Chapter 32 Elegant Interest and Analysis

Since the early 1990s, I have vowed to express my experience in exploring "Red Studies" in the form of novels.After continuous efforts, "The Death of Qin Keqing" was completed in 1993, "The Death of Jia Yuanchun" was completed in 1995, and "The Death of Miao Yu" was completed in early 1999. These three novellas constitute a series, among which Not only has it been cracked—what kind of background is Qin Keqing?How did Jia Yuanchun die?What is Miaoyu's final outcome? ——The mystery of the "three hairpins" also explained the whereabouts and destinations of many other characters after the eighty chapters of the original book.The three novellas were all published in the bimonthly "Times Literature" of the Shandong Writers Association-I would like to thank them for continuing

Years of undiminished support; in 1994, Huayi Publishing House collected my writings and published the book "The Death of Qin Keqing". This book will be re-published into "The Mystery of the Three Hairpins of the Red Mansion" with several articles and new research articles, as well as the original articles on "red" research experience, which will be carefully proofread and printed with high quality. It is estimated that it will be available in May. I have said many times that the reason why I entered the field of "Red Studies" and explored the true faces and endings of Qin Keqing, Jia Yuanchun, Miaoyu and other characters with fascination was because I wanted to learn from the aesthetic pursuit of Cao Xueqin's creation. Get nourishment.I know that some contemporary Chinese writers don't like it, and they can't even read this novel.I think this just shows that Cao Xueqinhe has a distinct personality.Only because of its willful appearance, it will not be loved by everyone, benevolent will see benevolence, wise man will see wisdom, will cause lawsuits, and will make some people find it hard to feel, stay away from respect, or even abandon them due to disrespect.

The mystery of the three hairpins Qin Keqing, Jia Yuanchun and Miaoyu is the most difficult to solve.Not only is Miaoyu's ending after the eighty chapters a big mystery, but Miaoyu's wild and eccentric character in the first eighty chapters is also a mystery—how did this character come into being?What needs to be deciphered is not only the "post-biography" of the characters, but also the "pre-history" that is unexpected.In the process of writing the last "death" of "Three Deaths", Wang Meng called me and asked me "what am I busy with". As soon as I named "Miaoyu" on the phone, he instinctively responded: "Miaoyu" Jade is disgusting!" This answer made me very happy.What makes me happy is of course not his intuitive evaluation of Miaoyu, but his unobtrusive and true temperament, which inadvertently greatly activated my determination to interpret Miaoyu's annoying and eccentric character.Wang Meng's research on "Red" is based on Cao Xueqin's first 80 chapters and Gao E's sequel as a whole, without any meaning of exploration; I regard Gao's sequel as irrelevant to the original meaning of Cao Xueqin's original work, or even quite different from it. In the first 80 chapters, Miaoyu only showed her "too high" and "too clean" side. After the 80th chapters, Cao's manuscripts did not exist, and Gao Xu continued to abuse her. It is no wonder that many readers are concerned about She disliked it and even regarded it as "hypocritical".In 1998, I wrote two articles discussing Miaoyu's character and destiny, both of which were published in the supplements of "Liberation Daily" and "Chaohua". It can be seen that my thinking is constantly adjusting.I think that in "The Death of Miaoyu", I have done a detailed and meticulous advancement of the formation and development of Miaoyu's character, and how that unrestrained and eccentric character finally blossomed into a poignant and kind human flower, and I justified it .In Cao Xueqin's novel, borrowing Miaoyu's poems, he sighed that "love is only for self-indulgence, and who can tell the elegant taste"; at most, my exploration of lost novels is just a deliberate approach to Cao Gong's elegant taste, but just like "doubt and doubt Like "analysis", Cao Gong's elegant taste in portraying Miaoyu's character and fate in this way also requires us to study and analyze; I look forward to criticism, corrections, rebuttals and debates.

Someone asked me: You are engaged in the exploration of "red studies", and when you write about the death of the three beauties, don't you have some kind of concern for reality in it?There is no such narrow "concern", such as insinuation and comparison.But the broad and deep care is self-evident.My life experience is melted in these lost texts of "Redology".As early as 1978, I wrote a realistic short story "I Love Every Green Leaf", calling for respect for individuality from the bottom of my heart. For more than 20 years, this appeal has been running through my writing, such as the recent The non-fiction novel "Trees and Forests Together" published by Shandong Pictorial Publishing House strengthens this melody.I admit that my personality is relatively withdrawn and difficult to be understood and accommodated by ordinary people. Therefore, it is indeed true for me to unravel the mystery of human nature in the core of Miaoyu's "disgusting" character. There is a special urgency to it.Since "character is destiny", then my character, my writings that face reality, and even my "Red Learning" probing novels are integrated into one, which is my inescapable destiny.