Author: Wang Zhengkang
【Summary of Papers】 In response to the conjecture that the popular "Book of Stones" in the Red Temple was written in the nineteenth year of Qianlong, the author cites two evidences that imitated the "Dream of the Red Chamber" and the "Dream of the Red Chamber" was written before the twelfth year of Yongzheng and that there are two evidences in the "Book of Stones" that Cao Yin's Wenyou Songzhai and Qiyuan's criticism, explaining that Cao Yin's original "Stone Record" was changed to Hong Sheng's original "Book of Stones" as "Dream of the Red Chamber" occurred during the Kangxi Period. Based on this, the author reinterprets the criticism of the "Yue Noon August Tear Pen" of the Deformed Wat Sou, and then the author analyzes the many phenomena that appeared during the Qianlong period regarding the relationship between "Cao Xueqin" and "Dream of the Red Chamber", the general root of which is that Cao Yin incarnated as Cao Xueqin who took over the "Book of Stones" at the end of the "Dream of the Red Chamber".
【Keywords】 Stone Records, Dream of the Red Chamber, "Why The West Chamber", Song Zhai, Qi Yuan, Hong Sheng, Cao Yin, Zhao Zhixin, Fat Yan Zhai, Qiu Wat Shuo, Cao Xueqin
I. The conjecture that the Book of Stones was written in the nineteenth year of Qianlong is very unreliable
Mr. Feng Qiyong said in the "Small Biography of Cao Xueqin": "Xueqin began to write the "Stone Record" around the ninth year of Qianlong (1744), and the earliest surviving manuscript of the "Stone Record" (the original record) was the Jia Shu (1754) version of the nineteenth year of Qianlong, and it can be seen that the eighty times of the "Stone Record" were basically completed at this time. [1] This is also the mainstream view of the Red Altar.
I am very skeptical of this view. My skepticism points first and foremost to the underlying evidence for its argument. I applaud Mr. Pei Feng Qiyong's unabashed indication in parentheses that the Jia Shu manuscript of the Book of Stones is "an original transcription". The question is whether the "Record of Stones" can correctly judge the age of the original writing of the Book of Stones? It is thought that the "Book of Stones" was originally written in the nineteenth year of Qianlong Jia shu (1754) and recorded in the same year, which is a wishful thinking, and it is a very unreliable conjecture.
To discern when "The Book of Stones" was originally written, when it involved the era in which "Dream of the Red Chamber" was written, and who the originals, successors, and critics were, this is too important for correctly understanding the ideological, artistic, and cultural connotations of the text of "Dream of the Red Chamber, and it is necessary to distinguish.
II. Evidence that "Dream of the Red Chamber" was originally written before the Qianlong Dynasty
There is a lot of evidence that "Dream of the Red Chamber" was originally written before the Qianlong Dynasty, and the author selects two pieces of evidence in this article:
(1) The first piece of evidence is "Why the West Chamber". There are thirty-seven times in this book, and there is a Jiaqing Gengshen Wuguitang collection version, and the preface to the volume is quoted: "The book "Why the West Chamber" has been published for a long time. ...... Tong feng foreign history engraving, so far for decades, rambling and mutilated, specially for correction, repayment, to the public comrade. This book also has the Yongzheng Twelfth Year Jiayin (1734) Tongfeng Outer History Preface and the Twenty Articles of Ordinary Examples, in which it is stated that the book "wants to be published but has not been read everywhere, and the fate of the friend's collection of books is to be paid."
The preface indicates that the book is a re-engraving, indicating that the original engraving of the "Why xixiang" predates the twelfth year of Yongzheng.
In the thirty-sixth time of "Why the West Chamber", "Dream of the Red Chamber" has been mentioned in two places: one place says that "it is like the dream of the Red Chamber of the Golden Bottle Plum Dream, which does not fit the style of the playing word"; Another place says, "The bottom is really like the dream of the Golden Plum Dream, and I don't know it." ""Jin Ping Mei" is known to everyone as a novel, and the "Dream of the Red Chamber", which is comparable to "Jin Ping Mei", must also refer to the complete copy of the "Dream of the Red Chamber" that has been revised and continued. "Why Xi Xiang" a "Plum Blossom Dream Bullet Words", a millet "Dream of the Red Chamber Book" recorded "Plum Blossom Dream Bullet Words", Yun: "Pseudo-Tuo Yongzheng Twelfth Year (1734) Tong Feng Outer History Sequence." [2] Is there any evidence to judge whether this preamble is a "pseudo-trust"? No. It is just a reversal of the "mindset" of "Dream of the Red Chamber" written during the Qianlong period. If you are not attached to this mindset, "Why the West Chamber" is a copy of "Dream of the Red Chamber", and Yongzheng has written a book twelve years ago, can't it be proved that "Dream of the Red Chamber" was written earlier?
"Why the West Chamber", aka "Plum Blossom Dream"
The bullet-word novel "Why the West Chamber" has many traces of imitating "Dream of the Red Chamber" in terms of word making, plot description, and character shaping. In "Dream of the Red Chamber", the spirit has been understood, and the stubborn stone can speak. "Why the West Chamber" begins with: If you want to nod your head, it is a pity that the stone can't speak; then: The stone smells and has a spirit. "Dream of the Red Chamber" begins with "Zhen Shi's hidden dream of psychic", and "Why the West Chamber" has "round heaven and earth nature channeling". "Dream of the Red Chamber" "Qinggeng" is a metaphor for "love roots", with love as the guideline; the preface to "Why The West Chamber" declares: "The world is the love of the world", and the book capitalizes "love species", "love root", "love" and "love obsession" from beginning to end. In "Dream of the Red Chamber", the protagonist Jia Baoyu and Qin Zhong are uncles and nephews and good friends; Zhang Ling, the protagonist of "Why xixiang", and Qin Zhong are cousins and good friends. Zhang Ling laughed even more at Qin Zhong and said, "Because of your love word, how much love will be born." You and I are always lovers,...... Not counting the new and old strong feelings, it is clear that I can't leave the love words of my life. His love and essence thoughts and "Dream of the Red Chamber" can be described as the same, which proves that "it is like the dream of the Red Chamber of the Golden Bottle" and "The bottom can really be like the Dream of the Red Chamber of the Golden Bottle" is not false. The cultural pulse of the late Ming Dynasty extended to the flood period of the late Kangxi dynasty, which was the appropriate climate and soil for the bullet novels that produced such sentimental ideas.
(2) The second evidence is cao yin's comments by Wenyou Songzhai and Qi Yuan in the Book of Stones.
The thirteenth time there is a batch of words in the "Reappraisal of the Stone Record Jia Shu Ben"[3] "The language is seen in the Tao, the words are sad, read this paragraph, I don't know what this body is!" Matsuzai"
The "Fat Yan Zhai Reappraisal of the Stone Record Gengchen Schoolbook" [4] also has the same eyebrow criticism, in the same passage: "Song Zhai Yun: Good pen power." This side is the best place for words. "
Who is the "Matsuzai" who wrote these two comments?
Please see the second volume of the "Neem Pavilion Poetry Copy" there is a poem "Tiger Hill Xueji Chase and Zhiyuan Look Ju Yun Sent Song Zhai Big Brother Junshi Second Brother", the following is a screenshot of the "Neem Pavilion Poetry Copy":
Mr. Hu Shaotang believes that this poem "was composed of the rhyme of Ju Lai in the day of Tiger Qiu Xueji and the eldest brother of Songzhai and the second brother of Junshi (i.e., Cao Quan) zhiyuan in Beijing." [5] It can be seen that Songzhai was the "eldest brother" of Cao Yin during the Kangxi Dynasty.
Looking at the twenty-eighth time in the "Li Yan zhai re-evaluation of the Stone Record Gengchen Schoolbook", there is a paragraph of ink criticism: "The sentence of 'opening the hand' begins, to the end of the sentence of 'only to have to be born', a paragraph the author can tell Bao Yu about the grievances after the intestines, so that Dai Yu can not answer a word." It is really impressive why his heart is like this. Yu Zeng saw the real situation. There is even a 'meeting with half a sentence' thing. I deeply regret it. Reading this trance (originally mistakenly panicked) will give the details of the commissions experienced, and the mind and body will be smooth. The author is so attentive that he can not be called amazing! Qi Garden. "
Let's look at the other five comments of Qiyuan in the "Reappraisal of the Stone Record Gengchen Schoolbook":
In the twenty-ninth time, there is a paragraph of ink criticism: "The sentence 'one heart is made into two hearts', the feeling of expectation is great, and everything is a thing." Recently see the sentence cloud in the "Doubtful Rain Collection" that 'the unformed guessing concubine is still shallow, and Ken Lujiao hates the love of the beginning' and does not believe it. Qi Garden. "
In the thirty-sixth time, there is a volume of forehead ink criticism: "Brother Jade's theory, the great awakening is very painful!" Qi Garden. "
The thirty-sixth time there is also a sentence of ink criticism: "When you die, you will taste the great righteousness, and the theory that will not be erased through the ages!" Qi Garden. "
The fifty-third time there is an eyebrow criticism: "Since Keqing's death, I have not seen Jia Rong remarry." This time, there is a recusal of Rong's wife, which is an omission in the book. Qi Garden. "
The sixty-second time there is a volume of ink criticism: "Brother Jade is in the midst of the 'Red Flying Green Dance' at this time, and he does not want to be immortal. Qi Garden. "
Who is Qi Yuan who wrote these comments? He is also a friend of Cao Yin. See the following "Neem Pavilion Poetry Copy" Volume VIII contains a photocopy of the poem "Thirty Rhymes of the Shuyuan Narrative reply to the same people to see the submission, and also sent to the former Poetry Bureau Zhujun and Huinan, Yugong, and Qiyuan".
Mr. Hu Shaotang believes that "this poem was also composed by Cao Yin when he was preparing to engrave the Pei Wen Yun Fu at the Yangzhou Bookstore, in April of the 51st year of the Kangxi Dynasty. [6] "QiYuan, that is, the painter Wang Min, Min Zi Qi Garden, No. Yun Ting, Jiangsu Changshu Ren. Cao Yin records that "the former poetry bureau zhujun and Huinan, Yugong, and Qiyuan", indicating that "Qiyuan" is Cao Yin's literary friend, but is not among the "poetry bureau kings".
It can be seen from this that Songzhai and Qiyuan were both literary friends of Cao Yin, and they were obviously people from the Kangxi period. If the author of the Book of Stones was Cao Xuexu during the Qianlong period, is it possible for Song Zhai and Qi Yuan to write criticisms on the Book of Stones he wrote? Which red scholar has verified that Cao Yin's grandson Cao Xueqin had two friends during the Qianlong period, one called "Song Zhai" and the other called "Qi Yuan"?
The above two pieces of evidence alone can be completely confirmed: Cao Xueqin, the grandson of Cao Yin, who was popular in the Red Temple, wrote the "Book of Stones" in the nineteenth year of Qianlong, which is very unreliable. The author also further thinks that why Cao Yin's Wenyou Songzhai and Qi yuan can be approved on the "Book of Stones" can only be reasonably explained within the framework of "Cao Yin's original "Book of Stones" to "The Dream of the Red Chamber".
3. Hong Sheng, the original author of "The Book of Stones", and Cao Yin, the author of the review and deletion
The Book of Stones quotes the plot of the "Seven Tricks" in the second play of the drama "Hall of Eternal Life", and it can be determined that the "Book of Stones" was written after the "Hall of Eternal Life" was "sung and sung" in the twenty-seventh year of the Kangxi Dynasty (1688).
The original "Stone Record" is not a great writer during the Kangxi Dynasty in terms of its encyclopedic knowledge capacity and magical artistic skills. On the Red Altar, several influential literary heroes such as Li Yu (1611-1680), Fang Yizhi (1611-1671), Wu Meicun (1609-1672), and Gu Jingxing (1621-1687) all died before 1688, and there was no feeling that the "Hall of Eternal Life" was "sung very prosperously", which can rule out the possibility that these great literary heroes were the authors of the "Stone Record". In "Cao Yin's grandson Cao Xueqin's Nothingness and the Truth of Hong Sheng"[7]--the author once used the MULTI-dimensional fixed-point method of multiple satellites of gps navigator, from the blood relationship and era background of "Stone Record" and "Hall of Eternal Life", Hong Sheng's family life and life experience, and the close contact with the sisters of the Banana Garden Women's Poetry Society, lived in an environment similar to the Grand View Garden, turned over three times in life, had a love and obsessive personality, was a poetry and opera everyone, was familiar with local dialect customs, and had a wide range of experience of making friends with the three religions and nine streams. Li Yanzhai is his wife Huang Hui and other multi-dimensional fixed points, arguing that Hong Sheng is the original author of the "Stone Record".
Now it is worth exploring the process and time period of his creation of "Stone".
Lipid batches use the year of the nails, sixty years of one nail. Since it is very unreliable that the "Book of Stones" was finalized in the year of Qianlong Jiashu, it is advisable to push forward sixty years. Judging from Kangxi's Jia Shu nian, whether Hong Sheng had the possibility of writing the original first draft of the Stone Record.
The famous "Changsheng Hall" reprimand case in history occurred in the 28th year of the Kangxi Dynasty, and Hong Sheng was "reprimanded and imprisoned" for the "Changsheng Dian" case. After being released from prison, he went to the mountains alone and went to his old friend Panshan Qinggou Zen Academy Zhipu Master for more than ten days. He wandered under the wind-moving stone, facing the legendary stone abandoned and unused by Nuwa, and in this "day of sorrow, the day of sorrow, and loneliness", he had the idea of writing the "Stone Record" that had experienced the hardships of the country and the family and contained his own life experience.
The thirty-third year of Kangxi is the year of Kangxi Jia. In the autumn of that year, Hong Sheng went to Hefei to visit his mentor Li Tianfu. Li Tianfu said in the poem "Sending Hong Fang Si Guili": "Wuling (referring to Hangzhou "Wulin") Hong ShengWen is too strange, and the poor writers do not know it. "Poor years" should be used as a "continuous year" solution, Hong Sheng is a prolific writer, at that time had written "The Hall of Eternal Life" and other more than thirty plays, famous all over the world. The "text" of li tianfu's so-called "poor years of writings," "people don't know," and "tai qi" will not be the "Hall of Eternal Life." Because the "Hall of Eternal Life" has been "sung very much", everyone knows it. Therefore, it is logical to speculate that the "text" of "Tai Qi" written at this time that "people do not know" should be the first draft of the novel "Stone Record" written in four or five years after his release from prison.
Statue of Li Tianfu
In the late spring of the thirty-sixth year of the Kangxi Dynasty, Zhao Qiugu returned from Guangdong and met with Hong Sheng in Hangzhou. Hong Sheng, Zhao Qiugu, and Wu Shukai "traveled all over the West Lake." Akitani has poems:
Answering Hong Fangsi and Wu Shuyi, they planned to go to the head of the lake and traveled all over the lake
The traces of cloud mud are half dusty, and the lake and sea are new in love.
There should be no other place in the world, how many high people can be gained in the eyes?
Qiu Houjing is lined with a path, and Wu Xiangchao has a full moon.
Only the Fragrant Mountain and the Jade Bureau can illuminate the literary harvest for thousands of years. [8]
The so-called "eyes" and "people in the eyes" in Akitani's poems, Hong Sheng is obviously one of them. The "new dream" mentioned in the poem that contains "the love of the lake and the sea" would not refer to the "Hall of Eternal Life", because it was an "old dream" from eight years ago. This "new dream" should refer to the dream of the "Red Chamber" described in the Book of Stones. The "Fragrant Mountain" refers to Bai Juyi, the "Yuju" refers to Su Dongpo, and the poet praises the artistic level achieved by the "New Dream" by comparing the literary talents of two of the most famous literati in the history of Hangzhou. In addition to the new dream of the Red Chamber depicted in "The Book of Stones", which work is worthy of the praise of "being able to illuminate the literary talent in a thousand springs"? It can be speculated that after three years, Hong Sheng made many revisions and expansions to the first draft of the "Book of Stones".
The years used in the lipograms, such as "甲戌, 己卯, 庚辰", etc., should be regarded as the Jiazi chronicle of the Kangxi period. "Jia Shu", Kangxi Thirty-three Years; 己卯, Kangxi Thirty-eight Years; Gengchen, Kangxi Thirty-nine Years, can be regarded as the chronicle of Hong Sheng's "Book of Stones" in the process of continuous enrichment and revision of his wife Huang Hui.com.
In the thirty-eighth year of the Kangxi Dynasty (1699), Hong Sheng wrote the preface to the novelist Chu Ren's "Supplementary Collection of Jianhuan": "Yu Lang traveled for more than ten years, and he also wanted to write what he had heard from the guests, and he was lazy and forgetful, and he was still unsure, but he was obedient to the diligence of his sons." What the guests heard" was the rumor that he wrote the novel "The Book of Stones", but at this time it was not "ready". He motivated himself with "the diligence of his sons" and tried to make the works that were not "ready" "ready".
By the forty-first year of the Kangxi Dynasty (1702), it should have been "pen into a pen", "ready", and written.
Therefore, it is likely that on the occasion of the Chinese New Year's Eve of the forty-first year of the Kangxi Dynasty, Cao Yin and Hong Sheng had a meeting. The two literary heroes, who were confidants of each other and valued each other, Cao Yin asked Hong Sheng to write an inscription for his miscellaneous drama "Taiping Happy Affair", and Hong Sheng handed Cao Yin the original "line scroll" of the "Stone Record" that had been written, and asked Cao Yin to help engrave it.
Cao Yin read the manuscript of the novel "Stone Record" in the "Xing scroll", and wrote a popular poem in the forty-second year of the Kangxi Dynasty:
Reading Hong Fang Si Barnyard Scrolls Of Feelings and Sending Zhao Qiu Gu Praise
The guanbai of the wandering river occurred, and the broken clouds and zero geese were cleared.
The years of praise have been absurd, and the old articles are fearful.
Etiquette who tastes light Ruan, poor and sad heaven is also thick Yu Qing.
Crossing the human world, only this can eliminate the eternal feelings. [9]
For a detailed interpretation of this poem, see the author's long article "On Cao Yin's Modification of Hong Sheng's Original "Dream of the Red Chamber"" long article. [10] Here I would like to cite Mr. Zhou Ruchang, without presupposing that Hong Sheng was the original author of the Book of Stones, that the "Scroll of Lines" should be placed in the Book of Stones, [11] which is exactly the same as the author's understanding.
In the interpretation of this poem, the author would also like to emphasize two points:
(1) "The old article is fearful of becoming", when it refers to the original "Stone Record" written by Hong Sheng in fear in the old age of Hong Sheng, and asked Cao Yin to engrave it.
(2) It is the time when Cao Yin's "Xinghuan" poem was written, which the author mistakenly thought was written after Hong Sheng's death, but now it is changed to "癸未" before Hong Sheng's death, that is, the year after "壬午". It should be noted that it takes a lot of time to read the manuscript of the "Book of Stones" in the "Xing scroll", so it is speculated that the time of the handover of Hong and Cao is likely to be the time of the "noon Chinese New Year's Eve".
Mr. Xu Naiwei incisively studied and analyzed the relationship between "Later Because Cao Xueqin read it for ten years in the Mourning Hongxuan, added and deleted five times, compiled into a table of contents, and divided the chapters back, then the title "Jinling Twelve Chao" was written by Cao Xueqin himself, nor was it written by others before Cao Xueqin's death. It was written by others after Cao Xueqin's death! -- Then, since after Cao Xueqin's death, others said that Cao Xueqin's work was "reviewing, adding and deleting, compiling, and dividing back" can only be true, and cannot be understood as creation! Because we can't find out why others want to deprive Cao Xueqin of his copyright in this way after his death! Therefore, our conclusion is that the review of additions and deletions is that others have concluded the coffin of Cao Xueqin's relationship with the Book of Stones! [12]
Mr. Xu Naiwei is very reasonable. At that time, writing novels generally did not have a real name, and Cao Xueqin was just a pseudonym, just like a pen name for people's compositions today. The key is whose pen name is Cao Xueqin? The mainstream view of the Red Altar is that Cao Xueqin, who is Cao Yin's grandson. The author thinks that Cao Xueqin, the grandson of Cao Yin, who wrote "Dream of the Red Chamber" during the Qianlong period, is illusory, and Cao Xueqin is actually a pseudonym rarely used by Cao Yin. In the long article "On Cao Yin's Change and Continuation of Hong Sheng's Original Dream of the Red Chamber", the author has elaborated in detail that the original author of "The Book of Stones" is Hong Sheng, and the successor is actually Cao Yin, whose pseudonym cao Xueqin is cao. I will not repeat it here.
Fourth, a reinterpretation of the criticism of the "Jia Wu August Tear Pen" of the deformed Wat Wat
In the first episode of the Kojimoto, there are "full of absurd words and a handful of bitter tears." The title poem of the "first title poem", immediately following the tone of the "first title poem", there is a fat comment in the upper left corner of the page: "Those who can solve it have bitter tears, crying into this book." At noon, Chinese New Year's Eve, the book was not completed, and Celery died of tears. Yu often cried and cried, and the tears were waiting to be exhausted. Every time I think about Qinggeng Feng, I ask Brother Shi again, Nai does not meet the leper monk He! Pity! Now and then, I only wish that the Creator will give out another one parsley and one fat, which is the book He Xing, and the remaining two people are also very happy to be in the Nine Springs. A noon August tear pen. "
Except for the Yasumoto, which writes "Jia Wu August" as "Jia Shen August", the other lipograms are all "Jia Wu August", and I believe that most of the manuscripts have the chronology.
Many researchers of "Dream of the Red Chamber" have their own interpretations of the "Jia Wu August Tear Pen" this lipogram. The author found that these researchers almost have two common characteristics: one is to regard the jiazi chronology in the lipid batch as the jiazi chronology of the Qianlong period; the other is that there is no distinction between the original and the successor, and the "author", "qin", "shi brother" and "solver" are regarded as Yinsun Cao Xueqin. The knowledge of these red scholars cannot be said to be rich, nor can it be said that the discussion is not serious, but unfortunately they are all blinded by the saying that "Cao Xueqin, the grandson of Cao Yin during the Qianlong period, wrote "Dream of the Red Chamber"" and this limited their vision. Now, we can irrefutably prove that "Dream of the Red Chamber" was written before the Qianlong Dynasty, so it is necessary to reinterpret the view that "Cao Yin re-continued Hong Sheng's original "Dream of the Red Chamber"" in the fat batch should be pushed up by a nail, that is, sixty years.
(1) The time of writing this criticism is "A Noon in August". Since "Jia Wu" cannot be jia wu (1774) in the Qianlong period, it should be the jia wu in the Kangxi year of the earlier jiazi, that is, the fifty-third year of kangxi (1714). At that time, Cao Yin, Hong Sheng, and his wife Huang Hui (i.e. Fat Yan Zhai) had all died. The "author" in the title poem and the "who understands" in the title poem do not refer to the same person. Only readers with a very strong cultural attainment can be called "solvers". The "person who can solve" referred to in the lipogram does not refer to the "author" himself, so the author thinks that the "person who can solve" referred to at the beginning of this criticism should refer to the successor Cao Yin. "Crying into this book" means that Cao Yin has changed the "Book of Stones" into "Dream of the Red Chamber" with bitter tears. From the kangxi noon year (1702) to the Kangxi nongchen year (1712) to receive the "Stone Record" in the "Xinghuan" year is exactly ten years, which coincides with Cao Yin's pseudonym Cao Xueqin's "Ten Years of Reading". Zhao Zhixin lived to be eighty-three years old and died in the ninth year of Qianlong. In the article "Titled Young Zi Qing Fu Manuscript", it is written when "more than eighty years old", and there is a passage that reads: "To admire the abundance, zhuoran 'Gai Shi Hongwen'." Because Zhao Zhixin knew that Cao Yin was a native of Fengrun, Hebei, "Fengrun" here should refer to Cao Yin, who was plump. Zhao Zhixin's great admiration of "Zhuoran Gaishi Hongwen" does not refer to a poem, a collection of poems or a legend, "Hongwen" should refer to a long and huge work, "Gaishi" means a unique step through the ages, no one can match. It can be seen that Zhao Zhixin had seen the original "Dream of the Red Chamber" originally written by Hong Sheng and rewritten by Cao Yin nine years before Qianlong.
Portrait of Zhao Zhixin
(2) Many researchers of "Dream of the Red Chamber" regard the chronology of "Noon" as the chronology of the previous sentence. Cao Yin had just accepted Hong Sheng's "Scrolls of The Scrolls", so how could he say that he had "cried into this book"? We know that Hong Sheng wrote the "Book of Stones" in the year of Nong Wu, and we also know that cao Yin wrote the poem "Xinghuan" in the following year, and we can infer that the "Nongwu Chinese New Year's Eve" in the forty-first year of Kangxi is likely to be the time when Cao Yin took over the "Book of Stones" from Hong Sheng. Just as people often associate a specific anniversary with a specific event, the author thinks that "Noon Chinese New Year's Eve" may be the time when Hong Sheng gave the original "Stone Record" to Cao Yin to publish it, and it is the most likely time point for the deformed wat who "knows the bottom of the book" to arouse emotion and association. "At noon Chinese New Year's Eve, the book was not completed, and Celery died of tears." It refers to the fact that Hong Sheng entrusted Cao Yin to engrave the Book of Stones into a book by "Noon Chinese New Year's Eve" has not yet been completed. However, "Qin" or Hong Sheng died in The water in Wuzhen on the evening of the first day of June in the year of Kangxi Jiashen (1704).
"Tears running out" is just a description of Hong Sheng's bitter and sad creative process, not a description of how Hong Sheng died.
Why does the author say that the "qin" in the criticism refers to Hong Sheng? It should be noted that Hong Sheng had used the name of "Qinxi Resident" to read the book "History of Tianbao Qu" engraved by Kangxi in the tenth year, so "Qin" refers to Hong Sheng. After experiencing the "Hall of Eternal Life" reprimand case to create "Stone Record", it is conceivable that Hong Sheng still has a fear psychology, and has to write in anonymity, incarnating "stone" in the novel. Therefore, the "Qin" and "Brother Shi" in the criticism, including the "author" in the title poem, refer to Hong Sheng, the original author of the "Book of Stones". "One parsley and one fat" refers to Hong Sheng and his wife Huang Hui. One of the fat critics said in a very kind tone, "Thirty years ago, the person who made this statement to Yu was on his side, and his shape was already hunched over. I would like to ask, if according to the "Cao Zhi Fat Criticism", Cao Xueqin created "Dream of the Red Chamber" in her twenties, how did she experience the events of thirty years ago with Li Yanzhai? Cao Xueqin was only about forty years old (another said to be forty-eight years old) until her death, so why did she ever have the shape of a "hunchback"? However, from his wife Huang Hui's description of her husband Hong Shengguanzhi, who is nearly a year old, how impressive!
(3) Since both "one parsley and one fat" and "the one who can solve" Cao Yin have died one after another, it can be seen that this criticism should have been written by the deformed Wat Sou. As for who the deformed Wat is and who the "Yu Duo" refers to, it remains to be studied in depth. But one thing is certain, it is definitely not someone close to Cao Xueqin, the grandson of Cao Yin during the Qianlong period, but a relative and friend of Hong Sheng or Cao Yin during the Kangxi period. Only the base of "Dream of the Red Chamber" can be approved. This criticism can also make such an inference, "Dream of the Red Chamber" was handed down from the hands of the Deformed Wat in the late Kangxi Period.
The author thinks that after this criticism of the deformity, there is no fat criticism. Some people may take the seventy-fifth time "Qianlong twenty-first year of the seventh day of May to the Qing." The lack of Mid-Autumn Poetry, Qi Xueqin" this criticism is rebutted. It should be noted that the lipid batches all use the Jiazi chronology, and this criticism is not the Jiazi Chronology, which can be seen that others added the batch during the Qianlong period. Paying attention to the word "to the Qing" again, can we prove that the base of the "Qing" must be the original "Stone Record" during the Qianlong period? Therefore, it is not possible to use the criticisms of others during the Qianlong period to deny that the criticisms of Li Yanzhai and The Qiao Shuo were all approved during the Kangxi period.
V. The original and revised "Dream of the Red Chamber" of the "Book of Stones" was all in the Kangxi Period
I do not deny that there is an element of conjecture in the process of exploring Hong Sheng's original "Stone Record" and Cao Yin's revision of "Dream of the Red Chamber". The smoke and dust of history obscure many truths. Finding a limited number of "slush claws" in a place where there is no road, and stringing them together like pearls, inevitably has an element of conjecture. But conjectures also have reasonable and unreasonable distinctions. For example, Mr. Feng Qiyong's conjecture, from the "Original Record of the Stone Record" Jia Shu Ben "Original Record" inferred that the "Stone Record" was originally written in the year of Qianlong Jia Shu, which means that the "Stone Record" was originally written in the same year as the recorded version. This is also a conjecture, but can this conjecture explain the fact that the Dream of the Red Chamber has been circulated during the Yongzheng period, and can it explain the fact that there are Cao Yin Wenyou Songzhai and Qiyuan criticism in the Book of Stones? The author's conjecture is a reasonable conjecture on the basis of evidence, and end-to-end care, forward and backward response, the slightest buckle, this is a kind of hopeful conjecture, I believe that under the joint efforts of colleagues in the Red Altar, there will be more discoveries on this road, which is a road to truth. Today, the author can safely say that the "Book of Stones" was originally completed in the 41st year of the Kangxi Dynasty (1702), and the "Dream of the Red Chamber" was originally written in the 51st year of the Kangxi Dynasty (1712) before Cao Yin's death in July, and the criticism of Li Yanzhai ( Zha Wat Shu , Song Zhai , and Qi Yuan occurred during the Kangxi Period.
Why did there be many phenomena related to Cao Xueqin and "Dream of the Red Chamber" during the Qianlong period?
According to the convention of writing novels without real names in the Ming and Qing dynasties, the name of Cao Xueqin in "Dream of the Red Chamber" cannot be a real name, but can only be a pseudonym. The question is whose pseudonym it is.
Some red scholars believe that Cao Yin's grandson (or Cao Tianyou, or Cao Fu's son) is Cao Xueqin, is there any definite basis? Other red scholars have identified Cao Yin's son Cao Shun, or Cao Yin's adopted or adopted son Cao Yan as Cao Xueqin, but there is no evidence, and they all make conjectures.
The really hard evidence is the name of the "Xueqin School Character" on Cao Yin's collection of books and records. According to the article "Introduction to the Ink Of the Xueqin School Characters" on the "Xueqin School Characters" Inscribed ink on the "Shushi Jiyuan" of the "Book History" of the "Dream of the Red Chamber" in the 1994 "Dream of the Red Chambers Academic Journal", the book covered with Cao Yin's book seal has the handwriting of "Xueqin School Character" and is accompanied by a color photo of the book. This inkblot must have been left by Cao Yin himself when he was with his books, and it can be ironclad evidence that Cao Yin has the pseudonym "Xueqin".
Snow parsley proofreading
Academically, there is a saying that "isolated evidence cannot be established". One more proof may be presented:
The famous writer, scribe, educator and calligrapher of the late Qing Dynasty, The master of Pu Xue, Yu Fan, said in "Little Floating Plum Gossip": "Nalan Rongruo's "Collection of Drinking Water Words" has the words "Manjiang Hong", which was constructed by Cao Ziqing's ancestors, that is, Xueqinye. Cao Ziqing is Cao Yin, and Yu Yu said that he was "also known as Xueqin", indicating that Cao Yin had a pseudonym of "Xueqin".
In the long article "Cao Yin's Rewriting of Hong Sheng's Original "Dream of the Red Chamber"", the author argues in detail that Hong Sheng is the original author of "Stone Record", cao Yin "read the "Stone Record for ten years, added and deleted five times", continued it, and finally incarnated into the character in the novel, "Cao Xue Sequence" in "Mourning Hongxuan". The real prototype of Cao Xueqin, who received the "Book of Stones", was Cao Yin, who received Hong Sheng's original "Book of Stones".
After Cao Yin changed "Stone Record" to "Dream of the Red Chamber", he would never let his pseudonym appear twice in the first and last episodes of the novel. It must be the last incarnation "Cao Xueqin" who received the book of "Stone Record" first. And the first time, "After Cao Xueqin read it for ten years in the mourning Red Xuan, adding and deleting five times..." And this passage in the first time was actually not written by Cao Yin himself when he was revised, but was his conclusive conclusion about the relationship between Cao Yin, who used the pseudonym Cao Xueqin, and the "Book of Stones" after Cao Yin's death! The name of "Cao Xueqin" in the first time is the name used by others to incarnate cao Xueqin at the end of "Dream of the Red Chamber".
Why did Cao Yin take Cao Xueqin's pseudonym? The author thinks that there is also a reason: because Cao Yin has the number of "Xueqiao", he also called himself "Purple Snow Temple Lord", and engraved the seal of "Purple Xuexuan", which shows that he likes the word "snow" and uses "snow" to refer to himself; Cao Yin also knows that Hong Sheng once used the pen name of "Qinxi Resident" to read the book "History of TianbaoQu" engraved by Kangxi for ten years, and used "Qin" to yu Hongsheng, so he took the pseudonym of "Cao Xueqin", which means that "Dream of the Red Chamber" was written in cooperation with Hong Sheng before and after, which has the meaning of commemorating Hong Sheng and respecting Hong Sheng's original "Stone Record".
Dream of the Red Chamber was originally written during the Kangxi Dynasty. Cao Yin changed Hong Sheng's original "Book of Stones" into the original "Dream of the Red Chamber", and Cao Xueqin, who received the "Book of Stones" in the last incarnation, became the general source of the three relationships between "Cao Xueqin" and "Dream of the Red Chamber" circulated during the Qianlong period.
(1) Because when Cao Yin "read the additions and deletions" of "The Book of Stones", he deliberately leaked the news of "Jiangnan Zhen's family" and "driving four times alone" in the dialogue between Feng Jie and Grandma Zhao. At that time, many people knew that Cao Yin had taken over four times during his tenure at Jiangning Weaving, and the "Dream of the Red Chamber" originally had the "Stone Record" handed over by the empty karate man at the end, and Cao Xueqin, who "entrusted him to pass it on", was also surnamed "Cao". So people have associated the "Dream of the Red Chamber" Jia Fu in the direction of the Cao Yin family. The "Cao Xueqin" who "approved the additions and deletions" also speculated in the direction of Cao Yin's grandson or Cao Yin's son. (2) The "Dream of the Red Chamber" seen by Ming Yi, according to the author's judgment, is based on the original "Dream of the Red Chamber" or its transcription written in the Kangxi period, which is a smaller, single-content, and complete "Dream of the Red Chamber" book. There is no evidence that the rewriter is Cao Yin's grandson, and the name of Cao Xueqin in his book is only because it inherits the original name of "Dream of the Red Chamber" written in the Kangxi period or the name of Cao Xueqin in its transcript, so that Mingyi mistakenly believes that "Cao Zi Xueqin" is the rewriter himself; Yongzhong has not met Cao Xueqin, and the "Dream of the Red Chamber" mentioned in the poem "Dream of the Red Chamber" in the poem "Hanging Xueqin's Three Absolute Surnames of Cao" in the novel "Dream of the Red Chamber" in the "Dream of the Red Chamber" is not certain whether it is the "Dream of the Red Chamber" seen by Mingyi or the original "Dream of the Red Chamber" written in the Kangxi period or its transcript. However, the name of Cao Xueqin in his novel must also come from the original name of "Dream of the Red Chamber" written in the Kangxi Period or its transcript. (3) Several poems written by Dun Min in the autumn of the twenty-fifth and twenty-sixth years of Qianlong all called his friends "Cao Jun of Qinpu...", "Painting Stone of Qinpu Garden", and "Gift of Qinpu Garden", but after the early winter of Qianlong twenty-sixth, he suddenly changed his name to Cao Xueqin, and the title of the poem was changed to "Visiting Cao Xueqin is Not Worth it", "Small Poems Sent to Cao Xueqin", "Hegan Collection Drinking Wall and Hanging Snow Qin", why did this change before and after? This cannot but be thought-provoking. One possible explanation is that his friend Cao Qinpu changed his name to Cao Xueqin. Why did it change to Cao Xueqin? From the phenomenon that the Yongzheng dynasty's novel "Why The West Chamber" deliberately imitated the "Dream of the Red Chamber", it can be seen that "Dream of the Red Chamber" has been promoted by the literati, and at the same time, Cao Xueqin's reputation has risen. In order to be vassalatic, Cao Qinpu decided to change its name to "Cao Xueqin". However, in addition to this name change, which has the same name and surname as Cao Xueqin in "Dream of the Red Chamber", it does not prove that it has any relationship with the "Dream of the Red Chamber" written in the Kangxi period.
With the above-mentioned view, the author asked for advice from the Dafang House.
exegesis:
[1] Feng Qiyong, "The Collection of Brooms", Culture and Art Publishing House, January 2005, 2nd edition, p. 181
[2] — Su,"Book of dream of the Red Chamber", Shanghai Ancient Books Publishing House, 1981, p. 148
[3] "Mengmeiguan Photocopy Of Fat Yan Zhai Reappraisal of the Stone Chronicle"
[4] Deng Suifu School, "Reappraisal of the Stone Record Gengchen Schoolbook", Writers Publishing House, May 2006, 1st edition
[5] Hu Shaosheng, Notes on the Collected Notes of the Pavilion, Beijing Book Publishing House, November 2007, p. 72
[6] Hu Shaosheng, Notes on the Collected Notes of the Pavilion, Beijing Book Publishing House, November 2007, p. 354
[7] Wang Zhengkang, "The Nothingness of Cao Yin's Grandson Cao Xueqin and the Truth of Hong Sheng", Tu Mo Re Red Studies, Vol. 1, China Drama Publishing House, May 2013, 1st Edition, p. 2
[8] Zhao Zhixin, The Complete Works of Zhao Zhixin, Qilu Book Society, July 1993, p. 175
[9] Hu Shaosheng, Notes on the Collection of Neem Pavilions, Beijing Library Press, November 2007, 1st edition, p. 179
[10] Wang Zhengkang, "On Cao Yin's Adaptation of Hong Sheng's Original Dream of the Red Chamber", Tu Mo Re Red Studies 2014, China Literary Association Publishing House, p. 185
[11] Zhou Ruchang, "Zhou Ruchang's "Red Chamber" Continues to "Red Chamber"", Oriental Publishing House, June 2005, 1st edition, p. 281.
[12] Xu Naiwei, "Three Treatises on the Red Chamber", Zhonghua Bookstore, December 2005, Beijing, 1st edition, p. 32