no exact date. Aunt Xue was once recognized by Daiyu as a mother, and she was also Baochao's mother," so her birthday was blurred in February when the flowers were in full bloom, and no exact date was specified. The author's vague birthday of Aunt Xue also seems to mean that she is both a flower protector and a flower victim (of course, it may also be due to several additions and deletions).
(Aunt Xue)
March: Tan Chun, Jia Lian, Madame Wang
On the first day of March, Mrs. Wang's birthday. See Sixty-two Times exploring the Spring Language. On the first day of March, the earth returns to spring, which is the memorial day of the Great Mother God Changzu (the yellow emperor's concubine and the founder of the sericulture industry), and it is too appropriate to choose such a birthday for Baoyu's mother.
(Mrs. Wang)
On the second day of March, Tanchun's birthday. See the seventieth time, Dai Yu rebuilt the Peach Blossom Society, the timeline "Tomorrow is the second day of the first month of March", and said that "the next day is the birthday of the spring". In fact, the first two days of March in the lunar calendar are generally before and after the Qingming Festival, which corresponds to the sentence of "Qingming Tears and Riverside Looking", and every time it comes to Qingming, "The qi is clear and bright, and everything is obvious" (generally believed to be from Sima Qian's "Almanac"), this season is the beautiful season of qingqing, so the ancients also called the Qingming festival "Exploring Spring", and also used "Exploring Spring" to directly refer to the Qingming Festival.
(Jia Tanchun)
On the ninth day of March, Jia Lian's birthday. See Sixty-two Times exploring the Spring Language. Designing Jia Lian's birthday in the Qingming season, I am afraid that there is a satire on Jia Lian's "exploring spring" from time to time, constantly provoking women.
(Jia Lian)
In fact, on March's birthday, there is also Tan Yun (Baoyu's maid) and the wife of Prince Teng, but these two are not the main characters, not to mention.
April: Jia Baoyu, Xue Baoqin, Xing Xiuyan, Ping'er, Si'er
Baoyu's birthday has always been unclear, so the birthdays of this crowd are also uncertain, some say April 22, some say April 26, some say April 28, everyone says their own reasoning, because the text of the "Red Chamber" does not clearly specify the specific date, this is likely to be Cao Xueqin deliberately, why, because late April is the time when the flowers wither, so April 26 is the "Flower Festival", which is the festival of the flowers deliberately arranged by the author, and the day of the withering of the flowers cannot be determined. By the end of April, the hundred flowers withered, so Baoyu had to keep eating flowers, and there was no time to make sense. Although Baoqin and Xiuyan are both masters, they have different identities and are masters of different statuses, Ping'er is the deputy master of the big man, and the fourth child (or rue incense, Hui Xiang) is the little girl. "Dream of the Red Chamber" is a work by Baoyu that cherishes many flowers, so the author arranges for "various" "flowers" to have the same birthday as Baoyu.
(Baoyu's birthday party)
As for the few people who were born on the same day, in addition to the Baoqin, Xiuyan, and Ping'er noted in the sixty-second time, there were also the four children mentioned in the seventy-seventh time: "The old lady pointed out: "This huixiang, also called the fourth child, is the birthday of the same baoyu." In fact, the fourth child is the representative of a group of little girls, the representative of the nameless flowers who do not even have their names.
May: Xue Pan, Aunt Xue, Jia Yu
On the third day of the first month of May, Xue Pan's birthday. Twenty-sixth time: Xue Pan said: "If I didn't dare to be alarmed, only because the third day of the first month of May is my birthday, who knows Cheng Rixing of the antique shop, he didn't know that there was such a thick and long powder crisp fresh lotus." "The third day of the first month of May is closest to the Dragon Boat Festival, and the Dragon Boat Festival is the day when many poisons are rampant, so people should eat five poisonous cakes, wear five poisonous clothes, and drink Xionghuang wine at the Dragon Boat Festival, Xue Pan is the person who destroys flowers, so the author arranges his birthday in early May, at this time, the hundred flowers wither away, which shows his domineering characteristics and flower-destroying characteristics.
(Xue Pan)
Similarly, there are also Aunt Xue and Jia Yu for their birthday in May. See the thirty-sixth time: And it is said that Lin Daiyu saw such an image of Baoyu at the moment, and she knew where the demon came from, and it was not convenient to ask more, because she said to him: "The Ming'er I just heard in front of my aunt is Aunt Xue's birthday, and asked me to ask you if you go out." You send someone ahead and say go. Bao Yu said, "I didn't even go to the eldest master's birthday last time, but I will go again, if I meet someone?" I don't go at all. It's so weirdly hot and dressed, I don't have to be annoyed if I don't go to my aunt. He was immediately persuaded by the attackers. However, it can be judged that jia shu and aunt Xue's birthdays are in May, and both of them are "harmful flower experts" (Aunt Xue is also a "flower protection expert").
(Jia Pardon)
June: No one
The whole "Red Chamber" no one has a birthday in June, if you must arrange a person's birthday in June, it will probably be Xiangling, because June 24 is the birthday of the lotus, so that it is in line with her "root and lotus a stem of incense" sentence, but Xiangling is a person who can't remember anything, and the birthday of course can't be remembered.
July: Sister Qiao
On the seventh day of the first month of July, Sister Qiao's birthday. Forty-second time: Sister Feng said, "It is not a good birthday, but it happens to be the seventh day of the first month of July." Grandma Liu smiled busily, "This is just right, just call him Brother Qiao." This is called the method of 'attacking poison with poison, attacking fire with fire'. My aunt will follow my name, and he will live a hundred years. In the future, when everyone becomes a family and establishes a business, or if there is something that is not successful for a while, it is bound to be a disaster and a good luck, but from this word of 'coincidence'. ”
(Grandma Liu named Sister Qiao)
Sister Feng said that the seventh birthday in early July is not good because in ancient times, July was a "bad month" and a "ghost month". This is not good, not to mention that Qiao Sister is a woman, for women, July birth is particularly bad, plus July 7 is "Beggars Day", so the woman whose birthday on this day will be a hard life. Moreover, according to legend, on this day, all magpies will go to heaven to build a bridge for the cowherd weaver girl, so on this day, the newly born person will certainly not see the magpie that symbolizes the festivity, and the meaning is not good.
August: Jammu
On the third day of the first month of August, Jia Mu's birthday. This is the "bright birthday" (in contrast to the "dark birthday") that Jia Mu clearly recorded. Seventy-first time: Because the third day of the first month of August this year is the celebration of Jia Mu's eightieth birthday, and because all his relatives and friends are coming, he is afraid that the feast will not be set up, so he has already consulted with Jia Yu and Jia Zhen Jia Lian and others, and agreed to hold a feast in two places in Rongning from July 28 to the fifth day of the first month of August.
(Jammu)
Why did you choose this day as Jia Mu's birthday, because the third day of the first month of August is the birthday of the legendary King of the Stove, that is, the King of the Stove who manages the food of the people of the world. Jia Mu's status in Rong Province is actually equivalent to that of the King of The Stove, so the author arranges the third day of the first month of August as Jia Mu's birthday.
September: Jia Jing, Wang Xifeng, Jin Jun
On the second day of the first month of September, Wang Xifeng and Jin Jun's birthdays. Sister Feng's birthday, the forty-second time: Here Jia Mu smiled at Madame Wang again: "I sent someone to invite you to come, not for anything else." The second year of junior high school is the birthday of Feng Yatou, in the last two years, I originally wanted to make a birthday for him, but there was a big event in front of him, so I mixed it up. This year, the people are complete, and it is expected that it will be fine, and we will all have a good day. ”
(Wang Xifeng)
Jin Jun's birthday, see forty-four times: Bao Yu has never done his best in front of Ping'er since he was, and Ping'er is also an extremely intelligent and handsome superior girl, who is inferior to that stupid and clumsy thing- and deeply resented. Today is Jin Jun'er's birthday, so the day is not happy.
Contextual analysis, these two people are the first two birthdays of September. At the beginning of the ninth month of the lunar calendar, it basically coincides with the "cold dew" festival, the autumn wind is getting cooler, it is the first season to perceive the cold, Feng Jie is the most prophet of the decay of the Rong Mansion, and Jin Ju is the first to be destroyed. In fact, Lin Ruhai was arranged to die on the third day of the first month of September, which also has such an implicit meaning.
(Jin Jun)
There is about one Jia Jing, whose birthday is also in September. The eleventh time, Lady Xing asked about Qin Keqing's illness, and You Shi said, "He is also strangely sick with this disease." Last month, the Mid-Autumn Festival was still with the old lady, and the wives stubbornly stayed in the middle of the night and came home to be well. After twenty years, I feel lazier and lazy to eat every day, which is nearly half a month. I didn't have another two months of my period. According to the text calculation, from August 20 and then push back half a month, it should be the middle of September, set this date to do Jia Jing's birthday, the most obvious refers to the decline of Ning Province, because in the middle of September, mostly "frost falling" festival, gradually approaching the time of all things killing, with Jia Jing, Jia Fu wind and snow gradually arrived, if it is not Jia Jing blindly good, Ning Province will not decay so fast.
October: Prince Teng
The october birthday is roughly only Prince Teng, and it is also written secretly, the fiftieth time: Jia Mu smiled: "This is the first snow in October, and there are more snow days in the future, and it is not too late to break the fee." "Fifty-second time: Musk Moon... Then he said to Bao Yu, "The second grandmother said: Tomorrow is my uncle's birthday, and my wife said to tell you to go." What kind of clothes is Ming'er wearing? Tonight is a good time to get ready, save Ming'er to get up early and have trouble. Contextual connection, Prince Teng's birthday should be in October, but the specific date is not exact, because Prince Teng is not the main character of the Red Chamber, but his birthday to Baoyu uses the bird golden fur, so Qingwen will "sick to make up for the bird golden fur", and her image will be established.
November: Nobody
"Dream of the Red Chamber" no one has a birthday in November, if you must arrange a person's birthday in November, it should be Li Feng. Her "cold" and "old" deserve this month.
(Li Yi)
December: Jia Zheng
Jia Zheng's birthday is around December. The book does not clearly state the exact date of Jia Zheng's birthday, which is the approximate time calculated. The sixteenth time: One day is Jia Zheng's birthday, and Ning Rong's two people ding all gathered to celebrate, and the noise was very hot. Suddenly, a doorman hurried in, and reported to the front of the table: "There are six eunuchs in the palace, Old Master Xia, who has come to lower his will." "Scaring Jia Zheng and other cadres did not know what the news was, they busied themselves with stopping the drama, withdrew the banquet, laid out the incense case, and opened the middle door and knelt down. Later, the text also wrote: And Xi Jia Lian and Dai Yu returned, sent someone to report the letter, and they could arrive home tomorrow, Bao Yu listened, and the strategy was somewhat happy.
(Jia Zheng)
According to this calculation, Jia Zheng's birthday was about before Jia Lian and Lin Daiyu returned, and the fourteenth reply stated that the two "will return at about the end of the year." Jia Lian and Dai Yu rushed back to the house for the New Year, but did not catch Jia Zheng's birthday, so Jia Zheng's birthday should be years ago, that is, in December (Lap Moon).
Arranging Jia Zheng's birthday at the end of the year is an allusion to Jia Zheng's birth at the wrong time, he was originally a just and upright person, but he was born in the last days, born at the end of the year, the "end of the year" where the family road is bound to decay.
([Follow the pudding to read the Red Chamber] No. 133, some of the pictures from the Internet)