Chapter 30 Mystery of Miaoyu

Miaoyu ranks sixth in the "Jinling Twelve Beauties" (page 5) in the "Twelve Beauties of Jinling" written by the "Bo Mingsi" in the illusion of Taixu; Qu is also arranged in sixth place after those involving Daiyu, Baochai, Yuanchun, Tanchun, and Xiangyun, which is very puzzling.Among the twelve beauties in Jinling, she is the only one who does not belong to the four major families of Jia, Shi, Wang, and Xue. In the roster monopolized by the women of the four major families, and they are also ranked in the middle, there is a tendency to break the high mountains. This is really worth exploring.

The so-called "Jinling Twelve Hairpins" and "The Twelve Songs of a Dream of Red Mansions" rank the women not in order of seniority, not to mention members of the Jia family first and then others, but entirely based on the importance of the woman in the book. Sex is used to arrange seats.Therefore, Daiyu and Baochai are firmly ranked first and second (they are combined into one painting and one poem in the album, and two are also combined into one in the song); Yuanchun is the primary role related to the four major families, especially the ups and downs of the Jia family. Therefore, it is ranked third; followed by Tanchun, although she is younger than Yingchun and is a concubine, the author values ​​her very much. This woman can stand up and support the pillar of the endgame when the family is in crisis, so she is ranked fourth; The fifth is Shi Xiangyun. To be honest, this person, like Dai and Chai, has an unusual emotional relationship with Baoyu, and they stay together in the end. In the first eighty chapters alone, there are a lot of elaborate descriptions that make readers dazzled. The role of Tanchun is ranked fifth, and I already feel aggrieved (this also proves how important the "fan hero" Tanchun is in the author's conception); who should be ranked sixth?Shouldn't it be Wang Xifeng? "Should be sighing" has already appeared as the second one, shouldn't we launch Yingchun and Xichun?However, even Sister Feng, who is like an overlord, and sisters Ying and Xi who are at the front door "stand aside", and the sixth place is actually a Miaoyu who doesn't know her surname, her real name has been lost, and she only knows her dharma name!

Cao Xueqin wrote that Miaoyu was placed in such an important position in the overall conception, there must be his full reason.But among the first eighty chapters of the authentic books left now, except for the mentions in the album pages and fairy songs of the fifth chapter, Miaoyu only appeared six times, and four of them were hidden. Stand up and make an appearance, only twice. Let's talk about dark out four times.Once, from the seventeenth to eighteenth chapters, the Grand View Garden had been built, and there were twelve actresses bought from Gusu, ten young nuns and Taoist nuns hired and bought, and suddenly there was Lin Zhixiao's family. He came to answer Mrs. Wang and said, "There is a hair-raising practitioner outside. He is originally from Suzhou, and his ancestors are also from the family of scholars and officials... This year he is only eighteen years old, and his legal name is Miaoyu. Now his parents are dead. Two old mothers and a little girl waited on him. He is also very proficient in writing and ink, and he doesn't need to learn the scriptures, and he looks very good... He came up with his master last year, and now he lives in the Muni courtyard outside the west gate. His master is very good Playing congenital divine numbers, he passed away last winter. Miaoyu originally wanted to help his spirit return to his hometown, but his master said in his last words, "It is not suitable for him to go back to his hometown for daily necessities. If you live here quietly, you will naturally have your results later." So He hasn't returned to his hometown." Mrs. Wang didn't wait to finish, she said: "In that case, why don't we pick him up." Lin Zhixiao's family said: "Please him, he said: 'Houmen Gong's mansion, we must use it I won’t go there again because of your power.” Mrs. Wang laughed and said, “Since he is a lady official, he should be more proud, so why not invite him in the next post.” Sure enough, the next post invited Miaoyu to the Changcui Temple in the Grand View Garden .Based on this, many researchers believe that Miaoyu's parents were convicted and expelled, and Mrs. Wang's move was to hide the daughter of a criminal family, and it was one of the reasons why Jia's family "scattered and died separately" after the 80th chapter. .But according to my thinking, the Jia family had already caused a great panic by adopting Qin Keqing, a descendant of the emperor's political opponent who was hiding in hiding (the beginning of the sixteenth chapter, the emperor sent a decree to scare Jia's family, Jia amnesty, Jia Zheng After entering the court, "Jia's mother and the whole family were in a state of panic"), after finally getting through this crisis and entering the grand feast period of "cooking oil with fire and blooming brocade" favored by the concubine Yuan, there was no killing at all. The courageous Mrs. Wang would not take the liberty of hiding the daughter of a criminal family, let alone post a post and leave "iron evidence".Judging from Mrs. Wang's "smiling way", when she gave the order to invite Miaoyu, she was very relaxed.When it was written that Jia Yuanchun visited the Grand View Garden, "Suddenly saw the Buddhist temple surrounded by mountains, he hurriedly washed his hands and went in to burn incense and worship Buddha. He also wrote a plaque saying: 'Bitter sea and compassionate flight'. He also gave extra grace to the general Youni women." This is considered to be Miaoyu went out again.She met Concubine Yuan.With Concubine Yuan's vigilance, she must ask her about her background.Jia's family can't afford to hide the daughter of a criminal family again under the eyes of Concubine Yuan.The third time it came out, it was really dark and dark again. It was the fiftieth chapter, when Li Wan punished Baoyu to go to Changcui Temple to ask for red plums. How much energy did I have?" The fourth time was in the 63rd chapter, Baoyu's birthday, Miaoyu sent a mother in the nunnery to send a congratulatory note, "Miaoyu, an outsider, respectfully respects and knocks on Fangchen", and Baoyu did not come back until the next day. I found out that I didn't know how to return the gift, and met Xing Xiuyan by chance. Only then did I know that when Miaoyu was practicing in Panxiang Temple by the Taihu Lake, Xiuyan was her neighbor for ten years. It is not suitable for the time, and the power cannot be tolerated", so she voted in Jia's mansion. Xiuyan knew that Miaoyu was "eccentric in giving birth", "monks are not monks, vulgar are not vulgar, women are not women, men are not men", and they call themselves "deformed people", "Outsiders" are people who are gratifying and self-effacing and disturbing people in the world.The last two secret appearances led some theorists to draw the conclusion that Miaoyu had a secret love for Baoyu. Gao E followed this line of thinking in the next forty chapters, and poisoned Miaoyu all the way to the end.

Miaoyu's official appearance was only twice in the first eighty chapters.One is the forty-one chapters "Chang Cui An Tea Tasting Plum Blossom Snow" (Note: The bibliography and content of this article are all based on Gengchen's version), which can be called "Miao Yu's true story", although the full text about her is only 1,500 characters, However, her aloof, eccentric and extreme cleanliness character has been highlighted on paper, making her unforgettable.She has invaluable cultural relics in her possession, and cooks tea with snow harvested from plum blossoms, which shows that although her family is ruined, her wealth still exists, and her noble bearing is not diminished even though she is wandering.She poured tea to Baoyu from the green jade bucket she used to drink tea in. Could it be used as evidence of her secret love for Baoyu?I don't think so, this is still writing about her weirdness.In this 1,500-character description, because Grandma Liu drank tea with the five-colored small kiln bell that she offered tea to Jia Mu, she didn't want it to be dirty, so Jia Baoyu asked for it and gave it to Grandma Liu. A detail of "grass snake gray line, stretching thousands of miles".I very much agree with Mr. Zhou Ruchang's (December 1995, Huayi Publishing House, 1st edition) speculation about lost time. After eighty chapters, this small five-color bell with a kiln, which is rare even in the palace, will As an important prop, it was probably sold by Grandma Liu’s son-in-law, Wang Gou’er, to the antique dealer Leng Zixing, and Leng Zixing was sold to Prince Zhongshun’s residence. The failure of Hou Jia’s residence implicated Mrs. Wang’s companion Zhou Zhou. Rui's son-in-law, Leng Zixing, traced the origin of the Cheng kiln bell, involved three things, involved Miaoyu, and made her "end up in the mud".

Miaoyu's other appearance in the first eighty chapters was in the seventy-sixth chapter, when Daiyu and Xiangyun combined sentences in the Aujing Pavilion, singing the sad and ominous "Crossing the Crane's Shadow in the Cold Pond, Burying the Flowers in the Cold Moon" "Soul", Miaoyu suddenly turned out from behind the rocks outside the fence, cut off their couplets, and invited them to the Quicui nunnery, where they combined the twenty-two rhymes into thirty-five rhymes. The ten rhymes she created independently Needless to say, the three rhymes are worthy of scrutiny sentence by sentence—there must be dense codes about her fate hidden in them.

As for Miaoyu, what I have explored is similar to that of Mr. Zhou Ruchang.The same aspect is: after eighty chapters, the Jia family failed At that time, the small cover bell in Chengyao led out Miaoyu, and Jia's mansion added another crime of harboring.The difference is: according to my opinion, Mrs. Wang did not deliberately hide Miaoyu when she took her in; and Miaoyu may be different from Qin Keqing as I speculate, she is not a descendant of the emperor's political enemies, but is indeed a family of officials whose parents died But she has a hidden affair that Mrs. Wang is unknown to everyone. She once fell in love with a son. This kind of rebellious free love is the root cause of "the world cannot tolerate it". Sticking to Jia Baoyu, in the 14th round of Qin Keqing's funeral, there was a long list of funerals. It is worth noting this sentence: "The rest are Han Qi, the uncle of Jinxiang, Feng Ziying, the son of General Shenwu, Chen Yejun, Wei Ruolan and other princes and grandchildren. My son, it’s too many to count.” From Zhiyanzhai’s comments, we know that Wei Ruolan, who occasionally appears here, is actually an important character after the 80th chapter, and has a relationship with Shi Xiangyun, so what about Chen Yejun?Why did this prince and grandson "occasionally appear" here? Could it be him who is the prince who "sighs no fate"?Miaoyu's free love is not only shocking to the world, but also oppressed by Prince Zhongshun's pursuit of Jiang Yuhan—forced marriage. She can only hide in the "Ancient Qingdeng Temple", and then escapes to the Quicui Nunnery in the Grand View Garden of Jia's Mansion, which is difficult for ordinary people to find. .As for her fate, I don't think it is pertinent to interpret the "dirty" in "In the end, the world is dirty against my wishes" as "unyielding", because if that is the case, she must be "destroyed". It's time to paint a piece of broken jade, not "a piece of beautiful jade, falling in the mud".Mr. Zhou Ruchang speculates that she later fell into the hands of King Zhongshun because of the pull of the small bell in the kiln, which makes sense; the prince is probably a sex monster far more terrifying than Jia She, who said vehemently after he failed to get the mandarin duck "It's hard for me to marry him." Of course, Prince Zhongshun would be harsh on Miaoyu and say, "It's hard for me to hide her in the ends of the world." Of course, it's a muddy palm.From my point of view, Miaoyu's "Want to clean He Zengjie, the sky may not be empty. The poor quality of gold and jade, eventually sinking into the mud." Or, as Mr. Zhou Ruchang speculated, she was dragged into a stable, latrine, and matched with a "scorpion" male servant, but she finally had to marry the loyal prince against her will and let him ravage her. The reason why "jade broken" can only be "completed" is that only in this way can Jia Baoyu's life be saved!Therefore, Miaoyu provided a special tragedy that was completely different from Qin Keqing and other beauties in Jinling. In Cao Xueqin's overall conception, this case must have carried the deep sorrow and compassion in his heart, so he specially ranked it in the The sixth of the twelve beauties.