Chapter 10 Chapter Nine: The Mystery of the King of Beijing

It is an autobiographical and self-narrative novel.Many characters in it have life prototypes.Note that I am talking about the many characters in it, not all the characters. Some of the characters, such as a monk and a monk, that is, the monk with the scarlet head and the lame Taoist, do they also have life prototypes?I don't think it is necessarily true, and it is likely to be completely fabricated.To say that the characters in the novel have life prototypes is of course not to simply equate the characters in life with the characters in the novel, and whoever is who must be who.As mentioned earlier, for example, Jia She and Jia Zheng, their life prototype is a pair of brothers, and the novel also says that they are brothers, but in life, only one of the two brothers was adopted to Jia's mother's prototype, Li Shi. , the other did not adopt to her. When writing the novel, I changed it a bit and said that they were both Jia Mu's sons.Even so, but in terms of specific descriptions, according to the true appearance of life, it is written that one lives with Jia Mu in Rongguo Mansion, living in the main house on the central axis of the mansion, and the other does not live in Rongguo Mansion. In the Guofu, he lives in a courtyard with a black oil gate that is not connected to the Rongguo Mansion.Lin Daiyu first came to Rongguo Mansion, and after meeting Jia Mu, she was going to pay her respects to Jia Amnesty. Madam Xing took her to go out of Rongguo Mansion, take a car to the outside of the black oil gate, and then go in, to Mrs. Jia Shexing's house. of.This example shows that Cao Xueqin has adopted a variety of flexible methods from the prototype of life to the characters of the novel, from the real life to the world of the novel.

At the end of the last lecture, I told everyone that the role of King Li Beijing is very important and deserves special attention.So, does the character of King Jing Jing have a life prototype? King Jingjing has a prototype.First of all, we can see from the name of the King of Beijing, what is the name of the King of Beijing?His name is Shui Rong, so is there anyone named Shui Rong in the royal family of the Qing Dynasty?No, but there is a man named Yong.Yong means "forever" in "forever". If you remove a little bit from the word yong, what is it if you remove a little bit from the top?It is "water".The second character is "Yong" with "easy" and "rong" added to the side of the word "Yu". The "" next to the word "Yu" removes a vertical line in the middle of the radical, and it becomes three points of water. Is it just dissolved?right?So to write that the name of the King of Beijing is Shui Rong, it is obvious that the word "Yong" is removed to form such a character in the novel. It is obvious that Shui Rong evolved from the name "Yong".

So who is Yong?Yong is a son of Qianlong, and Qianlong's sons are all Yongzi generations.Is it possible to draw a conclusion that the Beijing Jing Wang Shui Rong in it is a son of Qianlong?After careful consideration, this is not the case. He borrowed the name Yong, and removed a bit of it to form the name Shui Rong in the novel. But in fact, the life prototype of this character cannot be said to be Yong. The role of King Jing Jing is a combination of two characters in life.The first character can be said to be Yong, because his name is taken, and his name is changed as the name of the character in the novel.Who is the second one?He is one of the princes of Kangxi.

Kangxi had many sons, as we have introduced in the last few lectures, Kangxi's fertility is very strong.His 21st son, the 21st elder brother, is called Yunxi—the son of Kangxi used to have Yin as the first character of his name when he was not in power in Yongzheng, and the second character had a border showing it. The meanings of the words all mean auspicious happiness; after Yongzheng came to power, he kept his own Yin character, and changed the Yin character in the names of other brothers to "allow" for "allowing", taking a word with a similar sound.The 21st elder brother is called Yunxi. Yunxi is a very senior person. He is the son of Kangxi, the same generation as Yongzheng, and the uncle of Qianlong.As I said in the previous lecture, from the reality of life to the reality of art, there is basically such a matching relationship: in life, Kangxi and Cao Yin are of the same generation, and in the novel, it is Jia Daishan and Jiamu’s generation; Next, the generation following Yongzheng is Cao Yin’s sons Cao Yong and Cao Fu, which are reflected in the novel as Jia Jing, Jia She, and Jia Zheng; further down is Qianlong, and his peers in life are Cao Xueqin, reflected in the novel In it, Jia Baoyu is sublimated into an artistic image, and it is such a seniority relationship.Then let's go over it again, Yunxi, he is the younger brother of the abolished prince Yun, and also the younger brother of Yongzheng. Cao Xueqin is about the same, slightly older than Cao Xueqin, he is such a prince.

This person is very interesting. Looking at his life, this person does not care about politics. On the surface, he does not care about politics, but likes literature and art.He called himself Ziqiong Taoist, and another called Chunfu Jushi.He has left works until now, if you look for this book, you may still find one called "Hua Jian Tang Poetry Grass", which he wrote poems, and another one called "Ziqiong Yan Poetry Grass".Some people may be a little impatient when I say this, and ask if you have gone too far, or should you say something directly related to it?it is good!Yunxi, let me just give you one example, and you will know that he has something to do with Absolutely.In addition to leaving a collection of poems, this person also left a plaque. This plaque is still hanging in our Beijing city. You can go and see it. Where is it?In Shichahai Houhai, it was originally called the China Conservatory of Music, and there are still some institutions in it, and it is said that it will gradually be vacated.At the end of the Qing Dynasty, it was the Prince Kung’s Mansion. The garden behind the Prince Kung’s Mansion is now an open garden for everyone to visit. The buildings in the front of the Prince Kung’s Mansion have not yet become a tourist attraction, but some of the buildings inside are well preserved.In the courtyard of Prince Kung’s Mansion, there has been a plaque hanging all the time, which was not destroyed even during the “Cultural Revolution”. There are four words written on the plaque, which is called “Tianxiang Courtyard”.Does this have anything to do with it?Is there any relationship? How familiar are we with the word "Tianxiang", "Qin Keqing's obscenity in Tianxiang Tower", isn't it?So now you can still see this plaque, which is called "Tianxiang Courtyard". Although he didn't write about Tianxiang Tower, "Tianxiang Courtyard" is enough for us to have fun, isn't it?This plaque is of course very strange. There is no Yunxi's signature on this plaque, but there is his seal, which has the same effect as the signature, proving that it was written by him.What does this mean? It means that after the Cao family suffered in the Yongzheng Dynasty, there were still some princes from the Kangxi Dynasty in their old relationship. They were better for their family and protected them secretly. They may also accept them in the Ming Dynasty. Yunxi is one of them. .On the surface, he does not care about politics, and he does not have the ambition to seize the throne, and he has no desire for power, but this person has adopted a neutral position in the political struggles of several factions, and this neutrality is not true neutrality. In today's words, he has some kind of humanitarian feelings. He always sympathizes with the party that has been destroyed, and he always gives some assistance and warmth to that party. He is such a person.

This character is slightly older than Cao Xueqin, and his image and temperament should be the same as the King of Beijing described in Chapters 14 and 15.And this Yunxi later had his posthumous title of "Jing" - posthumous title, which means that after the death of princes and nobles in the past, the emperor would give him a final evaluation, using one word, in some cases it may be two words, in most cases Let's use one word to cover the coffin, which is the posthumous title-after Yunxi passed away, his posthumous title was designated as "Jing".The character "Jing" of the King of Beijing probably evolved from the character "Jing", and he was named the king of the county later. From the clues, it can be seen that the life prototype of King Beijing is very close to Yunxi.

The archetype in life, Yunxi, has a very close relationship with the Cao family. Cao Xueqin wrote that the naming of specific buildings in a novel like Tianxiang Tower is related to the characters in life. Speaking of which, I have to pick up what I left behind, because some audience friends may not be able to hold back anymore, saying that you didn’t say it just now, there is another Yong, and now you are talking about Yunxi, Yunxi is The people of Yongzheng's generation are younger and older, but the Yong you mentioned, this Yonghe is the son of Qianlong, isn't he a grandson?Isn't Yunxi descending from the grandchildren?What is the relationship between these two characters?

Yong is Yunxi's grandson, your calculation is very accurate, but the two of them do have a relationship, an extraordinary relationship.what relationship?When this Yunxi died, their family would be gone forever.At that time, after Qianlong came to power, in order to maintain the unity of the royal family, he implemented a policy of "family harmony", that is, the enmity between the royal family in his father's generation, or even his grandfather's generation, was too deep, so he As soon as I took the stage, I felt that everyone was my own flesh and blood, and I wanted to get close to my own flesh and blood, and treat my own flesh and blood with an attitude and principle of love. Everyone in the clan should live in harmony and harmony.Qianlong was right to do this. At that time, if you did not heal the political scars left by the previous two dynasties, how could you consolidate your rule?If you want to consolidate your rule, you must first unite the upper class, so Qianlong was very careful at the time. He found that after one of his uncle Yunxi died, there would be no descendants in the family, so he took one of his sons. This Yong, adopted to Yunxi as Yunxi's grandson.Understand this relationship, these two people later formed a true grandparent-grandson relationship, so these two people actually lived in the same palace successively and inherited the same title.Therefore, these two people are related to the Cao family. Although this Yong is younger than Cao Xueqin, it is obviously not accidental and casual for Qianlong to adopt him to Yunxi. The child went to his uncle's house to play when he was very young. Er Guo should also be a person who likes to recite poems and compose Fu.Later, Yongyin published "Jiu Si Tang Poetry Copy", and he adopted him as the grandson of the author of "Hua Jian Tang Poetry Grass", which is indeed perfect.Cao Xueqin followed Cao Fu to visit Yunxi's mansion. Before Yong Guoji came to this mansion, they should have met each other. Cao Xueqin had a very vivid impression of this, so he later wrote a book and merged their grandparents and grandchildren into An artistic image was created, which is the King of Beijing.

Everyone knows that after the role of King of Beijing Jing appeared, he had a passage, that is, King of Beijing Jing invited Jia Baoyu to his mansion as a guest. It’s not that I don’t have another eye, because there are quite a lot of high-ranking people in Handi, and the son often goes to the conference, so the knowledge can be improved day by day.” He has no political ambitions, no desire to seize the highest power, but he is in his own A political club was set up at home, and experts and famous teachers from all over the world could gather and talk with him. This was not allowed in that dynasty from the perspective of the emperor, it was intolerable, and this was not allowed.However, in the book, the King of Beijing Jing disclosed that he has such a characteristic. He often invites experts from all over the world to his mansion to talk and talk, and he also invites Jia Baoyu to go, but in actual social life at that time, allowing Jubilee is such a character.He often held poetry meetings in his mansion, why did he publish a collection of poems later?It's lonely to write poetry by yourself, we'll know it when we read it, right?There are not many people in the Grand View Garden, and Tanchun still has to send invitations, write a letter to everyone, invite them to come, and organize a poetry club, so if Yunxi in life has this condition, of course he has to do it, so Many people were invited to his house.It is estimated that in the first year of Qianlong, after the Cao family became well-off, Cao Fu, and Cao Xueqin in his youth, they have all been there, so they should be very familiar with Yunxi, admire him very much, and often visit him. The children who come and go in the mansion are also very familiar with Yong.So Cao Xueqin finally combined the image of Yunxi and Yong's name to form an artistic image in the book, the King of Beijing.This King of Beijing obviously belongs to the umbrella of the faction of Prince Yizhong and Lao Chitose I just mentioned in the novel. He may not have any interest in seizing imperial power, but his feelings are on the side of the remaining party of Prince Yizhong and Lao Qiantose. inclined.

It is written that Jia Baoyu pays homage to the King of Beijing, Jia Amnesty, Jia Zheng, and Jia Zhen are very respectful, which is understandable, but Jia Baoyu is also flattered——Jia Baoyu is said to be the most hated national traitor, and the most afraid of Eguan He gave way to King Beijing, but he "meet each other every time". When he heard that King Beijing greeted him, he was "rejoiced." beautiful people"—why?This shows that in real life, Cao Xueqin is also different from person to person for princes and officials. He is not a political person, but he has his own political tendencies, coupled with his aesthetic taste, he is They will have a good impression of royal figures like Yunxi and Yong, and even affirm and appreciate them.

In the passage about Jia Baoyu's meeting with the King of Beijing, in the novel, black words appeared.Cao Xueqin wrote such words very blatantly, and I will point them out to you later.When Jia Baoyu paid homage to the King of Beijing, there was such a sentence, which can be described as shocking, so be careful not to miss it.That is, the king of Beijing praised Baoyu at the time, saying, "Your son is really a dragon colt and a phoenix chick". Is the word so useful?The king of Beijing Jing said to Jia Zheng again, "It is not the little king who was abrupt in front of the old man. In the future, 'the young phoenix will be as clear as the voice of the old phoenix'. It is immeasurable." It must be better than Jia Zheng. Compared with Jia Zheng who is so old-fashioned, Baoyu is a different kind of person, but please pay attention to what Cao Xueqin wrote below. , called "Lai Fan County Yu Zhen", this is really bold writing! Let me talk about the last four words in this sentence first. "Fanjun" refers to a person who has been crowned the throne and has the throne, a respectful name for him. "Yuzhen" is a word in the name of a prince of Kangxi. Which prince has this word in his name?It is Kangxi's fourteenth elder brother. Kangxi named him Yinzhen back then.The fourteenth elder brother and the fourth elder brother have the same mother. The fourth elder brother was named by Kangxi Yinzhen. The name is a "Zhen" with a "Zhen" next to it. The two characters are very similar in Chinese characters, with only half a picture difference in the top, and the pronunciation is also the same.The reason why Kangxi gave them two names that are so close on the surface is also because the two of them were born to the same mother. Kangxi gave birth to many sons, but these two sons were born to the same mother, so Kangxi may have been born to the same mother. When choosing the name, the names of the two sons were deliberately made to be a little close, which may be considered in this way.After Yongzheng ascended the throne, those who disobeyed spread bad things about him.There is a saying that is widely spread among the people, that is, Kangxi put a box containing the secret edict of passing the throne behind the plaque of "Uprightness and Brightness" in the Qianqing Palace. Yongzheng took the box down and opened it while Kangxi was unconscious. At first glance, it said that the throne was passed on to Yinzhen, so he changed the description of Zhen to Chinese characters; another version said that the edict said "Fourteen elder brothers who passed on the throne", and he changed the "ten" to Changed from "Yu" to "Chuan is located in the fourth elder brother".These statements show that people generally doubt the legitimacy of Yongzheng's ascension to the throne, but these legends have been denied by Qing history experts.First of all, the Kangxi Dynasty did not put the posthumous edict behind the "fair and bright" plaque in Qianqing Palace. That method was invented by Yongzheng; and the edict of passing the throne would not be such a simple way of writing. , especially such important documents are first written in Manchu, and then translated into Chinese. In Manchu, the names of the fourth elder brother and the fourteenth elder brother are quite different in writing, and it is difficult to describe and change . However, some Qing history experts pointed out that in his later years, Kangxi really valued the fourteenth elder brother Yinzhen, and planned to pass on the throne to him. Later, this idea was also clearly revealed. Therefore, Yongzheng's ascension to the throne was actually a palace coup.The imperial edicts that we can see now conform to the specifications. There are Manchu and Chinese, but there are many doubts, and they are likely to be forged after the fact.But no matter how you analyze it afterwards, Yongzheng is regarded as the emperor.After Yongzheng became the emperor, he asked his brothers to change the Yin character in their name to Yun, and the Yin character was reserved for him only.As for the fourteenth elder brother, he became a major concern of Yongzheng, a thorn in his eyes and a thorn in his flesh. Of course, his hands on Yinzhen were not as poisonous as those on the eighth and ninth elder brothers. He was called Seth Hei, he was completely cut down, and he was completely kicked out of the clan. He was no longer a member of the royal family, he was no longer a human being, and he was no longer a pariah. In the end, Yongzheng even tried to poison the two of them to death. .After all, this fourteenth elder brother is still his mother's brother. He first asked him to guard the mausoleum for Kangxi, and then detained him, but he didn't kill him, but he told the world, one is to let him change "Yin" to "Yun" "—As I said earlier, all brothers cannot be called "Yin" at the first word, they must be called "Yun". The second word has to be changed, so it is not allowed to be called Yinzhen, and the word "Zhen" is not allowed to appear. Whoever wants to write the word "Zhen" publicly will be angry, and if he finds out, he will be beheaded.He completely changed the name of his half-brother to a very strange word, a side sign, a "yes" for "is it?", a "page" for "one page and two pages", this " The stroke in "Yes" was dragged for a long time, and the word "page" was put in. The word is "", pronounced as Ti, and finally he changed Yinzhen's name to Yun.Therefore, in the Yongzheng Dynasty, people had to avoid the word "Zhen" when writing articles. In the Qianlong Dynasty, because Qianlong was Yongzheng's son and heir to the throne designated by Yongzheng, although Qianlong implemented a soft policy, such as releasing Yun When he came out, he was also granted the title of knighthood, but Qianlong still strictly enforced his father's words to avoid taboos.Therefore, it is said that when a person wrote a book in the Qianlong Dynasty, he would never have the word "Zhen" appear in his pen, and when Cao Xueqin wrote about the King of Beijing, he deliberately put this word on it. There is no difference in this point, they are all called "Fan Jun Yu Zhen". "Fanjun Yuzhen", what does this mean on the surface?That is, our Jia Baoyu is indeed a bit like a treasure, and looks good, whose blessing is it?Rely on you, my lord, you are very lucky, you are extremely lucky, you still have some surplus, you have a little fortune left to come to our family, this little surplus fortune makes our children grow up so well, that's what it means.On the surface, you are being humble to the king of Beijing, thanking you there, but actually saying something blunt here is just showing your fangs. Doesn’t your Emperor Yongzheng dislike the word "Zhen"?Now that I am writing a book, I want to write the word "Zhen" in black and white for you, and here it is!So if you think that Cao Xueqin’s writing has no political psychology at all, it doesn’t make sense. He really didn’t want to write a political novel, but his family’s experience was too closely related to the political struggles of the three dynasties. The abolished prince has a close relationship, and the relationship with the fourteenth elder brother is also very close, which is very good; so after Yongzheng became the emperor, they were not convinced in their hearts. This kind of dissatisfaction passed through the previous generation, and Cao Fu would Infected by Cao Xueqin, when Cao Xueqin was writing, he would reveal a kind of resentment in his heart from time to time, so the word "Yuzhen of Lai Fan County" itself is amazing. Speaking of this, I think some friends may still feel that I am not convinced by just giving one example, so I will give another one. In fact, I have many more examples.Remember when the King of Beijing met Jia Baoyu, he gave Jia Baoyu something?Fragrant rosary, right?Has anyone looked up what is an incense rosary?You can ask the antique dealer if there are such fragrant rosary beads, no.This is a name invented by Cao Xueqin, it is the name of a bird, and in ancient Chinese, it has the meaning of brother, understand?Then the incense rosary, which contains irony, the water-soluble said, who gave him the incense rosary?It was given to him by the current emperor.As you all know, after visiting relatives in Yuanchun, the story of the first year of Qianlong is the story. I will provide you with arguments for this later.From the first chapter to the fifteenth chapter, the vague one should be the story of the Yongzheng Dynasty. For the story of this stage, Cao Xueqin sometimes has confusion in the timing, and makes it vague intentionally or unintentionally, but it can generally be speculated Come out, this part is about the story of the Yongzheng Dynasty, or about Yongzheng just died violently and Qianlong just ascended the throne. The stories in that time period, including Qin Keqing's death and Jia Baoyu's visit to the King of Beijing, should all be during this time things here.After sixteen chapters, it should be true that the Eight Classics is the story of the Qianlong Dynasty.Therefore, the emperor who gave this incense rosary to the King of Beijing should be alluding to Emperor Yongzheng.Does Cao Xueqin dare to scold the emperor?He dared to scold the emperor, what did he scold the emperor for?Remember a sentence? "Smelly man", who did he use to scold?He used Lin Daiyu's mouth to scold.So don't think that there is no politics in it, he has black words, Cao Xueqin wrote black words, he had to write some of this kind of black words.And why did he call this incense rosary the incense rosary? He implied such irony: You still have the nerve to call a string of rosary ""? Your act of killing brothers is rare in history. Not only did you kill the eighth prince , Brother Nine, and Brother Three were tortured to the brim and died in the prison; Brother Fourteen, his half-brother with the same father and mother, was also tortured enough by him; underneath, he punished even more people Even Longkodo and Nian Gengyao, who helped him to the throne, were merciless.Think about it, such a person hypocritically gave a fragrant rosary, a symbol of brotherhood, to the King of Beijing. The King of Beijing didn’t want it, but gave it to Jia Baoyu. The plot was very ingenious, and it was Lin Daiyu who scolded, what a stinky man took it, and I don't want him, so I threw it and didn't take it, and just threw it on the ground.He let out a sigh of relief.is not it?A fan friend discussed with me that if Lin Daiyu scolded a stinky man, didn't she even scold the King of Beijing together?Moreover, Jia Baoyu just told her that it was given by the King of Beijing, and the man Lin Daiyu scolded was the King of Beijing.That's right, this description vividly portrays Lin Daiyu's rebellious character who despises the values ​​of feudal etiquette and law.But Cao Xueqin was also narrating objectively. The narrator pointed out the original origin of the rosary before. Therefore, Cao Xueqin wrote this to call the emperor a stinky man. I think my analysis is still reasonable, which shows that there is politics in it, and the two armies are confronting each other.One faction is a political force with Prince Yizhong and Lao Qiansui as its banner, King Beijing as its cover, and Feng Ziying and others in the front line, and there are many figures in this political force. I will talk about it later. There is an ambush, this is one faction.Generally speaking, this school is the "righteousness" school. You see, the leader is Prince Yizhong, Lao Qiansui, who highlights the word "righteousness".The other faction is the faction of the Zhongshun Prince’s Mansion. This faction is rather vague. Captain Qiu and his son should belong to this faction, but they fought hand-to-hand.Cao Xueqin also took great pains in naming this faction, it is the "Shun" word faction, understand?In the codes of the two factions, there is a character of loyalty. The two factions have no objection to the Supreme Emperor in the book, that is, the Emperor Kangxi who existed in real life. They are both loyal. "Nowadays," the attitude is different.One group is obedient and more satisfied with the person currently sitting on the throne, and the other group is more satisfied with the current emperor's Zhongshun palace, so Cao Xueqin named him King Zhongshun, the "Shun" faction; the other is the "Yi" word faction, righteousness Prince Zhong is old and thousand years old. "Shun" represents obedience and support for imperial power. "Righteousness", the word "righteousness", can't just appear casually. Think about it, some rebels, what kind of plaque should they hang in their halls?Juyi Hall!The so-called "righteousness" means facing injustice, getting angry and upholding justice, so in fact, it has a lot of pen and ink written in the daily accounts of those daily life, you think it is nothing more than eating, composing poems, watching flowers , But behind those words there is a significant background of the times and history.The general background of his story is political. Inside, we can find traces of the two political forces stirring up each other.The Jia Mansion is on the same side as the "Yi" faction, and has a particularly close relationship with the King of Beijing.How close is the relationship between the Beijing Palace and Jia's Mansion?There are many revelations in the back of the novel, some of which are worth mentioning.For example, in the fifty-fifth chapter, you seem to have written a sentence very casually. There is a concubine in the palace who is not safe. It’s not a typo, the fifty-eighth chapter said that the old concubine mentioned last time had passed away—didn’t it say that a toffee was sick?The one who died should be the toffee, why did she become an old concubine again?In fact, this is talking about a person, depending on who you use as the coordinate system: a concubine of Kangxi, in the Yongzheng Dynasty, what was she?She is a concubine; by the time of Qianlong, she was still alive, so what was she?old dowager.Some people say, ouch, can you live that long?Alas, you can look up the information. There was a concubine in Kangxi who lived to be ninety-seven years old, and some of them lived longer.Then the concubine of the Yongzheng Dynasty and the old concubine of the Qianlong Dynasty mentioned in it can be verified.Because in the fifty-fifth and fifty-eighth chapters of the novel, the story of the second year of Qianlong has already been written. In the second year of Qianlong, if you check the historical materials, there was indeed a concubine of Kangxi, who was one rank lower than the concubine, and her surname was Chen. He was of Han nationality, and he died that year, which was indeed a big funeral.This shows that writing about the so-called old concubine's death also has a life prototype, but when writing about her in the book, her title was raised a bit, from concubine to concubine. The life prototype of this old concubine is Chen Shi, a Han woman.The name of this Chen's father can be found out. His native place in the south of the Yangtze River is Chen Yuqing, and he has a name and a surname.So why did Cao Xueqin write about the Chen family?Why put such a seemingly insignificant character in real life into the novel?And there is a paragraph that is even more weird. He wrote that after the old concubine passed away, the court held a big funeral, like Mother Jia, although she is old, but she is the wife of the imperial court, and Mrs. Xing and Mrs. Wang. Those who went to participate in the funeral together had to leave their mansion and go to the place where the funeral was held, and they had to stay. How would they live?Don't let go of a paragraph in the fifty-eighth chapter, saying that they are looking for a place to rest, and the next place is a place to rest after participating in the sacrificial activities.The place they found was the family temple of a high-ranking official. There were many houses and they were very clean. There was an east courtyard and a west courtyard. On the day of the banquet, I saw Jia's mother and others living in the east courtyard, and they all took care of them when they went out and in.The text is weird, isn't it?According to the description in the novel, the status of the Jia family is not high, is it?After Jia's mansion came to Jia Daishan's death, it was Jia Amnesty who attacked a noble, nothing more than a first-class general, and how honorable the King of Beijing is!The two families share a large courtyard, and everyone knows that in China's feudal society, which one is nobler, the east or the west?The east is more expensive than the west, right?Someone below is muttering, saying it's wrong, no, isn't the Empress Dowager Cixi the Empress Dowager West, isn't she very powerful?She's amazing in person, isn't she?In fact, when the Eastern Queen Mother was alive, the Eastern Queen Mother had a higher status than her, but because the Eastern Queen Mother was very kind and cowardly, the authority fell into the hands of the West Palace, and the Eastern Queen Mother died later, right? ?It is indeed more expensive than the west. Some people say that Cao Xueqin's writing is not serious, or that it is an artistic fiction, and people are willing to write like this. What are you discussing? What is there to discuss in the East and West?For writing novels, Jia's family lives in the East Courtyard, and Beijing King and the others live in the West Courtyard. What's wrong?If you insist on doing this, I can’t help it. This is also your way of reading, and I respect it very much. I bow here, but I hope that the following friends will still listen to me, because there is the truth of life there. .It is a self-narrative novel, an autobiographical novel, and his creative material is basically the life of their Cao family in that era. He wrote these things with life prototypes, so why is it like this in life, I wonder I want to tell you that Cao Yin and his brother-in-law Li Xu at that time were weaving on the surface during the Kangxi Dynasty, but in fact they also had very important secret tasks, including choosing concubines for Kangxi from Han women.This is supported by historical data and recorded. Of course, there is not much information available now, but it can still be found from Li Xu's memorials. Kangxi had a concubine named Wang, Han nationality, and Wang's mother was surnamed Huang, who died. Li Xu specially wrote a memorial to Kangxi, and Kangxi's personal affairs were handled by them.So, why is this passage in the book understandable?Because in history, Kangxi in real life and Cao Yin in real life are of the same generation, and when transformed into novels, they are of the same generation as Jia Mu, and the reason why the Chen family gave her a big funeral is now I I'm going to tell you whose mother she is. She is the biological mother of the prince who wrote "Tianxiang Garden" as we mentioned earlier. She is the biological mother of the 21st elder brother Yunxi.Yunxi and Yongzheng are of the same generation, they are a generation shorter than the prototype of Jia Mu, and it is very likely that in real life, the reason why the Chen family was able to enter the palace, was able to be by Kangxi's side, and gave birth to a son for Kangxi, was to follow The selection of the Cao family at that time has something to do with it.Therefore, after the son of this life is transformed into the King of Jingjing in the novel, the people in this mansion are absolutely very grateful to the Cao family in real life for not being able to show their old status and their aristocratic status. Since the elders of this clan are still there, they are allowed to live in the East Courtyard, and the concubines and concubines on their side are willing to live in the West Courtyard.Of course, I am talking about the characters in the novel. In fact, these two groups of characters in real life are such a way of getting along with each other. This was written by Cao Xueqin in the novel very seriously and documentaryly. Although the names of these characters have been changed, But the appearance presented is still the real appearance in life. Then, if you think about it this way, it's very interesting. To what extent has this Yunxi been in contact with the Cao family?is not it?The famous "Tianxiang Tower" obviously comes from the plaque of Yunxi's "Tianxiang Garden". The temporary residence reflects the delicate relationship between Cao's family and Yunxi's palace at that time.So good, not much to say, all in all we have come to this conclusion now, after some searching, we finally found several branches of the royal family that are most closely related to Cao Xueqin and his family, so Qin Keqing's prototype must be in these branches among.In the next lecture, I will tell you who Qin Keqing's prototype is.