If I say that the author of the Dream of the Red Chamber is Wang Shichen, some people will definitely say that I am talking nonsense, but I really found the clues in it.
The author of the Dream of the Red Chamber may not be Cao Xueqin, which is already a well-known thing, but who it is, there is still no precise answer.
According to the cautious study of red scholars, at least 130 people are currently suspected to be the authors of the Dream of the Red Chamber.
In the spirit of bold assumptions and careful verification, after collecting relevant information, WeiLi Washe suddenly found that Wang Shichen may also be the author of the Dream of the Red Chamber.
To be precise, Wang Shichen is actually very similar to Jia Baoyu's life, what the hell is going on, and listen to me slowly.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" >Who is Wang Shichen? </h1>
Before speaking, we must first understand who Wang Shichen is, he is Wang Shichen, the "Yuyangshan man" in the early years of the Qing Dynasty, not Wang Shizhen, the "last seven sons" of the Ming Dynasty.
This Wang Shichen was a famous poet, writer, poetic theorist, talented, and he and Pu Songling were fellow countrymen.
< h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" >, the same as the nobility</h1>
Jia Fu is an aristocrat, and Wang Shichen's family is also a big family, pushing up three generations, all holding important positions in the Ming Dynasty.
Among them, his great-grandfather [Wang Chongguang] was a senator of the Guizhou Government Envoy Si Zuo, and was later posthumously recognized as the Bingbu Shangshu, and the Jiajing Emperor personally wrote the plaque "Loyalty and Diligence and Compassion". His grandfather [Wang Zhiyuan] was Shangshu of the Punishment Department, and his father [Wang Xiangqian] was Shangshu of the Bingbu.
Jia Fu is a generation worse than a generation, and the Wang family is stronger than a generation. Unfortunately, when Wang Shichen was twelve years old, the Great Ming collapsed.
When Jia Fu fell, Jia Baoyu was also seventeen or eighteen years old, which seemed to be very consistent with the Wang family.
The Suo Yin sect always says that the dream of the Red Chamber is a mourning, so it seems that there is also this possibility.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > two: generations of in-laws</h1>
The four major families of Jia, Wang, Xue and Shi have been in-laws for generations, and one has prospered and one has lost.
The same is true of the Wang family, Wang Shichen is a native of Zibo, Shandong, and there is a large family in the local area, the Bi family, who are also in-laws for generations.
Just mentioned that the Wang family served as a lot of Shangshu in the Ming Dynasty, and the Same was true of the Bi family.
Bi Ziyan and Bi Zisu were the Hubu Shangshu and Liaodong Inspectors of the Ming Dynasty, respectively.
In the last years of the Ming Dynasty alone, the Bi and Wang families actually produced three Shangshu.
It is reported that in the Ming and Qing dynasties, these two major families had hundreds of people serving in the imperial court, and the Wang family was even known as the "Fourth Palace Bao Half Dynasty Official", which was no less than the four major families in the dream of the Red Chamber.
It is not impossible that the author of the Dream of the Red Chamber is modeled after the Bi and Wang families.
<h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" > third, poetry society culture</h1>
Tanchun has united many girls in the Grand View Garden to form a society and recite poems against each other, and Jia Baoyu often participates in them.
Wang Shichen also gathered a number of fellow practitioners to establish the "Qiuliu Poetry Society" on the shores of Daming Lake.
There are a large number of verses in the Dream of the Red Chamber, and the author must be proficient in both novels and poetry.
Wang Shichen is a representative figure of the "Shen Yun School", who has studied Tang poetry very well, sorted out many Tang poems, and made small achievements in novels, operas, folk songs, calligraphy and painting, book collection, and historical theory.
Only an all-rounder like Wang Shichen can write many poems in the novel that conform to the character of the character.
<h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" > fourth, borrow from Liaozhai Zhiyi</h1>
If you look closely, you will find that there are many inspirations in the dream of the Red Chamber that are likely to come from Chatting with Zai Zhiyi.
Wang Shichen had a very good relationship with Pu Songling, frequent correspondence, and chased after the letters, borrowing from Pu Songling the recently written Chat Zhai Zhiyi.
As we all know, Ji Xiaolan, Yuan Ming and others read Liaozhai Zhiyi, and they all felt that you can write and I can write, so they each wrote their own works.
Wang Shichen is talented, after reading Pu Songling's works, will he have the feeling of imitating Liaozhai Zhiyi to write a novel with a grander world view?
Indeed, some red scholars believe that the dream of the Red Chamber has the shadow of Chatting Zhiyi, and the following is the research of some red scholars and network red scholars.
Zhou Ruchang: The passage in which Jia Lian provokes You Erjie is very similar to the passage in "Wang Gui'an" in "Liaozhai Zhiyi" that Gui'an and the woman in the boat provoke.
February River: We see that some of the chapters in "Dream of the Red Chamber" are actually taken directly for "Liaozhai Zhiyi". But......
Tu Moge: Judging from the story of Lin Siniang, Lin Siniang recorded in "Dream of the Red Chamber" and Lin Siniang recorded in The Shandong Wang Yuyang's "Chibei Occasional Talk" and Pu Songling's "Liaozhai Zhiyi" and other works are the same, indicating that they come from the same source.
Wu Xiu'an: The two national governments in "Dream of the Red Chamber", the words "Ning and Rong" are from "Baby Ning" in "Liaozhai Zhiyi". Baby Ning's ring is Xiao Rong. "Xue Wei Niang" is even more feng and Xue two retribution roles exchanged.
At the end of the quote, see here, I said that Wang Shichen is actually the real author of the Dream of the Red Chamber, do you believe it?
<h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" > moment of doubt</h1>
Of course, Wang Shichen is unlikely to be the author of The Dream of the Red Chamber.
First of all, after the fall of the Ming Dynasty, the Wang family did not fall, otherwise Wang Shichen would have really gone to create the Dream of the Red Chamber.
Moreover, although the Bi and Wang families have been Shangshu for generations, they have passed the imperial examination, not hereditary.
Jia Baoyu hated the imperial examination, Wang Shichen was just the opposite, if he wrote a novel, he should not set the protagonist as such a role.
Moreover, Jia Fu is really too big, and some people have examined that the area of Jia Fu is 700 or 800 mu, and the Bi and Wang families will definitely not be so big.