Xiangling and a few little maids fought grass, they got a husband and wife favor, they were ridiculed by the little maids, and then they were pushed into the mud pond, and a new red silk pomegranate skirt that had just been clustered on the upper body was soiled by the sludge, this skirt was a gift from Baoqin to Beijing to her and Baochai respectively, and now it is like this, and it is seen by Aunt Xue, and it is indispensable to be nagged, which makes Xiangling embarrassed and a little frightened for a while.
Xiangling was lucky, after Baoyu found out about this, she ordered someone to change an identical pomegranate skirt for Xiangling, relieving her worries. Such a small event, in the prosperous Grand View Garden of Hualiu, is really not worth mentioning, but the author has brought this matter back to his eye, called "Silly Xiangling Love Pomegranate Skirt".
can look back, it shows that this is a small thing, and it is to remind readers that behind the seemingly inconspicuous, there is a deep meaning that the author wants to express, and it cannot be limited to just a skirt sent by Baoyu.
First of all, the red silk pomegranate skirt is a skirt with good wishes, the fiery red pomegranate flower color was originally the color of the daughter, the ancients defined such a color as the pomegranate skirt, pomegranate seeds, in the long history, the most important value of women is childbirth, to the girl and the young daughter-in-law to wear such a skirt, the family, the elders to the girl's good wishes and blessings.
Secondly, pay attention to Xiangling's identity, Xiangling is Xue Pan's concubine, and opening branches and leaves for the Xue family is the most important thing for Xiangling, and it is also the foundation of her survival, so the Xue family makes a red silk pomegranate skirt for Xiangling, which has such a meaning. Wearing such a skirt naturally produces a psychological suggestion that releases a signal to others.
In the end, this day is Baoyu's birthday, why do you have to choose Baoyu's birthday to have such a thing happen? If Xiangling soiled her skirt outside the Grand View Garden, or if Baoyu didn't know about it, there should be no one to relieve Xiangling, and she would naturally have to go home and be disappointed, leaving the sequelae of tension with Aunt Xue and Xue Pan. But Xiangling met Baoyu, and Baoyu, who took Yihong as her own responsibility, solved her problems. This is to say that no matter how good a girl is, if she meets the wrong person, her fate will be completely different.
Here I want to say what time Baoyu's birthday is, Xiangyun is drunk and lying on peony medicine, the peony blossom season occurs in mid to late April, she slept on the bluestone slab and did not catch a cold, it can be seen that the climate is warm and warm, it is the end of spring and the beginning of summer.
There is also a corroborative evidence, the day after Baoyu's birthday, Jia Jing died violently, three days later, the funeral broke filial piety, and the fourth day of the next month invited the spirit into the city, at this time the people of Jiafu went to the imperial tomb to report to Jia Zhen and Jia Zhen had returned, and also arranged for the deacons to serve, and prepared the banners and other things, which took more than ten days anyway, and at this time, the fourth day of the first month could invite the spirit. It can be inferred that Baoyu's birthday is around April 15 and 20. In line with a series of events and details that happened in between.
The water chestnut in Xiangling's name refers to water chestnut, aquatic food like lotus root. Xiangling is water chestnut when it blooms, there are lotus flowers, and there is also a natural fragrance, which is what she said in response to Xia Jingui. After Xia Jingui entered the door of the Xue family, he wanted to change Xiangling to Qiuling, and to make the water chestnut flower with vitality and maturity become a dead water chestnut that lost its vitality in autumn and lost its vitality in autumn. Therefore, Xiangling's pomegranate skirt appeared in late spring and early summer when water chestnut was in its prime, which was a praise for Xiangling's life.
The pomegranate skirt was dragged into the mud, and there were several major turning points in Xiangling's life, one was that she was reduced from a young lady from a solid gentry to a kidnapper and a slave to be sold. finally met Feng Yuan, who might pull her out of the quagmire of abduction, but unfortunately met Xue Pan again, pulled her back into the quagmire of fate, and became Xue Pan's concubine and a slave of the Xue family. Even so, some grievances can also live a life, but unexpectedly, there was another Xia Jingui who was jealous of her, not only Xiangling's red silk pomegranate skirt was dragged into the quagmire, there was no hope of childbirth, and even her life was dragged into the quagmire, after all, she had to "return to her hometown".
Xiangling died of dry blood, which is a kind of tuberculosis and a gynecological disease, that is, she is unable to have children, and the red silk pomegranate skirt that was dragged into the quagmire and soiled means that Xiangling's fertility is exhausted, and her life is like being dragged into the quagmire, and she is defiled by more and more dirty people.
The author of this article: Pingshan Magenta Mansion
Reference to the original work: "Jiazhu Ben Fat Yan Zhai Re-evaluation of the Stone Record" "Gengchen Ben Fat Yan Zhai Re-evaluation of the Stone Record"
Image source: Stills from the 87 CCTV version of the TV series "Dream of Red Mansions".