If only one tragedy is successfully portrayed, even if it is great, then the monumental work "Dream of the Red Chamber", which is intended to "make the boudoir pass on" and paint the portraits of all beings in a tragic era, is undoubtedly great.
Whether it is Zhen Baoyu or Jia Baoyu, their lives in the last days are tragedies, and as the first righteous person in the text, the tragic life of Baoyu in the "Crown of Zhuyan" (the seventeenth general batch) can also be said to be the summary and epitome of Zhu Fang's tragic life.
The sixty-third time, Baoyu's birthday, the night feast is called "Qunfang", the wine order is "flower name sign", and the song sung is also called "flower viewing time", which is obviously intentional. However, to everyone's surprise, Baoyu, as the first person in the text, did not see the plot of his drawing of flowers on the birthday of the main dream person Bi Zhi. In fact, the "flower viewing time" sung by Fang Guan, who looks like Baoyu "like a pair of twin brothers", is specially sent for Baoyu who does not draw flower lots but "appreciates flowers".
The flower sticks drawn by "Qunfang" are all "judgments" for each person, and their deep meaning is mostly hidden in the verses that have not been quoted before and after. The song "When Enjoying the Flowers" ("When Enjoying the Flowers" is the lyrics of He Xiangu in the third fold of the "Handan Chronicle", "Du Shi", "Cuifeng Plume Hair Tie Broom Fork, Idle for the Immortals to Sweep off the Flowers." You see the wind and jade dust and sand, under the fierce layer of clouds, how many doors are outside the door is the end of the world! You have to cut off the yellow dragon with a sword, and then you have to take a break from selling restaurants to the old and poor people in the east. You and I look at the clouds. Dong Binhe, you can talk back earlier when you get someone, if it is late, mistakenly ask people to stay and hate Bi Peach Blossom. Similarly, the implication is not in the song itself, but in the characters and themes of the script.
The song is from the "Record of Handan", "Handan Record" is Tang Xianzu based on the Tang Dynasty Shen Jieji's "Pillow in the Pillow" legendary plot adaptation of the opera, written That Lu Dongbin went to heaven to replace He Xiangu Tianmen to sweep flowers, he went to handan guest house, met Lu Sheng, gave him a magical magnetic pillow to sleep, let him have a yellow sorghum dream, and took him to the Immortal Realm to carry a broom. Lü Dongbin let Lu Sheng sleep on the magnetic pillow into a dream, it can be said that he let Lu Sheng also experience his own feelings, because the person who dreamed of huangliang was once Dongbin himself, and Lu Sheng just reproduced a pillow of huangliang.
The fifth lipogram points out: "Cover the author Ziyun, what he has experienced is nothing more than a dream ear of the Red Chamber", and Baoyu is the author's "self-yu" (fat batch), the author in the Dream of the Red Chamber is nothing more than everything he has ever had, in another way, let his image in the dream one by one Baoyu, re-experience, similar to Lü Dongbin let Lu Sheng re-experience his own pillow of yellow sorghum, therefore, in the dream of the tragedy of the Red Chamber with flowers metaphorically, Baoyu is the "flower" appreciator in "When Viewing Flowers".
After Lü Dongbin let Lu Sheng experience Huang Liang's dream, he wanted to take him to heaven to replace He Xiangu's Battle of Tianmen sweeping flowers, so Baoyu was also a "flower" sweeper. The text uses flowers as a metaphor for the twelve, and Baoyu's birthday is in the text's unique "Flower Festival", and Baoyu is also a sweeping "flower" person.
The twenty-fourth time, Jia Yun saw Bao Yu yesterday and told him to wait in the outer study, and Jia Yun, who had eaten the next day, went to the Study of Bao Yu Qi Qi, only to see the two small houses playing chess with roasted tea and hoeing medicine, and in order to grab the "car", they were mixing their mouths, as well as four or five springs, sweeping flowers, picking clouds, and accompanying cranes, and then playing with small birds on the eaves. The name of the small house around Baoyu is actually a secret writing of its owner, as we all know, the author's "words seem to be blood, ten years of hard work is unusual", most of the names in the text are allegorical, sweeping flowers is actually also a hint of "the crown of all yan" Baoyu, that is, "after the three springs go to the end of the fangs" the sweeping "flower" person who sent "spring" to return.
Baoyu is a person who appreciates "flowers" and sweeps "flowers", which is actually a hint at baoyu's tragic life, which is the summary and epitome of Zhufang's tragic life. Therefore, reading Baoyu, to a considerable extent, also understanding the tragic Red Chamber. However, the text "does not break through the sorrow and wake up, and has great benefits" (the first lipogram), and the genius author writes a spiritual scripture that transcends tragedy and transcends the wisdom of the times on top of the tragedy, and the Dream of the Red Chamber is therefore super great and immortal.
According to the lipogram, the comment of Baoyu on the "List of Police Illusions" of the "Crown of All Yans" is "unsentimental", "unsentimental", that is, "all the ignorant and ignorant in the world, they all have an infatuation to be considerate" (Guba Hui Fat Batch), therefore, the first righteous person in the text, Baoyu, did not sink in a tragic life, but realized the great transcendence of "love".
Also for the twenty-fourth time, Baoyu's small hoe medicine and fountain around Baoyu are actually suggesting that the "Crown of All Yans" Baoyu's life course through the wind and moon is to find the "medicine" of the wisdom of the world for himself and for the life of the world, and to explore the "spring" of the wisdom of the world.
"Dream of the Red Chamber" also talks about Buddhism, and the Tang monks have gone through ninety-nine eighty-one difficulties and finally obtained the scriptures of wisdom, so in addition to the Enlightenment and Zen Enlightenment that arose on the basis of "love" enlightenment, how many gaps and obstacles in life must Zhen and Jia Baoyu have to cross, how many painful struggles of the soul, and finally reach the realm of "unsympathetic", and find the "medicine" of the wisdom of the world beyond time and space, and the "spring" of the wisdom of the world?
1. Zhen Baoyu
In the text presented in the form of a dream, Jia Baoyu is the illusion of the dream "made real with illusion" (the twenty-fifth lipogram), and Bao Daichao is a trio[Note 2], and in "Eyebrows", Jia Baoyu feels nostalgic for The Dream at the end of the story, "one is a flower in the mirror, the other is the moon in the water", so bao Dai is not a person who has ever existed around the author, but is only a phantom of dreams [Note 3]. However, in the text of "all the metaphors in the table" (lipogram), the plutonium is an important metaphorical carrier, which can be said to be the crystallization of the author's wisdom of secular life,[note 4] and dai is a metaphor for orthodox dreams.
In the dream of the Red Chamber, "The magic is all about the pen of striking the east and the west, striking the grass and frightening the snake, if you look at it to write one person, you will be this one person to see, sir will stay." (The third fat batch), the twenty-second fat batch points out: "If Xue and Lin are zhen yu and Jia Yu read books, they will not lose the original purpose of the writer", which means that Zhen and Jia Baoyu, like the "two names, but one person" (fat batch), are actually the same person, but the tasks undertaken in the dream text are different, and Zhen Baoyu has more worldly life meaning, while Jia Baoyu has more connotations of home country politics.
Zhen Baoyu, which should be seen as Baochao, can be said to be an artistic reproduction of the author in the text, so the "Zhen" Baoyu is closer to the true baoyu of the Cao family, Cao Xueqin [Note 1]. Although Zhen Baoyu does not have so much political significance compared with Jia Baoyu, who should be seen as a dai yu, the era of political decisions in the home country also profoundly affects and even determines Zhen Baoyu's life.
Zhen Baoyu, who appeared in the last days, adhered to orthodoxy in an era when orthodoxy was declining rather than orthodox, and could only be immersed in the sea of tears like Daiyu, who was "hanging in the jade belt forest"; like Baochao, who was "buried in the snow of golden hairpins", he lamented that he was born at the wrong time and was not born in the right place.
Although the first eighty times, Zhen Baoyu seems to be just a legend, he has not been absent, because Jia Baoyu has always been "passing on the shadow" for him. The forty-first time, "Li Cui'an Tea Plum Blossom Snow", of the three Bao Dai Chao people, Miao Yu eventually gave Bao Dai only one tea set per person, but gave Bao Yu two kinds of tea sets- one of his daily commonly used green jade buckets and a nine-curved ten rings and one hundred and twenty knots of bamboo roots carved into a large (Tai Jia dish), the reason is that Bao Yu has two.
The green jade bucket should mainly correspond to Jia Baoyu, who should be seen as Daiyu, Baoyu laughed and said that the green jade bucket is a vulgar instrument, and Miaoyu responded that "I am afraid that you may not find such a vulgar instrument in your family", implying that "Dream Politics Secret" Dai Yu and "Dream Full Secret" Jia Baoyu are not bad, and have a deep meaning, that is, the orthodox political meaning that cannot be clearly stated. Of course, Zhen Baoyu, who is the same person as Jia Baoyu, is also inevitably affected by the era determined by the politics of the homeland, and The Green Jade Dou and Zhen Baoyu are not unrelated.
A large box of nine curves and ten rings and one hundred and twenty sections of carved bamboo roots mainly corresponds to Zhen Baoyu, which should be regarded as Baochao. Zhen Baoyu, who "behaves in a remote and obedient manner," "is not exempt from being strange and strange in the world, with a hundred mouths of ridicule, and a wide eye", and needs "nine curves, ten rings and one hundred and twenty knots" to go around and go through all the waves in order to reach the "too illusory realm" on the other shore. For example, the third time Dai Yu first entered the Jia Mansion, Madame Wang said, "I have a bad root and a bad fetus", and the lipogram pointed out: "The four words are blood and tears, and I have no choice but to go down, and the four words are the author's crying." The twelfth time on behalf of Confucianism punished Jia Rui, Li Pi also pointed out: "Everywhere there are parents who are obsessed with their hearts and their children and grandchildren are not good." This book is self-congratulatory. And so on. Therefore, he needs "father-brother education, teacher-friend discipline."
But in the text that pretends to "make the boudoir pass on", women play a very crucial role, as the German writer Goethe's Faust concluded the sentence "Eternal woman, leading us up". The sheer volume of the big box corresponds to the inclusiveness of Baochao and the security of time. As a metaphor for the carrier of the author's wisdom crystallization of life, although Baochao was born with a hot poison, but "fortunately born strong", there are "cold incense pills" from the "too illusory realm", she almost from birth has a perfect wisdom in the world, living out the true appearance of the "too illusory realm" in the human world. In the dream of the tragedy of the Red Chamber, she is the goddess who leads all sentient beings.
But what guides Zhen Baoyu can only be the dream person who really existed, not just the illusion of the dream. In the thirty-eighth time, The Fat Critic pointed out: "Guan Shi Xiangyun composed begonia poems, as if you see his delicate state. Therefore, Shi Xiangyun's prototype is a real woman in the author's life; the twentieth lipogram points out: "Musk Moon is idle and speechless, making Yu sour nose, which is the so-called wound to the scene." Ding Haixia, deformity. Therefore, the prototype of musk moon is also a real woman in the author's life.
In the text that uses flowers to symbolize Zhu Fang, Baochao is a peony flower that is "ruthless and moving", while Xiangyun who is drunk on peony medicine is a peony flower that is "close to the waiter" with the peony flower; "attacking is the deputy of the eighth fat", and the musk moon is "openly another attacker". Musk Yue and Shi Xiangyun's role in Guiding Zhen Baoyu is like Bao Chao, attacking people with Jia Baoyu, who is also "eccentric and obedient" (the twentieth time).
Zhen Baoyu also needs to learn to grow in the family's infighting and rise and fall. In the text, in the author's "Zhen Family Affair", Zhen Baoyu was raided twice, one time was the first time that the Gourd Temple was angry and the Zhen Shi HermitAge, that is, the so-called "Nanzhi Summoning Disaster" of the Fat Batch, and the other time was the seventy-fourth tanchun mentioning that the Zhen family was copied; he also needed to pay moderate attention to the Shitu economy, and also like the forty-seventh baochao persuaded Xue's aunt not to stop Xue Pan from going out, go out to experience the right things and go through the experience.
Only after such training can Zhen Baoyu calmly cope with the "everywhere turmoil and sorrow" after the prosperity is over with the wisdom of "Xue Baochao", and try his best to create a new situation of "good wind with strength, send me to Qingyun". However, Jia Baoyu, who is the same person as Zhen Baoyu, is in the red dust illusion, of course, it is also inevitable that he will live in a secular life, so the "Nine Curves and Ten Rings and One Hundred and Twenty Festivals" is also the process of Jia Baoyu going through the wind and moon and finally letting go of the cliff.
In the draft, the main plot of "Zhen Baoyu Sending Jade" (the eighteenth fat batch), which is one of the "great festivals and great keys of the Tongbu Book", is likely to be as follows: Lin Daiyu has died in tears, the remnants of orthodoxy are about to disappear, the metaphorical non-orthodox parties such as Jia Huan, Jia Huan, and Lady Xing are about to begin to fully take power over the Rongguo Mansion, and the "ninety spring light" of the fable is about to come to an end. Jia Baoyu, who should be seen as Daiyu, will never lose his beloved Daiyu, which is equivalent to losing his life root one by one "Psychic Treasure Jade".
In the text of "there are metaphors in the table", this also means that soon before and after this, Jia Baoyu will also lose the "psychic treasure jade". The lost "Psychic Treasure Jade" was given by chance (most likely the work of the monk and the lame Daoist), and in the hands of Zhen Baoyu, who had become a beggar, the "Psychic Treasure Jade" could "remove evil spirits, cure wrongs, and know misfortunes and blessings", which is actually one of the original purposes of the "Book of Stones", "Zhen Baoyu Sends Jade", the two treasure jades that have gone through the wind and moon finally do not have to intersect only in the dream because of the "Psychic Treasure Jade", alluding to the fact that both treasure jades finally have the wisdom to achieve the "Psychic Treasure Jade" beyond tragedy after suffering.
Note 1, for details, see the "Walking" Red Chamber" series of humble articles 78 "Zhen Baoyu of Reality, Jia Baoyu of Dreams"
Note 2, for details, see the "Line" Red Chamber" series of humble articles 57 "Bao Dai Chao unity, the truth in the illusion"
Note 3: For details, see the "Line" Walking in the Red Chamber" series of humble articles 79 "Illusion and Truth in the Text of the Red Chamber"
Note 4: For details, see the "Line" Walking in the Red Chamber" series of humble articles 30-37 Daiyu section
Note 5: For details, see the section 41-44 Baochao of the "Line" Red Chamber series
Author: Guo, this article is to read less of the original works of the Red Chamber.