Chapter 78 Hidden line, pulse, and response——The composition of "Red Mansion" is magical

Xueqin wrote that there is a dark line under the bright side. There is an old word for this dark line in old critics. Turning interesting words into boring words, so I had to change the name of "Fumai" to "Dark Line".When Mr. Lu Xun commented on "Red Mansion", he also stated that the sequel should be judged by whether it meets the standard of the original book's "fu line". The hidden line of the veins is a unique creation in the art of Chinese novels, but only in Xueqin's writings can this unique Chinese technique be developed to a magical state that surpasses the past.

Now let’s try to check the original works of Qin’s book, and briefly list some examples that clearly exist in each chapter but are not understood by people. Let’s take a look at how Xueqin used this magical technique in writing the book—— Of course, the "Annotation to Good Songs" that has not been opened for a long time, the fifth chapter "Dream of Red Mansions" and the Jinling Twelve Beauties... are all real and most important foreshadowings, but if you start from these narrations, it will be too much. If you feel "unusual" and "out of the box", it's better to put it aside for the time being and look at another kind of strangeness.

I want to start with the construction of the Grand View Garden. One of the biggest veins of all Qinshu is Qinfangxi. "Qinfang" is a new name proposed by Baoyu after he refuted the vulgarity of "Xieyu". Qinfang is the lifeblood of the whole garden. This name is very "fragrant" on the surface, so what is the meaning?It was Xueqin who woke it up with the "plot": Baoyu couldn't bear to trample on the falling flowers, so she picked up the residual red ten thousand points and sent them to the stream, watching the flowers melt and rippling, and go with the flow!

This is the first "plot" after everyone moved into the garden, and it is a huge symbol—symbolizing the overall fate of the women written in the book!The so-called "falling flowers form an array", the so-called "flowers fall into the water and flow red", the so-called "flowing water and flowers fall into spring",...all repeatedly awaken this huge vein-that is, the huge theme of the whole book: "Thousands of Reds" One cave (crying), Wan Yan shares the same cup (sorrow)". The 23rd time to bury flowers for the first time, and the 27th time to bury flowers again, read "West Chamber", make strange oaths, "fall into the pond" and go to "Camel Monument", lay down a sum of money for Daiyu to sink in the future And death is the "concrete" appearance of "Qinfang". righteous.

This is not surprising, the most surprising thing is: just after Baoyu sent the remnant flowers to Fangxi to clean up, he was called away, why?He said that the elder of the East Hospital (Jia Amnesty) was unwell, and asked everyone to go over there to say hello.That's all, what's even more strange is: Baoyu went back to the house to change clothes, who came to pass orders for the old lady?But it is a mandarin duck! On the same "mechanism", Xueqin's pen made Jia She and Yuanyang "connect" on the same "line" so unexpectedly! Readers are familiar with the fact that in the future, Jia She will ask Yuanyang to be a concubine, and Yuanyang will fight to the death by becoming a monk, but readers may not know that Jia She's murder of two people was caused by Jia She's murder of two people. One of them is that the mandarin duck was killed.Jia Amnesty had already declared: She can't escape from my grasp!The excuse is that Yuanyang and Jia Lian "have an affair", and borrowing the old lady's belongings for him is evidence.... (For this meaning, please refer to the end of my book "A Dream of Red Mansions" and Chinese Culture).

When eating crabs in the Grand View Garden during the two banquets, I only wrote that Sister Feng teased the mandarin ducks, saying: "Second Lord (Lian Ye) has taken a fancy to you..." It is also a link on this line, which can be described as a wonderful pen, but it still makes people laugh. Those who haven't read the following text just think it's just "joking" and "lively". Hu Shi criticized Xueqin's book "without a PLOT (overall layout), it is not a good novel" and so on.Later, scholars abroad also commented that Xueqin's brushwork was messy and disorderly, and she often stroked here and there, without knowing where she was going....What does this mean?Let me speculate on its meaning and look for "examples" for it: Ru just wrote the first burial of flowers, and before the second time of presenting flowers, there is a large section of writing about Aunt Zhao and Jia Huan in the middle.Indeed, this made those critics feel like a golden body, confused!As everyone knows, this is a big accident in which Zhao and Huan will collude with bad guys and frame Baoyu (and Sister Feng) in the future.After the second flower burial, Jia Yun and Xiaohong were written suddenly, which also made critics wonder: What are these?A hammer in the east and a hammer in the west?They are also difficult to understand, Xueqin's pen is to lay a systematic and "organic" vein for the following text nervously and painfully in the "hustle and bustle" and "scenery". It was Yun and Hong who came to rescue them!

Is this messy "disorganized"?It's too "structured", but Xueqin's structure and structure are unprecedented, and it is difficult for the world to understand, and they think it is "chaos". Xueqin was "talking and laughing happily" - but she dipped her pen into ink with tears in her eyes. Therefore, the greater the creation of a genius, the harder it is for ordinary people to understand.The tragedy of Xueqin's original work (and it has been tampered with and distorted) lies in this. ——Bitting the abdomen means both the head and the tail. "Xueqin's magic has really achieved this kind of state. Every spot in his seemingly "leisure writing" and "drama pen" is a flesh-and-blood connection on a (total) dark line (including multiple branch lines) , The profound truth of breath interlinking.

It was written in Shanghuan in June of Guiyou