Chapter 17 Chapter Two: The Mystery of Shi Xiangyun's Foster Care

We already know that Shi Xiangyun was raised by her two uncles in turn.Two of her uncles appear in the book, one is Zhongjing Hou Shi Ding. In the thirteenth chapter, the Marquis himself does not appear, but her wife appears. There is a lot of ostentation, first there are shouts, and then they arrive.In the forty-ninth chapter, there is another point—about Shi Xiangyun, in the first 80 chapters, there is no clear explanation of the whole paragraph, and some very fragmentary information is given out casually—"Who knows that Baolinghou Shi Nai has moved to the committee again?" A foreign official will soon take his family members to take up the post. Because Jiamu is reluctant to part with Xiangyun, she left him and took him home." It can be seen that Shi Xiangyun mainly lived with her other uncle Baoling during that period of time. Hou Shinai's house.In that era, being knighted did not necessarily have a specific official position, but sometimes the emperor would give him a specific official position, allowing him to stay in other places for a longer period of time to manage certain aspects of affairs, which was called relocation.When relocating abroad, you generally have to bring your entire family to take up the post.Since Shi Xiangyun is fostered at Baolinghou's house, Baolinghou should treat her like his own daughter and take her to the post together.However, the book said that Jia Mu was reluctant to part with Shi Xiangyun, so she let her stay.According to the family ethics at that time, Jia's mother was just an aunt of Baolinghou Shi Nai and Shi Xiangyun's great-aunt. After marrying into Jia's family, she already had a foreign surname, so she should be called Jia Shi's family. She left behind Shi Xiangyun, and Shi Nai could not easily agree. , because as an uncle, he has the responsibility to raise Shi Xiangyun. In today's concept, Shi Nai is Shi Xiangyun's guardian. Since his family moved out, he should take Shi Xiangyun away with him, or at least discuss it with Zhongjinghou Shi Ding. Then transfer Shi Xiangyun to Shi Ding's house.But when this Shi Nai heard that Jiamu came to keep Shi Xiangyun, he let it go and agreed to let Shi Xiangyun stay with Jiamu for a while.

So these two uncles of Shi Xiangyun, one is Zhongjing Hou Shi Ding—his name appears first in the book, and the other is Bowling Hou Shi Nai, which one is the elder brother and which is the younger brother?Is it the elder brother who is mentioned first, and the younger brother who is mentioned last?no.In the fourth chapter, when writing about "Official Protection Talisman", in the ancient version, besides summarizing each of the four major families with a proverb, there is also a small note attached to it. This small note should not be regarded as The comment, which was written by Cao Xueqin, is part of the main text, but in various later popular editions, the small notes about the family involved in each proverb were deleted.Zhou Huiben didn't keep it either, which is a pity. The proverb related to historians in the "Official Protection Talisman" is: "Efang Palace, three hundred miles away, cannot accommodate a history of Jinling." 8. The current resident in Duzhong is ten houses. The original residence is eight houses." If you read this small note and think about it for a while, the question of who is the elder brother and who is the younger brother between Shi Ding and Shi Nai should be easily solved.why?In feudal society, especially in the Qing Dynasty, if the emperor granted a title to a person, and allowed him to inherit the title and pass it down, then since the first generation was granted the title of Marquis of Baoling, it must be passed down to the eldest son. The eldest son of the house, since it was Shi Naide who attacked Marquis Baoling, he must be the eldest son and elder brother of the eldest son of the Shi family, and Shi Ding, the Marquis of Zhongjing, must be his younger brother.Of course, this younger brother Shi Ding is also very proud. He must have made new contributions to the emperor, so the emperor added icing on the cake to the Shi family, and also granted Shi Ding a Zhongjinghou.Having said that, some people may become impatient again and say: Why is it necessary to discuss this issue?Shi Ding and Shi Nai are only mentioned occasionally in the book, but they do not constitute a specific artistic image at all. Do they also have prototypes?Could it be helpful to understand Shi Xiangyun?Ding, Nai, Cao Xueqin just wrote it casually. When you read the text carefully, you even carefully pick out the two people named Ding and Nai, who are both older and younger. Isn’t it too cumbersome and boring?

I have repeatedly emphasized that although it is a novel, its text contains elements of family history. Cao Xueqin adopted a very special writing method of "hiding the truth" while "preserving false words".I have said many times that the image of Jia Mu (Shi Taijun) in the book is based on a younger sister of Li Xu, who was weaving in Suzhou during the Kangxi Dynasty. She married Cao Yin. , the Li family who married Cao Yin is Cao Xueqin's grandmother.So from real life sublimated into an artistic image, Cao Xueqin gave his grandmother the surname of the family, changing from Li to Shi, so one of the four major families in the novel based on his grandmother's family, he wrote Bowlinghou Shangshuling The Jinling historian after Shi Gong, all the characters in this family system were fictitiously surnamed Shi. In the book, apart from Jia Mu (Shi Taijun), the more important historian image is Shi Xiangyun. It can be seen that Shi Xiangyun's prototype should be surnamed Li.Now I want to solemnly tell you that in the real historical files, you can find out that the son of Li Xu, who weaved in Suzhou during the Kangxi Dynasty, was called Li Nai and Li Ding.In the book, Shi Nai is set as the elder brother and Shi Ding is set as the younger brother, which is completely in accordance with the ethics and order in real life.If Cao Xueqin is completely fictitious, the word "Ding" should be named after the elder brother, and "Nai" is added to the word "Ding", it should be the younger brother, wouldn't it be the end of writing Baolinghou as Shi Ding?But he prefers to write it as Brother Nai and Brother Ding, which shows that although Cao Xueqin is writing novels, his real life has always been in his mind. Even if these two background characters change their surnames, they will never change their names and respect the original order. .

A "red fan" friend discussed with me. He said that since Shi Nai and Shi Ding are Shi Xiangyun's uncles, it can be seen that Shi Xiangyun's father is older than both Nai and Ding, so it should be her who attacked Baolinghou father?The note about historians in Chapter 4 "Guardian Talisman" clearly states that this family has eighteen households in total, and there are ten households in the capital alone. Shi Xiangyun's father should be Nai and Ding's cousin. , and when Shi Xiangyun was still in her infancy, her parents both died.In fact, another character in the film is similar to her in this respect, that is Jia Qiang.Of course, Jia Qiang's seniority is one level lower than hers. According to the book, Jia Qiang said in terms of blood, "He is also an upright great-great-grandson in Ningfu. After the death of his parents, he lived with Jia Zhen since childhood."This kind of situation was common in the society of that era, that is, there were many branches in the heyday of the family, but not every household was always prosperous, and some households might end up with only one man or one woman left alone. The other houses can take care of them, and the chief house should be responsible first, such as the Bowling Marquis Shi Nai to Shi Xiangyun in the book, General Weilie Jia Zhen to Jia Qiang, they must take the responsibility of raising and guardianship.Through the discussion on who is the elder brother and who is the younger brother of Shi Ding and Shi Nai, it further proves the conclusion I drew in the last lecture: the distance between the character Shi Xiangyun from the prototype to the artistic image is the smallest. Exceeding the other beauties in the Jinling Twelve Beauties, the author faithfully wrote about the circumstances of such a cousin in his life.

In the existing ancient books of Cao Xueqin, although there is no concentrated narrative text to explain the ins and outs of Shi Xiangyun, after my research above, it is actually possible to make a clear summary: from the perspective of the prototype, it is the Kangxi dynasty in Suzhou. Weaving Li Xu, one of his younger sisters married Cao Yin, Jiangning weaving; Li Xu has two sons who are very successful, the eldest son is Li Nai, and the second son is Li Ding; Li's family has many houses, and Li Xu's brothers also More than one, one of the brothers gave birth to a son, married a wife, and gave birth to a daughter, but when the girl was still in her infancy, Li Xu's nephew and his wife both died, so the girl was taken care of by Li Xu. Nai and Li Ding took turns to raise him, and Li Nai took the main responsibility.When Li Xu was alive, of course he would personally ask about this girl. After Cao Yin and Li Xu passed away one after another, Cao Yin's widow, that is, Li Nai, Li Ding's aunt, and the grandmother of the girl whose parents died in infancy , I love this girl very much, and often take her to Cao's house to live for a while.The relationship between this group of characters, transformed into the novel, is the historian of the four major families in Jinling, whose ancestors were granted the title of Marquis of Bowling by the emperor. , there was no such title of title in the Qing Dynasty, but the reason for such a fictitious title is not without life basis. The basis is: in real life, the Li family and the Cao family, Li Xu's mother and Cao Yin's mother were all under Emperor Kangxi. When I was a child, I was his nanny (not a nanny in the modern sense, but an important role of "replacing mother", also known as "nurturing mother").In the fifty-third chapter, I wrote the couplet in the ancestral hall of Jia's mansion: "The heart and brain are ruined, and the surname is Lai Baoyu's kindness; the fame permeates the sky, and the hundred generations look up to the prosperity." The writing method of the first couplet is more clear than "Bao Linghou The location is the prototype of Jia's family in the novel, which is the Cao's family who once "nurturing" the emperor's "nurturing mother".Of course, when Cao Xueqin concealed the truth in false words, he used exaggerated artistic techniques. In the novel, the Jia family named dukes—Ning Guogong and Rong Guogong, and the historians named marquises. The duke title of the first generation of the Jia family cannot be hereditary, and the noble titles of the younger generations are constantly being downgraded. The Duke of Ning passed down to Jia Jing, and Jia Jing gave it to his son Jia Zhen to attack. When it was handed down to Jia She, he was only a first-class general, but the title of marquis of the historian could be "hereditary", and it was handed down to Shi Nai's generation without being downgraded, and he was still the Marquis of Bowling.What's more interesting is that Cao Xueqin also wrote Shi Ding as a marquis, and invented a title of "Marquis of Zhongjing". Needless to say, "Zhong" has the meaning of calming turmoil. The emperors of the Qing Dynasty continued to pacify There were rebellions and rebellions everywhere, so there were slaves who loyally quelled the rebellion for them. Because of Shi Ding's military exploits in the novel, the emperor gave their historian another Zhongjinghou. Bowling Hou Shi Nai, who "relys on his laurels", and Zhongjing Hou Shi Ding, who "makes new achievements", take turns raising their orphaned niece, and their aunt Shi Taijun, who is also the grandfather of the orphan, often picks up this girl named Shi Xiangyun. Go to Rongguo Mansion to live.In Shi Xiangyun's body, the blood of the historian flows, and Jia's mother loves this orphan girl from her natal family very much.However, compared with Lin Daiyu, Lin Daiyu is the biological daughter of Jia's mother's daughter, while Shi Xiangyun is only a daughter of Jia's cousin's son, and the blood relationship is several layers away.

As soon as Shi Xiangyun appeared on the stage, she was called "Miss Shi", Lin Daiyu was not called "Miss Lin", and Xue Baochai was not called "Miss Xue". This should also be due to Shi Xiangyun's prototype. It is customary to be called "Miss Li", which may be because although her father was not the eldest son of the Li family's generation, he got married and had children earlier than Li Nai. This Miss Li family is the oldest in that generation. One.Cao Xueqin wrote that although he wrote in "false language", the identity of the character often has some changes with the identity in life, but he was unwilling to give up the habitual name of that character in the family. The most obvious example is his Wang Xifeng is set as the daughter-in-law of the eldest son of the Rongguo Mansion, but other characters in the book call her "Second Grandma". It can be seen that the prototype of this character is the "Second Grandma" in the family. Name to write this character.In the last lecture, I analyzed the name of "Grandma Xiaorong", and now I will tell you that the name of "Miss Shi" also has the basis behind the text.

The historian in the novel, at the stage of the story, has a higher social status than the Jia family. He has two masters, both of whom are uncles of Shi Xiangyun.Although there is no overall account of her foster care situation in the novel, there are some fragmentary strokes that reveal and tease the unsatisfactory side of Shi Xiangyun's situation. It is impossible for Shi Xiangyun to see her uncle often in these two Marquis mansions, just like Lin Daiyu in Rongguo mansion.Let’s think back, how many times in the book did Lin Daiyu and Jia Zheng meet directly?Even if they can be seen in the same family gathering, they rarely communicate with each other, and it is hard to say whether they even look at each other.Lin Daiyu, besides her grandmother, saw most elders all day long, her aunt Mrs. Wang.The same is true for Shi Xiangyun. The so-called foster care at her uncle's house, to put it bluntly, is actually foster care at her aunt's house. It is her aunt who she has the most contact with all day long.So what did the two aunts do to her?It was very harsh.In the thirty-second chapter, through Xue Baochai’s dialogue with Xiren, it was revealed from Xue Baochai’s mouth—in fact, Cao Xueqin revealed to the readers through Xue Baochai’s character—“I’ve been looking at the expression of Yun girl recently, and I’m talking about it It sounds like the girl Yun's family has no control at all. Their family thinks the expenses are too high, so they don't use those needles and threads. Almost everything is done by their wives. Why did he come here a few times? When he was talking to me, when he saw that no one was around, he said that the family was very tired. I asked him a few more words about daily life, and his eyes were red, and his mouth was vague, and he didn't want to say anything. Thinking about his appearance, it is natural that he has not suffered from his parents since he was a child. When I look at him, I don’t feel sad." Some "red fans" friends may be a little puzzled, but it is in the Marquis's mansion. Think about history. Mrs. Ding went to Ningguo Mansion to participate in Qin Keqing's funeral, and there were shouts before she arrived. Could such an aunt think that the family's expenses are too high, and the girls and tailors who can't afford to do needlework are actually "" Girls do it", are you so stingy?That is entirely possible, some wealthy families are like that, the more wealth they have, the more stingy they are.In addition, you have to understand this sentence. The so-called "women do it by themselves" does not mean that the Marquis herself does needlework. The Mrs. Wang in Jia's mansion did not see her doing needlework by herself, but Aunt Zhao did needlework. There are related descriptions in the book.Aunt Zhao belongs to the "women". It is conceivable that Shi Xiangyun's aunt put Shi Xiangyun and her husband's aunts together to assign needlework, and there is a quota and time limit to complete, but the aunt may not also Let her own daughter do needlework like that, so Xue Baochai lamented Shi Xiangyun's "suffering from having no parents since childhood".

In the book, it is written that Xue Baochai is doing needlework at home, it is also written that Lin Daiyu is making sachets, cutting clothes, etc., and it is also written that Tanchun made a pair of shoes and gave them to his brother Baoyu, but there is no fixed amount for them, and they need to sacrifice rest to go to school. rush to work.Shi Xiangyun was overloaded with needlework in the house of the aunts of the two marquises. Even Xue Baochai, who most advocated that needlework should be a professional occupation for women, couldn't bear to know it.So Shi Xiangyun always hoped that Mother Jia would pick her up to live in Rongguo Mansion, at least she wouldn't have to stay up all night doing needlework with Mother Jia.It is written in the book that as soon as she appeared on stage, she would talk and laugh in front of Jiamu, which really tasted like getting out of the cage and being liberated.A young friend asked me: Since Mother Jia loves her so much, she simply took the opportunity of Shi Nai's relocation to take over her custody and let her stay by my side forever and live a comfortable life. Isn't the problem solved?Even if Jia's mother had the heart, she couldn't do that. The ethical norms of the society at that time were there. Shi Xiangyun was a historian's girl. After her parents died, she could only be fostered in the historian's family. Shi Xiangyun has two powerful and wealthy uncles. Even if they feel that this eldest niece is a burden, they can only adopt her and raise her instead of completely abandoning her to her aunt. The reason to raise.Even if Marquis Baoling appointed the whole family to take up the post, and Mother Jia kept Shi Xiangyun by her side for a while, it only meant that Shi Xiangyun went to stay with relatives for a while, and Shi Nai and his wife were still her guardians.

Shi Xiangyun's aunt is very stingy towards her, but on the surface she maintains the ostentation of a wealthy family. There are many descriptions of this in the book, such as Chapter 31, where she came to Rongguo Mansion again, saying that someone replied: "Miss Shi is here!" Sure enough, Shi Xiangyun led many girls and daughters-in-law into the courtyard.Her aunt wanted to impress her relatives: who said Miss Shi was wronged in foster care in our house?How do you think we treat her?The girl and daughter-in-law come to visit relatives, isn't it just like a Miss Hou Men?Then there is a detail. It is said that the weather is getting hot. Shi Xiangyun is still wearing several layers of clothes. Of course he looks decent, but in fact it is very uncomfortable. Jiamu asked her to take off the outer clothes quickly. Even Mrs. Wang said: "No What are you doing wearing these!" Shi Xiangyun said that her second aunt asked her to wear them like that, and she herself didn't want to wear them, so it can be seen that what her second aunt cared about was not Shi Xiangyun's own comfort, but the relatives' " Watching"—the Second Aunt hopes that people will use Shi Xiangyun's pomp and outfit as a guest to show how thoughtful and meticulous she is in taking care of her eldest niece.When you come here, you need to look grand, but what about when you go back?At the end of the thirty-sixth chapter, it is written that Baoyu, Daiyu and others "suddenly saw Shi Xiangyun walking neatly and neatly to say a speech, and the family sent someone to pick him up". Some faces, in fact, she will feel very uncomfortable. "That Shi Xiangyun was just tearful. Seeing his family in front of him, he didn't dare to be very aggrieved. When Baochai came here when he was young, he felt more and more lingering. But Baochai knew in his heart that if his family went back and told his aunts, When they went to his house, they were afraid that he would be offended, so they urged him to leave. They sent Baoyu to the second gate, but Shi Xiangyun stopped him. He turned around and asked Baoyu to come to him, and whispered, "Old lady." You can’t think of me coming, you always carry some, and send someone to pick me up.’” Some readers read more roughly, and often only remember Shi Xiangyun's drunken peony, rougexiangwa's fishy taste, and occasional willow catkins. I think she is a carefree and lively girl, but in fact she still has a very sad side. Her life in foster care at the house of her uncle and aunt, borrowing a sentence from Jia Zhen, is called "Cedar wood as a chime hammer--be decent on the outside and decent on the inside." bitter".It's just that this side of her fate, Cao Xueqin only touches on it, and writes relatively implicitly.

Shi Xiangyun should receive a certain amount of pocket money every month at her uncle's house. How much is not clearly explained in the book, but through her discussion with Xue Baochai on how to become the host of the poetry club in Daguanyuan, readers know that she is actually very rich. In poverty, Xue Baochai said to her, you are not in charge of your family, and you don't have enough money for a month, and you want to be the host of the poetry club here, where do you get the money?Should I ask my uncle's house?When your aunts heard this, they complained more and more about you.According to the book, the ladies of the Rongguo Mansion, including Lin Daiyu, are paid two taels of silver a month, and even a big girl like Yuanyang can receive one tael of silver a month, while Shi Xiangyun only has a few taels of silver a month at his uncle's house.From the Qing Dynasty to the Daoguang period, one tael of silver was roughly equal to a penny, but in the Qianlong era where Cao Xueqin lived, you can see how he wrote it. He said that Mrs. Wang’s special allowance for Xiren was two taels of silver per penny, which shows that Sometimes one tael of silver is much bigger than a penny, otherwise wouldn't it be more clear to write it as three taels of silver?At that time, one tael of silver was equal to two hangs of money. Money refers to a copper plate with a square hole in the middle and a round outer edge. It's called Yihang.Shi Xiangyun's monthly pocket money is estimated to be three hangs, which is about a quarter less than that of Lin Daiyu and other ladies in the Jia family.

Shi Xiangyun, such a pure, intelligent, and innocent girl, exudes the most beautiful originality in life, presenting the wonderful brilliance and fragrance of life, but her life in foster care at her uncle's and aunt's house is very bleak.Just as the song "Sorrow in Joy" said: "In my infancy, my parents sighed and died. Who knows how to be pampered?" The restraint, hardship and tastelessness at the uncle's and aunt's house are in stark contrast to the relaxation, enjoyment and self-willedness after being picked up by the grandmother and mother.In Rongguo Mansion, Grand View Garden, beside Jia Mu, in the family circle formed by Baoyu and other sisters, plus Sister Feng and Li Wan, Shi Xiangyun was liberated physically and mentally. Show your best side and warm others.She also gets along very well with the big girls in Rongguo Mansion, and they regard her as her friend. In the thirty-first chapter, she came to visit again. She specially brought some crimson stone rings and gave them to the big girls she was familiar with. There are many speckled writing in the book, and readers should pay attention to her past.When she was very young, she was taken to Rongguo Mansion by Jiamu to live and play. At that time, Jiamu sent her girl Zhuzhu to serve her. This Pearl is the later Xiren. She gets along well with Zhuzhu. Pearl should be older than her. She is slightly older, and the two little girls sometimes whisper together, these secrets constitute their fond memories, which are revealed in the thirty-second chapter.At that time, Shi Xiangyun came to Rongguo Mansion again, Xiren asked her about her engagement, she blushed, and refused to answer after tea, Xiren then brought up the past, saying that you still remember ten years ago when we lived in the Nuan Pavilion on the west side, and at night you What did you say to me?You were not ashamed then, why are you ashamed now?The book does not continue to write Xiren to pick out what Shi Xiangyun said that night, leaving a space for readers to imagine.Can you imagine it?According to my thinking, the whispers they said at that time were related to marriage.Ten years ago, Shi Xiangyun was only about four years old. How could a four-year-old girl talk about marriage?Such young children certainly don't know what marriage is, but seeing the wedding scene, they will find it very interesting, so the young girl may also have an idea of ​​wanting to be a beautifully dressed bride, and quietly Talk to another little girl.I frankly admit that when I was young, I played wedding games with the little boys and girls in the alleys. I played the groom, and the little neighbor girl played the bride. A group of children surrounded us and booed, very happy.There is absolutely no pornographic factor in that kind of children's game, and the children participating have absolutely no evil thoughts. It is a kind of envy and imitation of those beautiful appearances in adult life, full of natural sounds and infinite joy.At that time, of course I didn’t know how to be shy. When I grew up, I mentioned it, yo, you can’t mention it. Whispers about being a groom or a bride, in retrospect, are still sweet and funny. Careful readers should not ignore the speckled text in the book that reveals the "history" of the characters, and it is worth taking a slow look. At his uncle's and aunt's house, Shi Xiangyun had to live by rigid rules, including dressing.When she arrived at Rongguo Mansion, she could be very casual and shape herself according to her temperament. She often disguised herself as a man, which was absolutely impossible in her uncle's and aunt's house, but her grandparents and mother were very enlightened and doted on her. , let her play around.Once she disguised herself as a man and was far away from Jia Mu. Jia Mu was too dizzy and couldn't see clearly. She thought it was Baoyu—because she was wearing Baoyu's clothes—and said, "Baoyu, come here and look carefully at the lamp hanging on your head." Suizi, attract ashes to blind your eyes."This sentence is very vivid. If it is a purely fictional novel, I think it is unlikely that such a sentence will appear. It is because the author has lived in such a family, so he wrote the scene of a wealthy family, and he wrote it very realistically. Based on imagination, a wealthy family would be described as bright and majestic on all sides, and the lamp tassels are all clean and bright. How could it be inadvertently written that there is dust on the lamp tassels?This is the same as Cao Xueqin's writing that the cushions on the chairs in Mrs. Wang's house are half-worn, and they must all come from real life materials.This kind of living condition is not that they are not rich. No matter how rich the family is, things have to be used. They can only be updated after being used to a certain extent, and they will show a state of being half new and not old for a period of time.Then there may be dust on the lamp tassels. The dust may be cleaned before a certain festival, but there will be dust on it when it is not cleaned, and the lamp tassels are very long. After a woman disguises herself as a man, she still has a crown on her head. If you touch the tassels carefully, you may attract ashes and get confused—don't underestimate these sentences, these subtleties also prove Cao Xueqin's realism skills.Of course, Mother Jia later found out that she had made a mistake. It was not Baoyu under the fringe of the lamp but Miss Shi. Mother Jia never blamed her, and everyone was very happy. In the forty-ninth chapter, Shi Xiangyun dressed up again. At this time, Lin Daiyu smiled and said to everyone: "Look, Sun Xingzhe is here. He also usually holds a snow coat, and deliberately shows up as a little showman." ""Dazi" is also written as "Tarzi". This sentence of Daiyu in this place is also used as evidence. Daiyu not only used the vocabulary of "Tarzi", but also called it "Sao Tarzi", which seems to be more insulting, but I think Daiyu's words are written here , "Little Sao Tartar" is not negative, let alone slanderous, it is just ridiculed in private, and even contains the meaning of admiration.Some Manchus are reluctant to hear foreigners use the term "Tarzi", but Manchus tell each other that it's okay, and we non-Manchus should be very careful when using this term in our daily life.In short, Shi Xiangyun not only disguised herself as a man in Rongguo Mansion, she sometimes dressed up as a refined Han man, and sometimes as a fierce Manchu man.On snowy days, she would wrap Jiamu’s long and big gorilla cloak around her body, tie a sweat scarf around her waist, and go to the backyard with the maids to catch snowmen—note that it must be under heavy snow You can only pounce when you are thin, but don't pounce when you are thin. The things I mentioned are often passing words in the book. Cao Xueqin doesn’t seem to need to deliberately imagine or fabricate these contents at all. He has an extremely rich memory of real things, and he is more comfortable writing than portraying other characters. Shi Xiangyun enjoyed so much warmth and fun around Jiamu, but in the first 80 chapters of the text, there was not a single sentence that clearly stated that Jiamu was her grandmother. Only in the thirty-eighth chapter, Cao Xueqin secretly wrote about Jiamu and She has an unusual blood relationship.At that time, Jia Mu also went to play in the Grand View Garden. When she arrived at the Ou Xiangxie, there was a bamboo bridge in the Ou Xiangxie, and there was a bamboo table in the pavilion. She heard that there are many people who can read the pairs to her, but Cao Xueqin specially wrote Xiangyun to read: "The shadow of the lotus root breaks through the orchid paddle, and the fragrance of the lotus root is deep in the bamboo bridge." (Some ancient books "write" and write "Xie") Some people may ask, is there any deep meaning in reciting pairs by Xiangyun?Cao Xueqin may have written it casually, but what is the difference between it and Daiyu and Baochai?There is a difference.Seeing the scene in front of her, Mother Jia recalled some memories. She basically said that in the old house of our historian, there was a similar garden attraction called Zhenxia Pavilion. While playing, I accidentally fell into the water. When I was rescued, I bumped into a wooden nail. As a result, a dimple was formed on the temple, and now there is still a groove the size of a finger.Cao Xueqin wrote this, and he also has a real life basis. The prototype of the historian is the Li family. The Li family had a garden in Suzhou during the Kangxi Dynasty. , he took a nickname and called it Zhucun. Therefore, in the novel, when Jia Mu arrived at the Ou Xiangxie made of bamboo and crossed the bamboo bridge, she was very excited, nostalgic, and sighed, and she was related by blood. Shi Xiangyun, come to read the couplets of lotus root and Champs.I think that the name of Zhenxia Pavilion may be the same as the title of "Continued Pipa" mentioned by Jia Mu in Chapter 54. It really exists in life. The author of "Continued Pipa" is Cao Yin, and Zhenxia The pavilion exists in the old house of the Li family. There are many highlights of Shi Xiangyun in the book, like large Chinese paintings with fine brushwork and fine brushwork, or Western realistic oil paintings, which have been mentioned by many theorists throughout the history, but I will omit them here, and what I emphasize are those spots scattered everywhere. The style of brushwork also borrows a painting metaphor, just like the pointillism in the early Impressionism in the history of Western painting, such a technique.The pointillism painting looks blurry when you look at it up close, but if you look away from it, the speckled spots make you associate a lot, so in your heart, you may have a special sense of beauty beyond reality.For the character of Shi Xiangyun, Cao Xueqin used the technique of "stippling". There is no complete narrative explanation for her identity, even her character and appearance, but he scattered the brushstrokes through speckles and dots, and finally made us integrate an unusually vivid Character image, many readers said that if they were asked to choose a favorite character in the book, it would be Shi Xiangyun.This is a great victory for Cao Xueqin's "Pointillism" depiction of her. Cao Xueqin did not directly write about Shi Xiangyun's appearance in the book.He wrote about Lin Daiyu's eyebrows and eyes in detail, and described Xue Baochai's appearance many times, but he never described Shi Xiangyun's portrait. He gave an abstract description of Shi Xiangyun's figure in the forty-ninth chapter. It is said that after some special dressing, she "looks more like a bee waist, a monkey back, and a crane like a mantis".He did write about Shi Xiangyun's sleeping portrait. In the twenty-first chapter, he wrote it in comparison, saying that Lin Daiyu was tightly wrapped in an apricot red quilt, sleeping peacefully with her eyes closed, and Shi Xiangyun, "but A handful of black silk is dragged by the pillow, half of the chest is covered by the quilt, and a white arm is swept outside the quilt." The hair is mentioned, but the face is still not written.However, his way of writing Shi Xiangyun in such a pointless way, which does not make readers feel that her image is inferior to that of Dai and Chai.A "red fan" friend told me that he always felt unable to grasp Daiyu's face and figure after reading it, but for Xiangyun, he felt like the girl next door, "I can draw her with my eyes closed." When vulgar writers write about beauties, they always try to be as perfect as possible, without any flaws, but Cao Xueqin grasps the measure precisely. Of course, he has artistic sublimation, but first of all, he respects the reality of life, especially when writing Shi Xiangyun.As I said earlier, the distance between the artistic image of Shi Xiangyun and the prototype in life is the smallest, and it is almost a sketch of a real person in life.He wrote that Shi Xiangyun had a big tongue and couldn't speak clearly. Daiyu laughed at Xiangyun, saying that he couldn't even call a second brother, but he just "loves his brother" and "loves his brother". Three four five.He wrote Shi Xiangyun with a lot of words, so much that sometimes it makes people bored. Jia Yingchun is taciturn, and especially doesn't like to criticize others. She loves to talk, but she never sleeps under the quilt and croaks, laughs, and talks for a while, and I don’t know where those lies come from.” The “lie” here does not mean that she lied deliberately, but that she said something innocent and innocent. Nonsense nonsense, for a quiet and disciplined lady like Jia Yingchun, Shi Xiangyun's words are unnecessary nonsense.Cao Xueqin wrote about real beauties and living beauties, rather than conceptual beauties and lantern beauties, so in the fifty-ninth chapter, there was an even more unexpected and wonderful pen, saying that when I woke up in the morning and it rained a little, how was Shi Xiangyun doing at this time? ah?Her cheeks were itchy, "I'm afraid I will suffer from tinea apricot again".The beauties in the movie are ringworm!Do ordinary hands dare to write like this?But Cao Xueqin just wrote it like this, and it reads very realistically.At that time, even young ladies from aristocratic families suffered from tinea apricot. First, Shi Xiangyun felt itchy on her cheeks and had an attack. Then she asked Baochai for rose salt, a high-end cosmetic with the function of treating ringworm. She said that she gave Baoqin and the others the matching ones. I heard that Daiyu had a lot of matching ones. I asked Xiangyun to take them to Daiyu's. It can be seen that these beauties all have ringworm on their faces.Cao Xueqin's writing is very interesting.Even though he clearly wrote that these girls would have ringworm on their faces, when we think of them, we still think they are beautiful.Truth is the essence of beauty, the more realistic you write, the more beautiful the readers will feel, Cao Xueqin is well versed in this aesthetic principle. Shi Xiangyun is an orphan girl fostered by her uncle and aunt. For her, that kind of foster care life is a kind of imprisonment and suffocation for her.Only when she came to be a guest at the aunt's house in Rongguo Mansion, she felt like she had been pardoned, and she was full of energy and talent.But such willful and happy days are limited after all.我们需要总结一下，在前八十回书里面，她究竟到过荣国府几次？第一次在是第二十回，忽然有人报告说史大姑娘来了，她就在贾母跟前大说大笑的。那她什么时候离开的呢？没有明确交代，但是你如果进行文本细读，会发现第二十二回她还在荣国府，但到第二十三回就没她的事了。到第三十一回，她又突然出现，第三十六回末尾说叔婶家来人把她接走了，这是故事里她第二次到荣国府。第三十七回，大观园里成立了海棠诗社，恰巧袭人派了一个宋妈，去送一些鲜荔枝给史湘云，史湘云顺便一问，他们干吗呢？宋妈也不懂，说他们好像起什么诗社，作诗呢，史湘云一听就急了，作诗怎么把她忘了呢？宋妈妈回来这么一说，贾宝玉立刻催着贾母，说把她再接来，贾母说天太晚了，因为两个侯爵府邸可能离荣国府都比较远，书里没交代当时史湘云是住在忠靖侯家还是住在保龄侯家，总之一定都比较远，所以等到第二天才把她接来，这就是她第三次来到荣国府，一直到第四十二回都有她的身影出现，但是她什么时候又离开了没有再说。到了第四十九回，则有一个很明确的交代，就是保龄侯史鼐外迁了，应该把全家都带到外地去，贾母舍不得史湘云，就把她留下来了，这是故事里她第四次到荣国府，一直到第八十回她都在荣国府，当然也只是作为一个常客，早晚还是要送回到她叔婶家的，因为所谓寄养，对于她那样一个女孩子来说，长大了，叔婶把她嫁出去，才算完成了任务。 那么通过上一讲和这一讲，我得出这样一个结论供大家参考：就是如果史湘云是一个纯虚构人物，是不可能采取这种写法的，也写不成这个样子。因为我自己写过长篇小说，我写一个人物，必须设计他的家庭、他的来龙、他的去脉，如果那是一个生活依据比较少、接近完全虚构的角色，我就得特别提起精神，小心翼翼地下笔，以使前后照应不留漏洞，尽量去让这个角色活起来。只有把我最熟悉的真实生命写进去时，才可以放松，因为大量的场景、细节、语言都是现成的，随手拈来，皆成文章，反而不必去殚精竭虑、细针密缝。当然我自知绝不能跟大师相比，但写实性质的长篇小说，其写作规律大体相通，就像苔花和牡丹的开放，都有相同的过程，最后把花冠张圆一样。根据我自己的写作经验和我的阅读经验，我坚持认为：史湘云这个角色，相对于书里其他角色，艺术形象和原型之间的距离最短，所以曹雪芹不给她设置一些偏于理性的、叙述性的文字，而采用了一种斑点式的和摄像实录般的写法，如元妃省亲这场大虚构的戏里，曹雪芹对她不愿有任何假设性想象，就不写她，一有她出现，必是真有其人、真有其事、真有其景、真有其语。 史湘云的寄养生活，会结束在出嫁之时。第五回里的《乐中悲》曲透露，她“厮配得才貌仙郎，博得个地久天长，准折得幼年时坎坷形状”，就是说她后来嫁了一个很不错的丈夫，是一个“才貌仙郎”，而且她和这个丈夫关系非常好，他们要争取白头偕老，博得个地久天长，一这样就能把她早年的坎坷全给抵消了，也就是把她襁褓中父母双亡以后寄养在两个叔叔家里面的不快乐、不幸福全都弥补了。当然现在我们能看到的曹雪芹的八十回书里，还没有相关的情节出现，但八十回后肯定会写到。于是新的问题就逼近到我们面前：史湘云嫁给的这个“才貌仙郎”是谁呢？有的人可能会笑：这还有什么可讨论的，不就是贾宝玉吗？您别急，下一讲咱们一块儿细讨论。