Chapter 27 Chapter 26: What is Dry Cold?

In her essay titled "Talking about Dancing", Eileen Chang mentioned Gao E's false continuation, and made comments that are rarely seen elsewhere. She said: For example, the part of Gao E's continuation, compared with the previous part, has a special cold feeling, not because the Jia family has fallen and should be dying, but because his writing is not good enough.Gao E's ending cannot be said to be unreasonable, but the emotions in it are just sentiments, not real. She wrote the word "kuhan" in Gao's writing, which is quite unique and different.This is worth pondering and studying, and should not be read lightly.

Today's press: Withered, the vegetation is dead, dry and hard, without moisture, and the vitality is cut off. Common terms, such as "withered", refer to the quality and state of dead wood. "Dry" refers to dryness, emptiness, and dullness. It can be seen that dryness is a false appearance that life is exhausted—or there is no life at all, with body but no quality at all. This dry, not difficult to understand. But she scribbled the word "cold" again.This reveals her "poetic sense" ability and expression method, which is different from ordinary people.

Cold here does not refer to the level of temperature, although it is always connected with "cold".But you can't say "cold smile" with a sneer; "unpopular" and "cold family" have very different meanings! It is "chilling", not "cold", "cold-blooded animal", or "ruthless beast". It can be seen that the cold here is shabby and shabby cold. However, she herself said something about sentiments. So, roughly speaking, she is criticizing Gao E’s Pseudo-continuation, which has no life (only dead characters) and no emotion (the author must have emotion into his brush and ink to make art).It is dry and has no life to reward, and cold has no feelings to communicate—it is just a fake body, with no quality, no quality, no sex and no life inside. charm.

Dry cold, if it is a kind of "realm", it can't shake the heartstrings and arouse people's inspiration. She is afraid that people will mistakenly refer to the sequel's "story" plot, "tragedy" and other scenes as dry and cold, so she makes a special distinction, which refers specifically to the temperament of writing and ink. After understanding "Desolate Cold", in turn, I can feel the richness and warmth of Xueqin's original work that is full of vitality and full of enthusiasm and sincerity. The difference is like ice and charcoal, like spring and winter.But some people think that Gao is no different from Cao, and that he is only "slightly inferior".Man's aesthetic sensibility is as solid as heaven and earth.

The poem says: Dryness means nothingness, coldness is like ashes, but without electricity, how can it become thunder. Deep in the mellow flavor and rhyme, read Cao Lang again for eighty chapters.