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In most novels, the protagonist never leaves the scene until the end.
And Lin Daiyu, the first heroine of "Dream of the Red Chamber", only two-thirds of the article passed, and Cao Xueqin let her die early.
Such a decisive means makes the novel reach a sad and irrepressible climax.
When I first read "Dream of the Red Chamber", I read about Daiyu's death and couldn't help but throw away the book.
The paradox is that it is precisely this arrangement that makes people suddenly find that the image of Lin Daiyu has long been deeply engraved in the mind.
Leaving aside the techniques of literary creation, if Cao Xueqin had already corresponded to Lin Daiyu's prototype in reality when she planned her book "Dream of the Red Chamber", then Lin Daiyu's death was inevitable.
With the rise of "red science" research, based on the support of diversified bases, many scholars have directly referred to lin daiyu's prototype as the last odd woman Ye Xiaoluan.
At the end of the Ming Dynasty, in Jiangnan, on the shore of Wujiang Fenhu Lake, Ye Xiaoluan was born in the Noon Dream Hall, the third daughter of the head of the church, Ye Shaoyuan.
Compared with Lin Daiyu, the well-deserved first talented woman in "Dream of the Red Chamber", Ye Xiaoluan is also talented, and her piano, chess, calligraphy, painting, poetry and song are all exquisite.
When Ye Xiaoluan was 10 years old, he sat with his father at night with a lamp, the autumn wind suddenly rose, the bamboo in the outer courtyard of the curtain sounded, and the moon in front of the curtain was as bright as day.
Ye Shaoyuan just chanted out the Shanglian "Gui Han Qing Lu Wet", and Xiao Luan immediately responded to the "Feng Cold Chaos Red Withering." ”
A 10-year-old child can perceive the impermanence of life from the passage of time, a "cold" word, a "wither" word, how cold the situation, how keenly perceived.
Ye Jiadai
Although Xiao Luan is a deep girl, his talent has alarmed the literary world. Her poems, beautiful and indifferent, are compelling, and she has left her work "Rejuvenation Incense".
The Qing Dynasty literary scholar Chen Wenshu wrote an inscription for "Rejuvenation Incense": "Autumn clouds are like dreams without traces, and flowers are often cold and tepid." Qi Yu also knew who was close, and Lan Yin did not have that kind of sorrow. People are like the moon is difficult to take pictures, and the poetry is like incense and returns to the soul. There is a dressing table eyebrow stone, cherry light rain since dusk. ”
Among them, the song "Yu Meiren Look at Flowers" implies a similarity with Lin Daiyu's many hurtful words in "Dream of the Red Chamber".
The dry qu is small and quiet, and it is afraid of the cold of spring.
The partition wall is surrounded by a red branch, but it is the old east wind of apricot blossoms emaciated.
Begonia slept to the pear blossom fading, and it was difficult to ask.
I only know that Grace Na fights for Yan, but no one is sorry for Yi Xi's years.
When others are still admiring the apricot blossoms and pears in the smoke and rain, she has felt the "flower emaciation" early, and then looked at "begonias sleep to pear blossoms fade", and it is impossible to greet them, how miserable and lonely.
Ruins of the Noon Dream Hall
Ye Xiaoluan was very affectionate, and his appearance was even better.
In Shen Yixiu's "Biography of Ji Nu QiongZhang", she described Ye Xiaoluan as follows: "The child's physique is long, his hair has covered his forehead at the age of twelve, and juan is as good as a jade person." ”
And grow up, it is even more beautiful: "Children's hair and hair, eyebrows and jade cheeks, Dan lips and teeth, nose and nose, bright eyes, beautiful and delicious, beautiful and edible, no enchanting state, no fat powder atmosphere." Than plum blossoms, jue plum blossoms are too thin; than begonias, feel less clear. Therefore, the name is Fengli, which is actually a charm. ”
Ye Xiaoluan works
Consistent with Lin Daiyu's pure as a lotus and without a half-silk dusty temperament, Ye Xiaoluan is "sexually high-minded, tired of prosperity, loves yanxia, and is full of Zen theory".
She named her boudoir "Shuxiang Pavilion", which was beautiful but not glamorous. She regarded money as a filth and did not ask for anything. No matter the spring, summer, autumn or winter, she is always plain and has no luxury thoughts.
Shen Yixiu later recalled that he had made several new dresses for her before, and wanted her to change the old clothes she was wearing. But until XiaoLuan died, those new clothes remained untouched.
Ye Xiaoluan was light in nature, regardless of cold and heat, and sat quietly under the north window. A pot of incense is relatively all day long, and prince Linti pays homage to "Roselle Endowment", or Huaisu cursive, and only wishes to accompany the qinshu all day long.
In the "Dream of the Red Chamber", the seventy-sixth time "The Joint Poems of the Concave Crystal Pavilion are Sad and Lonely", there is a joint poem of Shi Xiangyun and Lin Daiyu.
Shi Xiangyun out of the upper link: Hantang Duhe Shadow; Lin Daiyu to the lower link: Cold Moon Burial Flower Soul.
Later generations think that Lin Daiyu's "cold moon burial flower soul" comes from Ye Xiaoluan's "drama donation powder box to bury the flower soul." ”
The powder box is an ancient woman's utensils for storing rouge, and it is also a promise gift from talented women, using this object with private female characteristics to "bury flowers", which is Ye Xiaoluan's obsession, and it is also the representative behavior of Lin Daiyu's "delusion" in "Dream of the Red Chamber".
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Like Lin Daiyu, Ye Xiaoluan lived according to his uncle and aunt at an early age.
Due to the lack of milk and the large number of children, her mother, Shen Yixiu, sent Ye Xiaoluan, who was only 6 months old, to her brother Shen Zizheng and her sister-in-law Zhang Qianqian to raise.
It wasn't until five years after tomorrow that Ye Shaoyuan won the Jinshi and took Ye Xiaoluan home.
Grateful for the nurturing grace of his uncle and aunt, Ye Xiaoluan just returned home and planted a plum in the yard.
After more than 400 years of wind, frost, rain and snow, the Noon Dream Hall has long been broken into a broken wall, and only this plum blossoms every year.
A plum planted by a leaf duck
Consistent with Lin Daiyu's death year, Ye Xiaoluan died of marriage when he was 17 years old.
In the years of understanding human love, Ye Xiaoluan witnessed too many marriage tragedies around him.
Her aunt Zhang Qianqian's children died early, and her uncle was away for many years to earn a living, and she was treated coldly in her husband's family.
After Ye Xiaoluan, who had been with her for nearly 10 years, left her, she was even more alone, washing her face with tears all day, depressed.
Two years later, at the age of 34, Zhang Qianqian ended her life of sorrow.
The eldest sister Ye Yiyi, who also showed her talent at an early age, when Ye Xiaoluan was less than one year old, her parents were the master to match the Yuan family, because "the husband and wife were not harmonious, the sorrow was condensed, and finally they were sick."
Ye Xiaoluan deeply felt that marriage could not be autonomous and fate was difficult to grasp.
At the age of 17, the Kunshan Zhang family, who had a marriage contract with Ye Xiaoluan earlier, asked the Ye family to complete the marriage.
Ye Xiaoluan, who was very afraid of marriage, repeatedly postponed the marriage date on the grounds of poor health.
On September 15, the Zhang family sent a make-up ceremony. It was night, and Ye Xiaoluan suddenly became seriously ill.
On October 11, 1632, 5 days before marriage, Ye Xiaoluan leaned on his mother's arms, reciting the Buddha trumpet, and his starry eyes shone with tears, and his eyes passed away.
Ye Xiaoluan's tombstone remains
At the end of the Ming Dynasty, on the shore of the vast lake, Ye's Afternoon Dream Hall is a beautiful flower in the history of Chinese literature.
Ye Shaoyuan, the master of the Noon Dream Hall, and his wife Shen Yixiu were both good at writing, and the four daughters, Xiao Lun, Xiao Luan, and Xiao Fan, were very talented and did a good job of poetry.
Ye Xiaoluan's second sister, Ye Xiaoluan, was the first female opera composer in history and authored the miscellaneous drama "The Dream of the Mandarin Duck".
The 7 sons of the Ye family are also rich in literary talent, and the sixth son, Ye Xie, is a master of poetry in the Qing Dynasty, and the "Original Poems" written by him is regarded as a treatise representing the highest level of poetics in the Qing Dynasty.
In the ninth year of Ming Chongzhen (1636), Ye Shaoyuan compiled a song and a work into the "Noon Dream Hall Collection", which was known as "Wu divides the leaves, and the leaves and leaves cross the light".
History commented on Ye Xiaoluan
Ming and Qing dynasty literature is in the same vein, Ye Xiaoluan's story is widely known, Cao Xueqin's grandfather once befriended Ye Xiaoluan's brother, and the "Noon Dream Hall Collection" left by the Ye family, presumably Cao Xueqin also read it,
If Cao Xueqin really portrayed Lin Daiyu according to Ye Xiaoluan's image at that time, then Daiyu's death became inevitable.
Because Cao Xueqin has already said under the pretext of "Dream of the Red Chamber", "A girl is not married, it is a priceless jewel, and when she is married, she somehow conjures up many bad problems, although it is a bead, it has no glorious treasure color, it is a dead pearl; when she is older, it is not a bead, but a fish eye." ”
Naturally, he refused to let Lin Daiyu, such an icy and jade woman, become a "fish eye" in the future. Coincidentally, Ye Xiaoluan died before he was about to become a "fish eye".
Naturally, Lin Daiyu could not live.
A "Dream of the Red Chamber" has already exhausted Cao Xueqin's heartfelt thoughts, Lin Daiyu is his spiritual first love, and his lover in the ideal world.
As a man, he must be selfish to see his first love marry someone else, even if Jia Baoyu is his own in the book.