Audio of this article: Is Daiyu's funeral flower really pretentious, or is it really pitiful?
Dai Yu funeral flowers, in Cao Xueqin's pen, are a tragic beauty that has been sung for thousands of years, and it is also a rare tragic art in the history of Chinese literature, but with the passage of time, in the eyes of many readers today, it seems that there are different interpretations.
Some people think that Daiyu's funeral flowers are too pretentious, isn't it that her parents died and lived in her grandmother's house? As for being so sad in spring and autumn, crying and crying to bury the flowers? Dai Yu still lives in the gate of wealth and nobility, with no worries about food and clothing, and her grandmother loves her, if she is a child of a poor family, she must not cry to death.
So, is Daiyu Funeral Flower really a pretense? Of course not, Dai Yu funeral flowers are not only unpretentious, but also very pitiful, it is sympathetic and even tearful to read, because Cao Xueqin not only reveals Daiyu's miserable fate, but also reveals the true meaning of life.
Why does Dai Yu bury flowers? Is it really, as some readers think, just a performance art that cannot appear in life? Some people even think that this is a novel, the author Cao Xueqin's obscenity, who in life will bury flowers?
First of all, Dai Yu buried the flower, after the death of her parents, the original family of four, brother and parents have died one after another, but she, a frail and sick person, is still living alone in the world, how can this not be heartbreaking?
If there are uncles and brothers who support and take care of each other, maybe Dai Yu will not be so sad, but she is like Li Mi who wrote the "Table of Feelings", "Ling Ling is lonely and bitter, as for the establishment." "The cocoon stands tall and the shadows hang on each other."
What's more, before Dai Yu buried the flowers, because she knocked on Bao Yu's door and didn't open it, but she clearly saw Bao Chao walking out of yihong Courtyard, how could this not make her sad and sad? She is the only person who has deep affection, but she is always surrounded by sisters and sisters, which makes her even more insecure and has the sadness of sending people under the fence.
Some people say, isn't Dai Yu's grandmother in pain? Isn't Baoyu spoiled? Even if you live in Jia Province, you still want something, your share is counted in the first class, and you still make such a move as burying flowers, and even say things like "Three hundred and sixty days a year, the wind sword and frost sword are strictly forced", is this not obviously punching Jia Mu's face?
Of course not. We cannot judge the behavior of the characters in the books of more than three hundred years ago with the current aesthetic, and thus conclude that the person is either pretentious or scheming, or indifferent or sleek.
The author Cao Xueqin wrote the Red Chamber, it is impossible to jump out of that era to write, his characters naturally can not jump out of that era, we go to appreciate the literary image, naturally can not use today's eyes to see to evaluate. Saying that Dai Yu funeral flowers are temperamental or even performance art, obviously did not understand the Red Chamber.
And familiar with the Red Chamber will also find that Daiyu funeral flowers are not at all sentimental, not a so-called performance art, in Cao Gong's pen, this incident happened to Lin Daiyu, it is a very natural thing. Lin Daiyu, who is both talented and sentimental, is too normal to have a funeral flower.
Imagine: a Miss Qianjin under the fence, frail and sickly, her parents are dead, she is confined to the boudoir for many years, there is no support from her parents and brothers, no one is booing and asking for warmth, what she can send, in addition to poetry and literature, is probably the burial of flowers, right?
Moreover, the deep meaning that Dai Yu burys the flowers, cao Gong wants to express, is far more than the fate tragedy of Dai Yu alone, but the foreshadowing of the fate of the entire woman in the Red Chamber, so Li Yanzhai said that burying the incense tomb and burying the flowers is the source of Zhu Yan's return, and "Burial Flower Yin" is also Zhu Yan Yi Yi Ye.
Therefore, "Funeral Flower Yin" is not only Daiyu's self-comparison and pity for her own fate, but also Cao Gong's sigh and mourning for the fate of all the women in the Red Chamber. The reason why the funeral flower yin let Dai Yu lead, not only is she the head of the twelve, the tone of the funeral flower yin is very consistent with her sad spring and autumn sorrow, it is none other than her.
Dai Yu uses flowers to refer to herself, and Cao Gong uses flowers to refer to all women in the Red Chamber. In the spring, a hundred flowers bloom, compete to bloom, and compete for glory, but the flowers are not red, and once the spring has passed, they will wither, and the zero will fall into mud and dust, and only the incense will be the same. Just like those thin-lived women in the dream of the Red Chamber.
For ordinary people, Daiyu's act of burying flowers is naturally unimaginable, just like Mr. Lu Xun said that Jiao Da would not fall in love with Sister Lin, and different classes had different sorrows. Grandma Liu will not go to bury the flowers, because what she is most anxious about is how to make the family fill her stomach, and Lin Daiyu will not worry about food and clothing, what she is most worried about is the loneliness under the fence, the youth that is as short as the falling flowers, and the helplessness and powerlessness of her own fate.
Dai Yu buried the flowers, not the flowers, but her noble soul. What is buried is not performance art, but a fate that she is difficult to dominate. The burial is not a pretense, but an orphan girl who has nowhere to pour out her grievances and unspeakable girl's heart under the fence.
It is said that girlish feelings are always poetry. Daiyu's funeral flower groan, rather than her pretentiousness, is the truest affection hidden in the heart of a young girl, although this love is too sad, it is the best embodiment of Daiyu's true feelings, but also the spiritual core of Daiyu, but also the deep root of Daiyu's daily sorrow and tears.
In "Funeral Flower Yin", there are not only Daiyu, but also Yuan Chun, Qingwen, Fangguan, Miaoyu, and all the women in the Red Chamber.
Author: Xi Si Shao, this article is to read less of the original works of the Red Chamber.