Chapter 44 Exploration of "Red Mansion" on the eighth floor (4)

Exploring the Lost——Two Keys There are two keys to exploring the lost: one is the unique structure and rules; the other is the cultural connotation of the symbolic number "one hundred and eight". One hundred and eight, determines the total number of people in the "love list", just like the same.One hundred and eight chapters also determine the total number of chapters in the book—the two major "fans" are fifty-four chapters each, and chapters fifty-four and fifty-five are the "middle boundaries" of the book. Fan writing failed. The "middle boundary" of the two fans is very clear, and anyone who has a little experience can understand it. The atmosphere, the plot and the characters are completely different.

However, Wuzhi's list of 108 daughters is not obvious at a glance, and it needs to be explained. However, the number of "Qunfang" and "Zhuchai" was actually made clear by Xueqin as soon as she opened the book—— He said that the big stone made by Nuwa is "twelve feet high and twenty-four feet square", and the Zhiyan commented: "Twelve" corresponds to the main hairpin, and "twenty-four" is the general response to the deputy hairpins. This makes it clear: "Fang Jing" means that each side of the square is twenty-four, that is, four times twenty-four equals ninety-six.Ninety-six ("deputy hairpins" at all levels) plus twelve "prime hairpins" is exactly one hundred and eight.

Lotus Root Champs and Exploration From the 21st chapter onwards, the center of the park will be moved to the Grand View Garden.The most important main scene of the garden is the Qinfang Bridge Pavilion, which is the general outline.Then there is an entry point, which is also a pivot point across the water and connected in all directions, which is the lotus root and Champs.This pavilion is not trivial, it is related to the lifeline of the whole book. First look at the name of this water pavilion. The word "Ouxiang" comes from "Yijianmei" written by Li Yi'an (Qingzhao), a poetess in Song Dynasty. Its words read:

The fragrance of red lotus root and the remnant jade mat in autumn, lightly untie the clothes, and go to the orchid boat alone.Who in the cloud sends a brocade book to ask, when the geese return, the moon is full on the west tower.Flowers drift by themselves, water flows by itself, a kind of lovesickness, worrying about the two places.There is no way to get rid of this feeling, so I lowered my brows, but raised my heart. You know, not only the word "Ouxiang" originated from this, but also the couplet inscribed in the pavilion—— Hibiscus Shadow Breaks Guilan Paddle Lotus Root Fragrant Deep Writing Bamboo Bridge

This is clearly the movement of the same intention, because "Lan Paddle" is the pronoun of "Lan Zhou", and it is just for the change of tones. Then, you must realize that "Ouxiang" is also a homonym for "Ouxiang". This pavilion is closely related to Shi Xiangyun's affairs and is extremely important. If you have any doubts, please listen to my explanation and deciphering one by one. First, after the Grand View Garden was completed and the sisters moved in, Jiamu Shi Taijun's first official visit to the garden was to lead Grandma Liu into the garden to open her eyes.Come here and sit down in the pavilion, first read the couplets, and who will read and listen?Just let Xiang Yunnian listen to her.This is a special pen.

Second, because Jia Mu came to this waterside pavilion, she recalled to everyone that there was such a pavilion in her home when she was a child, called "Xianxia Pavilion". Shi Taijun's mother was the elder of Xiangyun's family, and "Xia" also That is, the transformed pronoun of "cloud".One pavilion and one pavilion are faintly closed. Third, undisputed textual research shows that Cao Xueqin’s grandfather Cao Yin’s in-law’s family and his brother-in-law Li Xuzheng had a garden in which the bamboo pavilion was built in the same way as the Ou Xiangxie. Fourth, when Shi Taijun recounted the remains of Zhenxia Pavilion, Zhiyanzhai immediately commented:

Seeing that he suddenly used Jia Mu's words, before he supplemented the book in a leisurely manner, it seemed that he already had a "Twelve Hairpins".It is impossible to see at a glance!Yu Ze will want to make up (should be made) the twelve hairpins in Zhenxia Pavilion. Wouldn't he add another new book? Looking at this, we can know that Zhiyan is actually the "prototype" of Shi Xiangyun in the book.So she is the "family member" who read this couplet orally and Shi Taijun listened to. Fifth, when he opened the Chrysanthemum Society, Xiangyun took the nickname "Zhouxia Old Friend".

Sixth, when I went to the Mid-Autumn Festival couplet in the Aojing Pavilion, Xiangyun said "crossing the crane shadow in the cold pond", and Daiyu said "buried the soul of flowers in the cold moon".There is also a close-up of Xiangyun throwing a stone to startle a crane and fly to the Ouxiangxie - all of which symbolize the future ending of the two of them (both the crane and the lotus symbolize Xiangyun). Such a simple example is enough to show that when Xueqin set up the water pavilion of Ouxiangxie, there were many layers of meaning in it, and Bao and Xiang met again after going through hardships and ups and downs. According to the author of the original, it was the two people who suddenly met and recognized their old friends on the boat, and it was the insinuation of "Going to the Lanzhou Alone" and "Returning to the Lanzhou Paddle after Hibiscus' shadow".

The ending of the whole book is not empty words.