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Chapter 14 12. Love the sky, the sea, the fantasy body——Qin Keqing

Xiling Snow Exploring the Dream of Red Mansions 西岭雪 6692Words 2018-03-20

Qin Keqing is a mysterious character in the book, the master of Merry.Zhiyanzhai once commented: "'Qin Keqing's obscene mourning in Tianxianglou', the author used historical pens. Because the old man entrusted Sister Feng Jia's family with two funeral affairs, what is the place where people can think of comfort, wealth and honor? Although it has not been done, what it means is what it means It is sad and convincing, and I forgive it, because I ordered Qinxi to delete it." As a result, Qin Keqing, who died by hanging from the beam, died of illness in the book. However, the author seemed unwilling, so he deliberately left many loopholes, or clues. First of all, it is in the picture album of Taixu Illusion. On her homepage, there is a picture of "a tall building, a beautiful woman hangs herself from a beam".Its judgment says:

Then in the song "Twelve Branches of a Dream of Red Mansions", in Keqing's song "All Good Things End", there is another line "Drawing Liang Chun to fall to the fragrance dust", reaffirming her true fate of hanging to death. What needs special attention is that there is a sentence in the verdict, "All unscrupulous words are honored, and it is safe to start a quarrel", and there is another sentence in the song, "Everyone respects when the fur is decadent and fallen, and the first crime is better when family affairs perish." Yan also specially commented here: "It means that others can't understand." I'm afraid readers will ignore it. However, what heinous crime did the Ningguo Mansion commit to be called "the beginning of provocation" and "the root of the prodigal family"? In the poem, it is said that "when love meets, the master will be prostitute", and in the song it is said that "the evil is always caused by love". It seems that the word "love" is the "first crime" that leads to "the demise of family affairs". So, what are the crimes committed by the Ningguo Mansion? The first one, of course, is what Jiao Da said, "climbing ashes climbing ashes, raising younger uncles who raise younger uncles". "Climbing the ashes" is a slang term, specifically referring to the father-in-law's adultery with his daughter-in-law, and the only relationship between father-in-law and daughter-in-law in the Ningguo Mansion is Jia Zhen and Qin Keqing, so it goes without saying. After Qin Keqing's death, Jia Zhen cried like tears. When asked about the delivery, Jia Zhen clapped her hands and said: "How to cook, but do what I have!" Zhi Yanzhai criticized here: "'Do what I have', It is indecent talk for a daughter-in-law, how will parents treat it?... I can't hide it for Jia Zhen." Originally, this was just a family matter, not a serious crime.However, after Keqing's death, Jia Zhen made a big deal of it, and even used the coffin board of "Prince Yizhong, Lao Qiansui" who "broke things" to bury Keqing. "Failure" planted the seeds of disaster. In contrast, "raise a brother-in-law who raises a brother-in-law" seems insignificant. But who is this "little brother-in-law"? Some said it was Jia Baoyu.The reason is that Baoyu had an affair with Jinghuan's sister Keqing in the dream.However, the book clearly stated that it was a dream, and besides, there were so many maids waiting nearby, so it was impossible for the two of them to turn heads in front of all the maids.Moreover, Qin Keqing is Jia Rong's wife, and her relationship with Baoyu is uncle and nephew's daughter-in-law, so it cannot be called "raising a younger uncle".So, this argument is the first one that doesn't work. Some people also said that it was Sister Feng and Baoyu, so when Baoyu asked, Sister Feng was angry.The relationship between these two people is indeed uncle and sister-in-law.But at this time, Baoyu was still young, and although he had tried the cloud and rain for the first time, it was not yet covered by rain and dew.Besides, even if there was something between the two of them, it would not be the turn of an old servant from Ningguo Mansion to intervene with the master of Rongguo Mansion.The two of them should not be within the scope of Jiao Da's drunken cursing.Therefore, it can also be ruled out. The third theory is Sister Feng and Jia Rong.These two people seem to be a little ambiguous, but the relationship between the two is aunt and nephew, and they are not called "raised uncles", so it should not be Sister Feng who Jiao yelled at. Then there is only one last possibility left, which is Qin Keqing and Jia Qiang.In the entire Ningguo Mansion, only Keqing and Jia Qiang, the two masters, can be called sister-in-law.Therefore, I think that what Jiao Da refers to can only be these two people. Except for Jia Jing, who practiced Taoism and became an immortal, the masters in the Ning Mansion are only Jia Zhen, Jia Rong, and Jia Qiang. They all had explicit or covert sexual relations with Qin Keqing. : "Good at style, endowed with the appearance of the moon, is the root of a prodigal family". But just one Qin Keqing is not enough to reveal all the evils of Ningfu.Therefore, a story of "Jia Ershe Stealthly Marries Second Aunt You" is interspersed in the book. Although Jia Lian is not from the Ningguo Mansion, but the son of Jia She, the head of the Rong Mansion, the second sister You is the sister of You Shi, the head of the Ning Mansion. Therefore, the "Jiqiu decayed and fell" should still be blamed on the Ningguo Mansion. How serious is this sin? In Sister Feng's words: "There is one level of crime for national filial piety, one level of crime for family filial piety, one level of crime for marrying behind parents' backs, and another level of crime for stopping a wife." Let’s look at the description of Sister Feng bringing You Er back to the garden: "Sister Feng took Mrs. You into the back door of the Grand View Garden and met Li Wan. At that time, nine out of ten people in the Grand View Garden knew about it. Today, Sister Feng brought her in, attracting many people to come and ask questions. Sister You met them one by one. Everyone praised him for his beauty and joy. Sister Feng ordered everyone one by one: "Don't let the rumors go out. If old ladies and wives know, I will call you to die first." In the garden The mothers-in-law and maidservants are all afraid of Sister Feng, and they are related to Jia Lian's family's filial piety, so they know that it is very important, so they don't care about it." Even the mothers-in-law and maids know that "the relationship is very close", which shows the seriousness of the matter. For this reason, Sister Feng ordered Wang'er to instigate Zhang Hua to go to the Yamen of Yousi to sue Jia Lian for the crime of "among the filial pieties of the country, concealing the decree from the relatives, relying on the wealth and power, forcing the divorce, stopping the wife and remarrying"; , Youshi, and Jia Rong panicked when they heard about it, and they were blackmailed by Sister Feng. However, Sister Feng pretended to be smart, and borrowed Zhang Hua to vent her anger, and let Wang Er kill people, but Wang Er did not obey her orders, leaving Zhang Hua as a "living mouth". one. Human life is at stake, and the laws of the country are hard to violate. This has laid a second charge on the Ning Mansion. The second one is Jia Zhen's crime of gambling together, and it is also the biggest hidden danger of Ning Mansion. Let’s look at this passage from the 75th chapter of "Opening the Night Banquet with Different Omens, Sending Sad Sounds, Appreciating New Mid-Autumn Festival Poems and Winning Good Prophecies": It turns out that because Jia Zhen was in mourning, she was not allowed to wander around, nor could she watch and listen to music.Boring to the extreme, a method was born to break the boredom.During the day, on the grounds of practicing archery, I invited brothers from various families and rich relatives and friends to compete in archery.Because he said: "Just shoot indiscriminately for nothing. It will be of no benefit in the end. Not only will you not be able to grow, but you will also break your style. You must make a penalty contract and gamble on a profit, so that everyone will work hard." The swans all agreed to shoot the swans after breakfast every day.Jia Zhen refused to be famous, so she ordered Jia Rong to be a bureaucrat. These are all hereditary sons, all of them have rich families, and they are all young. They are just a bunch of wandering dandies who are fighting cockfighting and running dogs and asking Liu Pinghua.Therefore, everyone agreed to take turns being the host of the dinner every day—to shoot every day, so as not to disturb Jia Rong alone.So he slaughtered pigs and sheep every day, slaughtered geese and ducks, just like fighting treasures in Lintong, he had to show off his good cooks and cooking guns. In less than half a month, when Jia She and Jia Zheng heard this, they didn't know what to say. Instead, they said that this is the right way. Since the writing is wrong, martial arts should also be practiced.The two places also ordered Jia Huan, Jia Cong, Baoyu and Jia Lan to come over after dinner and practice shooting with Jia Zhen before they promised to go back. Jia Zhen's ambition is not here. After one or two days, she will gradually use the excuse of resting her arms to support her strength. At night, she may wipe the dominoes and gamble on a drink, and finally gradually turn to money.Now in March and April, betting is better than shooting day by day, openly throwing dice with bucket leaves, starting with the head, and gambling all night.The members of the family benefited from this, and they wished so much, so they became powerful.Outsiders don't know a word. Here, Jia Zhen did not come from her family to gamble behind closed doors, but gathered "brothers from various families and rich relatives and friends", "these are all hereditary sons", and they are not rich or expensive, and they all have a lot of background.Gambling together is already a crime, but to instigate the clan's children is an even more serious crime. Although these seem to have nothing to do with "love", the book uses what he heard and saw from "Youshi's Peeping Gambling" to write that Xue Pan, Uncle Xing, etc. had sex with twin children during the gambling banquet, and were jealous of each other. Do you know that there will be no big troubles and disputes in the future? This paragraph is definitely not superfluous, and it will inevitably brew a disaster of right and wrong. That idiot Xue once fought a life lawsuit for fighting for Xiangling. People, do you know what accidents will happen again? It's no wonder that on the night of the Mid-Autumn Festival, there will be strange omens and sad sounds in the ancestral hall of Ningfu.This time, the Meng Mansion had a previous general criticism: "Jia Zhen is the head of the house, she can't inherit the past and inherit the family tradition of Pi Zhen, the brother asked Liu to find flowers, the father and son called Yao and drink six, Jia's family style, she fell to the ground. It is not safe. Send a sigh of relief!" This can be said to be the best echo of "Everyone respects the fall of the Jiqiu and the fall, and the first crime is better than the death of family affairs". The crime is so serious, how can the Jia family not fall? For many years, red scholars have been entangled in what exactly are the "provocations" that "started in Ningxia"? How much trouble can the "love" of "Su Nian always because of love" cause?Because there is no explanation, there is Liu Xinwu's "Qin Xue", which describes Qin Keqing's identity as the prince's daughter.Once the prince's children marry into the Ning Mansion, they will still be manipulated, and the death of the Jia family will be a matter of course. The basic viewpoint of Mr. Liu Xinwu's "Qin Xue" is: Qin Keqing is the daughter of Yinreng, the deposed prince of the Qing Dynasty. In order to protect the dragon's veins, the Jia family pretended to be an abandoned baby brought by the Yangshengtang and worshiped it under the door of Qinye, the Yingshulang, and then secretly received it. The family raised her and married her to Jia Rong, the fourth-generation eldest son of the Jia family.Later, Jia Yuanchun discovered this secret and told the emperor, so Qin Keqing was forced to hang himself to death, but Jia Yuanchun rewarded him for his meritorious deeds and became the imperial concubine.But two years later, the rest of the prince's party rebelled and forced Jia Yuanchun to death, and because of his anger, the emperor ordered Jia's house to be cleaned up after autumn, and the Ningrong and Rongfu fell down. Liu Xinwu continued to elucidate this point of view, using various historical events in the early Qing Dynasty as arguments, and wrote "Revealing the Red Chamber" one after another.However, in all the materials he quoted, including official history, unofficial history, "Qing History Draft", "Qing History Chronicle", barnyard manuscripts, and old files, there is no mention of Prince Yinfeng ever having a daughter. Mr. Liu Xinwu's explanation for this is: he just guessed that the crown prince had such a daughter. Since it was a guess, of course no evidence could be found. In other words, it was his imagination. The topic of "The Prince's Daughter" is first of all a false proposition, which does not exist; however, even the topic is illusory, so what is the significance of the many arguments surrounding this false proposition?This is like building a twelve-story building before the foundation is laid, but where are they standing? As for the evidence of Mr. Liu's "Prince's couplet", that is, the couplet in Rongxi Hall, "The pearls on the seat show the sun and the moon, the front of the hall is full of haze", and the prince's "Drinking in the building is because of the bright moon, and the poetic feeling on the river is the sunset." "Similar, it seems that it cannot be established, because the pair was not made by the prince at all, but from the "Send Qizhou Li Langzhong to the Post" written by Liu Yuxi, a poet in the middle Tang Dynasty. The original poem:

It can be seen that so far, Mr. Liu has not been able to find any historical evidence that can be verified by words.But even if we can find it, we still talk about "Red Mansion" out of "Red Mansion". The most important thing is, let us go back to the original work to see if the "Prince's Daughter Theory" can be established. In the fifth chapter of the book, Jia Baoyu sleepwalks in the realm of emptiness, and peeks at the booklet of "The Twelve Beauties of Jinling". The first unlucky girl in the Red Mansion who also came from a well-known family but committed herself to be the concubine of Xuemen; the deputy is Qingwen and Xiren, who are weaker than Xiangling, have been reduced to a maidservant, and come from a humble background. ——It is not difficult to see that even in the illusory realm, there are still class distinctions.The boundaries are drawn based on each person's identity, status, and important role played in the book. Then the question arises, if Qin Keqing's status is so noble, and her influence on the entire Jia family is so life-or-death, the whole story will revolve around her.So how to explain that in the eighty chapters of the novel, she only appeared in two or three chapters and died early?Could it be that the other seventy-odd chapters are all nonsense, just to cover up the text of these two or three chapters? What's more, Qin Keqing, who is the last of the twelve beauties, has become the daughter of the prince, so how noble are Baochai and Daiyu, who are tied for the first of the twelve beauties?Could it be the queen, empress dowager, empress dowager?It is impossible for Cao Xueqin to write about a prince's daughter and her opposite, Jia Yuanchun, in isolation, and keep the other ten beauties out of this main line, right?So what role should Bao, Dai, Chai, Feng and others play in this period of history?Innocent and senseless victim? Mr. Liu also said that Jia's mother believed that Keqing was "the first proud grandson's daughter-in-law", but there was only such a great-grandson's daughter-in-law in Ningrong and Rongfu, how could she be "the first"? However, according to Liu Xinwu's analysis, in fact, Mother Jia did not have a great-grandson daughter-in-law at all.Because Jia's mother has only two sons, Jia She and Jia Zheng, her grandsons are Jia Lian, Jia Cong, Jia Zhu, Jia Baoyu, and Jia Huan, and her great-grandson is Jia Lan. Sending Keqing to be Jia's great-grandson daughter-in-law is a kind of big ranking, that is, ranking among the same clan.According to the clan ranking, Jia Rong, Jia Qiang, Jia Chang, Jia Ling, Jia Yun, Jia Qin, Jia Zhen, Jia Ping, Jia Zao, Jia Heng, Jia Fen, Jia Fang, Jia Lan, Jia Zhu, Jia Jia Zhi and others can be counted as the great-grandsons of Jia's mother, so how does Mr. Liu know that none of these people are married?Since their daughters-in-law should all be counted as Jia Mu's great-grandson daughter-in-law, it is very normal for Jia Mu to think that Ke Qing, who is relatively close, is the most proud person among them. What is there to suspect? Readers may say that these are all unimportant people in the text, which is wrong. Let's look at the fifty-third chapter "Ningguo Mansion's New Year's Eve Worship to the Ancestral Hall"—— "I saw that the people of Jia's mansion were divided into Zhaomu and established: Jia Jing as the chief priest, Jia Amnesty as the accompanying sacrifice, Jia Zhen as the nobleman, Jia Lian and Jia Cong as the silk presents, Baoyu as the incense holder, Jiachang and Jia Ling as the worship mats, guarding the burning pond... …Jia Yun, Jia Zhi, etc. stood one by one from the Neiyi Gate to the corridor of the main hall. Outside the threshold was Jia Jing and Jia She, and inside the threshold were the female relatives. All the family members were outside the Yimen. , passed to Yimen, Jia Yun, Jia Zhi, etc. took it, and passed it to Jia Jing on the steps one by one." It can be seen from this passage that Jia Rong, Jia Qiang, and Jia Lan are not the only descendants of the authentic descendants of the Jia family, but also Jia Chang, Jia Ling, Jia Yun, and Jia Zhi. When the ancestral hall sent envoys to take on important responsibilities, they had the same status as Baoyu.In other words, the wives of Jia Chang, Jia Ling, Jia Yun, and Jia Zhi are also great-grandson daughters-in-law of Jia's mother, but they are not as satisfactory as Qin Keqing. Mr. Liu added: "Perhaps Jia's mother had considered betrotting Qin Keqing to her grandson, but Jia Lian and Jia Zhu both had other women who were more suitable to marry when they were adults, and they were much older than Qin Keqing, and Baoyu Born too late, the final situation formed is that Jia Rong is the most suitable." However, if Jia's mother likes Keqing so much, and Keqing's status is so noble, what woman in Jia Lian and Jia Zhu would be more "worthy" than marrying Keqing?Mr. Liu estimated that Jia Rong was about sixteen or seventeen years old, but Keqing seemed to be slightly older than him, almost twenty years old.Looking at it this way, the two are not equal at all, not only are they not equal in age, but even their seniority is wrong. Even if Jia Daishan is promoted and he and the emperor are regarded as the same generation, then the prince's peers should be Jia Jing, Jia She, and Jia She. Jia Zheng, and Keqing are of the same generation as Zhen, Lian, and Yu, and now they are abandoning Lian and Zhu to marry Jia Rong. Forever"?How can the Jia family deceive people so much? In short, if Mr. Liu's theory of the prince's daughter is true, first, if the Jia family adopted the prince's child, they should not take advantage of others' danger and marry as their daughter-in-law; Three things, even if the Jia family secretly promised Qin Keqing to Jia Rong, they should cherish her, and it is impossible for Jia Zhen to get involved again. For her, "dirty palace curtains" - this is no longer deceiving the emperor, it is simply killing the emperor!Is this father-in-law getting impatient?Isn't this prince's daughter a little too cheap?The Jia family really deserved to be copied a thousand times, even if the whole family was copied and killed, even the Jiuzu would not be wronged at all. What's more terrible is that they don't shy away from others. Not only the close maids Ruizhu and Baozhu know about it, but even the old servants on the periphery know about it. How can the prince's children have the slightest respect?But Qing died by hanging himself after the incident was defeated. You Shi was so angry that he "had a stomach problem" and was unwilling to take care of the funeral. Only Jia Zhen walked around on crutches to work. Do your best to be sarcastic.It can be seen that not only Jiao Da, but also the author Cao Xueqin's respect for this "prince's son" is really limited. In fact, the author's comments on Qin Keqing are indeed not very pleasant. The fuse that triggered Liu Xinwu's "Qin Xue" theory was a short comment from Zhiyanzhai: "'Qin Keqing's obscene mourning in Tianxianglou', the author used historical pens. Because the old man entrusted Sister Feng Jia's family with two funeral affairs, what is the place where people can think of comfort, wealth and honor? Although it has not been done, what it means is what it means It is sad and convincing, and I forgive you, because I ordered Qinxi to delete it." He said, "This chapter is only ten pages, because the section on Tianxianglou was deleted, four or five pages were missing." There were 7,000 words that time, and if you count 700 words per page, there are 2,000 to 3,000 words in four or five pages.And Mr. Liu Xinwu guessed that the big secret about Keqing's life experience was hidden in these two or three thousand words, so he eloquently played out a grand theory of "Qin Xue".But Zhipi clearly wrote it very clearly, and the section that was deleted was "Qin Keqing's Lascivious Mourning in Tianxianglou". The word "prostitution" has already defined Qin Keqing, and Cao Xueqin didn't take this "prince's daughter" seriously. Oh, he was given such a title! You must know that any word with a commentary nature in the review cannot be ignored, such as "Xian Xiren Jiaochen Zhen Baoyu", Zhiyan is the word "virtuous" and then "deserved"; such as "Min Tan Chun Xing benefits and removes old disadvantages, Baochai and Xiaohui are all general", such as "Miss Cowardly Don't Ask Tired Jinfeng", such as "Qiao Pinger's Love Covers Shrimp Beard Bracelet", such as "Hui Zicuckoo's Love Test Mang Yu", such as "Yong Qingwen's disease mends the bird's golden fur", and every comment is not given in vain. Also with "death" in mind, when it comes to Daiyu's mother, Jia Min, it is "Ms. Lin passed away in Yangzhou City", using the word "immortal"; Use the word "yao"; different identities, superior and inferior.When it comes to Jin Chuan, it is "Golden Chuan Dies with Shame and Love"; when it comes to You Sanshi, it is "Little Girl Love Returns to the Underworld", which also uses the word "shame", but Jin Chuan has no real meaning. "Shame", so it is "love", but You San has made a mistake, so it can only be "shame". And what about Qin Keqing's death?The author used the word "obscenity", which means "lewd mourning Tianxianglou", isn't it more serious than the word "shame"?If Keqing was the son of the crown prince, would the author evaluate her like this?At least, she will be at the same level as Jia Min, so it would make sense to give her a "Xian Mian Tian Xiang Lou", right? However, what Mr. Liu wastes the most is that if Keqing is just an adopted abandoned baby, how can he be qualified to be the eldest grandson-in-law of Ningfu?Comparing Qin Keqing's status with Wang Xifeng, Li Wan, etc. has indeed won the approval of the vast majority of readers. But Leng Zixing said earlier that because respecting the elderly does not matter, now Jia Zhen is in charge and has turned the Ningguo Mansion upside down, with no etiquette to speak of.Not only Jia Rong's daughter-in-law, but also the You family whom he married himself, is not from a good background. Just look at You Lao Niang and You Er You San from her natal family.The You family sisters have been involved with Zhen, Rong and his sons. The words in the book are "jumo", which means incest-because this word is too obscure and remote, many people ignore it.However, Cheng Gao edited and edited a lot, and rewritten Third Sister You as a chaste daughter, which further concealed the truth about the filth and chaos in Ningguo Mansion. In the Rong Mansion, the defense of men and women is very important, but in the Ning Mansion, it is so-so. Jia Rong hugged the maid and kissed in front of her aunt, and made fun of You Er and You San who are her elders. He said that he urged Jia Lian to marry Second Sister You so that he could fool around while Jia Lian was away, so as not to compete with his father; Before long, Zhi Critic said, "You can know what you do on a daily basis", scolding Jia Zhen for not being up and down, and not being polite.He even blatantly set up a gambling game at home, seducing many officials and eunuchs to gamble, and showing off his cook every day like "Lintong Fighting Treasures"-no matter how you look at it, Jia Zhen does not look like a hero who protects the prince's orphan.From the beginning to the end, Cao Xueqin was describing how a prodigal patriarch, who was careless and careless, led the whole family to perish, and he wrote it clearly in every stroke. In addition to You Shi, Jia She's wife, Mrs. Xing, was of so-so origin.Although both of them are vassals, they can't compare with Mrs. Wang and Li Wan who came from well-known families; however, Xing Xiuyan is also poor, with poor parents, but Aunt Xue is interested in marrying a nephew and daughter-in-law. It can be seen that marrying a daughter-in-law does not necessarily require each other. How prominent.At that time, what was emphasized was that marrying a daughter must be better than my family, and marrying a daughter-in-law is worse than my family. For example, Xue Baoqin's fiancé-in-law is the son of Mei Hanlin, so he pays attention to noble family; Philosophy: No matter what her family's Jimendi is, as long as she looks good, you can give her a few taels of silver.From this point of view, it is not inconceivable that Jia Zhen chose Qin Keqing as his wife for Jia Rong.

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