Foreword: Small portraits are equivalent to our current photos, but small portraits can be flat or three-dimensional. Visiting the famous poems of the ancients, those delicate emotions buried in the heart, those lovesickness and remembrance, gentle and lingering meaning, seem to be pinned on this "small statue", such as the light veil under the moonlight, hazy shadows, subtle and far-reaching, and endlessly evocative.
I. The Biography of Zhen Huan: "Little Statue" and Love
The first acquaintance with the "small portrait" is the small portrait of Zhen Huan made by Xiao Yunzi with paper cuts in "The Biography of Zhen Huan", which is really a wonderful portrait, and the appearance of the flowers and the moon is all on this "small portrait". Later, as the plot unfolds, we know that this "little statue" is not only the love and hatred between Huan Huan and the emperor and the king of Guojun, but also a key link in Huanbi's ability to marry into the king of Guojun.
Watching Zhen Huan standing in the snow, looking at the small statue of the red plum branch and making a wish: "May the headwind be as unraveling, easy to destroy", watching Yun Li slowly take down the small statue of the branch, treasured in his own pocket, Liu Yizi integrated the emotional entanglement into the "small statue", and played the role of the "small statue" to the extreme, one ring buckled a link, and the whole text of the small statue ran through, making this plot spread out layer by layer like a flowing stream.
Second, "Dream of the Red Chamber": "Little Statue" and brotherhood and sisterhood
Because I liked it and carefully polished the text plot of "Dream of the Red Chamber", I found that there was also a "small statue" figure here, in the sixty-seventh time of "Dream of the Red Chamber":
Xue Pan traveled far away, and only brought a large box of playthings for Xue Baochao: pens, ink, paper, stones, various colors of paper, incense bags, incense beads, fans, fan pendants, pollen, rouge, and other things; outside there were self-propelled people brought by Tiger Hill, liquor lingers, mercury-filled playboys, sand lamps, and one mud man after another, packed with boxes covered with green yarn; and there were also small statues of Xue Pan pinched in the mud on Tiger Hill Mountain, which were no mistake with Xue Pan.
And When Bao Chao saw it, nothing else was theoretical, but It was a small statue of Xue Pan, who took a closer look at it, and then looked at his brother, and couldn't help but laugh.
"Ren is ruthless and moving" Xue Baochao, Cao Xueqin actually arranged such a warm and infinite brother-sister love plot, looking back, it is not difficult for us to find that xue pan, the bully king, is not obedient to his sister Baochao, but he is also extremely loving, in the thirty-fifth time in "Dream of the Red Chamber", Xue Pan was wronged by his sister because of Jia Baoyu's beating, and said the wrong thing in anger, and hurriedly put down his body to tell Baochao for forgiveness:
Xue Pan said, "If I hang out with them again, my sister will just take care of me when she hears me, and then call me a beast, not a human, how?" Why bother, for me alone, my mother and children worry about it every day! My mother is angry with me and forgiven, if I just ask my sister to worry about me, I am not a person. Now that my father is gone, I can't be filial to my mother and hurt my sister more, and the anti-religious mother is angry with her sister, and she really can't be as good as a beast. As he spoke, tears rolled down his eyes. When Xue Pan heard this, he collected his tears and smiled, "I once invited my mother to cry!" Stop, stop, stop, leave this alone. Ask Xiangling to pour tea sister to eat. Bao Chao said, "I don't eat tea either, and when my mother washes her hands, we will pass." Xue Pan said, "I look at my sister's collar, but I'm afraid it should be blown up." Bao Chao said, "What did Huang Chengcheng blow him up again?" Xue Pan added, "My sister should also add some clothes now." What color pattern to ask, tell me. ”
Also in Jia Mansion, when Sister Feng and Bao Yu were sick and everyone was in chaos, Xue Pan was busy on the side, afraid that his mother had fallen, and worried that his sister would be looked at. Many of the details in Cao Gong's pen make this dumb bully full of humanity. Xue Pan traveled far away from business, and on the way, he did not forget to bring some specialties from all over the world to his sister at home, and Bao Chao received these, no matter what else, just touched Xue Pan's small statue and couldn't help but smile. These words expressed by "small portraits" Zhang Jie make people feel infinitely gentle and sweet.
III. "Chatting with The Eunuch": "Little Statue" and Fulfillment
"Liaozhai Zhiyi • Eunuch" describes the poignant love story between Wen Ruchun and the eunuch and the good worker, the eunuch knows that people are ghostly, can not marry Wen Ruchun, decided to promote The beautiful marriage between Wen Ruchun and the good worker, as a matchmaker, let the sweetheart get happiness, and later as a wish, the eunuch was also found by Wen Ruchun, and when she left in grief, she said this sentence:
"If this concubine statue does not forget the concubine, when the bedroom is hanging, when it is happy, burn incense and sing a song to the drum, then the child will suffer it."
Wen Ruchun in the story is good at playing the piano, and the eunuch is also a piano fanatic, and when she leaves, she only wishes that if her sweetheart does not forget her as a matchmaker, in addition to being happy, she can burn incense and play a song against her little statue, just like she has received it.
"Small statue", wrapped in the most delicate expression of emotions of the ancients, thick but modest, this implicit emotion, this obsessive love, deep and shallow condensed in the "small statue", can only be understood, ineffable, let us in the heart to taste, slowly consider, in the middle of the taste, wonderful.