Lin Daiyu, who has lived in Jia Province for a long time, is it really a Jia family? This is a vague question. This is also a different concept for people who are different in Jaffa.
For Jia Zheng and Jia Yu, who are two uncles, the niece Lin Daiyu is a foreigner and needs to keep a certain distance. Therefore, when Lin Daiyu entered the Jia Mansion, the two uncles found different reasons and did not see her. This situation was also very reasonable in ancient times. When Jia Yuanchun let his younger siblings live in the Grand View Garden, Jia Zheng called Jia Fu Sanchun and Jia Baoyu to lecture, and did not call Lin Daiyu.
For Jia Lian's cousin, Lin Daiyu is also a foreigner. Therefore, in terms of the specifications of Lin Daiyu's birthday, it is often slightly higher than the three girls in Jia Province. This is the hospitality of Jaffa.
However, for Jia Mu and Jia Baoyu, Lin Daiyu is undoubtedly her own family. Jia Baoyu needless to say, he grew up with Lin Daiyu since he was a child, and there was no need to avoid suspicion between brothers and sisters. In the twenty-second time of "Dream of the Red Chamber", the author also deliberately wrote out Jia Mu's views on whether Lin Daiyu was "his own family" through one thing.
By the twenty-first day, a small stage was set up in Jia Mu's courtyard, and a new class of small plays was set up, and Kun Yi had both. Just in Jia Mu's upper room, there were several family banquets, and there was not a single foreign guest, only Aunt Xue, Shi Xiangyun, and Bao Chao were guests, and the rest were all from their own families.
This is a description of Jia Mu's birthday feast for Xue Baochao. In fact, although the scale of this banquet was not large, the female relatives in jia mansion should have come, including lin daiyu of course. However, in Jia Mu's room, in Jia Mu's eyes, Lin Daiyu is different from Xue Baochao, Aunt Xue, and Shi Xiangyun, they are guests, and Lin Daiyu is "from her own family".
As Jia Mu's maternal granddaughter, Lin Daiyu is treated as her own family by her grandmother. However, the blame was on Li Yanzhai's subsequent approval of a sentence, "Counting Dai Yu as his own family, it is even strange!" ”
According to the views of the ancients, Lin Daiyu really could not be regarded as a member of Jia Fu's own family. Because in ancient times, when distinguishing between people from their own families and other families, they were often divided according to their surnames, and those with the same surname were their own families. Even if Xi Chun, she and Jia Mu are actually relatively distant in terms of blood relations. Her great-grandfather and Jia Mu's father-in-law are brothers, which is more than three times. However, in the eyes of everyone, Xi Chun is the "family" of Rong Guofu.
Lin Daiyu is a woman with a foreign surname, and naturally she is also a "foreigner" in the eyes of ordinary people. Jia Mu because of her deep feelings for Dai Yu, plus she took care of Dai Yu from a young age, she is also normal in Jia Mu's eyes, but why does Li Yanzhai think that this matter is "strange"?
In fact, the annotation of Li Yanzhai is mainly aimed at three "outsiders", Aunt Xue, Xue Baochao and Shi Xiangyun, especially Xue Baochao.
In Jia Mu's mind (in fact, in the author's setting), Xue Baochao and Lin Daiyu are essentially different. Lin Daiyu is her own family, she and Jia Baoyu grew up together, there is no need to avoid suspicion; Xue Baochao is an outsider, she should pay attention to avoiding suspicion with Jia Baoyu. After all, we all live in an era of "men and women who are not intimate".
Obviously, in the subsequent life, Xue Baochao did not do this, she was almost the most diligent girl who ran to Yihong Courtyard. I have to say that this kind of behavior is really inconsistent with Xue Baochao's identity.
They are also Jia Baoyu's cousins, Xue Baochao is a guest, and Lin Daiyu is his own family. This is not because Jia Mu is eccentric, but the author deliberately wants to highlight the intimacy of Lin Daiyu and Jia Baoyu, and the evaluation of the two words "Strange" in Li Yanzhai reminds the reader of this.