Chapter 42 Allegory in "Dream of Red Mansions"

I didn't quite understand that Baoyu's retired nanny, Nanny Li, was written as an "old annoyance". Cao Xueqin's great-grandmother, Mrs. Sun, used to be the babysitter of Emperor Kangxi when he was young. One of the most critical reasons!Later, with Mr. Zhou Ruchang’s guidance, I realized that there is a major difference between a nanny and a nanny. The former is a nurturing nurse who plays a very important role in the spiritual growth of the emperor, while the latter is just a nurse.Cao Xueqin wrote a detailed picture of Li Naizi's hypocrisy and stupidity, without the slightest psychological barrier.He wrote that Nanny Li ran to Jiangyun Pavilion and complained in front of the girls: "That Baoyu is a ten-eighth lampstand—it illuminates others, but not its own."

It is also appropriate to describe Baoyu's universal love, that is, "love without emotion" character from the side. It is a vernacular novel that mainly shows the life of aristocratic families, and Xiehouyu generally belongs to the colloquial language of the market, so Baoyu and Twelve Chai basically do not use Xiehouyu or rarely use Xiehouyu, and most of the Xiehouyu are slaves and low-class people. .For example, Jia Lian's nanny Zhao Nanny complained that he didn't take care of her two sons, saying, "It's good that you promised, but it's still dry shit." It also makes people feel eloquent.Caixia in Mrs. Wang's room scolded Jia Huan: "The dog bit Lu Dongbin—you don't know a good heart!" After that, he was furious by Mrs. Wang's thunder, so that he was humiliated and kicked out and threw himself into the well-this allegory foreshadowing his tragic fate may be Cao Weng's own creation?Fang Guan quarreled with Aunt Zhao and shouted "Mei Xiang begs for help - they are all slaves". Some people thought the last two words were "nuer". Note that it should be "nuji", that is, "slave generation" meaning.The head of the kitchen in the Grand View Garden, the head of the Liu family, refused to ask Xinger in the garden to eat the little boy whose head was shaved into a shaved head. He robbed him and said, "...your aunt and aunt are in charge of two or three relatives, why don't you ask what they want? ? This is the hamster mouse and the old raven going to borrow food—there are some who are guarding, and some are flying!" I heard his voice.

However, the aristocratic masters have different personalities. For example, Wang Xifeng, who was dubbed by Jia Mu as a "rogue and poor householder", sometimes has a dirty mouth, and she often blurts out jokes in the market.When reporting to Jia Mu that Baoyu and Daiyu were reconciled, she described: "It's like a yellow eagle grabbing the kite's feet—both of them are buckled!"After it was revealed that Jia Lian secretly married the second sister You, she ran to Ningguo Mansion to make a fuss with Youshi and Jia Rong, shouting grievances and saying, "I have sores on the tail of a rat - how much pus and blood!" Repeatedly sued Rao to admit compensation.Jia Zhen also said allegorical words, it was rented at Wuzhuangtou, thinking that since Jia Yuanchun entered the palace and was favored, "wouldn't the empress and the long live god reward you", Jia Rong said that the rewards are limited and cost money. After the "reason" that the money turned against the confession and was actually about to be "poor", Jia Zhen continued: "So their dealers are honest people, and they don't know what's going on outside, and the yellow cypress wood is used as a chime hammer-it looks decent on the outside and bitter on the inside." This allegorical gimmick Not rough, but very suitable for the status of aristocratic patriarch.After the Lantern Festival, Jia's family responded to Yuanchun and made lantern riddles. Jia's mother read a "monkey standing lightly on the treetop".This is probably implying that in the future, "the tree will fall and the monkey will scatter", just like the lantern riddles of other chaps, it makes people "feel more ominous, and none of them will live forever".

The most worthy of deliberation is that when Yuanyang's sister-in-law persuaded her to be Jia She's concubine, she said it was a "good word" and "happy event" to her sister-in-law. Yuanyang pointed at the woman and scolded: "What'good words'! Zhao Zi'ang's horses are all good paintings! What a 'happy event', the pulp filled by the number one scholar is full of happy events!..." These two epilogues in succession reflect the grief and determination of the mandarin ducks, and have a great impact on the portrayal of characters. Powerful action, but also with more intriguing connotations.According to Cao Xueqin’s friend Zhang Yiquan’s poem “The spoon is not envied by the green lotus, the garden is unforgettable and shameful”, using the Tang Dynasty poet Li Bai and the painter Yan Liben as metaphors, teasing out that Cao Xueqin’s poems and paintings can be valued by the royal family, and they want to recruit him into the “Ruyi Pavilion” "It was a tool for the queen, but he rejected the information with dignity; looking back and thinking about it, with the level of knowledge of mandarin ducks, how can we know that the eagle painted by Song Huizong and the horse painted by Zhao Ziang are priceless treasures?In this plot, is Cao Xueqin's own feelings of refusing to enter the palace and bow down integrated into it?As for the "Zhuangyuan pox", it means that if the smallpox patient's pox is filled with pulp, at most there will be some pits, and there will be no danger of life, so it becomes a "happy event".Smallpox is almost extinct today, but in the Qing Dynasty, it was a horrific disease that caused many young children to die young. It was written that Qiaojie had acne, and the whole family was facing an enemy, which was a reflection of the social situation at that time; The emperor, it is said that it was precisely because he suffered from the "champion pox" earlier, and that was inseparable from the careful care of Cao Xueqin's great-grandmother, so in Cao Xueqin's consciousness, "the pox of the top spot is full of happy events." The concept of "is very profound, and it is even more logical to pop up such an allegory here.