Chapter 12 Chapter Eleven: A Wise Man Has Thousands of Concerns

Eileen Chang composed seven articles into a single sheet, the first article on the author and the continuation were full of Chinese.... The second "Interlude" was devoted to attacking people and took one of Gao E's concubines.The third chapter is called "Chu Xiang", which details the phenomenon that the so-called "full manuscript" (that is, Yang Jizhen's collection, commonly known as "Dream manuscript") is the earliest and preserves the first draft.The fourth chapter is "Two Details", which deals with the relationship between "Jiaxu Version" and "Gengchen Version" in detail.The fifth chapter is "Three Details", but it is titled "Creation", not "Autobiography", but the content is "Additions and deletions" before and after "Jiaxu" (she likes to use the "1754" Western calendar) question……

Looking at these, Fang firmly believes that she is a female talent after all, very careful and cumbersome, bringing out the characteristics of a female temper. To read her theses, there must first be a minimum condition, that is, you have already memorized the book very well (at least quite), otherwise you will feel as if you are in a fog, or your eyes will be dazzled and you will not be able to distinguish green and red.The second is to be very patient, otherwise you will not be able to read. She is too meticulous, presents evidence and reasoning, is extremely thorough, and asks questions that are often ignored by ordinary people, so she is very convincing and even "convincing".

But a wise man is bound to make a mistake if he has thousands of worries.She also sometimes said some "reasons" that made people laugh. Let me testify my foolishness with an example—— At the beginning of the poetry club, the "members" did not want to use the titles of family ethics such as uncles, sisters and brothers, and planned to take an elegant name for each. When it was Baoyu's turn, Li Wan suggested: "You should still be your old name'Jiangdong Kao. ’ That’s fine.” (Note) Baoyu replied: “What do you do with the job I did when I was young.” Then, when they each signed their names on the poems, Baoyu wrote the word “红”. (Note, don't change it to "Yi").

Ever since, Ms. Zhang came to a conclusion and said: It can be seen that there was a passage nicknamed Jiangdong Huawang earlier, but it has been "deleted" so far, and it was mentioned in (Li Wan?) that Baoyu wrote—— It is a "fish that slipped through the net" that was deleted but not cleaned...and so on. I can't help but say something disrespectful and offensive: such a delicate, intelligent, and incomparable person can sometimes be so ridiculous.Just ask: First, why "delete"?If it had been written earlier, wouldn't it just be possible to see the difference between Baoyu's "exquisite naughtiness" and temperament when he was young, and the strangeness of his words?What's the harm?What's the benefit of deleting it?Please "detail" his thoughts.

Second, since it was "deleted", why did it leave a "tail"? After the "deletion", the Poetry Club will take an old saying, and it can be erased with one stroke. It is easy to blow the ear away, but it is necessary to leave this "loophole" for Ms. Zhang to "catch"?Even if Xueqin's spirituality and wisdom are not as good as Aileen's, is she just so careless and stupid? Third, when writing a poem, she wrote down the word "红", and she thought it was a strong evidence of the "deleted" traces of the previous article.It's even more of a joke.In the eighth chapter, Baoyu wrote the name of "Jiangyunxuan" by himself, Qingwen posted it, and Daiyu praised it; and when he stayed in the garden, he wrote "Poems of Immediate Autumn Nights", the first line of which is "Jiangyunxuan is absolutely beautiful. noisy".How did Ms. Zhang know that the word "红" in her signature must mean "delete text"?

Her "method of textual research" and "reasoning logic" are really peculiar, and no fools like me can understand them, so I have to ask for advice in doubt. As everyone knows, the narrative technique of "addendum method" is Xueqin's specialty and even original creation.It has already been discussed in my book "Story of Stone Jianzhen".Quoted here-- At the beginning of the twenty-sixth chapter, it is written that Jiahui came to find Hongyu, and there are comments: You can see that he does not write the main text, but has a lot of idle articles, which are addenda.

When Jiahui talked about delivering tea to Ms. Lin, "it just so happens that the old lady sent money to Ms. Lin", some critics said: Is it supplementary or not? When it comes to "Miss Lin is born weak, she often takes medicine", some critics say: Is it supplementary or not? He also said, "It's like yesterday that the old lady was ill because of Baoyu these days." Some commented: Is it a supplement? "Fulfilling vows everywhere", there are critics: Is it a supplement? "Tell the people who follow to reward them according to their expectations", there is a comment:

Is it a supplement? "Yesterday Baoyu also said how to clean up the house tomorrow", there is a comment: Still a supplement. "Where did you put a pen earlier?" There was a comment: Is it a supplement? "That's right, Yinger took it away last night", one commented: Still a supplement. This kind of "supplementary text" is really "entering when you have time", writing text everywhere, strung together.Generally speaking, storytelling, singing and opera recount the previous plot, which is called "reversing the pen", which refers to a large paragraph of backtracking.Like Xueqin's ingenious refilling of brush strokes, it is really a unique skill that others can't match. If you don't point it out through Zhiyan, it is often easy to ignore and take it lightly.

This book was originally co-authored by my brother Huchang and I, and this passage was written by him. Try to see that his thoughtfulness in the examination of "Red" is not inferior to that of Ms. Zhang.What I want to ask is: can she judge the specialty of the narrative style we mentioned as the "relics" or "fish that slipped through the net" that have been deleted before? We only cite the fifth chapter, and it is not uncommon to mention other examples.For example, Baochai recounted "the first month of the previous year", Xiangyun's mischief when he came to live, and pretending to be Baoyu.For example, when Jia Lian and Sister Feng talked about Xiangling, he said how much fool Xue had fought with his aunt in order to get Xiangling...Is this kind of narrative method all "post-added"?Otherwise, there must be an "undeleted" paragraph in the "above" to "prove" that this statement did not come out of nowhere?Ruoruo are all such "dead" pens, just as Zhi Yan often said: "What kind of characters are they?!"

Therefore, Zhang Ailing's judgments may not be the truth. In this method and interest of "textual research", she is clearly influenced by Yu Pingbo and Wu Shichang, especially the latter. Inferences and assumptions are possible and common, but one should refrain from being clever and think that one’s “taken for granted” everywhere will become a real “creative process”—removing the past and filling in the past, borrowing things, digging holes, and patching— It turned out to be a "broken boy" riddled with holes! There is nothing wrong with the world, and mediocrity, I really feel this way.

She commented that other people's views are "too simple", and she is also repeating the same mistakes. She later judged Ping'er's recounting of Jia Yucun's crimes in the case of the stone nerd and Jia Lian's beating by him as "post-addition".Also, in the case of Jin Chuan, Jia Huan played tricks... The most important "Da Cheng Zhe Tat" important essay was judged to have been added later... The examples she chose will not be exhaustive. How could such a brilliant writer be ignorant of this?Supplementary narration is the "dark scene" on the stage, which plays a big role, avoiding complexity and board, breaking the stupid pen of "opening accounts", allowing people to generate "text outside the text" from here, and expand the "wilderness" of imagination. ", despite the size of the picture, there is still "smoke cloud" outside the picture.... If Xueqin is so stupid that everyone "bills" and "indexes" every word and every thing, then wonder if Ms. Zhang is still fascinated by "Red Mansion"? However, she also titled this "detailed" article "It's Creation, Not Autobiography".The great writer's psychic became more and more strange. The poem says: A wise man has thousands of worries, and his lost spouse survives. When it is bright, it is dark, and when it is ignorant, it is also faint. From the addendum to the magic method, what is the trace of missing net after deletion? I respect talented women, but I don't flatter them. To be true and doubtful is to be true respect and true respect. Note: "Flower King" is the original text, and the person who made it "Flower Master" made a mistake. She has textual research, which is very true.I also thought this way a long time ago. I wrote "Baoyu's Three Kings", and see my book "A Dream of Red Mansions and Chinese Culture".