Chapter 29 Chapter Twenty-Eight

Zhang Ailing's "Red Studies" is characterized by "the theory of major demolition and major reform".Her "five details" start with issues such as the chronology of each manuscript and the date of different manuscripts, and then build a "big demolition" that ordinary people can't imagine based on the "cornerstones" of her very trivial research conclusions. The multi-level "process" of "big reform". She was very familiar with this, and she was even much clearer than Jiazhen. She listed them one by one, and she was confident.

I have already said that according to her theory and research, Cao Xueqin's writing method is to move the grid by playing chess.In the old days, there was a kind of intellectual toy for children called "tangram" and "puzzle picture". The former is seven small cardboards of different shapes, which can be disassembled and assembled into a variety of graphic "pictures".The reason for the latter is the same, but with more boards, more and more detailed figures can be spelled out——Cao Xueqin spent his whole life in blood and tears, and the book was broken with tears, and he died in forty years. It turned out that most of his life was devoted to the above-mentioned demolition and modification The matching "project" is on!

I was surprised by Zhang Ailing's strong interest in this; I also admire her tireless reasoning and testimony. But I do have a difference in temperament from hers.She is tireless, but I am impatient-fortunately, this booklet of mine is not a treatise on red studies, let alone a "comprehensive and systematic" discussion with her.It's just reading essays, I hope that two people like us can agree in terms of literature, theory, art, and spirituality. Even if there are a hundred discussion "hot spots", only two or three are the same, and we can draw I am proud of it and become a "confidant".

In her "Five Details", she discusses the "old authentic version". The most relevant content of the old authentic version is that the original version ends with the reunion of Baoyu Xiangyun.Because this is the "acupuncture point" or "focus" of my "Hongology", I am particularly interested, so I wrote a few words and made a few humble thoughts. Her "Five Details" begins with Xiangyun, and the writing is so beautiful that it makes me feel like drinking wine, and hit the knots to appreciate it.She said that earlier she had been laughing to herself that someone was trying to win Baoxiang over, but when she wrote "Four Details" and "Rewriting and Posthumous Manuscript", she had a different view.

Appreciation, the most basic and most popular way is to favor a certain girl in the book.Like a beauty pageant, Shi Xiangyun was the most vocal among them.Some people may think that modern people like lively girls, Baochai, who is a good wife and mother, and Daiyu, who is both physically and mentally sick, are outdated.In fact, since its inception, Xiangyun is probably the most popular.The strange thing is that only Xiangyun has no description of his face in the main characters, except for the four characters of "slowly looking up" in "Drunken Mian Shaoyao Yin", and "a white arm" outside the bed (Chapter 21), It seems that except for a pair of eyes and white skin, she is not beautiful.The figure is "bee waist, ape back, crane mantis shape", extremely tall, long legs, and Chinese people don't like it.Her attractiveness is clearly stated in two poems by the predecessors: "The smallest and lightest among the crowd, is it true and natural?" Daiyu Xiangyun's "Three Beauties of the Qionglou", see page 929 of Zhou Ruchang's "New Evidence of a Dream of Red Mansions".) She is childish and a bit naive, so she is more innocent.In contrast, Baochai, who is "ruthless but also touching", went to visit Baoyu when she was injured, and she became affectionate, which shows that she usually doesn't show it.

To quote Dong Kang’s poem Qilu, the couplets are as follows: Even though he had a love affair every now and then (he stuttered when he was young, and called his second brother his elder brother love), from no jealousy to affectionate love. In the previous sentence, tongue biting - also known as big tongue - was mistaken for stuttering, and this problem usually persists after growing up.The next sentence is also incorrect. It's not that Daiyu doesn't feel jealous, she also has some reason to eat. ... Xiangyun, but Baoyu has feelings for her.But Xiangyun was sometimes sour towards Daiyu, as if it was because she and Baoyu lived with Jia Mu in the past, and there was a childish mentality of jealousy of newborn siblings.She is just the opposite of Bao Dai's precocity.

She quoted ten pieces of information listed in the book and commented on them one by one.In my opinion: Among the ten articles, some are attached to legends, and some are sequels (rather than the real version), and only a few articles are left for discussion. ——Of course, she couldn’t see it in time. Later, I quoted several pieces of information, and two of them had clear and detailed records—— One is Chen Qitai's account of the authentic version of Wu Song's country that his grandfather saw. The ending is the old rhyme of the couplets of Bao, Hunan New Year's Eve, and Mid-Autumn Festival. Among them, his grandfather loves to recite them.

The second is that Mr. Jin Qizhen recorded in his works: his family (a descendant of King Qingrong County) invited a family tutor, and he knew the author Wen Kang.I learned from the Wenkang Department that I had seen one, which was different from Cheng Gaoben after eighty chapters, and I wrote down a few key points.These points are roughly the same as "Three Six Hashimoto". The third is that Professor Jiang Liangfu recalled that when he was a middle school boy in Beijing, he borrowed a "different version" from the library, ending with Bao, Xiangqiao, and Boat Meeting; later, he recalled a total of 16 volumes.I figured, if the two chapters are copied into one volume according to the old exams I took, then 16×2=32 chapters, which is consistent with the "next thirty chapters".

Fourth, in Qi Rushan's memoirs, it is mentioned that "Red Mansions" collected in his early years was different from the workshop version; later, he borrowed it from a friend in Laishui County, so he could not get it back. According to Ms. Zhang's analysis, the first 10 pieces of information have stated that there are actually several similar variants, all of which are sequels, not "authentic".If you add these last 4 items, I am afraid there will be more, right? She criticized the materials I collected as a "hodgepodge" and couldn't tell the difference;

To be honest, I was not stupid since I was a child, and I was praised for being smart; today, I can't compare with "ten bundled together" as she is. However, while being sincerely convinced, it should also be pointed out that so many of her textual research (named "detailed") and "big dismantling and reform theory" are not reliable, there are many flaws, and there are too many "taken for granted". Assumptions are the basis of "reasons" and they are extended again and again....Debating with her is a huge project, and this book is not about it.

Oddly enough, her "take it for granted" is sometimes too much to justify herself.For example, on the issue of Xiangyun, she read the comments very "conservative", so she strongly advocated that Xiangyun married Wei Ruolan, and Baoxiang would not have such a thing.but-- First, she couldn't solve the key problem of "because of the unicorn and the white first double star" after "removal and modification". She said that this is the chapter of the first draft, and the chapter 31 of the earlier "Complete Transcript" has been changed to "Tearing up the fan boy chasing laughter, picking up the unicorn servant to discuss yin and yang", because it is "uncomfortable", it is "retained" Looking back, it has survived to this day. Please see this "detailed" method. Now that it has been "revised", the new title is closely related to the main text, and the writing is also good, so why is it "uncomfortable"? Who is "uncomfortable"?author?Scribes?other people?Since it is "unsatisfactory", it can be revised and redesigned. How can it "restore" the abandoned project that has long been "contradictory" (according to her)?Is it all just to leave her with the biggest "nightmare"? As everyone knows, the set of seven rhythms in "Chrysanthemum Poems" is a tortuous process of joys and sorrows as a metaphor for Xiangyun.As smart as she is, she can't read through "Shuangqing's paper tent brings a new dream, and the garden is cold and the setting sun recalls the old tour" Is this the latter scene of Baoxiang?She also didn't want to: "There is no one who is proud of the world, it seems that I am the only bosom friend", and "Who will hide together if you are lonely?" When." Waiting for the meaning of the sentence, every sentence is about the scene of Baoxiang's reunion later. The comment "Golden jade marriage has been fixed, and a golden unicorn is written, it is a method of sex. Why is it confused by it?" She didn't understand it.Because she still doesn't realize that the theory of "gold and jade" is true or false: the gold of the golden lock is made later; and the gold of the unicorn is the original match. What is "decided" is that Qilin and Tonglingyu are finally reconciled despite all the hardships.And "wrote another" Jin Lin of the Qingxu concept!This is called "secondary color", adding more artistic effects. Gao Yang, a little friend from Nanjing, pointed out in the newsletter: If you don’t focus on “another one” and just say “…it’s been decided, and you write about Qilin again, and the method of color is also…” that means that Lin is an “additional” embellishment, And the person who "writes another" is emphasizing that a new one has been added to be the "interim color" of the "determined".Otherwise, why use "another" syntax? This is the real understanding of the meaning of the ancients.This "write another one" is definitely not idle writing.Let's see, it was a gift from "Daoyou", which is in line with the approval of "Daoyin Baoyu".One too.Shi Taijun asked: Does anyone seem to have one?Dubaochai (fake gold).The answer was: "Sister Shi!" Xueqin's pen, how can it be used in vain? Not only that, but also Daiyu's irony.And Baoyu heard that Xiangyun had it, so he put it in his arms, and was afraid that people would see it—only Daiyu nodded and smiled...!Moreover, after Xiangyun arrived, Daiyu's first sentence was "Your brother saved something good for you!" Afterwards, Daiyu listened to Baoyu's praise that Xiangyun was still so good at talking, and said jealously: "She can't talk, but her golden unicorn can talk!" This kind of exquisite and meticulous brushwork implies that it has a subtle relationship with the marriage of the three people. ——If this is only for the match between Xiangyun Empress and Wei Ruolan, then what are these wonderful words of "good-looking people" all about?How could Xueqin become so "boring"? No more chatter.It seems Zhang Ailing is indifferent to this?It seems unbelievable. She also criticized me for reading the file wrongly, because there was a sentence in the sentence that the offender Li's family women were "sell off at the fifty-one class of Chongwenmen", and it was wrong to interpret "fifty-one" as the name of a Manchu official; The solution is "according to the 51 level (copying can't be done)" to sell.But she didn't indicate what book she was based on?There are more than 50 "levels" of decrees that have been copied and confiscated?This sounds a bit surprising.But I don't dare to conclude that she mispronounced it, and I know that there are many "numbers" in the names of Manchurians. Lala miscellaneous, enough "annoying".In fact, I still have a lot of admiration for her in my heart.For example, she said in this "details": When she was fourteen or five years old, she read Hu Shi's "Textual Research", and saw the quotation "Continued Reading Notes of Weicaotang", which contained Baoxiang's suffering and reunion on a snowy night. "Ben", she is "shocked by the stone, and the sky is set by the clouds, never to be forgotten!" --okay!As long as there is such a line of words, I will be a hundred times happy and comforted: after all, we are of the same kind;What is the difference in opinions on a number of "research"? What I regret is: her fourteen or fifteen-year-old intense feeling of shock—surprise and joy—became a “nightmare”. What am I talking about? The poem says: The sky was shocked by the clouds and the sea, and the girl's heart was full of spirit. It's a pity that old age becomes a nightmare, which is infinitely touching.