Some people say that "Dream of the Red Chamber" is a complete and utter tragedy, which is not a moan without illness, but a sadness that runs through the entire history of mankind. Cao Xueqin's penmanship is extremely profound, and it is difficult for him to describe the flowers of Jia Fu and the eventual edifice of Jia Fu. Compared with the death of Dai Yu, the renunciation of Bao Yu and the end of the Jia Fu tree falling and scattering, the superficial prosperity of Jia Fu and the tragic hidden secrets that appear from time to time are the most poignant places in this novel, and no one can escape the fate of "very absurd, in the end, it is for others to make wedding clothes".
The forty-third time in the original work, it was Wang Xifeng's birthday, Jia Mu liked to be lively, plus considering the hard work of FengJie's housekeeper, she specially asked everyone to save money to hold a birthday party for her, this banquet was not lively, everyone gave the birthday star a drink, one by one drank happily.
But Jia Baoyu was absent, and he rode out of the city with Xiao Wei early in the morning to pay tribute to Jin Jun, who had committed suicide by jumping into a well a few days ago. There is a detail in it, although Jia Baoyu went to pay tribute to Jin Ju, that day was not Jin Ju's death day, but her birthday.
Jin Jun and Wang Xifeng, two people on the same day, one was celebrating a birthday party in a lively and lively place, the other was soaking in the cold well water and dying, and everyone had forgotten Jin Jun, only Jia Baoyuji, who regarded the girl as heavier than himself, hung on her.
Some scholars believe that Cao Xueqin is very good at writing this kind of "hilarity" and "coldness" together, and everyone in Jia Fu focuses on Wang Xifeng's birthday party, and the plot of Jia Baoyu secretly paying tribute to Jin Ju is very abrupt. People in the world are like this, some people are happy and some people are sad, this is the normal state of life, lively and cold coexist, but the world often likes to be lively, far from the cold, once you recognize this feature of life, an endless sense of emptiness will hit the heart.
This foreshadowing also allows everyone to see the sad truth behind the prosperity of Jia Province. Do you want to see the hilarity, or do you want to see the truth? Just as the crippled Taoist priest said when he gave Jia Rui the Treasure of the Wind and Moon: This mirror can only look at the front, not the reverse, remember!