The word "姽婳" is to describe the quiet beauty of a woman's posture, from Song Yu's "Goddess Endowment":
"She is both quiet and quiet, and she is also very human."
In the seventy-eighth episode of "Dream of the Red Chamber", Jia Zheng told the story of a "general" Lin Siniang, and ordered Jia Lan, Jia Huan, and Jia Baoyu to compose a poem each, thinking that it was a tribute.
It is about this plot that some red scholars claim that "concubines" and "ghost talk" are also untrustworthy.
It seems to be asserting that the story of "General Concubine" Lin Siniang is all a lie, neither credible nor understandable.
For such assertions, because of helplessness, can only be ignored. You must know that it is in the "ghost talk" they claim that there is a four-story staircase hidden, and it is possible to climb up the Red Chamber layer by layer to spy on the hidden scenes in the dream.
Unfortunately, although the ladder is only four stories, I don't know how many Cao Xue experts would rather ignore it than climb to even the second floor to have a look, but will only float on the first floor like a ghost, and the story of Lin Siniang is the ghost story of "ghost talk".
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > the first layer, the story of the surface of the text</h1>
Jia Zheng said in the book:
"On that day, there was a king who was crowned king of Heng and left the town of Qingzhou. This Heng King liked women the most, and gongyu was good at martial arts, because he chose many beautiful women and practiced martial arts every day. Let the beauties learn to fight and attack. Among them, there are those with the surname Lin XingSiniang, whose posture is both crowned and more refined in martial arts, and they are all called Lin Siniang. He was also called 'General Concubine'. ”
"Who knew that the following year there would be a 'Yellow Turban' and 'Red Eyebrows' of a dry stream of thieves and remnants, who would merge again and again, and loot the left side of the mountain. Heng Wang means the evil of dogs and sheep, not enough to do a big deal, because of the light riding forward. Unexpectedly, the thieves were quite cunning and wise, and the two battles were not won, and King Heng was killed by the thieves. Therefore, the civil and military officials of Qingzhou City all said: 'Wang Shang is invincible, what are you and me?' 'Then there will be a sacrifice of the city.' When Lin Siniang heard the report of the murder, she gathered all the female generals and issued an order: "You and I have all been kind to the king, and we cannot repay it in case." Now that the king is dead in the affairs of state, I intend to die in the king. Those who wish to follow me will immediately go with me, and those who do not wish will disperse early. ’
"All the women will hear him like this, and they will all say yes in unison. So Lin Siniang led everyone out of the city overnight and killed them directly into the thief camp. The thieves were not defended, and several first thieves were also beheaded. Then everyone saw that there were only a few women, and they could not help, so they returned to Ge to overthrow the soldiers, struggled for a while, and made Lin Siniang and one of them not stay, but made this Lin Siniang's loyal and righteous will.
"Later, when it was reported to Zhongdu, from the Son of Heaven to the Hundred Officials, all of them were horrified by Dodge. After that, naturally some people in the DPRK and China went to suppress it, and as soon as the heavenly soldiers arrived, they disappeared into nothingness, and there was no need to discuss it deeply. It's a wonderful problem, and it should have been a good one. ......
"Everyone has heard the news, so they all have to make a song to be loyal."
The story of Lin Siniang, during the Kangxi Dynasty, appeared in the anthologies of An Zhiyuan, Chen Weisong, Pu Songling, Wang Shizhen, Lin Yunming, Li Chengzhong and other Ming Dynasty remnants, because they were all processed and adapted to varying degrees, and the content was much the same, and the same was true in "Dream of the Red Chamber".
Therefore, in Jia Zheng's narration, there are many ambiguities in lin Siniang's story, and it is difficult to distinguish between true and false. Among them, the "Heng Wang" in the story of Lin Siniang, written by other Ming Dynasty remnants, is written here as "Heng Wang", and it is this Heng Wang, which is real in history.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > the second layer, the historical Heng King</h1>
In 1487, Emperor Mingxian created his seventh son Zhu Youzhi the Prince of Heng, and in the twelfth year of Hongzhi (1499), Zhu Youyi took the domain to Qingzhou, built a large number of civil engineering, and built the Hengwang Mansion.
King Heng spent a total of 148 years in Qingzhou, and passed on the six kings and seven kings: Zhu Youyi the Prince of Gong, Zhu Houxian the Prince of Zhuang, Zhu Zaigui the Prince of Kang, Zhu Zaifeng the Prince of An, Zhu Yihuo the Prince of Ding, Zhu Changshu (氵庶) the King of Xian, and Zhu Youzhuo, the last King of Heng.
During this one hundred and forty-eight years, the first six Heng kings all spent their lives smoothly and steadily, except for the last Heng King, Zhu Youliang.
In 1644, twelve years after Zhu Youling was crowned King of Heng by the Chongzhen Emperor, with the fall of the Ming Dynasty and the Entry of the Qing Army, some people wanted to support king Heng as emperor, but the timid Zhu Youling surrendered to the Manchu Qing. In order to stabilize the chaos, the Qing court allowed Zhu Youling and his people to continue to live in the Hengwang Palace.
In the second year of Qing Shunzhi, in the first year of the Southern Ming Dynasty (1645), the Manchu Qing, under the pretext of The Sons of King Heng participating in the rebellion against the Qing Dynasty, took Zhu Youling to the capital and placed Zhu Ci (?) the son of King Heng. ) was killed.
In May of the following year, the Qing court also murdered Zhu Youzhuo, the captive Emperor Of southern Ming Hongguang Zhu Yousong, the Lu king Zhu Changshu, the empress dowager Zou Xun, and the false crown prince Wang Zhiming, on charges of smuggling gold, jade, and silver seals, and attempting to commit treason, at Caishikou, Beijing. The Hengwang Mansion was beheaded, and the clansmen were forced to flee for their lives, and those who did not have time to escape and those who survived were sold into slavery, and the treasures of the family property were "half returned to the Zen brake, half into the waiting door". The palatial Qingzhou Hengwang Mansion was instantly razed to the ground.
(Archway in front of Hengwang Mansion)
The real Heng King in history is the second invisible ladder behind the story of Lin Siniang, mainstream red studies experts dare not climb here, because the real Heng King will make them feel the crisis, if it is admitted that the Heng King died at the hands of the Manchu Qing, then the "Cao Xue" built on the basis of the illusory Yinsun "Cao Xueqin" will not turn into a floating cloud in an instant?
Judging from the real cause of death of the last Heng King, Zhu Youling, it can be seen that the "Yellow Turban" and "Red Eyebrows" that appear in "Dream of the Red Chamber" are just a method of obscurity of smoke and clouds, which gives people the illusion that this is li zicheng and other peasant rebels. In fact, King Heng died at the hands of the Qing court in the third year of Shunzhi, which shows that the "dogs and sheep", "thieves", and "thieves" were secretly cursing Shunzhi and the Manchu Qing. If "Dream of the Red Chamber" is written about Yinsun "Cao Xueqin's self-narration" and "Cao Yin's family affairs", what reason is there to scold Shunzhi and Manchu Qing?
At the same time, Jia Zheng also said: "Everyone has listened to this news, so they must make a song "Words of Concubines" to be loyal to them." "The events that took place in 1646 are called news, and this is not a powerful proof that the hidden background of the era behind "Dream of the Red Chamber" is at the end of the Ming Dynasty?
From King Heng's experience, it can also be seen that "Lin Siniang" is completely a fictional character, but she is also the protagonist in the story, is there any archetype or innuendo?
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > the third layer, ZhongyiLin Fourth Lady</h1>
Some people will say that in the story of Lin Siniang that we have seen, the Heng King is Zhu Changshu (氵庶), not Zhu Youshu, and Zhu Changshu died in 1628.
In fact, writing King Heng as Zhu Youshu was a matter of the late Qing Dynasty and did not exist in the middle and early Qing Dynasty. In particular, the Ming Dynasty remnants of the Kangxi Dynasty did not clearly indicate who King Heng was, nor did they write when he died, but only in 1663, when Chen Baokey fell in love with Lin Siniang, Lin Siniang had been dead for seventeen years, to conceal Zhu Youliang, who was killed by the Qing court in the same year.
There is a poem in Pu Songling's "Liaozhai Zhiyi" in "Lin Siniang" that reads:
Quietly meditating on the deep palace for seventeen years, who will ask the homeland to qingtian.
Idly look at the trees of the temple and weep at the king's cuckoo.
The waves of the sea country shine obliquely, and the Han family Xiao drums quiet smoke.
Red Face is weak and difficult to strengthen, and Hui Qian's heart is sad and only asks Zen.
Recite a thousand sentences of Bodhi a day, and idly read two or three bayes.
Sing the pear garden song on behalf of the cry, please listen to it alone.
One of the "Seven Laws" about Lin Siniang in Wang Shizhen's collection of essays "Chibei Even Talks" reads:
The quiet lock of the deep palace recalls the past years, and the drums of the building are full of smoke.
Red Face is weak and difficult to be strong, and Black Sea is sad and only learns Zen.
Read the lotus flowers carefully, and idly read two or three bay leaves.
The cemetery sang the Shengping Song, and the Jun auditioned it with great surprise.
In these two poems, it is not only implied that Zhu Youling, the king of Heng, was killed by the Qing court in 1646, but also contains the idea of the homeland, but Pu Songling, who is at the bottom, expresses it more obviously, and Wang Shizhen of Shiqing expresses it more subtly. However, we can feel from it that the story about Lin Siniang is itself a story of hidden thoughts of the homeland.
The question is, Zhu Youling was killed after he surrendered to the Qing Dynasty, why does the "Dream of the Red Chamber" say that he was "killed in state affairs", and the fictitious Lin Siniang "a piece of loyalty and righteousness" is completed?
This has to start from the source of lin siniang's story:
"The first creation of Lin Siniang's story comes from Chen Baojian, a native of Jinjiang, Fujian.
Chen Baokey was raised by Nanming Longwu in the second year (1646), and in the ninth year of the Yong calendar (1655), Zheng Chenggong set up six officials, and Chen Baokey was appointed as an associate ceremonial officer. The following year, because of the contradiction with Zheng Chenggong, he was afraid of offending and surrendered from Quanzhou. Qing moved Chen Baojian to be used as a superintendent, and shunkang served in Qingzhou Haiphong Province. In the first year of the Kangxi Dynasty (1662), Wu Sangui killed the Yongli Emperor in Yunnan, and the Ming Dynasty was abolished, and Zheng Chenggong and Li Dingguo were angry. Chen Baoji was not willing to surrender to Qing, so when he went to Guizhou as an official, he participated in Wu Sangui's rebellion against the Qing. After wu zhou's defeat, Chen Baojian surrendered again, and soon after, he resigned and returned to Jinjiang. He once had the "Collected Poems of Chen Luya" passed down, but because many of his poems commemorated the previous dynasty and commended the works of the remnants, he was included in the list of forbidden destruction by the Qing court.
During Chen Baoyao's tenure as the Coastal Defense Road in Qingzhou, he heard the news of the death of the Yongli Emperor and Zheng Chenggong successively, so in 1663, on the first anniversary of the death of the Yongli Emperor and Zheng Chenggong, he created the story of Lin Siniang to express his remembrance of the previous dynasty.
According to records, in Wu Weiye's later years, Wei Xian, a native of Fujian Fuqing, came to Taicang with poems such as "Lin Si Niang" created by Chen Baokey, and Wu Weiye admired it very much after reading it, so he wrote a "Letter to Chen Luya" for Wei Xian to take away, but because Chen Baoye was serving in Guizhou and later participated in the anti-Qing activities, he did not receive this letter from Wu Meicun, so he was included in Wei Xian's collection of essays compiled by wei Xian. And Chen Baokey's "Lin Si Niang" was also lost.
Thanks to another Lin Pu man from Fujian MinXian County, Lin Yunming, who had obtained first-hand information from Chen Baojian. In Lin Yunming's "Records of the Four Niangs of Lin" in Lin Yunming's "Burning Of the Lost Zhai", it is said: "In the sixth year of the Kangxi Dynasty, Chen (Bao Key) was appointed as the preacher of Jiangnan Yi. For the sake of the rest of the matter, it belongs to the record. ”
(Lin Yunming)
In Lin Yunming's pen, Lin Siniang is not a favored concubine, palace concubine, palace person, or heroine of The King of Heng, as she introduced herself to Chen Baokey:
"I am a Native of Putian, so during the Ming Chongzhen years, my father was an official of Jiangning Province, and he was imprisoned. I and my cousin tried their best to rescue me, and we lay up together for half a year, which was really selfless. When the Father was released from prison, and I was puzzled, I threw myself into the darkness of his absence, and the spirit of the spirit did not scatter. There is a friendship with Jun, not by chance. ”
Lin Siniang here is a native of Putian, Fujian Province, in order to prove her innocence, hanged herself in Nanjing, and later because she and Chen Baojian were fellow countrymen, her soul came to qingzhou Hengwang Mansion thousands of miles away to meet Chen.
Then, why did Chen Baoji write the fictional Lin Siniang as his own hometown in Quanzhou, Fujian Province?
This is because Chen Baokey set the time of his meeting with Lin Siniang in 1663, which was the first anniversary of the death of his Quanzhou compatriot Zheng Chenggong of Nan'an and the Yongli Emperor Zhu Youluo. And Chen Baokey is to commemorate the "Lin Siniang" created by Zheng Chenggong and Zhu Yourongcai, so there is a shadow of Zheng Chenggong hidden in Lin Siniang.
At the same time, Zhu Youling, the King of Heng, was not worthy of the four words of "state affairs of death", so "King Heng" also meant something else.
Zhu Youluo originally followed his father Zhu Changying the Prince of Gui to Hengzhou (衡陽), and was also made the Yongming King by the Chongzhen Emperor in Hengzhou. Later, with the death of his father and brother, The Southern Ming Longwu Emperor Zhu Yujian created Zhu Youluo the King of Gui in early 1646. Although in August 1646, after Zhu Yujian was captured by the Qing army and committed suicide, Zhu Yuluo succeeded to the throne with the era name Yongli, but his roots were in Hengzhou.
Therefore, Chen Baojian used the "King of Heng" to secretly take root in Hengzhou, and was once the Yongli Emperor Zhu Youluo of the Yongming King and the Gui King. Moreover, Zhu Youluo is not only worthy of being martyred in state affairs, but also worthy of lin siniang, who innuendos Zheng Chenggong, to fulfill his "loyal and righteous aspirations".
This is also the original intention and original intention of Chen Baokey's creation of "Lin Siniang". At the same time, it is not difficult to understand why those Ming Dynasty remnants rushed to adapt and process the story of Lin Siniang.
<h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" > the fourth floor, the key to unlocking the mystery of the Red Chamber</h1>
In fact, the above three layers are not the real expression and hidden content in the book, and the seventy-eighth insertion and borrowing of Lin Siniang's story in "Dream of the Red Chamber" has another intention and function.
The seventy-seventh time, he wrote about the desolate scene of Qingwen's death after being expelled from the Grand View Garden, and the seventy-eighth time he wrote Bao Yu's sacrifice for Qingwen, "Furong Daughter Recitation".
In the middle of this, the plot of "Lin Siniang", which is extremely incompatible with the style of the whole book, is inserted very abruptly, just to remind and hint at how to interpret the character of Qingwen.
The story of Lin Siniang takes place between 1646 and 1663 in the seventeen years, and the hidden story behind Qingwen also occurred during this time period?
In the story of Lin Siniang, Lin Siniang alludes to Zheng Chenggong, and King Heng alludes to Zhu Youluo, while in the Yongli period, the three most important characters of the Southern Ming Dynasty, one is the Yongli Emperor Zhu Youluo, and the other two are known as the "two pillars" of the Yongli period: Li Dingguo, the King of Jin, and Zheng Chenggong, the King of Yanping.
In the story of "Lin Siniang", only Zhu Youluo and Zheng Chenggong are hidden, so what hinting role it can play, in addition to Qingwen's innuendo of Li Ding's foreign country, may there be a second person more suitable?
In 1662, Zheng Chenggong died of illness twenty-three days after the Yongli Emperor was killed by Wu Sangui; on June 11, on the forty-second birthday of Li Dingguo, who had persisted in the anti-Qing struggle for seventeen years, he heard the news of the yongli Emperor's murder, and finally sixteen days later, on June 27, 1662, he died in the midst of plague and grief in the "peacock town" of Mengla, the "peacock town" at the southern tip of Yunnan.
The seventy-eighth review is "The Old Scholar's Idle March on the Words of The Concubines, and the Foolish Prince Fabricated the Furong Recitation"", if the "Words of the Concubines" is an elegy written to Zheng Chenggong, is not the "Furong Recitation" a sacrifice text written for Li Dingguo?
It is precisely because of the story of the general Lin Siniang as a hint that it is possible to interpret the story behind Qingwen is the story of Li Dingguo, the king of Jin. From the plots that happened to Qingwen: Qingwen tearing the fan, the sick finch golden fur, two fingernails like two or three inches of long onion tubes, and her sentence, it is easier to make a correct and reasonable interpretation. At the same time, the real things hidden in the book can also be used as a breakthrough to be slowly cracked.
Therefore, the so-called "ghost talk" of General Lin Siniang not only conceals the four-story staircase, but also serves as the key to unlocking the mystery of the Red Chamber.