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About author:Yang Guitang, graduated from the Department of Chinese of Nanjing Normal University, is currently an employee of a subsidiary of Sinopec.
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The girls in "Dream of the Red Chamber" are better than the boys. Take one by hand, it is fresh and lovely, gentle and lovely, bold and respectable, such as Cai Xia.
This also exposes Cao Xueqin's worldview and value orientation: daguanyuan is his ideal country, and there are a group of "strange women, or love or delusion, or small talents and small kindnesses." Jia Baoyu, the master of Yihong Courtyard, had Cao Xueqin's soul attached to him.
Cai Xia is a minor character in Dream of the Red Chamber. Cao Xueqin does not have much ink on her, and even her name and identity are not very accurate, one moment is called Caixia, the other is called Caiyun, and there are situations where Caixia and Caiyun appear at the same time, which makes people confused.
According to Yu Xiaoshan, a confidant, Mr. Liu Shide wrote "Caixia and Caiyun Fly Together", which is explained like this:
At the beginning, Cao Xueqin wanted to conceive of Caiyun and Caixia, because Lady Wang, Aunt Xue, and Wang Xifeng's sidekicks all showed symmetrical characteristics, such as Jin Ju and Yu Jun, Tongxi and Tonggui, Ping'er and Feng'er. But it was written that he gave up this dualistic way and wanted to pinch Cai xia and Cai Yun into the same person, that is, he wanted to put the story of Cai Yun on Cai Xia and delete the character of Cai Yun. But because it has not been deleted, it has led to caixia and caiyun looking like one person for a while and two people for a while.
The important information revealed here is that "Dream of the Red Chamber" is not finished and is always unfinished. In the process of writing, Cao Xueqin will have a change of conception. The matter of Caiyun and Caixia is quite laborious to examine. Since it was Cao Xueqin who deliberately merged Caiyun Caixia into one, let's just treat her as one person and call her Caixia uniformly.
In Rongguo Mansion, Jia Mu is a high-ranking and important person, Wang Xifeng is in charge of the front desk, and Madame Wang is the master behind the scenes. Cai Xia is the big lady in Madame Wang's room, although she is a slave, her status is still quite high, and like Mandarin ducks and raiders, she receives one or two pieces of silver every month, which is equivalent to a deputy miss. Cai Xia not only had to remind Madame Wang of the big and small family affairs, but even the big and small things that Jia Zheng had at home and when she went out were also remembered by her.
However, in the Rongguo Mansion, Lady Wang was far from maintaining her nature as Jia Mu and Sister Feng, and she was more protective of her calves, and everything involved baoyu and famous festivals, which was particularly sensitive and absolutely intolerant. For example, Jin Ju, who was slightly ambiguous with Baoyu, was slapped in the face by a slap and thrown out, and finally committed suicide by jumping into a well to prove his purity. Therefore, in the sub-group series, Cai Xia is high and heavy, but rarely shows her face.
Cai Xia and Jia Huan are better, and Rong Fu is almost well known. Together with Jin Jun'er, the eldest servant in Madame Wang's room, she once made fun of Baoyu about this.
On the thirtieth time, at noon in the summer, Bao Yu went to Madame Wang's room for recreation, and saw Madame Wang asleep on the cool bed in the inner room, and Jin Jun'er sat on the edge and pounded her legs, "also squinting her eyes and trance." Bao Yu was like seeing Bao Chao's snow white and plump arms, and his heart was full of horses, and he was in love with it. Jin Jun'er then said:
“...... I tell you a Qiao Zong'er, you go to the east courtyard to take Brother Huan with Caiyun. ”
What is said here to befriend Jia Huan is also written Caiyun. After all, "Dream of the Red Chamber" is an unfinished and unfinished draft, and such an incomplete and imprecise word can be said to be "the author's use of painter smoke cloud blur" [Author's note: the first lipid criticism language].
Jin Jun'er's words were clear and ambiguous. Jia Huan and Cai Xia, that is, a little hazy, are nothing more than talking, holding hands, and privately giving small gifts, even if they dare to make a big difference.
The twenty-fifth time, that is, the night when Jia Huan pushed down the oil lamp and burned Baoyu, Cai Xia clearly expressed her devotion to Jia Huan.
That night, Jia Huan returned from school, and Madame Wang ordered him to copy the Diamond Sutra Mantra. Bao Yu returned from eating wine from his uncle Prince Teng's house, and Lady Wang allowed him to roll in his arms. Madame Wang can be described as estranged and distinct in love and hatred, which inevitably makes people jealous.
This Jia Huan is ignorant and restless, taking a posture, one moment letting people pour tea, the next moment letting people cut wax flowers, and saying that Jin Jun'er blocked the light, at this time Cai Xia came to comfort him:
The servants hated him and did not answer. Only Cai Xia was still compatible with him, pouring a bell of tea and handing it to him. Seeing Madame Wang talking to people, she quietly said to Jia Huan, "You should settle down, why bother with this!" Jia Huan said, "I also know, don't coax me." Now you and Baoyu are good and don't answer me, and I can see it. Cai Xia bit her lip, poked a finger at Jia Huan's head, and said, "No conscience!" It is the dog that bites Lu Dongbin, and does not know the hearts of people! ”
And the baoyu who had fallen on the pit was drinking hot eyes, so he took Cai Xia's hand and said:
"Good sister, you can also take care of me."
Cai Xia refused to take the hand. Jia Huan watched from the sidelines, pretended to lose his hand, and pushed an oily candle towards Bao Yu's face.
From the sixtieth to the sixty-second time of "Dream of the Red Chamber", Cao Xueqin used three times to have a clear and clear explanation of the relationship between Cai Xia and Jia Huan.
One day in the spring of that year, Jia Huan and Jia Chun came to greet Bao Yu. Bao Yu asked Fang Guan about the rose nitrate that had been rubbed with spring ringworm, and Jia Huan asked for it. Fang Guan did not want to transfer what Rui Guan had given to Jia Huan, and promised to take some other one to send him, but he did not find it, so he wrapped some jasmine powder in a bag and brought it. Jia Huan took it back and sent it to Cai Xia, who opened it and smiled:
"This is what they are coaxing you to do!" It's not nitrate, it's jasmine powder. ”
This led to the hilarity of Aunt Zhao's questioning of the teacher and the anti-humiliation, and then led to more serious incidents such as Caiyun secretly taking Madame Wang's rose dew to Send Jia Huan, being denounced by Yu Jun, and so on. Ping'er and others knew that the main envoy behind the incident was Aunt Zhao, but in order to take care of Quan Quan's face, while looking for Cai Xia to confirm the origin of the matter, he also let Bao Yu bear it. At this time, Cai Xia showed a bold side and said to Ping'er:
"Sister rest assured. Don't wrongdo the good people, and don't bring innocent people to hurt dignity. Stealing things was originally Aunt Zhao's grandmother suing me repeatedly, and I took some with Brother Huan. Even our wives have taken them at home, and it is common for each person to give them away. I said it would be just two days away. Now that I have wronged a good person, I can't bear it. My sister actually took me back to my grandmother, and everything was done. ”
Jia Huan asked for rose salt in order to please Cai Xia, and Cai Xia secretly gave It to Jia Huan with Madame Wang's rose dew, also out of true feelings. The two are happy with each other, but they can't be imprinted with each other.
Bao Yu concealed his dirtiness, Ping'er exercised power, and although the Rong Guo Mansion was surging with undercurrents, it was finally not alarmed. But the tree wanted to be quiet and the wind was not stopping, but for this reason Jia Huan suspected that Cai Xia and Bao Yu had an affair, took out all the things that Cai Xia had given privately, fell over his face, and with a determined look, let Cai Xia gamble and swear, and Aunt Zhao scolded and persuaded in vain. Cai Xia cried a tear and dried her intestines, and withdrew all the things she had privately given to Jia Huan in Hanoi, and drifted along with the sinking water.
However, Cai Xia did not die until she was released from the Grand View Garden, and was eventually forcibly married by the daughter-in-law of the Laiwang family who relied on Wang Xifeng's power, and became close to Wang'er's ugly-looking and greedy son.
After being released from the Grand View Garden, Cai Xia still had hope for Jia Huan and sent her sister Xiao Xia to find Aunt Zhao, who begged Jia Zheng unsuccessfully. At this time, Jia Huan was indifferent, and Aunt Zhao said:
Every time Jia Huan was instigated to beg, one Jia Huan was embarrassed to open, and the other Jia Huan did not care much, but she was a, she went, and naturally there would be in the future, so she did not say it, and the meaning was thrown away.
Although Jia Huan is out of the house, he is still the master. Cai Xia is obsessed with Jia Huan, and naturally has the suspicion of climbing high branches. But in the Grand View Garden, no matter the master or servant, which of the girls does not plan for their future? Which one doesn't want to climb the branches and have a good home?
How many people stared at Baoyu. There are several exceptions, such as Xiaohong (Lin Hongyu)'s devotion to Jia Yun, Lingguan's devotion to Jia Qiang, and Siqi's devotion to Pan You'an. Cai Xia is calm and meticulous, enthusiastic, and pays true affection for Jia Huan, holding the naïve idea of obtaining in the payment and realizing the dream in salvation, persuading Jia Huan to be self-respecting and self-reliant, and even at the expense of seeking perfection.
Helplessly, Jia Huan is a garbage stock that has gone all the way down, willing to degenerate, and finally failed to live up to Cai Xia's sincerity and true feelings for a long time. "A thousand red caves (crying), Wan Yan with a cup (sad)", which is also indispensable to Cai Xia's part.
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