Snow Goose is Lin Daiyu's little girl since childhood, only ten years old. Because Jia Mu saw that Xueyan was too young, she gave a second-class parrot brother beside her to Lin Daiyu. Parrot later changed his name to Purple Crane. So Lin Daiyu had two servants, Snow Goose and Purple Crane.
How the name of the snow goose came about has always been a mystery.
Yesterday, the author happened to see a Qing Dynasty cold piece painting of the "Snow YanTu", and I couldn't help but light up my eyes. Leng Mei (c. 1669-1742), a court painter of the Qing Dynasty, lived through the Kang, Yong and Qian dynasties. Good at painting people, boundary paintings, especially fine women. Together with Jiao Bingzhen and Shen Yu, he was mentioned as three famous court painters in the late Kangxi Dynasty.
In the first month of the first year of Qianlong (1736), Leng Mei participated in the drawing of the "Forty Scenic Pictures of the Yuanmingyuan". In the first year of Qianlong (1736), on the seventh day of march, the eunuch Mao Tuan passed on the decree to "give the painting silk eight pieces to Leng, and let Yi paint at will." Thanks. So Leng Mei withdrew from the drawing of the "Forty Views of the Yuanmingyuan" and painted eight paintings such as "Xueyan Tu" instead. From this we can know that "Xue Yan Tu" was painted in the early years of the Qianlong Dynasty.
"Snow YanTu" is obviously influenced by Western painting, the whole picture is colorful, and the lady is dignified and beautiful. The painting depicts three women in Hanfu walking in the snow, at the forefront of which is a noblewoman with a golden phoenix on her head and a posture like a weak willow, accompanied by two handmaidens, one of whom carries an umbrella and the other holds a plum blossom.
After watching "Xue Yan Tu", the author can't help but think of "Yongzheng Twelve Beauty Figures". The "Yongzheng Twelve Beauties" also depicts a group of palace women dressed in Han costumes, who are regarded by everyone as the concubines of the Yongzheng Emperor.
The women in the three paintings in the "Yongzheng Twelve Beauties" also have this golden phoenix hairpin inserted on their heads, which should be the empress. The rest of them did not have a golden phoenix on their heads, and they should be concubines. The golden phoenix hairpin in the head should be the privilege of the empress, and it is a symbol of her status.
It is said that the author of "Yongzheng Twelve Beauty Figures" has become anonymous, but after reading "Xueyan Tu", the author believes that the character painting style of "Yongzheng Twelve Beauties" and "Xueyan Tu" is the same, and it should be the works of Leng Ming. In particular, the costumes of the beauties in the "Yongzheng Twelve Beauties" in the "Dress to the Mirror" and the "Xue Yan Tu" are very striking gods.
Therefore, the author believes that the noblewoman in the painting with a golden phoenix hairpin on her head and wearing a Han costume is actually Empress Xiaoxianchun, that is, the Lin Daiyu in "Dream of the Red Chamber"! Because the "Xue Yan Tu" was painted in the early years of Qianlong, the empress dowager at that time was Empress Xiaoxianchun. In addition, the graceful and colorful demeanor of this noblewoman in "Xue Yan Tu" is very similar to Lin Daiyu in "Dream of the Red Chamber", who is "idle like a flower shining on the water, and acting like a weak willow to help the wind".
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Then, the maids who accompanied them with a dozen umbrellas and a plum blossom were snow geese and purple cranes, respectively. Because of the snow goose, the harmonic sound "Snow Yan" also, the name of the snow goose comes from the "Snow Yan Map"! In addition, the umbrella pole of this umbrella is made of Xiangfei bamboo (spotted bamboo), which has a speckled pattern on it, which is in line with Lin Daiyu's identity as "Xiaoxiang Concubine".
Some people may ask that women in the Court of the Qing Dynasty should wear Manchu costumes, how can they wear Hanfu?
This should be the popular Hanfu style in the court that year. When the women in the Court of the Qing Dynasty were bored, it was entirely possible to dress themselves up as Han Chinese women. Among the paintings circulating in the Qing Palace today, there are portraits of the Yongzheng Emperor and the Qianlong Emperor dressed in Hanfu.
To sum up, the three women on the "Snow Yan Map" are the portraits of Lin Daiyu, Snow Goose and Purple Crane.
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