Chapter 20 Prototype of King Jingjing

Water Rong, this is the name of King Li Beijing.Yongrong, this is the name of Qianlong's sixth son.Subtracting one sum from the two characters "Yongrong" means "water soluble", which couldn't be more obvious.So, is the prototype of Prince Jing in the novel Yong Rong?Later, Yongrong adopted Shenjing County Wang Yunxi (Qianlong's uncle) as his grandson. He first attacked Baylor and then Jinzhi County King. The words "Jing" and "Jun" are very close to "Jing". It seems that the prototype of King Beijing Jing The problem can be finalized.But wait.Check the age carefully, and here comes the problem.We can see the appearance of the King of Beijing in the Jiaxu edition, the earliest surviving manuscript, and in various later manuscripts, the text about the King of Beijing is very stable, but the Zhiyanzhai Jiaxu re-evaluation edition Jiaxu

It was the nineteenth year of Qianlong (1754), when Yongrong was just eleven years old, that is to say, he was born in the eighth year of Qianlong (1743), and Cao Xueqin was at least twenty years older than him. , Yongrong was still a baby, and Yongrong was adopted to Yunxi as his grandson at the end of the twenty-fourth year of Qianlong (1759) (Yunxi passed away in May of the first year, and only had the posthumous title of "Jing" when he died ), it was only three years before Cao Xueqin passed away.From this point of view, there should be other real people in the prototype sampling of Cao Xueqin's King of Beijing.

The King of Jingjing in the novel is a character that Cao Xueqin writes to praise and cherish.He appeared in the second half of the 14th round and the first part of the 15th round. "He was not a weak champion in his youth, he was described as beautiful, and his temperament was modest." "The face is like beautiful jade, the eyes are like stars, what a beautiful person." What's more rare is that King Beijing "did not regard each other as different surnames because of the love he had with each other's grandfathers back then. ", not only took the initiative to actively participate in Qin Keqing's road sacrifice funeral, but also met the old and young masters of Jia's house, "still received them as family friends, not presumptuously arrogant".He showed more love to Jia Baoyu. This "virtuous king" who was "born with both talent and appearance, romantic and unrestrained, and not bound by official customs" sincerely invited Baoyu to his mansion, saying, "Although the little king is not talented, he has many talents." All the famous people in Menghai who came to the capital did not fail to pay attention to others, because there are quite a lot of high-ranking people in Handi. There are also many dark scenes in the back, and readers can feel that King Jing and Jia Baoyu have indeed established a very close, even extraordinary relationship.

Cao Xueqin wrote about the King of Beijing with thick ink and heavy colors, and solemnly wrote "Jia Baoyu's Road to the King of Beijing" into the chapter, which shows that in his creative feelings, this is something that cannot be discarded.Cao Xueqin’s ancestors were the first Han Chinese captured by the Manchurian army. Specifically, they were high-ranking slaves who were included in the Ministry of Internal Affairs before the Manchus entered the customs. The army fought together to win the pride of the world. From Shunzhi to Kangxi, the Cao family was very much loved by the master, but in the Yongzheng Dynasty, the situation changed. Yongzheng dismissed Cao from office and ransacked the house.The legitimacy of Yongzheng's succession to the throne has been widely questioned. Some of his brothers openly challenged him, some slandered him, but there were also younger ones who did not participate in the power struggle, but were very supportive of the royal family and its members who were ruled by Yongzheng. Those slaves like the Cao family who were implicated expressed sympathy to the extent possible, and even extended a helping hand. The Beijing King in the movie is a concentrated expression of this kind of real existence.The so-called "not treating each other with the opposite sex" means not to discriminate politically against the Cao family (in the novel, it is transformed into the Jia family) Han slaves who are dressed as slaves, and to affirm that their ancestors fought side by side with their masters to win the world historical achievements, and always recognize that they have formed a "family relationship" of "same difficulties and common prosperity" in the long-term exchanges and integration.Such a "king" is so important to the Cao family in life and the Jia family in the novel, just like sunshine and rain, they are the source of life.

Yunxi, the 21st prince of Kangxi, is 33 years younger than the fourth prince who usurped the throne, Emperor Yongzheng. His age should be relatively close to Cao Xueqin. He seems to be the one mentioned above who can treat the Cao family kindly. In the Yongzheng Dynasty, he was first conferred the title of Beizi and later promoted to Baylor. As soon as Qianlong came to power, he was conferred the title of Duo Luoshen County King. Therefore, if Cao Xueqin came into contact with him when he became an adult, he would have been the County King at that time. , "Jun" and "Jing" are homophonic, and in the courtyard we call Prince Gong's Mansion, there is still a plaque written by Yunxi "Tianxiang Garden" (not signed, but with his seal on it), although We still have no definite evidence to prove that the Shenjun Palace of the Qianlong Dynasty was once in the place where the plaque was hung, but its site should be roughly in the relevant area north of the Forbidden City. The appearance of the code is not difficult to understand.Yunxi had no intention of power, so he called himself Ziqiong Taoist, also known as Chunfu Jushi, and wrote "Huajiantang Poems and Grass" and "Ziqiong Yan Poetry Grass".The appearance of architectural titles such as "Tianxiang Building" in the novel is by no means a coincidence with the "Tianxiang Garden" plaque inscribed by Yunxi. Yunxi should be one of the prototypes of the image of King Beijing in the novel.Yunxi once gave birth to a son, and the son must have died when he died, otherwise Qianlong would not adopt his son Yongrong to his family as his grandson in order to continue his family's title, and the reason why Yongrong was adopted can be imagined That is, when Yunxi was alive, this nephew often went to his house, and was loved by him and his first wife. Yongrong also liked to compose poems, and later compiled "Jiusitang Poetry Copy"; then, if Yunxi Jubilee treats Cao Xueqin like a wandering child of a "family friend" kindly, and gives him the opportunity to enter the government. Cao Xueqin should also have a deep impression of Yong Rong who grew up day by day, so Yong Rong partly becomes Bei Jing in the novel. The archetype of Wang, in a word, the archetype of Jing Wang in Zhongbei should be a synthesis of Yunxi (mainly taking the image and temperament) and Yongrong (mainly taking the name and deriving it).

It cannot be regarded as a political novel, but the writing background of the novel is the harsh power struggle of the Kang, Yong, and Qian dynasties. Kangxi had thirty-five sons, and twenty-four survived. He was publicly established as the prince twice, and was abolished twice. The failure of the public establishment of the crown prince caused him to secretly set up the crown prince. There is a lot of evidence that he finally chose the fourteenth son, but his measures for the secret establishment of the crown prince have not yet been perfected. Death came suddenly, and as a result, the fourth son, Jiaozhao, won the throne. It was Emperor Yongzheng. After Yongzheng took the throne, he persecuted at least five brothers successively, and thus implicated the bureaucrats related to these brothers. The Cao family was one of the victims. one.Under such circumstances, bureaucrats like the Cao family, especially bureaucrats who were born as slaves, really don't know how to deal with so many princes. There will be "bad things", you have never had any contacts, and you think it's okay, but you will suddenly ascend to the throne and make trouble for you.This is reflected in the novel.It is written in the novel that Jia's mansion "doesn't associate with Zhongshun Mansion on a regular basis", but suddenly the palace sent a chief historian, apparently to ask Baoyu for the actor Qiguan (Jiang Yuhan), but in fact he was fighting with the king of Beijing (Baoyu) The red sweat scarf on his waist was originally given to Qiguan by King Beijing, and Prince Zhongshun "knows even such a confidential matter", and probably knows "other things"; It was the King of Beijing), Jia Zheng’s violent beating of Baoyu, and “all kinds of unworthy” crimes, which caused him, a bureaucrat, to be passively involved in the power struggle of the royal family, causing extremely serious psychological panic, which is the deepest reason.In Zhiyanzhai's comments, there is such a line: "The author wrote this biography of the boudoir curtain because of the wagtail's sorrow and Tangdi's prestige." "Wagtail" and "Tangdi" both mean brothers, I used to always explore Cao Xueqin's own brothers, what kind of brother's experience made him "sorrowful", and what kind of brother made him shudder because of "shiwei". Exploring the space, however, I now feel that this comment can also be considered from another perspective, that is, Cao Xueqin witnessed too many royal power struggles left by the Kangxi Dynasty's "Brothers' War" and even killing each other. Some of the "bad things" of the twenty-four princes made people lament, and some of them won't make people feel chilling when they gained power. From this, he angrily believed that "women are made of water, and men are made of mud." This kind of creative psychology is used to deal with the words in the pen, "writing the biography of this boudoir and courtyard", in order to reflect the man's politics that he despises reality, and pursues the romantic feelings of sharing poetic life with young girls.In the description of Chapter 15, King Beijing presented Baoyu with a string of wagtail incense rosary beads "gifted by the Holy One". Presenting this incense rosary to Daiyu, Daiyu said: "What stinky man took it! I don't want him!" Using the mouth of a character to call "the Holy One" a "stinky man", such a "vicious attack", if it is not for the chest. Depressed, why do you write so much!What's even more shocking is that the words "Fanzhen Yuzhen" appeared in Chapter 15. We all know that after Yongzheng became the emperor, he not only changed the word "Yin" in the names of all his brothers to The word "Yun" was added, and because of "a guilty conscience", the fourteenth prince who was originally favored by Emperor Kangxi, his half-brother Yinzhen, was renamed Yunzhen (his own name was Yinzhen, and folklore is that he joined the army Commander Longkodo changed the description of "门" in the edict to "香"). After that, when people wrote about the royal family, they tried to avoid the word "Zhen", but Cao Xueqin wanted the word "Zhen" to appear in this verse. Considering the situation of Cao Xueqin's father's generation, in the Kangxi Dynasty, he had little contact with the fourth prince Yinzhen (just like the relationship between Jia Zheng and Zhongshun Palace in the novel), but with several political enemies, including the fourteenth prince Yinzhen (in the novel "Prince Yizhong, old thousand years old" not only alludes to the abolished prince, but also alludes to the secret crown prince who missed the throne) but is too close. The premise of "The World" is difficult to understand after all, and the love and hatred in the bottom of my heart are still revealed in the strokes.Later, when Yinzhen's grandson Yongzhong saw it, he wrote three poems in a row, in which there was a confidant's sigh of "hateful at the same time we don't know each other, and weeping for Caohou several times". The eyebrow on the poem commented: "These three chapters of poems are wonderful; the first one is not a novel handed down from generation to generation. I have heard about it for a long time, but I don't want to see it in the end, for fear that it will hinder my speech." This is not difficult to understand.

[Attachment] Mr. Zhou Ruchang's letter dated September 19, Renwu Heart Wu Xianyou: Yesterday I saw that Jinbao published the article "The Prototype of the King of Beijing", let the children read it for you to get the outline, I am very happy to see you make persistent efforts and persevere.So I thought again, I don’t know if I wrote it to you (it’s okay to repeat it, it can be read as “emphasis”), namely: Fifth At the beginning of the eighteen chapters, an old concubine passed away, which led to the following stories (Mother Jia and Mrs. Wang were not at home, and there were many accidents in the garden).This concubine is Xipin, concubine of Kangxi, daughter of the Chen family, and birth mother of Yinxi.She died at the beginning of the second year of Qianlong.This is another strong proof of the statement that my book is "Qianyuan" from the 18th to the 54th chapter.There are so many "coincidences" in the world.Therefore, the book features that people from Rongfu and Jingfu lived in the same hospital when they sent their souls away.This sum is extremely important!But I bring up this point again today, just to reiterate: This also strongly proves that your interpretation of "three springs" is correct.Chapter 80 was written in "Qian San" and then stopped (the original manuscript was destroyed by Qianlong's minions, and fake pens were concocted to avoid historical facts).What exactly has the "New Red Studies" done for a hundred years?It's very thought-provoking.

Qiu An! Blind Friend Ruchang Night Book Renwu September nineteenth I heard from Brother Gui Zhi that there is a lot of discussion about Hongxue on the website today. I wonder if you are well aware of the "situation"?And again.