Why did Jiafu fall? Why did the four great families fall? Or why did Cao Xueqin say that the era of "Dream of Red Mansions" was the end of the world? Their strength is not far away, and what happens to them will be defeated?
Tanchun has a good saying:
"It can be known that such a big family, if it is killed from outside, it will not be able to kill for a while, this is what the ancients once said, 'a hundred-legged insect, dead but not stiff', you must first commit suicide from home to self-destruction, in order to be defeated!"
This is suitable for Jiafu, for the four major families, and for a country.
As far as the country is concerned, it is the corruption of officials and gang fighting; for the four major families and Jiafu, it is a centrifugal detachment, and a struggle for power and the right to speak, which is specifically manifested in the fact that Jiafu first took Shi Xiangyun in Jia Baoyu's marriage, and then chose Lin Daiyu, and later Xue Baochai participated in the competition, which triggered the internal struggle of the four major families, especially in Jiafu, the struggle between Jia's mother and Mrs. Wang's right to speak.
The dispute between Baochai Daiyu, or the dispute between Mrs. Wang and Jia's mother, the first contradiction broke out, and it was the Dragon Boat Festival gift given by Jia Yuanchun.
This gift is very unreasonable: the three girls in the family welcome the spring, explore the spring, cherish the spring, are the serious daughters of Jiafu, plus a treasure jade, the same gift can be prepared in four copies, and then Daiyu and Baochai two relatives, no matter how the gift is given, the relatives should not cross their own sister. Or six people are as good as they are, treating their relatives as the same as their own sisters, and no one can find fault with them, especially Sanchun, and also educate them about the overall situation and open-mindedness, which is an excellent thing.
But Jia Yuanchun came to make a fuss, she gave Baoyu and Baochai a generous gift, and then Daiyu was the same as Sanchun's and much simpler than Baochai. Although the ladies didn't say anything, could everyone have no idea in their hearts in the face of such a gift? Why is Xue Baochai a class higher than other girls? Even if the young ladies have self-cultivation and don't speak, how do Na Ningfu, Mrs. Xing, Aunt Zhao, and even Mother Jia think that Yuan Chun treats Baochai differently from Ying, Tan, Xi, and Daiyu? This kind of favoritism over one over the other can only lead to offending a group of people.
Of course, it is very likely that Mrs. Wang borrowed the power of Yuanchun to achieve the goal of giving a hint of marriage, so as to achieve the purpose of promoting a good relationship between gold and jade. She thinks that with Yuanchun's supreme position, even if everyone has opinions, they don't dare to do anything, especially if they can attack Jia Mu and Daiyu. Whether it is Yuan Chun's original intention or Mrs. Wang's cleverness, such a gift will only stir up conflicts within the family.
Mrs. Wang, a stupid and confused woman, showed her sword first, the object of her bullying was not only Daiyu, but also Jia's mother, she wanted to overturn the consensus reached by Jia's mother, Jia Zheng and the Lin family to marry again, then Jia's mother would naturally not get used to her, and she would fight back the next day, and even overturn Yuanchun's edict.
Yuanchun not only gave the Dragon Boat Festival ceremony, but also passed down an edict: let Jia Zhen lead the male members of the family to Qingxuguan for three days of safe Jiao.
Readers who are familiar with the Red Mansion know that the matter of playing Ping'an Jiao is all the footage of Jia's mother, and then it was Sister Feng who made a joke about the host of Qingxuguan, Daoist Zhang, and the ladies also became the protagonists of Qingxuguan, and there was basically no matter of men.
In fact, the men are all there, such as the leader Jia Zhen, who is busy maintaining order for Jia's mother at this time, because the young lady and grandmother have come out, Jia Zhen's attention is not ordinary, and he reprimanded his son Jia Rong, saying that he has no eyes, and he doesn't know how to hurry home and call his mother's daughter-in-law (that is, You's Hu family's mother-in-law and daughter-in-law) to serve. Although Jia Zhen is messing around, he has nothing to say about Jia's mother and the service consciousness of the young lady at home, on this day, Jia Zhen is no longer Jiao, he has become the captain of the logistics support team, and his work is very satisfactory to Jia's mother, and he called him "Zhen'er" again and again.
What is Jia Mu doing when she comes to Qingxuguan? It doesn't seem to be anything serious, she is leading the ladies of Rongguo Mansion to watch the play, and there are a few masters and slaves, and there are 180 people, the cars and horses are noisy, and the horses are mighty, whether it is intentional or unintentional, anyway, this Jiao can't be beaten. Do you think she is messing with this religious event?
Zhang Daoshi, who is a clear and void view, is a stand-in for Rong Guogong, that is to say, he is a slave of Rongfu, this person is extremely smart, and when he saw Jia's mother and didn't say a few words, he led the topic to Baoyu's family affairs, saying that he fell in love with the young lady of the family, because he didn't know what the old lady meant, he didn't dare to say it to others without authorization. Jia Mu said that Baoyu's family affairs, here is a key sentence:
"Last time, a monk said that this child should not marry early in his life, let's talk about it when he is older!"
This phrase has two meanings:
One is that Baozhu married early and died early, Baoyu must marry late, the ancients were late, and boys had to be eighteen or nineteen years old. The second is that Mother Jia said this to four people, namely Mrs. Wang, Aunt Xue, Xue Baochai and Jia Yuanchun. The mother and daughter of the Xue family are here, and they must be conveyed to Mrs. Wang as soon as they go home, if you are willing to wait, then you can do whatever you want. Jia Yuanchun was there, Daoist Zhang, who had his own royal Taoist temple, conveyed to her that this was to tell Jia Yuanchun, your brother can't marry early, Baochai is two years older than Baoyu, and you can't let the girl wait until she is in her twenties! In fact, he told her that Baoyu's marriage partner had not considered Baochai at all.
Anyway, the next day, two people had a big fire, first Xue Baochai was out of proportion in front of everyone, and regardless of self-cultivation, he severely reprimanded the little girl named Indi, and then Mrs. Wang, who was full of anger and held back her anger, poured all her anger on Jin Ju'er, and beat and scolded her to drive her out, which actually caused Jin Ju to commit suicide.
It can be seen that it is no longer a matter of blowing, but basically destroying their thoughts.
Jia's mother went to Qingxuguan for a day, and the next day because Baoyu Daiyu quarreled, she didn't have the heart to listen to the play, and I don't know if Jia Zhen took the gentlemen of Jiafu to play Jiao, anyway, the novel is gone, Jia's mother doesn't care about it at all, it can be seen that what Jiao is not Jiao, Jia's mother only cares about Baoyu Daiyu's awkwardness and reconciliation.
The old lady, a thousand-year-old fox, turned Jia Yuanchun's marriage into an invisible and naughty joke without bloodshed.
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: "The Dream of Red Mansions by Sun Wen"