Who is the mysterious Li Yan Zhai? Is it real? Is his criticism credible? It has become another mystery that makes the readers of "Dream of the Red Chamber" curious. Just like the missing ending after 80 times, it makes people eager to find out.
Li Yanzhai is the approver of "Dream of the Red Chamber", similar to Jin Shengsi and Mao Zonggang. However, unlike the "Jin and Mao" two people who have a name and a surname, and there are other literary works to examine the trajectory of life, Li Yanzhai has left very few traces in history, or even about nothing.
It is also different from Jin Sheng's criticism of "Water Margin" and Mao Zonggang's criticism of "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" as a "commentary" by later generations. Li Yanzhai's criticism is "very" synchronized with the story content of "Dream of the Red Chamber", and the tone and wording are not only contrary to the author, but even if the guidance and combing of the plot are like "people in the dream of the Red Chamber".
Coupled with the fact that Li Yanzhai is not found in the historical records, there are views that she is a woman, the prototype of a certain character in "Dream of the Red Chamber", and Cao Xueqin is a family member or companion.
Of course, the "Fat Yan Zhai Criticism" and the "Fat Batch" are different, in addition to the Fat Yan Zhai, there are a series of signed red pen fat batches such as the signature Officiating and Xingxing Zhai, which adds to the mystery of the Fat Yan Zhai.
Dream of the Red Chamber was originally circulated in manuscripts. In the fifty-sixth year of Qianlong, Cheng Weiyuan and Gao E compiled and published one hundred and twenty copies, that is, Cheng Jiaben, and the following year it was revised to Cheng Yiben. It has been popular for more than 200 years, and it is the basis for the vast majority of the current 120 returns.
However, whether it is Cheng Jiaben or Cheng Yiben, the Li Yan Zhai criticism does not exist. This is the biggest controversy of Li Yan Zhai.
At present, most views believe that Cheng Gao and his two people deleted the fat batch and then published it, which is inevitably biased. There is no evidence that the criticism of Li Yanzhai was deleted by the two.
In particular, the information and information revealed by the criticism of Li Yanzhai can fully support the story of "Dream of the Red Chamber", and it is not worth the loss to delete it hastily. This can also be inferred from the inheritance of the "Three Kingdoms of The Golden Commentary on the Water Margin and the Mao Commentary".
According to the encyclopedia, the "Lipid Commentary" refers to the "Li Yan Zhai Commentary on The Stone Record" and the "Fat Yan Zhai Reappraisal stone record". It is recognized in the red academic circles that there are three lipid books, namely "Jia Shu Ben", "He ji ben" and "Gengchen ben".
The three lipograms are called "The Reappraisal of the Stone Record of The Fat Yan Zhai". And Cheng Jiaben and Cheng Yiben are called "Dream of the Red Chamber". This is the biggest difference between the two.
In addition, the cheng gao ben is 120 times, and the fat review book is only 80 times. The general view is that after 80 times is a sequel, the author was previously believed to be Gao Osprey, and modern research believes that the author is unknown and anonymous.
As a result, the last 40 times the author became a mystery like Li Yanzhai.
The problem of Li Yanzhai mainly focuses on the two aspects of "existence and authenticity".
The problem stems from the fact that the Book of The Reappraisal of the Stones appeared too late. Until 1911-1912, Fang Youshang Di Pingzi Stone Seal Qi Ben Xing appeared in the world. The lipids began to see the light of day, and immediately shocked the red academic community. In 1921, Hu Shi wrote a preface to the new English punctuation typeface of the Yadong Library, inscribed the Dream of the Red Chamber, and since then, the time span has been more than 70 years, and the ancient manuscripts of the Li Yan Zhai Commentary Stone Record have appeared one after another, with a total of 12 kinds so far, and more than 3,000 lipid batches have been recorded.
Cheng Gaoben's "Dream of the Red Chamber" was published more than 120 years ago, and "The Reappraisal of The Stone Record of Fat Yan Zhai" was published. The disappearance here is also the main controversy over whether Li Yanzhai really exists.
However, if the descendants of the Li Yan Zhai are fake, then this person can be described as "amazing and brilliant". Many of the plots of his criticisms completely correspond to the many foreshadowings of "Dream of the Red Chamber".
Some of Cao Xueqin's foreshadowing, just looking at Cheng Gaoben may not be able to find, but there is a fat batch reminder that makes people suddenly cheerful.
Therefore, the popularity of the current "Reappraisal of the Stone Record" is also inevitable.
To be honest, the debate over the existence of lipo yan zhai is not yet definitively answered.
Junji Yakan Honglou believes that if ordinary readers include students in school, it is enough to read the popular version of "Dream of the Red Chamber". There is no lipogram, but it can better read the original text and increase self-thinking and comprehension.
However, as a fan of "Dream of the Red Chamber", it is still recommended to read "The Reappraisal of the Stone Record of Fat Yan zhai", and many of the criticisms in it can be used as an auxiliary to important plots and foreshadowing. Let people open up.
Whether or not Li Yanzhai was indeed a contemporary of the author. Lipograms always appear in the Qing Dynasty, and the expression and understanding of "Dream of the Red Chamber", the rules, etiquette, human feelings and poetry and literature should be closer to the author and more objective than modern people.
Of course, Li Yanzhai is only a "reader" and not an author. He has his subjectivity. Not to mention that more than 3,000 fat batches do not exclude many different readers to fill, but also objective understanding.
So, assuming that Li Yanzhai is really Cao Xueqin's old man as the commentary says, and must be the prototype of someone in the book, who should he be? Now many people think that it is Shi Xiangyun, but Junji Yakan Red Chamber believes that it is Jia Tanchun.
Fat Yan Zhai: "Fat" refers to rouge, and red also refers to daughters. "砚" refers to pen and ink paper, especially foreshadowing calligraphy. "Zhai" refers to the study.
In "Dream of the Red Chamber", it is completely in line with the characteristics of this character, only the "Lord of Apricot Blossoms" Jia Tanchun, who arranges Qiu Shuangzhai as a bookstore and has dozens of square treasures on the desk.
Another comment signed "Apricot Zhai" corresponds to the apricot blossom stick and the autumn shuang zhai.
Junji Yakan's view of the ending of "Dream of the Red Chamber" has always been consistent: Jia Tanchun and Lin Daiyu followed xiaoxiang's concubine Princess E's daughter Ying's second daughter to marry a foreign country as a princess, and Lin Daiyu died in the West Sea. Xue Baoqin's Western beauty poems are proof.
And after Jia Baoyu raided the house, just as he promised Lin Daiyu, "Fall into the pool, teach a leper to swallow, become a big forget, and when you Ming'er does 'Lady Yipin' and returns to the west, I will go to your grave to carry the monument for you for a lifetime." ”
After Jia Baoyu left home, he went out to sea to find Jia Tanchun— "Even if it is the next spring goodbye to the next year" is the foreshadowing — and guarded the tomb for the rest of his life in front of Lin Daiyu's grave. He wrote a book about the stories he experienced, which were for "Records of Love Monks", "Records of Stones", "Dream of the Red Chamber", and "Twelve Pieces of Jinling".
Jia Tanchun, as Jia Baoyu's provider at that time, was the only one who was the "Fat Yan Zhai".
Of course, the novel is a story, and in reality, it is difficult to say whether Li Yanzhai is Cao Xueqin's sister. The above is purely personal opinion.
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