Chapter 48 Maid and Actress (Part 1)

They are the masses of the "twelve beauties", and they have turned into a grand view garden with colorful red and purple and murmuring Yingyans. Now only five of them have been selected as the title, and it is unavoidable to feel the hatred of losing pearls and jades.The writing about them is excellent, and they are scattered throughout the book, so they cannot be listed.From the fifty-eighth to the sixty-first chapter, which is relatively concentrated, the temperament, description, speech, and behavior of many maids, actresses, and women are described in detail, and the same is different, and the difference is different. There are similarities, one seems to come at your fingertips, and everything is clear and logical; thus, the peak of complete art emerges from the trivial and insignificant daily life.I think that after writing, it became noisier and more detailed.For example, these few books are very difficult to write, but they are written so well. This kind of trick is unprecedented.

These maids and actresses have similar abnormal life backgrounds, daughter temperaments, etc., but they are two types.It's just like writing in one stroke, but it's a two-pronged approach. The young girl is the young girl, and the female actress is the female actress, and they are still clearly separated.To give some specific examples: Actresses often act in Fengyue dramas, and live a relatively free life, such as the homosexual love of Ouguan, Guan, and Ruiguan. Chapter 58 records the incident of Ouguan burning paper.Also, maidservants fight with each other, and often compete for status and favor and are jealous of each other, while female actresses are in different situations and have fewer conflicts, so there is a lot of "loyalty" between them.Another example is that the maids are directly suppressed by the feudal housewives, and understand this set of "rules", but the actresses don't pay much attention to it.For example, in the 60th chapter, with Fang Guan as the leader, Ou Guan, Rui Guan, Kui Guan, Dou Guan and Aunt Zhao have a big riot, female actresses are fine, but the little girls in Ruo Yihong Courtyard are afraid.If it is forced to be written as a scene of mass anger, it will not be suitable.These crude details can still be seen at a glance. As for the more trivial and subtle points, it is impossible to say now, and it may hurt the penetration.Readers read through the text, occasionally knowing, or smiling.The following invites five people to be combined into two parts A and B.

A Zijuan, Ping'er——Zijuan is Daiyu's deputy, and Ping'er is Fengjie's deputy.They all win the love of the masses here, and I am no exception.Zijuan, formerly known as Ying Ge, was originally a second-class girl of Jia Mu (see the third chapter). In the book, she has a very gentle temperament. I am afraid that the sequels also like her very much. The writing about her in the last forty chapters is also relatively good. .There are not many main stories in the eighty chapters. Of course, we have to mention the fifty-seventh chapter "Hui Zicuckoo's Love Test Busy Jade", which is praised as "Hui", but is she really wise?This is very meaningful.

The word "busy" in busy jade, I used to learn from Gengchen's school, whether it is appropriate or not, I dare not say [37].First of all, we should ask: why does Zijuan want to test this precious jade? Is it necessary for him to be tested?Today it seems that it is not necessary.Yet there is, otherwise why would she try?Does she like to cause a catastrophe as described below? Who is Baoyu's favorite person? It has been known to every household for about two hundred years. Everyone has seen it from the first visit to Shenying's waiter, Jiangzhu Xiancao. How could they not know.But the author knows it, the critics know it, everyone knows it today, but everyone in the Grand View Garden in the book does not necessarily know it, even Daiyu herself may not know it all.Otherwise her sorrow haggards, for which one?She often quarrels and fights with Baoyu, cuts tassels and smashes jade, so why come here?But Daiyu is so, so what about Zicuckoo.The reason why she wants to test Baoyu, who is "busy with nothing to do", is completely necessary in her opinion.

There are two major issues involved here, Baoyu's character and Baodai's marriage, which I have no time to discuss in detail, but I can't completely ignore them.Is Baoyu's love overflowing or single-minded?Is he like Daiyu said, "When you see your sister, you forget your sister"?The author here is afraid that he used the idealistic point of view at the beginning to write about the "stone" feeling-that is, there is a difference between nature and nurture.From the point of view of the marriage of wood and stone, it is specific, and it is for those who have a special liking for Baoyu; if it is from the perspective of stones that are fascinated by sensuality, beauty, and profit, and stained with powder and grease, not only is love not specific, but desire is also Flooding, the stories of Baoyu recorded in the book are also true.From the perspective of Daiyu's confidant maid, Zijuan, of course she only knows the second point, but not the first. Where did she find out about this wild rock and illusory realm?But after being tried by her in this way, a little bit came out.Why this is so, and how to explain all kinds of contradictions is still unknown, but Baoyu is indeed like this, not like that.But one thing in the center is known.Therefore, although Zijuan had caused a catastrophe and almost killed Jia Baoyu, it was reasonable to draw a positive conclusion. Apart from being anxious at the time, Daiyu had no dissatisfaction with Zijuan at all.

This is really good, but there is one layer: in the future, Baoyu's marriage will be inseparable from Daiyu, and Jia Mu also understands the pros and cons.Is it also written about the reunion, "Xiaoxiang Hengwu and a golden house", like those most absurd sequels?Of course not.This is tantamount to the author leaving a difficult problem for himself, which we cannot answer for him today.According to my guess, it would be better for Daiyu to die first and Baochai to marry later, but there is no record in the literature, so there is no need to talk about it here. In any case, Zijuan did her best to her master. Not only Daiyu should be deeply impressed that day, but we should also praise it today, and the author's praise is even more natural.But there is one point, which the author calls "Hui". Does she appear to be "Hui" this time? It doesn't seem to be exactly that.In fact, what is shown is sincerity rather than cleverness. For example, a conversation between her and Aunt Xue (chapter 57, page 636), who does not hate this treacherous and cunning Aunt Xue, who does not feel pity This solid-eyed azalea!Calling her "loyalty", "thickness", "innocence" and other compliments seem to be more suitable than the word "Hui", but calling her "Hui Zicuckoo" is worth pondering.Doesn’t the author mean to say that honesty and determination are the highest wisdom, while “good deeds and small wisdom” are not enough to speak of wisdom[38].

What Ping'er is to Sister Feng is different from what Zijuan is to Daiyu.Writing Zijuan is a pen that complements Daiyu, but it has the meaning of "although the peony is good, it must be supported by green leaves".As mentioned above, Zicuckoo is loyal and honest, but although Daiyu seems to have a sharp mouth and a narrow heart, she is actually not loyal, as you can see from the forty-second chapter "Lan Yan's addiction to solving doubts".They are still the same kind of character.Ruo Ping'er is not entirely the case. Although she is Sister Feng's right-hand man, as Li Wan said about her, "You are the master key of your grandma" (Chapter 39), but her family management is as good as her master. , the author seems to deliberately write Ping'er as the opposite of Sister Feng, not just a deputy.In one aspect, she has the merits of remedying Sister Feng's behavior; on the other hand, the author writes that although her status is lower than Sister Feng's, her character is higher than Sister Feng's.A description like this raises the maid, which means lowering the master relatively, that is, borrowing Pinger to demote Sister Feng.I can't quote it in detail, but I will only cite one of the most prominent public comments in the Grand View Garden, in the forty-fifth chapter:

Li Wan said with a smile: "Listen, I said a word, and he went crazy. He said that two carts of scoundrels with mud legs, market customs, would make careful calculations and allocate two things. It's thanks to him that he was born in the Shishu University. If you are a young lady in an eunuch's family, and you are married, he is still like this; if you were born in a poor and small family as a boy, you don't know how to be a bad tongue. Everyone in the world has been tricked by you. Yesterday I'm still fighting Ping'er, thank you for stretching out your hand. The yellow soup has been poured into the dog's stomach. I just want to fight for Ping'er when I'm angry. I was afraid that the old lady would not be useful, so I didn't come, after all, I'm still angry. You invited me here again today. You don't need to pick up Ping'er's shoes. You two, you should just change one another." Said Everyone laughed. (476 pages)

Daoxiang old farmer said "it's just a change of life", I'm afraid it's not a joke.In addition, as in Chapter 69, Sister Feng "killed people with a sword" and Ping'er expressed sympathy for Second Sister You and treated her very well, and even criticized Sister Feng in terms of behavior (pp. 773, 776, 777) ).It can be seen that the author is by no means unconcerned about Sister Feng, and there are no critics or critics in his writing, but he just put it tactfully in some places. The forty-sixth chapter and the first half of the forty-seventh chapter quoted above are actually Pinger’s original biography. The most prominent text in the book is the forty-sixth chapter about her getting her makeup done in Yihong Courtyard, not to mention the description, Just quote a passage from Baoyu's heart:

Suddenly thinking about Jia Lian, who only knows how to please himself with obscenity, but does not know how to be a beauty fan, and Si Ping'er has no parents, brothers and sisters, and is alone, providing for Jia Lian and his wife. Tie, who is still being abused today, thinks that this person's life will be worse than Daiyu's.Thinking of this, I became sad again, and burst into tears unknowingly. (471, 472 pages) In a nutshell, it is written that she is talented and fateful, and the author has already seen the words, so we don't need to bother us.Baoyu used Daiyu as a comparison in his heart, which should be a very high evaluation in the book. Later generations seemed not to understand this meaning, so they deleted the sentence "more than Daiyu".

This book describes the twelve beauties, or they describe their postures, or they are not written; but no matter whether they are written or not, we think they are beautiful in our hearts, and we don't know what the trick is.Here, I borrowed Pinger Zicuckoo for a brief look.In fact, it can be said that there are almost no descriptions of Zicuckoo, only some clothes are mentioned in the fifty-seventh chapter: I saw him wearing a thin cotton jacket in elastic ink silk, and only a blue satin vest outside. (Page 622) I can't think of anything else.He only writes that the azalea always follows Daiyu, and its slimness can be imagined, so it is not written.Chapter 52 has a longer paragraph: After hearing this, Baoyu turned around and went with him to Xiaoxiang Pavilion.Not only Baochai sisters are here, but Xing Xiuyan is also there.The four of them sat around on the smoked cage and talked about their homework, while Zijuan sat upside down in the warm pavilion facing the window and made needlework.When they saw him coming, they all laughed and said, "There's another one here, but there's no place for you to sit." Baoyu laughed and said, "What a picture of 'Winter Boudoir Collection'." (page 563) Baoyu has only one sentence, how many generalizations there are! As for Ping'er, nothing was written in the book.That is to say, the famous "make-up management" only writes about makeup in detail, anyway, I don't know how to "make up Baodai".Her appearance is in the sixth round: When Grandma Liu saw that Ping'er was covered in silk and silk, gold and silver, and beautiful, she thought it was Sister Feng. (65 pages) Seems vulgar, not great.I thought it was only vulgar that Fang would not leave a trace, so in Grandma Liu's eyes.It is also said in the book, "Although Grandma Liu is a villager, she has experienced in the world" (chapter 39, page 415). If Ping'er is not dignified and beautiful, Grandma Liu will not mistake her for Sister Feng for no reason. and also. There are two more paragraphs, one negative and the other positive, both written from the side of his mouth.As Sister Feng said in the forty-sixth chapter: "Lian'er is not worthy, so he is only worthy of me and Heping'er who have burnt papers and hang out with him." Son, the letter is a witty remark, and we have to laugh too.If in the forty-fourth chapter, "The Feng girl and Ping'er are not a beautiful fetus" (page 472), then it is true, and Jia Mu is not easy to let others. B Lingguan, Ouguan, Fangguan——Lingguan is the head of the twelve girls in Liyuan (chapter 30, page 319), in Yu Baoyu's eyes, "I saw this girl frowning at Chunshan and frowning at Qiushui She has a thin face, thin waist and slender waist, and she looks like Lin Daiyu." That's true.Her deeds can be seen three times in this book.One of them can be seen in the eighteenth chapter of Yuanchun Returning to the Province: The eunuch said again: "The imperial concubine has an order, saying that the senior official is very good, and make two more plays, no matter what two plays are."For this reason, Lingguan insisted not to make two plays that were not originally in his role, and decided to make two plays of "meeting" and "swearing each other".Jia Qiang couldn't twist him, so she had to obey him.Concubine Jia is very happy, and her life can't be difficult for this girl, so that she can learn from her. (184 pages) "Amazing Dreams in the Garden" is in the book, and "Meeting and Cursing" is in "The Story of the Hairpin and Chuan Chuan" [39].Why did Lingguan refuse to act the most popular "A Dream in the Garden", but decided to act this relatively uncommon "Meeting and Cursing"?It is said that it is not for the sake of this role.The so-called "horns", roles, are born Dan, clean, ugly and so on.Of course Lingguan plays Dan roles, but there is a difference between Dan roles. According to Du Liniang, who said "Wandering in the Garden and Awakening Dreams", it is a boudoir Dan, commonly known as Wu Dan; .Today's so-called "Amazing Dreams in the Garden" is not a role play, but "meeting and scolding" must be performed, and the original work of Lingguan should be Liudan. —but that's not quite the case.In the above four-fold performance, Yuan Chun said that Ling Guan played well, and ordered her to perform an additional role. It can be seen that Ling Guan must have played the leading role in the previous four-fold performance.For the 40% off, dan roles can only star in 20% off: "Qi Qiao" and "Li Hun".According to Zhipi, Qiqiao is "in the Palace of Eternal Life"; Lihun is "in the Peony Pavilion". "Qiqiao" means "secret oath", and "Lihun" means "worship".However, Yang Yuhuan and Du Liniang in "Secret Oath" and "Naoshang" are Dan instead of post, which shows that Lingguan is not specialized in performing Liudan.Therefore, the so-called main role may not mean a good show.Ling Guan thought that she was not very good at "A Dream in the Garden", so she decided to act in "Meeting and Scolding". Judging from the plot in the play, there may be a deeper meaning. Needless to say the story of "Amazing Dreams in the Garden", the story of "Meeting and Scolding" has already been briefly mentioned in the previous note. "Calling each other" is particularly special.It is written that the servant girl and the old lady argued over misunderstanding, and argued over sitting. Yun Xiang sat on the old lady's original chair, but the old lady refused to allow her to sit and pulled her down.As a result, they ended up yelling at each other[40].I heard that this play was staged recently, and the situation was very hot.In Kunqu Opera, the servant girl and the old lady scold each other, which is probably the only one, that is, "The Story of the West Chamber? Kaohong" is far inferior.Lingguan loves to act in this play, dare to accept it in front of the emperor, it is really bold!She borrowed the pretense of her debut to express her grievances and complaints, which may not only be called her own role, her work, and her specialty.Yuan Chun didn't order plays, and asked her to sing casually, because she was an expert at listening to melodies, but if she was asked to order, I'm afraid she wouldn't order this "meeting and scolding". Just talking about this point, Lingguan's character is not very clear, let's mention two or three.The 30th chapter "Painting Qiang", Baoyu still didn't know its name, but in the 36th chapter "Sentiment and Understanding of Pear Fragrance Garden", he knew that "it turned out to be the one who drew the word 'Qiang' under the rose flower that day".These two and three paragraphs are actually the beginning and the end of one story, and they are divided into two chapters.In the eighteenth chapter, there was a fat comment: Now that I read the play that was originally not the main character, I insisted not to make a second language, and I saw that it relied on being able to overwhelm the crowd, and Qiao Suan was so jealous that it was dripping all over the paper.Go back to "Affection and Enlightenment of Pear Fragrance Court", and tell the whole story. (Ji Mao, Geng Chen, Qi Ben) He only looks at it from the bad side, and there is also the actor's "all kinds of hateful" remarks above, although there are some touches, he feels inappropriate.The writing age official is the most prominent one among all the twelve beauties.She is stubborn, obstinate, very lowly and very rebellious.Although she is of the same type as Daiyu Qingwen, what Daiqing can't and dare not do is what Lingguan does.Chapter Thirty: Baoyu's Thoughts: "Could this be an idiotic girl who can't bury flowers like a frown?" Yin sighed to himself: "If it is true to bury flowers, it can be said to be an imitation of others. Not only is it not new, but it is even more disgusting." Ask that girl to say, "You don't need to learn from Miss Lin." (page 319) Baoyu has only one sister Lin in her heart, but she doesn't know that there are mountains beyond the mountains, and heaven beyond the sky.Baoyu can get it from Daiyu, Qingwen, etc., but not from Lingguan.Baoyu accompanies Xiaoyang and she gets up and sings "Liaoqingsi", another garden tour!What do you want the senior officer to say? "My voice is hoarse. I haven't sung it yet because the ex-girlfriend passed it on to us." (p. 380) This has the spirit of rebellion and disobedience.If these places were intentionally arranged or revealed naturally, they were not understood by Zhiyanzhai and others back then. Qiang, the senior official, also showed her infatuation and tenacity. In the thirty-sixth chapter, Jia Qiang was excited to buy a little bird who could play tricks, but bumped into one of the senior officials. Big nails (see pages 380 and 381 of the school book).I first met him when I was eleven years old, and when I saw this passage, I felt sorry for him, "tearing down that cage at once", and felt that Ling Guan was too tempered and weird.Her temper is also a bit weird.She fell in love with Jia Qiang, and whether Jia Qiang, a flashy young man, was worthy of her love, I'm afraid it was not certain.This is why Baoyu came back from Lixiangyuan, "with all his heart to decide and plan" and "to deeply understand the fate of life, each has its own destiny".