From the perspective of the individual, we should clear the grievances of the family, and from the perspective of the nation, we should restore the historical truth.
History is written by the victors, and this victor has both the great benevolent and the great evil. The great evildoer writes history, and in order to avoid leaving a lasting infamy, he will definitely smear his opponent and whitewash himself, so that history will be unrecognizable. Cao Xueqin denied the wild history twice in the opening chapter, why? The wild history is the history of the folk record, which is relative to the official record of the history, and what the author really wants to deny is the official history, to be precise, the so-called history fabricated by the Manchu court, Cao Xueqin said that it is "the son of a bad man, poisoning the pen and ink." Such a historical legacy is endless.
Tanchun's residence is called Qiu Shuang Zhai, also known as Qiu Cover Study, all of which have the same meaning, that is, "ask for a study", ask for his younger brother Baoyu, and the book is to record the truth, which is the only thing that Tanchun asked Baoyu before killing himself. Why did the author change the withered lotus to "leave the residual lotus to listen to the sound of the rain"? Zhen Shiyin's prototype is also the Cao family, called Cao Yi, and Cao Yin are distant relatives, and half of the two families have been killed, one is "half a wheel of chickens singing five more remnants", the other is "half of the dead begonia tree", in short, "three mountains and half fall outside the blue sky". This blue sky is the Manchu court. The so-called "sound of rain" is the sound of speech, that is, the survivors should record the historical truth and leave it to future generations. It is not only the grievances of the family, but more importantly, the grievances of the nation.
Miaoyu has a comment about eating tea, many people think that it is a description of Miaoyu's anachronistic character psychology, but in fact, the author uses homophonic meaning to evaluate the Manchu emperor. The translation of Miaoyu's words is, the first generation has no taste, which means that Shunzhi has no taste and ignores the government for the sake of a prostitute; the second generation is a fool who quenches his thirst, referring to the fact that Kangxi's southern tour is not for state affairs, but greedy for pleasure, laboring for the people and money; and the third generation is a bison and wild ass, referring to the perverse and bloody tyranny of Yongzheng Qianlong and his son. The focus of the book is to expose the ugly deeds of the Yongqian father and son, praise the indomitable spirit of the Han and Manchu peoples to resist and resist them, and predict that one day there will be "a round of red sunrise in the sky".
We can think about it, the Cao family was raided twice in the sixth year of Yongzheng and the fourth year of Qianlong, and the second time it was copied was confiscated, leaving only a white and vast land that was really clean, we can think about it from the other side, can a bloody person remain silent? Which of the twelve hairpins in the canon can be killed? However, nine of them died unexpectedly (nine ripe cherries, nine consecutive rings), whose relatives can be indifferent when they are killed! More importantly, it is not only these nine people who were killed, but thousands of people, and the bones are like mountains.
There are many people who want to write, and people with a little bit of national self-esteem and national integrity may have this idea, and the anti-Qing organization Tiandihui was still active until Sun Yat-sen established the alliance. But among these people, the person with the highest literary talent is Cao Xueqin.
