The last Mid-Autumn Festival in Jiafu, that is, the family banquet of the masters of the Ningrong Second Mansion in the Daguanyuan Tubi Villa in the seventy-fifth and seventy-sixth rounds, is not much different from the previous family banquets, but a deep desolation has overflowed beyond the words.
So, everyone riveted their hearts to tell jokes and make games, Jia Zheng, who never smiled, told jokes, and Jia Yu, who was invisible at large and small banquets, encouraged his nephews to write poems and talk about the future.
Mother Jia stayed up until midnight, but the old man, who had just passed his eighties, fell into tears, she had predicted that the family's broken ship was about to sink. At this time, there are only a few months left before the conviction and the house is completely defeated. It's just that before this blow, there is a huge tragedy waiting for her.
Daiyu's life is about to come to an end at this time, and she is about to return to the Taixu Realm. Daiyu's death was the heaviest blow to Jia Mu before her death, and her life's hard work came to naught.
When the dream of the Red Mansion opened, Leng Zixing gave a speech to Rongguo Mansion and commented on Rongguo Mansion with a final word: The inner bag has come up, but there is only an empty shelf left. He also gave an irrefutable reason: there are many people who are rich and honorable, and there are no one who plan and plan.
That is to say: Jiafu has been passed down from generation to generation, not to mention inheritance and development, and even the foundation left by the ancestors cannot be kept, and the fundamental reason is that the Jia family is not good at educating their children. It is embodied in two aspects: one is that the family style of Jiafu is a martial arts style and has no background; the second is the marriage of Jiafu, which also lacks education, and Mrs. Wang, Wang Xifeng, Mrs. Xing, You Shi and others are almost all illiterate, and only one scholarly Li Kun is still marginalized.
After Leng Zixing finished talking about Jiafu, Jia Yucun began to introduce the Lin family, the fourth prince of the Lin family, the fifth generation of Lin Ruhai is a former detective, and the tutors for his daughter are all Jia Yucun who was born in Jinshi.
Putting the two families together is a kind of contrast, and it also immediately puts the two family styles together to merge and collide. Because, Lin Daiyu is about to enter Beijing and enter Rongguo Mansion.
Back then, Jia Daishan, the Duke of Rongguo, and his wife Shi Taijun married their only daughter-in-law, Jia Min, to Lin Ruhai, which was a kind of vision, marrying the Shili scholarly family and slowly transforming the genes of the family style.
Lin Daiyu entered Jiafu, Jia's mother saw her granddaughter for the first time, although the pain of losing her daughter was overwhelming, but readers can also clearly feel that Daiyu's first day in Jiafu, the main tone of Jia's mother's mood was happy, high-spirited, positive and encouraging. She loves her grandchildren, who are young and vibrant, and she is full of hope for the future of her family.
Mother Jia's love for Lin Daiyu is on par with Baoyu, and she can't even compare to welcoming and cherishing spring, Sister Feng said that Mother Jia treats her granddaughter more closely than her granddaughter. It is generally understood that Jia's mother transferred her feelings for her daughter Jia Min to her granddaughter Daiyu, and understood it with pure feelings.
With this factor, what is more important is that Jia's mother regards Lin Daiyu as Jia Baoyu's future wife. The future housewife of Rongguo Mansion is a young lady educated by the Lin family of Shili. The family style of Rongguo Mansion will be infiltrated by culture, and Jiafu will also complete the transformation of the Wuyin family to the scholarly family. These are the fundamentals of Jia's mother's heart and refreshment.
Of course, there are also personal selfishness, Baoyu and Daiyu are their own close relatives, and they have accumulated a huge amount of wealth for a lifetime, and when they are handed over to the two of them, Jia's mother will be able to go to see Grandpa Guo in a down-to-earth manner. If so, the old lady's life is really complete, with no regrets and no worries.
Daiyu's appearance is the beginning of Jia's mother's hope, and the death of Daiyu after the Mid-Autumn Festival is the last chance for Jiafu, and for Jia's mother, it is the complete destruction of grief and hope.
In fact, there are two women in Jia Mansion who can change their fate:
One is Qin Keqing, who died at the beginning, it was the man in Jiafu who destroyed her, causing Qin's suicide;
If the world allows a well-behaved, loved, beautiful, far-sighted, and resourceful person to be victimized by forces and temptations, the living conditions for him will be ruined.
The second is Lin Daiyu, who died on the eve of the finale, and Jiafu lost its last and last chance.
Lin Daiyu is the daughter of the Zhuzhu Fairy, the Xiaoxiang concubine of Zuo Yushun, and the daughter of the Chosen One, she was given a specific cultural connotation by Cao Xueqin, a literary giant, and her death, to some extent, not only means the destruction of Jiafu and the four major families, but also says that the last days are destroying culture, and it will definitely come to the end of its life.
If a person represents the highest ideology of this group, represents the highest level of cultural inheritance, and can rejuvenate the power of culture more and more in the fourth and fifth generations, but is not recognized, and suffers from the spirit and survival torture of incompetent and mediocre people, then it will not have any results except complete death.
There is also a person interspersed in this, that is, Jia Yucun, Jia Yucun is talented, ambitious, and intends to show his ambitions, but the reality taught him a hard lesson, forcing him to gradually degenerate into a villain who is bent on clinging to and mercenary, Jia Yucun is also a representative of culture, destroying the faith of cultural people, and such a ruler is not far from extinction.
Lin Daiyu's death, the answer is given at the beginning of the novel: in order to repay the grace of the rain and dew irrigation of the attendants of Shenying, the fairy is willing to reward him with the tears of his life, and return to Taixu when the tears are gone.
Daiyu died before Jia's mother, and also died before Baochai married Baoyu, otherwise Xue Baochai would not have been able to marry into Rongguofu, and Jia's mother would not have given up Daiyu to take Baochai, when Daiyu died, Jiafu had almost collapsed, Xue Baochai had the support of Mrs. Wang, and naturally became the choice of Rongguofu.
The girl of the Xianglin family, who lost her book, married the daughter of the Xue family, a dilapidated merchant with no background, except for an illiterate person like Mrs. Wang, who was satisfied, Jia's mother could only harbor pain and regret.
The hostesses of Jiafu have their own advantages and disadvantages, but Jia's mother is at least deeper than them, knows the needs of Jiafu, and knows the best choice under the existing conditions, but unfortunately she encountered a group of pig teammates, the two sons are not like words, and the daughter-in-law Mrs. Wang, who holds the power of the housekeeper, tries her best to reject Daiyu.
People think that she came from misunderstanding and careful thinking in her emotional interaction with Baoyu, but in fact, her relationship with Baoyu has been suppressed, attacked, and destroyed from the beginning, and this is the reality of Daiyu's tears. Daiyu complained in "Funeral Flowers":
"The incense nest in March has been built, and the swallows between the beams are too ruthless! Although the flowers can be pecked next year, they will not be poured into the empty nest of the beams. Three hundred and sixty days a year, the wind and frost and swords are strictly pressing......"
The central meaning of these two poems is the difficult relationship between her and Baoyu. Daiyu's emotions about this are:
"At the end of the sky, where is the incense hill?"
This living environment made her feel sad and indignant, and she asked the heavens, is there no pure land in this world?
At the end of the poem, Daiyu gives an epilogue about her life:
"Once the spring is full of red and old, the flowers fall and the people die without knowing!"
Died in tears. There are no natural disasters, they are all man-made disasters.
The author of this article: Pingshan Magenta Mansion
Reference to the original work: Jiazhu Ben, Gengchen Ben "Fat Yan Zhai Re-evaluation of the Stone Record"
Image source: "The Dream of Red Mansions by Sun Wen"