Chapter 10 Chapter 1 The Mystery of Xue Baochai's Draft

I don't know if you have noticed, but around the twenty-ninth episode, Xue Baochai's behavior was abnormal.The twenty-ninth chapter talks about the offering of offering sacrifices at the Qingxu Temple.Before this story, the character of Xue Baochai had already been finalized.In the fifth chapter, the author gave a very clear account of her character, saying that when she behaved open-mindedly and followed her orders, she was no more arrogant and innocent than Daiyu. They also like to joke with her.In today's terms, it means that she has a personality advantage and her interpersonal relationship is particularly good.The most rare thing is that not only from Jiamu to Mrs. Wang, but also the masters in the house like her, and all the same generation like her, even the little girls like her.She is all-around human.At the beginning of the fifth chapter, after using commentary language to define Xue Baochai's character, the author vividly shows her character through many plots and details.

However, before and after the episode of the twenty-ninth episode of Qingxu Temple's wedding ceremony, Cao Xueqin deliberately wrote about Xue Baochai's abnormality.She was very irritable, depressed, very unhappy, and felt very boring, and she would get angry at every turn, utter hurtful words, and swear at each other, with embarrassing sharpness, which was even better than Daiyu.What's going on?Have you thought about it? Why she is like this, it has to start from the root.Excuse me, what is the purpose of Xue Baochai from Nanjing to Beijing?Some people will say, hey, isn't that her brother causing trouble?Her elder brother Xue Pan was a very bad person. On the ground in Jinling, in order to fight for a girl who was kidnapped by a kidnapper—we later found out that this girl was Zhen Shiyin’s daughter—he beat Feng Yuan to death. She was involved in a life lawsuit, so some people thought that she was involved in a life lawsuit because of her brother, and the place was not easy to deal with. It was her brother who took her and her mother and fled in fear of crime.Is that the case?no.You have to read carefully, you can't roughly turn it over, leaving only a vague impression, which is not conducive to understanding Cao Xueqin's painstaking efforts.

In fact, the author made it very clear in the fourth chapter that it was indeed Xue Pan who asked his subordinates to beat Feng Yuan to death in order to compete for such a little girl, causing a lawsuit. The person who tried the lawsuit at that time was Jia Yucun. thing.But does Xue Pan care?He regards life lawsuits as a trifle, and thinks that spending a few filthy money will not be a big deal.He took his mother and sister to the capital, it was an established plan, not absconding in fear of crime, he left a few family members to deal with the lawsuit, and he swaggered to take his mother and sister to the capital.

What is the purpose of Xue Pan taking his mother and sister to the capital?There are also explanations in the book.He has three purposes.What is the first purpose?Some people say that the first purpose should be, as an imperial merchant, to get the silver from the palace, and then go to the palace to purchase the goods, and after the purchased goods are handed over to the palace, they will be reimbursed. After the reimbursement is completed, they will receive new money. Silver, and then continue to buy.That's what Xue Pan's father did. After his father died, his son inherited his father's business and also did this. The Xue family has done this for generations.This seems to be his first purpose of going from Nanjing to the capital.But does the book put this purpose first?Look carefully, no.In the book, such a goal of him ranks third.The purpose of the second place is to visit relatives and friends in the capital. Xue Pan and Xue Baochai's mother's elder brother, Wang Ziteng, is a very important official in the capital, and his sister is married to Jia Zheng of the Rongguo Mansion. They are both powerful and powerful. They want to go to Beijing. See relatives.So what is the purpose of ranking first?It was to send his sister to Beijing for election.

To be selected is to prepare to participate in the court draft. Although it was said in the first chapter that the geography of the country and the age of the dynasties in the whole story are unknown, this is a kind of ambiguous artistic technique. After you read it carefully, you will feel that Cao Xueqin is actually very realistic. It is basically the story of the Kangxi, Yongzheng, and Qianlong dynasties of the Qing Dynasty. Of course, the location of the story has changed a lot. It started in the south, in Suzhou, in Weiyang, and in Nanjing. Later, the space of the story was basically Concentrated in the capital city, that is, Beijing.

In the Qing Dynasty, there was a system of drafting women.What does draft girl mean?That is, the emperor needs to have a harem. In ancient times, there were always three thousand harems. If the emperor wanted to enjoy this aspect, he had to collect women from the people.As for the Qing Dynasty, it was different from the Ming Dynasty, because the rulers of the Qing Dynasty were Manchus, and their number was relatively small.The Manchus first used the Eight Banners soldiers to live together in a military organization. Later, they broke into Shanhaiguan, unified the whole of China, and retained the Eight Banners system.Shunzhi was the first emperor after the Qing Dynasty invaded Beijing. After taking charge of Beijing, there were ten emperors from Shunzhi to the late Qing Dynasty. They all drafted women. The rules of the game for drafting women have changed in the process, but there is one constant The principle is that it must be collected mainly within the scope of the Eight Banners of Manchuria.why?It is because considering that the Manchus themselves are a minority, the Manchu emperor can have sex with any woman he likes, but after having sex, he may have offspring, and the bloodlines of the offspring should not be too messy, and the bloodlines must be kept pure.Although some emperors of the Qing Dynasty liked Han women or Hui women very much, and collected them into the palace and had sex with them, even if these women had children and sons, the status of enfeoffment was relatively high. The number of such women is also strictly controlled in terms of proportion, and the Manchu must be the most, followed by the Mongols. The Manchus and the Mongols are relatively close. home" said.In the Qing Dynasty, the collection of beautiful women was set within the Eight Banners, firstly the Eight Banners of Manchuria, and then the Eight Banners of Mongolia.

Well, in the early days, when the Manchus carried out military activities outside the customs and seized political power, they captured some Han people, and some Han people took the initiative to join them. It means slave in Chinese.Although they were slaves, because they fought together with the Manchu masters to seize power, they made certain military exploits. When the Manchus came to dominate the Central Plains, most of them were assigned to the Ministry of Internal Affairs, which was a special service for the Manchu emperor and his royal family. mechanism.Some were rewarded and promoted in the Ministry of Internal Affairs, and assigned some official positions, such as weaving and salt administration. Cao Xueqin’s great-grandfather, grandfather, uncle, and father served as coaters in the Ministry of Internal Affairs. On the surface, the official is not big, but he is definitely fat and vacant. Although he is a slave in front of the emperor, in the eyes of ordinary people and ordinary officials, he is a powerful person who "reaches the sky".Later, more and more Han people were captured and incorporated, and the Manchus organized the Han Army Banner, but Cao Xueqin’s ancestors were not Han Army Banners. They were incorporated into the Zhengbai Banner of the Eight Banners of Manchuria, which belonged to one of the honorable "Shang San Banners". Although they are Han Chinese in the Zhengbai Banner, they are slaves in clothes, but their political status is higher than that of the Han people in the Han Army Banner. One of the signs is that their daughters are eligible to participate in the draft.

It is a novel with connotation of family history. Although Cao Xueqin "hid the truth", he didn't hide it to the end. He still wanted to "preserve false words" and preserve family secrets in the text of the novel.Among the four major families in the book, the prototype of the Jia family is the Cao family, the prototype of the Shi family is the Li Xu family who was in charge of weaving in Suzhou, and the prototypes of the other two families should also be of the coating nature.After figuring this out, it is written in the book that Xue Pan brought his sister to the capital. The first purpose was to get his sister to be selected, that is, to participate in the draft, so it didn't feel awkward at all.

The selection of women in the Qing Dynasty was limited to the Eight Banners of Manchuria. In addition, the family also needed to be above a certain level.When the girl in that family reaches the age of fourteen, she must report basic information such as her name and date of birth to the household department. After reporting, she will be notified at any time until she turns sixteen.Later, because there were many women from the Eight Banners, not every one in the newspapers would notify you to come to Beijing to run for candidates.If they were notified, they would be concentrated. After the concentration, officials from the household department would lead them to line up. Where would they enter the Forbidden City?From the back door of the Forbidden City—Shenwu Gate, enter the palace from there, and there will be the eunuch in charge and other personnel in the palace to meet them, and then the interview will begin.Generally, it takes two rounds to decide whether to stay or not. Those who are selected will stay, and those who are eliminated will go home. Those who are eliminated, and those who have not been notified to gather after the age of sixteen, can marry another person.However, not all those who are selected can stay in the Forbidden City and see the emperor immediately.The emperor has a lot of room for activities. His harem is very large. Both the East Palace and the West Palace are harems. He has to raise many women. In addition, the emperor sometimes travels to some places. He has many palaces outside the Forbidden City. There are also some women in these places. So that he can enjoy it at any time when he gets there, such as the Old Summer Palace, Chengde Mountain Resort and so on.An emperor can enjoy many women, but not all the women who are selected can be used by the emperor. Opportunities are rare.If the emperor sees a certain woman and thinks it's okay, he calls over and pours me a cup of tea, then he may get a title, called promise.Promise was an official title at that time. If a family heard that their daughter was selected as a show girl and became Promise, the whole family would be very happy.If you become a promise, there will be more opportunities. If the emperor likes you again and thinks that you should not leave, then you will be promoted to another level, called Chang Zai, and you will always be by the emperor's side.No matter how much the emperor likes it, there may be a relationship, and he will be made a nobleman, and then further made a concubine, and a concubine.

In the book, it is written that a woman rose step by step after entering the palace, that is, Jia Yuanchun.In the second round, through Leng Zixing's speech at the Rongguo Mansion, she explained that she was selected as a female official in the palace. A female official in the palace is a low-level female official, but in the sixteenth round, Jia Yuanchun was promoted, and she chose Fengzao Palace, plus the concubine Xiande.Later, when Yuanchun went home to visit relatives, that part of the description was the most fictional in the book, and it was very exaggerated. Jia Yuanchun is Xue Baochai's role model.You see, when Concubine Yuan was visiting her relatives, she was so blatantly envious of the eldest cousin in the yellow robe.Of course Xue Baochai was also willing to go to the emperor's side.Aunt Xue advocated "Golden Jade Marriage". In fact, the first choice of "Jade" is the emperor's jade seal, and the prince's Peiyu.But in terms of real life, the prototypes of the four major families are not decent Manchu nobles, they are born in a coat. Therefore, even if girls from such families are selected to enter the palace, they will be weaker in terms of position competitiveness. It is not possible to go to the emperor's activity space right away. It is more likely that they will be assigned to the emperor's sons to serve them in their activity space, and some will be assigned to the emperor's princess to serve them. Princess.They read with the princess, and with the prince.In the previous lectures, I mentioned that the sons of the emperors of the Qing Dynasty could be called princes. Some people argued with me, saying that the sons of the emperors were princes. How could they be called princes?The son of the emperor of the Qing Dynasty, for example, in the Kangxi Dynasty, was usually called Elder Brother, but when he spoke in ordinary times, he could also be called Prince by the common name. I quoted a large section of Yongzheng Cao’s memorial. Yongzheng warned him not to talk and move, must Just listen to Prince Yi's words.Prince Yi is the thirteenth son of Kangxi, the thirteenth elder brother. Yongzheng repeatedly referred to Prince Yi as a prince when he was approving the memorial.This shows that in the common saying at that time, the emperor's son could be called a prince.Then someone will ask: What is the name of the prince's son?The son of the prince has a special title, called Shizi; the daughter of the prince is called the princess.For a woman from Xue Baochai's background, if she can't be selected by the emperor's side, it would be good if she can be assigned to the prince, heir, or even the princess, princess.In the fourth chapter, the Xue family sent Xue Baochai to Beijing to be selected. If you carefully examine it, you will find that the Xue family knows that their foundation is not strong enough, so the selection of the escort of the princess as the bottom line.

In the twenty-fifth chapter, Jia Baoyu and Wang Xifeng were haunted and almost died. Fortunately, a monk came to rescue them in time. For thirteen years, Tongling Baoyu was born into the world together with Jia Baoyu in his mouth, so we can know that Jia Baoyu was thirteen years old in that year, and Baoyu called Xue Baochai Sister Bao, which shows that Xue Baochai At that time, she was almost fourteen years old, and she had reached the age of a draft girl. It is said that in future stories, Xue Baochai's participation in the draft should be written. Some "red fans" friends will ask, is Lin Daiyu eligible to participate in the draft?Of course, at that stage of the story, Lin Daiyu was still young, and thirteen-year-old Baoyu called her Sister Lin, but it is still necessary to discuss this issue.Lin Daiyu's mother, Jia Min, was a member of the four major families and was eligible to be selected, but Jia Min's situation was unknown, or she was not selected, or she was not allowed to run for the election at all, so she got married and married Lin Ruhai.This Lin Ruhai, judging from the text of the novel, I tend to think that he is a Han official. As I said just now, in order to maintain the purity of the Manchu blood, the Qing Dynasty, in the draft, no matter how big a Han official is, your daughter will not be selected. list.Therefore, Lin Daiyu is probably not eligible for the election. In the Kangxi Dynasty, because Kangxi was an emperor with a strong sexual desire, and he liked Han beauties, the draft system could not satisfy his desire. In Jiangnan, he wore a woven official coat and served as a "secret agent" for him. One of the secret tasks was to collect Han beauties for him.After some Han beauties came to him, they were very favored by him and gave birth to children for him. However, Kangxi was politically savvy and favored him, but he insisted not to give these Han women high titles.Kangxi's channel for obtaining Han beauties is a secret channel, which is different from public drafting of girls. Xue Baochai is eligible to participate in the draft girl, and she has reached the age. The purpose of her coming to Beijing is to be selected.So Cao Xueqin solemnly confessed that Xue Baochai had entered Beijing to be elected.However, some people are puzzled: Leaving aside the continuation book, in the first 80 chapters, where is the plot of the draft girl?Could it be that Cao Xueqin forgot his confession in the fourth chapter when he wrote it later? I read the text carefully and formed my own experience.I think Cao Xueqin has not forgotten the explanation he wrote in the fourth chapter, which is the clue to the fate of very important people he set. The first purpose, can he not echo it later? However, the court draft, in his era, was really an extremely sensitive content, and it was really dangerous to write it out directly in the novel.Therefore, I think that he did not take the method of explicit writing, but used the method of implicit writing. How did Cao Xueqin secretly write about Xue Baochai's participation in the draft?Around the twenty-ninth chapter, before the Dragon Boat Festival, and before and after the story of Qingxuguan's ritual ceremony, he wrote about Xue Baochai's abnormality.This kind of abnormality is to imply that Xue Baochai went to participate in the draft, but unexpectedly lost, because she lost the election, and a series of events after the defeat made her seriously out of control. Let's take a look at the series of plot flows. The ceremony at Qingxu Temple was supposed to be held for three consecutive days from the first day to the third day of May. Later, because of a golden unicorn, Lin Daiyu and Jia Baoyu had a quarrel, which made Jia's mother feel very bad. Not anymore. According to the book, it happened that Xue Pan celebrated his birthday on the third day of May.For birthdays, of course, a big banquet is held at home and actors are invited to act.It was my brother's birthday, and there was a play at home. Xue Baochai didn't stay there, but came to Rongguo Mansion and to Jiamu's residence. Of course Jia Baoyu, Lin Daiyu, and others were present.This is also normal, this is where she often comes.Jia Baoyu had a big fight with Lin Daiyu, and they had just reconciled, and they were a little at a loss, so they had nothing to say when they met her.Baoyu and Daiyu are at odds, she has seen them a lot, usually she adopts an attitude of pretending to be foolish and clumsy, no matter what the two are making trouble, she just pretends not to see it, tries to avoid it as much as possible, and if she can't avoid it, she gently resolves it.No matter whether Baoyu had nothing to say to her, or Daiyu made side remarks to her, she would deal with Yuru either gently or with a smile.However, Cao Xueqin deliberately wrote that this time she was uncharacteristically. Baoyu asked her, saying that your brother is celebrating his birthday, and there is an opera over there, why don't you go to the opera?She said it was too hot and boring, so I came over after seeing it.As soon as Jia Baoyu heard her say hot, he said casually: "No wonder they take my sister as Concubine Yang. She is also fat and timid." Concubine Yang is Yang Yuhuan, Concubine Yang, the favorite concubine of Emperor Xuanzong of Tang Dynasty .The aesthetic taste of the Tang Dynasty was completely different from ours today. The Tang Dynasty believed that women were beautiful when they were plump, or even fat.Fat women were blessed in the Tang Dynasty. It would be very difficult for skinny beauties if they were born in the Tang Dynasty. The Tang Dynasty didn't follow that and demanded plumpness. Concubine Yang Guifei was famous for her fat beauty. ——In the book it is clearly written that Baochai's face is like a silver basin, her skin is plump, and she indeed belongs to the same pedigree of beauties as Concubine Yang. It is not ironic to say that she is, even if it is inappropriate, with Xue Baochai's usual self-cultivation and adaptability , just smiled and let it go.Unexpectedly, Xue Baochai couldn't help being furious after hearing these words, and she couldn't hold back the anger, so she hurt people and said strange things.Some friends who are "red fans" can't understand, what's the matter with her?Xue Baochai said: "I am like Concubine Yang, but I don't have a good brother who can be Yang Guozhong!" This is so strange, even if Jia Baoyu said you are fat, why are you so angry?How did Yang Guozhong get involved? In my opinion, this is an allusion to Xue Baochai's failure in the draft.She went to the draft and got selected.With her appearance and cultivation, not to mention her cultural attainments, she should have been selected, but she was not selected.Baoyu's words accidentally poked her sore spot.The key point is not the fat and timid talk, but the mention of the imperial concubine.If she fails in the draft, of course she will not have the chance to become a noble concubine, and she will even fail to become a princess' attendant.Those few days Xue Baochai was in the great distress of losing the draft, how could he withstand such words?At that time, draft girls had some standards on the surface, but in fact, most of them were operated in secret. Whoever has someone in the court can be selected, and whoever has a strong background, then no matter how beautiful and intelligent you are, you will still be eliminated.Xue Baochai knew this well and was full of resentment, so after being stimulated by the word "Great Concubine", she finally couldn't hold back, and vented her resentment with a sneer-if she had a good brother and brother who could do Yang Guozhong, There are people in the court, so she won't fail to be elected! Who is Yang Guozhong?It was Yang Yuhuan's brother. At that time Tang Xuanzong liked Yang Yuhuan to the point of loving the house and Wu. He also loved Yang Yuhuan's sisters. Yang Yuhuan's cousin Yang Guozhong became the prime minister. Cover hands as rain.However, Xue Baochai's elder brother Xue Pan was very disappointing. He only had money but no power. He made friends with wine and meat, or politically dangerous figures like Feng Ziying. Xue Pan and others belong to two opposing interest groups. For others, such as Dai Quan, the eunuch in the palace, and Xia Shouzhong, Xue Pan may have some contacts with them, but the relationship is not strong, so although Xue Pan brought Baochai She came to the capital to participate in the draft, but her mobility was limited, and she couldn't pave the way for her, which made her return home in a hurry! Xue Baochai's strange words, after thinking about it so carefully, are actually not strange.Cao Xueqin wrote this on purpose.Cao Xueqin seems to estimate that some readers will ignore his painstaking efforts in writing this way. Therefore, after he wrote Xue Baochai's gaffe, he wrote a rough sketch again, intending to remind us that we should ponder why Xue Baochai's frequent gaffes.She was directly angry at Baoyu, which is somewhat understandable, after all, they are masters with equal status.According to the tone of character that Cao Xueqin set for her in the fifth chapter, she is the most open-minded and safe at all times. Even the little girls like to play with her. How can she be as knowledgeable as the little girls?That seemed like a never-ending scenario.However, in the thirtieth chapter, Cao Xueqin wrote a scene in which she had trouble with the little girl and was very annoyed immediately after she became angry at the words of "Concubine Yang Gui". One day, a little girl came to play with her. There are two ways to write this little girl in ancient books, one way is indigo, which means blue-purple; the other way is pretty, which means pretty the meaning of.Hongxue experts have disputes over which writing method is more in line with Cao Xueqin's original intention. Some people think that Liang'er is reasonable, because there is no way to name it with an ugly color. The color of indigo is the shroud. The color is so beautiful, so it should be called pretty; but in my personal opinion, I think Cao Xueqin's original brush may be indigo, why?He uses homophonic borrowing, which is a technique that appears repeatedly in the text. The sound of "田" is homophonic with "pad", and this indigo has become the back of pad. This indigo is really innocent.It was very hot at that time, and suddenly she couldn't find her fan. She knew that Xue Baochai had always been open-minded, gentle to everyone, especially considerate and helpful, so she ran to ask Baochai, and she said, it must be Baochai. The girl hid mine, good girl, reward me! ——Note that in the text, "girl" has different meanings. For example, Mrs. Wang said Bao girl and Lin girl, which means that the elders call the daughters of the younger generation. Sometimes servants and girls report to Mrs. Wang and other masters, mentioning Xue Baochai and Lin Daiyu, for example, "Miss Lin is here", the "girl" in this sentence means young lady; but like Di'er calling her a "good girl" to Xue Baochai, this "girl" is "aunt", "( Aunt)" means that the little girls in the book all set themselves as a generation lower than the nieces and daughters of the ladies and big girls. ——Indigo's words are really not offensive, this should be a trivial matter, just a simple word.If in the past, Xue Baochai would have been kind and pleasant, telling Dian'er that she didn't hide the fan, maybe she would have given Dian'er the fan she used.However, please pay attention to how Cao Xueqin wrote down—Xue Baochai's response was King Kong's glaring eyes and thunderbolt at the mouth!Xue Baochai is too abnormal!She sternly said: "You have to be careful!" After reading this sentence, my heart jumped wildly.It is said that Lin Daiyu is narrow-minded, that she is bitter and mean, and her words are hurtful. Let's think about it carefully, in the first eighty chapters of Lin Daiyu's book, has there ever been such a vicious voice?Dian'er just asked Baochai for a fan, and she suddenly said "you have to be careful". It is no small matter to issue such a reprimand.It wasn't sullenness but rage, rage.Immediately afterwards, Xue Baochai said: Have I been stubborn with you?you care about me!You should ask those girls who are always smiling with you!This is not only attacking Xiang Er, but also targeting Baoyu and Daiyu.This is not a random text, this plot is for the purpose, called "Baochai borrows a fan machine and double-knocks". Baochai is abnormal, out of control, out of control.This is to imply that she lost the draft, otherwise it would be hard to explain.Baoyu disapproved of young women being selected into the palace, and his values ​​​​diverged from the mainstream values ​​of that society.The sixteenth chapter wrote that his elder sister chose Fengzao Palace and conferred the title of Concubine Xiande, and the whole family rejoiced, but he "disregarded it as nothing and never minded it", so he must be insensitive to Baochai's participation in the draft. All he was thinking about was how to reconcile with Lin Daiyu, who had caused a conflict because of Jin Qilin, and he had absolutely no intention of touching Xue Baochai's trauma on purpose.Xue Baochai first suspected that he used "Yang Guifei" to allude to the draft, and later said he was "I have been stubborn with you? You care about me!" on the grounds of reprimanding Ding'er, and described Daiyu's awkwardness and reconciliation with him as a "hippie smiley face" , and later with Daiyu and Baoyu around the "pleading guilty", venting the irritability and resentment to the fullest. With these writings, I thought Cao Xueqin was alluding to Xue Baochai's participation in the draft but was accidentally eliminated. Xue Baochai is a very ambitious person.You know, Xue Baochai didn't think that the "golden and jade marriage" predicted by the monk must be married to Jia Baoyu at the beginning-there are more than one men with jade, the emperor has jade seals, princes, and sons all have jade, right?When Concubine Yuan was visiting her relatives, she told Baoyu that the one in the yellow robe was your sister.She said what she wanted, and she wanted to wear a yellow robe.In the 70th chapter, she chanted Liu Xu's words and made a vow to "use the strength of the good wind to send me to Qingyun".In that era, it was normal for a woman to have such thoughts, which belonged to a normal competitive psychology under the rules of the game at that time.So you must know that her first wish is to enter the palace, at least to enter the space of princes, princes, princesses, and princesses. Marrying Jia Baoyu is definitely not her original first goal, let alone her highest goal.We need to understand this. Xue Baochai failed in the draft, Jia Yuanchun should be the first to get the news.So at the end of the twenty-sixth chapter, we saw a meaningful plot, that is, Jia Yuanchun bestowed the gift of the Dragon Boat Festival to the people in the Jia family. She made a special arrangement. The two copies are arranged exactly the same, with high specifications and many varieties. There are two high-quality palace fans, two strings of red musk beads, two phoenix-tailed Luo Duan, and a collar of hibiscus mat.As for Lin Daiyu, she is only treated the same as Yingchun, Tanchun, and Xichun, and her salary is much lower. Xiren reported such ritual arrangements to Baoyu, and Baoyu was very surprised—according to the ethical logic of that society, Daiyu was the aunt’s cousin, and Baochai was the aunt’s cousin. It can only be that the aunt's cousin is higher than the aunt's cousin.Baoyu didn't think about it elsewhere, but the parents knew that Jia Yuanchun's bestowing gifts on Baoyu and Baochai obviously meant marriage, that is, she advocated that her younger brother Baoyu marry Baochai.Why didn't she refer to marriage sooner or later, but why did she refer to marriage at this time?This is because she was the first to get the news that her cousin Baochai had failed in the draft.As a noble concubine, Yuan Chun could not interfere in the government affairs. She could not intervene in the palace draft. On the one hand, she comforted Baochai in this way. Mrs. Wang and Aunt Xue were of course happy with Yuan Chun's proposed marriage.What about Xue Baochai herself?It is written in the book: "Xue Baochai is always far away from Baoyu because her mother and Mrs. Wang once mentioned that the golden lock was given by a monk, and that only those who have jade in the future can marry. The things given to him are the same as Baoyu, and I feel more and more boring." This passage is very interesting.Drafting into the palace is of course the parents' highest expectation for Baochai, but as a daughter of the four major Jinling families of the Baoyi family, her competitiveness in the royal family is limited after all, so Mrs. Wang and Aunt Xue regard arranging her to marry Baoyu as a The most practical solution; however, Xue Baochai was once very excited about entering the palace through the draft. Just after losing the election, Yuan Chun came to propose marriage. Under that specific situation, she couldn't be as excited as her mother and aunt, and she became more and more bored. , which is a very accurate reveal. Yuan Chun's finger marriage could not be realized because of Jia's mother's obstruction.Jia's mother pretended to be confused: Since you Yuanchun didn't directly issue an edict, it was just a hint, then, sorry, I didn't feel it, so I just pretended it didn't happen.Jia's mother also claimed that Baoyu and Daiyu "are not enemies and do not get together." At that time, "enemy" meant husband and wife.On the question of whether Baoyu should marry Daiyu or Baochai, Jia's mother was inclined to Daiyu in her heart.This is a very important content in the first eighty chapters, and it is a key point in the family politics of the Rongguo Mansion. If you read carefully, you will find that before these plots, Daiyu's love for Baoyu is written in the book, but Baochai's love for Baoyu is hardly visible.But after these things passed, and after the spiritual scars of the draft defeat healed, Baochai gradually revealed his love for Baoyu.Although there were some emotional conflict scenes in the triangular relationship between Baoyu, Daiyu and Baochai after that, no matter how irritating Baoyu and Daiyu's words and actions were, Baochai could bear it and there would be no more Dragon Boat Festival Such gaffes before and after.In the forty-second chapter, Baochai even took the initiative to show affection to Daiyu, so that Daiyu completely dispelled her doubts about her hidden adultery, and they actually "combined into one". In this way, looking back at Baochai's serious disorder, imbalance, and loss of control before and after the wedding in Qingxu Guan, I am more and more convinced that it is an allusion to her failure in the draft, and it is an echo of the foreshadowing of the fourth round about her going to Beijing to be selected. pack. Xue Baochai carried all the elements of her own humanity, floating and sinking in the waves of fate.Cao Xueqin wrote about the misery of individual life, the treacherous fate of life, and the complexity of human nature through the brilliant brushwork of abnormal personality.Whether it is from the perspective of reading appreciation or creation reference, these pens and inks about Xue Baochai's abnormality in the book are worth savoring and pondering again and again. Why is it said that after Xue Baochai failed in the draft, Jia Yuanchun awarded the Dragon Boat Festival ceremony to express his intention to marry Baoyu and Baochai?Among the four things that Jia Yuanchun gave Baoyu and Baochai equally, one was red musk musk strings. What kind of red musk musk strings were they?Is there any mystery hidden in this red musk musk string?Please listen to my next lecture.