"Qi Mei Raised Case", this is the author of "Dream of the Red Chamber" on Bao Yu Baochao's marriage life description, indicating that they are a loving couple who respect each other as guests.
Judging from the eighty texts, it is difficult to see that Baoyu will be at ease with married life, so many readers are unwilling to bear the love of Baoyu and Baochao. However, the "Qi Mei Ju Case" is clearly written, which cannot be denied.
I have analyzed in many articles that there are two main lines in the Red Chamber, one with Wang Xifeng as the protagonist, showing the process of Jia Fu's prosperity to decline; the other with Jia Baoyu as the protagonist, describing the process of such a noble prince growing in the face of life's setbacks.
Yes, no matter which main line, what the author presents to us is dynamic and needs to be looked at from the perspective of development.
In the first eighty times, Baoyu has two "deep realizations", one is the twenty-second "enlightenment" and the other is the thirty-sixth "enlightenment". In addition, Bao Yu also curbed his "love of red disease" because of Jin Jun'er's death, and did not give birth to his face and play with the servants who did not belong to him.
This is all a reflection of the growth of Baoyu.
There is reason to believe that with the internal and external difficulties of Jia Fu, Baoyu's growth will accelerate, and eventually, he will grow into the appearance of his father. His marriage with Baochao is a copy of his parents' marriage, "raising a case with one eyebrow", respecting each other as guests.
In Jia Zheng's life, there have been qualitative leaps, from "poetry and wine release" to "rules and regulations".
When jia zheng is mentioned, it is easy to think of rigidity and severity. He and Baoyu were like natural enemies, unaccustomed to each other, and even very tough against each other.
From the time Baoyu grabbed Zhou, "reaching out and only grabbing some fat powder rings", Jia Zheng was "very displeased" with him. This "great displeasure" did not ease until Baoyu was thirteen years old.
For young readers, this is really difficult to understand. Baoyu wants to look good, to have literate talent, in addition to not loving school and not being so motivated, it is really a rare child that people have to love. As a father, how can you hate your own son so much? Bao Yu earned face for his father when he "asked the question on the forehead", but Jia Zheng was still very strict, always scolding with a straight face. When Baoyu broke into trouble outside, people came to the door, and as a father, instead of protecting the child, he sent a fierce hand to beat his son to death.
How can there be such an old-fashioned father in the world? Is his heart flesh long?
It was not until the seventy-eighth time that the author told us that Jia Zheng "was also a person who was born of poetry and wine in nature at first."
What is the "Poetry and Wine Release"? It is that he likes to use poetry to accompany wine, drink wine and chant poetry, and at the same time, he is uninhibited and does not stick to the rules and etiquette. This is exactly what Baoyu often does in social life, such as chanting poems together in the liquor bureau and making friends with the famous Jiang Yuhan.
From the description here, it can be seen that Jia Zheng when he was a teenager was similar to Baoyu, and he was also a naughty person, and he did not let his father worry less. Jia Mu said such a sentence when Jia Zheng beat Bao Yu: "You said that teaching your son was Guangzong Yaozu, how did your father teach you to come!" "The implication is that your father also taught you this lesson, but he didn't look at the character who taught you to become a guangzong yaozu."
Therefore, Jia Zheng was not born old-fashioned and unkind, he was only "because in his sons and nephews, he had to follow the right path", and he slowly became what he is now.
Yes, people are all changeable, grow up a little, mature a little, coupled with changes in the environment, there will always be big or small changes. Jia Zheng's change from "poetry and wine" to the old-fashioned strict father is because of the change brought about by age: to be an example among his children and nephews, he has to change from evil to righteousness, "rules and regulations follow the right path".
This seems to be a universal law, just like Lu Xun's boudoir, so full of spirit, the teenager, in middle age also became a numb and dull puppeteer, no different from his father. Who could have imagined that Jia Zheng, who was square and conformist, once had a juvenile time of "poetry and wine release"?
Baoyu, who has always been fighting against his father, will also "follow the right path" like his father.
Father and son are enemies, which is a common phenomenon in our cultural context. The reason why they become enemies is because their personalities are similar, so they do not give in to each other. Ultimately, in order for a father-son reconciliation, it usually takes waiting until the son also becomes a father, or is deeply touched in some things, so as to understand the father.
When he was a teenager, Baoyu had been fighting against his father. Even after being beaten by his father, he still thought, "I died for a while, and they were like this, even if the career of my life was in vain, it was not enough to sigh", rather than be killed without remorse, and even felt that it was a good place to die. If Jia Zheng knew about this idea of his, it was estimated that he would be killed by his son like Qin Ye.
This kind of confrontation cannot be described as fierce. At the beginning, Qin Zhong was angry with his old father because of this confrontation, so he turned his repentance into words of exhortation, advising Baoyu to "make a name for himself in the future, and show his glory as his righteousness."
This kind of exhortation was not understood by Baoyu at that time, but it will be understood later.
After this, it is after Jia Fu experienced various changes.
When Jia Fu's financial situation reached the point of "not picking up the back hand", when the sisters were forced to leave Baoyu one by one, when Jia Mu was still unable to put down Baoyu, when his father Jia Zheng had to give up due to lack of energy, when the life of the family was in trouble, it was time for Baoyu to "follow the right path".
At this time, Bao Yu realized that it was a great blessing to be able to marry a wife with "downtime morality" like Bao Chao. When a person wants to "follow the right path", he most hopes that there are like-minded people around him who can trust each other, support each other, and work together. Someone takes care of it when they are enterprising, and someone inspires them when they slacken off. Such a couple is exactly the loving couple of the "Qi Mei Lifting Case", just like Jia Zheng and Madame Wang, which is a model of the relationship between husband and wife in society at that time.
The author uses the "Qi Mei Case" to tell us that Baoyu, who has been confronting his father, eventually lived like a father and did his best to assume the responsibility that belongs to him. He and Baochao are more affectionate with each other and follow the parents' mode of getting along.