Golden and jade marriage
The "golden and jade marriage" seems to be festive, but it is actually tragic. It was a political marriage, and the "marriage" of gold and jade was not based on love, but on the choice of the ruler of the patriarchal family for the political interests of the feudal family. As mentioned above, Bao Dai sincerely loves each other, is the "wooden stone former alliance" that fits the soul, although Bao Yu's heart and mind are "all the way is the golden jade good relationship, and I only read the wooden stone former alliance", but his elders Jia Mu, Madame Wang, Aunt Xue, etc. out of family interests, based on the so-called "ethics and morality", concocted the so-called "golden jade good relationship", and chose The lady model Xue Baochao, who also has "moral words and craftsmanship", and the "golden jade good edge" smashed the "wooden stone former alliance" and created the love tragedy of "sorrowful gold mourning jade".
"Dream of the Red Chamber" Of the four major families of Jia Shi Wang Xue, three of them are aristocratic families and in-laws, only the Xue family is born of shangjia, and there is no knighthood and no position. Due to the death of her husband, the death of her son, and the decline of the family, Aunt Xue brought her children to Beijing to join her relatives under the pretext of sending her daughter to Beijing for the pretext of sending her daughter to Beijing for the "draft". But she did not go to the family of her brother Prince Teng, who was closer to the four major families, but to the family of her sister and brother-in-law. Seemingly loyal Aunt Xue, full of sophistication, her real purpose is to climb the more powerful Jia Fu, aiming at the sister's "son born of jade", and planned the "golden jade good relationship" strategy in advance, intending to attach the Jia family, a hot aristocratic family, through "marriage". After living in Jia Province, taking the opportunity of the sisters' chat, Aunt Xue pointed out the matter of gold and jade to Lady Wang, saying that Baochao, who had a "golden lock", would "wait for those who have jade in the future to get married", and the sisters naturally tacitly agreed.
The 8th time BaoChao looked at Bao Yusuo to see the psychic jade, the maid Ying'er again led Baoyu's attention to look at the golden lock, the master and servant should be a deliberate move: the psychic treasure jade and the golden lock each have eight characters, the two correspond, just into a pair, but inadvertently Bao Chao's master servant said that the word that broke the golden lock was to ask someone to chisel it up, the psychic treasure jade and the text were celestial immortals, the words of the golden lock were artificial chisels in the mortal world, gold and jade looked like a pair, but they were not a pair, and "golden jade good fortune" was a human conspiracy, not providence. Aunt Xue has been painstakingly planning for a long time, and Bao Chao may not have conspired with her mother, but she should have understood her mother's plan and had a tacit understanding. The drunken Xue Pan once directly pointed out his sister's heart: "I already know your heart... You must choose the jade to match it", it can be seen that "gold with jade" is the common target of the Xue family.
The 28th time in Gengchen Ben, Qi Shu Ben, Jia Chen Ben, etc., wrote that Aunt Xue "mentioned to Lady Wang and others that 'the lock was given by a monk, and only those who have jade in the future can be married'". One of the "waiting" words in "to Lady Wang and so on" is enough to show that Aunt Xue not only told Lady Wang about "golden and jade good fortune", but also peddled this saying to many people, so that the theory of gold and jade did not go away. Lady Wang intends to build a strong foundation for the Wang clan in Jia Province, and the saying of "golden jade and good fortune" is also in lady Wang's heart, and forming an alliance with her nephew Queen Xifeng, her sister Aunt Xue, and her niece Baochao can achieve her wish to control Jia Province.
The saying of "golden and jade marriage" put Baochao in a very awkward position. She knew her mother's wishful thinking, and she also liked Baoyu, but she had to pretend to be reserved because of etiquette, and on the surface she was far away from Baoyu, but she could always skillfully grasp the favorable opportunity to hint or show the "golden jade" view, such as the blush musk string; she proposed to use gold wire to give Baoyu's psychic jade (jin peiyu), etc.; especially Baochao, who usually wrapped himself very strictly, did not avoid the suspicion of sitting by the sleeping Baoyu bed, embroidering the "five-colored mandarin duck" for him, and revealing the inner secret. But to the embarrassment of Baochao, who embroidered Mandarin ducks by the bedside, Baoyu shouted in his sleep: "How can the words of the monk and Taoist be trusted?" What is the marriage of gold and jade, I prefer to say that it is a marriage of wood and stone! Shocking and frightened, Bao Chao woke bao chao, and she knew her place in Bao Yu's heart. Although Baoyu was once attracted by Baochao's beauty and had a closer relationship, he was close but not loving, and he was still very disgusted by Baochao's strong advocacy and repeated persuasion to take the road of economics, and directly denounced it as, Baoyu straightened out his heart, and fixed the relationship with Baochao on his aunt and cousin, and did not overstep. Bao, Bao, and Dai, Baochao fell behind emotionally. She has feelings for Baoyu, but Baoyu has no intention, confined to ethics, showing love to Baoyu can not go beyond the distance, whether she can marry Baoyu to achieve the golden and jade match, climb the Jia family, this noble relative, related to the fate of the Xue family, the dual interests of the individual and the family, so that she can not stay outside the "Jinyu" scheme, she does everything possible to please Jia Mu, Lady Wang and other people who have decision-making power in Jia Province, and the feelings of attacking people, Ming Yan and other subordinates, is also a public relations battle that is crucial to cooperate with her mother's intention to achieve "marriage". As for her aunt, mother, and cousin Wang Xifeng, who said that Jia Mu had cultivated the darkness, carefully constructed the so-called "miracle plan" of "dropping the bag" and promoting the "golden and jade bond", she should not know the truth before the big gift, let her marry in the name of impersonation, and become a tool for Chong Xi, which is undoubtedly a humiliation to her. When Bao Chao sat on the bed after the big gift, he was aware of it, and he was trapped in that situation and had words of suffering, helpless. Jin Yu Liangyuan defeated the Former Alliance of Mushi, destroyed Daiyu, hurt Baoyu, Baochao was not a winner, lost his dignity and was abandoned, and fell into the sad end of a widow, all three people are victims of the patriarchal social marriage system, all are tragic figures, sad, lamentable!
Cao Xueqin portrays the three protagonists of the tragedy in a three-dimensional way with the pen of soul hunting, and Cao Xueqin places her personality ideals on Jia Baoyu and Lin Daiyu, and portrays Bao Dai Shuangyu with brilliance. He almost all used praise on the surface to build Baochao into a standard image of everyone's bridesmaids: Yanguan Qunfang, erudite, quiet and dignified, gentle and generous, working in needlework, abiding by etiquette... It seems to be impeccable, and it is difficult to find the author's explicit and direct negative evaluation of Baochao's image and behavior in the book. However, the author used Baoyu to rebuke Baochao for "being a clean and white woman, who also learned to sell her reputation and reputation, and entered the flow of the national thief Lu Ghost", declaring his role positioning of Baochao: Xue Baochao is a devout practitioner of feudal etiquette, her secular utilitarianism and the main values presented by Cao Xueqin in the whole book of "Dream of the Red Chamber" are retrograde, Baochao is the role set by Cao Xueqin as the opposite of double jade values, and Cao Gong writes Baochao using the method of bright praise and dark depreciation, which is a clever historian's song pen. Others, such as Baochao's improvisation to avoid eavesdropping when playing butterflies, his stance on Jin Jun'er's death, and the attitude of "not doing his own thing, not opening his mouth, shaking his head and shaking his head three times without knowing", describe the hidden meaning of the author, for the author to "write without writing", whether it is to support the plutonium or anti-plutonium, the reader can understand it from his own point of view. Perhaps it is appropriate to use the Tang poem "Ren is ruthless and moving" as an evaluation of Baochao (the correct words are reversed, and the red scholars interpret it as "Ren is moving and ruthless"). Baoyu's rebuke of Baochao foreshadows the direction of the relationship between the two treasures.
Artwork of "Golden-Jade Marriage"
There are many characters in the "Golden Jade Marriage", which exceeds the bearing capacity of the square inch picture and is a design difficulty. However, this topic selection is an important plot of the central story that runs through the whole book - the love tragedy of Bao Daichao, and it is also the key evidence to expose the harm of "Li" to "love", which is related to the theme structure of "Dream of the Red Chamber", which is indispensable, and the stamp can only be subtracted as much as possible, and the courage to delete the background of the characters who have nothing to do with the theme or have little effect on deepening the theme. This figure Baoyu is the number one protagonist, although he is dazed by the loss of jade, he has no unswerving feelings for the love in his heart. For the sake of portraying Baoyu, who thought that he had married Sister Lin and fulfilled his wish, he removed the hijab and felt that there was a difference, he held a lamp to illuminate it, found that the fruit was not what he loved in his heart, lost his hand and threw the hijab, and was shocked and frightened, I deliberately omitted the Xi Niang who should take the hijab next to Baoyu to avoid secondary characters interfering with the portrayal of the main characters. The protagonist of the second number, Xue Baochao, was originally blinded by the manipulation of "replacing Dai with Bao", Baoyu's performance may have made her realize in her heart, she has always been respectful and polite, she has been wronged and cannot show it, how embarrassing? I tried to shape Baochao's attitude of having to pretend to be stupid, endure humiliation, and bow her head and be silent, trying to show her inner churning under the surface calm. Wang Xifeng, who planned the "drop bag plan", is the third figure, and I painted her with a drum and a spring, trying to persuade Bao Yu not to make a mistake, trying to prevent more embarrassing scenes. The fourth person is Jia Mu, who is also an embarrassing character. Jia Mu once had great compassion for her granddaughter Dai Yu, arranged to live with her grandson Bao Yu, and deliberately matched Bao Dai's feelings, but in the end she was unable to resist the manipulation of Lady Wang's gang, because of the balance between the standards of feudal etiquette and family political interests, she chose to abandon Dai and became the clapper of the "Golden Jade Good Fortune", was the culprit who broke up the "Wooden stone former alliance", killed her granddaughter, forced her grandson away, and also hurt Xue Baochao. At the ceremony of the "Golden Jade Marriage", can the grandson's reaction of "first rejoicing and then being surprised" make her wake up? Jia Mu may not care too much about Daiyu's life and death and Baochao's dignity, but if she realizes the heavy blow this move has inflicted on her precious grandson, will she still bear it? I tried to reveal the truth of Jia Mu's worry about "dropping the bag plan", causing her grandson to go crazy again, and showing the embarrassment of playing a drum in her heart with happiness on her face.
This painting is usually used to indicate festive red as the main tone, but it contains a tragic atmosphere, which can also be regarded as a cold and positive brushwork in the heat.
TanChun is married
Painting a picture of "Exploring Spring and Marrying Far Away" is also quite expensive. "Exploring Spring And Marrying" is unknown in Chinese in the last 40 times, the 99th mentions that Zhou Qiong, the general producer of Zhenhai, sent a letter to Jia Zheng to ask for relatives for his son in the hope of The attachment of Ciluo, and the 100th time it was rewritten after Jia Zhengyun's relatives, Lady Wang was happy, Xue Baochao regretted, Aunt Zhao was happy and happy, and Jia Baoyu was scattered because of her sisters' grief and sorrow, and she fell into bed and cried... The different reactions of the people of Rong Province to the marriage of Tan Chun Yuan. As for the marriage, in the 102nd time, only the words "bid farewell to everyone, even got on the car and boarded the journey, and the water boat and landcar went away" can not be less than an understatement.
Some scholars have speculated that Tan Chun and Fan married the King of Fan as a princess according to the descriptions of the 63rd Qunfang Night Feast signing the flower name, the red apricot sign marked "Must Get Your Son-in-Law" and the 70th time Bao Yu and the sisters flew the kite, and the soft-winged phoenix kite that Tan Chun flew with another phoenix kite and the Linglong Xizi kite twisted together and flew away in a broken line (see Gengchen, Dream Manuscript, and Qi Sequence Books). However, in both the 78th and 120th editions of the "Dream of the Red Chamber", there is no definitive evidence to support the above speculation that can form a chain, just by a joke in the boudoir on the wine table: "Are you also a princess?" And a game to make the conclusion of "Princess Tanchun" is obviously far-fetched. In line with Cao Xueqin's original intention, I did not use the above conjecture, and tried to use the plot of the last 40 times and the first 80 times that did not contradict the first 80 times and deepened the theme.
The red scholarly circles recognize that the "lipid commentary" has extremely high value for the study of the "Dream of the Red Chamber", and the criticism under the riddle "Gossamer is broken and weak" made by Li Yanzhai in the 22nd Tanchun is "This Exploration of Spring is far from suitable for the truth", and the Confucian Thirteen classics of the "Rituals" note: "All women are married above the doctor." Is the word "suitable" indicating that the ending set by Cao Xueqin for Tanchun is to marry a commoner? Regardless of whether this is said or not, "the gossamer is broken and powerless" clearly indicates that "the broken line kite is gone and will not return", which is Cao Xueqin's true intention for the concept of exploring the spring destination.
The 5th episode of "Dream of the Red Chamber" has always been considered by the red academic circles to be the general outline of the character ending and storyline of the whole book. Among them, the pictures, judgments and lyrics of the Twelve Books of Jinling and the lyrics of "Dividing Flesh and Bones" describe the situation and the six characters of the 102nd "Water Boat and LandCar Go". According to this, I drew a sea, a large boat, a dressed Tanchun covering his face and weeping at the bow of the boat, a broken line kite with a "gossamer broken and weak" floating towards the sky (this kite has nothing to do with the 70th soft-winged phoenix kite), which fits the meaning of the words "Qu Yan Dream dream" "Divided flesh and bones" Song phrase "Three thousand sails and winds, the flesh and bones homeland, throw together". This painting is not only in line with Mr. Cao Xueqin's original intention, but also does not contradict the writing method of "water boat and land car" in Cheng and Gao's sequels. Because the academic circles also do not recognize the arrangement of Cheng and Gao sorting out the part of Tanchun to marry the son of Zhou Qiong, the chief producer of Zhenhai, so that the painting also blurs who the groom is and avoids controversy.
"Exploring Spring and Marrying Far Away" artwork
Li Yanzhai concatenated the first word of the name of the four spring sisters to correspond to "originally should sigh", Tan Chun corresponds to the "sigh" word of "lament", Tan Chun Yuan's marriage is not a happy event, it is gone, life and separation are like death, "far married" is "Qianhong Yi 'crying'", "Wan Yan tong 'sad'" A scene of the tragedy of the Red Chamber, "only since the Qingming Ambition is high" Tan Chun such an ending, it is really sad to sigh!
Baoyu is dusty
The theme of "Treasure Jade but Dust" comes from the 119th and 120th times of "Dream of the Red Chamber".
The voice of criticism of the 119th "Zhongxiang Kui Baoyu but dusty fate, Mu Huang Enjia Family Yan Shize" criticism of the 119th time is even stronger, Mu Huang'en, Yan Shize, Lan Gui Qifang, Jia Dao Fuchu, Tan Chun Gui Ning, are all hard injuries that have been criticized. Jia Baoyu took the exam to be a township leader, is this still the anti-imperial and anti-feudal Jia Baoyu in Cao Xueqin's pen? The last 40 times the finisher Gao Yanjinshi and the first, are the beneficiaries of the imperial examination system, and the plot inserted into Baoyu's examination is obviously his departure and tampering with Cao Xueqin's original intention of red; the description of "Zhongju Resignation Father" also makes Baoyu's recluse drag mud and water, it seems that there are still earthly bonds, and it is not in line with Cao Xueqin's true intentions.
"Dream of the Red Chamber" 5th time to dominate the whole book, the whole book is in the Red Chamber Twelve Songs "Closing The Birds Throw Each Forest": "The land is really clean when it falls into a white expanse!" "It shows the tragic end of the demise of Jia Fu's family affairs and the dispersion of his family.
The ending that Cao Xueqin set for Baoyu was to become a monk. The 30th text of the Dream of the Red Chamber writes that Bao Yu said to Dai Yu: "When you die, I will go as a monk"; the 21st time of the Gengchen Ben has a passage of Fat Yan Zhai criticism: "Bao Yu has this world can not bear to be poisoned, so the later text can have a 'cliff hand' once; if others get Bao Chao's wife and musk moon's wife, how can they abandon it and become a monk?" The 25th commentary: "Sigh can't see the Baoyu Cliff throwing away the words for hate", the two paragraphs of the commentary confirm the main text, and the 119th time takes care of this.
I painted "Baoyu but dust", followed Cao Xueqin's original intention, and combined "the land that fell into a white expanse is really clean" and "abandoned as a monk" to the Red Chamber, with the intention, conception, and composition, focusing on Jia Baoyu's "cutting off" of "cutting off the dust edge", "abandoning" of "abandoning for the monk", "but the dust edge" of "but" and "falling into a white expanse of the earth is really clean" to develop ideas: Bao Yu experienced the coldness of the world, saw through the darkness of the court officialdom, understood the cruelty of feudal etiquette, and clarified the reasons for the decline of the noble family. Having lost the love that has been exhausted by tears, the sisters who care for them are also scattered, the earthly world has no self,has nothing to love, has nothing to do with red dust, has woken up from a big dream, returns to emptiness, gives up, gives up, rejects everything in the world, cuts off the dust edge, and gives up on the cliff, "but dust" is Baoyu's personal "enlightenment", corresponding to Cao Xueqin's "thorough understanding" of life due to her own experience. "Abandoning to become a monk" is not to escape into the earthly temple and make a temporary escape, but to "abandon the red dust", "return to the great wilderness", and return to the Immortal Realm Great Wilderness Mountain. Thinking clearly, I only painted Baoyu alone, the big red cloak floating up, barefoot snow, floating out of the dust; the background is clean, except for a white expanse of the earth, there is nothing else, the composition is both concise and striking.
"Treasure Jade but Dust" artwork
I also made careful consideration of the picture layout, the first few groups of stamp compositions mostly according to the traditional painting nine-square grid composition mode using the depth of field, the main plot, characters arranged in the middle of the picture, several groups of stamps put together, the overall feeling of the composition is balanced. The first three stamps in this group also show the plot that happened in the world, still like the layout of the previous group, while the "Baoyu is dusty" one, I raised the position of Baoyu, close to the edge of the painting to the right, to create a trend out of the picture. If the 4 stamps are arranged from left to right, it is obvious that the position of Jia Baoyu who "but dust" is higher than the first three earthly figures, and the distance is also widened, it seems that it is not in a time and space, which is intended to highlight Jia Baoyu's determination to abandon the dust and return to the wilderness.
Cao Xueqin did not complete the final draft of the Red Chamber before her death, the age orientation of the book is somewhat wrong, and the sequel also contradicts the previous article, for example, the Red Scholar calculated that Baoyu's marriage was in the year of the Red Chamber, that is, the sixteenth year of the Red Chamber, it was 16 years old, but the dust was in the winter of the 17th year of the Red Chamber, Baoyu was 17 years old, and the sequel was 19 years old. The age of the characters in the Red Chamber such as Bao Daichao I painted is slightly older than the age set in the book, not for the above reasons, but because of the depiction involving their love marriage, so as to avoid negatively leading contemporary children because the age of the characters in the Red Chamber is too young.
Baoyu is dusty, and the Red Chamber dreams. After completing the design of the 5th group, the series of stamps of the classical literary masterpiece "Dream of the Red Chamber" will also come to an end, and I would like to draw a circle of this period. However, due to the failure of double eye surgery in previous years, the vision is not as good as a year, which has caused great obstacles to the design of stamps, overcome all difficulties, and finally drew this period, but may not draw a circle, please forgive me. Because of my eye disease, I basically lost the ability to paint "work to be refined, fine to the subtle" of the work strokes, especially the small brush strokes, "Chinese Classical Literature Masterpieces - Dream of the Red Chamber" (V) stamps as the final work of my stamp design. But I will still keep in touch with the majority of postmen as a collector, and may philately give us happiness! May friendship always be there!
Source| "Philatelic Expo" No. 421: Sorrow and Mourning Jade Dream Knot Red Chamber - "Masterpieces of Chinese Classical Literature - Dream of the Red Chamber" (5) Stamp Design Essay, Author: Xiao Yutian
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