Chen Xiaoxu in the 87th edition of "Dream of the Red Chamber" is a template appearance that plays Lin Daiyu. The third time Cao Gong in the original work described Lin Daiyu like this: two bends seem to be crouching non-crouching eyebrows, and a pair of eyes that seem to be happy and not happy. The state of two sorrows, the illness of the body. Tears lit up, and the panting was slight. When idle, it is like a flower shining on the water, and the action is like a weak willow supporting the wind. The heart is more than dry, and the disease is like Xizi winning three points.
Some scholars said that here seems to be a description of Daiyu's appearance, but in fact, it is not written. Lin Daiyu is a daizhu fairy, originally a fairy-like existence, which is to portray a wise, beautiful, amorous, kind, delicate, calm fairy appearance, very imaginative.
People have not seen fairies, but the author's great point is that he seems to have seen, and it is he who says that there were once a large number of fairy-like girls who created "Dream of the Red Chamber". Especially the last sentence: the heart is more than dry, and the illness is like Xizi winning three points.
The first half of the sentence writes out lin daiyu's birth in Xiangmendi, full of poetry, talent, and justice, Bi Gan is an ancient loyal minister, known for wisdom and loyalty; the second half of the sentence writes out Lin Daiyu's beauty, it seems to write a sick appearance, but this disease is really not a disease, because her posture is actually three points better than Xi Shi, the first of the four beautiful women, and her words are concise.
Why do you say that Chen Xiaoxu's screen image is most like Lin Daiyu? Because Cao Xueqin's ancestral home is the Liaodong region, and Chen Xiaoxu happens to be a native of Anshan, Liaoning. Most of the beautiful women Cao Xueqin saw were descendants of Manchu or Liaodong Han people, especially figures at the level of the main family, and it was obvious that Lin Daiyu was a descendant of such a family.
That is to say, although Dai Yu was born and raised in Jinling or Yangzhou in the south, she is at best a southerner and a northerner, and her relatives around her are all northerners, in fact, she is a northerner, and cannot be the appearance of a beautiful woman in Jiangsu and Zhejiang in the south. Dai Yu also does not speak softly to Wu Nong, so the screen image of Lin Daiyu performed by Chen Xiaoxu is the Lin Daiyu that is closest to Cao Gong's description.