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Chapter 12 "Friends" prescription hidden deep meaning

Moon in the Red Chamber 刘心武 1698Words 2018-03-20
Brother M: The tenth chapter is a bit strange, especially the second half of "Mr. Zhang Taiyi's Discussion on the Causes of Diseases" is wrong - because Mr. Zhang Youshi, who was recommended by Feng Ziying to treat Qin Keqing in the book, is not an "Emperor Physician" at all. "Not only is he not an "imperial doctor", he is not even a person who practices medicine. The book uses Jia Zhen's words to explain that he is Feng Ziying's "Mr. In the capital city, it is by no means to enter the "Taiwan Hospital" as a "Taiwan Doctor", but to be a "Taiwan Doctor".

Donate an official to his son." But the various versions are consistent in this half of the recitation, which is quite thought-provoking. "Revelation of Red Mansions" has a section "Mr. Zhang and Qin Keqing", and thinks that "Mr. Zhang's medical treatment is mediocre". This is a rash statement that has not been understood or at least not thought through.As for the opinion that Jia Zhen, Jia Rong, etc. respected Zhang Youshi, it was just some concepts and customs revealed by the author. Belittle the point of view of using skills as a profession as a means of livelihood" and so on, it is even more of a misreading of this half of the text.In this half of the chapter, Zhang Youshi also listed a "Supplementing Qi, Nourishing Rong, Nourishing Spleen and Liver Decoction" for Qin Keqing, which is a complete prescription and is the only one seen in the whole book.Could it be that Cao Xueqin inserted such a prescription in the book just to show his profound personal knowledge, or as "Revelation of the Red Chamber" said, is it just a "playful" impromptu pen and ink?Hong Qiufan of the Qing Dynasty said: "It is a unique book from all over the world. It has a new conception, clever layout, beautiful diction, clear clues, strange beginnings, wonderful interludes, vivid descriptions, and prefaces. It is true to the facts, sincere in words, and well named. , with a pen, the wonderful things are almost too numerous to enumerate...such as New Year's greetings and festivals, birthday celebrations and funerals, asking doctors about divination, drinking and gathering for gambling, seeing monsters when lost and stolen, being stolen by fire... Qinqi calligraphy and painting, doctoring and divination of stars, The reasoning is very sophisticated, and it should be taken into consideration...the couplets of poems, wine order and lantern riddles, as well as narration and narration, play operas, all of which imply righteousness and a pun." Yes, if Cao Xueqin wrote about some occasion and someone clicked it All plays are deliberately "implying righteousness, a double entendre", how could he record a huge prescription in the tenth chapter without any deep meaning?

As far as I can sort it out, this is actually a very tense text.Qin Keqing, who has royal blood, was anxious to the point of not eating, having menstrual disorders, and neurasthenia because she was waiting for the crucial final news of her family's power struggle. The heartstrings of Jia Rong and even Jiamu and Sister Feng in the mansion over there; finally on this day, Feng Ziying brought a message, and the messenger sent there arrived-Zhang Youshi's "friend" is a homonym for "something", and he "have something to talk to" I suspect that "Feng Ziying" is a homophony of "Fengziyin", "Zi" means "Sangzi" is also the hometown, and there is a previous poem in the seventh chapter of the Jiaxu edition, which clearly states that "if you meet, you will be named He, and you live in the south of the Yangtze River. The surname is Ben Qin".Qin Keqing's family background had been dormant in the south of the Yangtze River at that time. Perhaps Zhang Youshi was originally an imperial physician at the Imperial Hospital in Beijing, or even Qin Keqing's midwife. He stayed in Jiangnan for a long time with the dormant power of the Qin family. "It's just a superficial excuse. This point may be explained in the later deleted "Lawful Funeral" section, so it is not surprising that it is called "Mr. Zhang" in the review, and what he said during his diagnosis , especially at the end, he told Jia Rong: "It is not an overnight symptom for a person to be sick to this level... According to my younger brother, this year's winter is irrelevant. It is always after the vernal equinox, and you can expect to be fully healed." It is a slang word for conveying top-secret information, so "Jia Rong is also a smart person, so I won't ask further."

It's really a great tragedy—what Zhang Youshi brought was not only the news of victory, but even the worst news that he had only one winter to make his final struggle and had to bear the pain to deal with the aftermath.Now what we need to seriously decipher is the prescription he prescribed, brother, can you use your brain and teach me?Because the description of these plots about Qin Keqing has actually deeply violated the self-imposed precept of "non-interference in the world", so Cao Xueqin not only followed Zhi Yanzhai's suggestion to delete a few leaves of "big reveal" , and the original metaphorical analogy must be blurred as much as possible and "patched".However, Zhang Youshi's prescription remained after all.It is silently copied over and over again, printed and read, and people are not surprised and valued.

In my humble opinion, the first ten big characters in the prescription are actually an order for Qin Keqing to commit suicide. Those ten characters can be read in two sentences: "Ginseng Baishu says: Ling Shu land returns to the body." The government's interests made her commit suicide by "returning herself" in a place she was familiar with since she was a child—specifically, "Tianxiang Tower".So when Qin Keqing died, she dreamed of "I'll go back today, and you won't give me a ride" to Sister Feng. Who is "Ginseng Atractylodes"?We all know that "Shen" is one of the "twenty-eight mansions" in the sky. If "Baishu" can be understood as a homonym for "half", it is exactly fourteen, and the fourteen sons of Kangxi continued to fight for the throne. After ascending the throne...stop, stop, read this point, you must call me "far-fetched", but "Revelation of the Red Chamber" asserts that writing about Zhang Youshi's diagnosis is only a "professional characteristic" of "cognitive value", so it is not far-fetched Attached?smile.

August 19, 1992
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