Chapter 19 Chapter Two: The Mystery of the Naming of the Four Fairies in the Illusory Realm

Miaoyu, she is neither a woman from one of the four major families, nor married into one of the four major families as a daughter-in-law. She has fewer roles in the book than Xue Baoqin, but Cao Xueqin cherishes this woman very much, and he must list her as a She is a woman in the Jinling Twelve Beauties, and she will be ranked sixth.Can we find some clues from the book to decipher some of the mysteries of Cao Xueqin's setting up this character?I think there is a clue. The text of the fifth chapter, you read it carefully, it is very interesting, Jia Baoyu went to the illusory land, Jing Huan Fairy led him to play around, and finally Jing Huan Fairy called some fairies from the fairyland to meet him.

Some readers are careless, and they don’t think this detail is worth noting, so now I bring it up for discussion, he still finds it strange, he simply doesn’t remember such a sum.Now I ask everyone to pay attention. When Cao Xueqin wrote about Jia Baoyu's imaginary journey to the Void Realm, he specifically wrote that after looking through the album of Jinling Twelve Beauties, Jia Baoyu went to the back of the fairy mansion with the policeman Huanxiangu, but saw Beaded curtains, embroidered curtains, painted buildings and carved eaves, and the fragrance of fairy flowers and exotic grasses, at this time, Fairy Jing Huan called out: "You come out to welcome the distinguished guests!" The fairies still looked down on Jia Baoyu, and after being explained by Jing Huan, they accepted him.Jia Baoyu was unfamiliar with the immortals in the fairyland and was very restrained. However, he suddenly found that in the room where the immortals lived, there was saliva under the windows and powder stains in the dowry, which gave it a very human atmosphere.Makeup and powder stains are easy to understand, that is to say, these fairies, like Xue Baochai and Shi Xiangyun, use cosmetics to dress themselves up; what is saliva?In the past, when women embroidered, they had to bite off the silk thread with their teeth after stopping the needle, so that some fluff of the silk thread would be contained in the mouth, and it needed to be spit out. The spit out thing was called saliva.This is something that Jia Baoyu, who is among his daughters, often sees in Rongguo Mansion, so he is very kind when he sees it.Cao Xueqin wrote this to imply that these fairies in the fairyland are actually connected with the women in the world.So Cao Xueqin wrote that after Jia Baoyu felt kind, he took the initiative to ask the names of the fairies.

There are many fairies in the fairyland, but he didn't write too much, he just wrote about the four most important fairy girls. These four most important fairy girls all have fairy names. Have you considered these four fairy names?Cao Xueqin did not just write it casually.The arrangement order of the four celestial aunts in the Illusory Realm is like this. The texts in all ancient books are consistent on this point. One is the Fairy of Crazy Dreams, the other is the Great Master of Love, the first is the Golden Lady of Sorrow, and the first is Bodhi of Rescue.Many people don't scrutinize, but these names are too worthy of scrutiny.Although the illusory realm is an illusory space set up by the author, the author presupposes the fate of some characters in reality in this space, so the fifth chapter is very important and should be a general outline of the whole book.So when he wrote about the Four Fairies of the Illusory Realm, he even gave them their names. He definitely didn’t just write them casually. Thousands of branches of trees, one origin and ten thousand sects, are all grass snakes and gray threads, stretching thousands of miles.So the naming of the Four Fairies, I will now tell you my deliberations. In fact, Cao Xueqin pointed out to you at this place that in Jia Baoyu's life, the four women who played a major role in his destiny, he named the Four Fairies. The four names chosen allude to the four beauties in the Jinling Twelve Beauties.Please note that I said the names of the four fairies are alluding to the four women in the Grand View Garden in the book, not that they are the four women, but the insinuation in this place is very important, and the author's intention should be clarified.So, does the name of the Four Fairies allude to which four women in the official book of the Twelve Beauties of Jinling?Let's talk about it one by one.

A dream fairy.Needless to say, this alludes to Lin Daiyu.To emphasize again, I mean that the name of this fairy alludes to Lin Daiyu, not that this fairy is Lin Daiyu. Before Lin Daiyu came down to the mortal world, she was the crimson bead fairy grass on the bank of the Sansheng Stone on the bank of the Ling River in the west. Sometimes, her living soul would ascend to the heavens to play. During that time, Lin Daiyu in the human world should be dreaming; Why did Zhu Meizi's living soul come to such a dirty thing instead?Please understand what I’m talking about now. I mean, the name of Four Immortals is a metaphor specially set up by Cao Xueqin to refer to the four most important women in Jia Baoyu’s life. Then the name Chimeng Immortal is Alluding to Lin Daiyu.Lin Daiyu is very idiotic, and the fifty-seventh episode is called "Aunt Ci's love words comfort the idiot".Whether Aunt Xue is really kind or not—some critics pointed out that she actually lived in the Xiaoxiang Pavilion to monitor Lin Daiyu—will not be discussed here for the time being, but readers agree that the word "foolish" is used to label her aunt.Lin Daiyu is immersed in the dream of love. She herself is a fairy descended from the heaven, the crimson pearl fairy grass in the sky. It is more appropriate to use the name Chimeng Fairy to refer to her.She is the most important woman in Jia Baoyu's life, and Jia Baoyu really loves this person.Some people guess this or that, does Jia Baoyu also love Xue Baochai, Shi Xiangyun, and Miaoyu? Jia Baoyu is also very frivolous with some girls, and he has physical relationships with some girls. , but in the true strict sense of love, he only gave it to one person, that is, Lin Daiyu; not to mention Lin Daiyu, she dedicated all her emotions to Jia Baoyu.Therefore, Fairy Chimeng alludes to Lin Daiyu. In Baoyu's life, she is the most important and crucial.

So who is the second?Pay attention to the order of the four fairy maidens in the Illusory Realm. The second one is called Dashi Zhongqing. Which one is it?It is alluding to Shi Xiangyun among the twelve hairpins in Jinling.Why do you say that?Because in the same chapter, the author's judgment for Shi Xiangyun and a song about Shi Xiangyun are very clear.Who is Shi Xiangyun?He has never cared about his children's personal relationships. Fortunately, this person was born heroic and magnanimous. Although he is a woman, he has a masculine demeanor.It is written several times in the novel that she dressed up as a boy in Jia Baoyu's clothes, and made Jia's mother think she was Baoyu.Do you remember this kind of plot?What game does she play?Throw your whole body on the snow.Remember, there is this description.Moreover, she and Jia Baoyu also ate barbecue and venison in Luxue Temple. You think it is a very popular way to eat barbecue now, but a noble woman from a feudal and big family back then actually covered herself with wire Barbecuing with your own hands is very special, and Aunt Li in the book is very surprised by this.So he summed up Shi Xiangyun with "Love Dashi".The so-called love, there is a concept called "kind of love" in the book, that is, people who know how to feel, and this place is written as "kind of love" in some ancient books.The master of love, Shi Xiangyun is indeed a person who sows happiness and emotion, but from the previous 80 chapters, she herself does not know much about the love between men and women. She calls Jia "love brother" and "love brother". Baoyu (because she bit her tongue, she said "two" as "love"), that is the embodiment of the purest friendship between boys and girls.The so-called boudoir love is the driving force that moved Cao Xueqin the deepest, urging him to transcend the general political and social emotions and write in pursuit of poetic life. Shi Xiangyun is a lively woman full of such pure feelings. "Dashi" is a Buddhist language, which generally refers to Guanyin Dashi in the folk, that is, Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva.Bodhisattvas generally speaking, according to my understanding, have no gender, and are a kind of existence in the heavenly realm that can relieve the suffering of ordinary people in the world.The reason why Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva is so popular is because Avalokitesvara has a female appearance, which is very gentle and kind. In fact, Avalokitesvara does not care about men and women; on the other hand, Dashi and Avalokitesvara themselves mean that they have a female appearance, so they are not familiar with romance when they are used to insinuate , Shi Xiangyun, who is masculine but very feminine, is also very appropriate.She is another very important woman in Jia Baoyu's life, and more than one red scholar, through their research and textual research, pointed out that after the eighty chapters of the novel, Shi Xiangyun will be written: She may have married a very A good husband, but the husband died of illness; or before she got married, her family suffered a heavy blow, the family was ruined, and everyone went through ups and downs.In a very difficult situation, she and Jia Baoyu in the novel "because of the unicorn and the white first double star"-this is a review of the first eighty chapters, remember?They met in the end, loved each other, and stayed together for the rest of their lives.Of course, this is just a rough summary, and things should not be that simple, and I will discuss them in detail with you in the future.

Then in Jia Baoyu's last years, the woman who accompanied him was Shi Xiangyun.Of course, there are disputes about this post-80 exploration, but there are also many arguments to support this argument.People in the period of the Republic of China once saw another kind of continuation book, and the other 80 chapters of the continuation were the early sequelists. The encounter between Baoyu and Shi Xiangyun; others saw it even more bizarre. The sequel did not follow the eightieth chapter we saw at the beginning, but the first chapter of his sequel was Jia Baoyu and Shi Xiangyun as beggars. Couples, begging there, it can be seen that the last ending of the ancient book seen by the sequelist is that Shi Xiangyun and Jia Baoyu are a pair of poor and humble couples, begging there together.Shi Xiangyun was so important in Jia Baoyu's life, and became more and more important later on.

The third of the Four Immortals is the Yinshou Golden Girl, which is easier to discuss. The Golden Girl is Xue Baochai, and Xue Baochai wears a golden lock, right?Let me insert a sentence here. I mentioned the various titles of this book earlier. Maybe someone will remind you later: You forgot one, and there is another title called "Jin Yu Yuan".Let me tell you now, when Cao Xueqin was alive, neither he nor Zhi Yanzhai, nor those who were close to him at that time, nor those who were not close to him, ever called this book "Jin Yu Yuan".Gao E's continuation book, and Cheng Weiyuan's moveable type printing, have never been called this way, and the title of the book was called only later.According to the consciousness of those who called it "Golden Jade Fate" at the time, it mainly told the story of Xue Baochai, a woman wearing a golden lock, and a man who was born with a psychic gem in his mouth, so it was called "Golden Jade Fate". ,Yes or no?That's how they understand it.I can understand it logically, and I can agree with it.It is true that Xue Baochai is a golden girl, but this golden girl caused Jia Baoyu countless worries and sorrows in her life, so she is a golden girl who causes sorrow.Xue Baochai is also very unfortunate. This is a very beautiful, talented, thoughtful, and accomplished woman. How to evaluate her will be discussed later.But she was also very unfortunate in the end. Although she married Jia Baoyu, we can know from many clues that the two of them did not really live a married life. She was a widow and died of depression in the end.This is a very miserable woman, she is a golden girl who causes sorrow, and she is also a woman who has played a great role in Jia Baoyu's life.

A friend pointed out to me that the golden girl may also refer to Shi Xiangyun. She wears a golden unicorn, which is relatively small, and it is a female unicorn. Jia Baoyu also got a relatively large unicorn, which is a male unicorn from Taoist Zhang. Kirin. "Because of Qilin Fubai's first double star", you said that Jia and Shi met later, isn't that also a "golden jade fate"?My answer is: first, the person who called it "Golden Jade Fate" almost never thought of "gold" on Shi Xiangyun; second, although Shi Xiangyun wore a golden unicorn, she never caused Jia Baoyu to feel sad , so the "golden girl who attracts sorrow" can only allude to Xue Baochai and not Shi Xiangyun.As for the role of Xue Zhijin and Shi Zhijin in the book, I will explore them later when I talk about them specifically.

In the above, I have investigated three of the four fairies in the Illusory Realm. Although it took a bit of trouble, I don't think you will be very surprised when the results come out. What about number four?Who is the Bodhi of Resilience alluding to?As you all know, Bodhi is a Buddhist term, which also refers to the Bodhi tree. It is said that there are only two trees in Beijing.It is said that Sakyamuni enlightened under the Bodhi tree and founded Buddhism at that time, so Bodhi means Bodhisattva, and by extension, it also means saving suffering and suffering, or it means awakening and awakening in Buddhist teachings.Then, the Bodhi of Rescuing Hatred is the person who finally guided Jia Baoyu through all the hardships and hardships, and finally got rid of hatred—the hardest part of emotion—and brought him into a new spiritual realm.Who is this woman?I think it is Miaoyu.You may be somewhat surprised when you hear me point it out, but if you think about it carefully, you may agree with my analysis.

Therefore, in fact, Lin Daiyu, Shi Xiangyun, Xue Baochai, and Miaoyu are the four most important women in Jia Baoyu's life.This has already been revealed to the readers by the names given to them when the fifth chapter of Jing Huan Fairy led the four fairy girls to meet Jia Baoyu.This reflects that in Cao Xueqin's overall conception, although Miaoyu's appearances in the first 80 episodes were relatively small and her roles were relatively light, after the 80th episode, she would be the one who made Jia Baoyu and Shi Xiangyun finally break away The key figure in the combination of suffering, she is a Bodhi who saves hatred.I will expand on this meaning below.

The illusory realm in the book is a riddle-like layout method. Cao Xueqin used Jia Baoyu's journey to the illusory realm to make a general prediction about the fate of the "Twelve Beauties of Jinling", and outline a rough outline for readers.But as for the four fairies in it, few people have ever studied them. I think their names allude to the four most important women in Jia Baoyu's life.The three women, Lin Daiyu, Xue Baochai, and Shi Xiangyun, can be said to be recognized as people who are closely related to Jia Baoyu. This view is probably acceptable to most people, but the fourth Miaoyu, if I emphasize this, some people will think it is far-fetched. ? If you really think so, then I say, you should discuss it with me, I never feel that my own views are all right.Don't think that I am here to talk about these things, I am here to give a lecture, as if I think that I am right, I want to tell everyone what is right, if you are different from what I think, you are all wrong, you have to correct it, that's not what it means.It is a treasure house of classical literature shared by the public, and Hongxue is also an academic space shared by the public. I am just telling you my own experience after careful study.So far, what I have said is only what I think is right now, or I think it makes sense, at least I think it makes sense.I hope you discuss with me, and through discussion, I may correct my real mistakes, or we may each reserve our own views.But in the process, I think all of us will be more interested in it, and our understanding of it may be deepened. So what are we talking about now?If the things we just said are not enough to explain that Cao Xueqin valued Miaoyu so much because she played a very important role in Jia Baoyu's life, then let's take a look at the Twelve Songs.The paintings and poems in the official book of Twelve Branches of Jinling and the Twelve Beauties of Jinling match, and they also summarize the fate of these twelve women. The fifth chapter is a particularly intriguing one, and it is also the most critical one to understand the characters.In this round, Cao Xueqin set up a lot of foreshadowing, which can be described as painstaking and well-intentioned.There are many stories hidden behind every sentence this time.In the fifth chapter, Jia Baoyu’s imaginary travel to the illusory realm saw the album pages of the Twelve Beauties of Jinling, which contained a main volume, a side volume and another side volume, and each volume contained twelve characters, of which there were eleven pictures in the main volume paintings and eleven poems.It is necessary for us to review again. The ranking of the twelve women in the main book is Lin Daiyu and Xue Baochai tied for first place, Jia Yuanchun is the third, Jia Tanchun is the fourth, Shi Xiangyun is the fifth, Miaoyu is the sixth, and Jia Yingchun is the seventh. , the eighth is Jia Xichun, the ninth is Wang Xifeng, the tenth is Qiaojie, the eleventh is Li Wan, and the twelve is Qin Keqing.After Jia Baoyu finished reading these poems, Fairy Jing Huan ordered people to sing them again, and she sang fourteen pieces in total.These fourteen songs are respectively the first [Introduction to A Dream of Red Mansions], the second [Lifelong Mistakes], the third [Void Ning Mei], the fourth [Hate Impermanence], the fifth [Bone and Flesh], and the sixth [Sorrow in Joy]. , the seventh [The World Is Hard to Tolerate], the eighth [Happy Enemies], the ninth [Xuhua Enlightenment], the tenth [Smart Tiredness], the eleventh [Liu Yuqing], the twelfth [Late Shaohua], the tenth Three [good things end], fourteenth [the ending · the birds throw themselves into the forest].These fourteen songs are also a summary and hint of the final fate of the twelve characters, but why are there fourteen?Could it be that Cao Xueqin wrote it casually again? ——Whenever I read the text carefully and explore certain fragments, details and language in the book, there are always people who object like this: This is a novel, the author uses artistic imagination, he makes up fiction, it can be very arbitrary, if like As you have analyzed, every sentence is painstakingly worked out and contains so many meanings, isn't the author too tired?Aren't we too tired after reading this book?Cao Xueqin was indeed tired of writing, as he himself said, "every word seems to be full of blood, ten years of hard work is unusual".But that is not the tiredness of the craftsman, but the hard work of yearning for the soul, and the throbbing of the heart mixed with joy and sorrow.He said, "The paper is full of absurd words, full of bitter tears; it is said that the author is idiot, who will understand the meaning?" Of course, each of us can have our own way of reading, and it is also a way of reading without careful reading, but through Careful reading, good observation and enlightenment, the pleasure of gaining enlightenment, unraveling the mellow taste of the book, that kind of "tiredness", is actually the great pleasure of aesthetics, the great sublimation of spirit, and it is worth it. Then we discovered that among the twelve songs, there is a song called "Wang Ning Mei", remember?And if you compare carefully, you will find that in the fifth chapter, the order of the Jinling Twelve Hairpins does not exactly match the order of the twelve songs. Have you noticed this phenomenon?Let's take a look at it now, the first painting and the first poem in the Jinling Twelve Beauties, that is the combination of Chai and Dai, right?Lin Daiyu and Xue Baochai were combined together, so the entire Jinling Twelve Beauties, in fact, only have eleven paintings and eleven poems.The so-called Twelve Songs was said by Fairy Jing Huan. In fact, she gave Jia Baoyu a script in the book, and asked Jia Baoyu to listen to it while reading it. The script is actually fourteen songs.There is an introduction at the beginning of this set, and an ending at the end. There are twelve pieces in the middle, so there are actually fourteen pieces.Let’s not count the introduction and the ending, the twelve songs in it, you should notice that it doesn’t exactly match the paintings and poems in the Jinling Twelve Beauties.Because the original album of Jinling Twelve Beauties actually only has eleven pages, Lin Daiyu and Xue Baochai combined into one page, right?But there are really twelve pieces in the twelve pieces, one is eleven and the other is twelve, the numbers are different, right?Moreover, most people think that the first of the twelve pieces is called "Lifetime Mistakes", which refers to both Xue and Lin in Jia Baoyu's tone. I will not quote both Lin Daiyu and Xue Baochai. If you look it up yourself, you will understand, isn’t this equivalent to the first painting and first poem in the official volume of the Twelve Beauties of Jinling written in it?right?That is to say, in the end we found that there is one more song in the twelve branches, which is the second branch, and starting from the fourth branch, that is to say, the third branch after the introduction is removed, it is exactly the same as Jinling Twelve Beauties The order in the book matches.Because who is the second painting and the second poem in the Jinling Twelve Beauties?It is about Jia Yuanchun, so if you are reading twelve pieces now, not including the introduction and the ending, "Hate Impermanence" is the third one, and everything below can correspond to it; so the third in the album is Jia Yuanchun, the fourth is Tanchun, and the fourth is Tanchun. The fifth is Shi Xiangyun, and then you go down to Qin Keqing. Among the twelve songs, if you pick out the second "Wang Ning Mei" and leave it alone, then the album and the song are matched, one pair Mortise, get it?That is to say, "Lifetime Mistakes" is a combination of Dai and Chai, and then Yuanchun, Tanchun, Shi Xiangyun, Miaoyu, Yingchun, Xichun, Wang Xifeng, Qiaojie, Li Wan, and Qin Keqing.But there is one more song in the song than the album page, so it is necessary to study this extra song "Wang Ning Mei", who is this song about?Why did you design such a song? Now if you look at the explanations in those general editions, you will all tell you that this "Wang Ning Mei" is about Jia Baoyu and Lin Daiyu.From a literal point of view, this seems to make sense, how about the song "Wang Ning Mei"?In the TV series, this song is regarded as the theme song to praise the love between Jia Baoyu and Lin Daiyu, and sings the words and sentences in it softly: one is the fairy flower of Langyuan, and the other is the flawless jade; When I met him, if there is a romantic relationship, how can my mind be empty; one is lamenting in vain, the other is worrying in vain; one is the moon in the water, and the other is a flower in the mirror; think about how many teardrops are in my eyes, how can they pass from autumn to winter End, spring flow to summer.This content should be understood as referring to Jia Baoyu and Lin Daiyu, which seems to make sense, because you think "beautiful jade is flawless" is not Jia Baoyu, he is wearing a psychic jade, right?Lin Daiyu is said to be "Langyuan fairy flower", because she descended from the crimson pearl fairy grass, and it seems vaguely worthy of it.What's more, Lin Daiyu loves to cry the most. Lin Daiyu's mission of descending to earth is to repay her tears, to return her tears to Shenying's waiter who once irrigated her with rain and dew in the sky, that is, Jia Baoyu who descended to the world, so the last song in the song is As for "How Many Teardrops", no one has doubted it for many years, and they think that this song is definitely about Jia Baoyu and Lin Daiyu.People's Literature Publishing House's first edition in 1982 was annotated by the Institute of Dream of Red Mansions of the Chinese Academy of Arts. It is now a very popular edition, and it also annotates "Wang Ning Mei" in the same way. But now I want to express a different view and discuss it with you.Why discuss?Because in the song "Lifetime Mistakes", Lin Daiyu and Xue Baochai have already been mentioned in Jia Baoyu's tone, right?How could there be another "Vanning Eyebrow" and just say it again?But this time it seems that there is no Xue Baochai in it. Just talk about Jia Baoyu and Lin Daiyu. Is this necessary?Besides, Lin Daiyu is a fairy grass, everyone knows, but what is "Pa", "Pa" refers to flowers, right?Lin Daiyu is not a flower, she is always a grass in heaven, isn't she?So, who is this "paw" talking about?Thinking about it again, I found it very interesting. "Langyuan", this term generally refers to the Grand View Garden, a very beautiful garden. When visiting relatives in Yuanchun, all the sisters and Baoyu were asked to write poems. In those poems, the Grand View Garden was repeatedly compared to a fairyland-"Who believes there is such a place in the world?" ""The romantic literary talent is better than Penglai" "Where is the famous garden built, the fairyland is far from the world of mortals"? ?So what kind of fairy flower is there in this fairyland?Looking back, we found in the text that Cao Xueqin wrote about Yihong Courtyard. What flowers does Yihong Courtyard have?There are crabapple flowers, but whose symbol is this crabapple flower?At the "Shouyi Hongqunfang held a night banquet", we all knew that it was Shi Xiangyun, and the crabapple flower symbolized Shi Xiangyun.When you write about the crabapple flowers in Yihongyuan, what kind of words do you have?It is said that there is a Xifu crabapple on the other side, which is as powerful as an umbrella, with green strands hanging down and dandelion.Therefore, "one is the fairy flower of Langyuan", it is likely to refer to Shi Xiangyun, and the symbol of Shi Xiangyun is the crabapple flower of "the flower spits out dansha".And everyone knows what the name of Shi Xiangyun's girl is Cuilu, so why did Cao Xueqin use such a word when he wrote about the crabapple flower in Yihong Courtyard?He said that the crabapple flower is as powerful as an umbrella, with green strands hanging down, and dandelion spewing out.The text has a characteristic, it always echoes each other, Cao Xueqin always has to convey a lot of information in between.So we can say that because when describing the begonias in Yihongyuan, the author used the word "pa" very clearly, and the author gave Shi Xiangyun's girl the name Cuilu, so "one is the fairy flower in Langyuan". , the more I think about it, the more it should refer to Shi Xiangyun. So who is "one is beautiful and flawless" talking about?Not necessarily Jia Baoyu.Who is flawless?Miao Yu.In the fifth chapter, in the verdict on Miaoyu and the song "The World Can't Tolerate" about her, it is clearly stated that Miaoyu is a beautiful jade.Everyone remembers the painting about Miaoyu, a piece of beautiful jade fell into the mud, don't you? "Flawless and beautiful jade", this word is clearly written in "The World Is Intolerable" about Miaoyu.Jia Baoyu is the servant of Shenying from Chixia Palace. "Chixia" is jade with red flaws. Although "Ying" is jade, it is not the purest jade. Zhiyanzhai clearly pointed out the meaning of Chixia in the comments: "Jade, Xiao Chiye; also: Jade is also sick. It is named after this, it is very suitable!" After descending to the world, Shenying's waiter is Jia Baoyu. Ah, therefore, the possibility of describing him as "beautiful and flawless" can basically be ruled out.From this point of view, the "one is beautiful and flawless jade" mentioned in the song can only be identified as Miaoyu. If you think about it this way, your train of thought will suddenly become clear.Think about it, we just analyzed the Four Fairies of the Illusory Realm, who are the four women?They are Lin Daiyu, Shi Xiangyun, Xue Baochai and Miaoyu.So now Cao Xueqin writes a song for them again. The first song is the union of two women, Lin Daiyu and Xue Baochai; the second song is probably a combination of the other two, one is Shi Xiangyun, and the other is Miao Yu.I'm not saying that my line of thinking is absolutely correct, but it's interesting to explore like this, isn't it? Then you think about it again, you take the words in this piece apart and think carefully, and what is said under the sentence corresponding to "one is the fairy flower of Langyuan", is "If there is no romance, I will meet him again in this life".This means that Jia Baoyu and Shi Xiangyun are in the first 80 episodes. It can be seen that they have no love relationship. They are like brothers and sisters. It is the most beautiful state of life, the two of them have no romantic relationship; but after eighty chapters, the two of them met strangely, the "encounter" I said is an encounter, that is, meeting again They are together again, so "if there is no romance, I will meet him again in this life". "One is in vain", "The other is the moon in the water" - I split this song, corresponding to the following words of Shi Xiangyun, these words mean that after a rough experience, after the two met, "It's useless to sigh", of course I sigh, but things are like this, fate is like this, life is like this, and life is like this; and why it is called "moon in the water", of course it can be discussed, because the best years of all these women are the same. The past has passed, and Shi Xiangyun presented in front of him is a moon out of shape, a moon in water, and Jia Baoyu's own image must be very unbearable, but the two can still depend on each other, and spend the rest of their lives together.This is a chanting of Shi Xiangyun, "Langyuan Fairy Flower". What does the following sentence "one is beautiful and flawless" mean?Split the song, and then look at these sentences: "If there is a romantic relationship, how can the heart be emptied?" Because after the eighty chapters, Cao Xueqin probably wrote that Miaoyu appeared again and met Jia Baoyu again. , if there is really a romantic relationship, how can the heart finally fade away?What is the matter of the heart is also worth discussing, that is, whether there is love between Jia Baoyu and Miaoyu, this is a big topic of discussion.I think that what is mentioned here does not necessarily refer to love. The two of them affirm and appreciate each other, but the great changes in life make it impossible for them to communicate. "One is nothing to worry about" and "the other is a flower in the mirror". Compared with Jia Baoyu, his concern for Miaoyu cannot solve Miaoyu's problems, but it is Miaoyu who later played a decisive role in his life. For him, Miaoyu is just an unattainable beautiful woman, leaving only some memories like flowers in a mirror.Thinking of the final fate of these two women, Jia Baoyu thought to himself, "There are so many tears in my eyes, how can they flow from autumn to winter and spring to summer." This is my interpretation of the song "Wang Ning Mei". The advantage of this interpretation is that it can match the importance of the four women alluded to by the Four Fairies in the Illusory Realm, and it can explain why in the album are Eleven pages, eleven paintings, and eleven poems cover all twelve people, but there are twelve pieces of music here; removing the introduction at the beginning and the ending at the end, why do you start with the third piece out of the twelve pieces? From now on, they will all conform to the order from Jia Yuanchun down.That is to say, Cao Xueqin put the most important women into groups of two and wrote a song for each, one is "Lifetime Mistakes" and the other is "Void Ning Mei". "Wu Ning Mei" means to frown in vain, right? Facing a helpless fate, deeply frowning and lamenting, that's what it means. Of course, I am just offering you a new way of thinking.Some people say that "Ning Mei" means frowning. Lin Daiyu's brows are sharp and frowning. Jia Baoyu gave her a wonderful word "Xiao frown". After that, people often call her "Frowning Er". Therefore, judging from the title of this song, this song It should be Daiyu.My idea is that you can't just look at the name of the song, but also carefully analyze the content of the song to make a final judgment.For example, in "The World Can't Tolerate", Lin Daiyu "three hundred and sixty days a year, the wind, the knife, the frost, and the sword force each other hard", isn't it also "the world can't bear it"?But the content of the song "The World Can't Be Allowed" is not suitable for her situation, so of course it cannot be said to be a song about her.Some people say that if you interpret "Lifetime Mistakes" as talking about Xue Baochai, and "Wang Ning Mei" as talking about Lin Daiyu, then, wouldn't the twelve songs become one for each hairpin, which is very well-proportioned?However, "Lifetime Mistakes" clearly talks about both Chai and Dai, which is a unified pattern. Cao Xueqin always does not distinguish between Dai and Chai. "It refers to Dai, so it not only breaks the overall design of the whole book's combination of Dai and Chai, but also sorts out the order, becoming Chai 1 and Dai 2. Looking at the content of "Lifetime Mistakes", it is all about resentment of Chai and Dai. If you really want to separate Dai and Chai into two songs, it should be "Wang Ning Mei" at the top. Therefore, I respect the point of view that the two songs of "End" and "Wang" talk about Chai first and then Dai, but I don't agree. agree.Some people also said that if this song is about Shi Xiangyun and Miaoyu, then later, they wrote a song specifically for Xiang and Miao. Does Cao Xueqin have such a preference for Xiang and Miao?Of course, the idea that Dai and Chai are absolutely insurmountable among other Chai has become the mindset of many readers and researchers. I understand it very well. However, it should be allowed to put forward new interpretations and new theories under the condition of careful reading of the text. , to break the dull situation of Hongxue for many years with active thinking.I don't think it can be concluded from the word "Ning Mei" that this song belongs to Daiyu, which cannot be discussed, because Jia Baoyu "is a natural coquettish, all in the eyebrows; all kinds of emotions in his life are piled up in the corners of his eyes" , which is also the plaintext in the third chapter.Then, it makes sense for him to think of Xiang and Miao, "congregate his eyebrows" sadly and feel helpless; moreover, although Cao Xueqin focused on describing the stories of Bao and Dai in the first 80 chapters, especially the first 40 chapters. Love, but from the whole book, there is a lot of evidence to prove that after eighty chapters, he loved Xiang and Miaohou a lot--I will talk about my exploration and gains in this area--then, he is for Xiang and Miaohou. It is also possible for Miao to write a song each. I will continue to discuss Miaoyu in the next lecture, what kind of life experience she is, and other aspects, such as what kind of relationship between her and Jia Baoyu, are they in love with each other, and so on.See you in the next lecture.