Chapter 5 It is difficult to cover up the essence

Xiangling was studying poetry, and Daiyu ordered her to sing about the moon. The first sentence started with "the moon hangs in the middle of the sky and the night is cold", and Daiyu criticized "the meaning is there, but the wording is indecent"; You can see it through the curtain", Baochai criticized "it's not like reciting the moon...everything is like the moonlight"; the third song "Essence and blood are gathered sincerely", a sentence in a dream, the first two sentences are "the essence wants to hide It is difficult to predict, the shadow comes from Juanjuan and the soul comes from the cold", all the hairpins said in unison.

Mr. Zhou Ruchang and I have reached a consensus in the correspondence: Zhong, Yue Yu is the crown prince.This prince refers to "Yizhong" "Prince Lao Qiansui" also refers to the "grandson" who "invites the cow girl to fight and waits for the grandson". , thinking that she is the daughter of the Emperor of Heaven, here are obviously all puns.) The "broken thing" in the text, "Prince Yizhong Lao Qiansui", the prototype in life is the prince's second elder brother Yinfeng who was defeated by Kangxi. The prototype of the "emperor's grandson" is Hongxi, the son of Yinreng, the grandson of Emperor Kangxi, and Hongxi, the cousin of Qianlong Hongli. Good footnote. "Golden mandarin ducks promulgate the tooth card three times", Xiangyun said "the double hanging sun and the moon illuminate the universe", "the imperial garden was taken out by the bird", which points out the struggle for the throne between the Kang and Yong dynasties, until Qianlong From the first year to the third year, it continued and became more and more intense. "The struggle for the three springs and the early spring scene", "exploring the three springs will not last long", "if the three springs are seen through, what will happen to the peach blossoms and willows? ""After the three springs, all the fragrances are exhausted, and each has to find his own door" "The career of the three springs pays off, and the bright moon and plum blossoms have a dream", Cao Xueqin repeatedly reminded readers in it that the first year of Qianlong was the most beautiful time, and then every year is not as good as a year , and the disaster happened in the "Four Springs" after the "Three Springs", that is, the year when the "Hongxi Rebellion Case" broke out and was extinguished, which should be the starting point of the lost eighty chapters of the story.

In the book, the Xue family was an imperial businessman for generations, and once prepared masonry for the "Prince Yizhong, who is old and thousand years old", as the coffin for the empress. The younger sister went to Beijing, and the younger sister Baochai planned to "accompany the princess and princess in school as an alternative, and serve as a job of praise for talented people". The princess is the daughter of the crown prince and prince. Although "talented person" was the title of a female official in the palace in the past, there was no such official title in the Qing Dynasty, and "Zanshan" was the official title indeed in the palace of the Qing Dynasty. It can be seen that "princess" and "talented man" are accompanying texts, and "princess master" and "praise of goodness" are real texts, which originate from real life. Later, he joined Hongxi, the eldest grandson of Kangxi, as a party. In the book, Feng Tang and his sons Feng Ziying, Zhang Youshi, Han Qi, Chen Yejun, Wei Ruolan, etc. all belonged to this political group.The prototype of Xue Pan should be the old man of the Ministry of Internal Affairs who was summoned to Beijing by Hongxi who planned to raise troubles (Kangxi loved the prince so much that he appointed Ling Pu, the husband of the prince's nanny, as the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs to make it easier for the prince to get things). At that time, Xi set up seven divisions including the House of Internal Affairs in Prince Li's Mansion of Zhengjiazhuang in the north of Beijing according to the establishment of the palace. After Pan beat someone to death, he didn't care about it. It was the mentality that the prototype was summoned to Beijing by "Qianlong" Hongxi, and he only waited for "a round in the sky to be held out, and all people in the world look up". Baochai's prototype is exactly It was a young woman who was going to be sent to Zhengjiazhuang Hongxi by her family.

The first chapter to the sixteenth chapter (including the seventeenth chapter and part of the eighteenth chapter) are all about the events before the first year of Qianlong, but the timing is not so clear. Generally speaking, it is about the alternation of the Yongzheng Dynasty and the Qianlong Dynasty The current situation, and moved forward some of the status of the Cao family, the life prototype of the Jia family in the first year of Qianlong.My "Qin Xue" research is to conduct a prototype analysis of the description of Qin Keqing in this part.Prototype analysis cannot be equated with Suo Yinhua.I don't think Suo Yin can be completely denied.Research should be pluralistic, open, and tolerant.Although I have used words such as "interpretation", "deciphering" and "mystery", my method of inquiry is not searching for information but archetypal research.Archetype research is a very popular literary research mode in the world.Such as studying the autobiography of Dickens in England, the life prototypes of Leo Tolstoy Nekhludoff and Maslova in Russia, and the life prototypes of Juexin in Ba Jin... are all examples that we are familiar with.The result of my "Qin Studies" research is to discover that the life prototype of Qin Keqing's artistic image is the daughter of the deposed prince Yinreng and the sister of Hongxi.

The explanation about Qin Keqing's background at the end of the eighth chapter is that Cao Xueqin deliberately used the technique of "disguised".I haven't made more use of fat batches in previous articles, so I'll make some additions now.Zhi Yanzhai reviewed the passage I called "Patch" in the eighth chapter very carefully.The Jiaxu edition commented: "The Qin family is famous, but I don't know whether it is from the He family. The so-called "contains praise and blame, not good and evil". The origin is also very bitter. I also know that the author wants people all over the world to cry for this love word." In the main text, Qin Keqing said that "the description of life is graceful, and the character is romantic" and later commented: "The four characters have hidden meanings. "Spring and Autumn" calligraphy What's more noteworthy is that the thirteenth chapter of Qi's preface has a poem before the first chapter: "Where is the truth of life and death? It is the spirit that cannot be restrained. The secret is hidden for a long time, but it reveals itself, and the words in the dream are amazing." My The interpretation is: Qin Keqing's father "Prince Yizhong is old and thousand years old" has "bad things". She may have just been born before being registered by the clan's family, so she was taken into hiding by the Ningguo's family because of the friendship between the ancestors. Jia Jing Fearing misfortune, she ran to the Taoist temple outside the city and never returned home. Qin Keqing is Jia Rong's daughter-in-law, but she is sincerely in love with Jia Zhen. Qin Keqing's homonym is "love can be light", which means "such feelings should not be valued but should be thrown lightly." , but what most people pay attention to is Qin Keqing's indiscriminate love affair with Jia Zhen and Baoyu, but they don't notice that it actually refers to the "political friendship" that will bring catastrophe to the Jia family. ", so the fifth chapter on Yuanchun's [Hate Wuchang] emphasizes "Tianlun, we need to retreat early!" But Jia's political investment in the political power of "Prince Yizhong, Lao Qiansui" has always been invested, and Jia's mother also attaches great importance to it. The friendship with them regards Qin Keqing as "the first proud person among the great-grandson's daughters-in-law".According to Cao Xueqin's overall idea, the adoption of Qin Keqing by the Ningguo Mansion was the most fundamental reason for the collapse of the Jia Mansion. , family matters perish, the first crime is better.”

"Wei Mi has been hidden for a long time but reveals itself" has already told us clearly that the wild species Yunyun brought in by the so-called "Yangshengtang" had already "revealed himself" when Qin Keqing entrusted Meng and Wang Xifeng with a tone of superiority over Jia's mansion. ", although "weakly hidden for a long time", after all, it still cannot conceal her true identity - the daughter of the deposed prince.She "returned to her roots" and slept in a coffin made of mahogany originally prepared for her father. Prototype research should not only study the life prototype of artistic image, but also study the event prototype of artistic plot.Jia Yuanchun Caixuan

Fengzao Palace is closely related to the plot of the novel with Qin Keqing's death as the Dragon Forbidden Commander, and the events in life are the prototype of Jia Yuanchun - a sister of Cao Xueqin's family, who was elected to the Hongli Mansion, and was appointed Hongli doted on her, so she naturally stood in Hongli's position, hoping that Hongli would ascend the throne smoothly. After Yongzheng's violent death, Hongli did ascend the throne. Those who were abolished, especially Uncle Yongzheng's successor to the throne, were dissatisfied. There were many dissatisfied in the royal family, and even some princes and their sons who were valued by Yongzheng's kindness thought that Hongxi's change of name as emperor was justified. This situation Now, Yuanchun's prototype is on the side of Hongli, that is, Qianlong, and it is only natural for him to guard against accidents.So she recalled twenty years ago, when she was only about five or six years old, but she remembered that Qin Keqing, who was brought to the Ningguo Mansion, appeared to be of some kind of background, but the more she observed, the less she looked like her. After ten years of distinguishing between right and wrong, she finally found out the truth of her "slightly hidden for a long time", so she exposed it to Qianlong, but she must ask Qianlong to forgive her mother's family for the crime of covering up after the execution of Qin Keqing's prototype. Qianlong is a great politician , I really like the Yuanchun prototype, so on the one hand, Qin Keqing's prototype was allowed to die, on the other hand, Jia's prototype was allowed to hold a big funeral, and the princes from all walks of life were allowed to hold sacrifices, and even sent the eunuch to participate in the sacrifice.Qin Keqing's "Painting Liangchun with Fragrant Dust" and Jia Yuanchun's "Choosing Fengzao Palace" are just the continuous encounters of the two female archetypes in real life (in essence, it is a political transaction).But in real life, "Hong Xi's rebellion" happened, how could Hong Xi forgive Yuan Chun's betrayal of his sister?She must have managed to kill her, and Cao Xueqin designed the fate of the artistic image Yuanchun in the book based on the prototype of this incident. The final outcome was "a sound that shocked people, and looked back at the Prime Minister to see it as ashes". .Let’s just throw everything away. Wander around and consume your soul.”And it was in a place where "looking at home, the road is far away and the mountains are high", not in the palace.Gao E's continuation book, written in Yuanchun, was very wealthy and died in the palace due to "phlegm disease". On the eighth day of the beginning of spring, the day of the imperial concubine's death is December 19th, which has already passed the Yin month of the Mao year. The fortune-teller arranged all the horoscopes of birthdays according to the twelve zodiac signs, and the day Gao E wrote was hard to say what "the tiger and the rabbit meet".

In Liu Mengxi's book "A Dream of Red Mansions and a Hundred Years of China", he listed the section "Redology "Dead Knot"". The first of the "Four Unsolved Mysteries" is the verdict on Yuanchun in the fifth chapter: "Twenty years to distinguish right from wrong, The place where the durian flowers bloom illuminates the palace; the three springs contend for the early spring, and the tigers meet and return in their dreams." He believes that "the second and third sentences are not difficult to explain, mainly one or four sentences", but in fact the second sentence is not so simple It is generally believed that "pomegranate" is a symbol of many children and blessings. Pomegranate trees are planted in the palace, and the flowers are blooming brilliantly, which means that the woman favored by the emperor may bear children for the emperor. This kind of pan language, did the woman who was the prototype of Yuanchun actually conceived and gave birth to her beloved?This is worth exploring.Recently, Mr. Zhou Ruchang discovered that there are poems about chrysanthemums in the preserved poems of the deposed prince Yinreng. He thought they were worth pondering. He imagined that the prototype of Yuanchun might be assigned to Yinreng first. Hongxi, so she was able to detect the secret affairs of the prince's family, Yinfeng was abolished, Hongxi was unlucky, the Ministry of Internal Affairs reduced Hongxi's treatment, Yuanchun prototype was assigned to serve Hongli (both are Kangxi's beloved grandsons) , Mr. Zhou's idea of ​​probing the lost is worthy of attention.In the sixty-third chapter of the book, "Shouyi Hongqunfang holds a night banquet", Tanchun drew the lottery of "Must be a noble son-in-law", and everyone laughed and said: "Our family already has a princess, so you are also a princess?" Some readers wondered , Yuan Chun of the Jia family is not a princess but a concubine, why do you say that?From this small place, one can get a glimpse of Yuanchun's prototype, that is, to become a princess first, but the old emperor died, and the prince she followed succeeded to the throne, wouldn't the princess become a concubine?Wangfei and Huangfei can refer to the same person, just like the "twilight concubine" and "old concubine" in the book actually refer to the same person.Following this line of thought, I think that not long after the Yuanchun prototype was reassigned to the Hongli office, it coincided with the sudden death of Yongzheng and the succession of Hongli. The first year was the "early spring". In the fourth year, I didn't have a good death.It is appropriate to interpret the "three springs and the early spring scene" in this way.Ordinary people always think of "three springs" as welcoming, exploring and cherishing, and "early spring" as Yuanchun himself. However, from the fifth chapter of the album and the songs related to each of them, it can be seen that Yuanchun's ending is very different. Miserable, at least much more miserable than Tanchun who married far away and Xichun who voluntarily became a monk. She was destined to die, but both Tan and Xi are still alive, so if you understand "chun" as a character, it is difficult to say that it is Yuanchun's fate was better than her three younger sisters, so she had no choice but to spend Yingchun.The first and fourth sentences of the Yuanchun Judgment have been deciphered in my prototype research, at least it is by no means a "dead knot".

I wrote an article earlier and pointed out that the emperors in Li were composed of Kangxi, Yongzheng, and Qianlong. Waiting for my heart to be anxious and uncertain", which is a true portrayal of the Cao family's "accompanying the king is like accompanying a tiger" in life.At that time, through the family member Lai Da's sentence "Now the master has gone to the East Palace again", he also wrote about the delicate and difficult living state of the prototype in life between "Long Live" and "Thousand Years".The prototype event in life is that Yongzheng was violent and Qianlong ascended the throne. Yuanchun prototype, which was favored by Hongli, was naturally more proud. Qianlong's policy of gentleness made Cao, who was convicted in Yongzheng, the charge of "deficiency". Blowing, re-appointed by the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the Cao family has been prosperous for three consecutive years since the first year of Qianlong, like "flowers blooming brocade, fire cooking oil", the text of the novel goes from the eighteenth to the fifty-third, It is all about "Early Spring Scenery", that is, what happened in the first year of Qianlong. Of course, Cao Xueqin added necessary exaggerations, exaggerations, maneuvers, borrowings, imaginations, and fictions based on the prototype of life, but in general it is The time sequence is neat, and even the Grain Grain Festival on April 26 of that year was included. This is the prototype of the details in the novel.It is also important to study such detailed prototypes.In the third round, the gold plaque and silver couplet that Daiyu saw in the main hall of Rongguo Mansion, the detailed prototypes of which are the encounters between Kangxi and her childhood caregiver Sun (Cao Yin’s mother, Cao Xueqin’s great-grandmother) during Kangxi’s southern tour. The large plaque of "Xuanrui Hall" and the crown prince who accompanied his father on the south tour at that time inscribed the name of Cao's family are "drinking in the building is because of the bright moon, and the poetic feeling on the river is the sunset glow".

Cao Xueqin wrote with politics in his heart, but he tried his best to get rid of the pattern of political novels, to write about boudoir friendship, to set up a biography for a group of flower-like young women, and to write about Jia Baoyu's cherishment and pity for young women, and his unremitting pursuit of poetic life Pursue and give love to ruthless things, but through the two roles of Qin Keqing and Jia Yuanchun, he is faithful to his family and the life he has experienced, and writes that individual life cannot escape Society, especially the cruel and treacherous political situation that enveloped everything in that era, these beautiful young women, as well as Jia Baoyu, were ultimately destroyed by the family's "political original sin", "the bones are like a mountain and the surname is forgotten, nothing more than the son and the red makeup" , this is not only a personal tragedy, the character

The tragedy of life is the tragedy of society, the tragedy of the times. "Individuals are hostages of history", this profound and tragic proposition was expressed by Cao Xueqin more than 200 years ago, which really surprised us and made us ponder.