"Dream of the Red Chamber" begins with the mysterious and mysterious wooden stone former alliance, in which the protagonist of the story has gone through all the disasters, triggering a series of sorrows and joys in the red dust.
Mushi Qianmeng takes the love story of Lin Daiyu and Jia Baoyu as the theme, which runs through the entire book, but in the end it is fruitless and ends in tragedy. However, "Dream of the Red Chamber" is not just a romance novel.
Dream of the Red Chamber is a political novel
Chairman Mao once pointed out, "Dream of the Red Chamber is a political novel. Among them, the story of the wind and snow moon hides a deep and complex political struggle.
Cai Yuanpei believes in Cai Yuanpei's "Stone Records suoyin" that most people and events in "Dream of the Red Chamber" have alluded to it, and he believes that "Dream of the Red Chamber" is a political novel of the Kangxi period.
"Dream of the Red Chamber" is a political novel written in the love code. How to interpret the hidden truth?
Lu Xun said that it is necessary to return to the analysis of the original text and grasp the author's true intention from its basic intention.
2. The benefit of manna in the cause and effect of wood and stone
Since we want to interpret "Dream of the Red Chamber" from a political point of view, what is the meaning of this wooden and stone former alliance?
In the book, Zhen Shiyin's dream is psychic, and the leprosy monk in the dream tells the origin of the former alliance of Mushi, let's first look at the original text:
The monk laughed and said, "This is a funny thing to say, but it is a rare thing that has never been heard of in eternity." Only because there is a daisy grass on the bank of the Western Spirit River, there is a daisy grass, and sometimes there are waiters of the god Ying of the Chifeng Palace, who irrigate with manna every day, and this daisy grass can be extended for a long time.
Later, after being nourished by the essence of heaven and earth and nourished by rain and dew, he had to shed the grass tire wood, change his human form, only cultivate into a female body, and travel all day away from the hateful heavens, hungry to eat honey and green fruits for food, thirsty to drink sea water for soup. Only because the virtue of irrigation has not yet been repaid, it is depressed within the five years with a lingering meaning.
Just recently, this god's attendant Fan Xin even took advantage of this Changming Taiping Dynasty, intending to create a fantasy fate, and had already hung up his number in front of the police illusion fairy case. The policeman also asked about the unrepaid irrigation, which could be settled.
The daisy fairy said, "He is the favor of manna, and I have no water to return." He will be a man in the next life, and I will be a man in the next life, but I will repay him all the tears of my life, and I will be able to repay him. "Therefore, in this case, we have drawn out how many first-class and first-class wrongdoers have come and accompanied them to close this case."
In this original work, Jia Shu Ben has an eyebrow criticism:
[Taking the stubborn stone grass and wood as a puppet, experiencing the wind and moon waves, tasting the taste of love, until there is nothing to do, the cause and effect of this wood and stone, in order to release the depression in the chest.] 】
The author uses wood and stone in the illusion to form a marriage, which makes people feel mysterious and romantic. However, the critics are well aware that this is really a relationship that the author has been structured under the helplessness after experiencing the bitter fruit of the waves.
The book "Dream of the Red Chamber" is based on the author's self-evaluation that "the words seem to be blood", and the former alliance of wood and stone contains the author's indescribable blood and tears.
Li Yanzhai commented on the book: "A word is indispensable, a word cannot be changed." ”
There are countless things in the world that can be compared to the metaphor, so why did the author choose a plant and a stone to create a fate? There must be a lot of meaning in this.
This Daizhu Immortal Grass was not an extraordinary product, but a fairy grass from the "Three Living Stones on the Bank of the Western Spirit River", and she was initially watered with manna.
Three manna metaphors for the emperor's grace
In ancient cultures, nectar was often used as a metaphor for the emperor's grace.
In the author's previous article "Baoyu Changing Wang Eight for Lin Daiyu's Stele - Daiyu is the Stone of Supplementing Heaven, And Baoyu Wrote an Inscription for Her", it was discussed that after the reincarnation of the Heavenly Stone, it is a woman's identity, and the corresponding character is Lin Daiyu.
Wood stone cause and effect is the story between daisy grass and sansheng stone, and sansheng stone is not a heavenly stone. After the reincarnation of Sanshengshi was Jia Baoyu.
The stone is not an ordinary stone, but a heavenly stone that has undergone the exercise of Nuwa.
In ancient culture, heaven was a symbol of the emperor's imperial power, and the stone that could be qualified to make up for the heavens should also be qualified to be the emperor's grandson.
In summary, Daizhu Cao alludes to Lin Daiyu's prototype as a prince, and Tianshi hints that he is a prince.
The two materialized images of Daizhu Cao and Tianshi are combined to allude to Lin Daiyu's identity as the prince.
Some people are going to say, you are talking about it. Lin Daiyu is obviously a woman, you prefer to say that he is the prince, even if he is really the emperor's child, it is also a princess.
This leads to an important literary imagery in ancient Chinese culture:
Four Vanilla Beauties
A great deal of ink and ink is used in "Departure" to describe various herbs and beauties. Vanilla beauty or metaphorical symbol of Qu Yuan's own noble character or used as a metaphor for a monarch.
"But the grass and trees are scattered, and the beauty is feared", the mention of beauty here is mainly to compare the monarch, worried that the monarch cannot establish merit in time, and soon the old age will come, and nothing will be achieved.
Qu Yuan traveled to the Heavenly Court in search of beautiful women, but did not enter the Heavenly Gate; then turned to Gaoqiu to look for the goddess, and then devoted himself to the Nether realm to find folk women.
Qu Yuan was exiled by King Huai of Chu because of the courtiers around him. So Qu Yuan wanted to use the metaphor of finding beauty as a metaphor for his pursuit of like-minded spiritual partners.
First enter the heavenly court to search, alluding to the search for the Ming Lord, the beauty here is a metaphor for the monarch. However, he was unable to enter the Gate of Heaven, which alluded to the reality of Qu Yuan's exile.
"Dream of the Red Chamber" borrows the literary imagery of Qu Yuan's vanilla beauty and makes a breakthrough creation on this basis.
In Dream of the Red Chamber, vanilla beauty is no longer an abstract image, but is shaped into a living character. These women on the Jinling Twelve Plates are derived from the embodiment of vanilla beauty.
Therefore, the archetypal characters of the female innuendo in the book are not necessarily female, and sometimes allude to the emperor or loyal magi.
The whole book is Jia Baoyu's "seeking a daughter", taking Qu Yuan's "asking for a daughter" in "Leaving the Troubles" as the cultural cornerstone to see Jia Baoyu's "seeking a daughter", he is also seeking Ming Jun and seeking a virtuous subject.
To interpret such literary creations, there are great difficulties in obtaining evidence. Many things are even difficult to verify, and our biggest basis is "Dream of the Red Chamber" itself.
V. "Dream of the Red Chamber" has a strict self-evidence system
Because the book "Dream of the Red Chamber" is written in hidden words, many important things will be repeated by the author through different ways or plots.
The whole book is a very rigorous system, and the contents of the book can be verified by each other. By parsing the text, following the grass snake gray line left by the author, and connecting the relevant contents in it, the book can fully achieve self-evidence.
One of the best evidences that Soyin needs to examine is the clue to the book itself.
Here's a quote from Jia Baoyu's Zen machine:
You testify to me, and you testify with your heart.
Is there no evidence, Skoyun proof.
There is no cloud proof, it is a foothold.
No foothold, is the party clean.
The last sentence was added by Lin Daiyu, and this sentence pushed the entire artistic conception to a new height and produced a qualitative leap.
Xue Baochao quoted the Buddha of the Six Ancestors Huineng: "Bodhi is not a tree, nor is the mirror a platform, there is nothing originally, where is the dust?" To illustrate by analogy, "there is no foothold, it is clean." ”
Leaving aside the plot that Jia Baoyu was struggling with not being understood when he did this, since it is Zen language, it is common in many ways.
The whole process of interpreting "Dream of the Red Chamber" needs to be examined. This examination process not only requires historical information, but also requires the reader to carefully consider the author's good intentions and need to confirm it with the heart.
If the reader can fully understand the main thrust of the author's work, there is no need to verify it, because the book itself is proof. When everything is not needed, the reader and the author completely reach the emotional resonance, which can be satisfied to achieve this state.
Jia Baoyu's son is still stuck in proof and non-proof, and has not been completely liberated. If there is a pursuit and a standard is set, it will not be complete.
Lin Daiyu's "no foothold, is the party clean" is returned to the ethereal, is already an empty realm. Since you have already gone through the void, there is no need for any verification at all, and it does not matter whether it exists or not, just as the so-called "color is emptiness, and emptiness is color." ”
This process is exactly how the karate people feel about copying the Book of Stones, and the karate people have reviewed the whole book and copied it back.
"Since then, the empty karate people have seen the color because of the emptiness, from the color to the love, from the color into the color, from the color of Wukong, so they changed their name to the love monk, and changed the "Stone Record" to "Love Monk Record"."
The book "Dream of the Red Chamber" is meticulously embedded in the methods and analytical principles for interpreting this book, which itself is a rigorous self-evident complete system. Although the book seems to have many disconnects or contradictions, these so-called bugs are the grass snake gray lines left by the author, which is the key to interpreting the book.
Briefly introduce the interpretation method and basis of "Dream of the Red Chamber", and return to today's theme wood and stone cause and effect.
Sixth, the "wood" and "stone" word splitting method synthesizes the "garnet" character
The Daizhu Immortal Grass and the Heavenly Stone were both set up within the scope of the Emperor's imperial court, and where can we confirm this conclusion?
The method of splitting words is a clever method of avoidance that the ancients are good at using, and the word wood and stone is composed of the word "garnet", so what kind of information is implied in this "garnet" word?
The sap of the Seven "Garnets" tree is a special dye for dyeing dragon robes
Seven "Garnet" sap is a special dye for dyeing dragon robes
Garnet is a kind of tree, "garnet" also known as mulberry tree, mulberry plant, for the history of the mainland famous precious wood, most of the historical documents have been recorded.
The garnet tree has a layer of white bark on the outside, and inside is a yellow core, and its core is a rare thing. Garnet yellow is made from garnet juice, i.e. reddish yellow. This dye has been used specifically to dye dragon robes since the Sui and Tang dynasties, and garnet yellow has become the color of the emperor's clothing.
Ming Li Shizhen's "Compendium of Materia Medica, Mu San, Garnet": Its wood is dyed yellow and red, which is called garnet yellow, and the Son of Heaven serves.
In ancient times, "garnet" was often used to refer to the emperor, and the garnet wood products were used exclusively for the royal family.
Garnet wood is therefore known as the "Imperial Wood".
The allusion to "garnet yellow"
"Tang Six Classics": Emperor Wen of Sui wrote a yellow robe and listened to the dynasty in the middle;
Tang Dynasty Wang Jian's "Palace Words": Idle Five Gates Looking North, Garnet Huang Xinpa Yumu Gao;
Du Fu's "Song of Hua Qing in Drama": Mianzhou deputy envoy wrote Tuo Huang, and I Qing swept away the day of ping;
Yuan Shu's "Reward Li Fu See Gift" poem No. 4: The pheasant tail fan opens the sunrise, and the garnet shirt hangs on the bixiao;
Yuan Dynasty poet Ouyang Xuan's poem "Chen Zhuo Sleep Figure": "Chen Qiao's robes were yellow overnight, and there was no snoring bed in the world." ”
Yuan Gu Ying's "Tianbao Palace Word Sense" No. 10: Di Mei Xiang learns to sing and dance, who can make garnet yellow clothes, etc.
"New Book of Tang Dynasty Chefu Zhi": "To Tang Gaozu, ochre (柘) yellow robe and scarf belt were used as regular clothes. Since the robe of the Son of Heaven was slightly red and yellow, it was forbidden for the subjects to serve. ”
The yellow robe of ochre (柘) from Tang Gaozu onwards, "forbidden subjects to serve".
Later generations even referred to the Son of Heaven with the "ochre (garnet) yellow robe". For example, Su Shi's "ShuHan Gan Mu Ma Tu Poem" of the Song Dynasty: "When the age is brushed for the emperor's leisure, the garnet robe Linchi serves three thousand"; the Qing Dynasty novel "The Complete Biography of Yue Yue" The eightieth time: "The majestic golden que bead curtain roll, the smoke is surrounded by the ochre yellow robe" and so on.
As a result, in ancient times, only the nobles of the imperial palace could cut down and use the garnet tree, and if the common people used the garnet tree, they would be sentenced to the crime of disloyalty.
Garnet yellow and garnet robes have become synonymous with emperors.
"Wood" and "stone" form the character "柘", and the yellow robe dyed with the sap of the garnet tree is the costume of the ancient Tianzi.
Hidden in the cause and effect of wood and stone is the matter of the emperor.
VIII. "Yellow robe plus body" means to ascend the throne and be called emperor
1 Sun Wukong received the title of Qi Tian Dasheng (Qi Tian Dasheng).
Let's take a swipe and mention Sun Wukong in Journey to the West.
Sun Wukong has a yellow robe of ochre (赭), which was given by the One-Horned King.
In the fourth episode of "Journey to the West", "The Heart of the Official Seal bows the horse, and the famous book Qi Tianyi is not at peace", Sun Wukong dislikes the bow horse Wen Guanxiao, runs back to Huaguo Mountain, is drinking and partying, and comes two one-horned ghost kings and says:
"Specially offered a yellow robe (ochre) to celebrate with the king. Willing not to abandon contempt, to accept villains, but also to do the work of dogs and horses. ”
Sun Wukong's reaction was: "The Monkey King is overjoyed, put on the ochre yellow robe, and the crowd happily arranges to worship, that is, the Ghost King is appointed as the vanguard of the former governor." ”
The original text reads:
The Ghost King listened and played again, "The Great King has this magical power, how to raise horses with him." Just be a great saint, why not? Sun Wukong listened, and busily let people get a flag, and the four words "Qi Tian Dasheng" were written on the flag, and ordered: "From now on, only call me Qi Tian Dasheng, and no longer call me The Great King." ”
Later, Taibai Venus was ordered to come to Huaguo Mountain, and Sun Wukong was draped to greet him:
"The great sage led the monkeys, crowned with armor, covered with ochre yellow robes, stepped on the clouds, rushed out of the cave door, and bowed down in salute."
After Sun Wukong got the yellow robe, he was very happy, and he immediately put it on his body. The action of the monkeys is to "arrange a prayer", at this time Sun Wukong is equivalent to the title of emperor, and established his own imperial court.
When receiving Taibai Venus, the monkey deliberately put the garnet yellow robe over the armor, which was to announce his emperor status to Taibai Venus.
Sun Wukong put on the yellow robe, which means that he has turned against the Heavenly Court and claimed the title of emperor, which is the meaning of "Qi Tian Dasheng". Therefore, the Jade Emperor will send heavenly soldiers to surround and suppress Huaguo Mountain and capture Sun Wukong.
2 Zhao Kuangyin's yellow robes and body revolted to seize the world
On the first day of the first lunar month in 960, at the beginning of the new year, the Later Zhou court suddenly received an urgent message: the invasion of the Liao state. The imperial court sent Zhao Kuangyin to lead an army to meet the fierce enemy.
On the third day of the first lunar month, Zhao Kuangyin led a large army to the north. Zhao Kuangyin led a large army to leave Chen Qiaoyi, which was about forty miles away, and ordered the whole army to camp and rest. Zhao Kuangyin actually drank too much at night and slept in a daze for one night.
The next day, not fully awake, Zhao Pu and the others entered the big tent, draped a yellow robe on him, and embraced him as emperor. Zhao Kuangyin could not resign, announced government decrees, solemnly enforced military discipline, and established the foundation of the Great Song Dynasty.
Zhao Kuangyin's yellow robe was added to the body to win the world, and Sun Wukong had to wear a yellow robe and call qi tian dasheng, both of which were the same situation.
Whether in reality or literature, the garnet yellow robe refers to the emperor's dragon robe, and wearing the garnet yellow robe means calling the emperor.
This result is beyond imagination, "Dream of the Red Chamber" is not just a matter of qingqing and jealousy between children and children.
conclusion
The implicit meaning of the mushi former alliance is the emperor incident of the yellow robe plus the body, "Dream of the Red Chamber" is a political struggle related to the throne, and "Dream of the Red Chamber" is a political novel.
ponder
In "Dream of the Red Chamber", there is a golden and jade good relationship juxtaposed with wood and stone cause and effect, what is the difference between the two? How did the battle for imperial power unfold? And to be analyzed later.
precisely:
Mu Shi is the imperial power of Garnet, and the golden jade edge is born for no reason.
The struggle for the throne is troublesome, and the root causes are explored in the dream of the Red Chamber.
Original is not easy, thank you for your attention, Qingxi invites you:
Talk about the Red Chamber, the same understanding of its taste.