<h1 class="pgc-h-center-line" data-track="31" > Cao Xueqin: full of absurd words, a handful of bitter tears</h1>
I think Cao Xueqin is the most tragic figure in the history of Chinese novels, of course, this is from the perspective of my ironclad determination that he is the author of "Dream of the Red Chamber", saying that he is sad and urgent, naturally does not mean that "Dream of the Red Chamber" has been regarded as a banned book for a long time; it does not mean that his works are unknown, but that thousands of people today, eating "Red Studies" rice, pointing fingers at his works all over the world, guessing and taking it for granted, the most important of which is to deny that he really exists.
It is said that Cao Xueqin is the author of "Dream of the Red Chamber", and they do not know Cao Xueqin; those who know Cao Xueqin, but they do not say that he has written "Dream of the Red Chamber", this is a strange circle today, I know this, Mr. Cao why not laugh at lanling of "Golden Plum Bottle", get a pen name, so as not to have another "Cao Xue" in the "Red Study", so that a large group of people rely on this head to eat and drink together.
As far as those "red scholars" are concerned, there are more than eighty "suspected authors" of "Dream of the Red Chamber", and if you look at their argumentative articles, it seems that there is some truth, such as Hong Sheng, Mao Peijiang, Wu Meicun, Yuan Mei, Li Yu and so on.
Some are completely unreliable, such as Jianwen, Chongzhen, Shunzhi, Yongzheng, etc., how can these emperors have the heart or energy to write this magnificent work in the midst of that mess of broken things. This is something that is impossible to think with his heels, but it is also possible to enter the room and publish it in professional books and periodicals in a dignified manner.
Of course, even if some people recognize Cao Xueqin, they are constantly renovating, for example, some red scholars have identified Cao Xueqin as a descendant of Cao Cao, based on the most scientific DNA identification, and so on, and so on.
Guoxue master Hu Shi is to identify the author of "Dream of the Red Chamber" is Cao Xueqin, I am Mr. Hu's iron fan, to him is to see the three gifts, Mr. Hu as early as the early 20s of the last century, in the spirit of "bold assumptions, careful verification" academic attitude, verified this result, this is a tortuous process from not knowing who, to not Cao Xueqin, and then to Cao Xueqin.
In Mr. Hu's previous authorship of "Dream of the Red Chamber", Cao Xueqin's name was not written, and although the academic community also recognized Hu Shi's certification, in the publishing industry, "Dream of the Red Chamber" was still released as unsigned.
It was not until after the founding of New China that the People's Literature Publishing House officially signed the novel "Cao Xueqin", it can be said that without Hu Shi, there would be no Cao Xueqin's glory today, and it was Hu Shi who carved Cao Xueqin's name on the crown of this Chinese novel.
Cao Xueqin , courtesy name , mengruan , and xueqin , a native of Qingjiangning Province , a native of present-day Nanjing , later moved to Beijing , and was the author of the chinese classical masterpiece Dream of the Red Chamber , who died of poverty and illness at the age of about 50.
He is the Qing Dynasty Ministry of Internal Affairs Zhengbai banner wrapping family, wrapping clothes is a unique term of the Qing Dynasty, to put it bluntly, it is a domestic slave, but this slave is not a slave in our concept, as a minority ruler of the Qing Dynasty nobles, often put their slaves as officials, such as Yongzheng's Baoyi Nian Tangyao, until the governor of Sichuan and Shaanxi, the status of a first-class duke.
Cao Xueqin's great-grandmother was the grandmother of the Kangxi Emperor, and her grandfather Cao Yin served as Kangxi's companion and imperial bodyguard, and was also a companion and playmate of his youth, and was highly favored by Kangxi.
Such a relationship is not ordinary clothing, so the great-grandfather Cao Xi was released to weave for Jiangning, and by the time of Cao Yin, he not only inherited the position of nai father, but also served as the imperial envoy of the two Huai salt inspectors.
The former is to run errands for the Royal Ministry of Internal Affairs, the latter is to control the people's just needs, we know from the time when the salt merchants in Yangzhou can be rich in the world, we know how much cao Yin's position is fat, so the cao family's wealth is far from the ordinary rich and noble family can be compared.
In addition to these ostensible duties, Cao Yin, who weaved in Jiangning, actually had another lesser-known identity, he was a figure who spied on Kangxi's news and secretly supervised those feudal officials, and since Kangxi established the secret system, Cao Yin, as the cloak of his family, was the first person to be entrusted with this duty.
Cao Xueqin lived in Jiangning in her early years, which was a good time when she could not be happier, but after Yongzheng ascended to the throne, she immediately turned her face and did not recognize this intimate relationship, and the Cao family was raided for the crime of deficit, and had no choice, Cao Xueqin moved back to the old house in Beijing with her family, when he was about 13 years old.
"Born in prosperity, finally fell", to Beijing's Cao family was defeated, a faction of desolate scene, Cao Xueqin also felt the cold of the world and the difficulty of life, but he did not bow to life, with a high attitude to face life, in poverty to build that piece of their own blueprint.
He later moved to the western suburbs of Beijing, although he was "full of basil", poor and destitute, and had to rely on selling calligraphy and paintings and friends for a living, he once had a big pen, under the poverty of "the family's porridge and wine often credit", wrote the greatest novel in history, "Dream of the Red Chamber".
However, the hardships of life eventually knocked him down, he suffered from disease, coupled with the grief of the death of his young son, on a Chinese New Year's Eve night, less than half a hundred he closed his tired eyes, his life was frozen in The 29th year of Qianlong, a great soul, disappeared with the wind in the whistling cold wind.
Full of absurd words, a handful of bitter tears;
All cloud authors are stupid, who understands the taste?
"Dream of the Red Chamber" is the greatest novel in history, not only the scene is large, the characters are numerous, the plot is vivid, the words are exquisite, and many vivid images and personalities are created, and the poems in the novel are first-class, from garden art to decoration pendants, whether it is clothing or life scenes, it is extremely exquisite, which can be said to be a magnificent picture of the times.
Among the four famous works, compared with the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Journey to the West and Water Margin, the other three are more or less supported by references such as previous dramas or scripts, while "Dream of the Red Chamber" is a novel completely independently created by Cao Xueqin, which also makes "Dream of the Red Chamber" a landmark novel.
As Mount Everest in the novel, no matter how high the evaluation is, this is a precious legacy left by Cao Xueqin to the Chinese nation and the world, and it is a spiritual wealth precipitated in the hearts of the Chinese people, and Cao Xueqin's position in the world literary circle can be compared to any literary giant.
Like the British who would rather lose the British Isles than Shakespeare, Dream of the Red Chamber is a temple-like existence for the Chinese people, with tens of thousands of research and explorations, and if you take out one of them, you can write several doctoral dissertations, and any one person in the book can publish several tomes.
I naturally have great respect for this work, but in my conscience, compared with several other classical masterpieces, "Dream of the Red Chamber" I have read the least, and I have read it most casually, and there is absolutely no impulse to read it.
In the "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", I have memorized the full text of Zhuge Liang's scolding of Wang Lang, and in "Water Margin", I can know the names of all the good men of Liangshan, and these books were read almost uninterruptedly when I was a teenager.
For "Dream of the Red Chamber", in addition to my special love for the poems in it, most of the other sources of knowledge may originate from TV dramas, of course, most of them are some messy "interpretation" articles that I inadvertently read.
I have watched almost all the programs of "Hundred Family Pulpits", but I have not watched only the programs told by Yu Dan, and Liu Xinwu's "Dream of the Red Chamber", the former is really unable to stand the chaotic interpretation under the flowery rhetoric; the latter is the far-fetched "reveal", which has turned a novel into a "heavenly book" of Xuanzhi and Xuan.
I am very disgusted with the infinite elevation of "Dream of the Red Chamber" and the mysterious examination, "slow taste of fireworks in the world, idle and watch everything for a long time", novels are novels, you can appreciate from politics, humanities, history, customs, culture, etc., but there is really no need to examine for the sake of examination, get a lot of I estimate that even the author himself has not thought of the foreshadowing and obscurity to attract attention, making people confused, there is a meaning!