Although the text of the Red Chamber seems to describe the history of the rise and fall of the four major families of "one loss and loss, one glory and glory, support and decoration, and all have to take care of", but the Jia family is the real center stage, and the Rong Guo Mansion is the center of this central stage, the other three families in addition to some auxiliary roles in the text from time to time, the characters of great significance to the text are from the historian Shi Xiangyun and Shi Taijun, from the Wang family's Wife Wang and Wang Xifeng, from the Xue family's Xue Baochao, Xue Pan and Aunt Xue, not married into the Rong Guo Mansion, It is to successively live in the Rongguo Mansion, together with Jia Baoyu and others in the Rongguo Mansion, as well as Lin Daiyu and Qin Keqing, who are also from outside the house and are also extremely important dreamers, in the dream theater of the Rongguo Mansion, they perform the dream of the last days of the Red Chamber written by genius.
1. Zhen Shi's hermitage
Before the appearance of Jia Jiarong Guofu, the first time there was the Zhen Shi Hermit Family. This time, Li Yanzhai pointed out in the general batch before returning that the author Ziyun: "Because I have experienced a dream, I will hide the real thing", "Why don't you use false village dialects and put on a story?" The second time, Li Yanzhai also pointed out: "If you write false, you know the truth", so what Jia Jiarong Guofu interprets covers the content of Zhen Shiyin's hidden meaning.
"Fake is true when it is true, there is nowhere to be there or nothing" This couplet on the big stone archway of the too illusory realm, in the text of "the pen is not empty" (fat batch), it appears twice, and it is one Zhen and one Jia, one is the first time "Zhen Shi Hidden Dream Knowledge", one is the fifth time Jia Baoyu sleepwalks too illusory, which has a deep meaning, and it is also implied that writing "Jia" is intended to write "Zhen"; The "yes" sprinkled in Jia Fu's text is to present the concise "none" of "Zhen Shiyin".
Zhen Shiyin, surnamed Zhen Mingfei, fat batch reminder fee is "abolished", implying that "writing false is knowing the truth" of Jia Fu deduced everything, including his own family affairs such as "Nanzhi Summoning Disaster", but also including the royal real things related to the "abolished" prince, Qin Keqing played the role of the deposed prince.
2. Jiangnan Jinling Zhen family
Therefore, the Jia family in the text not only presents the author's family history, but also alludes to the royal family[Note 1]. However, it is clear that the Cao family and the royal family cannot be mixed together forever.
The second time Leng Zixing gave a speech on the Rongguo Mansion, the text also mentioned the Zhen family in Jinling, Jiangnan, and the fat criticism also pointed out: "Another 'real home', especially with the 'fake' family is far away, so writing false is to know the truth", "Another real home" Jiangnan Jinling Zhen family is also from Jiangnan Zhen Shi hermitage The possibility can basically be ruled out, otherwise, wouldn't it be a move to set up another Jiangnan Zhen family in addition to the Zhen Shi hermit family? This is also not the style of the author of "Stone Record" who "really broke the historical fiction" (the first lipogram)!
So, will the Zhen family of Jiangnan Jinling be the author's "real home"? The answer lies in the text of the first person to be a treasure jade!
There are two treasure jades in the text, One By One Zhen and Jia Baoyu, of which, "The Treasure Jade of the Zhen Family is not written in the first half, so it is strongly stated here to illuminate the Treasure Jade of the Jia Family." Whoever writes Jia Baoyu's text is passing on the true baoyu. (Second Lipid Batch)
On the fifty-sixth occasion, when the Zhen family visited the Rongguo Mansion, Jia Baoyu knew for the first time that the Zhen family had a Zhen Baoyu who was similar to his age and had almost the same temperament and appearance, and after Jia Baoyu fell into a dream, he came to a garden that was the same as the Grand View Garden.
Seeing a few of them in the garden, Jia Baoyu was surprised in his heart, could it be that in addition to the Mandarin Duck, the Raider, and Ping'er, there was such a cadre? Lipogram also pointed out: "Writing people knows. The good thing is that it doesn't say the word 'stronger'. Later, I went to a courtyard similar to Yihong Courtyard and saw Zhen Baoyu. Lipogram repeatedly reminds that there is only one real purpose, that is, to imply that Zhen and Jia Baoyu, who "pass on the shadows" and "remotely photograph each other", are actually the same person [Note 2].
The twenty-fifth lipogram points out: "It is fortunate that the illusion is true and the truth is the illusion, and the reader should also look at it as lucky." Jia Baoyu, who was born with the illusion of stone" "Psychic Treasure Jade", is only a existence in the illusion, not a real person, but the author presents a realistic plot, which makes people feel real and true; the illusion of not having a stone "Psychic Treasure Jade", and the Zhen Baoyu of the Zhen Family of Jinling in Jiangnan, which was driven four times by Emperor Taizu (Kangxi) when he imitated Shun, is a realistic existence. The fifty-sixth time, Jia Baoyu in the illusion dreamed of the treasure jade of the Zhen family in Jiangnan, as if Jia Baoyu was real, and Zhen Baoyu seemed to be an illusory dream, that is, what Fat Pi called "taking illusion as truth, taking truth as illusion."
Lip critics point out that Baoyu is "the author's own self-containment", so the real-life Zhen Baoyu is an artistic reproduction of the author in the dream text. The Zhen Baoyu family has taken over the zhen family in Jiangnan four times, which is completely consistent with what happened during the most prosperous period of the author's family and the time of his ancestor Cao Yin; Li Pi also pointed out that many things that happened to Jia Baoyu, who was "passing on the shadow for the true treasure jade", were experienced by her and the author. Therefore, the Jiangnan Zhen family is equivalent to the literary version of the Cao family.
3. Can the Jia family and the Zhen family in Jiangnan be equivalent?
In the first eighty times, the Jiangnan Zhen family and Zhen Baoyu seemed to exist only as if there were no shadows, but the sixteenth lipogram pointed out that the Jiangnan Zhen family was exactly "a big key and a big program", and moreover, The Yuan Concubine returned to the province and ordered four plays, of which the third was "Immortal Edge", and the fat batch pointed out: "In "Handan Dream", Fu Zhen Baoyu sent jade", which is one of the four major "big festivals and big keys" in the Tongbu Book. Therefore, in the "lost and manuscriptless" part after the eighty times of "showing the truth", the Zhen family of Jiangnan and Zhen Baoyu will definitely appear on the scene and undertake the task of playing the literary version of the Cao family.
The fifty-sixth time, the Zhen family, who had not entered Beijing for many years, was ordered to enter Beijing, sent people to visit the Rongguo Mansion, and talked with Jia Mu about the two treasure jade, Jia Baoyu dreamed of seeing Zhen Baoyu, Zhen, the Jia family and Zhen, Jia Baoyu finally met for the first time in the text, in fact, it was also the beginning of their gradual formal separation and undertaking their respective tasks.
In the plot of Zhen Baoyu sending jade in the draft, Zhen and Jia Baoyu meet again, and after going through the ups and downs of the wind and moon, they complete one of the most important symbols in the Tongbu book, one of the "psychic treasure jade" handovers, "eliminating evil spirits, curing wrongs, and knowing misfortunes and blessings", which is actually a metaphor for them to have all obtained or are about to fully acquire the great wisdom of the world.
The twenty-second lipogram points out: "If Xue and Lin are zhen yu and Jia Yu read books, they will not lose the original purpose of the writer", and Zhen Baoyu will eventually reach the realm of Baochao's "cold incense pill", that is, enter the world with the heart of birth, not for material constraints, not for kitsch, but for self-esteem; Jia Baoyu will become a "unsympathetic" love monk [Note 3], that is, to reach the realm of "psychic treasure jade", to be born with the heart of entering the world, with Buddhas in his heart, all the people, and compassion for heaven and man.
"Dream Fanmi" Baochao is a metaphor for the great masters of the wisdom of life, and should be the Zhen Baoyu that Baochao looks at, which has a more secular meaning and is closer to the author of literature; "Dream Politics Secret" Daiyu has deep political implications, and jia Baoyu, which should be seen by Daiyu, has more political implications [Note 4], and is closer to the literary Yin, because the feudal dynasty royal family has always been the center of political storms. Jia Baoyu is also another author in the dream text, but in the dream he mixed the image of the author's own heart.
Due to the existence of the Zhen family of Zhen Baoyu in Jiangnan, it can be said that the Jia family of Jia Baoyu, who "writes falsehoods to know the truth", plays a royal role in addition to "passing on the shadow" to the Zhen family in Jiangnan (the author's family).
4. Between Zhen Jia and Zhen Jia, dangerous relationship (Zhen Zhen Jia Jia, the author is very difficult)
In the text, the Zhen family and the Jia family in Jinling, Jiangnan seem to have a deep affection and a strong friendship. For example, the seventh time, at the time of the palm lamp, Sister Feng had removed her makeup and came to see Madame Wang and replied: "I have received the things sent by the Zhen family today." We sent him, taking advantage of the boat that his family had been fresh for many years to go back, and handed it over to them to take with them? Madame Wang nodded; the sixteenth time the Jia family prepared for the Grand View Garden, Gu Su hired a teacher, bought girls, did not need to bring silver from The Jing family, first received thirty thousand taels of silver from the Zhen family; the Zhen family, who had not entered Beijing for many years, first sent people to send gifts to ask for peace, and then sent four women to visit the Rong Guo Mansion, and the Rong Guo Mansion also responded with generous gifts, and the two sides feasted on each other; the sixty-third time, Bao Yu waited in celebration, and the next person replied that the two daughters of the Zhen family sent something; the sixty-fourth time Jia Jing sent five hundred and two silver after the funeral; the seventy-first time, The Zhen family in Jiangnan sent a first-class screen, and the fat batch pointed out: "Good, mention Zhen Matter." If the truth is to be revealed, the falsehood will be exhausted. The Jia family even hid their property for the Zhen family after it was raided, such as the seventy-fifth time, the old grandmothers who followed him advised You Shi not to go to the upper room, and a few people from the Zhen family were panicked, and some things went to Lady Wang[Note 5].
However, in reality, dealing with the royal family was trembling, like walking on thin ice, even during the best period of relations between the Cao family and the royal family, the Kangxi period. The Cao family, who was born from the royal slave, "near the water tower platform first get the moon", the royal family gave the Cao family endless glory and wealth, but there are also boundless risks in the endless glory and wealth, once the water is angry, it becomes a monstrous flood, "near the water tower platform suffers first". Jiao Da's angry scolding and Aunt Lai's narration are all a kind of presentation of the author's family history in the text.
The eunuch's endless extortion of silver two is likely to be an obscure expression of the Kangxi Emperor's princes demanding a huge amount of silver from his ancestor Cao Yin. "Like a person drinking water, cold and warm self-knowledge", the eighteenth time the Yuan Concubine cried to her father when she returned to the province, and envisioned the heavenly happiness of the farmhouse family, which is actually the author's reflection on the bitter blood and tears of the family's dealings with the royal family.
The author's century-old family history, which flourished in Nanjing, Jiangnan, was also raided in Nanjing, Jiangnan, and entered the last days, that is, the fire incident in which the hermit family of Zhen Shi, who was so-called "written about the disaster of the Southern Zhizhao", was exposed to the gourd temple[Note 6], and was forced to move north to Beijing. In this way, it seems that the Jia family was tailor-made for the author's "true" family (the Zhen family in Jiangnan), and the Qing Dynasty royal family has been in Beijing since entering the customs, and it seems that the Jia family has nothing to do with the royal family. Could it be that the author contradicts himself?
You must know how difficult it is for the author to artistically reproduce the history of his family's rise and fall in the so-called Qianlong prosperous era, and at the same time, it is even more difficult to secretly write the history of the rise and fall of the royal family. The above seemingly contradictory writing method is actually a genius author who had to adopt a compromise solution one by one The most beautiful period of the Jia family of the "false trust house" was set in Jinling, Jiangnan, and only passed in one stroke, and the Jia family in the last days was the top priority of the general book, giving the impression that the Jia family has always been in Beijing, which coincides with their own family history and corresponds to the royal family.
The author also looks for some sort of balance between the two. If you mention from time to time nanjing one eleven thirty-third time, Bao Yu was beaten by Jia Zheng because of his pro-you drowning, coupled with Jia Huan's incitement, Jia Zheng's mother, who has always loved Bao Yu, was furious and said, "I and your wife Bao Yu will go back to Nanjing immediately!" The forty-sixth time, "embarrassing people are inevitably embarrassed, mandarin duck women swear to never be mandarin duck dolls" mentioned that mandarin duck parents look at the house in Nanjing, "the house in Nanjing is still watched, more than one." On the fifty-sixth occasion, when the Zhen family, who had not entered Beijing for many years, visited the Rongguo Mansion, Jia Baoyu went with Lady Wang to pay homage to Lady Zhen, and the text even used Jia Baoyu's eyes to describe the shadow of the Zhen family in Beijing, "there is not much difference between himself and Rongning." The author is really difficult and exhausted, just as the lipogram verse clouds, "the words seem to be blood, ten years of hard work is unusual."
However, the author obviously misses Nanjing, the seat of his family's heyday, and considers himself a Nanjing native from his bones, so he set up another Jiangnan Jinling Zhen family in addition to the Jia family, and let the Jiangnan Jinling Zhen family remain in Jiangnan until the seventy-fourth time. In fact, after the first "Real Disease of the Southern Direct Summoning Disaster" [Note 7] of the Zhen Shi Hermit Family was burned by the Gourd Temple, the so-called Zhen Family of Jinling in Jiangnan had been moved north to Beijing, and at the same time, it had entered the end of the unorthodox Yongqian. The second time Leng Zixing gave a speech on the Rongguo Mansion, Jia Yucun mentioned the Zhen family, the president of the Jinling Provincial Sports Hospital in Jinling City, and at this time the Zhen family of Jinling in Jiangnan had entered the last days.
On the seventy-fourth occasion, when the Jia family, who "wrote falsehoods, they knew the truth", when they "deceived and slandered and copied the Grand View Garden", Tanchun angrily rebuked his own family for infighting, and mentioned that the Zhen family had been copied today, and the fat criticism pointed out: "Qiji, this is the Zhen family affair", before the sixty-third time, Jia Jing [Note 8] who implied Yongzheng had died violently overnight, so the author's family must have been raided again during the Qianlong Dynasty. Li Pi pointed out that the president of the Jinling Provincial Sports Institute of Chincha, "this title has no examination, and it is also set up because of the nostalgia, leaving it alone", in fact, the author intends to satirize Yongqian as a true cruelty and a false "benevolence" righteousness.
After the cao family fell in front, the Qing Dynasty fell behind, the seventy-fourth time, after the Zhen family was raided, Jia Baoyu and Jia Fu no longer needed to undertake the task of "passing on the shadow" for Zhen Baoyu and the Zhen family in Jiangnan, and would interpret the royal storm of decline under the orthodox and unorthodox vicious struggles. Of course, the cao family's final prosperity is mainly due to political factors, so in the process of the Jia family's final decline, the shadow of the cao family's final decline process can also be seen.
"True when pretending to be true is also false", Zhen Shi's hermitage is the epitome of the Jia family, the story of the Jia family focuses on the royal family, but the first seventy-four times its story also has the Zhen family of Jiangnan Jinling. The Zhen Shi Hermit Family, the Jia Family and the Zhen Family of Jiangnan Jinling, the three families are interrelated as a whole in the text, but the three cannot be confused, and there are clear boundaries between the three in addition to the connection. The three families, Zhen Zhen Jia Jia and Jia Jia Zhen Zhen, together build a complex and profound literary dream grand view garden.
Note 1, for details, see the "Line" Walking in the Red Chamber" series of humble articles 11-13 "Jia Family One by One is both the Cao family and the royal family"
Note 2, for details, see the "Walking" Red Chamber" series of humble articles 78 "Dream jia baoyu, reality of zhen baoyu"
Note 3: For details, see "Walking" in the Red Chamber" series of humble articles 80 "Zhen Baoyu of the World, Jia Baoyu of Politics"
Note 4: For details, see "Walking the Red Chamber" series of humble articles 80 "Zhen Baoyu of the World, Jia Baoyu of Politics"
Note 5: This is an artistic reproduction of the author's family past in the text, and it is also the last struggle that the family that was raided in that era can do, and it is extremely risky. For details, see "Walking" to the Red Chamber" series of humble articles 18-28 "Red Chamber "Dream Time""
Note 6: This incident metaphor occurred when the Cao family was first copied before the Lantern Festival in the sixth year of Yongzheng.
Note 7: This incident metaphor occurred when the Cao family was first copied before the Lantern Festival in the sixth year of Yongzheng.
Note 8: For details, see "Walking" in the Red Chamber" series of humble articles 4 "Jia Jing is Yongzheng"
The "Walking" Red Chamber" series of humble articles on the text of the Zhen Shi Hermit Family, Jiangnan Zhen Family and Jia Family of the connection and difference, which on the deep meaning of the lipid criticism, due to space limitations, can not be developed in detail, please understand! Dear friends, if you are interested, please pay attention to the relevant articles of the previous series of humble articles! Hereby noted!
The traditional view is that the Zhen Shi Hermit Family and the Jiangnan Zhen Family can be equated with the Jia Family who "write false and know the truth", which I think is debatable.
Author: Guo, this article is to read less of the original works of the Red Chamber.