Dream of the Red Chamber is a very popular novel, since its birth, it has been loved and studied by countless people, and even gave birth to a special study of the Dream of the Red Chamber called Red Studies.
There are many mysteries about this novel, but some people often break away from the text and talk about something very illusory, although it is very beautiful, but in essence, it is just a castle in the air, even if it is very exquisite and gorgeous.
Reading the Dream of the Red Chamber, the text is the first, many people are in accordance with the modern way of thinking, take it for granted to look at the thinking mode of the ancients, in fact, ancient thinking and modern have a huge difference, can not use modern thinking to unthinkingly set on the ancient people.
For example, about Jia Bao, the book has clearly stated that he is a small fat man, a very rich kind, but in the new version of the Dream of the Red Chamber, Jia Baoyu has become almost as thin as Sister Lin.
Jia Baoyu, played by Ouyang Fenqiang, should be said to be more in line with the original work, but in fact, it is also influenced by modern aesthetics, ancient aristocrats, are based on children looking white and fat for beauty, before there was a very hot paragraph, spit on the Chinese dolls on the Chinese New Year paintings, fat has no sense of beauty at all, that is actually the traditional aesthetic, the depiction of the boy's figure.
Regarding Lin Daiyu, in fact, the author does not describe a lot of positive descriptions, but the only thing that can be affirmed is that Lin Daiyu is definitely not a thick eyebrow and big eyes, and there are direct sentences in the book that when he is angry, his eyes are like open, which is clearly saying that Lin Daiyu's eyes are very small.
When we read ancient books, it is easy to unconsciously substitute our modern feelings and moral standards into the characters in the books and form a natural view.
In particular, once we have a like-dislike feeling for the characters in the book, we will automatically form all the advantages about her, such as someone likes Lin Daiyu, then everything about Lin Daiyu is good, all are pursuing freedom, and they all write poems with life love, which obviously does not conform to the author's description of Lin Daiyu.
In fact, Jia Baoyu likes Lin Daiyu is not false, but the problem is that Jia Baoyu likes Lin Daiyu, which does not mean that the author also likes Lin Daiyu and regards Lin Daiyu as a representative of perfect personality.
Lin Daiyu is actually not pitiful at all, he has been loved by her parents since she was a child, and she is from a family of officials and eunuchs, and she has lived the life of an aristocratic lady who has been dressed in fine clothes since she was a child.
And later when she came to Jia Province, her treatment and situation were not bad at all, and Jia's mother took him with her, and such treatment and status were also incomparable to ordinary people in Jia Province.
Especially when we see that Lin Daiyu is a petty lover, he likes to sarcastically satirize people at every turn, and even the people in Jia Fu say that lin Daiyu's mouth is as sharp as a knife.
This shows that Lin Daiyu is very favored in Jia Province, only when she is favored, she dares to speak unscrupulously, and only then does she dare to ridicule others, if she is a figure of ordinary status, it is impossible to form such a personality.
Mention lin daiyu, not always a pitiful look, in fact, in the dream of the red chamber, there are really not many people who are better than her life, Lin Daiyu's distress, in essence, is the ancient everyone's distress will face.
Some people do not like Xue Baochao, saying that Xue Baochao is a person with a very heavy heart, in fact, it is Xue Baochao's way of treating people and handling things, which is a very normal behavior mode of miss Qianjin of an aristocrat, and the women of the ancient big family have to learn various etiquettes from a young age, and treat people and things in a stable manner, which is what everyone should look like
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Including her marriage, in fact, Xue Baochao is completely unable to decide on her own marriage, and what is emphasized in ancient times is that the words of the parents' fate matchmakers have no room for women to choose independently, and even the idea of having this kind of independent choice is not right.
With regard to the reading of ancient novels, we should have an attitude of sympathetic understanding, and we cannot evaluate them with our modern concepts and take them for granted to ancient characters, which is actually very unreasonable for ancient characters.