Chapter 10 Mammoth · Prince Yizhong · Qin Keqing

Senior Ruchang: I got your Dragon Boat Festival letter, and I've heard from you: "The mahogany tree" produced by "Huanghai Iron Net Mountain" is the catalpa in the Liaohai Tieling Mountain. Huangshui is the main source of the Daliao River. In Mongolian, it is called Xilamu Lun [or Zuo Leng], the river flows from the north of Gubeikou to the north of Tieling, where "Liaohaiwei" was established in the Ming Dynasty, and Tiewang Mountain is Tieling. In the Qing Dynasty, there was a large hunting ground here.The catalpa tree is tall and straight, so it looks like a mast. The emperor of the Han Dynasty named it "Calpa palace" after the coffin was made of catalpa. The old prince Yizhong took this meaning and implied "

Emperor's Throne" (Kangxi Prince Yinreng and his son Hongxi). You said: But Qing's coffin was actually made of "Calpa Palace", which has a lot of meaning. It is very true. I learned about the Dragon Boat Festival, and I didn’t return until today because I watched the World Cup for a month and was invited to write some football-related articles for the newspaper’s special issue. They were all short-lived words, and they were of a full-fledged level—— Forty-one chapters, there is a scene in which Ban'er exchanged the bergamot in his hand for the round pomelo in Qiaojie's hand and kicked it like a ball-you can laugh!

The content shown in the big letter is extremely important.It is obvious that "Prince Yizhong is old and thousand years old" that appears in the thirteenth chapter alludes to Yinfeng.In the 15th year of Kangxi (1676), Yinreng, who was only 18 months old, was kneeling and hugged by his wet nurse to complete the solemn ceremony of canonizing him as the prince. Later, he was carefully cultivated and grew up. Accompanying Kangxi on his southern tour, but in 1708 he was abolished in the imperial camp following Kangxi's northern hunting—this "Huanghai Iron Net Mountain" is the place where "Thousand Years" and "bad things" ah!In addition, the denunciation of the prince was carried out in front of all the princes and other royal dignitaries present, that is, it was a "bad thing" in the scene where "the nobles in the sky" gathered, and the "Huanghai" may also have this meaning; After being abolished, he was bound with iron chains and netted and escorted back to the capital. Ma Guoxian, a Western missionary who accompanied him at the time, described it in his memoirs, so I thought "Iron Net Mountain" also had a pun—but Kangxi regretted it shortly afterwards In 1709, he restored the prince, and in 1712, Kangxi deposed the prince again; during this process, about half of Kangxi's other dozen sons were involved in the power struggle for the position of successor, but Yinfeng was always imprisoned. And was not killed openly or covertly.If Cao Xueqin was completely fictional, he could say that the original owner of the mahogany tree had been punished or committed suicide, but his writing said, "It was originally wanted by the righteous and loyal old Qiansui, and he never took it because he broke something." "It's a bad thing." The three characters contain the thrilling stories of the ups and downs of the Kang, Yong, and Qian dynasties. Yinfeng "broke things" in the Kangxi Dynasty but did not go bad to the end. On the one hand, because he was no longer the biggest and most difficult political threat, Yongzheng also named him Prince Li. He died of illness (at least on the surface) in the third year of Yongzheng, and Yongzheng allowed his son Hongxi to inherit his title (as the county king ), which has been verified in detail in your works such as "Xin Zheng" and "The First Person of Literary Talent".Cao Xueqin's grandparents and parents had the closest relationship with Yinreng. The example that is often cited is that Ling Pu, the husband (nurse father) of Yinreng's wet nurse, could go to Cao's house to get silver at will, and he took 20,000 taels at a time.Of course, the Cao family hoped that Yinreng could take over Kangxi's class, even if "something went wrong", because Kangxi wavered many times on how to deal with him in the end. It's hard to say, the Cao family will definitely not cut off the connection with the Yinfeng family, and will continue to bet on him and Hongxi. On the one hand, it can be said to be willing to take risks; on the other hand, it can also be said to be a political investment.The materials you provided further illustrate that the prototype of Qin Keqing's artistic image is the daughter of the "Yi Zhong Lao Qian Sui", and her sleeping in the "Zi Palace" is exactly "Falling Leaves Returning to Their Roots".The background of the story is already in the early days of Qianlong. In order to ease the tension between the royal family and related political forces when his father was in power, Qianlong implemented a series of soft policies. The Cao family was one of the beneficiaries. At this time, not only Cao Xueqin’s father Cao He was able to resume his official position, and his family was once prosperous, and there was someone in the court—Cao Xueqin’s cousin, Pingjun Wang Fupeng, was a powerful minister under Qianlong, so Cao Xueqin, who was about 10 years old at that time, experienced a few years of soaking in gentleness and wealth. The dream-like life in the countryside. Although you have repeatedly complained about these historical facts, many people still feel ignorant to this day, "Didn't Cao Xueqin's house be confiscated when he was very young in Nanjing? How could he write about the life of the nobles in Beijing?" What about the experience?" In fact, Cao Xueqin had the experience of the "Last Supper".Of course, the dream didn’t last long. In the fourth year of Qianlong’s reign, Yinren’s son Hongxi colluded with several other royal families to conspire to seize power. Also used alum water to write the secret letter (it can’t be seen on the surface, it needs special treatment to reveal the true meaning). In the tenth chapter, the text said that Zhang Youshi came to the capital to donate an official for his son, but he was called Zhang in the chapter. The imperial physician, and prescribed such a weird prescription, I think these details have a certain basis in life, and they are definitely not fabricated by Xiangbi.In fact, Hongxi wanted to achieve the "great cause" of the "old millennium" and assumed the posture of a "shadow government". The words "the sun and the moon illuminate the universe" and "the imperial garden was taken out by birds" are not accidental, they are all projections of the political situation at that time.But Qianlong was a great politician after all. He dealt with this serious political crisis swiftly and quickly, but he did not publicize it, and even tried not to leave any files. It is always difficult to find the root cause of the situation of the Pentium Cao family after that.Some people always think that after the Cao family was copied in Nanjing in the fifth year of Yongzheng, "a piece of white land is really clean". In fact, it is not the case. The tree falls and the monkeys scatter."The first 80 chapters are not written about the grand occasion of Jiangning’s weaving period, but are based on the end-of-life scene of the Cao family in the early Qianlong period. Zhi Yanzhai repeatedly reminded readers in the comments that “the author’s intention was to write only about the end-time”.Therefore, only by understanding the big joint in the writing background of the Cao family's revival from the ashes to the ashes in the fourth year of Qianlong's reign can we truly understand it!Only when we understand Qianlong's deep hatred for the remnant party of "Prince Yizhong, Lao Qiansui" who knows no good or bad, and suppressed it "one after another, with five hooks and four, and burned a street like a flaming mountain" without mercy, can we understand Zhiyan Why did Zhai ask Cao Xueqin to cut out the story about Qin Keqing, and deliberately concealed her real identity, saying that she was a wild species brought from the "Yangshengtang".

According to volume 31 of Wang Shizhen's "Juyilu", Yinreng once wrote a pair when he was a teenager, which was highly praised by Kangxi: "The drinking in the building is prosperous because of the bright moon, and the poetic feeling on the river is the sunset glow." It is likely that Cao Yin and Cao, who are very close, often attract and encourage their nephews to learn from this "thousand-year-old".In Cao Xueqin's, we can see such couplets as "The tender cold locks the dream because of the cold spring, and the fragrance hits people is the fragrance of wine" (excuse the Song and Qin Guan sentences, but I can't find it after searching the anthology of Qin Guan), and " Haze and leisurely bones, spring and stone wild life" (the excuse Tang Yan Lu Gongju is also groundless), among them, is there more or less the influence of the couplet sentences of Yinreng youth?It is very likely that Cao Xueqin has a special interest in Yinfeng, the mysterious "thousand-year-old" who affects the fate of at least three generations of his family.

With his own unique understanding, in the second chapter he said through Jia Yucun's mouth that there is a Yinfeng hidden in the alien who has both righteous and evil spirits.Some people always think that the branch of "Hongxue" "Caoxue" is "overwhelming." Accurately grasp the main premise of the true meaning of the text!My research on the artistic image of Qin Keqing can be regarded as a small branch of "Hongxue". As well as the writing background, as well as the specific reasons why he had to modify Qin Keqing's birth and death, he can truly understand the text and enter a profound aesthetic realm.

Thank you for your repeated advice, especially for providing information clues many times, which opened my eyes and ideas! Please take care of yourself during the summer heat! Junior Liu Xinwu worship book July 12, 2002 [attached] Zhou Ruchang Iron Net Mountain King of Dong'an County General Shenwu ——To Liu Xinwu Xinwu Xueyou: Yesterday I received the "Tonight News" from the day before yesterday, and we saw the "On Red Letters" you wrote to me on July 12 - the word "watch" should be put in quotation marks, because I can no longer read newspapers and books with my poor eyesight. Yes, it was read to me by my family.

After listening to it, I was very happy and deeply felt that your insights and writing style are more profound and refined. Your brief is well written and the content is very important.Our discussion on this issue has gradually become clear through mutual inspiration, discussion and consensus, which can be said to be a major "breakthrough" in the history of red studies.Because, in essence, this is the first time that Cai Yuanpei and Hu Shi's divergence of "revelation" and "textual research" have been truly merged and unified, attributed to one true source, solved the dispute that lasted for a century, and interpreted Deciphered the mystery of the Red Chamber.

You quoted the findings of research in my letter: "Huanghai" is Liaohai, today's Tieling area in northern Liaoning, which is also the place where Xueqin left the customs and settled in Jingdong Fengrun in her last life. Xue Pan revealed that Qiangmu was his father It was brought from hometown for Prince Yizhong, "Old Chitose" (also the crown prince).This shows that the prototype of the Xue family is the people of Tieling, who are the coaters of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, so they are the family of the "imperial merchants" for "supporting internal money". "Iron Net Mountain", that is, the location of the Dawei site of "Tieling" (Liaohaiwei area), so Feng Ziying went there with her father Feng Tang, the general of Shenwu, to hunt in the siege - and the special writing made it clear that the departure was in late March , It will be back at the end of April, nearly a month, which is the round trip from the capital to Tieling, because the one-way journey is 1,500 miles, known as the proverb "seven miles outside the pass", which means that you have to travel 700 miles inside the pass , out of the customs and then go eight hundred miles away.

Our consensus is that the case of Qin Keqing involved the historical relics of the abolished Prince Yinreng and Hongxi. It was the most important event after the Qing Dynasty entered the customs, and it was almost "shattering". To be able to "share the same difficulties and share the same glory" with the "princess class" actually means that it is not it, that is what it is. "General Shenwu" wanted to go to Tieling (nearby Xifeng has a Daweichang ruins) to fight the siege.The Feng family and the "Captain Qiu" family were "enemies", which was a reflection of a small situation in the great political struggle at that time.

Now I want to talk about the couplet you quoted from Prince Yinreng: "Drinking in the building is prospering because of the bright moon, and poetry on the river is the sunset glow", which is extremely important!I have a new crack-- Please see the third chapter of Xueqin's book, when Daiyu entered the mansion, she saw the big plaque of "Rongxi Hall" for the first time. ——And the following is a close-up couplet, which reads: The pearls on the seat illuminate the sun and the moon, and the haze glows in front of the hall. What do we feel immediately?This is the style of Lian Wenzao, how is it so similar to "Old Chitose"!

I think you must have noticed: the inscription of this couplet is particularly shocking: "My brother from the same hometown, Shijiao Xun attacked the handwriting of Mu Shi, the king of Dong'an County". What does "community" mean?They are all from northern Liaoning.Don't forget that Nurhachi broke the law. The first step was to design and lure Fushun, which is adjacent to Tieling (bordering on the southeast), and then captured more than a dozen garrison forts in Tieling. Middle (Manchuria "Daijin Destiny Three Years, Wuwu"). The strange thing is: in the novel it is clearly written that the four county kings are Dongping, Xining, Nan'an, and Beijing.Is it the author's "temporary negligence" that caused this clerical error?That's too "flat" for Xueqin. This is deliberately leaking important news: This is the real "Prince", another level, not among the "Four Counties". Pay special attention to one point: Gao E tampered with Xueqin's original text with precise intentions. When he saw the inscription, he knew it was "remarkable". The things you read are so tortuous and complicated, without "learning", without knowing "history", and only discussing "wen" (and only the most superficial meaning of the literal surface), how can you read the flavor and understand the meaning of the words? love? That's why you said it most thoroughly: Many people always think that our research and examination is an extravagance, a distraction, a "do not do business", and an "outrageous peripheral". Words" come to Xiaoxiao to show a huge anecdote to future generations in the world. How many people's lives and fates have been involved in this incident, their joys and sorrows!The so-called "the bones are like a mountain and the surname is forgotten, nothing more than the son and the red makeup"!How can such painful language be understood at first glance?If you feel the spirit of our research and examination, you will have another experience, right? Thanks to you for reminding the surviving Yinfeng couplets in "Juyilu", the moon and the rosy clouds, both have a particularly important meaning and status in "Red Mansions". This is also a great discovery.Therefore, I am tired of writing, so I will talk about it next time.I express my admiration, and I wish you a healthy pen! Zhou Ruchang worships Renwu is also the third day of autumn on the second day of the seventh month 【Note】 "Mu Shi, King of Dong'an County" immediately referred to Crown Prince Yinfeng. "Shi" has the meaning of "liye", and also has the meaning of changing (planting), that is, transplanting.This is in line with the historical fact that it was established and deposed.In addition, the prince has called "East Palace" since ancient times, which is almost the hidden meaning of "Dong'an County King". The "rank" sign of the emperor and prince. "Mu" is a beautiful word and a respectful name, such as "Mu Muwen King" is an example, and it has the meaning of kindness, thickness and joy. As for the "Feng" family of Shenwu General, it refers to Fucha's Ma Qi and Ma Wu's family as the family of wealth and wealth in the Kang, Yong, and Qian dynasties. Therefore, there is a saying in the past that "two horses eat all the grass in the world", and Feng is "two horses". hidden words.Yinfeng was born to Suo Etu's niece, Empress Dowager Xiaocheng. Both Suo and Ma served as ministers in charge of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, and they both fought against the "supporting" prince regime. They were key figures. The fate of the two of them is closely related to the fate of the Cao family, and "Feng Ziying" is the outstanding child of the Ma Qi family.All this needs to be described in a separate article, so I won't go into it here. [Attachment] Liu Xinwu's letter dated September 16, 2002 Senior Ruchang: The Dazha learned earlier that the great article "Iron Net Mountain · Dong'an County King · General Shenwu" has also been read. Due to the cumbersome family affairs, I will not reply until today. I am very disturbed. I beg for your understanding! The original book of Wang Shizhen's "Juyilu" has not been visited.I am referencing.Quoted from the following two books: 1. "Records of the Struggle for Reserves in the Kangxi Dynasty" written by Wu Xiuliang in the United States, translated by Zhang Zhenjiu and Wu Boya The book was published in the United States in 1979, and the translated version was first published by China Social Sciences Press in September 1988. On page 34 of the translated version, there is the following passage: ... Kangxi also proudly mentioned Yinfeng’s promising young man, saying: “ His riding, shooting, speech and literature are all inferior to others." When the prince was a teenager (about 1684), he wrote two rare couplets, which is enough to prove that he is worthy of his father's praise.Then lead to the couplet: "Drinking in the building is because of the bright moon, and the poetry on the river is the sunset." 2. "The Inheritance System of the Imperial Throne in the Qing Dynasty" written by Yang Zhen, the first edition of Xueyuan Press in November 2001 On page 193 of the book, there is the following paragraph: Emperor Kangxi also encouraged Yunxi to communicate with ordinary Han officials. Prince Yunxi "given Jia Yanrui the book Boya Hall with big characters, and another couplet: "Drinking in the building is because of the bright moon, and the poetic feeling on the river is the sunset." He also gave Rui a poem." The footnote at the bottom of the page is: Wang Shizhen: "House Yilu, Vol. 31, pp. 1-2. The couplet "in the building... on the river..." is indeed very similar to the couplet "on the seat... in front of the hall..." in the middle!What's more, Yinfeng did inscribe this to someone back then, probably not just for Xu Jiayan. I have Wang Shizhen's "Chibei Occasional Talk" printed by Zhonghua Book Company. I also know that Shanghai Ancient Books Publishing House has printed his "Xiangzu Notes".In the bibliography attached to Yang Zhen's book, "Xiangzu Notes" is marked as a lead edition, while "Juyi Lu" is marked as a Kangxi edition.If there is no photocopy and typesetting copy of Juyilu, it will be difficult to find it. "Ju Yi Lu" and "Ju Yi Xu Lu" should be visited as soon as possible so that they can be read carefully, and there may be unexpected gains.I should work hard. For the above two books, Dr. Wu from the United States seems to be of average level.However, Ms. Yang Zhen's two books (the other is "Emperor Kangxi's Family") are of great reference value. She is fluent in Manchu and can directly read Manchu archives. Among them are the brief lists of the princes of the Qing Dynasty and the lists of the daughters of Emperor Kangxi, which are very useful. First report on the couplet as above. Praise Qiu Qi! Junior Liu Xinwu worships September 16, 2002 [Attachment] Mr. Zhou Ruchang's letter two days after Renwu Mid-Autumn Festival Xinwu Xueyou: Yesterday (22) I received a book from the 16th, and I am glad to know the source of the book.I have never heard of these two books, just because I can’t read them, so I haven’t read "new book advertisements" or bought books for many years (I bought a cochlear room and there is nowhere to put it...). The "celebrity" must have laughed out loud when he heard about it!These two books are both special monographs, and they have the conditions to search historical materials extensively. It is expected that there are no other records except this couplet (referring to Yinreng's writing).In the old days, I bothered people to go to Zhengjiazhuang for "archaeology" (the town of Yinfeng, but now there are probably no remains).His master Xiong Cilu's anthology should be re-read (I couldn't pay attention to this in the past), but unfortunately I can't and you can't go to the library because of it, just sighing (Xiong is the bachelor who wrote the elegy for Cao Xi, it is very important , Kangxi ordered Cao Yin to take care of his late life... see the "New Certificate" quoted)!This "public case" is the key to deciphering the Red Mansion, I hope you can continue to study it in depth. Brother "Wang Ning Mei" wanted to write the text, but also worried that people would say that the "cross talk" between the two of us was "made up", so I didn't move the pen for the time being, just to wait for a good opportunity.attached. Due to the sudden death of my wife, I was in a bad mood, so I apologize for this hasty letter. Autumn pen health Blind Zhou Ruchang pays homage After Renwu Mid-Autumn Festival (Additional paper) Handwriting, heart and martial arts are also idiots Green Leaf Red Building Environment Renewal Every time I see a good article, I will come total scale close mouth deodorant grass Two days after Renwu Mid-Autumn Festival