Baoyu, a dignified boy, loves to mix in the fat powder team, loves to eat the rouge wiped on people's mouths, loves to adjust fat to make powder, loves red, etc., which is another difficult point for Baoyu to understand.
Of course, Baoyu's eccentricities are to show that he is strange and "behaves in a remote manner". In addition, it is easy to link these quirks of Baoyu with obscenity and regard them as obscene ghosts, for example, the first time the text mentions Baoyu's behavior related to these quirks is when Leng Zixing gave a speech on Rong Guofu in the second time. Leng Zixing said that when Baoyu, who was born with beautiful jade, was not taken from the first year of his life, countless objects were not taken, only the fat powder ring, which made Jia Zheng angry, thinking that he would be a wine-colored person in the future.
It seems that this interpretation is not unreasonable, because Li Yanzhai, who "knows the bottom of the imitation book" praised in the thirteenth criticism, "Dream of the Red Chamber" is "deeply rooted in the golden bottle kettle", and there is also a sentence in the history of novel research that "there is no "Golden Plum Bottle", there is no "Dream of the Red Chamber", and there are indeed quite a relationship between the two, and there are many similarities.
Then, Baoyu is another Ximen Qing, and Dream of the Red Chamber is a copy of Golden Plum Bottle, the difference is only that Golden Plum Bottle expresses, Dream of the Red Chamber is the love of youth; Golden Bottle Plum is mostly realistic, while Dream of the Red Chamber is freehand.
However, in this way, "Dream of the Red Chamber" is only a work of "great purpose and love", how can it be called "breaking the historical novel" (the first lipogram)?
Fifty-fourth time, "Shi Taijun broke the old set, Wang Xifeng played the colorful clothes", the two female pioneers at the request of Jia Mu, first roughly said the original reason for a new book "Feng Qiuluan", although Jia Mu did not hear this new book, but immediately guessed the ending of the story, and refuted the novels of this kind of talented and beautiful people are all the same, this is the so-called author stone to empty karate people cloud in the wedges" To the best of the best talent and other books, then a thousand copies of a set, and in the end can not not be involved in obscenity, so that the paper Pan An Zi Jian, Xi Zi Wenjun", after that, The text is another criticism of the novel of the talented lady, which is extremely rare in the text of the "pen is not empty" (fat criticism), and the author also strongly implies that the text with the emotional entanglement between Bao Daichao as the main line, which seems to be "the purpose of the love", is actually not the repetition of the old-fashioned style of the talented woman, but has another deep meaning.
Moreover, the text presented in the form of a dream is a "full of absurd words" that "there are metaphors in the table" (fat criticism), making everything possible and gender no longer clear. In the first batch of general batches before the first return, He pointed out: "Why not dream? Why not? The author said that there should have been self. There is no difference between men and women when the breath is clear. It is also doubtful whether jia baoyu, the first righteous person in the text, is also a "cloudy object with eyebrows", such as the seventeenth time before the general batch called it "the crown of ZhuYan"; the eighteenth time, the Yuan Concubine returned to the province to celebrate the Lantern Festival, and the gifts obtained by Baoyu were also the same as baochao and daiyu sisters, etc. The fat batch pointed out: "It is conceivable that the treasure jade is suddenly clipped in this." Thirty-ninth time, the text mentions that "the sisters in the Grand View Garden all consecrated in front of Jia Mu", and The Fat Critic also pointed out: "Wonderful! Lian Baoyu was counted into the sister team. And so on.
In the dream red chamber with ambiguous gender, Baoyu's male identity has "problems", which also means that Baoyu's feminine behavior has nothing to do with sexual immorality.
Fat Pi repeatedly emphasizes that "it is fortunate that the book does not look at the front", so these quirks must have another meaning on the back of the Fengyue Treasure Book in addition to portraying the difference of Baoyu.
In fact, as long as you carefully read the text for the first time to mention Baoyu's behavior related to these quirks, you will find that these quirks of Baoyu are really not simple in the dream text of "the author's words, the original should have itself". As soon as Leng Zixing finished painting and coloring the description, the author immediately borrowed the "Jia Yu Village Dialect" of "clever pen and strange words, another new face" (fat criticism) to strongly refute the theory of good and evil characters. Leng Zixing received Yu village's words and said: According to you, if the king of Chengze is defeated, he will be a thief", it seems that there is a bit of a bull's head against the donkey's lips, so that the second monk can't touch his head, but Jia Yucun, who prides himself on "reading books and knowing things, having the ability to know the qualities of the things, and the power of enlightenment and the ability to enlighten the Tao", not only did not refute it, but instead expressed his full approval and immediately mentioned Zhen Baoyu.
Therefore, it can be said that the dialogue between Leng Zixing and Jia Yucun has always been inseparable from baoyu, and the author of "Pen Is Not Empty" (fat batch) is so stingy and painstaking just for Baoyu's quirks, which has already implied that Baoyu's so-called quirks are actually of great significance. So, what is the deep meaning of Baoyu's so-called quirks?
The two characters of good and evil in Jia Yu Village unexpectedly contain chen hou lord, Tang Ming Emperor and Song Huizong, three kings with the meaning of subjugation of the country, and Leng Zixing seems to have nothing to do with the topic, and the inexplicable "Cheng Ze Wang Waits for defeat is a thief", all implying that Bao Yu loves his daughter and loves to mix in the fat powder team, etc., which are actually related to the success or failure of the cruel political struggle. The text titled "Making the Boudoir Zhao Chuan" actually appears in the sentences "Tigers Meet the Great Dream Return" (the fifth YuanChun sentence), "White bones like mountains forget the surname, nothing more than gongzi and red makeup" (the eighth "Golden Jade First Gathering") and "Double Hanging Sun and Moon Shine Qiankun" (the fortieth Shi Xiangyun's Wine Order), and so on, and this is why.
Feudal society is the center of male power, in the long Chinese feudal era, except for a very small number of historical stages, the vast majority of times, women are in the social marginal position, far from the center of political power. In the unique Red Chamber text, the political struggle that was "Zhen Shiyin" was the power struggle that took place between men, and the fierce struggle made the whole era turbulent and unstable, one by one, "suddenly new and suddenly defeated, suddenly decayed, has seen repeatedly", "merit and fame are deposed when there is no time, robbery and bitter struggle, joy and fear" (the first fat criticism), the final result is "the sinking of the southeast", that is, the end of the world not far from the collapse of the sky, how many innocent beings suffered, that is, the white bones in the so-called "white bones in the so-called poems of posterity in the eighth "Golden Jade First Gathering" are like mountains and forget their surnames. Nothing but male and red makeup".
The author of the "Bodhisattva Heart" (FatPot), apparently having a negative attitude towards such a competitive male world, did the opposite, creating a pure female world to ridicule the fable.
However, after a woman gets married, she has to face the pressure of raising her children, under the pressure of life, getting older and older, and more and more losing the innocence of her girlhood, as Baoyu said, "A girl is not married, it is a priceless jewel; when she is married, she somehow conjures up a lot of bad problems, although it is a bead, it is not a glorious treasure color, it is a dead pearl; when it is old, it is not a bead, but a fish eye." How can you make three things out of a clear person? (Fifty-ninth time), it is clearly no longer suitable to assume the role of an innocent woman.
As a result, young unmarried girls become the best choice. However, the Chinese cultural tradition is introverted and implicit, let a female dream person to admire the unparalleled pure beauty of women, not only a little "the queen mother sells melons, sells herself and boasts", but also violates the Chinese cultural tradition, so that the first person in the text appears in a male image and undertakes this heavy responsibility, which is obviously the only choice.
Baoyu's strange words about his daughter are one by one: "Daughters are flesh and bones made of water, and men are flesh and bones made of mud." When I see a daughter, I am refreshed; when I see a man, I feel that it is muddy and smelly. "These two words of this daughter are extremely noble and pure, and they are even more honorable and infallible than the two treasures of Amitabha Buddha and Yuan Shi Tianzun!" In fact, the author uses Baoyu to praise the pure beauty of his daughter to reflect the ugliness of the male world. Therefore, Baoyu's quirks are not only the reason for his closeness to the world of pure maidens, but also the "props" by which the author uses to ridicule fables. It can be said that those quirks of Baoyu are the "absurd words" made by the author with great meaning.
Perhaps, readers who are "careful and considerate" enough will have doubts, young girls are going to grow up and marry after all, then won't they also become "fish eyes"? In fact, this is the unforgettable life sadness that people of all eras will inevitably have,One by one always have to bid farewell to the beautiful and innocent youth era, which is also one of the internal important logics of the dispersion of the Grand View Garden and the tragedy of the Red Chamber.
Also, the female elders that Baoyu respects, such as Jia Mu, who is seventy years old and eighty years old, Mrs. Wang, who has reached middle age, and so on, are not "fish eyes"? In fact, Baoyu's theory of the three stages of women's life is also just a "prop" for the author to ridicule the fable, there is no need for "rubber pillar drums", you know, the author trekked hard in the jungle of the times where the "text prison" was dense, and how difficult it was to use the "Jia Yu Village Dialect" to achieve "Zhen Shiyin"!
From those eccentricities of Baoyu, we can feel that "Dream of the Red Chamber" is a dance on the tip of the knife, and the author has made extraordinary efforts while showing his extraordinary literary skills, almost with the tragedy of the moth fighting fire, completing the most brilliant burning in the history of human literature, just as the fat batch clouds, "the words seem to be blood, and ten years of hard work is unusual."
The "age of the dynasty, the local public opinion and the state" in the "Book of Stones" is "lost and untested", but the fat criticism points out: "According to Yu, there is a lot of research", so what is the specific meaning of the end times caused by the political struggle between men in Baoyu's feminine behavior? From the perspective of the text as a whole, does these seemingly abnormal behaviors of Baoyu have a deeper meaning? This will be explored further in the next humble article.
Author: Guo, this article is to read less of the original works of the Red Chamber.