Chapter 9 Chapter Eight: The Mystery of Jiang Yuhan

Some red fans asked me, why do you always talk about cutscenes? The plots you talk about are often read in a hurry when I read the book, and I just skip to some places, don’t look at that, just look at it Next, let's see what happened to Jia Baoyu and Lin Daiyu. I am concerned about who Jia Baoyu married later and how he became a monk.Everyone has their own reading angles and reading habits. If you read it that way, I think it is also a way of reading, and I respect it very much. To be honest, I don’t want to interfere at all, let alone criticize.I just want to tell you that I have my reading method, you can listen to it or not, if you listen to it twice, you think my reading method surprises you, but it is still interesting; In the existing society, we tolerate each other, and from mutual tolerance, we go further to listen to each other, understand people and things that are different from ourselves, different ways of reading, different reading angles, increase some knowledge, chat For reference, isn't that good too?

In fact, I also attach great importance to the main characters and plots in it. Jia Baoyu and Lin Daiyu, their love, can we not pay attention to it?I started with Qin Keqing, and I didn’t just study this character. I didn’t engage in character theory, and I didn’t engage in Qin Keqing’s monograph on characters.I started by exploring the prototype of Qin Keqing's life. The purpose is to find a window, a door, look in from that window, and step over that threshold. Hold on well.After grasping it and mastering it well, I will also describe the emotional entanglements of Bao, Dai, and Chai that you are concerned about, and the other beauties in the main book of the Twelve Beauties of Jinling, those women in the sub-book and the sub-book, and Jia. In terms of the final demise of the mansion, etc., I express my experience in exploring the continuity of these one by one.But I have to do it loop by loop.Now I am still exploring Qin Keqing's life prototype, and the exploration in this aspect must involve some cutscenes in the book as you mentioned.

My point is that we can't miss some cutscenes when we read it. Every episode has the main plot, and the plot is basically pointed out in the chapter.However, in the development of the main plot, there will be some cutscenes. These cutscenes have long been pointed out by red studies experts. They are not superfluous words, they are all carefully designed, and they all have great significance. For example, in the twenty-sixth episode, this episode is "The Bee Waist Bridge Sets up Rumors to Pass on Hearts, Xiaoxiang Pavilion, Spring Sleepiness and Serenity". Obviously, the highlight is to show the love entanglement between Xiaohong and Jia Yun, and Lin Daiyu and Jia Baoyu. Said something else.But a character suddenly appeared here, that is Feng Ziying.Everyone remember this character. In fact, before this time, his name has appeared many times. In the plot about Qin Keqing's illness and funeral, he was mentioned many times.We can know from Zhiyanzhai's comments that some of the names of the characters mentioned above, although they are just mentioned, have no drama, but after the eighty chapters, they will officially appear on the stage, not only for drama, but also for some The highlight!Then the role of Feng Ziying is not only mentioned, he will appear on the stage head-on, in the first 80 episodes he appeared on the stage, and in the twenty-sixth episode this character appeared.At that time, he met Jia Baoyu and Xue Pan, and then Jia Baoyu and Xue Pan asked him where you had been a while ago, and Feng Ziying said that he went hunting with his father.Do some friends still remember this text?This text is worth scrutinizing.He said he went there on March 28th and came back the other day, and he went there in the spring.I have already talked about hunting before, that is to say, during the Kangxi Dynasty, Kangxi especially emphasized the need to maintain the Manchu riding and archery cultural traditions, and emphasized that large-scale hunting activities should be carried out every year. These activities are mainly in autumn. In a few lectures I talked about Mulan in autumn, but sometimes I go hunting in spring.

Then, in the twenty-sixth chapter, Feng Ziying, the son of Feng Tang, the general of Shenwu, came. Why did you mention hunting?It was Xue Pan and Jia Baoyu who found that his face was slightly injured, and his face was covered with paint. At first they thought he was fighting. , put up a cover?Xue Pan himself likes to fight, they are all in the same group, and indeed they often fight, so this Feng Ziying told him, saying that from the time I was injured by the son of Captain Qiu, I remembered how not to be angry. Fist again?It can be seen that they have a common enemy, Qiu Duwei, and they also think that Qiu Duwei's son is not a good thing. They have fought, but since that time, Feng Ziying said, he no longer fights so casually, no longer It's ridiculous, he's going to do something serious.So what did you do?Feng Ziying said that she went there on March 28th, and she came back two days ago, why did she go? She went hunting with her father.Where?He also said it, where is it?If you read this place wholeheartedly, you will miss it. If you are careful, your eyes will light up when you look at it. He said it is on the Huanghai Iron Net Mountain.

Huanghai Tiewangshan, this place name appeared in the thirteenth chapter, don't you think so?The thirteenth time when Qin Keqing died, he had to find wood to make a coffin for burial. The coffin needed good wood at that time. Xue Pan said that he had a pair of wood in his house, which was mahogany, and this mahogany was Huanghai Iron Net. born of the mountain.The place name of Iron Net Mountain appeared in the thirteenth chapter, and it appeared again in the twenty-sixth chapter. This is by no means accidental.This is very important information in Cao Xueqin's writing; it is a very important place for Feng Ziying.He said that on the Iron Net Mountain, he asked the rabbit falcon to carry a wing. The rabbit falcon is a kind of eagle, the kind of eagle that catches rabbits. In the past, there was a kind of eagle called Hai Dongqing, which specialized in hunting rabbits. Falcon.Then this Feng Ziying explained to them, where did the minor injuries on the face come from?I didn’t fight with fists, but I went to Iron Net Mountain with my father to fight siege, where I was trying to catch rabbits and release eagles. The eagle flapped its wings and beat me a little, causing minor injuries, he explained.Why did he explain it this way?There must be many reasons, Cao Xueqin also wrote, Jia Baoyu and Xue Pan were anxious to ask him, why did you go?Here, Feng Ziying did not directly explain the cause and effect, but Feng Ziying said something that made people feel itchy. Feng Ziying said that this great misfortune was also fortunate.What an interesting statement!Great misfortune is a major premise, how could he be so unfortunate?It can only be said to be a small misfortune just to let the rabbit and falcon get wings; but there is great luck in the midst of great misfortune, how can it be great luck?It's lucky that the rabbit and falcon didn't make him worse, but it's not the greatest luck in the misfortune!This is so strange, it made Xue Pan and Jia Baoyu feel itchy in their hearts, and they were eager to ask him what was the matter, but he didn't say anything, and he didn't sit down, he just said that there was a very important matter today, and he had to see his father when he went back back.He also said that he went to the Iron Net Mountain in Huanghai because his father Feng Tang asked him to follow him, otherwise he would not have troubled him; Running to such a place made him very busy, no, waiting for him to go back.This Feng Ziying was really busy, he didn't even bother to sit down, he drank two big wines while standing, and left in a hurry.He was so busy, what was his father and him, and apparently others, busy with?

This Feng Ziying is a very mysterious person, and Jia Baoyu even figured it out during the conversation, saying that you went there on March 28th, oh, it’s strange that I didn’t see you at the banquet at Brother Shen Shi’s house three or four years ago.Brother Shen seemed to be part of the same group that came and went with them. Jia Baoyu went to Brother Shen's house for a banquet, which should have been on the third and fourth day of April. So how long did Feng Ziying go?He said he went on March 28th, so on the third and fourth day of April, he was still not seen. Count how many days there must be, at least a week, right?Even if he came back on the fifth day of the lunar new year, it meant that he had to go for a week, but in fact, it might be more than a week.So what is the location of Iron Net Mountain?It can be estimated that it should be within the scope of Mulan Paddock.Under the traffic conditions at that time, I rode a horse when I was hunting, and after I went there, I went around and came back soon. It was almost such a time period.Why did he go?This is written in the twenty-sixth chapter, it is a cutscene, but I suggest not to let it go, to ponder.So what do I say this for?I just want to tell everyone that in the text, in addition to the love descriptions that ordinary readers are interested in, and the subtle psychological conflicts between people, it also describes the major political struggles that the Cao family experienced from time to time. Events of power struggles are projected into the text of his works.So this passage actually serves this purpose. What did Feng Ziying do?How could he have great luck amidst great misfortune?After a while, we found another plot in the twenty-eighth episode, which is also very important. Feng Ziying, Jia Baoyu and the others were sitting together drinking and having fun.

In the twenty-seventh chapter, we saw some beautiful scenes, Jia Baoyu and some daughters in the Grand View Garden held an event in the Grand View Garden.It was the Mang Seed Festival on April 26th of that year. According to the book, there was a custom in the boudoirs at that time. It's time to leave the stage, "It's time for the tea flower event", the last flower is the tea flower, after the tea flower has faded away, all the spring flower events will be over.On the day of Grain Grain, they will have a farewell party with all the flowers and the God of Flowers. On this day, the children of the Grand View Garden held such an event.

In fact, this day should be Jia Baoyu's birthday.In it, many people's birthdays are clearly stated, what day is Jia Mu's birthday, what is Xue Baochai's birthday, and when is Wang Xifeng's birthday? In the first eighty chapters of the text, there is no clear explanation.But he also capitalized "Shouyi Hongqunfang held a night banquet", why?We will reveal this when we talk about Jia Baoyu later, so let me stop now.Let me first tell you that the 28th time Feng Ziying invited Jia Baoyu to a banquet was actually to celebrate his birthday. Why do you say that?Because who was the one who followed Jia Baoyu to Feng Ziying's house that day?It's four boys.Jia Baoyu has a lot of servants, and you can see the names of many servants in it, the most important of which is Baiming, and then there are Hoe Medicine, Saohong, Moyu, etc., and of course there are other servants.These young servants often appeared more than once, but in the twenty-eighth chapter, when he was going to a banquet, there were two more young servants, and these two young servants never appeared again before and after that; their names One is called Shuangrui and the other is called Shuangshou, which implies that he is invited to a birthday banquet, Ruishou.Therefore, since the author has carefully written down such elaborate writing, we might as well read it very carefully to experience the infinite mysteries in it.

Then after Feng Ziying invited Jia Baoyu and Xue Pan to go, they found that two new characters appeared at the banquet, one was Jiang Yuhan, and the other was Yun'er—a prostitute, and several people gathered together to drink.In this storyline, the author also took care of the twenty-sixth chapter. Didn't Feng Ziying say that this time of great misfortune was another great fortune?At that time, he didn't tell Xue Pan and Jia Baoyu. He said we would talk about it at another time. Now that the date has been changed, and these two people were invited, they invited him to talk about it, but he said that there was nothing wrong.He said that in order to invite you here, I was making an excuse, that is, I deliberately used a Huatou to attract you.The author raised this matter solemnly in the twenty-sixth chapter, and gently erased it in the twenty-eighth chapter. It can be seen that in the process of writing this plot, the author is constantly thinking about how I should write it.He didn't write it clearly, but it made us feel that there was something in the words, and there were articles in the articles.I will come back and explain to you below why this is the case.

Let's say that there is a very important plot in this episode, that is, Jia Baoyu and Jiang Yuhan met, got acquainted, made friends, and exchanged tokens.Jia Baoyu gave Jiang Yuhan a fan pendant from the fan he carried with him, and Jiang Yuhan took off a sweat scarf around his waist, which was the belt for his underwear, and gave it to Jia Baoyu.And he also explained very clearly, who gave him this belt?It was given to him by the king of Beijing. The king of Beijing gave Jiang Yuhan this big blood-red idea, a very precious belt that came as a tribute from a foreign country.Cao Xueqin designed that foreign country very strangely, called Qianxiang Kingdom, and the king was a woman; the female king paid tribute to the Chinese emperor in the book, and the tribute was very strange, it was a belt, and it was tied with a small coat, which was underwear. It's actually panties, a belt like that.The emperor gave the waist to the King of Beijing, and the King of Beijing gave it to Jiang Yuhan.Jiang Yuhan is an actor, and her stage name is Qiguan; in the past, this kind of opera singers were generally known as officials, and there were twelve officials in the Red Chamber, Lingguan, Fangguan, etc., remember?Jia Baoyu and Qiguan exchanged friendship gifts, these plots are very important.Why is it important?I saw some friends below staring at me, thinking, what's the point?This is a very secondary plot in it.Oh, it's very important. It actually reflected some of the power struggles during the Yongzheng and Qianlong periods into the text of the novel.So it's actually very important.

Because if you read through it carefully, you will find that there are actually two major political groups looming in it. These two political groups are opposed to each other and conflict with each other. The conflict finally spread to Jia's mansion, which intensified the contradiction between Jia Zheng and Baoyu. , and finally Baoyu was beaten by his father.Baoyu was beaten, of course there were two triggers, one was about Jin Chuan'er, which was reported to Jia Zheng by Jia Huan.Let’s put aside the matter of Jin Chuan’er for now. In fact, the reason why Jia Zheng beat Baoyu to death in the end was not because of this incident. It was an additional incident. What's the matter?It was Jia Zheng who was waiting there, when suddenly a servant outside told him that Prince Zhongshun sent someone to see him.Zhongshun Palace?Jia Zheng thought about it. The Zhongshun Palace had never had any contact with him, and it had nothing to do with him. Why did the Zhongshun Palace suddenly send someone here, and the person they sent was not an ordinary person, called the Chief Historian—in those days, a palace was a small court, and it had its own In the organizational team, the general official in charge of the affairs of the palace is called the chief historian, which is a very big role. Such a person is usually not easily dispatched, but this day Zhongshun Palace sent the chief historian here. I want to see Jia Zheng. Jia Zheng thought it was very strange, and hurriedly greeted the people inside, because Zhongshun Prince's Mansion is very honorable as soon as he hears the title of title, he is a very important relative of the royal family, and a very important figure in the ruling group. The chief historian was welcomed in and asked him what was the matter.The chief historian said that he came here for nothing else, but to ask Jia's mansion for Qiguan, Jiang Yuhan, and this person.Moreover, the chief historian's words were very harsh, meaning that if it was something else, it would not matter if you Jia's family took it away. The problem is that this person is our King Zhongshun's favorite, and he must not give up. Everyone in the city said, make friends with your young master.At this time, Jia Zheng was at a loss, what happened?He didn't know about it at all, so he asked his servants to quickly call Jia Baoyu.After Jia Baoyu came, he still wanted to lie, saying that he didn’t know what Qiguan was, and that he had never heard of the name. As a result, the chief historian sneered and said, “Don’t lie anymore, it’s not good for you if you let me tell you. Didn't that red sweat scarf come to your waist later?That's what it means.When Jia Baoyu heard it, good guy, he knew all about such a confidential matter, Jia Baoyu was dumbfounded.This is what Cao Xueqin wrote. He wrote, Jia Baoyu thought to himself, how did he know this?Since he knew even such a confidential matter, he probably couldn't hide anything else from him, so it's better to send him away, so as not to tell other things.Jia Baoyu was very nervous. In this situation, he had no choice but to admit it. Not only did he admit it, but Jia Baoyu also leaked the secret. He said, since you know about such things, why don't you know about Jiang Yuhan? Twenty miles away in the eastern suburbs, a place called Red Sandalwood Castle, bought a land, bought a house, and lived there?He told the chief historian of Jiang Yuhan's whereabouts.The chief historian sneered and said, well, let's look for it first, and if you can't find it, I will come to you to look for it.This is the root cause of Jia Zheng's anger, "unscrupulous all kinds of big commitments", Jia Baoyu was beaten to death by his father.Jin Chuaner's throwing into the well was an auxiliary, a reason for adding fuel to the fire. This fire was ignited suddenly from Qiguan.You have to read these places very carefully, and you have to think about why? Think about it, everyone, who is King Zhongshun having trouble with?Who seduced Jiang Yuhan away?Was it Jia Baoyu who really harbored the actor Qiguan?No, it was the King of Beijing.It was the conflict between the first level of the Wangfu, which was reflected in the Jiafu in the end, wasn't it?The two sides are vying for an actor.According to the analysis of many red scholars, it is not bad for you to pronounce Jiang Yuhan as Jiang Yuhan, because in fact its homonym is a jade box, or a box containing jade, and letter means box.The two sides are fighting for a box, what's going on?Qiguan, written as Qi, this character is a "qi" with a "you" beside the word "yu". Of course, its homonym can also be "qi". It seems that in a chess game, the two sides compete for a very important thing.So where was this jade letter hidden later?Red sandalwood castle, inside a bigger box made of red sandalwood, what is this thing?In the history of the development of Hongxue, there used to be a school called the Index School. The Index School has now declined and is denied by many people, but I personally think that the Index School has left a very important trace in the development history of Hongology.Like Cai Yuanpei and Cai Xianxian, he is a master of the index school.They think that the theme and purpose of this book are mourning the death of the Ming Dynasty, revealing the mistakes of the Qing Dynasty, complaining about the death of the Ming Dynasty, and expressing indignation at the Qing Dynasty's rule of the Han people.They often do some very subtle analysis in terms of pronunciation and meaning, and think that this is to retrieve its hidden content, so it is called index school.The Index School's revelation of the character Jiang Yuhan and the meaning contained in the homonym of his name "Yuhan" is still thought-provoking.Their way of thinking, I think, can still be used as a reference, that is to say, what the Zhongshun Palace and the Beijing Palace are fighting for, and what one side wants to protect and the other wants to seize, is the highest political power, the most important one in a chess game. The thing is actually a jade seal, which is the seal of the past emperor.Do you understand what this means? The emperor's seal is made of jade, placed in a rosewood box, and hidden there. This is just for your reference, that is, red studies researchers in the past once had such an idea.I personally do research on archetypes, and my whole research is to explore the life archetypes of the artistic images, which is the difference between me and them.However, from the point of view of the index, I also absorb some of the naming methods used in it and the meaning of homophony. I also absorb these nutrients. I think their research results are sufficient for reference. I don't necessarily think that Jiang Yuhan represents such a thing, which symbolizes the jade seal of an emperor, but King Zhongshun and King Beijing finally had a fierce conflict over the issue of an actor. One side was determined not to give up, and the other side It is determined to hide him, and Jia Baoyu is involved in it, which is really worth pondering. Looking back now, who was that Feng Ziying?Why did he introduce Jiang Yuhan to Jia Baoyu?right?Jia Baoyu knew and was in contact with King Beijing from the beginning.Everyone has the impression that after Qin Keqing died, half of the book was called "Jia Baoyu Road to the King of Beijing", and the King of Beijing even invited him to the mansion as a guest.Baoyu should have been to the Beijing Palace after that, but it was at Feng Ziying's home that Jia Baoyu formally met the opera singer Qiguan whom the King of Beijing loved.Feng Ziying invited him to go at that time, saying that the so-called great misfortune is also the great fortune, although neither the "great misfortune" nor the "great fortune" was said, and later said it was just a joke, otherwise you two brothers would not have come, but these Actually both have meaning.That is to say, in it, in fact, we can vaguely see two opposing political groups, and the conflict of interests of these two groups involves the supreme ruling power. Then we can clean it up - if you clean it up carefully, you will find that one of the factions is the Beijing Jingwang faction.In fact, it can be said that the faction of the King of Beijing is not just the King of Beijing. He is not actually the highest representative of this faction. Prince Yizhong is a thousand years old.When did it come out?After Qin Keqing died, when he was looking for wood for her coffin, Xue Pan said that our family had some wood, and this wood was from Tiewang Mountain in Huanghai. ?It is the old thousand-year-old Prince Yizhong.So why didn't you take the wood away after ordering it?Because Prince Yizhong, Lao Qiantui, broke something, he never took it away.What is "bad thing"?This is a very important word.If it is a completely fictitious novel with no prototype of life at all, then he pointed out that this wood was ordered by someone before, and he can say that this person died later, so he didn't take it away, right?It can also be said that he was bankrupt, he had no money, so he didn't take it.He didn't say that, he used a word that the fictionalist could never think of, and it was hard to come up with, called "bad thing".I told you in the last few lectures, was there a thousand years in the Kangxi Dynasty?In the Kangxi Dynasty, the crown prince was formally registered and announced to the world that after a hundred years of Kangxi, the throne will be inherited by my son, my son-in-law, and the child born to my queen, Yinfeng. He was just one and a half years old, and I will register He is the prince.The Qing Dynasty was very different from the Ming Dynasty. The Qing Dynasty did not distribute the titles equally to the princes. When Yinfeng was canonized as the crown prince, none of the other princes were given titles. Afterwards, no one could equal the crown prince.Although the official political vocabulary of the Qing Dynasty did not have the title of "thousand-year-old", Cao Xueqin deliberately used the word "thousand-year-old" in his writing, implying the prince under the age of ten. Then Prince Yizhong was a thousand years old. Later, the prince was named a prince. Even after the prince was imprisoned, Kangxi still treated the prince and his grandson generously.He said that the crown prince’s food and clothing supply must not be lowered, and that he must be well-fed and comfortable; on the other hand, he also emphasized that the crown prince’s eldest son, Hongxi, was to be crowned prince, so righteous The word "Loyal Prince" not only includes the prince, but actually also includes Hong Xi.He is such a prototype character in real life, a kind of refraction in the novel.Of course, it mainly refers to Yinfeng, and mainly refers to this prince. This prince has been mentioned in the last few lectures. He is very miserable.He was almost forty years old and had not yet become emperor. His father was still very healthy. Originally, his father's health should be his happiness, but this man couldn't wait anymore, and his father's health became his pain.According to North Korea's "Records of the Li Dynasty", the envoys of North Korea at that time once visited the prince. At that time, the prince had not been abolished after the first abolition, so he complained to the foreign envoys very presumptuously, saying, "Look at it." Of all the princes in the world, is there anyone at my age who has not yet become emperor?This is of course outrageous, and it is not allowed to say such a thing, but this is also his true heartfelt voice. "Old Chitose", are these three words vivid?If you are a teenager, you can't say that you are a thousand years old, can you?Some people below nodded, and some shook their heads, saying that forty is not too old, so that is your point of view today.In the era of Cao Xueqin, Cao Xueqin himself said in the first chapter that half a life is down and out, that is, the author said in his own tone that half a life is down and out, what is half a life, at that time, thirty years old was half of a person's life expectancy, and people At the age of thirty, half of life has been spent, at the age of sixty, it means that your life span is complete, and at the age of seventy, it is a rare thing in life.So when he was almost forty years old, he was already a very old Chitose Lord.As a result, things went wrong later on, and he was abolished for the second time, and was completely abolished. He spent his later years in confinement.Living in a high-level prison that may have better treatment and more comfortable conditions, but he has no freedom to spend the rest of his life.And he also watched helplessly as his younger brother Si Age sat on the throne that should have been seated by him. He died of depression in the second year of Yongzheng. This shows that the source of the power struggle among the Kang, Yong, and Qian dynasties is still related to the ups and downs of the prince's fate.So there appeared such a symbol in the book, called Prince Yizhong, old thousand years old, something bad happened to him, he was abolished, and he didn’t die immediately after being abolished. Of course, this masonry tree couldn’t be transported away, and he had to order a coffin again. I dare not use masonry.Judging from the description in the book, mahogany is not only a very high-quality wood, but also just like what Jia Zheng said in the book to persuade Jia Zhen, it is very affordable and not for ordinary people to use.The 樯木 means that it grows straight. What is a 樯? The word "樯" next to a wooden character is not the side of the word earth, but it is the mast wood on the ship.Mast wood, he used the word also has a meaning.In this way, in fact, we have found the source of one faction's political power, that is, Prince Yizhong, Lao Qiansui, and King Beijing is facing him. In my analysis of the two opposing political groups, the ultimate goal is to find out the prototype of Qin Keqing's life.Qin Keqing in the book, if she was born higher than the Jia family, then she either belongs to the political group of King Zhongshun, a woman in that branch of the royal family; or she belongs to King Beijing, that is, Prince Yizhong and Lao Qiansui. The offshoot is a stealthy member of this area. The role of King Beijing is so interesting and worth exploring, because King Beijing officially appeared after Qin Keqing's funeral, and we found that Cao Xueqin described him as a fairy in the sky, right?That image was so radiant that it overwhelmed Jia Baoyu.And we were influenced by that kind of argument in the past, and we always felt that Jia Baoyu was an anti-feudal figure. He hated the country's thieves the most, and he was the least willing to associate with dignitaries. But how did he behave when he saw the King of Beijing?I won't go into details here, you can recall with your eyes closed, and just recall for five seconds is enough.Flattered, isn't it?And it's real, not faked, why?The characters in the novel are driven by the writer's pen, why the writer writes like this, there are countless mysteries in it.So, does King Jing have a prototype?After clarifying this prototype, can Qin Keqing's prototype be revealed immediately?I will explore this in my next lecture.