Chapter 63 "Dream of Red Mansions" in Zhang Ailing's eyes

Zhang Ailing enjoys a high reputation in the literary world, and she feels ashamed that she has never read her novels and plays, and came across one or two essays by chance, and they all talked about "Red Mansions", and they have extraordinary insights.This has attracted the attention of a lonely person like me. I really feel sorry for him, and I can't easily let go of this topic. People's literary and artistic talents vary greatly, and it is a kind of "game" of creation or deliberately teasing the people she "creates".The creation of human beings is extremely chaotic—beautiful and ugly, good and evil, benevolent and wise, and talented and virtuous... Her "recipe" is very strange.It is not difficult to see other qualities and abilities, but the literary and artistic aesthetic vision (level and ability) is the most rare.I met in my life, Eileen Chang is one.In particular, she is a "powder hero" who meets Xueqin's standards, and is different from a man's filth, so she is extremely precious.

When she recalled Mr. Hu Shizhi's article, she originally thought of the theme (the topic started from her narration).I saw and remembered that I had paid attention to this "magical book" when I was at Yenching University.The dialogue is in Wu dialect, and I can understand about seven or eight points based on "enlightenment", and I will ask my classmate Xu Junzhengyang for the rest.He is from the Xiashi Xu family in Haining, Zhejiang, but he grew up in Shanghai. He happened to "learn" me in the tone of "Wu Nong's soft language", and he explained some vocabulary and special customs by the way, which was very interesting and interesting.At that time, I realized that since the publication of "Red Mansion", no one has been able to learn Xueqin's calligraphy and tone, but this book has a "three-point similarity", which is really only seen (this meaning has been written in my book).Now, when I saw Ms. Zhang talking about this masterpiece, I immediately thought: I must also talk about "Red Mansion" next time, right?As expected, it was followed by a long paragraph - I have read another of her great insights on "Red", so I always look forward to seeing some similar articles.That's exactly what "a long-cherished wish pays off"—although there's a little bit of "complaint" that's too short.

She said: The first point is to read "Red Mansion" from the age of twelve or thirteen.The second point is that this is the first time I read it at this age. When I read the eighty-first chapter, what is "fishing and swimming in the four beauties" and so on, I suddenly feel that "the sky is dark and everything is tasteless" and I feel that it is "another world"! When I read this, I was really sad and happy, applauding and sighing - I don't know how to express my feelings. This is a peerless genius, her literary and aesthetic level is extremely high-in my words: she is not vulgar, spiritual, artistic, intelligent, and extraordinary.

She has a monograph on "Red Mansions", which has a better preface than this one.She has very wonderful words, such as the cloud: there is a different text in the edition, "the characters are bigger than the fence", it "jumps into my eyes"!This shows how she is extremely proficient in "Red Mansion".From this point of view, only she can be called the real and number one "red fan" (Waddou, a big bucket made of wicker for storing grain in the countryside). She felt very much the poisonousness of Gao E's forty chapters of the pseudo-continuation, which was called "the gangrene of the attached bone"—the impact was so deep and long-lasting that it was difficult to heal.

In recalling Mr. Hu's article, she also mentioned: In the United States, when telling foreigners about the "development" of Chinese poetry and painting (the meaning of unique attainments), they can only admit it because they don't understand; but if you talk about the "development" of Chinese novels, development", everyone "shows an air of disbelief".Because the representative of the novel is "Red Mansion", when they read it, they only saw a "story outline" - and "it was Gao E's"!That is a familiar farce of "triangular love" in "Chai and Dai contend for marriage", nothing else.

She didn't say much, but she was deeply saddened.I don't know anything about this internationally renowned female writer. I only read these two articles on "Red", and I feel very admired and overwhelmed. A twelve or thirteen-year-old girl, when she came across a book like "Red Mansion" for the first time, she could feel the vast difference between Cao Bi and Gao Xu. How do you explain it?Who "taught" her to be different?What machine counted the "vocabulary" difference table and let her know the "scientific data"?Neither. This is the "psychic" nature that Xueqin talked about, which was bestowed by the "Emperor Wa"—"generated in talent".Chinese culture pays attention to this, and there is a truth in it.

However, there are also people who, on the contrary, do not feel the huge disparity, but think that the front and back are "completely consistent" and "both are Cao Xueqin's original works"... Moreover, the reason why Cao is great is not in the first eighty chapters, but in the whole In the next forty chapters, and so on. The poisonousness of this "necrosis attached to the bone" is as far as this-but we must also think about people's literary and artistic aesthetic ability, and we can't just scold the gangrene. This is a cultural problem. Maybe in 10,000 years, "the king will go to Xiaoxiang and I will go to Qin".

Zhang Ailing also pointed out: "The last forty chapters of the pseudo-continuation should be cut off and left to be 'incomplete', and the results of research on lost manuscripts can be added later" (should include the main points of the plot, the ending of the characters, the structure of the chapter... ...).This is also in line with the purpose of "Exploring Lost Learning" that we advocate and have been implementing all the time. The newspaper said that Eileen Chang lived in the United States with a withdrawn personality. She died in her apartment and no one knew about it. The neighbors hadn't seen her for many days, so she had doubts and found out that she was dead.So lonely and lonely, it is sad to hear.

She is originally from Fengrun, Hebei.Fengrun was also the hometown of Xueqin's ancestors.Zhang Jianyang, who was the best friend with Cao Yin, left behind "The Picture of Talking at Neem Pavilion", which is Fengrun Zhang.He and Nalan Gongzi (Xingde) are also close friends.The three of them can be called the three friends of Kangxi's flourishing Ci circle. Fengrun produced Zhang Ailing again, who has a very high insight into "Red Mansion", which is not just a common meaning of "talented woman".This is the condensation and flow of the spirit of Jingdong mountains and rivers.

When I was in America, I didn't know the significance of the above-mentioned situations, so I lost the opportunity to try to visit her.Thinking about it now, I deeply regret it.Zhang Ailing has extremely high talent, but also has her "eccentric" temperament.This is completely in line with what Xueqin said about the people who came from "both good and evil". The poem says: The evil and the good are looking for two gifts, and the heroes and fans meet the geniuses. Who can meet the Red Mansion?The melancholy is very sad. 2000/10/31 Completed