Chapter 22 The fourth floor "Red Mansion" Lingxiu (6)

The pros and cons of Tanchun's prosperity and disadvantages are written in the book, which also belongs to this purpose. "Qi Xuben" has a general comment after returning, saying: Hey, things are difficult!Tanchun regards the dignity of the girl, the love of Jia's mother, the entrustment of Mrs. Wang, and the unrequited favor of Sister Feng, and temporarily acts for a few months.With Sister Feng's intelligence, with Sister Feng's ability, with Sister Feng's power, with Sister Feng's noble pet, with Sister Feng's toil day and night, to cover the gaps in every possible way, it is still hard to avoid riding a tiger. Isn't it too difficult for a plan to bring disaster to Soochow? ——Kuang is not as clever as Sister Feng, not as powerful and favored as Sister Feng, Jiao Laomi is not as good as Sister Feng, and has no love from Jia's mother, respect from a girl, and entrustment from a wife. Difficult? !Shifang has the ambition to make a career, and every time he reads this, he can't help but write a book for it, and he lingers over and over again and wants to cry!

I hope that those who are concerned about "red studies" in the world will think deeply and read it carefully. Is a book that can arouse such a great emotion from critics, is its purpose just for "emptiness" and "detachment"?People who understand "emptiness" and can "get rid of it" probably won't spend ten years of painstaking efforts to write the history of "barnyard grass" again, right? Xueqin cherishes talent and loves talent, laments the difficulty, value and misfortune of talent, so he turns the main point of a novel into a beautiful word, titled "Qinfang".

"Qinfang" is also the language of "flowers fall and water flow red".He weeps bitterly for the young and beautiful talents in his boudoir, each of whom is like a crimson falling into the water, passing away with the flow, which is a great symbol, a great chant, and a great expression. However, people in the world think that "Qinfang" (the general name of the main scene and the main vein) is the insignificant adjective of "fragrant and gorgeous", and it is a beautiful habit of literati.Isn't it so sad. In the early 1920s, Mr. Hu Shizhi began to write "A Dream of Red Mansions", and put forward the theory of "autobiography" (this theory had already prevailed in the Qing Dynasty, and Hu's family was only a restoration, not a creation). , many works of the "Suo Yin School" were published one after another, expressing their opposition with a strong force, and they were fiercely criticized 30 years ago; only Mr. Lu Xun and his family affirmed it in serious academic works; The past has increased, and right and wrong have been revealed for a long time.However, from the perspective of "autobiography", readers tend to fall into a narrow point of view: they think that Xueqin was just rejected because of her rough life experience, so she wrote this novel to vent her grievances.In short, since it belongs to "autobiography", it is designated as "personal" joys, sorrows, sorrows and joys.Although this article has initially gained a correct solution (writing about oneself, not swearing at others), it has lost its main purpose and deep meaning - shedding tears for the misfortune of the "two endowments" of human beings.This means that the breadth and height of Xueqin's ideology and spirit have been severely reduced. To put it more seriously, it has also become a kind of misunderstanding or "distortion".

At that time, Mr. Hu only regarded Xueqin's novel as a personal experience of "sitting and eating mountains and empty mountains" and "natural trends".For the understanding of things, there is a progression and improvement of the stage and level of the times. There is no need to criticize Mr. Hu's views in the 1920s, but we must also think of: Qin’s great pain and deep hatred of "A thousand reds cry" and "Wan Yan share sorrow" take this gist as a key point in his preface (the so-called "Qin Fang" is also a synonymous word).Comparing the two, one cannot but admire Mr. Liu's superiority. ①

After the Liu family, a hundred years later, many people still view this novel from the perspective of brother-sister "love". It is indeed the biggest cultural tragedy in the history of the Chinese nation. However, a greater cultural tragedy occurred in the late Qianlong Dynasty, that is, Emperor Qianlong conspired with his favorite minister He Shen and others to destroy Xueqin's manuscripts after 80 chapters of the original manuscript, and wrote another 40 chapters to spell it out. The fake "full" version deceives the readers of future generations, completely distorts the overall plot structure of the original work, and turns it into a "triangle"-style "love and marriage" farce, which is used to cover up the original book's last resort. They believed that the political reasons behind the incident of ransacking the house and imprisoning Jia's family were detrimental to the Qing court.For details, please refer to my article "Behind the "Quanbi" of A Dream of Red Mansions".

This fact, as early as 1794 (that is, two or three years after the first edition of Cheng and Gao’s puppet editions), Kamensky, the head of the Russian mission to China and a sinologist, had already commented on a Cheng’s book: “Moral Criticism Novel , published by the Imperial Press." This means that the book was printed with wooden movable type at the Wuyingdian Book Repair Office established for the "Siku Quanshu" at that time.This is a "printing factory" dedicated to royal equipment. If the fake copy of the Cheng was not authorized by Qianlong, how could it be so special for a novel?After the publication of this book, scholar-bureaucrats "set up a book at home" (it used to be a banned book and did not dare to circulate it publicly), but it was originally "officially approved", and it became popular just now.Few people today know this kind of historical truth, so they don’t care about it. The most surprising thing is that in recent years, some people have openly declared that "the great one is Gao E (the representative figure who wrote the preface of the pseudo-continued version), not Cao Xueqin"!

Isn't this a greater cultural tragedy in the history of the Chinese nation? But what is the real and greatest tragedy?It is neither the explanation of the Suoyin School, Wang Guowei, Hu Shizhi, etc., nor the humble opinion of praising Cao and his ilk, but Qianlong, He Shen, etc. cannot understand Xueqin's broad and lofty ideological realm , and mistakenly thought it was just a political "expression" work, so it cruelly and insidiously completely destroyed and deteriorated the original work. This is the most fundamental and core great tragedy of Cao Xueqin's multi-layered tragedy.

Xueqin's cultural thought was an enlightenment and revolutionary thought for Chinese culture in the early 18th century. Its value and significance and its true historical position have not yet been fully explored and estimated.A full 90 years ago, Mr. Chen Yu put forward the proposition that Xueqin was a great thinker who "created education".Creators of teachings must have extraordinary grandeur and magnanimity in their ideological realm and unprecedented people, such as Confucius, Sakyamuni, etc., can be awarded this honorable title, as Chen Wei saw.However, in the past 90 years, no one has understood its profound meaning and responded to and supported it, so one cannot help but sigh at the decline of national cultural knowledge.This article is not superficial, just talking about ignorance, hoping to attract jade, it is very fortunate.