The names of the characters in "Dream of the Red Chamber" often carry a "mission", which is generally used by the author to allude to the fate of the characters. As one of the few male main characters. Liu Xianglian's name is very similar to her daughter, reminiscent of "Qin Xianglian" who was cruelly abandoned by her husband. And it is inevitably a little feminine. So, why does Liu Xianglian have the name of "Xianglian". Cao Xueqin is so named, what is the meaning?
If you want to understand "Liu Xianglian", you must combine it with Lin Daiyu. Although the two could not fight with eight rods. But the implications are deep.
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Willow, wood also, is a kind of forest. In "Dream of the Red Chamber", in addition to Liu Xianglian, there is also a Liu Wu'er and the Liu family.
Liu Wu'er is like the tender willow of May, because of the illness since childhood, did not serve in the Jia family, and later heard that Jia Baoyu wanted to release the maids in the room and let them get free, the Liu family conspired with Fangguan and Qingwen, did not want to because of the rose dew, Liu Wu'er was implicated, arrested and locked up for a night, and soon died of illness. Liu Wu'er can be said to have died for "freedom".
Freedom is very important here, Lin Daiyu said: "May slaves give birth to wings and fly with flowers to the end of the sky", which is the desire for "freedom".
In addition, Liu Wu'er was wronged and framed to death. This is also important. The deaths of Qingwen, Xiangling, Qin Keqing, and Jin Jun'er, including Lin Daiyu's final death to leave the Jia family for "freedom" and marry away, are the result of rumors and slanders about "two skins of a human mouth".
Lin Daiyu also said: "Three hundred and sixty days a year, the wind and the sword are severely forced", and said: "Why bother to tell them to curse me behind their backs."
Liu Xianglian's ending is ultimately related to "rumors".
Many girls pointed out one of the sentences: "It is known that no one's mouth can hear it."
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Xiang, Xiao Xiang also. The legend of Lady Xiang eventually evolved into the story of Xiao Xiang's concubine Princess Ying marrying a husband. The Xiaoxiang Pavilion where Lin Daiyu lived and the nickname of Xiaoxiang Concubine all came from this.
Lin Daiyu and Jia Baoyu were very affectionate and polite, and they were still considered by the attackers to be "ugly disasters" and "untalented things". This is still true of the "virtuousness" of attacking people, not to mention how unbearable it should be for other people.
And Liu Xianglian was harassed by Xue Pan and had to run away, similar to Mo Huaigu's framed and uprooted by villains in the story of "A Bunch of Snow". Li Yanzhai criticized the phrase "the defeat of the Jia family in a bunch of snow", implying that Jia Baoyu was framed by Jia Yucun after eighty times, and was attacked by Prince Zhongshun for the second time and ran away from home. On the way, he encountered Zhen Baoyu, and only then did he have the criticism of "Handan Ji Fu Zhen Baoyu sent jade". "Handan Chronicle" is Huang Liang's dream, and Lu Sheng's dream also has the plot of being framed by villains and his family being destroyed.
Jia Baoyu was framed and wronged (remembering that Feng Yuan was also related to Xue Pan, the dumb overlord), Lin Daiyu, in order to save Jia Baoyu, according to Xiao Xiangguan, Xiao Xiang Concubine, Dai Yu Shiwen and Furong Flower Sign Innuendo, "Mo complained that the East Wind should be self-deprecating", and was forced to go to sea with Jia Tanchun to marry like Wang Zhaojun, which was equivalent to being forced by "power" to leave his hometown, and both became "concubines".
In Lin Daiyu's sentence, "four dead trees, a jade belt hangs on the wood", and the dead wood refers to Lin Daiyu. The jade belt represents the power of the jade belt around the waist such as Wang Jue and the imperial power, and the "hanging jade belt" is that the jade belt is hung around the waist like a Peking Opera actor and a Daming crown, representing being surrounded and involuntary. It is also implied that she was forced to marry the king as a concubine. Similar to Liu Xianglian's intimidation of Xue Pan and Jia Jia's power.
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The lotus, Furong also, also takes care of Lin Daiyu's hibiscus flower stick.
The women associated with "Lotus" and "Ling" in "Dream of the Red Chamber" are pitiful. Headed by Lin Daiyu (Hibiscus Flower Stick), supplemented by Xiangling (Zhen Yinglian) and Qingwen (Furong's daughter), the three people at the head of the three books of the Twelve Books of Jinling are all "lotus" lives. Lian Tong is "pitiful", so the women in the "Jinling Twelve Chao" are poor people.
Liu Xianglian herself was not pitiful. But Third Sister You was pitiful. Because of his engagement to Liu Xianglian, he was repented and committed suicide with a sword. Therefore, Liu Xianglian's "lotus" was actually given to You Sanjie.
Similarly, Jia Rong gave it to Qin Keqing, Jiang Yuhan gave it to the attacker, and Jia Lian (similar to the lotus character Dugen, because it is similar) gave it to Wang Xifeng, Ping'er, You Erjie, Qiu Tong, Qiao Jie'er, and so on.
Liu Xianglian said that she had heard hearsay, believing in other people's tongues and believing that Third Sister You was not a virtuous person and could not discern pearls with discernment. Instead, he was blinded by a leaf and was cowardly and ridiculous, but it caused the tragedy of You Sanjie. And Liu Xianglian's cowardice also alludes to Jia Baoyu's cowardice.
If Liu Xianglian can't break through the barriers in her heart, she can't be free. Jia Baoyu broke through the barriers in his heart, but he could not break through the barriers of the world, and he was still not allowed to be free.
Their lack of freedom directly determined the fate of You Sanjie and Lin Daiyu to a tragic end.
Therefore, Lin Daiyu ended with "Red Breeze" in "Five Beauty Yin". That was the "freedom" in her heart. The other four beauties are all sad, but the red breeze is joy.
Chang Yixiong talks about himself, and the beauty of the giant eye knows the end of the road.
The corpse dwells in the remnants of Yang Gongmu, how can you detain your female husband?
If Liu Xianglian is as discerning as Li Jing and dares to ask Forsan You, she will inevitably get a good wife, and the two of them can emulate Li Jing's red flick of the female sword in the world. If Jia Baoyu is as responsible as Li Jing, why should Lin Daiyu be afraid to wander the world with him in the end?
Therefore, Liu Xianglian is set as a "hero" character, which is the only one in "Dream of the Red Chamber". But judging from the involvement of his name with Lin Daiyu, his "hero" is not him, but the heart and courage of Lin Daiyu and You Sanjie and other heroes!
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The information in this article is highlighted from:
"Zhou Ruchang's Revision of the Stone Record of the Approval Point Book" 80 times;
"Dream of the Red Chamber" Cheng Yiben Qi Gong editing;
"Dream of the Red Chamber" illustrated full book Qing Sun Wen.