Chapter 4 Correspondence on "Prince Yueyu"

Ru Chang to Liu Xinwu Heart Wu Xianyou: You told me yesterday that we knew we had won the prize. It was like a cool breeze on a summer day, refreshing your eyes and mind.I don't know how talented the judges are, they only wrote a few strokes, and they did not waste too much words, but they did the finishing touches.There is no trace of stereotype in the commentary, which is rare for me, so how can I not feel sorry for it? Of!This is not what a few words and five words can do. Now I think that my last letter has pointed out that "Guizi falls in the middle of the moon, and the fragrance of heaven and clouds floats outside". He calls himself the "moon", and his poems about the moon express this meaning, so "the moon falls" is a key allegory (I find that even Jia Yucun's "it is only held in the sky, and all surnames in the world look up at it" is definitely not what he meant. Being able to bear it should also be a metaphor for the prince—the eldest son of the emperor, Sun Hongxi).Also, "Yili" is an ancient word, so "Yizhong Lao Qiansui" means that he was named the Prince of Li; he also had the posthumous posthumous title of "Mi", so the word "Mu" was used—Mu's pronunciation and rhyme are just like "Mi". " ("Xunzi" has an example).This can still prove: Keqing is the youngest daughter of the crown prince, Hongxi's weaker sister, and she is also a "princess".

The Xue family purchases "mastwood" for the old thousand-year-old. The declining Xue family is a "princeling", and Hongxi has another seven divisions of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. The three families of Wang and Shi (prototype Li) are both "prosperous and all are prosperous, and every loss is all loss", so of course they are "one case" and "partners". The "talisman" seems to be the last words and gestures of the prince when he was waiting for orders. So I thought again: Whose concubine is Yuanchun?Was it originally Concubine Hongxi who was chosen and then taken into the palace for Hongli? "Twenty Years of Distinguishing Right from Wrong", a book titled "Who Is Discriminating"?The crown prince's birthday is on the third day of the fifth lunar month, and Yuanchun specially ordered the first to third day of the fifth lunar month to hold a safe offering. Is there any hidden meaning? (Yinreng has poems about pomegranates, which are very important.)

In addition, Xiangyun's dental tokens were repeatedly used in the royal code (the sun and moon, the red apricots at the edge of the sun, and the royal garden were taken out by birds).Could this all be related to the "Prince Family"?In the hearts and minds of Gai Xueqin's family and others, the real emperor is still the prince, and Yongzheng is a villain plotting a coup d'etat, and he "doesn't admit it" at all! I have been accumulating the above-mentioned thoughts recently. I wonder if there are any "reasonable elements"? Ruchang is in heat The middle ear award is an iconic souvenir. Its real significance lies in the fact that this is the first time that the cultural and academic circles have given us affirmative and high-level evaluations (basic thesis and research direction) in the form of public awards.I don't know who the judge is, but I admire it deeply.The influence of Wenhui is not small, and it is a great encouragement.Forgive me for not being able to see the words, but I can’t even read the title of your new book "Painting Liangchun and Falling Fragrant Dust". There is no other way, and I sigh and feel melancholy.I really want to ask a "reading and listening worker" to read a paragraph to me every day and give me some compensation, but there is no such suitable person.And again.

Sending my heart to Wu Xianyou Shi He (Qilan) Rucao I am ashamed of the trophy, and the judging circle is out of the ordinary; Emmanuel enlightens by electricity, and the reasoning is strict. Tiangui falls in mid-autumn, palace pomegranate in May; Encourage yourself with the king, He Zhan is celery. I hope you write (maybe you are already writing) a novel - from the birth of Prince Yinreng to the death of Xueqin.It is not for "History of the Qing Dynasty", nor is it a simplified "diagram", but for explaining the great tragedy of human nature and life, that is, the innate aura and historical conditions of the "two Fus" proposed by Xueqin added to his acquired environment and encounters , fate, this novel should be better than Shakespeare's "Hamlet" and so on.Then make a good movie.I hope it was worthwhile for you to devote some of your energy to this topic.

Guiwei July 26th Book by Zhou Ruchang Liu Xinwu to Zhou Ruchang Senior Ruchang: The "Yangtze River Cup" PEN Call for Papers can give us a commendation on the correspondence about "Maxia", which is indeed a great encouragement for our "Red Studies" research.This once again shows that "Hongxue" is a public discourse space shared by the public. It is a space where any speaker or listener who "continues the heartfelt fragrance of Chinese culture" can come to this space. Inspired by flower branches, obtain aesthetic pleasure. Your eyesight has deteriorated to the point that you are completely blind in one eye and the vision in one eye is only 0.01, but you still write letters frequently. Although the characters you write are often skewed, overlapped, split, and lack of writing, my assistant and I I still regard it as a great pleasure to recognize every word of yours, because it is actually bathing in the rain and dew of Chinese culture again and again, especially when you selflessly use the information you have mastered, the ideas you have formed, and the research results that have not yet been published. Tell me everything, enlighten me, let me use it, I am really grateful!

From Cao Yin, Cao to Xueqin, the three generations of the Cao family, the crown prince Yinreng who was at odds with Kangxi and was abolished twice, and the relationship between Yinreng's son Hongxi, which is constantly arguing and unreasonable, affects the relationship between their family. Destiny determines the ups and downs of everyone in the family, and casts a huge light and shadow on their psychology and emotions. Now it seems that research must enter this field, otherwise it will be difficult to grasp the creation background of this great book, and it will be even more difficult to grasp the background of this book. It is difficult to grasp Cao Xueqin's creative psychology, and it is also difficult to understand, understand and read this book smoothly.Doing so is definitely not "leaving the text" to "excessive branches" or "complex textual research", it is precisely to respect the text and seek the truth.

For example, in your return letter, some people may be puzzled by the consonant content of the two characters "Mi" and "Mu". Where did the word "Mu" come from?It turned out that what he read was printed based on the tampered books of Cheng Weiyuan and Gao E. When Lin Daiyu entered the Rongguo Mansion, she first saw the "Red Gold Nine Dragons and Green Land Plaque" with the three words "Rongxi Hall" written on it. I used the life materials that Kangxi wrote "Xuanruitang" to Cao's family during his southern tour. This is not a taboo, and Cheng and Gao certainly did not change it; "Silver" couplet "Pearls on the seat illuminate the sun and the moon, and the front of the hall glows with haze". "It evolved. In the authentic version, Cao Xueqin clearly explained that the following line of small characters is "a handwriting written by a brother from the same hometown, Xun Xiong, King Mu Shi of Dong'an County". This actually points out the identity of the prince. With a flick of the pen, it was changed to "Yan Shenggong" and so on.It can be seen that if one does not study the history of the Qing Dynasty, the history of the Cao family, and the connotations of words such as "Mu" and "Shi" in traditional Chinese culture, how can one understand them?Whose reading is "out of the text"?

When my assistant entered your letter for me, I asked in the sentence "Yuanchun...later took it into the palace for Hongli", is "take" a typo of "marry"?I told him no.Hongxi and Hongli are cousins. When Kangxi was alive, they were both at the age of transition from youth to youth. At that age, they could already get married, and they could say "marry" when they were married, and "na" when concubine Ji. Xi originally chose the prototype of Yuan Chun as the "concubine". He was originally the son of the "prepared emperor". As the eldest grandson of the emperor, Kangxi was very optimistic about him. "It's a bad thing", of course he just sits down. It turns out that he has no chance to enjoy the "concubine" selected for him by the Ministry of Internal Affairs, but Hongli can "take it". At that time, such a woman was that

The sample land is regarded as an object that can be "used". Understanding this situation is of course conducive to further understanding Li's shaping of the artistic image of Yuanchun. You wrote to me last time that there is a line in Yinreng's poem about Xueyue that "the three thousand jades in Penghai all grow jade, and the twelve towers in Jianglou don't fly dust".Yinreng died shortly after Cao Xueqin was born, but Hongxi was in his prime at that time, because after Yongzheng came to power through conspiracy, he felt that the powerful enemy he was facing was no longer the deposed prince, so he put Hongxi under house arrest in the northern suburb of Zhengjiazhuang, but that His residence was built by Emperor Kangxi, and there are 189 large and small houses, which is enough to become a plot space for another nine divisions of the Ministry of Internal Affairs to plot a coup d'etat after Yongzheng's violent death and Qianlong came to power.The Cao family and Hongxi probably maintained inextricable ties. The older generation secretly instilled the story of Yinfeng and his poems to the younger generation; Jia, in such a time and space, is indeed facing the political situation of "double hanging sun and moon shining on the universe". "Yue" means Kangxi's pro-appointed successor Yinfeng and his son Hongxi.Now we can understand the reading more clearly. The whole book begins with the Mid-Autumn Festival, with seventy-five episodes of killing the Mid-Autumn Festival as the turning point. It is estimated that the end will also be during the Mid-Autumn Festival. It was only released in one round, and all surnames in the world look up." The deep meaning is to reveal the entire political situation at the beginning of the book: Hong Xi is about to come to power!

"Yueyu Prince" (the meaning of "Prince" includes Yinreng and Hongxi), this is our latest research on "red", we should re-read the plots and poems about "moon" in the novel from a new perspective, and explore Cao Xueqin's writing The conscious and subconscious of these words are his creative psychology and literary sentiment.For example, in Aojing Guandai and Xianglian poems, some manuscripts do not have the two sentences "wait for the emperor and grandson by the boat, and the empty wheel cannot be fixed". I thought it was a negligence in copying, but now I feel that "the emperor and grandson" clearly refers to Hong Kong. Xi, in the face of such "obstructive language", it is no wonder that some copyists deleted it. "After the three springs, all the fragrances are exhausted, and each has to find its own door." From the first year of Qianlong to the third year of Qianlong, it was the "moon", that is, Hongxi's attempt to overthrow and was finally expelled by Qianlong, which was designated as "Hongxi's rebellion". The extremely tense "Three Springs" and the tragedy of "Zhu Fang" are by no means pure love tragedies, but the withered elegy of fragile life flowers that cannot escape in the treacherous situation.

Your suggestion is very good.In fact, I have written more than 10,000 words of "Night Police in the Tent Hall", interweaving the ups and downs of Yinfeng and Hongxi with the ups and downs of the Cao family to explore fate and human nature, which can be regarded as the outline of a novel.I will continue to work on this. That is to say Qiu Qi! Junior Liu Xinwu August 27, 2003