Xue Baochao is one of the heroines in "Dream of the Red Chamber", and is listed alongside Lin Daiyu as the first of the Twelve Books of Jinling. Many people do not understand, follow the small editor to enjoy together.
In the forty-second dream of the Red Chamber, Dai Yu was questioned by readers because she compared Liu Grandma to a "mother locust", and the reader felt that Dai Yu's move was somewhat mean and inconsistent with her previous image. Here, let's not discuss whether Daiyu's metaphor is mean, but in terms of Baochao's interpretation of this sentence, analyze the meanness under Baochao's gentle personality.
Dai Yu compares Liu Grandma to a "female locust", why is Bao Chao's interpretation more mean?
Lin Daiyu smiled busily, "But it's all his words." He was the grandmother of that line, and it was enough to call him a 'mother locust'. Everyone laughed. Bao Chao smiled, "The words of the world will be exhausted when they reach the mouth of Feng Yatou." Fortunately, Feng Yatou does not recognize the words, not very common, but all of them are made fun of by the city customs, and there is a narrow mouth, and he uses the 'Spring and Autumn' method to summarize the vulgar words of the city customs, summarize them, delete their complexity, and then add polishing analogies to come out, one sentence is one sentence. The three words 'mother locust' bring out all those scenes of yesterday. 【Mengfu】 Shocking, please think back to yourself. Thanks to him, he thought quickly. When everyone heard this, they all laughed and said, "Your annotation is not below the two of them." "
In this passage, Dai Yu just compared Liu Grandma to a "mother locust", and Bao Chao used the Spring and Autumn method to analyze This seemingly humorous sentence of Dai Yu. At that time, the reaction of the people also included Li Feng, because Baochao was a relative, Li Feng always advocated peace, in addition to sarcastic Wang Xifeng, rarely ridiculed others, of course, this other person naturally included relative Xue Baochao.
However, after Xue Baochao finished her interpretation, the reaction of the crowd was, "Your annotation is not below him." It shows that Xue Baochao's interpretation is more mean than Daiyu's joke. And Li Yan's reaction was even more strange, she used "shocking, please think back" to annotate, pointing out the reason why Bao Chao was more mean than Dai Yu.
Writing here, I remembered that Liu Grandma er entered the Rongguo Mansion, and in order to make Jia Mu laugh in the Grand View Garden, she deliberately made a scandal, which caused everyone in Jia Mansion to laugh unceasingly. At that time, the reactions of many people were written, only saying that only Wang Xifeng and Mandarin Duck were still holding on, which showed that the two did not laugh, but did not mention Baochao's laughter. Come to think of it, even if Bao Chao laughs, he will smile slightly, and he will not laugh like Shi Xiangyun, nor will he laugh like Xi Chun. Baochao's laughter is subtle and reserved.
Even though Baochao did not like Liu Grandma's deliberate ugliness in order to please others, her personality generally did not like to publicly criticize or say bad things about others. However, in the forty-second dream of the Red Chamber, the interpretation of Daiyu's "mother locust" is an exception, from which it can be seen that Xue Baochao's attitude towards Liu Yao is also sarcastic, even more mean.
When Grandma Liu entered the Rongguo Mansion, the people of Jia Province gave Grandma Liu some gifts, but did not write about Aunt Xue's gifts, which shows the nature of the Merchants of the Xue Family, and will not sympathize with and help a person regardless of gains and losses. Therefore, in the first time that Xing Xiuyan's servant sent a ticket for Xue Baochao, the mother-in-law said a sentence "The crows under the world are as black as crows", although it is unintentional, it is the truth.
The Xue family is a businessman, and will not do a loss-making business, let alone make an exception for a poor woman. The same is true of the Xue family's golden and jade good fortune, in the Xue family's view, the Jia family lacks money, the Xue family lacks status, and the combination of the two families should be the best match, but also a way to maximize interests. Therefore, the Xue family tried their best to promote the good relationship between Gold and Jade.
Back to the topic, Xue Baochao's seemingly very incisive interpretation actually hides Xue Baochao's indifference and meanness. Xue Baochao's indifference, Jin Ju's death, and You Sanjie's death have already given the answer in the book, and Xue Baochao's meanness is completely exposed in the interpretation of this paragraph.
On the surface, Xue Baochao's mean person is the poor mother-in-law Liu Grandma, in fact, Xue Baochao has long been dissatisfied with his cousin Wang Xifeng, so he shows it in the way of joke interpretation, just pulling Dai Yu as a foil. In Bao Chao's eyes, Wang Xifeng did not read much books, her words were more vulgar, and she was more vulgar. And Dai Yu compared Liu Grandma to a "mother locust", which is even more mean, which can be described as one arrow and three eagles, which not only hides dissatisfaction with Wang Xifeng, but also mocks Liu Grandma's ugliness, and also pulls Dai Yu out of the water.
In fact, Dai Yu compared Liu Grandma to a "mother locust", and should simply be unaccustomed to Liu Grandma coming to Jia Province to play the autumn wind and dress up ugly, rather than looking down on the poor people. But after this interpretation of Baochao came out, Daiyu's words changed their taste, and Daiyu's words became mean, becoming a mockery of the poor mother-in-law Liu Grandma.
Bao Chao's interpretation makes readers misunderstand and question Daiyu's words, and Daiyu is a relatively high and arrogant person, and ordinary people rarely enter her eyes. Grandma Liu's performance in the Grand View Garden, it was obvious that Dai Yu did not approve. Perhaps in the heart of this rich lady who has not known the taste of sorrow since childhood, eating and dressing are not as important as human dignity, and human dignity is more important.
This reminds me of an emperor in history who even felt incredible when the common people were starving to death, and there was no food to eat meat. This is the difference in thinking between the rich and the poor, the rich never need to worry about eating and dressing, and the poor are different, they want mr. existence and development. When there is no money to eat and cannot live, eating is more important than dignity, which is why Grandma Liu strives to be ugly in Jia Province.
Perhaps in Daiyu's view, Liu Grandma should not fight the autumn wind in this way, at least she can choose to use other ways to survive, rather than relying on such an ugly appearance to please others in exchange for the silver of life. Dai Yu did not understand and could understand, because she was freely raised in a deep boudoir, rarely contacted the outside world, and did not even know what the ticket was, and how could she have the opportunity to experience the hardships of Liu Grandma's life. But Xue Baochao is different, although Xue Baochao is a girl, she is very business-minded, and the business of the Xue family, although she is not convenient to directly come forward to manage, she knows the business way inside very well.
With Xue Baochao's life experience, she should be able to understand Liu Baochao's poverty better, but the mercenary intention of the businessman makes Baochao forget the original intention, and interprets Daiyu's humor as a kind of ridicule, at least a mockery of Liu Yao, in fact, Daiyu's ridicule is unintentional, and Baochao's ridicule is intentional, which is the essential difference, so it is said that Baochao's interpretation is more mean than Daiyu's humor.