As an enduring masterpiece, the influence of Dream of the Red Chamber has far exceeded the novel itself, and many of the characters and plots in the book have become a cultural gene of ours, which invisibly affects us.
There was once a big beautiful woman who said such a thing, when she interacted with boys, she would ask him, do you like Lin Daiyu or like Xue Baochao, as long as you say that you like Lin Daiyu, that is an infatuated man, you can consider continuing to communicate.
As long as it is said that he likes Xue Baochao and immediately breaks off his friendship, this is a ruthless force, it is not worth interacting with at all, although this statement is debatable, it does reflect the fact that most people prefer Lin Daiyu.
There can be many reasons for liking Lin Daiyu, such as her frankness, her true temperament, her infatuation, her intelligence, her soul fit for Baoyu, etc. These factors are actually right, after all, liking a person can have many sides.
But there is actually a very important thing missing here, that is, a psychological effect that we are very difficult to detect, that is, all of us are actually caught in a kind of social fear, no matter how close the person is to us, we can't fully understand this person.
This is actually an insurmountable sadness as a human being, who has a rich language, a profound philosophical speculation, and even an unparalleled art, but compared to this, our real understanding of others is very small, and we can never really enter a person's inner world and know what he really thinks.
When we read novels, in addition to the wonderful plot, the observation of the characters in the novel, completely in the perspective of God, especially the protagonist's completely transparent heart, will make us feel inexplicably comfortable, because this feeling of fully understanding a person is completely impossible to exist in real society.
The description of the character's heart will make us know the protagonist very well, such as Lin Daiyu, her mind we know very clearly, and even her past life is written very clearly.
Lin Daiyu in front of the reader, in fact, is a very comfortable state, she is transparent in front of us, we know what she is thinking in her heart, know why she is crying, know why she is sad, and know a character so thoroughly, which is an important reason why the reader likes Lin Daiyu very much.
In contrast, Xue Baochao is much more difficult to understand, there is very little description of Xue Baochao's real thoughts in the novel, even if as a reader, with the perspective of God to see the Dream of the Red Chamber, we still can't understand Xue Baochao as a person, she is sometimes affectionate, sometimes very snobbish, is a very complex character.
In our subconscious, in fact, we don't like such an incomprehensible character as Xue Baochao, because there are too many such characters in reality, and you can't tell whether she is good or bad, because saying good and saying bad have evidence to support it.
In the face of such an unknown Xue Baochao, in fact, many people's first feeling is that they don't like it, after all, in the real social, most of the states we do not understand each other, we are tired of this unknown state, we like that transparent, simple character, Lin Daiyu is a typical transparent character, but every reader, looking very comfortable.
It is precisely because everyone likes Lin Daiyu's transparency and simplicity, so they automatically ignore the certainty of Lin Daiyu, because we know very well why these shortcomings are, so it is easy to forgive her.
But Xue Baochao, because we can't understand and can't see through, many of the things she does, many of the advantages on her body, may be explained as a scheming, or even said to be a spokesperson for maintaining feudal rule, and so on.
Xue Baochao is not so bad, Lin Daiyu is not so good, Jia Baoyu likes Lin Daiyu, which is easy to bring the reader in, thinking that Lin Daiyu is good, that is, the perfect personality praised by the author.
We are in the real world, the novel is just that, the projection of the real world, we are even more impossible to get rid of the influence of the real society, to look at the novel, because for Lin Daiyu, her simplicity and transparency will be liked by many people, for Xue Baochao, her complexity and can not understand, there will be people inexplicably hate her.
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