The Red Chamber
Beauty
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● "The Beauty of "Dream of the Red Chamber" Writing". The author Wang Xiong accurately interprets the beauty of the writing of "Dream of the Red Chamber" from the aspects of the beauty of structure, the beauty of words and the beauty of artistic conception in humorous and simple language.
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Lecture 2
How does "Dream of the Red Chamber" use details?
Issue 6: Wang Xifeng's well-behaved and learned speech
Details are art, taste. The success of the use of details determines the value of writing, determines the depth, height, and even the life of writing.
Cao Xueqin's use of details is rich, delicate and vivid. Every detail is meticulously carved, rich in meaning, simple and natural, without the slightest trace of artificial axe chiseling.
Many details seem to be idle or extra pens, seem to be irrelevant, dispensable, easy to come by, but absolutely can not be removed or replaced at will.
First, pay attention to the details of the character image, and take the diversity of the character as the basic point
Character details are described, including character language, character demeanor and character psychology. The details can be a series of actions, or they can be a sentence or a word.
Cao Xueqin's character details can allow readers to immerse themselves in the scene, see the actions of the characters, hear the voices of the characters, smell the breath of the characters, and achieve a "three-dimensional" and "holographic" character statue.
1. Character dialogue personalization
Cao Xueqin attaches great importance to the personalization of character dialogue, tailor-made, watching people talk,
To what mountain to sing what song. Whoever should say it must say it, and as soon as you listen to it, you will know whose words it is. Let each sentence of dialogue fit the identity, status and environment of the character.
The third time, Wang Xifeng saw Lin Daiyu for the first time. Yin smiled and said, "There really is such a Peugeot character in the world, I have only seen it today!" Moreover, this all-over style is not like the granddaughter of the old ancestor, but the granddaughter of a concubine, and she cannot complain that the old ancestor will not forget it for a while every day. Only pity my sister so hard, how my aunt died! ”
At first glance, these words are praising Daiyu, and then they are all trying to please the old ancestor Jia Mu. These four words of "oral heart" are absolutely indispensable.
Jia Mu smiled and said, "I'm fine, you came to recruit me." Your sister came from a long way, and her body was weak, so she was persuaded to stop and take a break to speak in advance. This Xi Feng listened, and turned from sorrow to joy: "Exactly! As soon as I saw my sister, my whole heart was on him, and I liked it and was sad, and I forgot my ancestors. It's time to fight! It's time to fight! ’”
Sister Feng saw that the wind made the rudder and was articulate, looked at Jia Mu's face and spoke, pleased the old ancestor, and grasped it just right. These details of dialogue made Wang Xifeng's image come alive immediately.
On the thirty-fifth time, Xue Baochao went to his home and was talking sadly with his mother. Xue Pan heard it outside, and rushed over to Baochao, one on the left and one on the right, and only said: 'Good sister, forgive me this time!' It turned out that I ate wine yesterday, came back late, bumped into people on the road, didn't wake up when I came home, didn't know what nonsense I said, didn't even know myself, and complained that you were angry. ’”
Then, "Xue Pan said, 'Mother don't have to be angry, and my sister doesn't have to worry, from now on, how about I eat and hang out with them again?' Bao Chao said, "I don't understand this!" Aunt Xue said, "If you want to have this horizontal strength, the dragon will also lay eggs." ’”
The dialogue between the mother and son of the Xue family also expresses a kind of personalized detail. Xue Pan's words still revealed the oily and slippery virtue of Brother Gongzi. Aunt Xue was kind and kind, and even used "the dragon also laid eggs" to describe Xue Pan's difficult nature, which was completely a helplessness of "hating iron and not steel".
The sixteenth time, Lin Daiyu returned from the funeral in Suzhou, and Baoyu rushed to visit her. Bao Yu then took out the precious string of wagtail incense given by the King of Northern Jing and gave it to Dai Yu. Dai Yu said, 'What stinky man took it!' I don't want him. 'Throw and don't take.' Baoyu had to take it back. ”
The emperor's personal gifts were extremely precious, but Lin Daiyu did not think so, and refused them with "smelly men who took it". Just such a sentence vividly shows Lin Daiyu's high-minded, conceited, and willful personality characteristics.
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2. Psychological activity is refined
Delicate character psychological activities can make the details of the character image exquisite, convey the spirit and shine.
The nineteenth time, Uncle Zhen of the Eastern House, please watch the play. Bao Yu only sat for a moment, then walked away and played around. "Because I thought, 'There is a small study room here, and there used to be a scroll of beauties hanging in it, and the gods of the extreme paintings were very beautiful.
Today is so lively, I think there is naturally no one there, and the beauty is naturally lonely, and I must go to see and comfort him. Thinking about it, he went to the study. Just before I got to the window, I could smell the groaning in the room.
Bao Yu was shocked: Dare to be a beauty alive or not? With the courage to lick the broken window paper, he looked inward—the beauty of the axis had never lived, but it was a cigarette pressing on a girl, and she was also doing what the police had trained. Bao Yu couldn't help but shout, 'Amazing! He kicked in the door and shook the two apart, shaking his clothes. ”
This description of mental activity is very interesting. Bao Yu is kind in heart, he cares about others, he thinks about others, he hopes that everyone is well, and he is full of sympathy and compassion for life.
His two psychological activities have twists and turns, one is to imagine that the beauty is naturally lonely, and the other is to dare to be a beauty who has lived? However, reality is the complete opposite of his imagination, and the contrast forms a clash of perspectives.
The Red Chamber
Beauty
About the Author:
Wang Xiong is a member of the Chinese Writers Association and a scholar of Hanshui culture. He is currently the chairman of the China Railway Writers Association, and an adjunct professor of Southwest Jiaotong University and Suzhou University of Science and Technology. He began to write literature in 1989 and has written many novels, essays, reportage, and academic treatises, totaling more than 5.8 million words. Many of his works have been published or reprinted in key newspapers and periodicals such as People's Daily, People's Literature, Chinese Writers, Youth Literature, Selected Novels, and Selected Novellas. Representative works include the novels "Yin and Yang Monument", "Passing on the Ancients", and "Jin Kui Yin Lou" (collectively known as the "Hanshui Culture Trilogy"). Long-form reportage works such as "China Speed" and "China Power" have been translated into English, French, German, Spanish, Russian, Arabic, Japanese, Romanian and other languages, and published by foreign language publishing houses or foreign publishing houses, and distributed to the world.
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