Since the official office of Hongxue, real researchers have broken through the "Cao's self-legend", taking the background of "Dream of the Red Chamber" as the research perspective of "Late Ming and Early Qing Dynasty, Changing Dynasties and Changing Dynasties", and not giving up the Qianlong period that people believe that writing Mingzhu family affairs and Nalan Gongzi is the research topic of Jia Baoyu's prototype. In the study of the Ming Dynasty remnants of the "Red Chamber Party", Yan Shengsun has always been considered one of the authors of the original "Stone Record" of "Dream of the Red Chamber".
Yan Shengsun was a scribe who entered the Qing court as a Ming courtier, worked at the side of the Qing emperor, participated in the revision of the history of the Ming Dynasty, and was also a guest of the Pearl Family, and was a friend of the Prince Naran.
He is familiar with the characters, life scenes, and historical events in "Dream of the Red Chamber", and he is a great literary hero, saying that he participated in the writing of the first book of "Stone Record", which is more reliable. Just from his intimate relationship with Naranjande, we can see one or two.
Yan Shengsun is one of the most inspirational among Naran's friends, and one of the few friends who can discuss the affairs of the world together. Yan Shengsun, the word Sunyou, Jiangnan Wuxi people. Together with Zhu Yizun and Jiang Chenying, it is called "Jiangnan Three Cloth Clothes". When the Ming Dynasty fell, he "abandoned all his lives for more than twenty years, that is, he abandoned all his lives, traveled around the world, and laughed proudly all year round" (Leaf Sequence of the Autumn Water Collection).
In the eighteenth year of The Kangxi Dynasty, he was recommended to participate in the Erudite Hong Confucian Examination, and went to the capital with the "Three Cloth Clothes" to take the examination, and was awarded the review position of the Hanlin Academy. Participated in the "Revision of the History of the Ming Dynasty, the Adverse Strategy of Evaluation".
In the Jingshi once "moved into Rong Ruojin Shi Zhai", he lived in the Naran Zhide family for two years, and once got along day and night, starting with literary friendship, and then had a lot of common language about life, society, new dynasties and old affairs, and the home country under the world.
Although Yan Shengsun Chang Naran is 32 years old, two generations and different ethnic groups, there is almost everything between the two people, and there is no scruple in talking: "Even after the paper, idle and the world, there is nothing to hide." Since the beginning of the year, the perversion of the material situation has been seen in it."
The mutual encouragement between them once made the young prince's blood boil, and the poems they wrote were sonorous and high-spirited, and there was no sound of sorrow. For example, the seven ancient poems "Send Sun Friends" recalls the previous discussion of the world's grand plan, and the excitement is unforgettable:
"Even if there is heroic blood in his life, there is no reason to splash the water of the Jingjiang River." Jingjiang sunset clouds low, Hengge Prancing Horse now when? I remembered last year's stormy night, and the King's Exhibition Volume discussed the king's hegemony. ”
As a noble prince of the new dynasty, he was also deeply cultivated by Han culture, and like his ancestors, he made meritorious achievements from the dragon conquest and became the pillar of the country, which was the unquenchable ambition in Naran's heart.
This is rarely expressed in his poems, and the blood of the Yokogo Prancing Horse hero in this poem of sending friends, the demeanor of the general of the stormy night on hegemony, is only seen in more posthumous works.
Naran rarely mentions his father, Mingzhu, who held great power, and only once in a letter to a friend: "Only the Great Ceremony of Ascension, the Great Ceremony of The Great Seal, the Kudai Xifeng, the Fun Horse Weilao, and the Subject's Office have been determined." Old Father Ai Nian, still diligent in service, small to the child, dare to be afraid of the front? ”
"Old Father" refers to father Mingzhu, who is more than half a hundred years old and still works day and night for the country, not to mention how dare my juniors slack off in front of the emperor's court. "The sun sees the closeness of the face, the warmth of the heavenly language, the glory of the courtiers, and the yu si zhiyi." Although the frost flowers are dotted, the cold is braved, and the stars and shadows are in the arms, and the twilight grass is long, but it feels that it is happy, and it even forgets its labor. ”
Serving as a bodyguard at the emperor's side is the glory of the courtiers, and the labor of the wind and frost and cold nights is also pleasant, and I forget the physical and mental tiredness. This confession is found in the Book of Gu Liangfen, which is different from the "poems that should be made" and is a more authentic voice. And this kind of excitement can only appear in the spiritual interaction of friends.
In the sixty-third year of the Kangxi Dynasty (1689), Yan Shengsun was 62 years old, he was impeached by his colleagues, and he was well aware of the dangers and boredoms of the official struggle, whether it was right or wrong, not defending loyalty and adultery, regardless of gains and losses, and resolutely withdrew.
At that time, Mingzhu was in power, and Yan Shengsun had no intention of fighting again, so he did not turn to Naran Zhide for help, but took a leave of absence to return to his hometown and lived in seclusion on the banks of the Xiyang Creek in Wuxi, Jiangnan, entertaining himself with poetry and paintings, calling himself "The Old Man of Lotus" and "The Fisherman of Lotus".
Naran wrote in the latter part of the poem "In the Sending of Sun's Friends": "Junjin looks up to Kowloon, and I want to cultivate from the matter. Hibiscus flowers on Hibiscus Lake, the autumn wind has not yet fallen like a morning glow. Junru Zai must be drunk, drunk and will not think about the end of the world."
Naran Sex de and Yan Shengsun had more than ten years of exchanges, there were many partings and poems exchanged, and there were letters exchanged in lovesickness, but in April of the twenty-third year of the Kangxi Dynasty, Yan Shengsun returned to his hometown in Jiangnan, Naran Sex de was very sad and wrote a "Water Dragon Yong" to bid farewell.
According to later recollections, Yan Shengsun went to Naran's house to bid farewell before his departure, when only the two of them sat facing each other, "the gathering and dispersion of each other and the life of The Narrator, the investigation of personnel is always the same, the words are reached, and the feelings are sad." "It took a long time to talk before saying goodbye to the road."
Naran Sent Sun on the road again, but did not say anything more, but it could be seen that "if there is something that is not explained, it is quite strange, and the difference between the past and this is not true." Yan Shengsun felt that the atmosphere of this farewell was a little strange, and it seemed particularly sad.
Unexpectedly, he was stranded in his hometown due to illness on the way back to the south, and before he could return to Wuxi, the bad news of Naran's sudden death came. It is hard to believe that this goodbye has become a permanent recipe, and "it is said to be strong and few, and before I die?" ”
Yan Shengsun, in the "Lamentations" that records the experience of the two people meeting and knowing each other, also particularly lamented: "If you are very young at the beginning, you have no idea in the world, and even if you are a scholar, you can gossip about the world's affairs, and there is nothing to hide." Since the years, the research is also lazy. Gai Qi's vigilance is so sensitive that it is more false, and I know what it is."
He believed that the young Naran had shown superhuman wisdom and noble personality charm, and if the Heavenly Father intended to stay in the world, he would be like his father's generation to become a great use for auxiliary government.
"Rong Ruosu was instructed by the court, and he was known to the Lord. Zi Qi,those who mourn and sympathize with the Son of Heaven are all out of odd numbers, and the intention of the appointment of the Knowledge Is Not Measured. However, he was not allowed to show his talents, but instead entrusted himself to the relics of Jin Tsuen Lan Qi, so that the people of later generations who were embellished with literature could stroke the scroll and sigh. Whoops, it pains the average of the family and the country. ”
The early death of a talent is a great misfortune for our friend and a great misfortune for the country! Yan Shengsun, with his understanding of Naran's character and character, believes that Naran's character cannot display his heroic talents and only pass it on to the world through poetry, which cannot but make those of us in the world deeply regret it. And this trick word was passed down, so that posterity chanted and sighed three times:
"Water Dragon Yin , Send Sun Younan Again": "The north and south of life are really like a dream, but lying on the high side of the Golden Mountain." Bai Bodong passed away, the birds chirped and fell, and let him fall at dusk. Don't drink wine, give a sigh, and send the king back. The smoke is endless, the half sail is ruined, and the look back is several times, and the lovesickness is bitter.
It can be recalled that the wood door is deeply closed, the jade rope is low, and the lights are cut at night and rain. Floating life is so, don't be more will be less, it is better to meet mo. Sorrow to Xi Xuan, the leaves of the lychee wall are dark, and the wind and rain are dusk. More than that, Jingo Iron Horse, put the desolation to help. ”
In the 30th year of the Kangxi Dynasty (1691), Xu Qianxue edited and printed the "Tongzhitang Collection", which contained eighteen volumes of Lan Zhide's works and two appendices. In this year, Five years after Naran's death, in the autumn wind of September, Yan Shengsun was invited to compose the "Preface to the Manuscript of ChengRongruo", and once again expressed his deep regret for the death of his long-lost friend.
He wrote: I know Chengzi Rongruo, he is not yet twenty years old, I have seen him with a different mind, as if no one can surpass his intelligence. If God can make him grow into China, the first is to become a heavy subject that the Son of Heaven depends on.
If he could use the longer years he had gained, try his best to expound on the study and elaboration of the Six Classics of All Histories and Hundred Schools, and then publish poetry articles with the vastness of the long-stored learning and the mighty power, his achievements would be unlimited.
In all the positions of the court, we used to be co-workers, the court was right, the guards were left and right, and he was always loyal to his duties, but I felt that in his heart there was always "worry about the imminent performance, and those who regarded those who were close to him as close to him had a lot of regrets."
"Although the husband is in a noble place, the idle court is quiet. The outside is not swept away from the door and looked at the dust; the inside is skirtless silk pipe, and the tour of Hulu Bing candles. Every night in the cold and summer, rest and rest in the province, the film of the sun, the amusement of the forest, and can save its Yinghua, ingenuity, it is advisable to work everything."
Yan Shengsun is a traditional Rulin man, who emphasizes poetry and light words in his heart, but he also praises Naran's temperament as a good lyricist, and his own family, not a special talent, and its connotation is flowing, and its root lies in the true purity of his emotional nature. "The so-called man deserves nothing, and there is no need to have it;
He firmly believed that Naran's poetry and articles were edited and engraved, and that An could make future generations flow, so that people would always remember this genius who made the heavens jealous, the stone that was quickly left behind, a sinner who hated the economy of his career, who could make meritorious achievements at the end, and who was obsessed with his life.