Chapter 10 The second floor of the original purpose of "Red Mansion" (2)

Please experience the subtlety of Chinese character literature: why is "Xieyu" so crude?And why is "Qinfang" Xinya?Where is the center of difference between the two?Only by answering the question can you be considered a "Red Mansion" lover. Diarrhea and Qin are matters of water.Jade and Fang are synonymous with beauty.Although the wording is rough, the actual meaning is the same. Jia Zheng also ordered to plan a union.Baoyu stood on the pavilion, looked around, came to his mind, and said: The willows around the embankment borrow three poles and green, and the flowers on the other bank share a pulse of fragrance.

After hearing this, Jia Zheng "nodded and smiled" again, and everyone "praises endlessly" again. These wonderful essays are really no different from Xueqin's self-evaluation and self-examination. Careless people read the couplet and think it is just a confrontation between "flower" and "willow", and there is nothing to say.If you look carefully, the first sentence seems to be about willow but actually writes about water, and the next sentence uses the "Qinfang" fragrance to solve the "mystery" by yourself. In the past, people took a casual look at the word "Qinfang", and even thought it was nothing more than the word "Xiangyan", which was just a literati habit. What's the real meaning?Of course, if you want to talk about fragrance, that's enough; the words fragrance are really popular in Ming and Qing novels—where did the word "fragrant" and "yan" contain such deep and huge sorrow and ambition? Woolen cloth?

What is the meaning of the word "Qinfang"?At this point, I should have thought about half of it. Xueqin worked hard, and even though he set up this high-level general symbol, he knew that ordinary people still couldn't understand it, so he was the first one after the family visit was over, the empress sent an order, and Baoyu moved into the garden with all the sisters. The "specific" scene and plot (it was just "general writing" in the four instant scene seven-verse poems before) is "Baoyu's burial of flowers"-everyone knows that there is Daiyu's burial of flowers, painted, sculpted, and acted... already It has become a "cliché", but they don't always pay attention to Baoyu, and they can't realize that Baoyu is the real protagonist of funeral flowers.

How do you say this?Listen to Xueqin's words: On that day, it was Xiahuan in the late spring and March (in ancient times, there was a bath every ten days, so it was divided into upper, middle and lower three times a month), and breakfast was over (not the "early" after waking up in the morning, but twice a day. The lunch of the main meal is about ten o'clock today), Baoyu brought a copy of "The West Chamber" to the bank of the Qinfang gate, sat on a big rock under a peach blossom tree by the stream, and savored Wang Shifu's poems alone. writing.When he read the phrase "falling red into a formation", it happened that a gust of wind blew off most of the peach blossoms on the tree, so that his head, body and ground were covered with petals.Baoyu is the most affectionate and meticulous person. He felt sorry for these remnants of red falling to the ground, and couldn't bear to trample and defile them with his feet, so he picked up the fallen flowers with his robe and sprinkled them into the stream. Ripple, flow to the gate, and pass away leisurely!

Is this writing a story, writing a scene?This is the most vivid and painful footnote for the word "Qinfang"! In fact, Xueqin estimated that the people who can read his book must be those who are familiar with the literature and have good literary accomplishments, so he has a lot of "saving pens" and leave them for the readers to "make up for themselves".That is to say, here, it is clear that the "saving" has gone to the first song "When Appreciating Flowers" sung by Cui Yingying after the book was opened: But it's just that people are worth the remnant spring in the east of Pujun, and the gate is closed in the Xiaosi Temple; flowers fall and water flows red!There are thousands of worries, and no words to complain about the east wind.

Look at the shocking five characters: The flowers are falling and the water is red! This is the theme poem of "Red Mansion", which is the symbolism that Xueqin "borrowed" from Wang Shifu—and "Qinfang" is the "condensation" and "recasting" of those five characters! So it’s called Xinya—the opposite of crude, so it’s a symbol.It symbolizes the daughters in the book, just like the flowers in spring, which will fall one after another in the future and pass away with the flowing water.This is the general theme and "main theme" of the whole book.

This is actually what has already been hinted at in the fifth episode——what Fairy Jinghuan entertains Baoyu is: 1. A cave of thousands of reds (crying); Xueqin wrote a book, "The main purpose is to talk about love". This "love" is not about two brothers and sisters, but for the misfortunes and fates of thousands of reds and glamorous people.This cry, this sadness, was realized by Liu E when he wrote the preface a hundred years ago, and he used it as the conclusion of the preface.He is Xueqin's confidant, high mountains and flowing waters, not far away. But Xueqin was still afraid that people's hearts would be rough, and at the end of this chapter, she wrote that Daiyu was listening to songs outside the wall of Lixiangyuan, and she immediately wrote "Falling Red Formation", "Flowers Falling into Water and Flowing Red", "Flowing Water and Falling Blossoms in Spring". Go too"... All the famous sentences are linked together, and I can't help "heartache, tears in my eyes", unable to support, and sitting on the stone...

Stone, it is the witness of "Qinfang". Also, when Baoyu first arrived at the "fantasy" in the fifth chapter, no one came out yet, but he had already heard the singing, and sang: The dream of spring is scattered with the clouds, and the flying flowers are chasing the water. Send words to all the sons and daughters, why bother to find leisure and sorrow. Listen, it's clear to wake up: when the remaining red is gone, and the water flows eastward, then the dream of the Red Chamber will come to an end.Although Xiangu's tone is "admonishing" and "referring to fascination", the "Xianchou" of the girl there is just an allusion to "the flowers fall into the water and the water is red, and there are all kinds of worries".Although this worry is "leisure", it is the weight of all kinds!

From this point of view, Xueqin's opening strokes are actually broken and connected throughout the whole book.This is what kind of heart, what kind of writing power! Only when Chinese literature has reached this level can it possess its indescribable charm. "Qinfang" is originally a sad word The word "Qinfang", its origin and origin, I will briefly talk about it first; and it itself has dual meanings of "outside" and "inside", which needs to be explained clearly. On the surface, "Qinfang" was originally titled for a pavilion, but in fact the stream, bridge, gate, and pavilion are named after "Qinfang", which shows its importance.The pavilion is on the bridge, so it was built by "pressing water", and it is the first main scene after entering the park, so the main eye should be dyed with the artistic conception of "water".The conception of the title was triggered by Ouyang Xiu's "Drunkard's Pavilion".At the beginning of this record, it is said that Chuzhou is surrounded by mountains, but the southwest is especially beautiful, with beautiful forests and valleys.Please pay attention to the word "Xiu", not only Lin Daiyu used it, but also Li Gongcai's "Xiu Shui Ming Shan embraces Fu Hui, romantic and literary talent surpasses Penglai". (Ou Gong's original sentence is "Wei Ran Shenxiu". In the early years, there was an ancient garden opposite the gate of Yanjing University, which was named Weixiu Garden, and it was also derived from this.) In this scenic spot in the southwest, there is a spring with gurgling sounds that flows between the two peaks. Therefore, Jia Zheng proposed to use the word "Xie".Yiqing Ke then drafted the word "Xieyu".Baoyu felt that it was too rough and did not conform to the "responsive system" of Yuan concubine's return to the province, so he changed the name to "Qinfang".Elegance and vulgarity are high and low, and there is a clear opinion.Jia Zheng nodded with a smile and twisted his beard without saying a word—this is an expression of 12 points of appreciation!

The world generally sees it like this, because it is indeed New Athens, which is quite different from mediocrity, but I don't know that here, through the words, there is hidden Xueqin's superb talent and great grief ——It turns out that this is the "lifeline" of the whole garden, which symbolizes the ending and destination of the women living in the whole garden!