As one of China's four great masterpieces, Dream of the Red Chamber is a literary work with a high degree of life. What is particularly commendable is that the author has ingeniously integrated the mountain doctor's fate into the literature almost perfectly, enriching the characters with the knowledge of the five arts and promoting the development of the plot.
I. Proposition
Let's first take a look at a fragment of Dream of Red Mansions:
"In the first month of a few years ago, the province recommended a fortune teller, saying that it was very accurate. The old lady (referring to Jia's mother) asked someone to sandwich Yuanchun's eight characters in the girls' eight characters, and sent them out for him to calculate. He only said that the girl on the first day of the first month of the first month was afraid that the time was wrong, otherwise she was really a nobleman, and she would not be in this mansion. The lord said to everyone, no matter if it is wrong or not, it will be counted according to the eight characters.
The gentleman said that there are injured officials and robbing money in the four characters of Bingyin in the first month of the first month of the year of Jiashen, but there is a Zhengguan Luma in the word Shen, which is something that the family can't support, and there is nothing good. This day is Yimao, the early spring wood is prosperous, although it is side by side, where do you know that the better it is, just like the good wood, the more it is cut, it becomes a big tool. When you are happy, what kind of Xin Jin is precious, what is the official Lu Ma Duwang, this is called Feitian Lu Mag. What do you say when the day returns, it is very valuable, Tianyue Erde sits on his own life, and he is favored by the pepper room. If the time is right, this girl must be a master's mother.
We still remember to say, it's a pity that the glory is not long, but we are afraid of encountering the year and the moon, this is the comparison and comparison, the calamity and the calamity, such as a good wood, too delicate and clear, the essence is not strong. They forgot all these words and went about their business. I just remembered that this year was the first month of the year. ”
According to Cao Xueqin's description, we know that Jia Yuanchun's eight characters are: Jiashen, Bingyin, Yimao, and Xinsi.
According to the mantra "Bingyin from the year of Jiaji", then the first month of the year of Jiashen should be the month of "Bingyin"; and according to the mantra "Yi Geng Chongzi Qiu" when the day is dry, then the stem branch of the day must be "Xin Si". Therefore, this figure of eight is exactly the correct arrangement.
Among the five elements, wood is the most prosperous in spring, and Otogi is the lord of the sun, so the lord of the sun is both strong and prosperous. According to the rules of the heavenly stem of life and death, "Yilu Jumao", that is, Yimu takes the Mao branch as the land of Luwang, and the Japanese branch happens to be Mao, so the wood of the Japanese Lord is stronger and can be the talent of the pillars, then it is not the life of an ordinary person. When Xin Jin is a partial official, Mu Wang is asking for gold to cut it to become a big tool, so at this time to dry "Xin" gold, is the place of nobility on the life, without it, this wood is just a stubborn wood that is not wood. Therefore, this time of the Xin Jin is good.
What's even better is that the five elements of the year branch "Shen" are also gold, and there is also Gengjin in the Shizhi "Si", which is the official of the Japanese Lord, and these two pieces of gold increase the power of Xinjin, like an axe that has been sharpened, and it is easier to carve large wood into wood.
The Japanese branch is Mao, according to the judgment criteria of the stagecoach, there is a "巳" for the eight-character stagecoach, so the time branch is also the eight-character stagecoach. In some fortune tellers, the combination of the official and the stagecoach is called "Feitian Lu Mag", and the natal just meets this requirement. Therefore, the natal case is the Flying Lummag. They believe that Feitian Lumag is a pattern of great fortune and wealth, so the life of the concubine must be the life of glory and wealth.
It can be seen from the above process of Cao Xueqin's criticism of Jia Yuanchun's eight characters that Cao Xueqin is very proficient in numerology, and understanding this can not only deepen our understanding of Cao Xueqin herself, but also better understand the great work "Dream of Red Mansions".
II. Phase Law
Cao Xueqin's description of the appearance of the characters in the Dream of Red Mansions can be called a stroke of genius, and it can be seen that Cao Xueqin has a deep understanding of physiognomy.
1, Lin Daiyu's appearance description:
The third time: the two bends seem to be croaking and not frowning bituminous coal, and a pair of eyes seem to be crying but not crying.
The twenty-third chapter describes Lin Daiyu's anger: "I raised two frowning eyebrows and glared at two eyes that seemed to be open."
Lin Daiyu's physiognomy features: one is the eyebrows, and the other is the eyes. Both are typical of "god insufficiency".
Mai wrote in the appearance of the god: "Those who are deficient in God seem to be drunk but not drunk, and are often like sick wine." Not sorrowful, often sorrowful. If you don't sleep, you can sleep. If you don't cry, you cry, but you cry, but you are frightened. Don't be angry, don't like it. Don't be surprised, don't be stupid. Don't be afraid, let go of the confusion ....." The lack of God has caused many prison sentences to be in vain, and the Lord has a long life.
Those who don't cry but tears, have a carefree heart and shrink their eyebrows, are punished in their early years, and are lonely in their old age. The Lord has a hard life and hard work, tortures his parents in his early years, has no chance with his children in his later years, has no husband or son, and is lonely until he is old.
Cao Xueqin's two sentences, Lin Daiyu's loneliness and short-lived appearance are fully revealed.
2. Description of Jia Baoyu's appearance:
The third description: The face is like the moon of the Mid-Autumn Festival, the color is like the flower of spring dawn, the temples are like a knife, and the eyebrows are like ink paintings. The face is like a peach petal, and the eyes are like autumn waves. Although he is angry and sometimes laughs, that is, he is contemptuous and affectionate. The face is like powder, the lips are like grease, the hope is affectionate, and the language is often smiling. A natural coquettishness, all in the eyebrows, thousands of feelings in his life, all the corners of his eyes.
The fifteenth description: The face is like a spring flower, and the eyes are like paint.
"The face is like the moon of the Mid-Autumn Festival", that is, the face is like the full moon, and the male protagonist will be the prime minister; "The eyes are like paint", that is, the black essence of the eyes is as bright as lacquer, embarrassed and embarrassed, the lord is smart, rich and expensive. (Mai is written in the face, the eyes are like paint, smart articles). Judging from these two characteristics, Jia Baoyu should be a wealthy person, which is consistent with his background.
"Eyebrows are like ink paintings", the meaning of this sentence can be understood as the eyebrows are thick and thick like splashing ink, and the fate of the master is stagnant in his life, and he is easy to fall into poverty.
"Eyes like autumn waves" means that the eyes are watery and watery, and the master is obscene and short-lived.
"The color is like the flower of spring dawn, the face is like a peach petal, the face is like a powder, and the face is like a spring flower", these descriptions of Jia Baoyu's complexion all illustrate a characteristic, that is, Jia Baoyu's face is like white powder, scorching all over the face, called the light floating color, the son of the rich family has this complexion, for the scattering of wealth and longevity, the death of the family. At the same time, it is said in the Liuzhuang Xiangfa that there are fifty-one lonely men, and it is difficult for those who commit one thing to rest. One of them has "Guanghua White Powder", which shows that it is difficult for Jia Baoyu to have a son.
"If the lips are greased", it means that the lips are very ruddy without rouge, and the red lips are a symbol of wealth (one of the women's wangfu is red lips and white teeth), but with the peach blossom on the face, it is a prodigal loser.
Cao Xueqin's description of her appearance in a few words has fully revealed the fate of Jia Baoyu. The prodigal rich son, the family business is ruined, and the smart article (the sequel should be accurate in the exam), but he died soon after the middle lift, and he has no children (in the sequel, Jia Baoyu is a monk, has a posthumous child, and does not say life and death, this part should be inaccurate. Even if there is a posthumous son, it should be a daughter, not a son).
3, Wang Xifeng's appearance description:
The third time: "A pair of Danfeng triangular eyes, two curved willow leaves hanging eyebrows, slender figure, coquettish physique, powdered face with spring power is not revealed, Dan lips are not smiling first"
Dan Feng Eye: The Lord is rich.
Triangular Eyes: Generally scheming, treacherous, lack of affection, mean and unkind.
Willow eyebrows, the main person, whether male or female, although smart and amorous.
Hanging eyebrows, women's eyebrows are "raised", the main person has the ambition and spirit of a man, and at the same time has high desires and selfishness, and it is rare to have a happy marriage.
The noodles contain spring, and they are also similar to Jia Baoyu's bright and floating colors, scattering wealth to promote longevity, and losing their lives.
Laugh before speaking, one of the female prostitutes.
sighed again, Cao Xueqin's description is concise and expressive, a few words, a rich background, cunning heart, amorous and lewd, the fate of the family overturned, poor and dying is about to come out.
4. Everyone's face
In the fifth episode of the Dream of Red Mansions, there is "a thousand red caves, ten thousand sorrows together" to metaphorize everyone. In the book, the girls in the Grand View Garden vaguely described their appearances with one or two strokes, and they also showed that they were not blessed people.
For example, Qingwen "water snake waist, shaved shoulders...... The eyebrows and eyes are just like Daiyu",
Tanchun's "shaved shoulders and thin waist...... "narrow shoulders, thin body, underweight, thin waist, etc., are not blessed and difficult to have children.
Shi Xiangyun "bee waist ape back, crane potential mantis shape", similar to the current model figure, slender limbs, the main rush and fatigue.
3. Feng Shui:
After Jia Baoyu inscribed Daoxiang Village in "Dream of Red Mansions", Jia Zheng and his party entered Maotang and had such a small plot. The original text in the book is as follows:
Baoyu Road: This disposal of a grange is clearly seen by manpower through chisel and twisting. Far away from the neighboring village, near not to live up to Guo, back mountains and mountains without veins, waterfront water without source, high without the tower of the hidden temple, under the bridge of the city, steep and lonely, do not seem to be a grand view. It seems that there is a natural reason in the first place, and the natural gas is obtained, although the bamboo is planted to lead the spring, it is not hurt to pierce the chisel. The ancients said: "Natural pictures", four characters, are afraid of not their place but strong for their land, not their mountains but strong for their mountains, although all kinds of fine but ultimately inappropriate..."Before he finished speaking, Jia Zheng shouted angrily: "Get out!"
Jia Baoyu said that this place is not natural, saying that it is caused by manpower. There are no villages near and far, lonely. There are no backers, no water sources, no temples and no markets nearby, loneliness, unnature, and no atmosphere.
Jia Baoyu said that the backing of this place has no pulse, and in terms of feng shui, the backing is not reliable. Water has no source, which means that there is no continuity. The tower of the high and hidden temple, the bridge of the city without the city, the steep and lonely, it seems that it is not a grand view, this is more straightforward to say that this place is lonely, and it has not become the weather of the big climate. This clearly has the meaning of feng shui fate in it.
4. Divination
From the following, it can be seen that the author of "Dream of Red Mansions" is proficient in the six yao and the six ren:
“...... Fortunately, fortunately, now Zihai Zhishui is in prison, and Yin Mu is moving and making a fire. The heir has sent a descendant, but it is a ghost. Besides, the sun and the moon are born, and after two days, the Zishui official ghost will be in vain, and it will be good to hand it over to the sun. But the parents have become ghosts, and I'm afraid that Lord Zun is also a little troubled. It's that the world itself is heavier than the catastrophe, and it is not good when the water is prosperous and the land is declining. When he had finished speaking, he sat with his beard pouted.
Jia Rong couldn't help but laugh when she heard him make trouble, and when she heard him explain the hexagram, she said that she was afraid that her father would not be good, so she said: "The hexagram is extremely clever, but I don't know what kind of illness my mother is?"
Mao Banxian said: "According to this hexagram, the noon fire of the world changes to water, and it must be the condensation of the cold fire. If you want to break it clearly, you don't know it very well, unless you use the 'big six' to break it accurately. ”
Jia Rong said: "Are all the gentlemen smart?" Mao Banxian said: "I know something." ”
Jia Rong wanted to ask for advice and reported for an hour. Mr. Mao drew a plate and counted the gods and generals as white tigers.
"This lesson is a 'spirit lesson'. The white tiger is a fierce general, and if he is restrained by the prosperity of the elephant, he cannot do harm. Now, if you take advantage of the death of the god of death and the order of imprisonment to death, you will be a hungry tiger and will definitely hurt people. Just as the spirit of the spirit is frightened and dissipated, hence the name 'spirit'. This lesson is like saying that the person is lost, and the sorrow is still in the same place, and the sickness is often lost, and the lawsuit is sorrowful. If a tiger comes at dusk, he must be sick in the evening.
The elephant said, 'Whoever occupies this lesson will surely have a tiger in the old house, or a physical sound.' 'Now that the car is occupied by adults, it is the tiger in the yang and the woman, this lesson is very dangerous. ”
Jia Rong didn't finish listening, and said with a disgraced face: "What Mr. said is very true, but it doesn't match that hexagram very well, is there any hindrance?"
Mao Banxian said: "You don't have to panic, wait for me to take a look at it slowly." He lowered his head and muttered for a while, then said, "Okay, there is a savior." It is not a matter of calculating that there is a noble god to save it, which is called 'the soul of the soul', and it is okay to worry first and then rejoice, as long as you are careful. ”
Jia Rong presented the hexagram gold, sent it out, and returned to Jia Zhen, saying: "Mother's illness was contracted in the evening of the old house, in order to bump into some 'corpse white tiger'." ”
Jia Zhen said: "You said that your mother walked back from the garden the day before yesterday, but it was not there that she bumped into it! Do you still remember that your second aunt went to the garden and fell ill when she came back? Although he didn't see anything, later those girls and wives said that it was a hairy thing on the mountain, with big eyes and lanterns, and he could talk, so he drove the second grandmother back and bluffed out of an illness. ”
Jia Rong said: "Why don't you remember! I also heard Second Uncle Bao's roasted tea say: Qingwen has become the god of hibiscus flowers in the garden; Miss Lin is dead, there is music in the air, he must be in charge of some flowers." I think that these many monsters are in the garden, and I can pay them back. There are many people in the head, and they often come and go, and now when they are cold, my mother walks there, and I don't know what flowers I kicked, or I just hit that one. That hexagram is also quite accurate. ”
Jia Zhen said: "Is there an obstacle?" Jia Rong said: "According to him, it will be fine on the day of the day." I wish it was two days earlier, or two days earlier. ”
Jia Zhen said: "What does this mean?" Jia Rong said: "If the gentleman is so accurate, I am afraid that the master will also be a little uncomfortable." As he was talking, the inside shouted, "Grandma is going to sit in the garden over there, and the girls can't hold it back." ”
Jia Zhen waited to go in to comfort her, only to hear You Shi say nonsense: "The one in red is coming to call me, and the one in green is coming to chase me!" These people in the underground are scared and funny. Jia Zhen ordered someone to buy some paper money and send it to the garden to be burned. Sure enough, I sweated that night, so I was quieter. On the day of the day, it gradually got better.
Therefore, one person passed on ten, and ten people passed on hundreds, and they all said that there were monsters in the Grand View Garden, and those who watched the garden did not repair flowers and trees, and irrigate fruits and vegetables. At first, he did not dare to walk at night, so that the birds and beasts were pressing, but now he even walks with weapons during the day. After a while, sure enough, Jia Zhen was also sick, and he didn't ask for medical treatment, so he went to the garden to make a wish, and at worst he went to the garden to make a wish, and at worst he went to the stars to worship and fight. Jia Zhen was well, and Jia Rong and others fell ill one after another. For several months, the two governments were afraid.
Since then, the wind has been rumoring, and the plants and trees are all demons. The interest in the garden is all repaid, and the monthly cases of each house are re-added, and the Rong Mansion is even more constrained. Those who watched the garden had no idea, and they all wanted to leave here, and every time they made up words, they arranged the flower demons and tree monsters, and each had to move out, and the garden gate was sealed, and no one dared to go to the garden. So that the lofty buildings and pavilions, the Qiongguan Yaotai, are all inhabited by birds and beasts.
To sum up, I have to admire "Dream of Red Mansions" is a very down-to-earth masterpiece, and all kinds of life can correspond to it. At the same time, it also reflects the popularity of mathematical culture in the upper class of society in the Ming and Qing dynasties.
(Source: Master Shui Ling's numerology WeChat public account.) Thanks to the original author, just for knowledge sharing. ）