Chapter 3 its originality

Zhen Shiyin's Phantom Consciousness Channeling It's hard to say how original it is.What exactly is its originality?For example, the concepts of "form" and "emptiness" also exist as mentioned above.For example, it is not the case when writing the profound and vivid characters, and it is not the case in "Water Margin".Yes, the author intends to write a first strange book.Sure enough, Down to Earth is a first-rate book.But where is Chi?It is difficult to answer this question directly and simply. Let us think about it, during the Song, Yuan, and Ming dynasties, the style of spoken language had already developed. Why did there not be such works at that time, but only in the early Qing Dynasty?Probably not by accident.The author grew up in a "flagship" family that has been "rich and honored for centuries", and his living habits have been deeply assimilated to the Manchus. Talent, and it is a "flagship" talent.In the novel, he not only gave full play to his literary genius in many aspects, but also fully demonstrated the specialty of Beijing dialect.Those great articles in ancient times, such as "Chu Ci" and so on, are another game; in modern times, novels written in spoken language have reached a new peak. Great book, no one can catch up.Although there are some classical Chinese mixed in here, it does not hinder the smoothness of the vernacular, and it is more possible to use these two kinds of words in a proper combination.This is only a matter of literary tools, but the pioneering features must be mentioned first.

There are eighty chapters of the book full of voluminous writings. I want to talk about it from the two aspects of conception and brushwork, that is, from the two aspects of thought and technique. Later, I felt that technique must cooperate with thought. Properly.To know the brushwork, you must first understand the meaning; to understand its intention, you must first find out what its object and theme are?Although this book also involves some issues of race, politics, and society, the main object is the family, the feudal landlord family that is about to collapse.In addition to Baoyu, the main character, there are some so-called "twelve hairpins" by "strange women".This book has repeatedly explained itself, even the second Zhiyanzhai review also has a brief sentence: "The author is really sad because of Tangdi's prestige, so he wrote this biography of the boudoir and garden curtain." Simply put, the intention is nothing more than in this way.

Then came the second question, what was his attitude towards this family, or such a family?To support praise, or to expose criticism, it seems that you can't answer with a simple no if you read the whole book carefully. The meaning of advocating praise is very little, and exposing criticism is not enough.With such magnificence in the previous life, he couldn't be nostalgic for the past; he couldn't be without indignation at the licentiousness and corruption of the last days, so he can say that there are both positive and negative sides to this answer.A closer comparison shows that there are more elements of negation than affirmation, which is most clearly stated in the book "Jia Tianxiang Zhengzhaofengyuejian".This Fengyue Baojian was a sacred object in the twelfth chapter, and it was used as an alias in the first chapter.The author said that Fengyue Baojian, "Never take a photo of the front, only the back, it's important."It's a pity that in the past two hundred years, many people have been learning from the wind and the moon.The so-called positive photos, as if looking at the problem from the surface, not only looking at the beauties on the front but not the skeletons on the back, are called positive photos. That is, a positive photo.In this case, there is a certain distance between the surface of the text and its connotation, association, hint, etc., which results in the so-called "brushwork".Why other novels do not have all kinds of troublesome problems but "Red Mansion" is unique, and why other dramas do not have "brushwork" problems, but "Red Mansion" is unique, here is a part of the answer.

In the author's own words, that is, "the real thing is hidden" and "fake words".He used the two homonymous names of Zhen Shiyin and Jia Yucun to represent this concept.I didn’t pay much attention to these two books since I read them, or I didn’t like to read them, or I didn’t understand them very much. It wasn’t until the third time that I slowly read them with relish.There is a Zhiyanzhai commentary, which once disapproved of this initial text, and commented at the end of the second chapter: Language is annoying.The ancients said that ink is like gold, but from this point of view, ink is like dirt, even if it has been performed for thousands of times.

Although this is wrong, it is also honest.I really don't see any benefit.Little do they know that these two books are the key, outline, and master key of the whole book.If you can't understand this, if you read it further, you will feel like you have entered the ecstasy of all kinds.This large piece of splendid articles is not only difficult to understand, but also easier to screw it up.I thought the first book said that Zhen Shiyin went away with the Taoist priest; when Zhen Shiyin left, the real thing disappeared.The second chapter records the long dialogue between Leng Zixing and Jia Yucun; Jia Yucun's dialect is the false language of the village.The two chapters have explained the idea and writing method of this book, and in the third chapter, I changed to another set of pens and inks, borrowing Jiayu Village to send Lin Daiyu to the Rongguo Mansion, and immediately unfolded the dreamlike realm of the Red Mansion.

The author expresses three points: (1) the truth, (2) the truth is hidden, that is, the truth is replaced by the false, (3) false words and village words.The second is the combination of the first and the third, and to simplify it, it means using lies and crude language (including pornographic descriptions) to show real people and real things.This is very simple, and the author made it so clear, but many people ignore it.They were too inquisitive and mistook the "real thing hidden" as a lantern or something, so everyone guessed wildly for a while, no one knew whether they had guessed it or not, and everyone thought I had guessed it, which resulted in arguments and even quarrels.Although it is a peerless book in literature, if it is regarded as a riddle, it is really stupid.These red scholars intended to elevate it, but actually ruined it greatly.

It will be much better if you find the master key and then read the whole book, without too many problems.On the surface, it seems that it is both realistic and idealistic; it seems incomprehensible to be dissatisfied with this feudal family but also to be nostalgic.If we use the viewpoints mentioned by the above-mentioned authors, we can analyze them. There are roughly three components: (1) realistic, (2) ideal, and (3) critical.These components are entangled with each other, but they are unified under the basic concept.Although it is false, it is not a castle in the air; although it is true, it cannot be regarded as the chronology of the biography; although it is praised, when does he really sing it;For love and sexual desire, it is very affirmative, such as Baoyu in the fifth chapter of "Jing Huan"; at the same time, it is extremely negative, such as in the twelfth chapter of Jia Rui's "Zhaofengyuejian".For the women in the book, most of them use his ideal person as a model. Naturally, praise is better than derogation, but it is neither praise nor derogation, and it is handled according to each person's personality.He hates the male who is the supreme ruler of the Jia family, and leaves no room for him.From all these, it can be seen that the author's attitude is quite objective and fair.Naturally, he never betrayed the class to which he belonged, but he has quite escaped from the bias of the class. Although the criticism is not enough, he has already made a preliminary attempt.If we do not depart from the historical point of view, the value of the right is easy to get a fair estimate, and we can get a higher estimate.The appearance like a comet not only shocked the literary world at that time, but also annoyed these reactionary rulers.This makes it possible to understand why it is necessary to hide the truth while telling the truth; since "following the trace", he has to confuse people with "nonsense", "nonsense" and "nonsense". .Although there are also various factors such as personal character and technical needs, the main thing is that it was unfavorable at the time.To put it in a sophistry, it is because it is too realistic that it is so unrealistic.

Such a way of writing is unprecedented in Chinese literature, unless it is compared to Confucius' "Spring and Autumn", which was said in the forty-second chapter of this book: Use the method of "Spring and Autumn" to summarize the vulgar words in the market, delete the redundant words, and add embellishments, for example, one sentence is one sentence. It is the so-called "Master's own way".However, "Spring and Autumn" is like "Duanlan Chaobao", which no one wants to read, but it writes charming stories in the most mellow and fluent vernacular, and almost everyone loves to read it for two hundred years.Once upon a time, one of my relatives and seniors said, "If you are a human being, you must read it."I was still young at the time, and I didn't understand it at all. I just thought it was weird to say this.Speaking of books, books are unprecedented strange books; speaking of people, people are unprecedented oddities.But then again, if it is a bit like "Spring and Autumn", wouldn't it still inherit the oldest literary tradition in China?It can be seen here that although this article is divided into two parts: tradition and originality, it is actually just one thing, two aspects of one thing.Therefore, it is not possible to point out which paragraph is created and which sentence is traditional. If you want to talk about creation, it is nothing more than creation, and if you want to say "classical", it is nothing more than "classic", it depends on your perspective.

Readers can read freely, I do not guarantee that my opinion is correct.However, this book does have its relatively fixed appearance, which cannot be distorted very much.For example, all kinds of "sequences" in the past have not been recognized by the public so far. It can be seen that the theory of common sense can only convince people, and the public opinion is correct after all.