Chapter 10 Jia Baoyu's popular relationship:

Jiang Yuhan and Hua Xiren ——Concurrently discuss the meaning of the ending Zhongjia Baoyu has a famous saying: "Daughters are flesh and blood made of water, men are flesh and blood made of mud." Baoyu felt refreshed when he saw his daughter, but felt foul and smelly when he saw a man.However, there are four men in the book: King Beijing, Qin Zhong, Liu Xianglian, and Jiang Yuhan. Baoyu doesn't think so.These four male characters directly or indirectly influence or prompt Baoyu's fate.The four men are handsome and beautiful in appearance, but unconventional in sex. Among them, the relationship between Jiang Yuhan and Jia Baoyu is the most subtle and complicated, and its meaning may affect the interpretation of the ending.

In the fifth chapter, Jia Baoyu wandered into the realm of emptiness, and glimpsed a poem in "The Twelve Hairpins of Jinling" which reads: In vain to be gentle and gentle Blessed to be an actor, who knows that the son has no chance This poem alludes to the fate of Hua Xiren's life, and the "actress" refers to Jiang Yuhan. It can be seen that in Chapter 120, Jiang Yuhan married Hua Xiren Dai Baoyu and received worldly blessings. The author has already arranged foreshadowing. Moreover, in the development of the whole book, the author always pays attention to this important clue and extends it to explain it.The twenty-eighth chapter, "Jiang Yuhan's Love for Qian Xiangluo", Feng Ziying hosted a banquet, Jia Baoyu and Jiang Yuhan met for the first time, the wine order was served at the banquet, Jiang Yuhan held the sweet-scented osmanthus in his hand and chanted: "The scent of flowers hits people to know the day Warm." At that time, Jiang Yuhan didn't know that there was Xiren, but he accidentally said Xiren's name, and the fate of the two was bound from this.After a while, Baoyu attended and Jiang Yuhan followed. The two admired each other and gave each other sweat scarves as a sign.The pine flower sweat scarf that Baoyu gave to Jiang Yuhan originally belonged to Xiren, but the "red sweat scarf like blood spots" that Jiang Yuhan donated was quietly tied on Xiren's body by Baoyu at night.Jiang Yuhan's scarlet scarf was a tribute from the Queen of Qianxiang Kingdom, and it was a gift from the King of Beijing, so it was very valuable.Baoyu's move, in a symbolic sense, is equivalent to accepting the dowry for Xiren and entrusting Xiren to Jiang Yuhan for life.Chapter 120 Ending Chapter, Hua Xiren got married with sadness, opened the box the next day, when my uncle saw the scarlet sweat scarf, he knew it was Baoyu's girl Xiren, and when Xiren saw the uncle's pine flower green sweat scarf, he knew it was Baoyu's best friend Jiang Yuhan and the red and green sweat scarves met for the second time, making a good marriage.And it was Baoyu himself who prompted this happy relationship.

Xiren plays an important role in this novel and in Baoyu's mind, but Baoyu entrusts such important people around him to Jiang Yuhan.With so many characters, why the author entrusts Jiang Yuhan with this important matter is really worth investigating.Jiang Yuhan was originally an actress raised by Prince Zhongshun in the mansion of Prince Zhongshun. His social status was not high, and he did not appear many times in the novel. However, the author named Xu Yi the word "Yu" for such a humble character. There is a mystery hidden in it.The author never bestows the word "Yu" on the character's name easily. Xiaohong's real name is Hongyu, which was changed because she violated Baoyu's name, which is an example.Jade is the most important symbol in Chinese culture, and commentators have written books to discuss it. Among the many complicated interpretations, there is no doubt that jade at least symbolizes human spirit, wisdom root, and essence.Among the characters in the novel, anyone whose name contains the word jade has a special fate with Baoyu, a nuwa stubborn stone and psychic jade, which has a deep meaning.

In addition to the precious jade, there are four other pieces of jade in it.The first is Daiyu. The two jades, Bao and Dai, have a "celestial relationship", a love myth between Shenying's waiter and Crimson Pearl fairy grass, and it is also the most beautiful story of returning tears.The love between Baoyu and Daiyu is a spiritual love, which is purely a beautiful fit, so the two often have a feeling of mutual acquaintance and similarity.Daiyu is the projection of Bao Yuling, and it is appropriate for the two not to get married and have a physical relationship. Only after the Crimson Pearl Immortal Grass shed tears and returned to Lihentian, the waiter of Shenying returned to the illusory realm and reconnected with the Crimson Pearl Immortal Grass Xianyuan.The second piece of jade is Miaoyu. Some people speculate that there is an ambiguous relationship between Baoyu and Miaoyu.In fact, the relationship between Baoyu and Miaoyu has metaphysical meaning in the theme and literary structure.Miaoyu calls herself an "outsider", which means that she has transcended the mundane world and is outside the world.But Baoyu is "the man inside the threshold", still indulged in ups and downs in the world.But the result was just the opposite. Baoyu finally stepped out of the threshold and achieved a positive result, but Miaoyu fell into the mud and was eventually catastrophe.The relationship between Baoyu and Miaoyu is the intermodulation of identities, the conversion of outside the threshold and inside the threshold, which is a kind of "Buddha fate" with irony.Miaoyu is ignorant of everything, and is too withdrawn, even the village woman Grandma Liu can't tolerate it, so it's hard to get into Buddhism.But Baoyu has compassion in his heart and loves all living beings, so he can eventually become a Buddha.

Male characters whose names contain jade include Zhen Baoyu and Jiang Yuhan.Zhen Baoyu is only an allegorical character, a contrasting character in the theme of "truth" and "false". Zhen Baoyu looks like Jia Baoyu, but is keen on fame and fame, which is the opposite of Jia Baoyu's nature and essence.The author created the role of Zhen Baoyu with irony.In the author's character design, secondary characters are often used to foil and contrast the main characters. For example, Qingwen and Lingguan foil Daiyu. The two are the extension and projection of Daiyu.In addition to the role of Baoyu, Zhen Baoyu and Miaoyu are used as a contrast, another male character named Daiyu, Jiang Yuhan, has a deeper meaning for Baoyu.If Baoyu and Daiyu had a "celestial relationship" and Miaoyu a "Buddha relationship", then Baoyu and Jiang Yuhan had a "vulgar relationship".Among the many male characters, Baoyu and Jiang Yuhan have the deepest common relationship—the common relationship between Baoyu and Jia Zheng is only limited to father and son, and they are not close.The special relationship between Baoyu and Jiang Yuhan has two meanings: the first is the same-sex love between Baoyu and Jiang Yuhan, and the second is the secular marriage between Jiang Yuhan and Hua Xiren at the end. There are quite complex associations.

The twenty-eighth chapter "Jiang Yuhan Gives Qian Xiangluo with Love", Baoyu and Jiang Yuhan cherish each other when they first meet, and give each other tokens.In Chapter 33 of "Unworthy All Kinds of Great Inheritances", Prince Zhongshun's mansion sent an official to Jia's mansion to ask for someone from Jia Zheng. Eight out of ten people said that he has gotten along very well with the son who holds the jade recently." The Changfu official also pointed out the evidence-the Qian Xiangluo tied around Baoyu's waist.Baoyu couldn't hide it, so he had to admit that Jiang Yuhan escaped from Prince Zhongshun's mansion privately and bought a house in Red Sandalwood Castle 20 miles away from the city.After Baoyu and Jiang Yuhan met each other in the twenty-eighth time and presented their personal belongings to each other, until the thirty-third time, there was no explanation in the plot of the two people's "very close relationship", and in the thirty-third time Baoyu's confession, it is obvious The two had a close relationship, and Jiang Yuhan seemed to have fled Zhongshun Palace for Baoyu and bought a house in Red Sandalwood Castle.With the author's meticulous mind, there should not be such a major omission in the plot. I don't know if it will be deleted by later generations. It is still waiting for experts in red studies to answer this question.But Chapter Thirty-Three has shown that there was indeed an intimate same-sex love between Baoyu and Jiang Yuhan, and Baoyu was flogged and beaten by Jia Zheng for this, and his body was bruised all over.On the one hand, it is true that Baoyu’s private meeting with actors is not tolerated by Confucian ethics. The pain and disability that the body must bear.In the book, Baoyu suffers the greatest mental and spiritual pain for Daiyu, but bears the greatest physical and physical trauma for Jiang Yuhan.As far as the characteristics of homosexuality are concerned, homosexual love is to find a "Self" (Self), a "same body" from another body, which is different from heterosexual love, which is to find a different "Other" (Other), a "same body". heterogeneous".For example, Narcissus in Greek mythology, falling in love with his own reflection in the water is seeking a kind of love of the same body.The love between Jia Baoyu and Jiang Yuhan, the two pieces of jade, is based on a deep identification. Jiang Yuhan is like the reflection of Baoyu in the water, Baoyu's other "self", a secular incarnation.In the ninety-third chapter, Baoyu and Jiang Yuhan reunited again in Lin'anbo Mansion. In Baoyu's eyes, Jiang Yuhan was "fresh and moist like a canal out of water, fluttering like a jade tree facing the wind". These two sentences describe Jiang Yuhan's spirit Apart from being handsome and beautiful, it also has profound meaning. Some versions of "Jiang Yuhan" are also called "Jiang Yuhan".In the end, Baoyu shaved off her hair and became a monk, and the Buddha body ascended to heaven.The lotus flower symbolizes the incarnation of the Buddha's body. Therefore, although Baoyu's "Buddha's body" ascended to heaven, his secular avatar was attached to "Yuhan", and finally fulfilled his common wish and married Xiren.There is a saying in the Buddhist scriptures: "The self-nature has three bodies, one is the dharma body, the other is the perfect retribution body, and the third is the tens of billions of incarnations." Jiang Yuhan should be one of Baoyu's "thousands of billions of incarnations".

In the same chapter, it was described that Jiang Yuhan went to Lin'anbo Mansion to sing an opera. He has been promoted to foreman and changed to Xiaosheng. We've got married." Some said, "I haven't made a decision yet. He has made up his mind: it's a life-long marriage, and it's a matter of life. Talent. That’s why I haven’t married yet.” Baoyu heard this, and thought in his heart: “I don’t know whose family’s girl will marry him in the future? To marry such a talented person, I can be regarded as living up to it.” Later, Jiang Yuhan Singing his masterpiece "Zhan Huakui", the ninety-three chapters describe it like this:

Sure enough, Jiang Yuhan pretended to be a small official of Qin, and waited on Huakui's drunken expression, and made the meaning of loving the fragrance and cherishing the jade to the fullest.In the future, we will drink and sing together, lingering and lingering.At this time, Baoyu didn't look at Hua Kui, but only shot his eyes on Qin Xiaoguan.What's more, Jiang Yuhan's voice is loud, articulate, and down the tongue, and Baoyu's spirit is floating in the singing.After the drama was over, I realized that Jiang Yuhan was a very affectionate character, an extraordinary character comparable to...

The author is good at using the method of "play within a play" to point out the questions, but experts in red studies generally focus on returning home to visit relatives in the 18th Yuanchun. The four plays she selected are: "Luxury Banquet", "Qi Qiao", "Xian Yuan" , "Li Hun", because "Zhiben" once commented on these four plays, thinking that the concubine Yuan's "plays, four things, are the major faults and key points of the general book".These four plays are from "A Handful of Snow" - the defeat of Fu Jia's family, - the death of Concubine Fu Yuan, "Handan Dream" - Fu Zhen Baoyu giving jade (Mr. , Baoyu enlightened, more reasonable), —— Fu Daiyu's death.These plays imply that the fate of the Jia family and its main characters is of course important, but I think that "Oiran" played by Jiang Yuhan in the 93rd chapter has a deeper meaning to its theme and its ending.The meaning here can be divided into two layers. First, among all the love stories in China, I am afraid that in the novel "The Oil Seller Monopolizes the Oiran", Qin Xiaoguan's state of compassion for the oiran woman is closest to Jia Baoyu's ideal.Qin Zhong, an oil seller who was born in poverty and has a mellow nature, admired the famous courtesan Oiran, and spared no effort to save food and clothing. He saved ten taels of silver, and went to the courtyard to find Mei Niang (the oiran's prostitute) to marry Fangze, but unexpectedly it was night. The oiran returned from the banquet and fell asleep drunk. The novel describes Qin Xiaoguan serving the oiran girl in this way:

Drunk people must be afraid of the cold and dare not wake her up.Suddenly, another red silk quilt was placed on the railing. He gently took it off, covered Meiniang, and brightened the lamp.After taking this pot of tea, I took off my shoes and went to bed.Standing next to Meiniang, holding the teapot in her arms with her left hand, and resting her right hand on Meiniang's body, she didn't dare to close her eyes... When the oiran really vomited, he was afraid of soiling the bed, so he let her vomit in the sleeves of his new upper body robe. After tidying up the pickled wine and vomiting, "go to bed as usual, hug like the first time", until dawn, Qin Xiaoguan He didn't underestimate the oiran girl.Ms. Zhang Shuxiang thinks that Qin Zhong's love for the oiran is almost religious love. 2)", published by Mighty Current Book Company. , Qin Chong used his own clothes to bear the filth spit out by the oiran. This action actually contained the meaning of religious redemption, including the impurity of the other party, and then washed it for her—the oiran is a prostitute who will be polluted by the world .And Jia Baoyu himself is full of compassion and pity for the dying Qingwen in Chapter 77 of "A Pretty Maid Embraces Qu Yao", wishing to replace her with her own body.Forty-four chapters of "Overjoyed Ping'er Makeup", after Ping'er was wrongly beaten by Sister Feng, Baoyu was "overjoyed" for being able to do her best for her.In his previous life, Baoyu was originally a waiter of Shenying, guarding the crimson celestial grass by the Linghe River, carefully irrigating it so that it would not wither.Falling into the mortal world after the catastrophe, Baoyu still regards himself as a flower protector in the Grand View Garden. His highest ideal is to protect and cherish the flowers and grasses (the daughters) in the Grand View Garden, preventing them from being ravaged by the ruthless wind and rain.Baoyu himself is the seed of passion, no wonder he watched Jiang Yuhan playing Qin Chong, serving the oiran, "pity the fragrance and cherish the jade", "lingering and lingering", he felt "soul wandering", and called Jiang Yuhan "the kind of love". "Qin Chong" is homonymous with "Qing Zhong", so the oil seller Qin Zhong in "Zhan Hua Kui" is also a symbol of "Qing Zhong".Jia Baoyu and Jiang Yuhan are not only similar in appearance, but also fully identify with each other in spirit, because the role played by Jiang Yuhan, Qin Chong-the love, is exactly what Baoyu wants to play.The two pieces of jade Jia Baoyu and Jiang Yuhan can be said to be one in spirit and appearance.

The ending of the play "Zhan Hua Kui" has a deeper meaning, because this play also hides the fate of Jiang Yuhan and Xiren.It is not accidental that Xiren's surname is Hua. In a sense, Hua Xiren's fate is similar to that of Hua Kui's daughter. The leader has yet to die well, and the fate of the attacker is even more unpredictable.In the end, the oil seller Qin Chong rescued the oiran from the fire pit of fireworks and married him. At the end, Jiang Yuhan also played the role of Qin Chong to attack the flower, the female oiran, and rescued Jia’s mansion, thus completing the marriage. This is also Baoyu’s Wishing, he had already hired the two of them in the twenty-eighth chapter of "Jiang Yu's Letter of Love to Qian Xiangluo".In fact, Baoyu is in the secular world, and the person who cares the most and the most secular relationship is Xiren, not others.Generally theorists regard it as a love story and tend to focus on the triangular relationship between Baoyu-Daiyu-Baochai. In fact, Baoyu-Jiang Yuhan-Hua Xiren's secular love may be more complete and more humane .The previous article has discussed that Baoyu and Daiyu's alliance between wood and stone is a "celestial relationship", a love myth between Shenying's waiter and crimson celery. Daiyu died young and died with tears.But when Baochai married Baoyu, Baoyu lost her jade, lost her nature, and became an idiot.It is the only time in the book that the two perform the ceremony of husband and wife. Baoyu just acts reluctantly with the heart of making amends. Apart from the relationship between husband and wife, the two have no worldly affection-Baoyu soon discovered the world's situation and became a monk after enlightenment.In fact, among the many women, only Xiren is the one who has truly obtained Baoyu's physical body, because as early as the sixth chapter Baoyu had already had a trial with Xiren as a virgin. Xiren can be said to be Baoyu's number one A married woman.Xiren served Baoyu, cared for and disciplined her meticulously, just like Baoyu's mother, sister, maidservant, and concubine—every female role in the world, Xiren played.The closeness of the two is unmatched by others.Although Mrs. Wang and Xue Baochai are Baoyu's mother and wife in terms of status, they are not close to each other.Xiren can be said to have borne all the worldly burdens for Baoyu.At the end of Chapter Thirty, it is the first time that Baoyu gets angry and violent, and inadvertently kicks and hurts his favorite attacker, causing her "a lump the size of a bowl is green on her side", causing her to vomit blood.Baoyu and Jiang Yuhan formed a secular relationship, and because he was beaten all over his body, and Xiren was injured, it was also the price she had to pay for her involvement with Baoyu's secular relationship.Chapter 117 "Blocking the Extraordinary Beauties Double Protecting the Jade", no wonder Xiren learned that Baoyu was going to return his lost and recovered psychic jade to the monk—returning the jade means dedicating himself to the Buddha—she was anxious No matter how hard Baoyu beats him or breaks Xiren's hand with his hands, Xiren still bears the pain and entangles Baoyu endlessly.This shows the bond between the two of them.At last Baoyu became a monk, and the news came, "Although Baochai is crying bitterly, she looks dignified and will not leave at all." But Xiren was already heartbroken and fainted.Baoyu became a monk and ended his karma. What he repaid his parents was his fame, and what he paid his wife Baochai was a son who fulfilled the mission of carrying on the family line.So, what did he leave Hua Xiren? A husband.The marriage of Jiang Yuhan and Hua Xiren is the final conclusion of Baoyu's karma in the world. The end of a novel, the last major plot, is often the moment when the author puts the finishing touches on the theme.Most commentators believe that Baoyu's renunciation in Chapter 120 is the final outcome.That is to say, the philosophy of Buddhism and Taoism won the final victory, so some people concluded that it broke the pattern of traditional Chinese novels and achieved a Western-style tragic effect.In addition to the first chapter "Zhen Shiyin's Psychic Psychic in Dreams, Jia Yucun's Lovely Lady" to the 120th chapter "Zhen Shiyin's Elaboration on the Too Much Illusion, Jia Yucun's Dream of Red Mansions", the opening and ending are played by Zhen Shiyin and Jia Yucun. Two allegorical characters, "truth" and "fake" meet, and Confucianism and Taoism compare with each other. As the wedge and evil tail of this book, the last section of its realistic structure is actually Jiang Yuhan marrying Hua Xiren. This section continues After Baoyu became a monk, there is a deep meaning.On the one hand, Baoyu cuts out his home and is carried away by a monk. Baoyu's Buddha body ascends to heaven and returns to the great wilderness, under Qinggeng Peak.But his vulgar body was transformed into Jiang Yuhan and Hua Xiren—both of them had received Baoyu’s vulgar relationship and been moistened by his flesh and vulgar body—so Baoyu’s vulgar body was divided into two, borrowing Seeing the marriage between Jiang Yuhan and Hua Xiren, they are perfectly combined in the human world.Baoyu's ability to tolerate Jiang Yuhan and Hua Xiren at the same time is actually due to his Buddha nature.Buddha nature surpasses human nature - he himself has both gender characteristics - there is no distinction between male and female, and Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva has undergone the transformation of male and female bodies.Baoyu's previous love for Qin's sisters Qin Keqing and Qin Zhong is also the same.Qin Keqing—more precisely, Jianmei, the younger sister of Qin’s stand-in in the fantasy world, Jingfan Xiangu—and Qin Zhong, are the characters who caused Baoyu to be in love with women and men, and their surnames are Qin (qing) They are compatriots, of course they have profound meanings, and the two are actually two sides of "emotion".With the initiation of Jianmei first, there is the cloud and rain love between Baoyu and Xiren, and there is the love between Qin Zhong and Baoyu, and there is the secular relationship between Jiang Yuhan and Baoyu.Both Qin Zhong and the oil seller Qin Chong belong to the same character, and they are both "love species"-that is, the roles Jiang Yuhan and Baoyu identify with and play. Therefore, I think that Baoyu became a monk, ascended to heaven, married Jiang Yuhan and Hua Xiren, and Baoyu's secular relationship finally ended-the ending of the two occupies the same important position, and the two complement each other, which may be closer to China. Philosophy of human life, Buddhism and Confucianism, worldly and worldly coexist.In fact, in the end, Zhen Shiyin and Jia Yucun—a Taoist priest and a scholar—reunited again, talked to each other, did not interfere with each other, and finally parted ways.The greatness of this is here, the heaven and the earth, the pure land and the world of mortals, there is nothing to tolerate.If you only see Baoyu shaved off to go home, you only see half of it, and the other half will have a new beginning at the end of the next section.With the perfect combination of Jiang Yuhan and Hua Xiren, the author completes the finishing touch.This is the secular half, which will exist forever.It is true that Nuwa's stone refining is hard to mend, but there is no time for her to be reunited after a broken mirror in the world.One sadness and one joy, there are rounds and misses, this is the real life.In the end, Jiang Yuhan and Hua Xiren fulfilled Jia Baoyu's customary wish, which had a significant balancing effect on the whole book-if this ending was not important, the author would not have taken great pains to plant a lot of foreshadowing in the whole book. In fact, with the author's broad mind, he may not be satisfied with Hinayana Buddhism's transcendental philosophy.Full of compassion, Baoyu became a monk, cut off the worldly ties, and became a monk to become a Buddha, but the Mahayana Bodhisattva still has to stay in the world to save all living beings.Jiang Yuhan finally welcomes Hua Xiren out of Jia's mansion and they are married, which can also be said to be the fulfillment of the author's sad wish to save all sentient beings.This goes back to the important meaning of the play "Zhan Huakui" to the whole book.In the above-mentioned "The Oil Seller Monopolizes the Oiran", the story of Qin Chong's pity for the oiran woman is almost a religious redemption. It is no accident that the author chose this play as the topic. This is not just a story of a prostitute's redemption. Zhixing's use of new clothes to bear the drunken filth of an oiran woman is actually an act of human salvation.Qin Xiaoguan even moved the Huakui girl and rescued her from Fireworks. Similarly, Jiang Yuhan redeemed Hua Xiren as Baoyu's secular incarnation. Part regret.Buddhism was introduced into China, and Mahayana Buddhism was carried forward, and the spirit of Mahayana Buddhism in the world to save and save all living beings is in line with the Chinese people's outlook on life actively in the world. (Arranged by Xi Song)