That miss Qianjin, who has lofty ambitions, is Cao Xueqin's favorite woman in the dream of the Red Chamber
Although Jia Tanchun is not a young lady, she is the one with the most ink in the three springs of Jia Fu, and it is also the most brilliant one. She has lofty ambitions, does not let her eyebrows be raised, and like Wang Xifeng, she is a female haojie in Jia Province. She has the courage to kill and the shrewd management ability, her foresight and open-mindedness are above Wang Xifeng, and she is also Wang Xifeng's only respected sister-in-law, of course, the lofty Tanchun is also Cao Xueqin's favorite woman.
Jia Tanchun, who has lofty ambitions.
According to me, the wife is not at home, the aunt is quiet and recuperating, why bother? My wife was full of heartache for me, because my aunt was chilled several times every time she had trouble. But I am a man, I can go out, I will leave early, set up a career, then I have a reason. I'm a girl's family, and I didn't say a word. The wife knew it all in her heart. Now, because she valued me, she asked me to take care of the housekeeper's duties, and I had not yet done a good deed, but my aunt had come to abuse me first. If the wife or the wife knows, afraid that I will be embarrassed, and do not ask me to manage, then it is serious and faceless, even the aunt really has no face! As he spoke, he couldn't help but roll back to tears. (Dream of the Red Chamber 55th)
Although Tanchun is the daughter of Aunt Zhao and Jia Zheng, Gu Pan Shenfei is talented and belongs to the outstanding one in the three springs. She had high ambitions and would have been an amazing woman if she had been born today. Unfortunately, she was born in a feudal and hierarchical society, even if she had lofty ideals and wanted to do a career, she had no choice but to have her status restricted, so she had to bury her talents.
Fortunately, Cao Xueqin loved this girl more and gave her the opportunity to be a temporary housekeeper, so that we had the opportunity to see Tanchun's extraordinary management skills and the courage to kill and decide.
Wu Xindeng's family laughed: "Even so, I checked the old accounts, but I can't remember it at this time." Tanchun smiled and said, "You are old enough to do things, you still can't remember, but it is difficult for us." You used to go back to your second grandmother on a daily basis, and now check it out? If there is such a reason, Sister Feng is not a stake, that is, leniency! Don't look for me yet. A day later, don't say that you are careless, but like we have no idea. Wu Xindeng's face was red, and he turned around and came out. All the daughters-in-law stuck out their tongues. Here's something else. (Dream of the Red Chamber 55th)
Originally, Wu Xindeng's family thought that Tanchun was just a girl who had not yet left the cabinet, so they deliberately tried to make things difficult for her, and did not want to explore Chun particularly strongly, and a few words convinced the Wu Xindeng family, and also ended up with an embarrassing end. The others saw that Wu Xindeng's family had touched the nail, and they did not dare to look down on Tanchun anymore.
After Tanchun took office, in addition to being harassed by Diao Nu, he was also found by his birth mother, Aunt Zhao. When Handling things, Tanchun did not take care of Zhao Guoji because of his relationship with Aunt Zhao, but on the contrary, he gave funeral expenses in strict accordance with the management system of rongguofu. Even if Aunt Zhao had resentment in her heart, she could not say that her daughter Tanchun had made an exception for her.
TanChun is very sensitive to his own identity, and when Aunt Zhao comes to make trouble, Tanchun angrily says that if the man has set up a career early. It can be seen from this that Tanchun is a girl with ideals and ambitions, she has high ambitions and is deeply loved by the author Cao Xueqin. Because of this love, Cao Xueqin gave Tanchun more ink and praise.
Visionary Jia Tanchun.
TanChun said, "I want you to search for my things, but if you want to search for my handmaidens, you can't." I was more vicious than everyone else, and I knew all the things of the ladies, and they were all kept between me, one needle and one thread, and they didn't have any collections, so they just searched me. You don't follow it, just go back to your wife, only to say that I have disobeyed my wife, how to deal with it, I will go to my own. Don't be busy, of course there are even days when you copy it! You didn't get up early this morning to talk about the Zhen family, and you did a good copy of your own home, and sure enough, you really copied it today. We're coming too. It can be known that such a large family, if it is killed from the outside, it cannot be killed for a while, which is what the ancients once said, 'a hundred-footed insect, dead but not stiff', you must first commit suicide from home to kill yourself, in order to be defeated! He said, unconsciously shedding tears. (Dream of the Red Chamber 74th)
This is the time when the Grand View Garden was inspected, when Tanchun said such a thing, from which we can see the foresight and difference of Tanchun.
Tanchun is a girl with a sense of distress, she saw that her family began to copy and inspect, and felt that a large family like the Jia family, generally killed from the outside, would not be destroyed for a while, but if her own family began to self-extinguish, a hundred-footed insect, dead but not stiff, such a family will not last long.
There are not many women in the dream of the Red Chamber who have a sense of distress, Qin Keqing counts one, Wang Xifeng counts one, Dai Yu counts one, and then Jia Tanchun. Although Qin Keqing had a sense of distress, he was not in charge of the family and died early, which had little impact on Jia Province. Although Wang Xifeng had a sense of distress, he did not pay practical actions to give advice to jia mu, a family member, but made private profits from it, accelerating the demise of Jia Fu. Although Dai Yu had the heart to settle accounts for Jia Fu and knew that they were much less in and out, they were hindered by the identity of the guests, and it was not convenient to make suggestions, let alone give substantive help.
Only the identity of Tanchun is the most suitable, she is miss Qianjin of the Jia family, and she has been arranged by Lady Wang to be a temporary housekeeper, and she has a sense of distress about the Jia family. If it weren't for the raid on the Grand View Garden that disappointed Tanchun extremely, she might have been able to delay the decline of Jia Province.
Lady Xing and Lady Wang joined forces to raid the Grand View Garden, in the words of Tanchun, that is, to start self-destruction from their own home, how can it be long? Although Tanchun has ideals, ambitions, and foresight, she was not born at the right time, could not do a career, and finally in order to save her family from danger, she had to marry and kiss.
It is precisely because Cao Xueqin loves Tanchun, a talented, idealistic and ambitious girl, that she does not want to see her die in the last forty times, and she is even more unwilling to see her become a slave after being raided in Jia Province like other women in Jia Province.
Judging from Jia Tanchun's sentence, her final ending was to marry far away, and Cao Xueqin gave Jia Tanchun an open-ended ending. Some readers think that Jia Tanchun lived well with her own talents after she married, and some readers believe that Jia Tanchun's final ending could not escape the great ending of the Dream of the Red Chamber wanyan and the same sorrow, but she was not imprisoned in the temple and sold into slavery like other women in the Jia family, and her tragedy was that she was exiled, unable to return home, and became a victim of the political marriage at that time.
It can be seen that although Jia Tanchun is a lady of Jia Province, she is Cao Xueqin's favorite woman, and she is also the one that Cao Xueqin has the most ink, and Cao Xueqin uses a "min" to give Tanchun a very high evaluation. If Tan Chunsheng were born today, I believe that with her talent and intelligence, she would also be a very good woman.
I am Xiao Meng, telling you the story of "Dream of the Red Chamber".
Reference works: Cao Xueqin, Fat Yanzhai commentary on "Dream of the Red Chamber" Fat Collection