Chapter 15 The second floor of "Red Mansion" (7)

Zhengchai, deputy hairpin, second deputy, third deputy... and even eighth deputy are the "nine ranks" in total, which is still the tradition of ancient Pindi characters. "Twelve" represents women (twelve is an even number, the largest representative of yin numbers), and "nine" represents many (nine is an odd number, the largest representative of yang numbers), so twelve times nine equals one hundred and eight.One hundred and eight is the total number of "love list". Why does it have to be one hundred and eight?It is designed for chorus-singing against the stage-you write one hundred and eight green forest heroes, and I write one hundred and eight cosmetic heroes (Qin Keqing's words).

This is the intention and goal of Xueqin's book writing, as well as artistic conception and aesthetic norms. Each person gave a "love ×" evaluation test language, which was learned from Feng Menglong in the Ming Dynasty. Feng was a great expert in novels, and he was very rich in collecting and editing.This is the "template" that the "Love List" was modeled on, because in that book, the stories about "love" written in ancient times were divided into details, labeled as "love chastity", "love fate", "love privateness"...

"Love", since the Six Dynasties, people have attached great importance to this word and its meaning.Prince Zhaoming compiled "Wen Xuan" and created the category of "love Fu". "Too high is forgetful of love, but lowly to be foolish is not as good as love - what love loves is our generation", which is exactly the thoughts and words of the generation of the kings of the Six Dynasties and Xie Mingzu. Calligrapher Wang Youjun's "Lanting Collection Preface" said: "One drink and one chant, you can also freely express your feelings." He also said: "It's as simple as it is, and the emotion changes with the situation. It's a matter of emotion."

Xueqin: "The main purpose is to talk about love." Miaoyu continued the Mid-Autumn Festival couplet poem: "Where is the joy and sorrow? No worries. It's annoying. The love is only for self-indulgence. Who can you tell the elegance?" The evil tail of "Dream of Red Mansions": "For those who are gracious, they will escape from death; for those who are ruthless, they will have clear retribution." Taoist Kongkong "copied the biography", but changed the title to "Love Monk Records" - he named himself "Love Monk". "Love Monk"——Another novel written for the first time through the ages!

Who is the "love monk"? Therefore, Baoyu could not jump out of the "love list" after all.He is loyal to "love" in life and death, so he is called "love sage". A Book of "Injustice" There are many layers of meanings, historical, philosophical, literary and artistic, moral, temperamental, spiritual... There are also social and political.A comprehensive review is another matter. A single theory is the basis of a comprehensive review, but it also has its "ontological nature" and can form a standard category on its own.What I want to talk about now is the word "injustice" implicit in the whole book.

Talking about the meaning of "injustice" seems to be a single theory, but otherwise, "injustice" in "Red Mansion" itself is multi-layered and multi-faceted.The so-called "difficult to describe in one word" is a truth. Xueqin's family background is a case of political injustice.He himself is an unknown villain.It is a strange injustice through the ages that his book was tampered with and cut off.The characters in his book—mainly in the behavior and fate of a group of daughters, all have not deviated from this evocative, terrifying and shocking word "injustice".

The stone plays the role of the "wedge" in opening the book. It is abandoned and is the beginning of the word "injustice".Zhen Shiyin was burned for no reason, was impoverished, and was blinded and deceived by his father-in-law.Jiao Xing just heard that Jia Yucun was a Han Confucian living in a ruined temple, so she unconsciously looked at him twice, and made Jia Yucun think that she was a wronged servant girl who "intended for him".Feng Yuan and Yinglian are themselves "meeting injustice" and "responsing pity", so there is no need to talk about it.The whole book begins with a grievance and ends with a grievance——the extant "Eighty Chapters" originally ended with Qingwen, which is a clear proof of the grievance.

It is so comprehensible: all the women in the book are full of beauty, and all of them are wronged.Although the grievances are different from each other, but they are all the people who have been wronged and wronged, it can be clearly identified-although some are obvious and some are hidden, some are large and some are small, some are straight and some are crooked, those who are wronged are always the same. Look at Baoyu, the "leader" of these daughters (Zhi Yan's so-called "Crown of the Qunfang"), who has been "slandered by the world" () and "slandered by the whole family" (Jing Huan's comment) all his life, and those who are slandered will be wronged By.Baoyu is the biggest enemy in the world.

Look at the first sentence of the "judgment" written by Yuan Chun, the leader of the "Twelve Beauties", which is "Twenty years to distinguish right from wrong".It is not yet known.Isn't this a big unjust case of the head of the hairpins? Yingchun bowed to death.Tanchun was discriminated against for being "a concubine".Xichun seems to have no grievances, but due to family status, being born in black clothes is also a kind of aggrieved. Sister Feng spent her entire life alone in the building, exhausted physically and mentally, and she was dismissed for committing a crime, humiliated and framed—becoming the target of public criticism.

Xiangyun became a beggar, Qiaojie fell into fireworks, and Miaoyu became more and more jealous because of her peers. It can be seen that the end of being wronged is the worst. In addition to the "principal hairpin", the "deputies" also have their own grievances.Like Ping'er, like mandarin ducks, like golden bracelets, like colorful clouds... like deeds, they are all good women who were innocent victims.Yuanyang is falsely accused of being "private" with Jia Lian, and Caiyun (or Caixia) is suspected of being "good friends" with Baoyu... Lin Daiyu's death, according to humble intentions, was closely related to Aunt Zhao's accusation that she had "not talent" with Baoyu.

Here, only Baochai and Xiren are left. These two virtuous women have been criticized by critics for a long time. Where is the grievance?Let's listen to the explanation: most people's understanding is that Baochai "harmed" Daiyu, and attackers "harmed" Qingwen.If this is the case, then Xueqin's book will immediately change its taste. It will no longer be "a thousand reds crying", but half of the "reds" will cry;This is an extremely important research issue that cannot be avoided. I thought that if Xueqin's book only had this meaning, it would be too vulgar, and it would not be "great", and Xueqin's "view of daughters" and spiritual realm would be reduced to a level that is not worthy of attention and praise. It's pathetic. Please review the words of Mr. Lu Xun 80 years ago: It may even be said that the author originally thought that there was no good person in the book, so he made a fuss about it and made a big deal of it.But according to the book itself, it is only written truthfully, without ridicule, alone, and deeply repented.This is indeed a blessing in common sense, so it is loved and cherished by people today, but it is also strange in common sense, so some people are dissatisfied, and they rise up to make it perfect.This shows that people's measurement is far away from each other, and it is also the reason why Cao Xueqin is out of reach. Playing through this extremely important argument carefully, we know that it was originally caused by the "marriage struggle between the hairpin and Dai Dai", the "victory" of the hairpin and the death of Dai Dai, and the "shaking" of the continuation book. He is extremely insidious and bad-so the husband further pointed out: Therefore, it has become even worse, and he called Xueqin "a micro-ci song pen", and "there is no good person" in the book! This is the injustice case of the characters Chai and Xi in the book—it is also another layer of grievous injustice in Qinshu.The fundamental key lies in the tampering and distorting of Xueqin's great thought, lofty cultural level and spiritual world by Gao E's puppet continuation. That being the case, Sister Feng in Xueqin's works was also falsely accused by Gao E as a "one party" villain. They didn't give her any place, and set up another "new grandma", which even persecuted Second Sister You.But at the end of the book, the "crime" she got was far more than her fault, and she was sentenced to a heinous crime, and she committed the "seven outs" of serious crimes—so it was actually a wrong. The injustices who are difficult to understand and are universally hated. As the example of Sister Feng shows, the rest of the daughters, such as Qin Keqing, Lin Daiyu, Xiaohong, Qianxue, and Si'er, are all wronged and abused by others. .As long as you play the book carefully, it is not difficult to grasp its purpose. In this way, it is an important aspect to comprehend Xueqin's reasons for writing books. Although there are many levels, she is full of injustice, laments life, sympathizes with all things, and wants to express her injustice on behalf of them.