Chapter 5 Chapter Four: The Mystery of Qin Keqing's Origin

At the end of the last lecture, I have already announced to everyone that the prototype of Qin Keqing, her real background is not only not humble, but also higher than the Jia family. Why do I say that?I am not guessing randomly, but a conclusion based on the description in the book.The text we want to read, the fifth chapter, Qin Keqing officially appeared on the stage, and took Jia Baoyu to take a nap.She took him to the main room of Jia Zhen and You Shi first, which was correct, because Jia Baoyu was from the same generation as Jia Zhen and You Shi, so he had to go to the main room first.As a result, there was a picture of "Burning Quinoa" hanging in the main room, which is a picture that encourages people to study hard and learn.Jia Baoyu didn't like it when he saw it, and said he couldn't be here, so Qin Keqing took Jia Baoyu to her own bedroom.This is of course quite out of the ordinary, because Jia Baoyu is her uncle, and the nephew and daughter-in-law took the uncle to her bedroom to take an afternoon nap, which really violated the rules of feudal ethics.So it was written in the book that a mother said, how to arrange it like this?But Qin Keqing was very imposing, he didn't care, and said, how old he is, that's all he cares about?So he took Jia Baoyu to her bedroom.

Therefore, a very peculiar text appeared in the text, which is the description of Qin Keqing's bedroom.Do you still remember this text?Said, Qin Keqing's bedroom, first of all, it is hung with Tang Bohu's "Begonia Spring Sleeping Picture", "Begonia Spring Sleeping Picture" is a painting of Concubine Yang Guifei, who is as beautiful as a begonia flower after being drunk, and Jia Baoyu likes it.Tang Bohu was a famous painter in the Ming Dynasty. This description shows that Qin Keqing has a large painting of Tang Bohu in her possession, which is not a big deal.And in Qin Keqing's bedroom, there is also a couplet by Qin Taixu.Qin Taixu was from the Song Dynasty, and the couplets fit Jia Baoyu's aesthetic taste very well. It reads: "The tender cold locks dreams because of the cold spring, and the fragrance is the fragrance of wine." Jia Baoyu said that this place is good, so I took a nap here.Then he looked around the bedroom, amazing!Where are there only Tang Bohu's paintings and Qin Taixu's couplets?What kind of display is it?It is such a display: "On the case is the precious mirror that Wu Zetian set up in the mirror room that day", what an exaggeration!Yes or no? "On one side there is a golden plate where flying swallows danced standing upright, and in the plate is the papaya that An Lushan threw and hurt Taizhen milk." The papaya mentioned here should not be a real plant papaya, but a jade stone Imitation papaya is a very valuable thing. "On it is the couch where Princess Shouchang lies under His Royal Highness Hanzhang, and the linked pearl tent made by Princess Tongchang is hung." What do you think?The interpretations of this description by previous red scholars basically set the tone, saying that this is an exaggerated description, mainly to show that Qin Keqing's life is very extravagant, and she herself is very lewd.This explanation cannot be said to be completely unreasonable, but it cannot completely convince a lover like me.

You say that these descriptions show that her life is extravagant, which of course makes sense, but it does not make sense to say that it is entirely intended to imply that Qin Keqing lives a lewd life.Wu Zetian, or Zhao Feiyan, or An Lushan, or Yang Taizhen, you say, they all have a certain lewdness, appearing as a lewd code, I agree with this, but in the story of Princess Shouchang and Princess Tongchang Nothing lewd.This Princess Shouchang should be Princess Shouyang. I will not go into details about this person in history.In fact, the story about her is very simple. It is just one thing. One day she was resting on the couch of His Royal Highness Hanzhang. It couldn't be wiped away, and it was fixed on her forehead.She was very troubled at the beginning, but when others saw it, they all admired, why is she so beautiful!So the palace imitated each other and used cosmetics to paint plum blossoms, forming a famous plum blossom makeup at that time.There's nothing lewd about this story, is there?And the story of Princess Tongchang is not complicated. The most important point is that she strung a curtain with pearls herself.And please pay special attention, Wu Zetian was a female emperor, Feiyan was a beloved concubine, Yang Taizhen was also a beloved concubine, An Lushan was the one who later usurped power and was once an emperor.But the author not only wrote about characters like the emperor, he also wrote about two princesses, so what are these exaggerated and suggestive codes metaphors?I think it's not just a metaphor that Qin Keqing's life is extravagant, or that Qin Keqing is very lewd.It should actually be insinuating that Qin Keqing's blood is so noble that she is the princess of the emperor's family.You see, these are all the codes of the emperor's family, and there are two princess codes, right?It uses this method to imply Qin Keqing's true blood.

Maybe someone will discuss with me again, saying that it is a novel, an artistic creation, using an exaggerated way, what are you making a fuss about?But we have to think about it when we read it. Cao Xueqin has written many times about the interior decoration in Jia's mansion. He is very realistic. Although it is slightly exaggerated, it is strictly realistic.For example, he wrote about the main house of Rongguo Mansion, the golden plaque bestowed by the emperor, and a couplet made of silver, which is very realistic.He didn't say where to put the things belonging to the previous emperors. He said that there was a large red sandalwood carving table with a three-foot-high green and bronze tripod, which was hanging to be leaked. It is Jinyi, which is a very precious thing, probably made of bronze; on the other side is glass, which was also a very precious thing in that era, a large glass jar; there are sixteen nanmu chairs in a row underground.He wrote about the main house of Rongguo Mansion, which was very realistic. He did have some exaggerations, but it was moderate.Moreover, please note that he wrote that Lin Daiyu entered the three small main rooms in the east corridor of Rongguo Mansion, which is the space for daily activities of Jia Zheng and Mrs. Wang. He specifically wrote that there is a half-old blue satin backrest on the east wall On the west side of Yinzhen, there are also half-old blue satin backrests for mattresses, and next to the kang, there are three chairs in a row, with half-old elastic ink chair burdens on them.He took the trouble to use the adjective "semi-old" three times in a row, not only not exaggerating, but also realistically writing to the point of being "loyal and honest".It can be seen that realism is a basic principle of his scene description.

After reading eighty chapters, except for Qin Keqing's bedroom in the fifth chapter, he wrote other indoor scenes in a realistic way that is almost line drawing.For example, when he wrote about the Xiaoxiang Pavilion, Mother Jia took Grandma Liu to visit the Grand View Garden. They had two banquets in the Grand View Garden. When they arrived at the Xiaoxiang Pavilion, they saw Lin Daiyu’s room in the Xiaoxiang Pavilion. Very realistic.He does not use any extreme exaggeration.Another example is Qiushuangzhai, where Tanchun lives. Tanchun is a talented woman in the novel, very talented.Some readers are careless, and they feel that Tanchun's poems are not as good as Lin Daiyu's, Xue Baochai's, and Shi Xiangyun's, and she seems to be mediocre.Ordinary readers remember that Xichun can draw. Now you should understand that Tanchun is a calligrapher, she has special talents, and she is good at calligraphy.What are the decorations in Qiushuangzhai?There is a large pear marble case in the local area, which is used to sway calligraphy; on the case, there are various celebrity calligraphy posts, and she tries to figure out the calligraphy works of various previous generations of celebrities; moreover, there are dozens of precious inkstones on the table, instead of a single There are two inkstones, which means: one is that she collects inkstones, and the other is that she creates a lot of calligraphy; the pen holders of various colors, the pens inserted in the sea of ​​pens are like forests.This also uses exaggerated techniques, but it is by no means extremely exaggerated. It is a scene that can basically be restored.She is really a calligrapher.If you are careful, you will also notice that after visiting relatives in Yuanchun, because the sisters all wrote chants according to her order, she finally felt that a general record was needed for a momentary event, so she appointed Tanchun to transcribe these poetry.Why did she appoint her?It is because Tanchun himself is a calligrapher.

What do I mean by saying this?That is to say, from the beginning to the end, the overall style of the book adopts a realistic approach when it comes to writing about interior furnishings, with almost no exceptions—the only exception is Qin Keqing's bedroom furnishings, which are extremely exaggerated and cannot be restored.How to restore it?Where can I find these things?This shows that he has his own painstaking efforts. The other furnishings he wrote may be nothing more than setting off the atmosphere and showing the character of the characters; he wrote Qin Keqing's bedroom furnishings, which are sensational and intended to surprise the readers.His purpose is to imply to us that Qin Keqing's bloodline is actually higher than that of the Jia family, and is the flesh and blood of the emperor's family - a princess-level figure!

Of course, Cao Xueqin's painstaking efforts are not immediately comprehensible. Zhi Yanzhai's early comments said that this is "making analogies and making fun of ears", and also said that "the essays that make analogies along the way are not as big as stone records." The crumbs of the pen belong to others, and the rest do not know."At the beginning, Zhiyanzhai might not be clear about Cao Xueqin's deep meaning. In the early days, she was reading and critiquing. When she critiqued the first part, she made comments based on intuition before seeing the latter part. , After reading the following text, I suddenly realized that I was wrong, and then I realized that Cao Xueqin wanted to write a complicated character.Some of Xiaohong's previous actions seem to be "treacherous", but in fact, in Cao Xueqin's overall concept, she will finally join Jia Yun in taking risks to rescue Jia Baoyu who is in distress. She is a young man with insight, courage and courage female.After Zhi Yanzhai figured it out, she corrected her previous criticism, and it was the same for Qin Keqing. At the beginning, she might not understand why Cao Xueqin described her bedroom like that. Later, after reading the thirteenth chapter, she not only understood Moreover, out of sympathy and forgiveness for the prototype of the characters, and to avoid falling into the literary prison, Cao Xueqin also suggested that several "" characters be deleted.

Speaking of this, some people may be unconvinced, saying that you just cited the evidence of the bedroom description, which is not enough to prove that Qin Keqing's real origin is higher than that of the Jia family.OK, so let's move on.The fifth time, Jia Baoyu fell asleep in Qin Keqing's bedroom. After falling asleep, he had a dream. In the dream, he felt that Qin Keqing was in front of him, leading him to a place like a tour guide.What is this place?It is "too illusory land", a fairyland.It was none other than Qin Keqing who led him into the fairyland, and of course it didn't matter, because Qin Keqing had arranged for him to fall asleep.Then in the fairyland, he met a fairy girl, the fairy girl Jinghuan.

I will not repeat the text about Fairy Jing Huan here, you can go back and read it yourself, this is not only a character in the fairy world, but also Fairy Jing Huan has a deep relationship with Ningguo Mansion and Rongguo Mansion, not with the people who are alive now These people are related, they are related to the ancestors of the two prefectures.Fairy Jing Huan later said something, saying, "Today I wanted to go to Rongfu to pick up Jiangzhu"-"Jiangzhu" is the fairy Jiangzhu, and Lin Daiyu-Cao Xueqin wrote this book, on the one hand he is realistic, on the other hand He is indeed very artistic, he has an artistic imagination.I will not expand on this in detail here. He basically said that Lin Daiyu is a fairy grass in the heavens, a "Crimson Pearl Fairy". However, I met the spirit of the second Duke Ning and Rong by chance", Duke Ning Guo and Duke Rong met her, of course it was a Yin spirit.The two said to her: "Since the establishment of the Dingding in the Kingdom, my family has been famous for a long time, and the wealth and honor have been passed down. Although it has lasted for a hundred years, luck has finally dissipated and is irreversible. Although there are many descendants, there is nothing to inherit the business. Among them, Sun Baoyu is the only one, who has perverted nature and strange temperament, although he is clever and wise, he is expected to succeed, but my family's luck will end, and I am afraid that no one will lead him into justice." So he begged Fairy Jinghuan hard, begging She played the role of leading Jia Baoyu on the right path, and hoped that Fairy Jing Huan could help them do this.

So you see, this Fairy Jing Huan has a very high status, she is higher than Ning and Rong. When Ning and Rong saw her, they would beg her to do good deeds.It didn't matter at first, but after writing this dream to the end, we discovered that after a long time, Qin Keqing was the younger sister of Fairy Jing Huan.How did Fairy Jing Huan lead Jia Baoyu to the right path?She just said, let me let you enjoy enough sensual entertainment first, and let you understand that this is nothing more than that. I hope that after you have enjoyed enough, you will be able to repent and feel that I should just seek official career and economics, trying to make Jia Baoyu form Such a logic of thinking.During this process, in order for Jia Baoyu to enjoy sex, he introduced his younger sister Keqing to Jia Baoyu.So Qin Keqing is not only the younger sister of Fairy Jing Huan, but also Jia Baoyu's sexual enlightener.You said, isn't Qin Keqing's status higher than Jia's?right?If she was an abandoned baby brought in by a Yangshengtang, and raised by a shy bureaucrat, how could she take on this role?impossible.But that's how the text is written.This is another piece of evidence that Qin Keqing's identity is not trivial.

What is to be discussed now is whether her origin is higher than Jia's family?So let's take a look at the verdict about her and how the song about her was written.Everyone can recall that when Jia Baoyu was flipping through the pages of the album, he saw that on the last page of the Jinling Twelve Beauties, there was a picture of a tall building in which a beautiful woman hanged herself from a beam, and then four Judgment sentence, it is said: "Love in the sky, love in the sea, and the body in the illusion of love, when love meets, it will be the master of adultery. All unscrupulous words are glorious, and it is really safe to start a quarrel." These four sentences will be discussed many times in my lectures in the future. arrive.Now we only talk about the first sentence, which is "love the sky, love the sea, and imagine the body".Qin Keqing's background is the sky and the sea. When Cao Xueqin patched up her background, she named her adoptive father Qin Ye. Then she is a body transformed by Qingtian and Qinghai. Her origin No small matter.Draw a beautiful woman hanging herself on a tall building.What is the name of this building?Do you remember?After Qin Keqing died, Jia Zhen held a big funeral for her. In addition to arranging one hundred and eight monks to chant scriptures for her in the hall of the mansion, another altar was set up on the Tianxiang Tower, and ninety-nine Taoist priests were asked to pray for her. .What is the name of this offering?It is "resolving grievances and washing karma", and it has to be held for seven, seven, forty-nine days in a row.This cannot be said to be a hint, it is a clear point.The tall building where Qin Keqing hanged herself is Tianxiang Tower.The thirteenth chapter of the ancient book was originally called "Qin Keqing's obscene mourning in Tianxianglou", but now what we see is "Qin Keqing died and was appointed as a dragon ban captain", which doesn't make sense at all.Forbidden Captain Long is the emperor's guard, a woman cannot have such a title at all, not to mention it is clearly written in the book that Jia Rong spent money to buy the title of Forbidden Captain Long, how can it be said that "Qin Keqing died and sealed the title of Forbidden Captain Long"? So, what is the meaning of the name Tianxianglou?There are two poems: "Guizi falls in the middle of the moon, and the sky is fragrant and the clouds are floating." This is the sentence of Song Zhiwen, a poet of the Tang Dynasty.If you think about it, it is very noble. If the sun can be compared to the emperor, the moon can be compared to the east palace and the prince.In the moon, the Chinese imagine that there is Chang'e, there is an osmanthus tree, there is Wu Gang, and there is a rabbit pounding elixir there.All in all, there is an osmanthus tree in the moon, "the osmanthus falls in the middle of the moon, and the sky is fragrant and the clouds are floating outside."Osmanthus, that is, sweet-scented osmanthus has formed into rice grains. "Osmanthus osmanthus falls in the middle of the moon". "Osmanthus osmanthus falls in the middle of the moon, the sky is fragrant and the clouds are floating outside", think about it, "love the sky, the sea, the illusion and the deep love", what kind of origin is this?What kind of symbol is Tianxiang Tower?It comes from the moon, and the fragrance floats from the clouds to the world, which shows that Qin Keqing's background is not trivial, and it is higher than Jia's. If these evidences are not enough to convince you, then we will re-read the seventh chapter together, which is often ignored by many readers.This time it was written about sending palace flowers.What's going on?It was Aunt Xue and Mrs. Wang who were chatting together, and Zhou Rui's family went.Zhou Rui's family is a companion of Mrs. Wang.Accompanying room is to marry with the hostess, as a kind of living dowry, follow the hostess to the servants in the married mansion.This servant is already a family member. If the servant's name is Zhou Rui, his wife's name will be from Zhou Rui's family.There are many such characters in the film, such as Lin Zhixiao's family, Wang Shanbao's family, and so on.This Zhou Rui's family is a very useful maid in charge of Mrs. Wang.When Zhou Rui's family came in front of Aunt Xue, Aunt Xue suddenly remembered something.What does Aunt Xue and her family do?It is for the court to buy, when to buy.So what is used in the palace will pass through their family first, and the things used by the emperor or those concubines may be passed through their family first; when she sends it to the palace, she will keep some of it for herself. Use it yourself or donate it to others.Aunt Xue asked the girl Xiangling to take out a box of twelve palace-made flower arrangements.Then Aunt Xue explained, saying that these twelve flowers, sister Zhou, give me a gift.She said, of the twelve palace flowers, you give each lady two and Lin Daiyu two, so there are eight, and the remaining four, you can give to Feng girl. On this occasion of sending palace flowers, there is an ancient book that contains the previous poem. This time, the former poem has four lines in total, which is very interesting. His name is He, and he lives in Jiangnan, surnamed Benqin!" After thinking about it, this is not Zhiyanzhai's commentary, but a Huiqian poem, which is part of the main text.Since it is a novel that has not been finalized, its pre-return poems are incomplete, some recitations have been written, and some recitations are still missing.But this time there is this poem back to the front, which basically says that these twelve palace flowers are the latest style in the palace, and I don't know who really cherishes this palace flower.In the end, there will be a person who will form a meeting relationship with this palace flower. Who is this person's last name?This person lives in Jiangnan and his surname is Qin.Make it very clear.Regarding "living in the south of the Yangtze River", we will discuss it later when we have the opportunity. Let's focus on analyzing how the person surnamed Qin reunited with Gonghua happily. Then let's look at the relevant description of the seventh chapter: sending palace flowers.There was no Grand View Garden at that time, and Mother Jia gathered the girls, including Li Wan, in the house behind her big courtyard; Zhou Rui's family went there with palace flowers, and first met Yingchun and Tanchun, who were playing chess. , After seeing Gong Hua, she was very polite, accepted it, thanked her, and continued to play chess after thanking her.You said, are they considered flower lovers?There are also some readers who have argued with me below, they are considered flower lovers, they did not refuse to accept this flower, why do they not hesitate to spend it?That's good, even if they are also flower cherishers, do they have a relationship with this palace flower?It's not a relationship of encounter, that's obvious. Then Zhou Rui's family took the remaining flowers and saw Xichun again.What is Xichun doing?Xichun was playing with Zhizhi, a nun who came to the mansion.The smart master actually came to Jia's house to collect the monthly silver, and Jia's house gave them monthly silver for the nunnery.The master went to work, she was fine, she and Xichun got along very well, they played together.When Xichun saw this flower, what was Xichun's attitude?It should be said that it is a very serious attitude.These are flowers given to you by your elders, and they were originally sent to the palace, so they are here for you, right?But Xichun was not serious.Xichun said, oh, I will be like Chih-chih in the future, and I will also shave my head and become a nun. How can I still wear this flower?She is such a performance.So Xichun, it should be said that she doesn't cherish this flower, she behaved worse than Yingchun and Tanchun, she is not serious. Then Zhou Rui's family went to find Lin Daiyu and wanted to send flowers to Lin Daiyu.But before that, she went to Wang Xifeng's first, didn't she?Looking back at this time, I remember it was called "Sending Palace Flowers to Jia Lian and Playing Xifeng".The married life of Jia Lian and Wang Xifeng is written very interestingly, but of course it is written very implicitly. Zhi Yanzhai said that the way of writing is "you can only know it in the language of Liu Zang parrot".So after Zhou Rui's family went there, they found that the yard was completely silent. She tiptoed to the next house and saw the eldest sister taking a nap. Let Feng'er come out and let Feng'er scoop a big basin of water in, these are some items for sex.So in this situation, she gave the palace flower to Wang Xifeng by the way.For Wang Xifeng, if you say that you don't cherish Gonghua at all, it seems to be too much, but she is not very rare.Originally, Aunt Xue asked her to keep four, but she only kept two. She asked Ping'er to tell Zhou Rui's family to send these two to Grandma Rong in Dongfu.She has such an attitude.Later Zhou Rui's family took the remaining two flowers to Lin Daiyu's.Lin Daiyu was short-tempered, so she asked, is this flower just for me, or does someone else have it?According to Zhou Rui's family, there are both.Lin Daiyu saw that there were only two left, and said, "If others don't choose the rest, they won't give them to me!" Zhou Rui's family didn't dare to make a sound when they heard this, because Lin Daiyu's status is very important, and she is Jia's mother's favorite. The granddaughter, Jia Mu kept her by her side to live; she didn't live with those young ladies, she and Jia Baoyu lived with Jia Mu in a large space in Jia Mu's courtyard.If you do the calculations like this, who is this palace flower who cherishes flowers?Obviously, the women mentioned above don’t cherish flowers very much, even if they can barely be regarded as cherishing flowers, and especially in the "meeting if you ask their name He", there are Lin, Jia, and Wang, but the author It is very clear in the Huiqian poem that the person who cherishes flowers is not another surname, but Qin.Who is the surname Qin?These two palace flowers were finally delivered to Qin Keqing, who was Qin Keqing.What is the relationship between her and Gong Hua?It is a relationship of meeting, which means that this person's family used to use this kind of thing often, and now she and this palace flower in the palace are happily reunited, it is such a relationship.So this kind of plot is also implying that Qin Keqing's real origin is higher than Jia's, her blood is from the palace, and she and Gonghua have formed a relationship of encounter.I think, the last sentence of the previous poem should be that we have no other way to explain it. But Qin Keqing got sick suddenly, and she said, "It doesn't matter if you are a god, you can't die if you get cured." In the thirteenth episode, she died.Then before she died, Qin Keqing had a big act, that is, she went to give Wang Xifeng a dream before she died. Well, the key to the words "four and five" in the thirteenth chapter. And I think this is also the reason why Cao Xueqin made a patch at the end of the eighth chapter after deleting the words "four and five" in the thirteenth chapter.Then the plot of Qin Keqing entrusting a dream to Wang Xifeng deserves our careful study.Her dream is also very important, and the content of the dream is very rich.The first is theoretical guidance, which is completely condescending, where is she an abandoned baby from the Yangshengtang?How could it be a daughter raised by a shy official who has never seen the big world?She said: "As the saying goes: 'When the moon is full, it will lose, and when the water is full, it will overflow'; Don’t you just say the old saying of ‘the tree falls and the monkeys scatter’?” She gave theoretical guidance in this way, and she told Wang Xifeng, what should your Jia family do after I die.Tell me, how amazing she is! Then she provides specific practical solutions.She thought it all out for you, and she entrusted it to Wang Xifeng. Her seniority is lower than Wang Xifeng's, but her tone is very strong.The general idea of ​​the plan she provided is that you have not collapsed yet, quickly set up more acres of land next to the ancestral graves, and the clan members take turns to manage the land rent.What is the land leased for?One is to set up the clan's ancestral hall there, so that the incense can last for generations.In addition, the family school can be set up there, so that no matter what happens in the future, these children in the family can still seek development through reading and imperial examinations.She proposed such a specific practice program.If it wasn't for a woman with rich political experience who came from a very noble family, it would be impossible for her to think of this.If she was an abandoned baby brought in by a health care hall, if she had only grown up in Qin Ye's family, where did she get her social and political experience?She can't have it.This shows that Qin Keqing's background is higher than that of the Jia family. She not only provides theories and practical solutions, but she can also predict misfortune and good fortune!Tell me, is she great?This is really in line with the identity of Fairy Jing Huan's younger sister.She knew what would happen to the Jia family after her death.First of all, she predicted a good thing. She said: "There is another very happy event in the near future. It is really a fire cooking oil, and flowers are blooming." What is it referring to?In the sixteenth chapter, we will know that Jia Yuanchun was promoted to the imperial concubine.Later, there was the story of "the imperial concubine visiting relatives".She predicted that Jia Yuanchun's status would improve. But she also frankly predicted the disaster of the Jia family to Wang Xifeng.She read two sentences at the end, she said, you have to remember clearly.These two sentences are soul-stirring!Which two sentences?It is called "After the three springs go, all the fragrances will be exhausted, and each must find his own door."It roughly means that after three springs have passed, all these beautiful things in the mansion, especially these women, will fall tragically, and the people in Jia's mansion will "scatter and run away", and each of them will live on his own. Find a way to go.This is a thrilling prophecy.If Qin Keqing's background was very humble, it would be impossible for her to say these words, so it can only be explained that she is a person with a higher background than Jia's family, so she can only make such an explanation. In Qin Keqing's funeral, there are some details that can further confirm my judgment.For example, the coffin she used, what kind of coffin did she use?What was used was the wood saved in Xue Pan's house. This wood had not been made into a coffin at that time, but it was a kind of masonite produced on the Iron Net Mountain in Huanghai.Who ordered this wood?It was ordered by Prince Yizhong, Chitose.The code of Prince Yizhong is fine, of course the level is very high.But he is old Chitose, what is Chitose?I think that Chitose here refers to the prince, the person who becomes the new emperor after the emperor dies. Some people argue with me that thousand years old is a very broad title. On the opera stage, such as Mei Lanfang's "The Drunken Concubine", Gao Lishi and Pei Lishi in the play called Concubine Yang Guifei Qiansui; Each of his sons was crowned as king, and they were allowed to live in their respective lands. They could all be called thousand years old; Wei Zhongxian, the great eunuch who took power later, was even called nine thousand years old by others. Therefore, thousand years old does not necessarily mean the present day After the emperor is gone, the person who inherits his throne.But what we are discussing now is that the premise of my argument is that what is actually written is what happened in the background of the Kang, Yong, and Qian dynasties of the Qing Dynasty.The Qing Dynasty was very different from the Ming Dynasty. The emperors of the Qing Dynasty did not distribute their sons equally.For example, when Kangxi divided up the princes and called them Elder Brothers at that time, they were not all crowned kings, or some were only named Beizi, some were only named Baylor, and some, like the thirteenth elder brother Yinxiang, were all adults. Well, the fourteenth elder brother who is younger than him has been knighted. He hasn't been canonized yet. He was not canonized as a prince until Kangxi died and Yongzheng became the emperor.After the sons of the Ming emperors were conferred, they went to live in the fiefs and became kings. After the princes of the Qing Dynasty were divided, they all stayed in the capital.In the political life of the Qing Dynasty, there was no such thing as a thousand years old; but in the Kangxi Dynasty of the Qing Dynasty, Kangxi once registered a prince, and clearly announced to the world that among his many sons, the prince was the only designated emperor. The heir, therefore, the "Yizhong Prince Lao Qiansui" written by Cao Xueqin is a metaphor for Kangxi's prince Yinreng.Unfortunately for this prince, he was defeated by both sides, that is to say, something bad happened in the end, and he was not able to become the emperor.After Kangxi died, his fourth son, Emperor Yongzheng, succeeded him to the throne.It is against this historical background and in this context that I think that the "Prince Yizhong Lao Qiansui" mentioned in the thirteenth chapter refers to the person who will be promoted to Wansui after Wansui is gone. . For this character, Cao Xueqin used very sophisticated language, which he called "bad things".Why didn't this person use this coffin as a coffin later?This person later "broke things". The meaning of "something bad" is both ambiguous and clear.Where is the ambiguity?That is, if you don't understand the politics of the Qing Dynasty, you will feel confused, are you dead?no.Why do you say it is accurate?If he is dead, it is said that he is dead, isn't it the end?But it conveyed a message very accurately, he did not say that this person died.The relationship between this person and the coffin is not that he is useless when he is dead. It is said that he is dead, so shouldn't it be used?Yes or no?In that era, when people were still alive, it was possible to make coffins out of wood and store them as spares, but the Prince Yizhong couldn’t make coffins out of them, why?Because he "broke things," he is therefore useless.He is useless, and no one else dares to take it easily.All in all, only such a person can use this mast, so when Xue Pan said that there is such a thing in the house, Jia Zhen will use it immediately.Jia Zheng also persuaded him that Jia Zheng was more politically sober and felt that it was not easy to use it indiscriminately, saying that he was afraid that it would be very popular.But Jia Zhen insisted on her own way, and quickly brought the masonry, sawed it, painted it, and made a coffin.In this way, after Qin Keqing died, she justly and confidently, even justifiably, slept in the coffin made of mahogany, the precious wood that was originally reserved for Prince Yizhong Lao Qiansui.You said, what kind of background should Qin Keqing have? I have given so many examples so far, if you still can't convince you, then I don't think I will be discouraged, we can continue to discuss, let's discuss again.For example, there are still some details in her funeral.She is a great-grandson daughter-in-law of Ningguo Mansion. Jia Rong doesn't even have a title. She is just a school student who temporarily donated a title, which is also very low. That being said, it's a pretty good title too.But it is insignificant compared to those titles in real noble mansions.The death of such a person, how could it disturb the emperor and the palace?The writing in the book is very strange, and suddenly Dai Quan, the head of the Daming Palace, came to offer sacrifices—as everyone knows, when Cao Xueqin gave a character a name, it was often a random homonym with a meaning.Many red scholars pointed out that "Dai Quan", its homonym is Daquan, which means the chief eunuch in the palace, the chief eunuch, and the most powerful eunuch.The eunuch in power in the Daming Palace, he had already fulfilled the etiquette for Qin Keqing's death.But on this day, he had to take a big sedan chair, hold an umbrella and ring a gong, and personally come to offer sacrifices, but he didn't even send a little eunuch.Can he come without the emperor's approval?Even if the eunuch is bold and reckless, and the emperor does not approve, he will come, but he can't take a big sedan chair, hold an umbrella and ring a gong?It's all right to open an umbrella, you may be more delicate, to cover the sun; what are you doing with the gong?Aren't you afraid people don't know?Coming all the way with gongs, what style is it?If Jia Jing died, it would not be too unusual for him to come; if Jia Zhen died, it would not be too unusual for him to come, Jia Zhen has a title after all, he is a third-rank General Wei Lie, isn't he?But it wasn't Jia Zhen who died, or even Jia Rong, but Jia Rong's daughter-in-law.As far as Jia's family is concerned, she is just a great-grandson and daughter-in-law.But Dai Quan, the chief eunuch in charge of the Daming Palace, wants to come to offer sacrifices in person, what's going on?If it weren't for Qin Keqing's particularly noble background, such a strange phenomenon would not have been possible. Speaking of which, Qin Keqing's real origin, that is to say, the prototype of this character's life is ready to come out, isn't it?The truth is about to come to light, but please be patient, the matter is not that simple, I will further explore in the next lecture, what is Qin Keqing's real background and who is her life prototype.That's all for this lecture, see you next time.