Chapter 22 Chapter 5 Miaoyu's Ending Revealed

At the end of the last lecture, I proposed to discuss with you a question, that is, after the eighty chapters, how will the author write about Miaoyu?If Gao E's sequel is a complete distortion of Miaoyu, then without distortion, imagine how Cao Xueqin would write about Miaoyu? Since the manuscript after the 80th chapter was unfortunately lost in the process of circulation, we really don't know what will happen to Miaoyu after the 80th chapter.But according to the text of the first eighty chapters, we can still explore some clues about Miaoyu's ending. After the eighty chapters, Miaoyu will fully reflect her important role in Jia Baoyu's life. This is my analysis of the naming of the Four Fairies in the Illusory Realm and the discussion of the song "The World Cannot Be Tolerated". clear.So, what important role will she play?I think we should still explore the second official appearance of Miaoyu in the first eighty chapters.Miaoyu made two positive appearances in the first eighty episodes: one was in the forty-first episode, the tea-tasting episode; the second was in the seventy-sixth episode, where she made her second appearance.

The main characters in Chapter 76 are not Miaoyu, but Lin Daiyu and Shi Xiangyun.The two couples wrote poems in the Aujing Pavilion. At the end of the couplet, two very famous sentences appeared. Everyone remembers that one is "Crossing the Crane Shadow in the Cold Pond" and the other is "The Soul of the Flower Burial in the Cold Moon".Of course someone wants to discuss it with me, it should be "Lengyue Burying the Soul of Poetry", right?In the current version, it is written as "Lengyue Burys the Soul of Poetry", but in the discussion of edition studies, I personally stand on the side of "Lengyue Burys the Soul of Flowers", and believes that "Flower Soul" is the original pen of Cao Xueqin .Many ancient books clearly write about "the soul of the flower buried in the cold moon", and the term "the soul of the flower" has appeared many times in it. Te Leng was startled and flew away, so the author wrote: "The soul of the flower is really silent and emotionless, where is the bird's dream and infatuation?" Lin Daiyuyin used the term "flower soul" in several sentences in succession: " The tragic song was sung outside the court last night. Do you know the soul of the flower and the soul of the bird? The concept of this is also the opposite of "Crane Shadow Crossing the Cold Pond". Isn't "Crane Shadow" also the "Bird Soul"?Regarding this, I will not go into details here, because we are mainly talking about Miaoyu now.The two sentences of Shi Xiangyun and Lin Daiyu are very good. Presumably, when many readers read these two sentences, they will have unspeakable emotions in their hearts, thinking how they should connect the next sentence. Well, it's difficult!The author is very clever in writing, so he didn't write down the couplet between Lin and Shi. What he wrote was that when Lin and Shi stopped and sighed relative to each other, he didn't finish a word, and he saw the rocks outside the column. Then a person came out, and Miaoyu suddenly appeared.After Miaoyu came out, she said that you have reached this point in the joint poems and couplets, so don't do it for the time being, and then Miaoyu took them to the Changcui Nunnery.Miaoyu herself was very excited, so she said that I want to finish your joint poem now, I want to finish it in one breath, and finally Miaoyu finished the poem as expected.

Before continuing the poem, Miaoyu said a few words, which are very important, please pay attention to Miaoyu's words.Miaoyu said, "To tidy up now, we should return to our original colors." This sentence has a deep meaning. On the surface, it means that now I am finishing this poem. The rhyme is over, I want to finish it and continue it into thirty-five rhymes to make it complete and refreshing. "After all, we should return to our true colors", aren't you Yinyue?On the surface, she said, I want to go back to the topic, but what does it mean on another level?That is to say, being a human being is the same as writing poetry, or writing poetry is the same as being a human being. In the end, people should maintain their true colors.This is the pursuit of Miaoyu's life, that is, I don't cover up my character, I don't rub off the edges and corners of my character, I want to live in my original temperament, and I want to show my true colors to others.Therefore, through this sentence, Cao Xueqin actually inspired our readers from a deep level, letting us know that there is something worth learning from Miaoyu, that is, her pursuit of life that requires maintaining an authentic state, which is very remarkable. , in any era, in any social environment, is remarkable.There is another level of implication in these words, and it also indicates that after the eighty chapters, the author's overall pursuit is "in the end, it should be returned to its original face" and "the quality of the original is clean and clean".We all know that there is a big rock at the beginning of the chapter. After it has gone through the lower realm, it will finally return to the Qinggeng Peak and return to its original position. Therefore, Cao Xueqin's language is indeed rich in connotation and layered. very rich.Then Miaoyu went on to say, "If you just lose your true feelings and real scenes, go search for strange things." Of course, this is half a sentence of hers, and there is another half sentence below, but let's talk about this half sentence first.In fact, Cao Xueqin once again announced his own writing principles through Miaoyu's words.I have always insisted on a point of view in all the previous talks, that is, it is a novel with the characteristics of self-narration and autobiography. Its characters have life prototypes, its events have event prototypes, and even its objects have objects. Prototypes, many details have detailed prototypes, and many words in it have been heard by the author and extracted from life.Here, through Miaoyu's preparation for the continuation of the poem, what he said before writing, once again announced such an aesthetic principle, that is, you can't lose the true feelings and scenes, and you can't search for strange things.But the second half of Miaoyu's sentence is more interesting. There are also individual red scholars and red study researchers who have noticed the strange tone in this second half of the sentence. Please pay attention, how do you say the second half of the sentence?It is necessary to continue the first half of the sentence, and the second half of the sentence can be said smoothly, saying "one loses our boudoir face, and the other has nothing to do with the topic".Let's not discuss these "two issues" first, let's talk about this "one issue".Some people asked why Cao Xueqin wrote like that?She is a nun!You bring your hair to practice, you are in Changcui Nunnery, sitting on a futon every day, you have to read scriptures and do homework, right?How can you stand on the same ground with Lin Daiyu and Shi Xiangyun, saying that we all have boudoir faces and are all boudoir girls?Your meditation room and boudoir are two completely different spaces!Didn't you use the concept of inside and outside the threshold before, and clearly distinguish the two spaces?Why are you talking like that now?Do you understand why some people ask this question?Her words are weird, and some people think that Miaoyu should not say these words. It is understandable for Daiyu and Xiangyun to say this, saying that we are boudoir girls, we can't lose our boudoir face, but what about you Miaoyu? Will suddenly say "we can't lose our boudoir face"?I personally think that Cao Xueqin wrote this on purpose.He will tell you Miaoyu, she is indeed "out of season".She is in the nunnery, but she has love in her heart. What she loves is not Jia Baoyu, she loves a certain prince and grandson. She always thinks that she is a member of the boudoir. She doesn't think that she has to become such a nun for various reasons. To abide by those Buddhist rules and precepts.She thinks that she is a dignified woman in the boudoir, and she enjoys the rights that all women in the world should enjoy. This is Miaoyu, and she just talks like this.This is Miaoyu's language that deserves our attention. Words are the voice of the heart, and Miaoyu's inner world can be seen from this.

In addition, what is more noteworthy is, how will Miaoyu continue?Before she started writing, she announced to Lin and Shi how she would continue the poem. She said, "I have to do this. If the side is turned around, even if there is a sad sentence in front, it doesn't matter much." Before she continued the poem There are words after the continuation of the poem. She continued this poem. You can see that she is not an ordinary continuation. She has her highest principle, her aesthetic declaration, and her pursuit of the connotation of the poem.When she said why she continued like this, she emphasized that it must be turned over in this way. Please pay attention to the word "turn over". After eighty chapters, Miaoyu's role in Baoyu's life can be used "turn over". "Four words summed it up.I'm going to tell you about my speculations in a moment.

Then, in the seventy-sixth chapter, Miaoyu appeared on the stage with an unexpected style of writing, and let her continue the thirteen rhymes of Mid-Autumn Festival couplets in one go. What is the mystery of this?What exactly does Miaoyu's thirteen rhymes mean?And what does it have to do with Miaoyu's final outcome?I continue to analyze. This poem continued by Miao Yu, some readers will find it difficult and difficult to understand. Some people read this and don’t know what Cao Xueqin is expressing, so they skip it; I think some parts are skipped during reading. It is also a way, not to have a unified requirement for every reader, because reading is an aesthetic activity, and the aesthetic activity should be done spontaneously, how to read comfortably.Personally, I used to skip to read the thirteen rhymes that Miaoyu continued, but now I need to find out what is going on with Miaoyu, so I will read it carefully.Among the various systems of Western literary criticism, there used to be a quite popular one called "New Criticism".Their idea is to read the text carefully, and they think that only by carefully reading and commenting on every sentence and every word written by the author can they understand the author's creative psychology and elaborate The deep meaning that the author wants to express.I am also willing to learn from this Western method of literary criticism.The basic method of my research is to read carefully, and after carefully reading the thirteen rhymes continued by Miaoyu, I have formed my personal opinion. Now I will tell you my experience of careful reading.

My personal experience from careful reading is that in the verses she continued, Miaoyu included the Jia family, especially the women in the Twelve Beauties of Jinling except her, and you can even include herself. The fate and ending of all the hairpins were scanned and summarized.The opinions I mentioned below are for reference only, and I will state it again: I never think that my own thoughts are all right, but I have always been very willing to tell others some of the opinions I have formed, and form a consensus with my colleagues. A relationship of equal discussion. How did Miaoyu write it?The first two sentences, "fragrant seals sell the golden tripod, fat ice and greasy jade basin".The first sentence "Xiangzhuan sells the golden tripod", to the effect that the very high-grade incense is in the very precious tripod, and it will burn after being lit, but it will burn out soon, which is a prophecy of Jia Yuanchun.After eighty chapters, although Jia Yuanchun is in the "golden tripod"-like palace, her fate is nothing more than incense, which will burn out soon and be reimbursed.So what about the "fat ice and greasy jade basin"?This is about Qin Keqing, and it means that the matter of Qin Keqing is over.What is "fat ice greasy jade basin"?In the past, pot-shaped vessels made of jade were often used to place candles. Of course, nobles and rich people did this. But now the wax has not only burned out, but also burned out for a long time, and the flowing wax The oil buried the wax roots, and the jade basin seemed to be full of fat, which condensed like ice.This of course means that the matter of Qin Keqing has passed.

Then she wrote it again, which is called "Xiao Zengwei's wife weeps, and Qianqian serves her son Wen".Xiao is blowing Xiao, Dong Xiao, and the sound of Xiao is always very sad and miserable.A widow is a widow and a widow. She is crying there, but her situation is not bad. At night, there are maids who serve her to warm her quilt, such as putting a Tang Po or something. This is the summary of Xue Baochai fate.After eighty chapters, Xue Baochai did marry Jia Baoyu, but she and Jia Baoyu did not have a normal married life. Jia Baoyu even became a monk for a while, and she lived a miserable life as a widow.According to Zhi Yanzhai's comments, when Xiren left Jia's mansion, he left a message with the people in this mansion, saying "at least keep the musk moon", so we can know that when Xue Baochai was very sad, there was no one around him. There is only one person who waits on her, and that person is not Yinger. We can't find any clues about whether Yinger was still there at that time, but we have a very important clue, that is, Musk Moon stayed by her side , so it is said that "Qiqian serves Erwen".

So, where did people like Wang Xifeng go?The following is written, "Empty tent hanging Wenfeng", people go to the empty house, but there is still a pattern of phoenix on the tent, which has become a distant memory.This is to imply that Wang Xifeng will be gone later, and all the prosperous and rich life of her past, her kind of power play, that kind of teasing, that kind of complacency, and that kind of sullen anger, have all disappeared.The next sentence is called "Xian screen hides colorful mandarin ducks". It is also a scene description, and the room is empty, but there are some colorful mandarin ducks drawn on the screen, which implies that some big girls like mandarin ducks in Jia's mansion will end up with flowers. Falling into the water and flowing red, wandering in nowhere, leaving only some memories and some images.

The following two sentences should summarize the difficult situation of the Jia family in the entire eighty chapters. They are called "the thick moss is more slippery, and the frost is heavy and the bamboo is hard to touch". The next two sentences, I think, summarize the experiences of Yingchun and Tanchun.There is a sentence called "Yu Bu Ying Swamp", which means that if you walk by the swamp, you will fall down at any time. This indicates that after Yingchun married Sun Shaozu, she will eventually fall down and be swallowed by Zhongshan wolves.How about Tanchun?Tanchun is "returning to Jiliyuan".Tanchun's later fate seemed to be a little better. She was originally a concubine woman, and her blood background was not very advantageous, but she later married far away. After the distant marriage, her status seemed to have improved on the surface, but this improvement was just like What the poem says is to board the "Jiliyuan".What is "Ji Li Yuan"?Very lonely, on such a highland far away from my relatives and hometown, this indicates the fate of Tanchun marrying far away.

The next two sentences, in the past, most people thought they were writing about the night scenery of the Grand View Garden, and they were called "Stone Qi, Gods and Ghosts Fighting, Wood Monsters, Tigers and Wolves Crouching".If you go to a large garden on a moonlit night, especially on a moonlit night, you will see those mountain rocks and Taihu stones, which look like gods and ghosts, and they seem to be fighting each other there; those trees are gloomy. , seems to be some very strange things, like tigers, or wolves, squatting there.It is indeed a scene, conveying a menacing atmosphere.But I personally think that these two sentences are actually summarizing the dangerous situation of Jia Baoyu and Lin Daiyu after the eighty chapters.Who is Stone?Of course it's Jia Baoyu, isn't it?This stone is a strange stone. It is not the big stone with no material to fill the sky on the Qinggeng Peak of Wuji Cliff in the Dahuang Mountain, but the "Chixia" and "Shenying" on the banks of the Sansheng Stone on the bank of the Ling River in the west. Although the jade statue has the name of jade, "the grass in the belly is originally a wild grass", it is actually a stubborn stone, this strange stone and stubborn stone, his fate is very dangerous, and the gods and ghosts will come to harm him; wood of course refers to Lin Daiyu, she is the fairy of Jiangzhu. Grass and wood are her symbols, and she herself said that she is a "grass and tree person". She and Jia Baoyu formed a "wood and stone alliance". These books have repeatedly written about it, right?Lin Daiyu's future is also very dangerous. There are tigers and wolves squatting there, waiting for her and trying to devour her.These two sentences summarize the fate of the two protagonists in the book after eighty chapters.

Then there are two more sentences, which are called "Chaoguangtou, Fu Xiaolutun".This is to write the big background, the big background behind the fate of these characters. "", it is said that the dragon gave birth to nine sons, and it is one of them.As the saying goes, the so-called "Wang Ba carries a stone tablet", that "Wang Ba" is actually not a turtle, but the son of the dragon, but its shape is close to that of a turtle. "罘" is a porous barrier at the corner of the palace gate, used to observe the enemy's situation and shoot arrows out.Then the stone monuments and battlements, which symbolize the majesty of power and the offensive and defensive things, are all shrouded in the light of the morning light. It can be seen that the winner will be the king and the loser will be the bandit.In other words, it indicates that the "Moon Sect" in the book is about to collapse, and the situation where Jia's house collapses like a building will inevitably appear soon. Miaoyu's poem is very ingenious, and she wrote two more lines below, called "Vibrating a thousand trees and birds in the forest, and an ape crowing in the valley", which seems to be talking about natural phenomena, but in fact she is writing about a force of resistance. "Zhenlin Thousand Tree Birds" means that from Feng Ziying to Liu Xianglian to Jiang Yuhan to Ni Er, etc., they will resist to the end in the great shock of the political situation; Victory, but Si will fight to the end. Then there are two more sentences, one is called "if you are not familiar with it, you will forget the path", which means that some people are very familiar with the oblique path and the wrong path, while some people are not willing to take the right path at the beginning, but they are very familiar with the deviant path, so when they arrive at He didn't panic at the critical moment, how could he forget the path he had chosen, he walked on that path naturally.Who said this?I personally think it's Xichun.Xichun became a monk. She didn't come up with the idea after her family's downfall, do you remember?When sending the palace flowers in the seventh round, their family was still in good condition, wasn't it?There wasn't any crisis, but she was playing with Zhizhi'er, jokingly, and she said that she would cut her hair and become an aunt in the future.She has always had this kind of thought, can it be called "dissimilarity"?A young lady from a large feudal noble family actually said such words, inappropriate words, had such thoughts, and wanted to go astray.As a result, after the 80th chapter, "after the three springs go, all the fragrances will be exhausted", she herself had this idea long ago, so she naturally chose to become a monk.Incidentally, when Gao E wrote that Xichun became a monk, he simply arranged her in Changcui Nunnery to replace Miaoyu, which is of course wrong.Because according to Cao Xueqin's design, Jia's mansion ended up with a vast expanse of white land, which is really clean, and the judgment about Xichun is also very clear. It said that in an ancient temple, a woman sat alone and chanted scriptures. Of course it won't be in Changcui Temple.As I pointed out earlier, Quicui Temple is not an ancient temple, and it took less than five years from the time it was built to when the Jia Mansion was confiscated. "The source of the spring is not known", who is talking about it?Of course it was Miss Qiao.Qiaojie's fate was better later on. She was rescued by Grandma Liu, not by accident, but the spring of her life flowed there.What is the root cause?It was her mother who treated Grandma Liu kindly, "I happened to meet a benefactor because I helped the Liu family by chance."Of course, the so-called better fate of hers is only in relative terms. Then Miaoyu began to write about herself and Li Wan. Of course, she wrote it very implicitly, and called it "Zhongming Cuicui Temple, Chicken Singing Daoxiang Village".That is to say, after the decline of the entire Jia Mansion, two phenomena appeared. One is that Quicui Temple—an and temple can sometimes be used interchangeably in Chinese common names—was still there at one time; and what is more interesting is that it reminds us , Daoxiang Village still exists alone.Why is that?I will tell you about this later, which is very interesting. Then she finished it, she said, "Fangqing is only for self-indulgence, and who is the elegant interest to tell."These two sentences are relatively straightforward. I don't think I need to analyze them with you. This is a summary sentence. The last sentence is a big ending of the whole poem, called "Take a break from the rest of the day, cook tea in more detail", and it ends the poem. This is the thirty-five rhymes of the scene couplet in the Mid-Autumn Night Grand View Garden. Do you think Miaoyu is important?Do the math on the thirty-five rhymes. She made thirteen rhymes by herself, but how many rhymes did Lin and Shi put together?After doing twenty-two rhymes, each person only made eleven rhymes.So Cao Xueqin had already presupposed that Miaoyu is "beautiful as a orchid, and more talented than a fairy". But Qiuyuan, there is such a poet here, but he talks about it on paper every day!" Of course, this is also the message that the author wants to convey to the readers, that is, Miaoyu is a poet. Read on, and you will find that Cao Xueqin has a comparative description.Everyone remembers that in the forty-first chapter, he wrote that Jiamu and the others walked out of the Cuicui nunnery after tasting tea, what did Miaoyu do at this time?Miaoyu "sent out the mountain gate, turned around and closed the gate".But this time, they stayed up all night, and it was almost dawn when the two left. She "sent them outside the door to see them go far, before closing the door and coming in."This is very rare for Miaoyu.Such behavior is very rare for such a lonely person.Why did the author write like this?I think he is telling us that Miaoyu is a constricting figure, a person who wants to turn things around.To a certain extent, she even has the flavor of the fairy girl who is alarmed. She foretells the fate of these characters. She feels that the two people will never know when they will see each other again after they leave. You can read this flavor carefully.These writings are worthy of our scrutiny and taste. Presumably some red fans will ask: Since Miaoyu is a constricting and reversible character, what exactly will she do after the 80th episode?It can be seen from the previous few lectures that I checked all the clues that could be found in the first eighty chapters, and used all the clues that should be used, including all Zhiyanzhai's comments, but I failed to provide clarification in this regard. Answer.Could it be that the exploration of Miaoyu's ending has to end here? What important plots did Miaoyu have after the 80th chapter, which is worthy of the author's foreshadowing in the front, worthy of his final consideration, to exclude Xue Baoqin, an important figure, from the official book of the Twelve Beauties of Jinling?Although the clues we have now are indeed very few, we can still make some efforts. As you all know, in the research field of version studies, there was an interesting incident that was littered with controversy.It was in the 1960s of the last century, in Yangzhou in the south, there was a man with a strange surname, Jing, named Jingying.Mr. Jing’s family was in decline at that time, probably around 1964—we all know what kind of era that era was—his family was in decline, and his life was very ordinary, even difficult.However, his family left behind a lot of ancient books and thread-bound books. In the end, because of the narrow housing, he piled these books on the top floor.We all know the structure of the house in the south. Sometimes the roof on the first floor is made of wood, and there is a ladder to go up to it. The space above is generally not used for living, but for storing things. In some places in the south, it is called a storage room.Many of these old books have been lost one after another, but their family used to be a scholarly family, and there are still many left, which are piled up on top.One day, a friend of his said that he wanted to borrow a book to read, and he said you should go and pick it yourself.This person went up and saw one, it was a manuscript, eighty chapters, so he took it home and read it.This person was interested in the Red Studies, and he also had a certain interest in the study of Hongxue. He found that the Zhiyan comments in this book—not the text, but the Zhiyanzhai comments—were not the same as some of the comments published by the Hongxue circles at that time. .For the same comment, there may be more words or less words on it, and there are some comments that are not in other versions published by the red academic circles, which are exclusive comments.So this person took a notebook and copied it down. After copying it down, he didn't know where the red scholars lived at the time, but he knew that many of them were in Beijing, and he also knew the approximate institutions they belonged to, such as the Institute of Literature, a certain A certain university, so he sent these people the Zhiyanzhai comments he copied from Jingzang, which attracted the attention of these red academic experts.Of course, this process was relatively slow in that era and that period. Everyone can understand this, and even older people can understand it. At that time, the turnover speed of such things could not be fast.In the end, experts in the red academic circle attached great importance to this matter, thinking that research is to collect all kinds of ancient books, and now a newly discovered manuscript has a different text on it-"different" means different, "different" one "Different"—especially the new Zhiyanzhai commentary appeared in the commentary, they thought it was a big deal.So, they started to contact that person, asking if they could send you to Beijing for our experts to have a look at.The friend was very happy after receiving the letter, so he went to find Mr. Jing, and Mr. Jing was also very happy.Before that, the borrower returned the book to Mr. Jing after reading it, and Mr. Jing asked him to put the book on top of the storage room, and he put it there.When Beijing wanted to transfer this book, they went upstairs to look for it, but there was nothing there, and they couldn’t find it no matter what.Their family finally said that someone came to collect waste a few days ago, and his wife—his wife was not involved in this matter, I don’t know—there was a huge pile of books upstairs, saying that it was annoying to keep piled there, I just ordered a batch of such waste books, so I couldn't find them anywhere.This is a well-known Yasumoto mystery case in the history of Hongxue version.In that era and under that circumstance, even if the people in that family sold it as waste paper, it would be nothing, wouldn't it?But then it caused controversy in the red academic circles, whether there is such a thing, is there such a book, right?Could it be something that the sender made up?But Mr. Jing and that person were also very anxious. They said that all the books upstairs could not be moved any more. It's something that's not uncommon in other people's places.However, they found a piece of paper in one of the books. This piece of paper fell off from the Jingben. This piece of paper still exists, so it proves that this book once existed.It is impossible for them to forge such a piece of paper in the end. There are some words written on this paper, and there is a unique comment, I will not go into details here. Why do I say this Jingben?Because among Jingben's exclusive comments transcribed by that Mr. Jing's friend, there is a comment related to Miaoyu's story after the eighty chapters.This is something we have not seen in any other edition, except in the rare manuscript that was eventually sold for scrap. This comment, the text recorded by the transcriber, is extremely chaotic, and it can only be read through careful correction by experts in red studies.The comment is like this, it is in the forty-first chapter, it says, "It will be Guazhou Ferry, and each will be advised and punished." "It's a day" is the future. This is the plot about Miaoyu that she saw in Zhiyanzhai after the eighty chapters of the introduction, and that Cao Xueqin has already written. We all know that "Guazhou" is a ferry on the edge of the Yangtze River. It was a famous ferry in ancient times. "Two-star fire is Guazhou". The ancients have such a poem, which means that you can see it if you are far away from it at night. to the lights on its shore. "Everyone shows their persuasion and punishment", what exactly is persuasion and punishment?How to "show advice and punishment"?This is relatively difficult to understand, but it can be vaguely known that this episode that happened in Guazhou contains "advice" and "punishment".There is another sentence at the back, "A beauty can't help but submit to the dry bones, isn't it sad?" You can’t help but submit.” What? "Dry bones", a handful of old bones. "Isn't it sad?" This is easy to understand, the whole thing is a tragedy.This unique comment hints at Miaoyu's fate after the eighty chapters, and her role in the fate of others. Of course, this basis should be said to be not a very solid basis: first, this Jingben hidden by Mr. Jing is now missing and lost.Does the person who collects the waste necessarily destroy it?It’s hard to say, and it’s possible to meet someone who loves it, stay and read it, and hide it in secret.Is this book still available in China today or in this world?Hard to say, impossible to verify.Second, is there really such a comment?What they found, the comment on the page left behind, is not this comment, and even the authenticity of that page and the comment that can be seen now is now divided among red scholars.Therefore, I can only say that I personally believe that this comment about Miaoyu is true. If it is said to be a deliberate falsification, as far as this comment is concerned, I can't think of a motive for forging it.And according to this comment, I think we can infer the plot about Miaoyu after the eighty chapters. Cao Xueqin had a foreshadowing earlier. When the servant told Mrs. Wang about Miaoyu's origin, he once said, what would she say to her when her master passed away?Said she was "unsuitable to return home".Do you remember?right?If she stays in the capital, she will be fine; if she returns home, it will be bad for her.When Cao Xueqin wrote about Lin Daiyu, she also said that when she was three years old, a monk with a skinny head came to her. Because she was sick and never recovered, the monk wanted to make her a monk. This is very similar to Miaoyu's situation when she was young.Of course she didn't become a monk, but the monk said that if she wanted to recover from her illness, she would not be able to hear her crying for the rest of her life, and besides her parents, she would not be able to see her relatives and friends with other surnames.In the end, she still disobeyed the monk's warning, met relatives and friends with a different surname, lived under the fence, and washed her face with tears every day. Then, this could not but be a tragic ending.You may think that Cao Xueqin is advocating fatalism when he writes like this, but this is also one of his artistic techniques, that is, a person is warned not to do anything, but the logic of life and character cause her to act against the warning, Lin Daiyu is like this, and so is Miaoyu.He wrote earlier that his master warned Miaoyu that "it is not suitable to return to his hometown", which is obviously not superfluous words, but another grass snake gray line, which stretches thousands of miles. Eighty chapters later, he consciously wrote that for some reason, Miaoyu chose to go south, in the direction of her hometown, which is the so-called "travelling".Where did she go all the way to the south?Arrived at Guazhou Ferry.How do you call it "each show persuasion and punishment"?This analysis is more difficult.But combined with the next sentence, we can imagine, what is "a beauty can't but submit to a dead bone"? "Dry bones" is obviously a description of evil forces, and they are aged evil forces.I analyzed this Miaoyu in the last lecture, and as mentioned in her "The World Can't Tolerate", she also had a beautiful youth.I even predicted that she had a bold and independent love, and I even thought that since Wei Ruolan and Shi Xiangyun had a scene after the 80th chapter, the appearance of the name Chen Yejun was not accidental, it is very likely It has something to do with Miaoyu.However, Miaoyu's unacceptable and untimely pursuit of the freedom of love and marriage has not only met with general opposition, please note that Xing Xiuyan told Jia Baoyu that she is not only outdated, but also powerful.That "power" is probably "dead bones". There may be old perverts like Jia She who fell in love with her and forced her to marry him, but she chose to fight resolutely.It's a woman like Yuanyang who is usually easy-going and can resist marriage at a critical moment, not to mention her status and personality, right?That's why she left Jiangnan, went to Beijing, and hid in a temple, and finally hid in a nunnery in the Grand View Garden, which is far away from the political center and the bustling area of ​​society. Why didn't Miaoyu follow her master's advice after eighty chapters?The master said that she was "not suitable to return to her hometown". In the Buddhist world, what a master told you when he passed away must be absolutely obeyed; and it was explained in the book that her master can perform innate numbers and fortune-telling.But Miaoyu went south without hesitation.According to my speculation, she was there to rescue Jia Baoyu, and in such a complicated situation, she also rescued Shi Xiangyun.The condition for saving these two people is that you must submit to "Withered Bones", and "Withered Bones" cruelly proposed that if you sacrifice yourself, I can let these two people go.This "withered bone" must be a powerful person, such as King Zhongshun, and in the end she "has to submit to the withered bone".Although she is like a beautiful jade in the mud, she is a very noble person. She sacrificed herself in the end. The so-called "he Zengjie wants to be clean, but the sky may not be empty" is not that she is a fake monk, hypocritical, and serious, it is not like that .This means that she finally sacrificed herself voluntarily, sinking into the mud.So is she a piece of broken jade?Is she a tainted jade?Cao Xueqin wrote very clearly in the judgment of the fifth episode and in the song "The World Is Intolerable" that she is "beautiful jade flawless", she is a piece of beautiful jade stuck in the mud, she has no "jade broken", that is, she has not become a "broken jade". Jade"; at the price of succumbing to the "dead bones", Jia Baoyu and Shi Xiangyun reunited after going through hardships, and they were able to spend their last days together.You say such a woman is so noble!Such a woman occupies an important position in Jia Baoyu's life. Is there any doubt about it?这样一个女性，你如果看了八十回后的内容，如果真有这样的文字，你就会觉得，她被列为金陵十二钗正册的一个成员当然够格，甚至她排在第六，也是顺理成章的。 当然以上这些，都是我个人的一些推测，仅供大家思索时参考。我通过秦可卿入手来研究，又因为我前面很多讲都是讲秦可卿，所以有的人就误会了，以为我就是研究秦可卿那么一个人物，其实不是的。是一个艺术宝库，一个思想宝库，一个文化宝库，一座巍峨的宫殿，我从哪个窗口往里望更好呢？我迈过哪一道门槛走进去更好呢？我个人先选择了秦可卿做原型研究。到这一讲时，大家已经很清楚了，我不仅是研究秦可卿，我的原型研究延伸到了贾元春，现在又延伸到了妙玉。当然我的研究还要延伸到更多的领域，比如说金陵十二钗的其他各钗，我都有研究心得。不过，由于贾宝玉是大家公认的第一号人物，大主角，我既然说自己的研究覆盖到的各个方面，那么，我在对贾宝玉的探究方面究竟有什么心得，现在该向红迷朋友们汇报了。 一开头就写到女娲补天炼石，弃下一块没用，有读者说，那块石头下凡，就是贾宝玉吧？可是曹雪芹又写了关于神瑛侍者和绛珠仙草的神话故事，神瑛侍者下凡也是贾宝玉呀，那么究竟女娲补天剩余石、神瑛侍者，还有第八回薛宝钗托于掌上细看的通灵宝玉，以及贾宝玉本人，他们之间是怎么个对应关系啊？我的下一讲，就先来探究这个问题。