Chapter 5 Lin Daiyu, the soul of flowers condenses into love and infatuation

The earth is thick and the sky is high, it is admirable that the past and the present are endless; Foolish men complain about women, poor Fengyue debts are hard to pay. At the end of spring, there is nowhere to find the soul of flowers, and there is no more Xiaoxiangzi in the world.There is a saying: All kinds of suffering are caused by ignorance.In the ancient and modern love scenes, the unfinished romantic debts are all because of being too persistent.But all over the world, among idiots and resentful women, there is always such a group of people who are remembered for their infatuation and spread for their persistence, such as the fairy Lin Daiyu.

The red building has a million words, every word and every sentence is a biography of the poor daughter, and there is always and everywhere the love and infatuation.Talents and beauties are everywhere in the Grand View Garden, but the author Cao Xueqin did not fall into the stereotype of being gifted and beauties in the past at all. When writing about wits, don’t write about the success and fame of high school on the gold list. Straightforward, writing about love and sorrow without the vulgarity of stealing private meetings.Cao Xueqin wrote a great emotion, which is the eternal love in the world. It seems to be a homely whisper, but it is actually a majestic ode, and it is a lament for women in the world!

The virtue that Cao Xueqin extols so much is "idiot", which is often ridiculed by the world, which is really unexpected.Of course, this "foolishness" does not mean stupidity, but just a synonym for truth, goodness and beauty, and not everyone in the book is blessed with this "foolishness", only the author's favorite characters can match it.Therefore, Xue Baochai, who is gorgeous, graceful and magnanimous, only got the word "Shi" from the author, which is called "Shi Baochai"; "Min Tanchun"; Wang Xifeng, the slick young grandmother of the family, got the word "sour" and called it "Sister Fengfeng"; although Shi Xiangyun, the ideal girlfriend in the minds of male readers, is a bit "crazy", the author is not willing to use all the words "crazy" To give her, only give her the word "han", which is called "han Xiangyun"; Xiangling, who is similar to Shi Xiangyun in character, gets the word "dumb", which is called "dumb Xiangling"; ", "Yong Qingwen", "Xian Xiren", "Hui Zijuan", "Lie Jinchuan" and other women.From this point of view, although all the women in the Red Chamber are full of songs and tears, the word "idiot" throughout the whole seems to be reserved by the author for Lin Daiyu. The book calls it "idiot", which shows that this is Cao Xueqin's favorite. Lin Daiyu deserves the title of the most infatuated woman in the Red Chamber!

For two hundred years, the character of Lin Daiyu has transcended the boundaries of time and space, and has become the number one image of beauty in the hearts of Chinese people, and has become the number one lover of all ages in the hearts of Chinese men.Sickness, self-willedness, peerless talent and beauty, the two poles of a person's personality are all reflected in her.Such a girl has deeply attracted the attention of readers of all ages with her contradictory characteristics.When I was young, I watched "Dream of Red Mansions", and I was not happy when I saw the forty-ninth chapter. I thought Lin Daiyu was the first stunning beauty. Why is the little girl who popped up on the road prettier than Xiaoxiang concubine Lin Daiyu.As I get older and experience more and more, I gradually understand the truth of the world: a first-rate beauty does not necessarily have a first-rate appearance, but must have a first-rate temperament and quality.

Judging from the looks of the hairpins in the Red Chamber alone, the first beauty in the Red Tower is not the hairpin, Dai, Xiang, Qin, etc., but Qin Keqing from Dongfu, who can combine the beauty of both hairpin and Dai, which is called a beauty in the world.Secondly, Keqing's deputy Xiangling and the glamorous Xue Baoqin can follow closely behind.Then there are Xue Baochai, who is the most beautiful, Jia Yuanchun, the emperor's favorite concubine, and Eryou, who is full of charm.And Daiyu, Xiangyun, Tanchun, and Sister Feng will follow behind. Even so, Lin Daiyu is still the most memorable girl.First of all, she has an air of nobility. The "full-body style" of Jia Mu's favorite granddaughter is the most impeccable aristocratic demeanor. This is the result of years of living environment and family inheritance. It cannot be imitated, just like Dong Shi girl. Even if the plastic surgery looks like a Xi Shi, it can be seen through at a glance.Furthermore, Daiyu is pure and unaffected by secular economics, she is the purest individual symbol.In addition, Daiyu is also elegant, born in a family of poets and books, and a talented poetess, her book and elegance are extraordinary.

Therefore, the standard for judging beauty in society has always been both inner beauty and outer beauty.Just like the temperamental beauties admired by people in today's society, maybe the facial features may not be outstanding, but the temperament cultivation in all aspects must be outstanding, that is, quality! After talking about the appearance of Lin Daiyu, the temperamental beauty, here, it is necessary to talk about Daiyu's age when she first entered Jia's mansion.On this issue, many readers are confused.We all know that researchers such as Eileen Chang proved that Daiyu was six years old when she first entered Jia's mansion, which has aroused many modern readers' doubts.

In the eyes of readers, Daiyu, who entered Jia's mansion for the first time, should already be a girl with normal development. Such views are generally influenced by film and television dramas.Movies and TV dramas are for the pursuit of visual effects, and Baoyu and Daiyu can’t be still young children when they appear on the stage. Wouldn’t the so-called "before marriage between wood and stone" become an unhealthy phenomenon of puppy love? Didn't "Dream of Red Mansions" become a children's play?Of course this is not the case. In the book, Daiyu was only five years old when Jia Yucun became Lin Daiyu's teacher. After Jia Yucun taught her for a year, Daiyu's mother Jia Min passed away. Going to Kyoto to educate her, this is the story of Lin Daiyu entering Jia's mansion.There are also many researchers in the red academic circles who have been arguing about the age at which Lin Daiyu first entered Jia's house.Because of Lin Daiyu's age, the author has never given a particularly clear description, which is exactly the author's need to portray Lin Daiyu without a face boundary or an age boundary.But judging from the development of the story in the article, Lin Daiyu left her hometown when she was six years old. Even in the case of poor traffic at that time, it was only more than a month's journey from Gusu to the capital. Therefore, the exact age when Lin Daiyu came to Jia's mansion Should be six years old.And Baoyu's age was less than two years older than Lin Daiyu's, so she should be eight years old at that time.Of course, this age is calculated based on the ancient virtual age system, because in ancient times, the age of a newly born child was counted as one year old. Actually five years old.Therefore, the reason why Baoyu in the future regards Daiyu as closer than Baochai is that he and sister Lin "grew up together" as childhood sweethearts.If the two of Bao Dai were already adults when they first met, how could the saying "grow up together" come about?In the TV series, Lin Daiyu looked like a seventeen or eighteen-year-old girl when she appeared on the stage. This does not conform to the spirit of the original work, but is just the need of the art form of TV series.

Lin Daiyu in "A Dream of Red Mansions" is a woman with deep meaning in Cao Xueqin's works. She was born in the prime of life and died in the middle of the year.In the original conception of the author, according to the time progress of the story, Lin Daiyu died at the fictitious age of seventeen.Of course, in ancient times, when a girl reached the age of fifteen, she was an adult and could marry and have children.But judging from the modern age calculation method, it is still a minor.A young girl spent her entire adolescence acting out a period of unrequited love that has been handed down from generation to generation.Cleanliness, innocence, and despair are the attractions of Daiyu.She is the essence of the flower, the embodiment of virginity.For example, Juliet in the love story "Romeo and Juliet" that Westerners are obsessed with, from love to death, is only a fourteen-year-old child.Whether it is Lin Daiyu or Juliet, we give all good admiration, but we should reconsider love itself.Young, so will fail.Such examples are not limited to Lin Daiyu.