Chapter 16 Chapter One: The Mystery of Shi Xiangyun's Appearance

Shi Xiangyun, the fifth hairpin in the Jinling Twelve Beauties, is a character who leaves a clear impression on all readers, but if you read the text carefully, you will find that the other eleven beauties in the Jinling Twelve Beauties are all different before and after appearance. There is a specific account of the family background, ins and outs, and even character traits of this hairpin.But, if you think about it, does Shi Xiangyun also have such an explanation in the book?There should be too! ——A friend who was discussing with me said that he couldn't remember it for a while, and was anxious to let me tell him which chapter it was in. , what specific explanations have been made.

Lin Daiyu, readers got her information in the second chapter. Although her name did not appear at that time, Jia Yucun and Leng Zixing were drinking and chatting in the country hotel. Jia Yucun mentioned that when he lost his job and lost his job At that time, he went to Yangzhou Yanzheng Lin Ruhai's house to be a teacher, that is, a tutor.His task is very easy, the student is a girl, Lin Ruhai's only daughter, and later we know that it is Lin Daiyu.Lin Daiyu was mentioned in the second chapter, and Jia Yucun also used an example to illustrate Daiyu's precocious wisdom-he said that the female student deliberately pronounced the word "Min" as "Mi" and wrote "Min" again. Deliberately skip one or two strokes.what happened?Because in that era, taboos were to be avoided, that is, when people encountered the name of the emperor or the names of their parents or ancestors when reading and writing, they could not directly pronounce the sound, and they must omit one or two strokes when writing, especially The last stroke must not be written.This example shows that although Lin Ruhai's daughter is young, she is very sensible and respects her mother very much, because her mother's name is Jia Min.So whose daughter is Jia Min?It is the biological daughter of Jia Mu in Rongguo Mansion, so Lin Daiyu's blood relationship is fully explained.When Lin Daiyu made her official debut in the third round, there were more explanations, including her appearance and character.Before and after Xue Baochai's appearance, there are many related explanations. In the fourth round, she explained her family background and went to Beijing with her brother Xue Pan to prepare for the draft; Compared with Daiyu; the seventh time she made her official debut, there was a long passage explaining that the girl was born with a heat poison, so she had to take a special medicine called Lengxiang Wan every day; Hui Hui presented it even more radiantly. After she and Jia Baoyu exchanged accessories and watched carefully, it was revealed that a monk predicted "golden and jade marriage".Lin and Xue are the two listed at the beginning of the Jinling Twelve Beauties. It is of course necessary to have these explanations for them.

The four young ladies of Jia's mansion, Yuan, Ying, Tan, and Xi, all explained when Leng Zixing gave a speech on the Rongguo Mansion the second time. Tanchun was born to Jia Zheng's concubine, and Xichun was Jia Zhen's sister in Ningguo Mansion.When Leng Zixing gave a speech, he also specially introduced Wang Xifeng, clarified her background and status, saying that she "has a very beautiful appearance, a sharp speech, and a very deep and meticulous mind, which is beyond the reach of a man." He made his debut in a hurry before the sound came, which really fulfilled Leng Zixing's evaluation.Telling Wang Xifeng is like telling Qiaojie.As for Li Wan, Lin Daiyu had already explained something when Lin Daiyu entered the mansion, and at the beginning of the fourth chapter, she wrote a special paragraph, explaining her background, real situation and personality traits one by one.Qin Keqing, I have talked a lot about her before. She made a brilliant debut in the fifth chapter, and then at the end of the eighth chapter, there was a patchwork explanation about her background.Miaoyu’s official appearance will not be until the forty-first chapter, but in the seventeenth chapter, a servant reported to Mrs. Wang, and a very detailed introduction has been given to her. Except for her real name, all aspects of her are not mentioned. It can be said that the situation left a clear impression on the readers.

In this way, the eleven beauties mentioned above in the Jinling Twelve Beauties, without exception, have a paragraph or even several paragraphs of text to explain their family background, appearance and personality before and after their appearance.So when did Shi Xiangyun appear on stage?Before and after that, was it like writing other chaps, there was a paragraph of text that focused on explaining: Whose daughter is she?What kind of relationship is she with the Jia Mansion?What kind of living condition is she in?What are her character traits?Is there such an explanation?Remember it carefully, don't you?The friend who discussed with me said that there must be some, because Cao Xueqin wrote the other Shichai in the same way, how could Shi Xiangyun be an exception?However, "presumably" is not enough. You have to read the real situation of the text that you have to face, and you will find that it is indeed strange that for such an important person as Shi Xiangyun, there is no paragraph in the book to explain the above. The most basic question.

Could it be that, in Cao Xueqin's original conception, would there be no Shi Xiangyun in the character setting of his Jinling Twelve Beauties? To explore this question, let us discuss the seventh chapter. Cao Xueqin did not write this book in one go. His ideas are constantly being adjusted, and chapters change back and forth. Some chapters listed in the front may be written later, while some chapters listed in the back may be completed earlier. .The seventh chapter may be written before the fifth chapter. The seventh time is very important.The first half of the seventh chapter is about Zhou Rui's family sending palace flowers.As early as the Qing Dynasty, some theorists pointed out that this writing about sending palace flowers is actually a big scan of the beauties in the Jinling Twelve Beauties.The Xue family is the comprador of the royal family, and the flowers used in the palace are all purchased by their family.This kind of comprador usually buys it and sends it to the palace, and keeps some of it for her own enjoyment, so Aunt Xue took out a box of womb flowers and gave them to the ladies of Jia's mansion and Wang Xifeng to wear.Mrs. Wang was with Aunt Xue at that time. Mrs. Wang was polite and said that the good flowers should be left for Miss Bao to wear. Aunt Xue said that our Miss Bao doesn't like these flowers.Although Xue Baochai didn't want her own family's palace flower, she was scanned for this sum.Then Zhou Rui's family walked around Rongguo Mansion with a flower box. This description is very important, and it gave a very natural and detailed account of the architectural structure and house layout of Rongguo Mansion.Where did Zhou Rui's family start from?Starting from Lixiangyuan in the northeast corner of Rongguo Mansion, the space where Aunt Xue and the others first lived after they came, passed by behind the main building of the main building complex on the central axis of Rongguo Mansion. , Xichun and the others were all arranged to live in the three huts behind Mrs. Wang's main house. Aunt Xue said to give them each a flower. He found Xichun again and gave Xichun a branch.In this way, the three ladies from the Jia family were scanned.

Then, please note that Cao Xueqin's writing style is really very delicate, as fine as a cow's hair-he wrote about Zhou Rui's family holding a flower box and continuing to walk west, passing under the window of the room where Li Wan lived.Why didn't Aunt Xue ask Li Wan to send flowers?Because Li Wan was a widow, in that era, widows were not allowed to wear flowers.However, when Cao Xueqin wrote about Zhou Rui's family sending palace flowers, he consciously went to Li Wan. There was an ancient book that said that when Zhou Rui's family passed by Li Wan's room holding a flower box, he saw Li Wan sleeping on the kang through the window.Li Wan lived there to take care of the three sisters Ying, Tan and Xi.Zhou Rui's family continued to walk west with the flower box in their hands. After passing through the hall and the corridor, they saw a pink screen wall and a yard behind it. Who lives in this small yard?Wang Xifeng lives.This description is very wonderful, he used a special style of writing called "Liu Zang parrot speaks well" - I saw it was a big willow tree, it was the emerald green willow branches and willow leaves, and suddenly I heard a voice, oh, it turns out There was a parrot hidden deep in the canopy——Zhou Rui's family went straight to Wang Xifeng's main room after entering the courtyard with a flower box, because she was going to send flowers to Wang Xifeng, and Aunt Xue had a special order at that time, to give Wang Xifeng's There were so many flowers, and she had to give her four, so she walked towards the main room, but who was sitting on the threshold of the main room?Sitting on Wang Xifeng's girl, Feng'er, waved at her. Zhou Rui's family is Mrs. Wang's accompanying room. She has been in Rongguo Mansion for a long time and is very sensible. The nanny is coaxing a little girl to sleep. She is called Eldest Sister, that is, Qiaojie. At that time, she hadn’t named her. The name Qiaojie was given by Wang Xifeng when Grandma Liu came to Rongguo Mansion for the second time and was about to leave. Well, Sister Qiao is one of the twelve beauties in Jinling, so in the process of sending palace flowers, she must be scanned.Seeing the eldest sister taking a nap, Zhou Rui's family came out again. At this time, I saw Ping'er brought out a big basin from the main room and asked Feng'er to scoop water. During the process, I heard laughter from inside the room. People laugh, and Jia Lian's voice is among them, which means what are these two couples doing?It’s noon, I won’t break it down—you know the parrot language—and they are very particular about hygiene in this area, so they have to take a big basin to scoop water for cleaning after the work is over.At this time, Zhou Rui's family reported to Ping'er, saying that my aunt asked me to give four flowers to my second grandmother.Ping'er sent the flowers in, and came out after a while, conveying Wang Xifeng's order, and took out two branches, and sent them to Grandma Xiao Rong in the East Mansion.Who is Grandma Xiao Rong?It was Qin Keqing.This was written in a nonchalant way. Cao Xueqin was just scanning each of the twelve beauties in Jinling's official book.Who will Ping'er order to send it there?It was for Caiming to send it.Some readers always thought that Caiming was a little girl of Sister Feng. No, Caiming was an underage boy. He could read and write, and could calculate and keep accounts. Servant, but it is okay to use this kind of child who is not weak.Ping'er asked Caiming to send two flowers to Grandma Xiaorong in Dongfu, why did she add the word "small"?Because Jia Rong's daughter-in-law Qin Keqing has a lower seniority than Wang Xifeng, she is called "little".But in Ningguo Mansion, Jia Rong is Jia Zhen's eldest son. Some people say that Jia Zhen is not the only son?But Jia Zhen is still very strong, she was not very old at the time, and besides You Shi, he had several wives, so if Jia Zhen had another son, it must be the second child, and the eldest is this Jia Rong, so Jia Rong The daughter-in-law is the eldest grandma.These writing methods are very in line with the social customs at that time, and also in line with the design of the relationship between characters in the novel.

Zhou Rui's family went out of the courtyard where Sister Feng lived, and continued to walk west, and they arrived at the courtyard of Jiamu. The courtyard where Jiamu lived was in the west of the entire Rongguo Mansion. She didn't dare to neglect Lin Daiyu who lived with Jiamu, and there was no need to do that, but if she wanted to send flowers to Lin Daiyu from Lixiangyuan, she had to pass by the residences of other people before arriving at Jiamu's yard.At that time, Baoyu and Daiyu lived with Jia Mu, and they played together there. Zhou Rui's family gave the last two flowers to Lin Daiyu, and Lin Daiyu was very upset.Then you do the math again, how many hairpins have you scanned?Starting from Xue Baochai's family, Baochai, Yingchun, Tanchun, Xichun, Li Wan, eldest sister (that is, Qiaojie), Wang Xifeng, Qin Keqing was mentioned, and then Lin Daiyu and Jiuchai.As early as the Qing Dynasty, someone pointed out that, in fact, he alluded to Yuanchun through the word "gong" of Gonghua; For fun, a little nun appeared, so I think Miaoyu is also alluded to. This kind of statement is not too far-fetched.Then you see, this has either formally scanned or alluded to the eleven hairpins in the Jinling Twelve Hairpins.But no one?Only there is no Shi Xiangyun!Hey, what's the matter?This is a text phenomenon.

If you have listened to my lectures and read a lot of my books, you will know that my argument is actually divided into three stages. In the first stage, I will read the text carefully, and then I will describe the phenomenon of a text to you. Once, it is written like this in the storytelling book; in the second stage, I asked the question, how could it be written like this?In the third stage, I will conduct analysis, put forward my personal views for your reference, reveal secrets and solve puzzles.Now discussing Shi Xiangyun, I also divide it into three stages. The seventh chapter scans and insinuates each of the beauties in the Jinling Twelve Beauties by sending palace flowers, but Shi Xiangyun is not involved. Could that be because Cao Xueqin hadn’t made up his mind when he wrote the seventh chapter? , Which twelve women are identified as the characters in the Jinling Twelve Beauties?

There is another textual phenomenon that is more noteworthy, that is, there is no Shi Xiangyun in such a big family event as the concubine Yuan's visiting relatives.If Cao Xueqin is at ease and wants to arrange Shi Xiangyun to play, it should be easy to find out the reason. Shi Xiangyun has often lived in Jiamu's house in Rongguo Mansion since she was a child. It is absolutely not farfetched to write that Jia Mute brought her here for a grand family event.What's more, one of the important plots in Yuan concubine's visiting relatives is to write poems and write poems. Even Li Wan, Yingchun, and Xichun have written poems. Xiangyun's poems are full of talents. The image is more lively.In the seventeenth to eighteenth chapters, when the servant reported the situation of Miaoyu to Wang Xifeng, Zhi Yanzhai first wrote a rather long comment, carefully calculating who the twelve beauties included, and then added Said: "It is not true that the twelve beauties cited in the front are all fictions. At the end of the police fantasy "Love List", we know the main, deputy, second and third or fourth vices." Although this supplement The signature is "Eracious Wat Sou", but I agree with Mr. Zhou Ruchang's textual research and judgment, that is the signature that Zhiyanzhai changed later. From the supplementary tone, it can be seen that the same person is adjusting his own expression.These two connected comments tell us that Cao Xueqin's design of the Twelve Hairpins in Jinling has a development process from "not sure" to listed.So, is it because Cao Xueqin had no plan to write Shi Xiangyun's prototype into the book, but after some consideration, he finally not only wrote it, but also made her an artistic image that can compete with Dai and Chai?

Shi Xiangyun didn't officially appear until the twentieth episode.She appeared suddenly. "Let's say that Baoyu was joking with Baochai, and suddenly someone said, 'Miss Shi is here.'"—Who is this Miss Shi?If you look ahead, there is no paragraph that introduces Ms. Shi in a concentrated manner. If you look back, you will see Chapter 80, and there is no paragraph that tells you who Ms. Shi is.But when they heard that Miss Shi was coming, how did Baoyu and Baochai react?Baoyu got up and left after hearing this.What about Baochai?He smiled and said, "Wait, let's go together and see her."It can be seen that the relationship between Baoyu and Miss Shi is very unusual, and Baochai is also very familiar with her. ——"Speaking, I got off the kang and came to Jiamu's side with Baoyu. I saw Shi Xiangyun talking and laughing. When I saw the two of them coming, I asked my friends to see you." Shi Xiangyun was like this in the twentieth chapter. Appeared abruptly.Then think about the other eleven beauties, there are explanations before and after the appearance!This is really puzzling-how could it be written like this when Shi Xiangyun appeared on the stage?Why before and after this, there is no paragraph to explain to the readers who the girl is and what kind of relationship she is with the Rongguo Mansion?

Some "red fans" friends may say: There is no paragraph in the book to introduce Shi Xiangyun in a nutshell, but we know her very well!It seems that we knew her before reading this book. Since we are acquaintances, we don't need to introduce her! The reason why many people are "self-acquainted" with Shi Xiangyun is often not because of the intensive reading of the text, but because they have watched TV series, watched movies, watched stage performances, read comic books, and heard others tell about her. For the story, I have seen some single pictures, such as Shi Xiangyun drunk lying peony and so on, so I feel that there is no need to introduce any more.But a person who has not had that kind of influence at all, he comes to read directly, and after reading the twentieth chapter, he may wonder—who is Miss Smith? In 2000, I was invited to the UK and gave two lectures, one of which was in a small area of ​​the University of London. I could not speak in English, but in Chinese, without an interpreter. People who listened must understand Chinese, and it was in London. In the Department of East Asian Languages ​​and Literatures of the university, I tell those sinologists, professors, associate professors, lecturers who teach Chinese, as well as graduate students and doctoral students, and tell them my own research experience.After the lecture, there were individual conversations. A foreign professor told me that he first read the 80-chapter book translated by David Hawkes in English. Because he learns Chinese very well, can speak Chinese, can read Chinese books, and later studied Chinese.He said that whether he was reading the translated version or the Chinese version, when he read the twentieth episode of "Miss Smith is Coming", he was very puzzled, because the previous characters had a question of "who is he (or she)" before and after their appearance? Explain why such an important person as "Miss Shi" has come, alarmed Baoyu and Baochai, and they are eager to see, and she is unrestrained in front of Jiamu, talking and laughing, who is she?Even a person like Grandma Liu had a very specific explanation, letting him know why she appeared in the Rongguo Mansion, but this "Ms. Shi" made him "perplexed by Monk Zhanger".He asked me: Could it be that in the original, before and after this, a paragraph of text was omitted?At that time, I didn't have time to think deeply and couldn't answer him.After returning to China, I conducted a special research on this issue, and what I am reporting to you now is my research experience. Maybe someone wants to call me out, and he will say: "In the book I read, Shi Xiangyun appeared in the scene 20 times ago, and it is in the 13th time!" Some passbooks do print like that— ——The thirteenth chapter writes that Qin Keqing died, and many people came to the funeral. There is such a description in it: "Then I heard the sound of shouting, and it turned out that the wife of Zhongjinghou Shiding came." When writing other people, there is no description of drinking.What is drinking?That is, before the sedan chairs or chariots and horses come over, there is a leader, yelling loudly, or loudly announcing who is coming, or loudly ordering idlers to avoid.Then the next sentence says that Shi Xiangyun, Mrs. Wang, Mrs. Xing, Sister Feng and others went up to meet them.Now I want to tell everyone that the name of Shi Xiangyun in this place was added by Tong Tonglin. In all the ancient books, among the few people who greeted Mrs. Shi Ding, the Marquis of Zhongjing, there is no name of Shi Xiangyun, and it is impossible to have it.Who do you think will hold the funeral?The Jia family held the funeral, and the Ningguo Mansion held the funeral. Jia Zhen's wife, Youshi, claimed that she had a stomachache and was bedridden, so she left her alone. Then the wives of Rongguo Mansion, Mrs. Wang, Mrs. Xing, and Wang Xifeng, they should Come to help take care of her. Hearing the sound of shouting, the Marquise is coming, of course she will go up to greet her and do her best.According to the etiquette of that era, Mrs. Wang lived in Rongguo Mansion, and Mrs. Xing was the eldest daughter-in-law of Jia Mu, but she was not the first lady of Rongguo Mansion. When it was a female guest, Mrs. Xing gave way and Mrs. Wang hit the head. Even though Wang Xifeng is young and capable, but her seniority is low, she must not go beyond the order of Mrs. Wang and Mrs. Xing and run to the front, so we retreated. Thinking ten thousand steps, even if Shi Xiangyun was also in Ningguo Mansion at that time, she would go to meet Mrs. Shi Ding. How could she be ranked first in the narrative?No matter how naive and lively she is, how could she not know the rules to such an absurd level and run ahead of Mrs. Wang?Obviously, she was forced to be added in the passbook because Mrs. Shi Ding is Shi Xiangyun's aunt—but this relationship needs to be deduced through many scattered texts. Forcibly adding Shi Xiangyun's name is still inexplicable to readers who are not familiar with the content in advance.Then there are careful "red fans" friends who told me that Shi Xiangyun did not appear before the twentieth episode, but she was mentioned.Is this statement correct?This statement is very accurate, and I admire this "red fan" friend very much.In the nineteenth chapter, Xiren and Baoyu talked privately. Xiren had a passage about Shi Xiangyun. She said, in fact, I am just the most ordinary person, and there are many people who are better than me.I have served Miss Shi for a few years first, and it is my duty to serve well.There is this sentence in all ancient books, and "Miss Shi" appeared, but because this character did not officially appear, many people ignored it.This text phenomenon is even more strange.The author writes such a character as if everyone knows her by nature and does not need to be explained like other characters.Xiren suddenly mentioned such a thing in the nineteenth chapter. Readers have to read to the end and read very carefully to understand that Xiren turned out to be the girl next to Jia Mu. Jia Mu once brought Shi Xiangyun to Rong The Guofu came to live in a space next to her. Mother Jia set aside a girl to serve Shi Xiangyun. She was Xiren, but at that time she was called Pearl, and the name Xiren was assigned to serve Baoyu when Baoyu fetched for her. Cao Xueqin did not give a concentrated and clear explanation to Shi Xiangyun once in the eighty chapters. It is really strange that such an important person, he did not set up such a paragraph of text, but sporadically laid out some explicit or obscure information. be surprised.Some readers in the Qing Dynasty were very depressed. From some commentaries in the late Qing Dynasty, we can see that some people liked the role of Shi Xiangyun very much. What he didn't understand the most was why Shi Xiangyun was excluded from the concubine Yuan's family visit.Concubine Yuan visits relatives is the most exaggerated section among them, the section farthest from real life, that is to say, the section with the most fictional elements, which has never happened in the real life of the Qing Dynasty, just a concubine can be like this Go back to your parents' house.Of course, some red scholars have long pointed out that Cao Xueqin's writing about Yuan concubine visiting relatives is actually an artistic sublimation of the grand event in the Kangxi Dynasty when Cao's family picked up Emperor Kangxi four times in the south of the Yangtze River.In any case, it is a plot with the strongest fictional elements. Since it is fictionalized with rounded arms, and Shi Xiangyun is a character you love so much, wouldn't it be over if you included her?A very important part of concubine Yuan's visiting relatives is poetry writing. Shi Xiangyun is quick thinking and talented, so why not write about her participating in poetry writing?How to explain this person's absence during the family visit event?Of course, there is a very rough explanation, he will say, hey, Cao Xueqin is writing a novel, he just writes it casually, if you talk about the text here, you always feel that he has a prototype of the character and a complete plan, There are a series of presuppositions in the plot, there are many volts, and it can be written in one way or another to explore a truth. In fact, it is caused by people's enthusiasm. After writing twenty chapters, I suddenly thought, ouch, why not add a character?So with a swipe of the pen, someone suddenly announced that Miss Shi was coming, and immediately Jia Baoyu and Xue Baochai went to Jiamu's place, and a person who was talking and laughing appeared? ?What's so good about this?That's how people write!I also respect this kind of explanation, and I respect all kinds of different opinions, because reading a literary work belongs to the category of aesthetics, which is very different from studying natural science. It is difficult to say who is right and who is wrong when it comes to differences in aesthetic feelings. It is to express each other, refer to each other, stimulate enthusiasm for appreciation of national classics, and drive more people to read them. It is good to have such an effect.I have repeatedly expressed my opinion that Cao Xueqin's writing is not just casually. Most of the characters in his works have prototypes, and he has a rigorous design for the structure of the book, and he has more overall consideration for the setting of the characters. The arrangements are very meticulous, he is particularly good at setting up foreshadowing, seemingly unintentional, but in the end there are hookups to take care of him. If he wrote the seventh chapter first, at that time he had not yet fully scheduled all the gold hairpins in the Jinling Twelve Hairpins. By the time the fifth chapter was written, his overall conception was obviously very mature.I said that he did not set up a paragraph for Shi Xiangyun to explain her origin and life experience in detail, referring to the narrative text, if it is not counted as narrative text, then in the fifth chapter, he has already passed the album judgment and song lyrics to Shi Xiangyun. Her life experience, character, character, and destiny were explained, and she was clearly assigned a position.Jia Baoyu read the album pages of the Jinling Twelve Beauties in the Department of Boming in the Illusory Realm, but he didn't read all the side volumes and the side volumes, but he went through the main volume. Among them, the fifth hairpin was about Shi Xiangyun, who had both paintings and poems. , that poem is also called the verdict.Later, I listened to the divertimento and said that there are twelve pieces, but in fact there are fourteen pieces including the beginning and the end.I personally have a unique point of view. I think part of the song "Wang Ning Mei" is about Shi Xiangyun, which has caused great controversy. Some "red fans" friends firmly disagree. He firmly disagrees. I firmly support him in disagreeing. Because everyone understands differently, there is no need to agree with each other.Leaving aside "Wang Ning Mei" and not talking about it here, then, "Sorrow in Music" is about Shi Xiangyun, we don't dispute this, right?Moreover, I pointed out long ago that the fifth chapter wrote about the four fairies in the illusory realm. Their names, Chimeng Fairy, Great Master of Kindness, Golden Girl of Yinsorrow, and Bodhi of Rescuing Hate, respectively allude to the four most important things in Jia Baoyu's life. Women - Lin Daiyu, Shi Xiangyun, Xue Baochai and Miaoyu. (In the ancient version, "Master of Kindness" is also written as "Master of Love". I agree with Mr. Zhou Ruchang's judgment: "kindness" is more in line with Cao Xueqin's original intention.) The fifth chapter may be written after the seventh chapter, and It may be finalized after repeated adjustments and polishes.Zhi Yanzhai said that Cao Xueqin died before finishing Chapter 22. Why did he write Chapter 22 at the end?We will discuss this issue later.What I want to say now is that it is impossible for him to write very late in the fifth chapter, because the fifth chapter set a plate for each of the twelve beauties in Jinling. After setting the seat, Shi Xiangyun ranked fifth. After a lot of descriptions of her after the twentieth chapter, thinking about it carefully, she is a bit wronged to be ranked fifth, and it can't be moved any further. Ordinarily, through the finalization of the fifth chapter, Shi Xiangyun has already secured the fifth place in Jinling Twelve Beauties. Then, in future writing, no matter which chapter it is in, adding a paragraph to Shi Xiangyun is like introducing the other eleven beauties and introducing the rest. Isn't it easy to write many characters with the same text?Then why read through eighty chapters, or not?How should this be explained? In my opinion, the biggest possibility is that there is almost no distance between this character from the prototype to the artistic image, that is, the authenticity of this character surpasses all other characters. The author is very familiar with her and cherishes her very much, so when writing her Sometimes I don't want to make up any plots for her, so I write straight and straight, and write the image of a woman I am most familiar with.If it is said that Lin Daiyu and Xue Baochai were exaggerated in the process of sublimating from prototypes to artistic images, and there were many fictional elements, then the role of Shi Xiangyun was sketched based on the prototype.Except for the change of surname and first name, this character is almost embedded in the book like a camera.Since this is how I write about a real person in life, then I will not let her appear in any purely fictional plots, such as Yuanchun visiting relatives, which is nothing in life, and some people in other lives, as Prototypes, I can completely artisticize them, imagine what they would be like if they really encountered such a thing as a royal concubine visiting relatives, and virtualize their psychological reactions and behavioral states on that occasion, but the role of Shi Xiangyun , when I write about her, I only write about what is real in my life. She in my life is naturally an artistic image, and I don't need to give up the real and virtual.Cao Xueqin wrote the seventh chapter of Zhou Rui's sending palace flowers, which must have a basis in life, but the arrangement in that way is obviously a reorganization of the original ecology of life according to his subjective intention of scanning the twelve beauties of Jinling.When writing the two stories of sending the palace flowers and visiting the concubine Yuan, he didn't want to mix the real Shi Xiangyun into it because there were a lot of fictional content.In order to keep all the plots about Shi Xiangyun in the original ecology, he would rather let Shi Xiangyun be absent whenever there are passages that make Shi Xiangyun also have to be treated as fictional.And with such a writing psychology, he also felt that there was no need to set up a special paragraph of text to explain the origin of this character, because any kind of explanation of this kind actually contains the factors of transforming, covering up, and virtualizing the prototype of life. .This is my explanation of the special textual phenomenon about Shi Xiangyun.Of course, such an explanation is not enough to explain this strange textual phenomenon.Then there may be a second reason, that is, he tried to explain it, but he was not satisfied, and he did not finalize it; It can be added; even after writing it, it was deleted by his collaborator Zhi Yanzhai. How could Zhi Yanzhai want to delete this thing?We will explore this issue in the next few lectures.A "red fan" friend said that, in fact, through the dialogues of many characters before and after, as well as fragmentary disclosures and teases, we can generally write a narrative account about Shi Xiangyun for Cao Xueqin.We can all write it, so why didn't he write it?I think that Cao Xueqin may have some kind of psychological barrier.Sometimes, it is difficult to write about your closest and most beloved person, especially to describe in a general way, point out her background, and disclose her hidden pain. I really can't bear it and don't want to.Here's another explanation. There is another explanation, because the ancient version we see now has only 80 chapters, and there will be no chapters after 80 chapters. How many chapters will there be after 80 chapters?Some people say that there are thirty chapters, some say twenty-eight chapters, but in fact there is not much difference between thirty chapters and twenty-eight chapters, because some people think that the last two chapters of the first eighty chapters (seventy-nine and twenty-eight chapters) Eighty chapters) was not written by Cao Xueqin, so counting from the seventy-eighth chapter onwards, isn't it correct to say "the last thirty chapters"?What we see now is an incomplete text. There is no general explanation about Shi Xiangyun in the front, but it does not mean that there must be no later.Cao Xueqin writes characters, and sometimes he will explain what is going on with this person at a very late stage, such as Qingwen, Qingwen appeared very early, and she jumped out of the scene as soon as she appeared in the eighth episode. She has a bright personality and is charming. She is cute, she has a lot of roles in the future, but what is her origin, Cao Xueqin did not add it until the seventy-seventh chapter when she was expelled and died. She was originally the mother of the housekeeper Lai Da The little girl bought with money, this Nanny Lai has a lot of face because she has served the older masters of Jia's mansion, and she often brings the little girl into the mansion to greet and play. As soon as she saw that the little girl she brought was beautiful and smart, she liked it very much. In order to please Jia Mu, Mammy Lai immediately gave this little life as a plaything to Jia Mu.Earlier, Cao Xueqin explained the origins of many maids. Some of them, like mandarin ducks, were raised by the so-called family. The previous generation or even several generations were servants of the Jia family; Sell ​​her to the Jia family.Qingwen's background is more humble than theirs.If we don't read Chapter 77, we won't know Qingwen's origin.This makes us feel more compassion and righteous indignation for the devastation suffered by such a strong and fragile life as Qingwen. Incidentally, I would like to clarify a question.Speaking of this, I mentioned Mammy Lai. I pronounce Madam Lai as "Mom". I also mentioned Mammy Li and Madam Zhao. They also pronounce Madam Lai as "Mom". Criticism, think that nanny should be pronounced as "momo", based on reading some western novels translated into Chinese, especially some foreign movies and TV shows, the senior nuns in the monastery are not all written as mammy but pronounced as "momo" ?Borrowing the word "mom" and pronouncing "momo" to address nuns is a new way of expression brought about by the New Culture Movement around the "May 4th Movement" in the 20th century.In the past in Chinese, the word nanny meant an elderly woman, and it had only one pronunciation, so it was pronounced "mother". Now the dictionaries and dictionaries we use still stipulate this way.But this complex character phenomenon is worth noting. During the development of vernacular Chinese, when translating some Western works, some characters will be borrowed to form some new sounds. Another most obvious example is the word "Qian", which has a丫头叫茜雪，发音一定要读作“欠雪”。但是有一部许多人都很熟悉的外国电影《茜茜公主》，人们都约定俗成地读成“西西公主”，一些翻译过来的西方小说里，女性名称印成“丽茜”也读作“丽西”，不过你去查字典词典，它只承认“茜”读作“欠”。也许把“嬷嬷”读成“摸摸”、把“茜”读成“西”，经过长久的约定俗成，会终于被字典、词典承认，但现在我还是必须要根据《现代汉语词典》的规范来发音。那么，虽然我们现在还无法确切地知道，究竟曹雪芹他为什么在金陵十二钗正册各钗的描写当中，起码在前八十回里，唯独对史湘云不留下一段明确的叙述性介绍，可是，我们通过书里有关史湘云的文字，还是可以对史湘云形成一个非常清晰的印象。首先我们知道史湘云是一个父母双亡的孤女，她由两个叔叔家轮流来抚养，一个叔叔是忠靖侯史鼎，另一个叔叔是保龄侯史鼐。于是我就提出一个问题：这两个叔叔，哪个是哥哥？Which is the younger brother?这可是一个关系到史湘云原型究竟是谁的问题，下一讲我们就将从这个问题讨论起。