As one of the four famous works of ancient China, "Dream of the Red Chamber" is the crystallization of the wisdom of the ancients and a rare cultural treasure they left us. "Dream of the Red Chamber" tells the story of the rise and fall of Jia Fu, and is the enmity between Jia Baoyu and a group of women.
In the whole story of "Dream of the Red Chamber", the most critical character is Jia Yuanchun, who is the prosperity of Jia Fu, and her death is an important symbol of jia fu's decline. So, how did Jia Yuanchun die? Why did she end up like this? What is the impact of her ending on Jia Fu?
In fact, for Jia Yuanchun's death, "Dream of the Red Chamber" has long been foreshadowed, and one or two can be glimpsed in her sentence:
I saw a bow painted with citron hanging from it. There is also a lyric cloud: twenty years to distinguish between right and wrong, durian flowers bloom to the palace. Three spring battles and early spring scenes, tigers meet big dreams.
The "bow" in the sentence represents confrontation, and the identity of Jia Fu is relatively special, they are the old ministers of the Taishang Emperor period, who are in alliance with the four kings and eight dukes, and are unwilling to submit to the emperor, and Jia Yuanchun is their representative. And when the Emperor Taishang and the Emperor had a conflict, she was naturally easy to become cannon fodder.
"Citron" is the embodiment of Yuanchun's unfavorable, which is a kind of thing that is not proud of its appearance and sour in its heart, which in a sense echoes the state of Jia Yuanchun's personal homecoming and crying. And this may also be the reason why when Jia Yuanchun was given death and Jia Fu was raided, the emperor did not express much.
The most crucial thing is that the phrase "the tiger meets the big dream", which even echoes Yang Guifei's death in the "change of Ma Songyi". And "twenty years to distinguish between right and wrong" is an important clue to Jia Yuanchun's death, she is likely to lose her life because she discovered the emperor's secret and eventually affected the layout of the other party. In other words, the key reason for Jia Yuanchun's death is because she was involved in a power struggle.
In fact, if Jia Yuanchun had a good idea and made some arrangements, he could avoid this disaster and even save Jia Fu. But unfortunately, she is not a person with outstanding ability, because of her inaction, she finally got such a fate. If it was Jia Tanchun who entered the palace, there might be a glimmer of life.
For Jia Yuanchun, she should know that her promotion to Concubine Xiande is an opportunity to save Jia Fu and herself, even if the emperor does not have much love for her, but if she uses this grace to express her loyalty to the emperor, and begins to restrain Jia Fu's behavior, refusing to handle the affairs of the province so much, it may make the emperor change his mind about Jia Fu and eventually change his destiny.
But it is a great pity that Jia Yuanchun did not have such an idea, nor did she have such boldness, she obeyed the will of the Emperor Taishang and sat in Jia Mansion to build the Grand View Garden, which also made her provincial process a little more different.
Such a move, in the eyes of the emperor, is naturally unpleasant, at least it shows that this force is relatively large, and there may be a lot of gray income in the middle. Such a family, how could the emperor let it go? It is precisely because of this that this has become a thorn in the emperor's mind, and when Jia Yuanchun made a mistake, the emperor did not hesitate to dispose of her, and also disposed of Jia Fu.
Reference: Dream of the Red Chamber