Author: Gu Yuezhong Tu Yuning
Yes, in "Dream of the Red Chamber", Tanchun's invitation to Baoyu's poetry club can indeed be called "Lan Ci Ya Language".
You see: Daguanyuan is three and a half miles large, its main vein is Qinfangxi, Baoyu lives in Yihong Courtyard, Tanchun lives in Qiu Shuangzhai, both places are adjacent to the water, so it is possible for Baoyu to go to Qiu Shuangzhai by boat. If you are not convinced, please refer to the schematic diagram of the Grand View Garden.
There are two reasons why it is wrong to say that "Snow" is wrong:
First, Tan Chun wrote in the invitation that just the day before, Bao Yushang was "blessed with fresh lychee and true Qing inkblots." The season to eat fresh lychees should be early autumn rather than winter, where is the snow?
Second, after Baoyu received the invitation letter to explore the spring, he immediately received two pots of white begonias and a letter sent by Jia Yun, which read: "Because of the hot weather, I am afraid that the girls in the garden will be inconvenient, so I dare not meet them." "In the early autumn, because the weather is still relatively hot, the girls are inconvenient to meet men because they have less clothes to wear, and of course it will not snow at this time.
Of course not! In fact, the snow here refers to the reed flower, "the snow comes" is not "the snow comes", but "the 'flower' comes".
Evidence 1: Ming ZhangDai's "Xixi Chronicle": "There is an autumn snow temple in its land, a piece of reed flowers, the bright moon reflects it, white as snow, and it is a miracle." ”
Evidence 2: In the late Ming and early Qing dynasties, Wu Bentai's "Xixi Fan Yinzhi" "Qiu Xue'an" article: "The temple is in the water, and all sides are reeds." When the flowers bloom in late autumn, they look like snow, hence the name. ...... There are flowers like snow, not to be found. ”
This should be the source of "Dream of the Red Chamber" "Coming from the Snow".
Evidence 3: The third of Wu Bentai's "Six Songs of Autumn Snow" has "Daoist people step on the reed flowers and snow quickly, and they are not cold when they walk barefoot." " sentence.
This should be the source of the "Dream of the Red Chamber" writing that "snow comes" and eats fresh lychees and girls wear single clothes in the same season.