Jia Baoyu failed to give Lin Daiyu happiness, and married Xue Baochao after Daiyu's death, but after raiding the house, he ran away from home and followed the monk Laitou out of the house.
His actions are inevitably labeled as clumsy, incompetent, cowardly, and irresponsible, almost equivalent to "scumbags."
Modern readers often denounce Jia Baoyu's weakness and indisputability, and although the views are common sense, they do not conform to the times and understand deviations. Just like the joke of "Why doesn't Emperor Wu of Jin eat meat paste", the position angle is fundamentally different.
Most modern people need to work hard to achieve self-worth and ideals. But there are also a small group of people who are born with everything. There are no four words in life: "hard work, hard work, self-reliance, and self-improvement".
You tell them to "work hard, fight, be self-reliant, self-reliant", it is a joke, and you can't empathize. They are born to enjoy, do not have to worry about three meals, motorhomes, and do not think about what self-worth they will strive to achieve in the future.
Jia Baoyu is such a "rich N generation" three hundred years ago. He had everything from birth. There was no need to learn survivability, someone fed it to his mouth. There is no need to learn to make money, what you have at home is money. There is no need to worry about the future, he is the fourth generation heir of Rong Guofu...
Jia Baoyu only needs the wind and snow moon every day to be at ease. Compared with the efforts of modern people "nine to five in the morning", Jia Baoyu is indeed useless.
The problem is that the two are parallel lines that do not intersect. Our ability to survive has never been in Jia Baoyu's dictionary.
Some people may say that Jia Baoyu should not waste time, at least it is good to read more books.
The question is, is reading useful in front of raiders? The descendants of the criminal courtiers are not eligible to participate in the imperial examination. The reason why Jia Lan was able to get the title of the gold list later was that he had a good mother and urged him not to give up. Second, it was also Rong Guofu who must have been rehabilitated, which gave him the opportunity to realize his ideals. Before that, Jia Lan was also completely hopeless.
Jia Baoyu didn't know that the Jia family would raid the house, and one day he would "choke on acid in the cold winter and break the felt in the snowy night", just like each of us could not predict the future.
When they are satisfied, who would have thought that one day they would be inferior to mud pigs and dogs? Jia Baoyu also did not have the possibility of learning survival skills.
He did not like to read and was doomed to accomplish nothing in the imperial examination. Even if he is forced to study, he will not be able to get a result.
The ancient imperial examination was far more difficult than the current college entrance examination. There are only a few places, but the best people in the world come to compete. Although there are only a few homework, it is too difficult to stand out and become the lucky one on the list.
Some people are inmates all their lives. If you really want to be "Fan Jin", there is no glory.
Jia Baoyu was not spoiled, nor was he a moth. It's just that his spiritual world and behavior are not in line with the "career values" of that era.
It's like people don't want to take the college entrance examination, don't want to go to graduate school, don't want to be a civil servant... It does not mean that it is useless. Maybe he has the ability to pursue development in culture and art.
Jia Baoyu's spirituality in poetry and song is extremely high. Don't look at the bottom of every poem he writes, that is, he is not as agile as his daughters. But watching his "Hibiscus Daughter Recitation" and "Concubine Words" is also a remarkable literary talent.
The talents of ancient society, like today, have become leaders in a certain field. Although it may not be as great as it can bring great economic value now. But who said that Li Bai and Su Shi did not benefit more from their talents in their lives?
Jia Zheng had no choice but to judge Jia Baoyu without reading. After he returned from three years of exile without any achievements, he faded his sense of merit and fame, but instead recognized Jia Baoyu's ability in poetry and was complacent about it.
If Jia Baoyu becomes a rich poet like Naran, who says that he is not a Guangzong Yaozu? And if Naranjande does not die, can he do better than Jia Baoyu after the pearl is raided? It's hard to say.
It is a pity that the Jia family has not given Jia Baoyu the opportunity to grow. It wasn't his fault that he was raided. It wasn't his fault for not being viable.
Just like Du Fu is not able to support his family, "the entrance is smelling, and the young son is hungry." He could not support his own children and family, can it be said that Du Fu was incompetent?
It is indeed incompetent from the point of view of "merit". But people's ability is "partial", not all people are experts at raising families.
As for the tragedy of Bao Dai's love, in the era of the parents' fate, it is not possible to talk about Jia Baoyu losing Lin Daiyu, they are just the tragedy of the times.
Moreover, Lin Daiyu's ending was for Jia Baoyu and was forced to marry Jia Tanchun's second daughter as a princess, and Junji Yakan's Red Chamber has been interpreted many times, see the previous article, not to be repeated.
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