Roasted Ming told Baoyu that Uncle Feng's family please. Baoyu ordered someone to prepare a horse, hurriedly changed his clothes, and brought four small servants, including roasted tea, hoeing medicine, Shuangrui, and Shuangshou, to Feng Ziying's house for a banquet. When Baoyu arrived at Feng Ziying's house, she was greeted by Feng Ziying's little girl who sang songs, Jiang Yuhan who sang opera, and Yun'er, a prostitute from Jinxiangyuan. Feng Ziying's treat, such a typical description of male group activities, is relatively rare in "Dream of Red Mansions".
Jiang Yuhan is a famous actor in the Zhongshun Wangfu Opera Troupe, a small name Qiguan, good at singing Xiaodan, and has a relationship with King Beijing. He is actually a male pet who was raised by the rich and noble government. It seems that Jia Baoyu, the son of a gentleman, is also unscrupulous in social interactions, contacts everyone, and intersects with Xue Pan's social circle, and the debauchery of the life of rich and noble idlers can be seen.
Those little girls who sing songs are raised by Feng Ziying's family, and they sing songs on these scenes, and behind them they can also be prostitutes, providing services for the master or guests. They are different from the small operas in Jiafu, they are serious opera actors who have a special master to teach and learn opera. They only offer the services of rap art.
Feng Ziying, the son of Shenwu General Feng Tang, has no different taste from ordinary nobles, but he knows how to be hospitable. The treat was very well thought out. Like Jia Baoyu, there is Jiang Yuhan, a famous character, like Xue Pan, who wants to be charming, there is a prostitute Yun'er, and even if anyone likes low-level fun, there are also the little maids at home, which can basically meet the entertainment needs of male guests. This prostitute Yun'er can come out of Jinxiang Courtyard freely, which shows that she is not an ordinary prostitute, but a more famous prostitute like Du Shi Niang. Or a bit like a courtesan in the West or in old China. The prostitute Yun'er can come to the Feng Mansion to accompany the guests, and the wine means that she has a certain social status. After all, not everyone can enter the General's Mansion.
They have this kind of gathering, Xue Pan and they can mess around. Baoyu was fairly educated, he was not very interested in skin promiscuity and low tastes, he had a different view of love, and he became a kind of restriction to several other people. Everyone met and urged Feng Ziying to say the misfortune he said last time. Unexpectedly, Feng Ziying smiled and said, At that time, I was just deliberately selling a pass, in order to sincerely invite you brothers to get together and drink, I am afraid of prevarication, so I said this. Who knew that you all took it seriously, and sure enough, you will be invited today. After speaking, everyone laughed. Baoyu thought to herself, how could this old Feng be as unreliable as Lao Xue. Feng Ziying's explanation is reasonable. Actually, it's not necessarily true, but I don't have room to describe it. After all, the main thing here is to write about banquets.
Everyone sat down at the table, and Feng Ziying ordered Xiaowu and Yun'er to toast successively. After a few glasses of wine, everyone took off their masks and showed what was deep in their souls. Xue Pan didn't forget his feelings after three glasses of wine, and took Yun'er's hand and asked her to sing a new song. Xue Pan made no secret of his masculine nature, he asked Yun'er to sing a tune. Singing tunes is a necessary skill for Yun'er. And judging from the tunes she sang, she understood what kind of tunes Xue Pan wanted to hear.
Yun'er picked up the pipa and sang: The two enemies are difficult to leave behind. This is purely a prostitute's thing, and only a prostitute will feel that you are all paid masters, and you are caught in the middle. Prostitutes know how to flirt, one of them secretly engages in a tryst, and the other seeks it, and they don't know what to say if they hold it, do they prostitutes really often have emotional entanglements. This is a song about the life of a prostitute, and it is sung about the jealousy of prostitutes. The content of the lyrics is almost beyond imagination.
Xue Pan didn't find it interesting, and neither did Baoyu. In the hearts of these two people, they will never be upset about this. Baoyu would rather sit among the flowers and enjoy the flowers quietly. Xue Pan picked them one by one among the flowers, tirelessly, but never dedicated. Their friends, such as Feng Ziying, the general's son, are basically the same. In the past, at social occasions such as gatherings and feasts, some operas were invited to sing, and singers sang and drank with them, which was the social fashion at that time. They drank and had fun together, and they had to be able to sing tunes and sing poems and be elegant.
Feng Ziying invited Xue Pan, Jia Baoyu, and singing actors. At that time, most of the troupe were adult men. Danjiao is also played by men, and they are often trained to sing in their teens. After the Qing Dynasty, there was a purely female team, and Jiafu set up an opera team for the provincial concubine, which was to find 12 girls to learn opera. The group of people invited by Feng Ziying are not very educated, but they can also recite poems. The prostitute Yun'er probably belongs to the high-class prostitute. She can associate with those sons and brothers, and she can sing and drink with them, so she is naturally not an ordinary prostitute. Jiang Yuhan is not an ordinary actor, but a famous Danjiao. He also had a considerable level of education, and he also came to the banquet as a guest.
A social custom with the children of wealthy families, reflecting the social habits of lasciviousness and pleasure in the city at that time. Helping to entertain and satisfy the natural needs of people gradually formed a culture, until now, it is common to sing when you are happy, probably from this.