Chapter 13 Chapter One: The Mystery of Qin Keqing's Indictment (Part 1)

At the end of the last lecture, I told everyone the conclusion of my research, which is that the artistic image of Qin Keqing in it, her life prototype, is a daughter of the deposed prince of the Kangxi Dynasty.Then after this conclusion came out, I met a fan friend who was not convinced, so he came to discuss with me.Of course, some of my own conclusions do not require others to agree with them. Hongxue is originally an academic space shared by the public, and everyone can become active and express their opinions.I asked him, why can't you figure it out?He said that according to his thinking, if the Cao family hid a daughter of the deposed prince and was informed, and the matter came to light, the emperor would not just let the daughter of the deposed prince commit suicide, but would definitely attack the Cao family immediately.But he said, take a look at what is written in the book?What is written in the book is that after Qin Keqing committed suicide in the Tianxiang Tower, the Jia family not only did not suffer an immediate blow, but entered a new situation of "burning oil with fire, blooming with flowers".The wealth and splendor of this family has reached a new level!Therefore, he discussed with me and asked me, if the things you said did happen in life, and you said that it is a self-narrative and autobiographical novel, which is reflected in the novel, but the author would It is written in this way, Qin Keqing's death did not immediately bring a blow to the Jia family, let alone a devastating blow. Not only did it not suffer a blow, but the situation of the Jia family became better!How strange!

I think his idea is very interesting.I guess, among the viewers who watch my lecture programs, some people will also ask similar questions, that is to say, if it is written like this in the novel, is it generally like this in real life?Or when Cao Xueqin wrote this paragraph, did he completely leave the reality of life and engage in artistic imagination out of thin air? Now I can answer your question very clearly. I also answered this friend very clearly.I said, in reality, this is precisely the situation. When Cao Xueqin wrote the novel, of course, there were changes, shifts, exaggerations, exaggerations, avoidance, and cover-ups of the original life forms, but in general That being said, this is basically the case in reality.After I finished speaking, that red fan friend felt that there was a new issue that he wanted to discuss with me.I said, don’t worry, because in the last lecture, I finally raised a question myself. I have to answer my question first, and then we will discuss your new question.He also thinks it's quite funny, how to study it, like a set of pot dolls, with one question within another?I said, this kind of research is interesting.

Do you remember?At the end of the last episode, I asked myself a question, that is, if in the book—let’s talk about the novel first, Qin Keqing’s incident was exposed and someone informed him, then who is this informer?Who told Qin Keqing's true identity to the emperor?Well, I don’t have to make many detours on this question now, and I can tell you very clearly: After reading Qin Keqing’s death, you will soon read the ascension of another person. Who is this person?It was Jia Yuanchun.The thirteenth time Qin Keqing died, right?The fourteenth and fifteenth chapters are basically about Qin Keqing's funeral, and in the sixteenth chapter, there is a happy event that is very different from the funeral.What happy event? "Jia Yuanchun chose Fengzao Palace".Therefore, judging from the inherent plot logic in the novel, the person who reported Qin Keqing's true identity to the emperor should be Jia Yuanchun.

If you think about it carefully now, the fate of the Jia family, if the Jia family is compared to the body of a bird, the fate of their family depends on the flapping of two wings to determine the promotion of the family.One wing is Qin Keqing.The Jia family hid and adopted the flesh and blood of a loyal prince, Lao Qiansui, and a daughter, Qin Keqing.Why are they doing this?Because although Prince Yizhong and Lao Qiansui "broken things", "broken things" does not mean that this power is completely destroyed, it still exists, and may transform from the state of "broken things" For "a good thing".So judging from the novel, the Ningguo Mansion has hidden such a character, raised her as Jia Rong's daughter-in-law, and turned her into a magnificent and outstanding woman, which is making political investment.This is to invest in the political power of Prince Yizhong and Lao Qiantose.

In the last few lectures, I have already told you that the prototype of the old thousand-year-old Prince Yizhong should be the prince who was abolished during the Kangxi Dynasty.Although he was both established and abolished by the two, but in the Kangxi Dynasty, this person did not die. This person did not die until the second year of Yongzheng.In Kangxi's later years, everyone felt that the old emperor's temper was becoming more and more capricious.Many people thought, since he can depose Yinfeng and then erect it, and establish it and then abolish it, is it possible to erect Yinfeng for the third time while he is still alive?Because this is his own flesh and blood, how much painstaking effort did he spend cultivating him into a prince from a young age.At that time, some members of the bureaucratic group had this kind of speculation, especially the rumor that Kangxi believed that "Emperor Sun Poxian" was very widespread. "The eldest grandson of the emperor" is Hongxi, the son of the abolished prince, and Hongxi gave birth to Kangxi's great-grandson Yongchen at that time. People generally feel that even if Kangxi completely abolishes Yinfeng, he will not be allowed to inherit the throne, and the throne will be passed on to the emperor. The possibility of Hongxi is also very high.After these real situations in life were turned into stories in the novel, the Jia family hid Qin Keqing and regarded her as a "blue chip stock" for political investment. You should be able to understand, right?Although Prince Yizhong's old Qiansui "bad things", his remnants still exist, such as Feng Ziying and so on. These characters in the novel belong to this faction.Therefore, the Jia family thinks that Qin Keqing can be adopted and hidden to make political investment here. Once the political situation changes, Prince Yizhong Lao Chisui himself, or his son, will shroud the overall "moon" with a blurred light in the novel. If you become the emperor under the new political situation, then the Jia family will make great contributions.When you are in their most difficult time, you can resolutely hide their flesh and blood so that they will not be imprisoned together with their parents. Then, if they become the new emperor, they will definitely reward you greatly.

In the last few lectures, I have roughly mentioned it, and you should understand this point now, that is, why the "broken" Prince Yizhong, Lao Qiansui, sent a daughter to Jia's house?It is because in real life, when the crown prince is abolished, he may not be mentally prepared. I will not repeat the relevant situation. I have talked about this content in previous lectures; but before the second abolishment, will this person know Already mentally prepared?He has experienced it once!He is mentally prepared.His family, a large group of people, in addition to his own wife, he has many concubines, his wife gave birth to him a child, his concubine also gave birth to a child, the prince is also full of children.In addition, there are many people who serve them, don't they?And I have already mentioned it in the previous lecture, so it is not a novel, but a historical record. It is said that there was a man named Delin at that time. To be locked up, who wants to be locked up?Even if the prince’s standard of living is not too low, there is no freedom—people always yearn for freedom, and high-level prisons are prisons after all, right?The deposed prince is no longer free, and all those related to him, including those who serve him, are also no longer free, so this man named De Lin, no matter what, he does not want to be imprisoned, so he tries to escape.He faked his death, pretended to be a dead person, and tried to get someone to transport him out as a corpse, and then he was transported out like that, and a big bureaucrat adopted him.Of course, in the end it was exposed, this Delin was executed, and the bureaucrats who hid him were punished.

Therefore, you should be able to understand that when the second big storm is coming, it is very likely that at this time, one of the prince's concubines is about to give birth. She was going to be abolished, and she was going to be imprisoned again. Why did this child with no fate let her be a prisoner since she was a baby?Let's find a way to smuggle her out of the palace through various relationships!So the child was smuggled out, or falsely claimed that she was a child of Yangshengtang, or that she was adopted by a small bureaucrat, or directly, simply hid in the Cao family, and the Cao family made some rumors to protect her and raise her. stand up.So whether it is in real life or in novels, you should be able to understand that the reason why a family can hide and take in the flesh and blood of a temporarily politically defeated faction of political forces is because of the relationship between them. They have been dating for many years and have feelings, "the evil is always due to love", and the second is because doing so is also a political investment. It is hard to say in the future, just like betting, there is still a possibility of huge profits.This is a wing of the Jia family, Qin Keqing.

But like other bureaucrats in the Qing Dynasty at that time, the Cao family should not only invest in one side of political investment-you will not be insured if you invest in the same time, you have to "double insurance"!So there was another wing, and that wing flapped vigorously, that is, to send a daughter of her own family to the palace, and find a way to promote her gradually, so that she could finally come to the emperor's side and become one of the emperor's favorites. woman.In the novel, this person is Jia Yuanchun.This is of course a very realistic investment, because the investment object is the current emperor, the so-called "today"!

In this way, two wings fly.If the investment here fails or fails, as long as the wings are not completely broken and can barely flap, and the wings on the other side are still strong, the bird can still fly.So they are investing politically on both sides.In real life, the Cao family is like this. In the novel, Cao Xueqin’s artistic conception is to design a Jia family and tell you some stories about the Jia family.Then in the first half of the novel, he will focus on telling you the stories of Qin Keqing and Jia Yuanchun. Of course, some other women were also mentioned earlier, and there are many stories about Grandma Liu, but it can be said that from the first to the sixteenth chapter, the one who appeared more fully in "Jinling Twelve Beauties" should be Qin Keqing, and then in the sixteenth chapter, Jia Yuanchun surfaced like an iceberg floating out of the sea.These are two women who are related to the fate of the Jia family, and they are very important.

According to the description of the novel, we found that there is such a causal relationship, that is, after Qin Keqing hanged himself, what happened next is that Jia Yuanchun's status was promoted.Therefore, the reason why I was able to tell you very clearly just now is because my judgment is that the author’s conception—he didn’t write it out directly, but his conception is like this, and I will give many examples later to prove that he is indeed Such a conception—it was because Jia Yuanchun told the emperor that our family hid the daughter of a loyal prince, Lao Qiansui, and it was because of her reporting on Qin Keqing's true identity that the flow of the plots in the novel was formed.The most critical plot is that Qin Keqing hanged himself in Tianxiang Tower.She had to die, because the blood of the royal family, especially the sinful family, cannot be hidden.But the emperor liked Jia Yuanchun, and her behavior of reporting showed her loyalty to the emperor, so the emperor put an end to this matter, and you, Qin Keqing, committed suicide, and the matter of the Jia family hiding the royal family will not be pursued. up.Moreover, such things about the royal family are also "family ugliness that cannot be publicized". Therefore, the Jia family was allowed to hold a big funeral, and the palace even came to the eunuch to participate in the sacrifice. This matter was covered up to make the funeral look very beautiful on the surface. , to prevent the general public from knowing the truth.Jia Yuanchun reported on Qin Keqing, showing her loyalty to the emperor. Of course, she would beg the emperor bitterly not to pursue the Jia family. The emperor probably felt that she was both loyal and filial, so he rewarded her and promoted her status. "Just choose Fengzao Palace".In the novel, it is such a plot logic.

Speaking of which, I have to answer such a question from that red fan friend. I am afraid that this is what many people want to ask me: In real life, is there really such a situation?Is the emperor so willing to forgive the Cao family in life?In the novel, it is written that after Qin Keqing's death, the Jia family not only was not punished, but a good situation appeared instead. Is such a plot arrangement reasonable? To answer this question, it is necessary to clarify the problem of chronological order in the narrative text. It is a novel. In the first episode, the author talked with Taoist Kongkong through stones, and deliberately made a statement called "the age of the dynasty, the geography of the country, but there is no test for it".It’s just that he doesn’t want to say it outright, he doesn’t want to say outright what dynasty and generation I’m writing about, what dimension I’m writing about.So there has been controversy in the red academic circles, when exactly was it written?In the text, for men, avoid writing that they shaved their foreheads and left big braids. Although Jia Baoyu wrote that he had braids, it was not like the typical Qing Dynasty men’s braids. When describing the clothes of the King of Beijing, it was closer to the style of the Ming Dynasty.Later, when many people drew pictures, men's clothing basically followed the Ming Dynasty; in drama, film and television, the costumes of the characters were farther away from the Qing Dynasty.However, the clothing of women in the Qing Dynasty did not change much, and the clothing of Han women is very similar to that of the Ming Dynasty.When it comes to women's clothing, there is a taste of the Qing Dynasty, but it is not obvious.For example, Manchu women have their own very special clothing, such as cheongsam, two heads, flower pot bottom shoes, etc., which are not mentioned in the book.Moreover, as to whether the women in the book are big feet or small feet, except for the third sister You who directly writes that they have small feet, and the silly eldest sister who directly writes that they have big feet, they are all written very vaguely.This is of course an artistic technique of Cao Xueqin. He didn't want to bluntly use these descriptions to establish the specific era background of the novel, but besides artistic considerations, there may also be non-artistic considerations to avoid trouble.There are ambiguities in time and ambiguity in space. In the Grand View Garden, all the unique plants in the south and north appear, such as red plum blossoms.The red plum blossoms planted in the north are very rare, or even impossible to grow at all, but there are spectacular red plum blossoms in the story.Therefore, there are many debates in the red academic circles. Is the Grand View Garden in Nanjing or Beijing?Where exactly?Of course, more details prove that the Rongguo Mansion and Grand View Garden mentioned in the book are still in the north, in Beijing.For example, it has been written many times about the kang, sitting on the kang, eating on the kang, Jia Huan copying scriptures on the kang, deliberately pushing down the candles on the kang table, scalding Jia Baoyu who was lying on the kang, etc. There is no such thing in Jinling.Jia Baoyu also said, "I often hear people say that Jinling is huge." It can be seen that he never lived in Jinling after he became sensible. For him, Jinling is just a place that adults often mention.In other words, since Lin Daiyu entered the capital, the main space for the characters in the story to move is in Beijing, and even the Huazhi Hutong in Northwest Beijing has been included.Of course, Cao Xueqin also borrowed some things from the south of the Yangtze River, especially the scenery, but from the main aspect, he wrote about Beijing.Cao Xueqin deliberately made it vague in terms of time and space in the text, and he used the artistic technique of smoky clouds. But the actual text is very self-narrative and autobiographical.Its self-narrative and autobiographical nature can be investigated clearly, because it has this quality, so this text is very interesting.In the first chapter, next to the words "the age of the dynasties and the geography of the country, but there is no evidence" I quoted above, there was a comment from Zhiyanzhai, which made the truth clear. Zhi Yanzhai is very powerful because she is Cao Xueqin's collaborator.Didn’t the stone in the novel have a dialogue with Taoist Kongkong? Do you understand this passage?Why is it called?That is, the stone shrunk into the size of a fan pendant and went down to earth. After experiencing the ups and downs of the world and complicated experiences, the stone returned to the original place, Qinggeng Peak, and became a big stone.After being reduced to a big rock, what is the difference from the original?It's written all over it.What kind of words are written?It means that it is filled with the words we see now, that is.So Shitou told Taoist Kongkong that the thing I wrote was "the age of the dynasty, the geography of the country, but it has been lost without examination."However, Zhi Yanzhai's comment immediately followed up with a sentence called "According to Yu, but there is a lot of textual research".Zhiyanzhai was very happy when he was criticizing. The two of them were teasing each other. What Zhiyanzhai meant was that you wrote these things under the pretext of Shitou, but it was actually written by you, Cao Xueqin. These, no matter in terms of time or space, are "well-proven"! My personal research method belongs to the school of textual research in Tanyixue. My idea of ​​textual research is prototype research, so I am doing these textual research now. I don’t think it’s funny, because Zhiyanzhai encouraged me, Zhiyanzhai said , "There is a lot of textual research."So what do I have to test now?It is to examine the chronological order in the narrative text, that is, what era, what dynasty, and what historical event background is it actually written about? We have determined the general direction a long time ago. I have already talked about it a lot before, such as the incident of the night police in the tent, the ups and downs of the Cao family in the three dynasties, and so on. Through those analysis, we know that it should be about Kangxi , Yongzheng, and Qianlong dynasties, it is about what happened in that background.Now it needs to be more detailed, for example, from the first chapter to the eightieth chapter, which year is it written?After clarifying this issue, what are the benefits?In that way, not only can we further understand the historical background of writing, but also understand the various emotions, pains, and joys in the writer's heart when he writes.Moreover, we can also learn about the character prototypes, event prototypes, object prototypes, and detail prototypes behind the novel text by arranging a timetable, so this kind of exploration is very interesting. For the convenience of discussion, I will put the easiest part to answer first, and I will put the more troublesome part later.What's the easiest part?That is, I can tell you very clearly that from the second half of the eighteenth chapter to the first half of the fifty-third chapter, everything is written within one year.I don’t think you should argue about this, because you will find out when you read it, the timing of its seasonal changes is very clear, and it can be said that it is not chaotic: "Yuanfei visits relatives", of course, I don’t count on New Year’s Eve, Turning around, it’s Chinese New Year, then Lantern Festival, then spring, then early spring, mid-spring, then late spring, then early summer, then summer, then autumn, then winter, then it snowed, and then It's time for the new year.Therefore, from the second half of the eighteenth chapter to the first half of the fifty-third chapter, the thirty-five chapters of the book are obviously written about the events of the year, and it combines the four seasons of spring, summer, autumn, and winter. , depicting the background of the season very clearly.So which year was the year in which these thirty-five chapters were written?It was the first year of Qianlong. Why do I say it is the first year of Qianlong?There is a lot of evidence.But I have too many issues to discuss here, so I won't list them one by one, but just give a few examples.First, let me give you a minimal example. In the eighteenth chapter, Jia Yuanchun’s family visit is written, and there are some details about the family visit. It is written about the so-called Luanyu Lubo-halobo is a classical Chinese word, which may not sound easy to you, but As soon as I tell you in vernacular, you will understand, it is a guard of honor.When the emperor travels or the concubine travels, there is a guard of honor in front of him. The guard of honor is very complicated and has very cumbersome rules of guard of honor.When writing about Yuan concubine visiting relatives, I wrote in the halogen book, "Pairs of dragons and phoenixes, pheasant feathers and Kui heads", etc. I will not quote the original text in detail, you can look it up yourself.But there is a detail in it that you should pay attention to, that is, it is mentioned in the book that when Jia Yuanchun visited his relatives, there was a cranked seven-phoenix gold umbrella in the guard of honor.The ceremonial guards in the past, the pictures you saw, or the movies and TV series that are now made, will all have such props.First of all, there will be a kind of umbrella in the guard of honor. Of course, this umbrella is not as small and low as the umbrellas in our life now. It has a long handle and a big canopy on it. There is one, sometimes three, layers of cloth surrounding it.Its main function is not to shade or rain, it has that function, but that is secondary, it mainly expresses a kind of majesty and is a symbol of power and status.Then in Cao Xueqin's works, there is a very specific term, and there is a specific utensil called the golden umbrella with seven phoenixes. Now let me tell you that this kind of golden umbrella with a crank was only available in the Qianlong Dynasty. Umbrella is a creation that only began in the Qianlong Dynasty.That is to say, in terms of ceremonial guards, it has to be improved continuously in each dynasty. The crank umbrella was only available in the Qianlong dynasty.Therefore, this sentence alone shows that from the end of the eighteen chapters to the fifty-three chapters, the story written in the book has a dynastic background that happened during the Qianlong period. But one detail of such a small object is not enough to fully explain the problem, because you might say that it can also borrow things from the Qianlong Dynasty here.Well, now, if you read Chapter 18 and Chapter 53, and read the stories of this year, you will find that one chapter, which is the twenty-seventh chapter, clearly proposes a date. What day is it?It is April 26th.The author clearly tells you that April 26th of this year is the Grain Grain Festival.We all know that the twenty-four solar terms of each year do not all fall on the same day, and some years are also leap years. The same solar term, the dates of similar years will differ by many days.There is one grain of ear in the twenty-four solar terms. Cao Xueqin tells you in the book that the year he wrote is the grain of ear on April 26th.Then you check the "Perpetual Calendar", the first year of Qianlong is the 26th day of the fourth month.This is no coincidence.In addition, some red scholars, such as Mr. Zhou Ruchang, have verified that April 26 is actually Cao Xueqin's birthday!The reason why the author wrote the story of this year so solemnly is because he was thirteen years old that year, his memory about that time was the most complete, and his life was the most beautiful in this year, so he riveted I have worked hard to write the story of this year.There are many times in the plot that Jia Baoyu is thirteen years old in those plots.For example, in the twenty-third chapter, when Jia Baoyu lived in the Yihong Courtyard of the Grand View Garden, he wrote a few poems to express his happy and leisurely life in the four seasons.In the narrative text, Cao Xueqin wrote: "Because of these poems, a class of snobs at that time saw that they were written by a 12 or 13-year-old son of the Rongguo Mansion, and they copied them and praised them everywhere?" Another example is the twentieth Five times, it is written that Jia Baoyu and Wang Xifeng were dying after being haunted by a nightmare. A monk suddenly appeared together to rescue him. It's been thirteen years!" It all means that the protagonist in the book has been born for thirteen years. You can read Mr. Zhou’s calculations about Cao Xueqin’s age and birthday. I will borrow his academic achievements here, and I will not give a general account because it is too complicated. Then in the novel, in an artistic story, Cao Xueqin set it as the year of April 26th, which is the Grain Grain Festival. This should prove that he wrote about the first year of Qianlong.Because the whole book is self-narrative and autobiographical, and it has a realistic premise. The sublimation of its art is rendered and completed on the basis of real time and space.It is very important to make this clear.Moreover, Cao Xueqin wrote very interestingly. He described the Grain Grain Festival on April 26 as the Flower Preservation Festival, the day of Preserving Flower God.Because when it is time to plant in the ear, all the flowers will be gone.There is a poem quoted in it, which is called "it's time for tea flowers to bloom" - it is said that tea flowers are the last to bloom, so they are also the last to wither. When it withers, basically there will be no flowers to bloom , the plants have all begun to bear fruit, and another situation has begun to appear.It is a very beautiful imagination to imagine that there is a flower god. After all the flowers bloom, the flower god will go to rest, so we have to say goodbye to him.The daughters and little girls in the boudoir pay special attention to this custom, so there is a description of that time in it, including Daiyu's burial of flowers.Why did Daiyu bury flowers on that day?Because that day was a day to bid farewell to the God of Flowers. She wanted to express her cherishment of flowers by burying flowers, a form of etiquette. She has worked hard for the God of Flowers for a year and brought us so much beauty. The scene of the flowers blooming, expressing gratitude.Of course, she also expressed her condolences, because it is still a pity that the flowers withered.The twenty-seventh chapter accurately places the date of the Mingmang Seed Festival, and capitalizes the God of Flowers, which proves that the first chapter, the fifty-third chapter, should be written about the first year of Qianlong. Then, the sixteen chapters from the fifty-fourth to the sixty-ninth, I can conclude that they are about the second year of Qianlong.It is written like this year by year.Why is it said that it is about the second year of Qianlong?I also have evidence.Because in this part, when I first wrote about the spring of that year, I wrote that there was a concubine in the palace, who was ill at first, and later said that the old concubine whom I represented last time passed away.remember?Do you have this explanation?I remember that I pointed it out to everyone earlier, the so-called concubine, old concubine, or the princess and concubine we will talk about in the future, sometimes refers to a person.Because for example, if a woman next to Kangxi was a concubine, she would have been a concubine in the Yongzheng Dynasty, right?People call her the concubine, which is very suitable; but after the death of Yongzheng, she became the old concubine in the Qianlong dynasty. In fact, the toffee and the old concubine written in the novel are the same person. So, is there a prototype for this person?Such a background character actually has a prototype.Just at the beginning of the second year of Qianlong, a woman beside Kangxi died in the palace.The novel faithfully describes a situation in the court in the second year of Qianlong's reign.In real life, the woman's surname is Chen, and her father's name is Chen Yuqing, who is of Han nationality.You can look up the relevant information about Kangxi now. Kangxi is a man with a lot of emotions and desires. There are forty women around him. They have been titled before and after, and there are more without titles; it is he who has given titles, or he After death, there were as many as forty women who were given titles by Yongzheng or Qianlong!Of course, more than 30 of them are Manchu women.In this regard, Kangxi is not only an emperor who knows how to enjoy himself, but also a person with great political principles.When these women come to the palace, he may be very fond of them and have children with her, but he is very cautious in giving titles. He basically only gives titles to Manchu women; some Han women are very beautiful. He gave birth to sons and raised daughters, but Kangxi was quite stingy when it came to titles for Han women.This shows that he is a politician, because he feels that if the Manchu regime is to be consolidated, some principles must be established, including the principle that the Manchus are superior to the Hans in detail, which is also necessary; because the Manchus are After the ethnic minorities entered the Central Plains, they ruled such a large number of people, most of them were Han people, so they couldn't let the Han people feel that they could be cocky, so after the Han women came to the palace, Kangxi had such an attitude. After this Chen family came to Kangxi's side, he was very favored; he also liked the son Chen gave birth to Kangxi very much.But in the Kangxi Dynasty, the title given to the Chen family was very low. The Chen family did not die until the Qianlong Dynasty. After Qianlong's death in the second year, Qianlong named her a concubine Xi, and she had not yet reached the level of concubine.But the novel describes her as a concubine, which is also understandable. After all, from life to art, it has a process of moderate exaggeration and exaggeration. When I say this, some friends may still want to discuss with me, saying, if you say this, it is still too much speculation, right?You are only because of the death of such a woman beside Kangxi in the palace in that year, and she was named a concubine later, you can say now that the novel's fifty-fourth back to the sixty-ninth chapter is about the second year of Qianlong Things, is it too arbitrary?I think, if I go on, you will feel that I am not arbitrary, because if I just point here and don’t say anything else, then my statement does not have sufficient basis.But, do you remember?There are some specific explanations in the later book, which are very strange.I have already said it before, and it is necessary to repeat it a little bit now. It is said in the book that Jia Mu, Mrs. Xing, and Mrs. Wang, according to the regulations of the court, must go to the funeral and sacrifice activities, and they cannot go home during the wake.So where did you spend the night?I wanted to find a place to rest, so I rented the family temple of a high official.This is not unusual at all. In the past, the nobles participated in funeral activities, as usual.In the rented family temple, it is clearly written in the novel that Jiamu and the others live in the east courtyard.So who lives in the west courtyard?The people of the Beijing Palace, the concubines and young concubines of the Beijing Palace live in the west courtyard.It seems to be a leisurely stroke, but if you think about it carefully, let's not talk about the reality of life, let's take the novel as an example, it doesn't make sense.Prince Jing, it has been stated in the novel that his title is Prince, isn't it?What are you Jia Jia?Compared with Jia Zheng's official position, it is much lower. Although Jia Amnesty has a title and a title, he is nothing more than a general, far worse than a prince.Moreover, in the past, the East was more expensive than the West, but Cao Xueqin wrote that the Jia family lived in the East Courtyard, and the King of Beijing lived in the West Courtyard. Based on life.In the lecture "The Mystery of the King of Beijing", I have already mentioned this situation, and that was to explain who the life prototype of the King of Beijing is. What year is described in the text. Regarding the timing issue in the movie, I will have a more detailed analysis in the next lecture.