Chapter 22 Pillow Xia Pavilion Twelve Hairpins

From chapter 37 onwards, the story has a new starting point.A poetry club has been set up in the Grand View Garden, convened by Tanchun.The first activity is Wing Bai Begonia.This white crabapple is not a tree crabapple planted on the ground, but a potted herbaceous crabapple, commonly known as begonia.Begonias are generally red, and white is a variety, which is relatively rare, so Jia Yun took them to honor Baoyu.Baoyu and others didn't have time to look at the flowers, but just heard about them, so they became very popular in poetry and began to chant. From the 29th to the 31st chapters of the ancient editions, there are no comments in the main text, and from the 32nd to the 35th chapters, there are only a few comments in a few books, which is a loss for our research.Whether there is no commentary in the mother version, or whether it was ignored during the copying process is still uncertain.But after the thirty-six chapters, the commentaries became more abundant.In the thirty-eighth chapter, there are a few comments that are particularly noteworthy, and I will introduce them to you now.When Jia Mu came to Ou Xiangxie, she recalled that when they were young, there was a similar Zhenxia Pavilion in the garden of their Shijia. She and the sisters of Shijia went to play every day. Drowning, being rescued, the wooden nails jumped his head, and there is still a large nest on the top of the fingertips on the sideburns... Sister Feng took the opportunity to flatter her, saying that the nest was used to hold good fortune, and put Jiamu and everyone together Amused.At this time, Zhi Yanzhai commented: "Seeing that he suddenly used Jia Mu's words, before he supplemented this book in a leisurely manner, it seems that there is already a book of twelve hairpins, which makes people recall it and can't see it at once. Yu Ze will want to supplement it Come out of the twelve beauties in Zhenxia Pavilion, I will (would) not add another new book." The information conveyed by this comment can be broken down into: 1. The text has the characteristics of family history.The "present tense" story in the book can not only extend forward, but also extend backward.

2. Zhiyanzhai and the prototype of Jia Mu in the book belong to the same family. After the "truth" is hidden, it is contained in the "false words" of historians.In fact, the prototype of Jia's mother is Li Xu's sister who weaved in Suzhou during the Kangxi Dynasty, who married Cao Xueqin's grandfather Cao Yin as his wife, while Shi Xiangyun's prototype is Li Xu's granddaughter, a cousin of Cao Xueqin, who is Li's grandniece.In other words, the Li family is the ancestor of Shi Xiangyun's prototype.The relationship between Jiamu and Xiangyun set in the book is exactly in line with this.The thirty-eighth chapter writes that when Jia Mu arrived at the Ouxiangxie, she ordered people to read the pair of black lacquer embedded mussels hanging on the pillar. Cao Xueqin specially wrote that Xiangyun read it.This proves once again that not only the prototype of Shi Xiangyun in the book is a cousin surnamed Li from Cao Xueqin's grandmother's family, but Zhi Yanzhai who wrote the commentary is also the same person.

3. Of course, Zhiyanzhai is most qualified to write the story of her own family, which is the so-called story of "The Twelve Beauties of Zhenxia Pavilion".This comment shows that Zhi Yanzhai is quite confident in his writing ability.We mentioned earlier that "Sister Feng orders plays, and Zhi Yan writes." She is deeply involved in the writing of or (she prefers the latter title).Of the eighty chapters of the ancient book, Mr. Zhou Ruchang believes that four chapters are not original by Cao Xueqin. I will explain in detail later, so who completed these four chapters?It wasn't Gao E, but probably Zhiyanzhai.

When I wrote that everyone was preparing to chant a poem about chrysanthemums, there was a line that Baoyu "ordered to boil a pot of wine made from acacia flowers", so what is this sentence?As for novels and fictions, the author can write whatever he wants with a flick of a pen. Why do readers need to think carefully?There are indeed novels that are purely fictitious, but they do not belong to that type. Therefore, at this place, there is a comment from Zhiyanzhai: "Sad! The author still remembers making wine with silk juniper flowers before the dwarf? Twenty years have passed!" Fang is a boat-shaped garden building, and now you can see a large stone boat in the lake called Qingyanfang when you go to the Summer Palace in Beijing.The name of the boat mentioned by Zhi Yanzhai is very strange. The pronunciation of the word in it is "Ao", which means that the head is big and the eye sockets are deep. It can be seen that the shape of the boat is very special.Such a boat name cannot be a temporary fiction.It shows that in real life, there is indeed such a space. In that space, the critics and the writers used to make wine with silk juniper flowers together. Yes, there are event prototypes and detail prototypes.As soon as the critics saw this sentence, they were touched from their eyes to their hearts, and they couldn't help sighing: "It's sad!" By water." "Sorrowful" is also a keynote that covers the whole book.This comment first appeared in Ji Maoben, and it may have been approved earlier.Then, let’s push forward 20 years according to the year of Jimao (1759 in the Gregorian calendar), which is about three to four years of Qianlong. At that time, Cao Xueqin and Zhi Yanzhai were about sixteen or seventeen years old. "Sad!" This lament came from the heart, and brewing wine from Albizia julibrissin was the "last joy" they had enjoyed together.This kind of comment once again shows that it has the characteristics of family history, autobiography, and self-narration, and its text feature is to use "false words" to preserve "true things".In the thirty-seventh chapter of Zhou Huiben, there are two text choices that are worth reminding everyone.Starting a poetry club, as poets, everyone has to take an alias.Readers, please fill in the parentheses with the formation process of the aliases of several poets in the book:

Li Wan picks himself up ( ) Tanchun picks up first ( ) Tanchun accepts Baoyu's suggestion and picks it up by himself ( ) After Daiyu was mean to Tanchun, Tanchun took it for her, and she acquiesced ( ) Li Wan took it for Xue Baochai ( ) Tanchun took it for Baoyu ( ) Li Wan reminded Baoyu that she had an alias when she was a child, it was ( ) Baochai gave Baoyu another nickname ( ) Baoyu's last alias ( ) The alias Shi Xiangyun used after he came ( ) The alias of Yingchun ( ) Xichun's alias ( ) Among them, Li Wan reminded Baoyu that he had an alias. Baoyu laughed and said, "What do you still mention about him when he was a child?" What is that alias? In 1957, the current version of the Humanities Society printed "Jiangdong Flower Master", which was a continuation of Cheng Yi's mistake. The annotated version of the Hongxue Institute published in 1982 was also printed as "Jiangdong Huazhu". Cave flower king", why change "king" to "lord"?What's even more strange is that the current version of the Red School's school annotations has "school records" at the end of each chapter. If they think that the writing method of the Gengchen version is not credible, they should replace it with sentences from other ancient books, according to their own style. It was explained in the "School Records", but such an important text, they put aside the original text they used, took the "lord" instead of "king", and even did not explain it in the "School Records" after returning.The value of Zhou Huiben lies in the fact that it is clear from the source.The correction of "Jiangdong Flower Lord" which has been corrupted for many years in the current version to "Jiangdong Flower King" is another striking example.Just as Jiamu mentioned that there was a Zhenxia Pavilion in her natal family, it is written here that Baoyu once gave herself a nickname of "Jiangdong Flower King" when she was a child, all of which belong to the extended space in the novel text, allowing readers to understand the author's "present tense". "Narration can not only have forward-looking imagination, but also retrospective imagination.In other words, the "prehistory" of the characters is teased out to the readers through such discourse, so that the readers feel that the characters in the book have a more three-dimensional sense.

Baoyu said that he took such an alias because he "made a living when he was a child". When was "a child"?When he said this, he was between thirteen and fourteen years old. At that time, people believed that sixty years old was considered a full life, "a life of seventy is rare in ancient times", thirty years old is "half life", and thirteen years old It's almost an adult.Therefore, "when I was a child" should refer to the time when I just started to understand something at the age of five or six.At that time, there was no Grand View Garden in Rongguo Mansion, and Baoyu lived with Jiamu. The main room of Jiamu's courtyard had a large space, and Baoyu was mischievous in that space.It is impossible for five or six-year-old children to have the concept of "lord", but there must be the concept of "king". The most ready-made "role model" is the "monkey king" Sun Wukong.Baoyu loved red since he was a child, and loved to play with girls like flowers. The main color in Jiamu's main room was crimson (crimson), so he imagined himself as "a monkey king protecting flowers in a red cave", So it has the nickname of "Jiangdong Kao".This childhood alias highlighted Baoyu's personality traits, and these traits only strengthened rather than decayed as he grew up. The alias "Jiangdong Flower King" is similar to the symbol code of "Zhoutian King" that appeared in the twenty-ninth chapter. They are both metaphors for Baoyu's personality. Pay attention to.

The thirty-seventh chapter writes that Yingchun is the vice president of the poetry club. She is serious and responsible. When everyone conceived, she ordered the maid to light a stick of incense.The name of this incense was printed as "Meng Tian Xiang" in all the current editions before, and Zhou Hui's version was determined to be "Meng Han Xiang" according to the writing methods of the two ancient editions.We all know that there is a plot about Shi Xiangyun's drunken peony and the flower lottery of "Sweet Dreams" in the back. Mr. Zhou Ruchang believes that "sweet" is a corruption of "Sleet", and "Dreams of Sweetness" is Cao Xueqin's original pen.This also shows the characteristics of Zhou Huiben's fine school.