When Grandma Liu entered the Rongguo Mansion, it can be said that there are many jokes. She made the ladies and ladies in Jia Fu laugh and earned herself the love of others.
Some people were impressed by Liu Grandma's sentence at the table, "Old Liu Lao Liu, eat as much as an ox, eat an old sow, don't look up", and some people can't help but be amused by the picture of Liu Grandma eating pigeon eggs; some people like the exaggeration of Liu Grandma when she eats eggplant, and some people firmly remember Liu Grandma's drunken lying in Yihong Courtyard.
However, many readers have overlooked Grandma Liu's performance in front of the main hall of the provincial villa. This story has a very important role for the whole "Dream of the Red Chamber".
When she came to the bottom of the archway of the "Provincial Relatives Villa", Grandma Liu said, "Oh, there is a big temple here!" With that, he prostrated himself. Everyone laughed and stooped down. Grandma Liu said, "Laughing at what?" I recognize the words on this archway, where we have the most temples like this, they are all such arches, and that word is the name of the temple. The crowd laughed and said, "What word do you recognize?" Grandma Liu then looked up and pointed to the word, "Isn't this the four words 'Jade Emperor Treasure Hall'?" ”
Most of the poor in ancient times were illiterate, especially the old ladies of the Zhuang family like Grandma Liu, and it was even more impossible to have the opportunity to study. It was normal for her not to recognize the four words "Provincial Relatives Villa", but there were so many words in the world, why did Grandma Liu want to treat "Provincial Relatives Villa" as "Jade Emperor Treasure Hall"?
In terms of appearance, the style of the provincial villa may be somewhat similar to the architectural style of the temple, which is a possibility that Liu Grandma mistakenly recognized these four words, but more importantly, this provincial villa also made Jia Baoyu think in a trance.
The seventeenth time, Jia Baoyu went to play in the newly repaired Grand View Garden, and happened to meet Jia Zheng bringing in the Qing guests. Therefore, Jia Baoyu had to accompany his father to walk around. In this process, Jia Baoyu inscribed a lot of plaques, and Jia Zheng was also relatively satisfied, but when they came to the main hall, that is, the future "provincial villa", Cao Xueqin's pen turned sharply and wrote a rather puzzling paragraph -
Jia Zheng said, "This is the main hall, but it's just too rich." ”...... When Jia Baoyu saw this place, his heart suddenly moved, and he thought about it, as if he had seen it somewhere, but he couldn't remember the events of that year, month, and day for a moment. Jia Zheng ordered him to do the question again, and Bao Yu only thought about the prospects and had no intention of doing so.
At this time, the main hall of the Grand View Garden, where the future "Provincial Relatives Villa" was located, was later regarded by Grandma Liu as the "Jade Emperor Treasure Hall", which made Jia Baoyu suddenly confused and felt that he had been here. What was Jia Baoyu thinking? Where had he seen a similar scene? Li Yanzhai's annotation solves the mystery for us, "still attributed to the 'too illusory realm' of Hulu Yimeng".
The so-called "provincial villa" is actually a phantom of the illusory realm. It is no wonder that Jia Baoyu lost himself here. In other words, the provincial villa is a fairyland. It is no wonder that Grandma Liu regarded this place as the supreme "Jade Emperor Treasure Hall".
In "Dream of the Red Chamber", Grandma Liu is a very magical existence. Although she has nothing directly to do with Jia Fu, and is also 18,000 miles away from the wealth of Jia Fu, when she entered Jia Fu for the second time, every word and deed, every move, was closely related to the fate of Jia Fu and the lives of important people in the book. And the connection between them is based on a seemingly absurd, but irrefutable situation.
At this time, in front of the "Provincial Relatives Villa", she also regarded the Provincial Relatives Villa as the Jade Emperor Treasure Hall in the way of trouble, in fact, she verified it for the last time in "Dream of the Red Chamber", and the Grand View Garden is a too illusory realm in the world. True and false, virtual and real, and dreamlike are the mysteries of "Dream of the Red Chamber".