Chapter 6 moonlight

I want to walk in the Forbidden City under the moonlight.This is of course not allowed.But I've especially had this unreasonable desire lately.Why is that? Let's look at the sixteenth chapter, it is written that "Jia Yuanchun chose Fengzao Palace". After Jia Zheng thanked the emperor for his kindness, he "went to the East Palace again". The East Palace is where the prince lives.In the Qing Dynasty, only Kangxi established a prince.The crown prince's name is Yinreng. Kangxi doted on him very much and placed high hopes on him. He built Yuqing Palace in the Forbidden City just for him to live in.Yuqing Palace became the Forbidden City in the Forbidden City

After the museum, it seems that it has not been open to tourists.According to a scholar who studies Qing history, she was lucky enough to go in and browse. She remembered that there was a big Western clock hanging on the wall. It was very gorgeous and solemn, but the overall layout was amazing, just like a maze. The spaces here are not very large, and the corridors are connected, extending in all directions, and some rooms have poor light transmission and are dark and mysterious. She guessed that such a design may have something to do with some primitive customs of the Manchus.I wish I could go in there and see what's going on.

The Palace Museum has opened up so many majestic and majestic architectural spaces, how can I be interested in a place like Yuqing Palace that ordinary people ignore? In recent years, I have researched and found that Cao Xueqin’s grandparents and fathers have a very close relationship with the crown prince Yinreng. Ling Pu, the husband of Yinreng’s wet nurse, went to the Cao’s house where Jiangning Weaving made money, and he could get 20,000 taels at a time. , how do you say their relationship is?Cao Xueqin came from a lowly family background, and was a descendant of the "coated clothes" or slaves who were captured before the Qing soldiers entered the customs, but his grandfather Cao Yin and Kangxi were as close as brothers, because Cao Yin's mother, Sun, was Kangxi's nanny (not the nanny , not a wet nurse, but a foster mother), when Kangxi was educated, Cao Yin was an accompanying student, after Kangxi ascended the throne, Cao Yin was a close servant, and Kangxi got rid of Oboi by letting Cao Yin and others wrestle with Oboi, making the fake come true, and turning him into a real one. It was captured, and later Kangxi gave the beauty of Jiangning weaving to Cao Yin (the last two generations of the Cao family worked as weaving), Kangxi went to Jiangnan six times, lived in Cao Yin's weaving mansion four times, and the prince followed his father four times During the southern tour, he naturally also lived in Cao’s house. Kangxi reunited with his nanny Sun in the weaving mansion. He was overjoyed and said, “This is also an old man in my family.” Cao Xueqin was deeply impressed, so he wrote about Lin Daiyu's entry into the Rongguo Mansion in the third chapter. He wrote that a gold plaque hung in the main room of the mansion was "Rongxi Hall", but the couplets on both sides were not gold, and they were downgraded by one level. It is silver, could it be written by the prince?What Lin Daiyu saw was "the jewels on the seat illuminate the sun and the moon, and the fog in front of the hall glows with haze", is it Cao Xueqin's fiction?Of course it is a fictitious novel, but it has a solid and testable basis in life. After investigation, Prince Yinfeng once had a famous couple praised by Kangxi, "Drinking in the building is because of the bright moon, and the poetic feeling on the river is the sunset." It is written in the book, What exists in history is so similar to Nair!It can be seen that there is the shadow of Prince Yinreng, and to be more specific, Xue Pan mentioned in the thirteenth chapter that "Prince Yizhong, old Qiansui" once ordered masonry from his shop, thinking that it was a coffin material, but later "Qiantui" "It's a bad thing", so I didn't take it away, and others didn't dare to use it.Only the prince who is designated as the successor can be called a thousand years old, and the "old thousand years old" in the book alludes to Yinfeng very clearly.

One of the achievements of my research on "Red Studies" is to verify that the prototype of Qin Keqing in the book was a Yinfeng who was fostered in Cao's family very early and hid his true identity after "bad things" (falsely claiming that he came from "Yangshengtang") In the book, it is written that she finally slept in the mahogany coffin ordered by her father but failed to enjoy it, which can be regarded as "the fallen leaves return to their roots".Therefore, some people call my "Red Studies" research a branch of "Qin Studies". (For details, please refer to my book "Drawing Liangchun with Fragrance and Dust - Interpretation of "Dream of Red Mansions", first edition of China Radio and Television Publishing House in June 2003) I noticed that Cao Xueqin passed the character Jia Yucun in the book. In the second chapter, he made a big statement that "the two qi of good and evil are agitated to form Bingfu". In fact, he classified Yinfeng in life and Jia Baoyu in the book into this category.This kind of person is extremely intelligent and talented, but has a weird personality and can't follow the rules, so he can't enter the mainstream of society in the end, and it all ends in tragedy.

Yinfeng was born to Empress Kangxi. He was always loved by Kangxi, and he was established as a prince when he was less than two years old. However, in the forty-seventh year of Kangxi (1708), he was informed by his brothers because he took part in Mulan's autumn moonlight night and peeped at his father's tent. , which triggered Kangxi's fury and deposed him. This is the "Night Police in the Tent Hall" incident that shocked the government and the public.After the incident, Kangxi sent him back to Beijing first, and imprisoned him in a tent in Shangsi Courtyard.But Kangxi soon regretted it.Four months later, Yinreng's crown prince status was restored, and Yinreng must have returned to live in Yuqing Palace.But in the fifty-first year of Kangxi (1712), Kangxi completely abolished Yinfeng, moved him out of Yuqing Palace, and imprisoned him in Xian'an Palace.After Yinreng was defeated in the succession to the throne, Kangxi's other sons competed for the throne. In the end, Yongzheng, whom many people did not expect, won the throne. Yinreng died in the second year of Yongzheng. After his death, his son Hongxi was ruled The status of the prince was removed from the palace, and he was arranged to live in Zhengjiazhuang in the current Changping District.Yongzheng originally thought that Hongxi was just a weak descendant of the "dead tiger" and concentrated his energy on dealing with other political opponents. Unexpectedly, Hongxi, who was once loved by Kangxi, regarded himself as the "grandson of the king". Conspiring for a coup, he set up a separate House of Internal Affairs in Zhengjiazhuang. Some princes who had been favored by Yongzheng and the royal family of Hongxi's generation gathered around him. In the fourth year of Qianlong's reign, they almost succeeded in launching an incident, but in the end they were still detected and extinguished by Qianlong. , that is, in the "Hongxi Rebellion Case", the Cao family was implicated and completely destroyed, leaving a piece of white and clean land.In my extremely brief overview, have you already realized: Cao Xueqin wrote that there is a prince Yinreng and his son Hongxi hidden in the material?So in the book, Qin Keqing used Qin Keqing's mouth to say, "After the three springs go, all the fragrances will be exhausted" (Although the Cao family was punished by ransacking the house in the sixth year of Yongzheng, "a centipede is dead but not stiff." It once turned from yellow to green, but after the three good years from the first year to the third year of Qianlong passed, in the fourth year of the "reverse case", the Cao family in life and the Jia family in the book broke up and died. !), and there is another tooth card order of "Double hanging sun and moon illuminating the universe" (actually alluding to the tense situation between the Japanese side Qianlong and the Yuefang Hongxi competing for the sky).I wrote an article explaining in detail how "the moon is a metaphor for the prince" in the book (see "China Reading News" and "Platypus" magazine, No. 1, 2004, January 7, 2004).In the Forbidden City, there was such a person as Yinfeng who once lived. He was once the crown prince who was under one person and above tens of thousands. He had a proud figure in Yuqing Palace; He used to sit on the sidelines and sometimes participated in opinions; when Kangxi led the army to the west, he stayed in this majestic imperial city to act as an agent of state affairs; his temper would suddenly become extremely violent, insulting and even ordering his followers to be his teacher Great Confucianism; after he was deposed for the first time, he was escorted back to the Shangsi Courtyard where he was imprisoned. It has long been changed beyond recognition. I heard that it was once a nursery school in recent decades, but there are still some rockery left; the current Xian'an Palace is no longer from the Kangxi Dynasty. That Xian'an Palace; the Xian'an Palace where he was imprisoned after he was abolished for the second time, later called Jing'an Palace, is now a library. When people borrow books and read books in it, who knows, he was not peaceful when he was imprisoned , once borrowed the opportunity of the imperial physician to see Fujin, and asked the imperial physician to take the secret letter out?This is really a bit of a mysterious taste of "Mr. Zhang discusses illnesses and poor sources"; when he heard the news of Yongzheng's accession to the throne, what was his mood in captivity?When he died of illness and loneliness in the Forbidden City, what was his last thought? ...Is it because this person failed to sit on the throne later, so when people visit the place now called the Forbidden City, they simply don't realize that there was such a vivid life who performed a long and complicated performance in the Forbidden City? A treacherous and pathetic fate?

Yinfeng and his son Hongxi were always just the moon instead of the sun.Moreover, their two moons have never been able to reach the realm of "one round in the sky, and all people in the world look up" (there is a sentence in the first chapter), leaving only "the fence is broken and the moon is locked and exquisite" ( The thirty-seventh chapter) are melancholy and faint, but their existence, and the richness of that existence, I think it is worth studying and appreciating.I don't know if there are more archival materials about the deposed prince and Hong Xi in the First Historical Archives of the Forbidden City?In addition to its significance in Qing history, it is also crucial to research.Knowing this, it is not difficult to understand why I want to wander in the Forbidden City in the blurred moonlight.

People ignore the buildings and open spaces.