The first male protagonist of "Dream of the Red Chamber" with a perfect person is not Jia Baoyu; the winner of life, Jia Mu, is lively and active when she is a teenager, spoiled by her brother, but unsatisfactory after marriage; Liu Grandma was a heroine when she was young, but she was abandoned by a negative person...
Recently, Nanjing University's Red Studies Class has released a new book called "Dream before the Red Chamber", which contains all the prequels written by NTU students for the characters in "Dream of the Red Chamber".
Xu Xingwu, a professor at the College of Letters of Nanjing University, wrote an inscription for "Dream Before the Red Chamber"
Throughout the ages, there have been more than 200 kinds of sequels to "Dream of the Red Chamber", but few people have written them forward. Perhaps Cao Xueqin did not expect that 200 years later, a group of post-00s college students studied the original text and tried to explore the past of the Red Chamber.
In other words, the initiator of the creation of "The Dream Before the Red Chamber" is no one else, it is Miao Huaiming, a professor at the College of Letters of Nanjing University, who gave him the nickname "Miao Yi Knife" and "Miao Dawang".
Miao Huaiming, professor at the College of Liberal Arts of Nanjing University
He said that this is an upgraded version of the fancy homework of the Dream of the Red Chamber Research Course of Nanjing University, which looks like a dog blood and gossip, but in fact, the requirements are very strict, and the test is the integration of students' understanding of the original work, while honing their writing level.
The design is, of course, based on it. Look, at the beginning of the work, many prerequisites were set: Xiangling was three years old, Zhen Shiyin was more than half a hundred years old, Jia Yucun was a poor student, Jia Mu was white-haired, and Lin Daiyu lost her mother... These are the conditions and premises for the development of the storyline of the following article, but they are not the result of the previous story.
But the previous story is a narrative black hole, the author did not write it, but the reader can not help but think: how did Jia Mu become a housekeeper and daughter-in-law? Why did Jia Min marry in Suzhou? How did Yuan Chun enter the palace? How was Jia Baoyu born into the human world? All of this is of great interest to the reader.
Before the official publication of "Dream Before the Red Chamber", Jiangsu Wenmei was authorized by The Editor-in-Chief of Miao, and hereby discloses some chapters in advance for the benefit of readers.
One "Invisible Male No. 1" and "Perfect Boy" are not Baoyu
Luosun Mountain Court Training Thousand Mile Colt Throwing Xiang Water Soul back to a piece of earth - Jia Zhu prequel
The "perfect" prince and first heir of Rong Guofu is not Second Master Bao, but Uncle Zhu, who never appeared positively in the original work.
Wu Ying, a student at Nanjing University, imagined "another possibility for the prince of Rongfu" and "the death of Jia Zhu" to retrieve the "protagonist script" for the invisible male number one.
The second time in the original work, "Leng Zixing's Speech on Rong Guofu", introduced him, but only a few sentences: "I entered school at the age of fourteen, and before I was twenty years old, I married my wife and had children, and I died of illness." ”
After the thirty-third famous scene of the original work, "Baoyu was beaten", Madame Wang thought of Jia Zhu and couldn't help but sigh: "If you live, I don't care if you die a hundred." Hearing this, even Jia Zheng, who was serious about self-denial, "rolled down like a melon."
Indeed, if there is a big brother Jia Zhu, Bao Yu may be a good "rich and idle person" for a lifetime, and he will not be forced to open a business and take the Raushi sub-career economy.
Why did Jia Zhu, who loved to read and seek progress, filial piety and obedience, die early?
Jia Zhu is young and intelligent, filial piety and obedience, is a good child in the eyes of his parents, if he did not die prematurely, his life trajectory should be to give birth to the eldest grandson, take the meritorious name, enter the imperial court, and inherit the family business after Jia Zheng's death, and his life will be smooth and smooth, and he will be happy and worry-free.
Jia Zhu's father, Jia Zheng, has had a wish since he was a child - not to rely on the shadow of his ancestors and the gifts of the king, but to prove his talent through the imperial examination. Therefore, he enjoyed reading since he was a child, but when Jia Daishan died, his last book was on the book, and the emperor was generous and did not have to take the exam to take up his post. This gift deprived Jia Zheng of the opportunity to prove himself. Doesn't that sound like Versailles?
Jia Zheng put this wish on his son, Jia Zhu began to receive training from the imperial examination since he was a child, and was admitted to Xiucai at the age of fourteen, and until his death, he was still preparing for the examination.
The perfect person in the eyes of others does not represent the perfection in their own hearts. His wife, Li Feng, is not his ideal partner, and he has another confidant. Because of the love of his children, Jia Zhu was beaten violently by his father Jia Zheng, and since then he has opened the "weak" mode, and finally because he cannot reconcile with life, he has gone to the end of suicide.
Regarding Jia Zhu's death, Wu Ying wrote a rather subtle ending:
Jia Zhu stood up, the wind smoked his cheeks from the surface of the water, closed his eyes and extended his arms, as if he felt looser. Leaning down, a startled jackdaw counted, and the cloud shadow that covered the moon was blown away by the wind. The shadow reflected in the river was shattered by the ripples of the waves, and the waves of the water in a circle continued to ripple outward and extend out, seemingly never ending. ”
Wu Ying said that step by step pushed a perfect person into the abyss of death, and she felt great pain. "The mussel disease becomes a pearl, and the world only sees the beautiful appearance of the pearl jade, but forgets the pain of the mussel disease itself."
The last witness to Jia Zhu's death was the cold river and the merciless moon, extremely cold. In the lively big family, although he is in the core position, he is still a lonely person. The bustle had nothing to do with him, the warmth had nothing to do with him, and all he carried was the cold responsibility.
Jia Zhu worked very hard, but the two imperial examinations unfortunately failed, which may be a trick of fate. Jia Zheng and Madame Wang didn't care how much Jia Zhu had paid, only whether they had achieved their preset goals.
Wu Ying analyzed that, to some extent, Jia Zhu's death manipulated the direction of the entire "Dream of the Red Chamber": Jia Zheng's dream fell short, and Lady Wang panicked; Yuan Chun's entry into the palace was imperative, and the family's hopes and responsibilities shifted to female marriages; Jia Baoyu became the only heir of the Yuzi generation of Rong Guofu; Li Feng's life changed, and he was no longer in the center of power, becoming a marginal figure in managing his sister-in-law; Wang Xifeng gradually entered the central position of Rong Guofu and grasped family power...
Version 1.0 of "Shi Da Girl", not Xiang Yun but her
Shaohua left the pillow at the bottom of Xia Lake Ten years a night before the Rongxi Hall - Jia Mu prequel
The ultimate heroine of Jia Fu and the winner of fu shou shuangquan's life is, of course, Jia Mu.
Who hasn't been a teenage girl? How did the eldest daughter of the Shi Hou family grow up to be the head of the family? Liang Xinyue, a student at Nanjing University, conceived of Jia Mu's girlhood. Perhaps, the lively and active "Shi Da Girl" version 1.0 is not Shi Xiangyun, but her!
What is Jia Mu's name? I only know that her surname is Shi, known as Shi Taijun, and no one dares to call the old ancestor's name directly. Shi Ding and Shi Nai are the nephews of Shi Taijun, corresponding to Li Ding and Li Nai, relatives of the Cao family and sons of Li Xu of Suzhou Weaving. Therefore, jia mu's brother was called Shi Xu.
The names in Li Xu's family tree are all from fire, that is, the head of the department is "fire" or "灬". Liang Xinyue named Jia Mu "煣": "Fire" means lively and cheerful, and "soft" also refers to wide and loving. "煣" means to be bent with fire, a metaphor for the straightforward maiden in Jia Province, who is sharpened into a housewife.
In that year, the second duke of Jinling Jia Jia Rongning built a mansion. The Jia family held a feast and invited Jinling Xungui all over the place. The Jia family and the Baoling Hou Shi Gong family were family friends, and the officials and relatives of the Shi family also went to pay homage to Shou with gifts, leaving only a few mother-in-law and small houses and inferior servants in each room to guard the house. Unexpectedly, Shi Hou's eldest son Shi Xu and eldest daughter Shi Xuan had diarrhea due to gluttony of peaches yesterday, and the government invited a doctor to see him, who said that the child was weak and needed to rest for a day after taking medicine. The two brothers and sisters stayed in the mansion and did not go with them.
Shi Da girl likes to eat peaches, when she was a child, she had diarrhea due to gluttony? In the eleventh episode of the original work, Jia Mu watched Bao Yu eat peaches, and she was hungry herself. Therefore, Liang Xinyue speculated that she should have always liked to eat.
The Shi Da girl of the girlhood is happy and lively, enjoying the love of her parents and the company of her brothers and sisters. When she was a few years old, she took advantage of the absence of her elders and together with her brother in the treasure building that sneaked into the house, she accidentally broke her father's beloved treasure, and then her brother apologized for her.
There is a wooden pavilion in the shifu named "Pillow Xia Pavilion", and in the middle of the lake in the park, this small lake is also named "Pillow Xia Lake". In the spring scenery, Shi Xuan and his sisters in the family met to play in the garden, and when the sun set, they came to the front of the Pillow Pavilion. At this time, the sunset is full of sky, reflecting on the lake, and the upper and lower levels are mixed with gold and purple.
Shi Xuan quickly ran into the pavilion, sat down on the bench, leaned against the pillar, lifted the tail of the skirt, and then placed his legs on the pavilion stool. Squint your eyes and pretend to sleep. After a while, he looked at the sisters and smiled slyly, "This light is very soft and unusual, it is really suitable for sleep, you should also try it." Shi Xuan said with a smile and was about to get up, but unexpectedly, this pavilion stool was slightly narrower, and when he leaned on it, he was slightly closer to the lake, and he lost his foot and fell into the lake.
The sisters were in a mess and rushed forward to pull Shi Xuan to the shore, but Shi Xuan was struggling and wanted to save him from the shore, but he did not know where to start. Unfortunately, Shi Xuan fell into the water near the foundation of the wooden pavilion, and in a panic, he hit the wooden nails at the bottom of the pavilion of the Pillow Pavilion, and struck a blow, which also made Shi Xuan pass out and gradually sink to the bottom of the lake...
In the thirty-eighth time of the original work, Jia Mu said that when she was a young girl, she lost her footing and fell into the water, fell to the Pillow Pavilion, and was injured by wooden nails. Everyone said she couldn't live, but in the end she was fine. It can be seen that she was lively and active when she was young, and it was difficult not to die, and she was a blessed person.
When Jia Xuan married into the Jia family, she was a granddaughter-in-law, and the ancestors of the second duke of Rongning were still alive, and they were not knighted for too long. The strict family rules of Jia Fu, the snub of her in-laws and husbands, the death of friends, the disrespect of the subordinates... Separated from the loving environment of her family, she felt that she was no longer a golden lady and needed to change herself and become a fierce and exquisite future hostess.
Grandma Liu was a heroine when she was young
Sorrowful Jinhua vows to never bear the heart of lang A knife to comfort the infatuated grandmother - Liu Grandma prequel
The village grandmother who "opened her mouth" is not a female classmate without a story. She has a wealth of life experience, although sleek and sophisticated, but warm and kind, grateful and grateful.
What is Grandma's real name? The original did not mention it. Zhang Wenjing, a student at Nanjing University, named her "Jinhua". Think of her youth, she was also beautiful as a flower, called the "golden flower" in the village.
This conjecture originated from the fortieth time in the original work, "Shi Taijun Two Feasts Grand View Garden, Golden Mandarin Duck Three Xuanya Card Order" - Liu Grandma smiled: "Although I am old, when I was young, I was also popular, I loved a flower powder, and today's old style is good." ”
Liu Jinhua's young personality, on the whole, is a heroine who dares to love and dare to hate, she has many suitors, but after waiting for her sweetheart for ten years, she was tragically abandoned by the negative heart, and finally joined forces with the jianghu and the hegemon.
In late autumn and early winter, in Liujia Village, Shangyuan County, Jiangning Province, 26-year-old girl Jinhua finally looked forward to returning to her sweetheart. However, her brother Zhang Qing, who was a young plum bamboo horse, was already the child's father and had dragged the family back with him.
Waiting for ten years, will you finally get such an ending? The original oath was indeed so fluttering that Jin Hua could not swallow this breath. She threw away the wash basin and went straight to Zhang Qing's house.
"Zhang Qing, you negative man!" It was too late, it was fast, and the voice of the golden flower made the happy atmosphere in the courtyard instantly drop to zero.
Her heart was once desperate to the bottom, but it was also the opportunity to go to the liquor store to borrow wine to pour sorrow, and she was almost lightly treated by the little Liu Dachuan. The two did not fight and did not know each other, and later the two solved the misunderstanding, met frankly, and finally became a family.
After Jinhua and Dachuan were together, Jinhua had forgotten Zhang Qing's negative heart and was thinking of her brother Dachuan.
A year after marriage, Jinhua became pregnant, and gave birth to a big fat boy in the first birth, but died before the first birthday. Later, Jinhua became pregnant again and gave birth to a well-behaved girl.
Dachuan has always treated Jinhua's mother and daughter very well, but the little days of his wife and children have not lived for several years. When the girl was three years old, Oikawa fell ill and died.
Girls grow up day by day, and Jinhua has also changed from a little daughter-in-law to an old village woman. People in the village used to call her Grandma. Grandma Liu did farm work during the day, took the children to take care of the housework at night, and never forgot the short but sweet married life with Dachuan, often crying alone in the middle of the night.
After the three "spoilers" of "Dream Before the Red Chamber" were completed, the Jiangsu context continued to urge change. Pay attention to the "Jiangsu Wenmai" WeChat public account, the background reply to the "Dream Before the Red Chamber", you can see the whole book in advance!
Want to watch Nanjing University's red studies class? As early as June 2020, the fancy homework of the Red Study Class was assembled and published: presiding over a dinner party and inviting people in "Dream of the Red Chamber" to eat; Dai Yu buried flowers and Bao Yu was beaten, helping Lin Daiyu and Jia Baoyu send a "circle of friends"; finding objects for the "Jinling Twelve Chao"...
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(Edited by Gao Xia)