Chapter 16 Chapter Four: The Mystery of Jia Yuanchun's Judgment

Jia Yuanchun seldom made official appearances in the first 80 episodes. She only had one of the main scenes when she was visiting relatives, and then she was a background figure.After eighty chapters, Jia Yuanchun must have something to play.Because in the judgment of the fifth round, Jia Yuanchun's later fate was foreshadowed. In the development of Hongxue, there is a saying that there are four unsolved mysteries. These four unsolved mysteries are: the mystery of Jia Yuanchun's verdict, the mystery of Jia Yuanchun's "Hate Impermanence", the mystery of the title of the book and the second The mystery of ten quatrains.What the first three riddles refer to, you can understand as soon as you hear them, they all appear in the text, and the fourth riddle needs a little explanation.This is not in the text, but in the process of hand-written manuscripts being circulated. In the middle of the Qianlong Dynasty, there was a man named Fucha Mingyi. After reading it, he wrote twenty quatrains. The poems revealed that what he saw The manuscript seems to be more than 80 chapters, but it is definitely not Gao E's continuation after the 80th chapter. In the poem, he tells some of the plots he saw after the 80th chapter, but he expresses it in the form of poetry, and puts When one's own emotions are mixed in, the meaning is very vague, and people's understandings are different, so it becomes an unsolved mystery.Because the red academic circles have been arguing endlessly about these four unsolved mysteries, it is difficult to reach a conclusion, so some people simply call them "the dead knot of the Red Mansion".

Among the four unsolved mysteries, two of the four knots are related to Jia Yuanchun.It can be seen that the verdict on Jia Yuanchun and the song "Hate Impermanence" in the fifth chapter are hard nuts to crack.However, these two mysteries must be solved, which is not only related to our understanding of the character Jia Yuanchun, but also related to our understanding of the whole book.I have also conducted research in this area for a long time, and I have also gained something. Now, after I have gnawed down these two hard bones, I will wholeheartedly dedicate myself to the solution of these two mysteries and the experience of opening these two knots. Tell everyone for reference.

Let's first look at the verdict on Jia Yuanchun.Jia Yuanchun is in the second place in the "Jinling Twelve Beauties" in the book "Jinling Twelve Beauties" in Taixu Illusion, and on her page, there is a drawing of a bow with citron hanging on it. Of course, the bow is drawn for It reminds us of "Gong", and the citron is of course to remind us of "Yuan". The bow is a murder weapon, and it is not a good omen to be hung on it; Sentence: "Twenty years of distinguishing right from wrong, durian flowers blooming to illuminate the palace. Three springs contend for the early spring scene, tigers meet and return with a big dream." What are these four short sentences expressing?What secrets are hidden behind each sentence?

"Twenty years to distinguish right from wrong", this is the first sentence of Jia Yuanchun's verdict.Literally, there is nothing difficult to explain. One is an era, and the other is doing one thing. The year is twenty years. What do you do? "Distinguish right from wrong".But the red academic circles used to think this sentence was weird. How do you count twenty years?From when to when?Someone said it, probably saying that Jia Yuanchun had been in the palace for twenty years.If you want to draft girls, according to the regulations of the Qing Dynasty, it will be held every three years. The most suitable candidates for girls are between the ages of 14 and 16, and sometimes the age will be slightly lower. Then let’s assume that Jia Yuanchun is selected at the age of 13. Twenty years after entering the palace, she will be thirty-three years old, and she will be a middle-aged woman.What does this "twenty years" mean?Does it mean that she has stayed in the palace for a long time, or does it mean that she has not stayed in the palace long enough?What are you talking about? "Twenty years" is hard to explain. "Distinguishing right from wrong" is even more difficult to explain.How did someone explain it in the past?It is said that she has been in the palace for twenty years, constantly trying to discern the right from wrong of the emperor.is it possible?Is this necessary?A woman is so easy to get the emperor's favor, she will spend twenty years to distinguish the emperor's right from wrong?In that society, the emperor has only right and no wrong, he is right no matter what, unless his power is taken away by others, he is a puppet emperor, otherwise, if he holds power, although sometimes he will listen to others He sometimes praises the so-called "critical ministers" for his opinions, but if he makes a decision, it is a final conclusion and he has to act accordingly. The emperor himself is the ultimate standard of right and wrong.Especially the concubines in the court at that time, the emperor strictly prohibited them from interfering in the government.In the Kang, Yong, and Qian dynasties of the Qing Dynasty, the emperor held this point very tightly, and there was no incident of concubines interfering with the court.So I think that it is written in the book that Jia Yuanchun spent twenty years distinguishing right from wrong, and it is impossible to distinguish right from wrong from the emperor.

Of course, some people insisted that "twenty years of distinguishing right from wrong" means constantly distinguishing the emperor's right from wrong for twenty years. That's what Jia Yuanchun did, and that's what Cao Xueqin meant.I also respect his opinion.There are different views, and everyone discusses it, so that we can get closer and closer to the real existence.Discussion is a good thing, everyone remember that it wrote "Qiu Shuang Zhai Oujie Begonia Society", what did Jia Baoyu say?Say, "Encourage everyone, don't let me give way. Everyone has their own opinions and speak out for everyone." We should follow Jia Baoyu's suggestion.Is the emperor wrong?From the standpoint of today's proletarian revolution, it goes without saying that you are implementing feudal autocratic rule, which is a big mistake; from the perspective of the peasant rebels at that time, the emperor is definitely a big mistake, which must be overthrown. bad things.The problem is that we are discussing the role of Jia Yuanchun in the novel. From Jia Yuanchun’s point of view, she will not determine the purpose of her life to distinguish the emperor’s right from wrong, and there is no plot about her in the novel. To distinguish right from wrong in the emperor, there is not even such a hint.So when we discuss the artistic image of Jia Yuanchun, it is difficult to explain who she is distinguishing right from wrong, and it took twenty years to distinguish.

Now I divide this sentence into two parts, let's discuss "twenty years" first.The word "twenty years" appears many times in it, please recall.There are often some chronological language in it. For example, in the fifth chapter, Fairy Jing Huan met Ning Rong Ergong. In the words that Ning Rong Ergong entrusted her, there was a concept of age. , Fame and fame, wealth and honor passed down, although it has lasted for a hundred years, Naiyun will be irretrievable at the end." Here, Ning Rong Ergong put forward a concept called "a hundred years", which means that the prosperity and wealth of their family has been passed down until the story takes place. At that moment, that is, when Jia Baoyu took a nap in Qin Keqing's bedroom in Ningguo Mansion, it has been a hundred years.This number roughly coincides with the number of years when the Qing Dynasty established their regime and experienced the Shunzhi, Kangxi, and Yongzheng dynasties. It is similar to the Cao family in life. The age at that time was roughly the same.This also shows once again that it is a novel with the characteristics of autonarrative, autobiographical, and family history.

What impressed everyone more should be Jiao Dazui's scolding in the seventh chapter.In the previous lectures, we quoted and analyzed some of Jiao Da's scolding words, so let's quote one more sentence below.There is a sentence in Jiao Dazui's scolding, he said, "Who is in the eyes of Mr. Jiao in the past twenty years?" "In the past twenty years", here is another "twenty years".When should Jiao Da refer to the "twenty years"?The novel is a virtual time and space. What we are going to discuss now is in real life. If it is a scorched life prototype at that time, what he said about the twenty years, "in the first twenty years", About when?In the previous lectures, I have already analyzed the historical background of the text. Although the author excuses that "there is no dating of the dynasty to test", in fact Zhiyanzhai pointed out that "there is a lot of research", and I have already verified it. The sixteenth chapter should generally be in the Yongzheng period, more specifically, in the late Yongzheng period, almost before Yongzheng's sudden death.Yongzheng, everyone knows that he was emperor for thirteen years, and died suddenly in August of the thirteenth year of Yongzheng.At the end of the Yongzheng Dynasty, it was said "twenty years", then minus the years of the Yongzheng Dynasty, it refers to the Kangxi Dynasty. "Who is in the eyes of Mr. Jiao in the past twenty years?" This sentence proves that the Jia family in the novel was more than 20 years ago. It was much stronger to have Joo Dae send him home.At that time, as an old servant, Jiao Da was very glamorous and pompous, and no one could afford to offend him.Considering that it is a novel with self-narrative, autobiographical, and family history features, we will look back and take a look in real life, and we will find that it is indeed, as I have said many times before, in Kangxi During the dynasty, the Cao family was the most beautiful.

I have already told you in the last lecture, the sixteenth chapter is actually about the violent death of Yongzheng and the enthronement of Qianlong. The whole story takes place in such a background, and the pace of the novel is accelerated, saying that "the master has gone to the East Palace again." , and then wrote that Jia Yuanchun not only "selected Fengzao Palace", but also got the emperor's special permission to go home to visit relatives, so Jia's mansion began to prepare for the visit, which is a great deal for the Jia family Everyone is very happy.At this time, the old servants in the family, Zhao Momo, and Wang Xifeng, they began to discuss the matter of visiting relatives.At this time, Wang Xifeng's words also contained some date numbers. For example, Wang Xifeng said, "I hate how young I am. If I was born 20 or 30 years earlier, these old people are not so thin now. I have not seen the world." The story of Shun Xun is more lively than a book." Wang Xifeng used a very general concept of time here, "twenty or thirty years".From the late Yongzheng Dynasty, 20 or 30 years ago, it was exactly the time period when Emperor Kangxi made his southern tour.Kangxi made his first southern tour in the 23rd year of Kangxi, the last southern tour was in the 46th year of Kangxi, and then he died in the 61st year of Kangxi.Yongzheng was emperor for only thirteen years. If you push forward from the thirteenth year of Yongzheng for twenty or thirty years, it is roughly the time when Kangxi made several southern tours.Therefore, when Cao Xueqin wrote Wang Xifeng, he also relied on real life.Cao Xueqin's writing about these characters and saying these words is not based on artistic creation or artistic imagination. Of course, writing novels can be completely divorced from real life and based on imagination. There are such novels in the world, but they do not belong to that type.

My personal research has confirmed that the chronological figures mentioned in it are all in line with the political situation in the Kang, Yong, and Qian dynasties, and the rise and fall of the Cao family. They can all be implemented and the prototype of life can be found. event, native state.There is an expression of chronological figures in the book, which I pay special attention to. It is in the forty-seventh chapter, Jia Mu has an expression, she said: "I entered this school, and I have been a great-grandson and daughter-in-law. Now I also have a great-grandson. Daughter-in-law, fifty-four years from head to toe, why have you experienced all kinds of shocking and strange things.” This number is suddenly accurate to the single digit, and you can see that it is all about “a hundred years” and “twenty years.” This time when Cao Xueqin wrote about Jia Mu, she didn't say "fifty" or "fifty-five". She said "fifty-four". I think this It's not accidental, it's not that Cao Xueqin wrote it here, just because of his whim, and wrote it casually.As I mentioned earlier, the character Jia Mu has a life prototype, and this life prototype can be confirmed very accurately.The prototype of Jia's mother is a younger sister of Li Xu, who married Cao Yin. In Li Xu's memorial to Kangxi, there is a very clear expression like "the wife of my sister Cao Yin, Li Shi".In the novel, Mrs. Li turned into the artistic image of Jia Mu.Look up the history of the Cao family. Mother Jia said this in the forty-seventh episode. I have already demonstrated to you what the background and timing of the episode are in the last few lectures. I will not repeat it here. According to my judgment , this time it should be written about the first year of Qianlong.Looking back fifty-four years from the first year of Qianlong, which year is it?It was the 21st year of Kangxi, when Cao Xi was still alive, and he was weaving in Jiangning.Cao Xi is the father of Cao Yin. Cao Yin was in the capital at that time, and he was the official or assistant leader of Zhiyi.Cao Yin was twenty-five years old at the time, and the prototype of Jia's mother should be roughly the same age as Cao Yin.She passed through the family at that time, married into Cao's family, and married Cao Yin. Counting from that time to the first year of Qianlong, it was exactly fifty-four years.She said, "Now I have a great-grandson and daughter-in-law." Some people may comment on this point, saying that Qin Keqing is dead.But careful readers may notice that after Qin Keqing died, Jia Rong continued to marry, and the novel mentioned that there was a wife of Jia Rong several times later in the novel, and it was written in the fifty-eighth chapter that after the death of the old concubine, "Jia Rong Mother, Xing, Wang, You, Xu's mother-in-law, grandson, grandson, etc. all go to the court every day for sacrifices." The last one in this sentence should be Jia Rong's wife.Her surname is mentioned here, her surname is Xu, but this person has no story in the first eighty chapters, and has completely become a shadow on the background.Later, in Gao E's continuation book, in the current version, Jia Rong's continued wife was named as Hu.So when Jia's mother said this, she said "I have a great-grandson and daughter-in-law now." Of course, that great-grandson and daughter-in-law no longer refers to Qin Keqing who she once thought was "the first proud person". It should be the Xu family.She said that she was a great-grandson daughter-in-law fifty-four years ago, which meant that when she married, there might have been a great-grandmother; from that year, fifty-four years later, she also had a great-grandson daughter in law.Moreover, Jia's mother said that the past fifty-four years were not peaceful, and she experienced many shocks and dangers, all kinds of strange things, which is also in line with the situation of the Cao family in history.After Cao Yin married the Li family, until his death at the end, it was really a shocking and dangerous event.

I say so much, for what purpose?That is to say, the "twenty" that tells you to "distinguish right from wrong in the past twenty years" is not a number that you write down casually, but, like the numbers I just mentioned, it is also a number that can be calculated accordingly. What kind of algorithm is "twenty years"?I personally think that it does not mean that Jia Yuanchun has been in the palace for 20 years, that is not what it means, but that Jia Yuanchun has worked hard for 20 years for one thing.For what?Most of the judgments we read now are called "Twenty Years to Distinguish Right from Wrong". In fact, in ancient books, it is not exactly written like this. Years to identify who", this is worth thinking about.It is very likely that this sentence in such an ancient book is closer to Cao Xueqin's original meaning.For twenty years, she has been judging who a person is. This person is definitely not the emperor. Does she still need to judge who the emperor is?What she judged was Qin Keqing in the novel.Because, from the situation of the Jia family described in this novel, it is impossible for Jia Yuanchun to be very old.If Jia Yuanchun is very old and Mrs. Wang cannot give birth to her, Mrs. Wang in the novel is nothing more than a woman in her fifties or close to sixty.Jia Yuanchun, we also mentioned her life prototype in the last lecture, she should be a daughter of Cao Fu of the Cao family, or a daughter of Cao Yong, in short, she should be a sister or cousin of Cao Xueqin.This person should have had a chance to be selected when they were drafting girls, and because their Cao family’s background is not particularly good, although they belong to the Zhengbai Banner in the Shangsan Banner, they belong to the descendants of the Baoyi family in the Zhengbai Banner, the emperor Favoring your family can make your man an official, but in terms of status and blood, she can't compare with those women from authentic Manchu families.So at the beginning, I have analyzed it in the last one or two lectures. She may not be able to directly enter the palace of the emperor. She may be assigned to the residence of the prince under the emperor or other elder brothers. To serve those people, she completed her journey of life step by step from bottom to top, from low to high.

Jia Yuanchun, generally speaking, she should be slightly older than Qin Keqing, and she is nothing more than four or five years older.When she was four or five years old, she discovered that a mysterious woman appeared in their family, slightly younger than her.This girl was said to be adopted by a small official, and then sent to Ningguo Mansion. She may have been a child bride at first, because she was still very young at that time, and she grew up in Ningguo Mansion.Qin Keqing, judging from the description in the novel, it is full of grandeur and grandeur. I have already analyzed it a lot, so I won’t repeat it.In real life, this person, as a daughter of the deposed prince, did not really grow up in a poor official family.The reason why she was hidden was to prevent her from being locked up with her parents.After she was adopted by the Cao family, the situation of the Cao family was not very good at that time. It was not as rich and prosperous as the Ningrong and Rongfu in the book, but she could not be imprisoned, and she would have freedom. Maintaining secret contact, you can also communicate with other sympathizers in the royal family who know her true identity but do not reveal it, as well as princes and nobles who really think she is the daughter-in-law of the Cao family and accept the Cao family, such as Kangxi’s 21st elder brother The female relatives in families like Yunxi communicated openly and established a relatively close relationship.Therefore, her living environment and growth environment are definitely not the environment of a small official family, nor is it only the environment of the Cao family. She should have a broader and profound growth environment. I have pointed out to you many times before that after Yongzheng ascended the throne, he had to deal with a lot of political enemies. He would not let down his vigilance against the abolished princes, but he did not regard them as the first choice to attack.And for Hongxi, the son of the deposed prince, he followed Kangxi's will and named him the county king, and later promoted him to the prince—of course he moved Hongxi to Zhengjiazhuang to live, and he was not allowed to live in the imperial city.This kind of arrangement is not confinement. Yongzheng cannot publicly announce that he is confinement. This should be different from the treatment of the abolished prince on the surface.Of course Yongzheng would monitor Hongxi, but Hongxi’s degree of freedom should be much greater than the state of confinement. Later, Hongxi privately established the Seventh Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. It can be seen that Hongxi still has a relatively large room for activities. .Then, it is impossible for Hongxi not to pay attention to his younger sister who is hiding in the Cao family, and it is impossible for this younger sister not to have relations with Hongxi and her family members after she grows up; Since she has freedom of movement, she can live in the Prince's Mansion in Zhengjiazhuang for a short period of time or for a long period of time.Therefore, the reason why Qin Keqing is not only noble in blood, but also has a kind of insight and cultivation higher than that of the Jia family, is completely understandable from the growth process of her prototype. Why did Jia Yuanchun come to figure out who this Qin Keqing in her family is? I have already analyzed this for you in the last one or two lectures.The prototype of Jia Yuanchun is probably a sister of Cao Xueqin, who was first sent to participate in the draft, and because her own conditions were not very good, she might not be selected to the emperor's side at the beginning, and she was probably sent to serve Yin Feng, Hongxi and the others.You think, if on the eve of Yinreng's second abolition, Yinreng's family had done such a thing, concealing the fact that a woman who was about to give birth had given birth to a child, or lied about the birth of a baby. It is entirely possible for the dead baby to be smuggled out of the palace and placed in a bureaucratic family that is closely related to him and has always been close to him.As for Jia Yuanchun's prototype when she was a child, she may vaguely feel that this girl who is younger than her is a bit strange, but she cannot have a deep consciousness, and she does not necessarily have a strong interest in carefully identifying who she is.But when she was in the living space of Yinreng and Hongxi, she would faintly feel something strange from the whispering of some women in that space.The mansion said it was a child, and then the baby who was born and then died was probably the girl who suddenly appeared in her family when she was a child, so she kept thinking about this matter.The reason why the judgment was written in some ancient books, "Who has been identified in the past twenty years", it means that Jia Yuanchun has been pondering, who is this woman in their Jia's mansion?She didn't start to "identify who" when she was around the current emperor. She began to wonder when she was four or five years old. Later, she was selected in the female draft, and she was still discerning. Then her life had a big turning point. When she reached her twentieth year, her judgment was mature, and she spoke out. I analyzed in the last lecture that Jia Yuanchun's life prototype was later moved from Yinreng and Hongxi's side to Hongli's side through the secondary distribution of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.After she gradually grasped the conclusive evidence, she chose the best time to expose this matter and reported Qin Keqing's hiding.You think that if she started thinking about this matter at the age of four or five, she should be twenty-four or five years old in twenty years; and Hongli was almost twenty-four or five years old when he became emperor. The age of these two people should be It is relatively equivalent.Hongli must have developed a good impression of such a woman from the Cao family who came to him, and she was favored by Hongli.At this time, Yongzheng died violently and Hongli ascended the throne. The first thing Hongli did after he ascended the throne was to heal the political wounds and do solidarity work from top to bottom.Jia Yuanchun's prototype, that is, the woman from the Cao family in real life, after seeing this situation, felt that this was the best time.Whether it's this life prototype or Jia Yuanchun in the novel, he has to choose the best time to report on the family's hiding of the royal woman.She wants to achieve three goals: the first goal, she feels that she must stick to principles, I am a member of the royal family, and I want to stick to a supreme royal principle, some people in the royal family have done such wrong things, I Duty to disclose.Her second purpose is to protect her family. She revealed that her family hides people who shouldn't be hidden, not to implicate her family, but to protect her parents and liberate her family.Why come to report at this time, and her family can be pardoned and relieved?What did she see the new emperor busy with?It is just putting an end to all these royal legacy problems.At the same time, the third purpose is to achieve a wish hidden in her heart.It is impossible for her not to have a desire to climb up, because after doing such a thing, and the family cooperated very well, the emperor would think her loyal, filial and virtuous, so in the novel it is written that the emperor finally promoted Jia Yuanchun, so she " Only then did Fengzao Palace be selected, and a Xiande concubine be added."What is written in the novel, although the order of what happened in real life is slightly shifted, it should be like this in general.After my analysis in this way, if you read chapters 13 to 16 in the novel again, you will feel that the time arrangement of the narrative is basically reasonable.Therefore, I think the meaning of the sentence "distinguishing right from wrong in the past 20 years" should be very clear and not difficult to explain. Regarding Jia Yuanchun's verdict, the second sentence is "the place where the durian flowers bloom illuminates the palace".Regarding this sentence, many redology researchers believe that it has no special meaning, but is just a description of the landscape.I don't think so, this sentence also needs to decipher the deep meaning. "The place where the durian flowers bloom illuminates the palace". "Pomegranate" is pomegranate, what is the characteristic of pomegranate?Pomegranate has many seeds.Why are pomegranate trees planted in the courtyards where concubines live in the Forbidden City?Sometimes it is not directly planted in the ground, but in a large pot. Now when you visit the Forbidden City, you can sometimes find that there are pomegranate trees all over the platform.In feudal society, from the royal family to ordinary people, they all hope to have more children and more blessings.Emperor Kangxi himself is a role model. You can see that he has so many children, and he is proud and happy that he has many children. What does "the pomegranate blooms" mean?I personally think it means that the Jia Yuanchun in the novel is actually pregnant for the emperor, so she is so favored by the emperor.Generally speaking, when an emperor favors a woman, in most cases, it is because she has given birth to herself, especially a son for herself.So why did Jia Yuanchun have a miserable fate later on?Because we can't see any trace from the novel that she gave birth to the child she was pregnant with.In real life, the situation may also be very tragic. Her prototype gave Qianlong a child, but the child was not born smoothly.So "the place where the pomegranate blooms illuminates the palace", the pomegranate tree is blooming, and the pomegranate tree blooming means that it will bear pomegranate fruit, but will it bear fruit?It is not "the pomegranate knot shines on the palace", it is just "the pomegranate flower", and the pomegranate is not completely formed.Just point out this sentence, Jia Yuanchun is in such a state. The third sentence about Jia Yuanchun's judgment is "Three Springs Contest and Early Spring Scenery".Regarding this judgment, many researchers of red studies believe that it refers to the relationship between the four ladies of the Jia family—Yuanchun, Yingchun, Tanchun and Xichun. People are not as prominent as Yuanchun, so it is "the struggle of three springs and the scene of early spring". Then why this sentence is said to be "the knot in the Red Mansion", is it a mystery?As we all know, the Jia family has four women of the same generation, Yuan, Ying, Tan and Xi.The first characters of the names of these four women have another homonym, which is "should be sighing", "should be sighing for them".This is Cao Xueqin's artistic summary for these poor-fated women whose final fates are all bad.Their names all contain the word spring, so it can be said to be the four springs-Yuanchun, Yingchun, Tanchun, and Xichun.Therefore, "Three springs compete for the early spring scenery", many people interpret it as, you see how beautiful Yuanchun is, when Yuanchun came to the emperor's side, "only Fengzao Palace was selected, and a virtuous concubine was added", and you are not as good as her in Yingchun, Tanchun, and Xichun. , So it is called "Three Springs Struggle and Early Spring Scenery".But that doesn't make sense.Why doesn't it make sense?Because the verdict and song about Twelve Hairpins in the fifth round are not about their status for a period of time, but summarize their overall fate and point out their ending.So as far as the ending is concerned, Yingchun is indeed the most miserable. After she married "Zhongshan Wolf" Sun Shaozu, she was soon trampled to death; but Tanchun and Xichun did not die. It’s better than dying; as for Yuan Chun, after we read the verdict and then read the song “Hate Wuchang” about her, we know that she died tragically afterwards.In the twenty-second chapter, Yuan Chun's poem on lantern riddles also clearly foreshadowed her tragic death: "The sound made people frightened, and when I looked back at the prime minister, it was turned into ashes." How did she die, those plots, related The details, because Cao Xueqin's text was lost after the 80th chapter, so it may be a little troublesome to discuss, but her ending is a tragic death, which is indisputable!If you have to compare the endings of the four women, you can only sigh "How can the spring welcome be as good as the early spring scene", how can it be "three springs to reach the early spring scene"?And Yuanchun is Yuanchun, what do you say Chuchun is doing?So if you explain it this way, the more you explain, the more chaotic you will be. If you don't interpret "Three Springs" as the three characters in Yuan, Ying, Tan, and Xi, and if you don't understand "Chun" as referring to people, then the more you read, the more confused you will be.It's not just about this sentence, there are many sentences with the word "three springs" in the book, such as "exploring the three springs will not last long", "seeing through the three springs", not to mention the fact that we repeatedly quoted Qin Keqing's words before his death. Sister Feng asked her dream, and the last words and verses she read were called "After the three springs go, all the fragrances will be exhausted, and each of them must find his own door."So if you are stuck in the "spring" and there are four people who come back and forth to arrange the "three springs", no matter how you arrange them, there will be no reason. , how do you count "go"?If death counts as "going", then only Yingchun and Yuanchun are dead, and it should be said "after the second spring is gone, all fragrances will be exhausted"; "Fang is exhausted", how can it not be counted as "three springs".So what exactly do the "three springs" in these words refer to?In fact, it is very simple. It does not refer to three women but to three springs. "After the three springs have passed" means "three springs have passed".So what does "three springs contend for and the early spring scene" mean?If you understand "three springs" as three springs, that is to say, if you understand "three springs" as three beautiful years, this problem will be solved easily.Although there are four seasons in a year, if we feel that we have not lived well for three years, we can say that these three years are "three winters", because winter generally makes people feel colder. "Three springs" should refer to a total of three good years.You put aside the thinking stuck on the four people, and you shift your thinking to the words that are understood in terms of years, and all these words are fully understood, and they can be understood in a hundred ways. "Three Springs Contest and Early Spring", that is, Jia Yuanchun's best day is the first year when she was named Xiande Concubine, it is the first year of Qianlong, it is the early spring, first of all, she kissed her relatives, how wonderful, isn't it?The novel also wrote the stories of the second spring and the third spring, and the background was about the second year of Qianlong and the third year of Qianlong. Due to various reasons, although the situation of Yuanchun was relatively good at that time, she went home to visit her relatives again. Yet?there is none left.So for Jia Yuanchun, it is indeed "the struggle for three springs and the scene of early spring".She has three beautiful springs in total, but if you compare these three springs, which spring is the best?early spring.In this way, the trajectory of Jia Yuanchun's development of her destiny is expressed. The fourth sentence of Jia Yuanchun's verdict is "Hu Si meets and returns in a dream".Regarding this sentence, the red academic circles are even more controversial.So where is the focus of debate in the red academic circles?What does this sentence mean? "The tiger meets the big dream and returns", I read it like this, and I see some red fans frowning there, and they may say to me: Did you read it wrong?Isn't it "the tiger and the rabbit meet and return in their dreams"?The version you read is likely to say "the tiger and the rabbit meet and return to the dream", and the later popular editions all write "the tiger and the rabbit meet and return to the dream".But whether it is "the tiger and the rabbit meet and return in their dream" or "the tiger and the rabbit meet and return to their dream" is a very hot topic in research. Some researchers believe that it turned out to be "Tiger Rabbit", because the word "rabbit" is very similar to "兕", and the handwriting of the year was wrong; The word "兔" was mistakenly copied, because the word "兕" is rarer than the word "兔". If it turned out to be "兔", it is hard to imagine that someone would copy a common word into a word that many people can't write and don't know. How to read the strange character; some researchers also believe that Gao E chose the word "rabbit" when he continued the book, and he had ulterior motives, deliberately dissolving the power struggle information conveyed in Cao Xueqin's original work as a kind of fate , a superstition. My personal opinion is this. In my opinion, Cao Xueqin's original intention should be "the tiger meets the big dream and returns". Tiger, no need to explain, a beast.Si is also a ferocious beast, a rhinoceros-like beast, a unicorn, is very ferocious, has a large body and great strength, and it is terrifying to stand up to a human.It can be said that there is a fight between it and the tiger. It is difficult to say that the tiger must win, and it is also difficult to say that the Si must win.What happened to Jia Yuanchun in the fierce battle between the tiger and the two beasts? "Big dream returns".You should be able to understand this, which means that she is dead, life is like a dream, and her soul returns to Lihentian, she is dead. But some people insist that it is "the tiger and the rabbit meet and return in their dreams".Gao E, Cheng Weiyuan and the others followed up forty chapters, writing about the death of the concubine Yuan.Gao E's continuation book has some advantages, I don't want to deny it completely, but Gao E's writing about Jia Yuanchun's death is really ridiculous, now let's take a look at how he wrote it. First of all, Gao E said how did Jia Yuanchun die?No accidents happened, she was "after choosing the Fengzao Palace, the holy family was grand, and her body was blessed", which is obesity in today's terms.Said that she "was strenuous to move, was tired every day, and had phlegm disease from time to time", said that she ate too much meat, her throat was always clogged with phlegm, and after "occasional cold air", she "brought back old diseases", After recalling her old illness, "the phlegm qi was blocked and her limbs were extremely cold", so she passed away.She was fat, phlegm, and maybe caught a cold, so she died peacefully in Fengzao Palace.So, whether it is the verdict of the fifth chapter above, whether it is about her song "Hate Impermanence", or about her lantern riddle poem, it is equivalent to writing in vain, without any suggestion, and it has become nonsense.Gao E told us in this way that Jia Yuanchun passed away in the palace very peacefully and normally. 那他怎么解释“虎兔相逢大梦归”呢？这不是我非要跟高鹗过不去。他实在没办法，他写的才确实是胡言乱语，他这么说，“是年甲寅年十二月十八日立春，元妃薨日是十二月十九日，已交卯年寅月，存年四十三岁。”他就说，因为那一年是卯年，那个月是寅月，卯就是兔，寅就是虎，所以这不就是“兔虎相逢”了吗，她就大梦归了。首先，这是兔虎相逢，不是虎兔相逢，应该先把年搁前头，把月搁后头，对不对？再加上中国人关于属相关于十二生肖的规定，都是冲着年说的，几乎没有人把一月到十二月，按十二生肖来划分的；你们家，你自己，你们家老人，老祖辈有这么分的吗？现在是阴历几月呀？属于哪个属相啊？有这么问吗？一般不这么做。更何况，他语无伦次在哪儿呢？他自己说“是年甲寅年十二月十八日立春”，他说那是一个甲寅年，甲寅年那是虎年啊——过去也确实有一种说法，就是立春以后，可以算是另外一年了，甲寅过后是乙卯，你就说元春是死在虎年和兔年相交接的日子不就行了吗？他又偏不按年与年说，非按年与月说，也许他的意思是到了卯年了，但月还属于寅年的月，所以卯中有寅，算是兔虎相逢。但这样营造逻辑，实在是说的人和听的人都脑仁儿疼。我认为，说来说去，他就是要回避“虎兕相逢”这个概念，他一定要写成“虎兔相逢”，这个起码可以说它是败笔吧。而且他说贾元春去世的时候四十三岁，在那个社会四十三岁是一个很大的年纪，就是说贾元春死的时候已是一个小老太太，这个也很古怪，不知道他怎么想的。“才选凤藻宫”没多久，贾元春就四十三岁了。高鹗他续八十回以后，他也没有很大的时间跳跃，没有说现在过了三年、过了五年，他没这么说，他就那么煞有介事地，按前八十回的那个时间顺序往下写。他写到贾元春死的时候，离元妃省亲也不过是几年的事情，这样往回推算的话，一个三十七八岁的妇女，还能得到皇帝那么大的宠爱吗？也没有生下一个儿子来。当然，他有想象的自由，问题是我不跟着他想象，我觉得他这个读起来不舒服。按我的分析，贾元春在省亲的时候不过二十四五岁，我那样算，和书中对其他年代的交代是对榫的，和真实生活当中曹家的情况也是能够大体对榫的，所以我觉得我的这个思路应该还是成立的。何况古本上写的就是“虎兕相逢大梦归”，就是意味着两个猛兽进行恶斗，在这个过程当中，贾元春不幸地一命呜呼，最后只得到一个人生如梦的感叹。这样，我们现在就把贾元春的判词完全读通了，它不再是不解之谜，更不是什么死结，是个蝴蝶结，一抻就解开了。 当然了，第五回不仅是通过一个判词来暗示贾元春的最后结局，还通过了十二支曲当中的一支曲《恨无常》，来概括贾元春的命运。因此对贾元春的死亡原因如果要做探究的话，就必须对《恨无常》曲以及书中其他的一些描写来做研究，来做分析。我的下一讲，就将专门跟大家一起来讨论贾元春之死，我们下一讲再见。