In "Dream of the Red Chamber", for girls in their own families, or girls from relatives' families who are more familiar, there is a very common name - Yatou.
This title can often show the intimacy between each other, pull into each other's distance, and it is equivalent to treating this girl as close and loving as her own children.
Madame Wang said, "Just keep it for bao ya to wear, and think about them again." Aunt Xue said, "Auntie doesn't know, Bao Yatou is weird, she has never loved these flowers and powders." ”
This is the seventh time in "Dream of the Red Chamber", when Aunt Xue instructed the Zhou Rui family to give twelve palace flowers to several girls in the Jia Mansion, the dialogue between her and Lady Wang. For Aunt Xue, it is only natural to call her daughter "Bao Yatou"; and among The Wang People's Population, niece Xue Baochao is also a natural "Bao Baotou".
However, for Jia Mu, she also likes to call Xue Baochao "Bao Baotou". She once praised Xue Baochao in public, "It's not that I flattered in front of my aunt's wife, it's true, from the four girls in our family, it's all inferior to Bao Baotou." ”
In terms of blood relations, Jia Mu and Xue Baochao have no relationship; from the perspective of kinship, Xue Baochao is only the daughter of Jia Mu's daughter-in-law's sister, and this relationship is not close at all. However, since Xue Baochao lived in Jia Mansion, sooner or later everything would let Jia Bao's mother's room move around, please greet ann. Jia Mu also obviously loved this girl as if she were her own junior.
She called Lin Daiyu "Lin Yatou", "Tanchun Yatou", Yingchun "Yingyatou", Shi Xiangyun "Yunyatou", and similarly, Xue Baochao also became the "Bao yatou" in Jia Mu's mouth. Jia Mu did not have any prejudice against Xue Baochao, and she would not show any sense of distance from this girl who was not related to her by blood.
Jia Mu showed the same intimacy with Xue Baochao as her granddaughter and granddaughter, but Lady Wang was far from being able to do this.
Xue Baochao was the "treasure girl" in The Wang's population, but Lin Daiyu became the "girl" in the Wang's population.
Madame Wang saw Lin Daiyu and asked, "Big girl, is it better for you to take that medicine from Dr. Bao?" ”
A "big girl" can't help but make people feel that the full sense of distance between Madame Wang and Lin Daiyu is far less intimate and spoiled than "Lin Yatou". At this time, Lin Daiyu had lived in Jia Province for several years, and had grown from a five- or six-year-old girl to a fourteen- or fifteen-year-old girl. She had always been cautious in her words and deeds in Jia Mansion, fearing that there was something inconsiderate, but even so, she could not let her aunt, Madame Wang, treat herself as a child of her own family. Madame Wang's address to her was still so indifferent and so distant.
For the fortieth time, when Jia Mu brought Grandma Liu and Lady Wang and others to Xiaoxiang Pavilion, Lin Daiyu busily took a small tea tray and held the tea up, and Lady Wang still had this title: "We don't eat tea, and the girl doesn't have to pour it." ”
This "girl" is full of courtesy, all distance, and it seems to be expressing a certain degree of dislike for Lin Daiyu's behavior.
Jia Mu called Xue Baochao "Bao Baotou", but Lady Wang persistently called Lin Daiyu "girl", although it was just a title, it could not help but make people feel Lady Wang's dissatisfaction and indifference to Daiyu, and also hidden Lady Wang's difficulty in accepting Lin Daiyu's stay in Jia Mansion.