Lin Daiyu, one of the main characters in the novel, belongs to the official book of twelve women in Jinling. Nickname Yinger, Granddaughter of Grandmother Jia, cousin Baoyu. Born in "Zhong Ding Family" and "Scholarly Family". Jia Min, the sister of Jia She and Jia Zheng, died early, and Daiyu lived in Jia Fu. After his father Lin Ruhai died, he lived in Jiafu for a long time.
She is beautiful and clever. Although timid and ill since childhood, he has a "natural romantic attitude." As the saying goes, "the heart knows better than the stem, and the disease is not as good as the west." Pure mind, persistent in the pursuit of feelings and ideals. He is not good at hiding his words and deeds, and often shows his face with words more beneficial than a knife, which is vulgar and hypocritical and makes people around him feel that he is mean and critical. In Jia's family with strict ethics and snobbish interpersonal relationship, she deeply felt the humiliating position of relying on others, and always "self-respect, self-love and caution". The dark environment and the repression of personality made her feel rebellious. On the basis of despising power and yearning for freedom, she was regarded by Jia Baoyu as a confidant who never "talked nonsense", and they developed from two small conjectures to sincere love. Daiyu pinned all her enthusiasm and longing on this love.
This love brought her more painful tears. What she pursues is persistent and single-minded love, and the insertion of Xue Baochai and the legend of "good marriage" have made her suspicious and disappointed. On the other hand, due to the constraints of ethics, although she tried Baoyu many times, she dared not express her love clearly. When Baoyu confided to her with the lyrics of The West Chamber, she said angrily that he "bullied me by learning these mixed words". This love has an incurable "heart disease". She could not dominate her marriage, nor could she fight against the powerful feudal forces. So she "either frowns or sighs", and tears have become a symbol of her tragic fate, as described in her famous "Flower Burial": "360 days a year, the wind blows the sword tightly, and when it is bright and fresh, it is hard to find it." Another poem, Peach Blossoms, says, "Tears dry easily when you look at flowers, but dry when spring is over." This strong sense of tragedy and disillusionment is not only a mourning for one's own fate, but also an accusation against the unreasonable feudal system.
The description of Lin Daiyu in the last forty chapters violated Cao Xueqin's original intention. For example, she also advised Baoyu to learn the stereotyped writing of "seeking fame", which made Baoyu feel that she was "eager to smoke her heart", which was inconsistent with the spirit of the first eighty times and reduced the brilliance of Daiyu's personality. However, the continuous handling of the love ending of Bao and Dai has a thrilling power. Jia Mu and Wang Fu proposed for Baoyu, and finally chose the virtuous and wise Xue Baochai, and used Xifeng's trick of "changing bags" to deceive Baoyu and Daiyu to complete the "golden marriage", which highlighted the "vicious indifference" of feudal forces. On the wedding night of Baoyu and Baochai, Daiyu vomited blood on her sickbed in Xiaoxiang Pavilion, and she was both sad and angry.
She and Jia Baoyu are both positive images praised by the author in the book, and they are also famous typical figures in China classical literature.
Attached to A Dream of Red Mansions:
One is Xianpa in Yuen Long, and the other is flawless jade.
If there is no strange fate, I will meet him again in this life;
If you say there is a strange fate, how can you be worried?
One is futile, and the other is alarmist.
One is the moon in the water, and the other is the flower in the mirror.
I wonder how many tears I can have in my eyes.
How does autumn flow to winter and how does spring flow to summer?
Appreciation of Characters in A Dream of Red Mansions (Ⅱ) —— Jia Baoyu
Jia Baoyu is one of the main characters in the novel. Bao Yu is the youngest son of Jia Zheng and his late wife Wang. He, Tan Chun and Jia Huan are half brothers and sisters. When he was born, he had a glittering jade in his mouth, because he was named Baoyu. Growing up in the Rong Guo mansion, he was well-fed and poetic. His father Jia Zheng expected him to revitalize his family business, but he was "eccentric" and became a "rebellious son" with no hope for his country. He and his cousin Lin Daiyu fell in love because of the same idea, but this love was destroyed by feudal forces. After Daiyu died, she became a monk.
Jia Baoyu hates official career and doesn't like reading. Eight-part essay is denounced as "the rank of luring fame", while those who are keen on fame are regarded as "Lu Wei" and "national thief" and unwilling to give it to literati. He not only deviated from the traditional ideal life path, but also despised feudal ethics. He didn't want to "set an example for his children", even didn't want to "teach by his father and brother", and even scolded the scholar-officials for their integrity. He said that "there are no books except' Ming Ming De'", but also to belittle the stale preaching of Cheng and Zhu Neo-Confucianism. Baoyu's character has a strong rebellious tendency.
This rebellious character will inevitably form a sharp conflict with feudalism. Taking the death of Jin Chuaner as the fuse, Jia Zheng tried to kill Baoyu in a rage, which was the result of deepening contradictions, but Baoyu had no intention of repentance. Even though his close friend Shi Xiangyun and others advised him with the words "career economy", he angrily said it was "bullshit". Baoyu's rebellion is firm, which can be summarized in one sentence, that is, "no matter how the world denigrates"!
On the other hand, Baoyu likes to "hang out in it", but it is another character to be gentle and considerate to the girls in the Grand View Garden. He predicted that "all the beautiful scenery of mountains, rivers, the sun and the moon is only for daughters, and the man with a beard is just scum." He repeatedly emphasized and affirmed the "purity and whiteness" of his "daughter"-compared with the ugly, filthy, greedy and snobbish "turbid world" he hated-mostly referring to the unpolluted nature and frank mind. And his "infatuation" is not only the pursuit of the lost pure soul, but also contains the universality of love beyond the generational level, such as his feelings for Qingwen and others, which embodies the germination of new ideas that contradict traditional values.
Jia Baoyu is a unique and brilliant artistic image carefully created by Cao Xueqin, which has permanent charm and far-reaching significance in China literature. This character image is not only based on the author's own life experience, but also the crystallization of the author's deep reflection on the disadvantages of life and society at that time and their roots. Jia Baoyu advocated frankness and attacked the hypocrisy and ugliness of feudal morality, which was similar to Li Zhi, a thinker in the late Ming Dynasty, who advocated "childlike innocence" and opposed "truth and knowledge". By the middle of Qing Dynasty, when A Dream of Red Mansions came into being, the seeds of capitalist relations of production had further developed. Jia Baoyu's progressive tendency is the reflection of the new economic form in the ideological field.
Jia Baoyu is a man of flesh and blood. He has painful thoughts and emotional experiences, but also has as many weaknesses as ordinary people. From the narrative point of view of the novel, he is the soul of the book, the theme and plot are basically displayed under his emotional observation, and the personality characteristics of many characters in the book are also portrayed in the relationship with him.
The continuation of Baoyu's Zhong Kui in the last forty chapters violated Cao Xueqin's original intention and damaged the character's image.
Attached is A Dream of Red Mansions, Lifelong Mistake:
All roads lead to gold and jade. I only saw the alliance between wood and stone.
Facing the sky, the nobles in the mountains are crystal clear with snow;
I will never forget the lonely forest in the world.
Sighing the world, the only fly in the ointment is today:
Even in Qi Mei, it is hard to be flat.
Appreciation of Characters in A Dream of Red Mansions (Ⅲ) —— Xue Baochai
Xue Baochai, one of the main characters in the novel, belongs to the official book of Twelve Women in Jinling. Born in a noble family (Xue is one of the four aristocratic families in Jinling), the niece of Lady Jia and the cousin of Baoyu. He lost his father when he was young and stayed in Jiafu with his mother and brother. After being selected by the Jia family, she married Baoyu.
She is beautiful in appearance, more romantic and charming than Daiyu, but refined in manners and dignified in character. I can read and write since I was a child, but I am convinced that Zhu's words are true, not empty talk. She thinks that "it is good that girls can't read" and "they should only do some knitting". It is also believed that men should "study wisely and help manage people at home", and this truth is often used to persuade Baoyu. She is reasonable and keeps up with the times, so she has won praise from the Jia family. Even the arrogant Lin Daiyu is "hidden" from her. She is a perfect example of Tao Zhu brought up by feudal orthodoxy-observing the strict norms of feudal morality on women without pedantry, knowing the way of the world without vulgarity, and her talent and intelligence can make her perfect herself and reach the realm of "open-minded behavior". She embodies the eternal value of some traditional virtues.
However, under the surface of "stability and peace", there is a girl's feelings and dreams hidden. The scene of a person catching butterflies with a fan in front of Didi Cuiting still reveals innocence. After Baoyu was beaten by Jia Zheng, she went to visit him. In desperation, she said something that Baoyu thought was "meaningful" and "regretful". Another example is her famous poem "Catkin Ci", which was deliberately renovated: "Good wind sent me to Qingyun with its strength!" Quite unwilling to be ordinary. Another poem, Ode to a Crab, is not gentle, but almost cold and sharp. These reflect a more real part of her personality, though not so obvious.
Her words and deeds are restricted by certain concepts and sometimes seem unnatural. For example, Princess Yuan Chun made a riddle for everyone to guess, and Baochai guessed it at first sight, but "she was full of praise, only said it was difficult to guess, and deliberately thought about it." "To preserve our sanity" is the code of conduct that she always follows, which enables her to live a completely clean life away from worldly filth. On the other hand, it often makes her very indifferent to things that have nothing to do with herself. For example, when You Sanjie committed suicide and Liu Xianglian left, Aunt Xue sighed, and Xue Pan wept for it, but Baochai "ignored it" and reminded them to reward the guys who sold goods at home in time. "Don't make others look unreasonable." Jin Chuaner threw himself into the well. She comforted Mrs. Wang, who was crying, saying that even if Jin Chuaner jumped into the well in a rage, "it was just a moment of confusion, which is not a pity."
Because of her kindness and understanding, she was favored by the old lady and Mrs. Wang, and finally formed a "golden marriage" with Baoyu, but the ending was still tragic. The marriage was hasty and reluctant, but she obeyed her parents' wishes and married Baoyu, who had no deep feelings for her, under an alias. Baoyu actually became a young widow after becoming a monk.
Appreciation of Characters in A Dream of Red Mansions (IV) —— Jia Yuanchun
In the past 20 years, distinguish between right and wrong, and have a bright future;
Three spring for the early spring scenery, the tiger and rabbit meet and dream of returning to their hometown.
Jia Yuanchun, Jia Zheng's eldest daughter, was written by Mrs. Wang. At the beginning of the novel, she had entered the palace, and was later named the imperial concubine. As a member representing the royal family, she occupies a special highest position in Jia family. Yuan Chun is a relative from other provinces from 16 to 18. "Mothering the Mothers" is not so much a portrayal of Yuan Chun's character as the most important description of Jia's heyday in the first eighty chapters, which pushed Jia's prosperity to the peak, and Yuan Chun was only a symbol of the family's glory. On the surface, mothering is to celebrate family happiness, but in fact it reveals that Yuan Chun has been sent to that "shady place". She is a victim of wealth and a tragic figure.
In the description of Yuan Chun, there is a very important hint, that is, Baoyu and Baochai are exactly the same in the gifts given at the 28th Dragon Boat Festival, which shows that as the supreme authority of Jiafu (above), Yuan Chun's Baoyu's future spouse is Xue Baochai rather than Lin Daiyu. Yuan Chun died in Chapter 95 of the sequel. According to the verdict of Twelve Women in Jinling and the implication of A Dream of Red Mansions, Yuan Chunying died young in. Scholars have different opinions on the meaning of "the tiger meets the rabbit and dreams of returning to his hometown", but they have not got a definite explanation. However, Yuan Chun's sudden death was undoubtedly a heavy blow to Jia's family. It was clearly pointed out in the judgment that Yuan Chun had warned his parents to retreat and leave early.
With the death of Jia, Jia's family will be doomed, and the grand view garden, a children's paradise carefully built by the author, will eventually disappear.
Attached to a dream of red mansions, hate impermanence:
I like splendor, but I hate impermanence.
Look, throw everything away.
Idle and leisurely, fragrant soul consumption.
Looking around, the road is long, and the mountains are high.
Therefore, I told my parents in my dream:
My son's life is in the grave. I need to take a step back and come out early!
Appreciation of Characters in A Dream of Red Mansions (5) —— Jia Tanchun
Only from the Qingming high ambition, born in the end of the world;
On the Qingming River, the east wind dreams.
Jia Tanchun is the daughter of Jia Zheng and Aunt Zhao, and she is a brother with Jia Huan, and a half-brother with Yuan Chun and Baoyu. The four seasons are like spring, and Tanchun ranks third. Although Tanchun's biological mother is alive, she lives according to Mrs. Wang and is alienated from her biological mother. There are places where fickle feelings are expressed in spring, but it is also related to the feudal patriarchal hierarchy. My concubine has no status, and my children usually only regard the first room as their mother.
Tanchun is the most capable, intelligent and beautiful of all sisters. The humble position of concubines can't stop her from being strong in this noble family. Although literary talent is not as good as Xue and Lin, I can still cope with the past. Her eloquence in the debate, her decisive personality and her ability to read and read are her most outstanding performances. Thirty-seven times was the first time that she initiated an association to recite poems, which showed her deep brotherhood with Baoyu and was well received among the sisters. Forty-six times, Jia Jia blamed Mrs. Wang for forcing him to marry Yuanyang, but Mrs. Wang and Aunt Xue dared not make any noise. At this time, only girls are suitable for talking in spring, so her words dispelled Jia's anger. This scene vividly depicts Tan Chun's personality characteristics. Fifty-five or fifty-six times, I wrote Tanchun continuously. The former is about Aunt Zhao's anger at Tanchun after her brother's death, and she plans to use silver reward to vent her usual grievances. The latter wrote a variety of decisive styles to explore the spring and manage the family. The previous plot is to reveal Tanchun's situation at home and her emotional essence more truly. It can be seen that this comedy is silly to write about Aunt Zhao, but the author also shows cool thin's infidelity in a small way. It was not until the seventy-fourth visit to the Grand View Garden that I described the image of this important person in many ways. She is keenly aware of the serious impact of the scandal. Her face was full of tears and she was worried about the future disaster of this big family. Although she is an unmarried woman, she appears here as an agent of this big family. Finally, she gave Wang Baoshan a heavy slap, which also had many meanings on this occasion. It represents the grievances of all the children in the Grand View Garden against this barbaric incident, so this slap is deeply enjoyable for readers. But it can also be said that the fate of this big family's decline is angry with slaves. People in the Grand View Garden compare Tanchun to a thorny rose, which shows that her image is beautiful, but it is also annoying.
Tanchun's verdict shows that she later married Haiyue, and the sequel is slightly different, but it did not greatly destroy the original image. According to the verdict, "born in the last days", Tanchun's concubinage status has made her helpless, and she was born when this big family was on the decline, so her capable, intelligent and strong heart formed an irreparable contradiction with her doomed fate. In this sense, Tanchun is the most successful model created by the author.
Attached to A Dream of Red Mansions:
Sail three thousand miles through the storm and throw your flesh and blood home together.
Afraid that crying will ruin my old age,
Tell your parents not to worry:
Poverty has been fixed since ancient times, and there is no chance of clutch.
From now on, we will be divided into two places, each keeping safe.
I want it back, don't get involved.
Appreciation of Characters in A Dream of Red Mansions (ⅵ) —— Shi Xiangyun
What is wealth? Parental disobedience between infants;
The eyes of the exhibition hang obliquely, and the Xiangjiang River water dies in Chu.
Shi Xiangyun, an old friend with another name, Miss Shi Houjia, grandmother Jia's granddaughter. Born in Jinling, his parents died when he was a child, and he was raised by his uncle Zhong. My aunt treated her badly. "I can't be the master of the family at all." Women workers must do it themselves. Every time someone asks about their family plans, her eyes are red. Shi Ding moved to another province, but the old lady couldn't bear to part with her and took her to live in the garden.
She usually admires Baochai's calm, calm and practical feelings. He also advised Baoyu to be enthusiastic about his official career, make more bureaucrats and talk more about economic knowledge. But the influence of feudal ethics on her was not as deep as Baochai's. Her ideological character is different from Baochai's. Once, she said to those who had just arrived at Jia's house, "Don't go in when you arrive at your wife's house, because there are many people with ulterior motives in that house." . This is, Baochai commented on her: "Say you have no heart, but in fact you have a heart. Although you have a heart, your mouth is too straight. " This is precisely the difference with Baochai, who is very scheming and smart.
Shi Xiangyun's life experience is similar to that of Lin Daiyu, and both of them feel lonely and dependent. But their personalities are very different. Lin Daiyu is sentimental, suspicious and willful; Shi Xiangyun is charming and lively, cheerful and generous. There is always a lively atmosphere and endless laughter when she is present. Whether it is cutting off fishy smell, writing poems in the concave crystal pavilion on a moonlit night, or pretending to be a teenager, it shows her naive and open-minded character. Once upon a time, the romantic atmosphere was more intense: drunken lying under the flowers, red incense scattered, bees circling butterflies, fragrant dreams sinking, and still muttering "Spring fragrance and wine are bitter, and drunkenness help you return ...", with its unique personality brilliance, it swept away the powder in the daughter country of Grand View Garden.
Xiangyun's ending is also a tragedy. Fortunately, he was worthy of Wei, a young childe, but it didn't last long. "After all, the clouds are foggy and the water is dry." . After Jia Mu died, she went to mourn. When she thought of losing Jia Mu's love and her unfortunate life experience, she burst into tears. Shi Xiangyun's bold, cheerful and open-minded character is in sharp contrast to his tragic ending of being unlucky and helpless, which makes the book more tragic.
Attached to A Dream of Red Mansions: There are joys and sorrows;
When I was a baby, my parents lamented their death.
Living in the jungle, who knows how to pet it?
Fortunately, natural heroes are generous and generous.
I never care about my children.
In that way, the moonlight was bright in Yutang.
This fellow deserves to be both talented and handsome, and has won for a long time.
When I was a child, I must have folded into a bumpy shape.
Finally, the clouds disappeared and the water dried up the Xiangjiang River.
This is the number of ups and downs in the world, so why waste your sadness.
Appreciation of Characters in A Dream of Red Mansions (7) —— Miaoyu
Be clean, not necessarily empty;
Poor Xiaoyu finally got stuck in the mud.
Miaoyu, who calls himself an outsider and is also called a freak, is a Taoist in the Jade Hall of Jiafu Grand View Garden. Born and raised in Suzhou, he was born in an official family, but he was taken to practice because of illness. She is "better in temperament and more talented than a fairy", and her idealism is arrogant and withdrawn, which is not easy to approach. It is said that there is a Guanyin relic in Chang 'an, and there is a legacy of Kitano. My master and I live in the Muny Courtyard outside the west gate of Chang 'an. Later, due to Jia Fu's imperial concubine's mothering, she was invited by "invitation" and lived in Cui Temple. But she looked down on the wealth and vulgarity of the Jia family and dismissed all the gold and jade jewelry as vulgar.
In a sense, she and Jia Baoyu have something in common. She hates powerful people just as Baoyu hates the traitor Lu Wei. She is narcissistic and has amazing lofty and neat habits. Occasionally, Grandmother Jia took Granny Liu, Jia Baoyu, Lin Daiyu and others to the Jade Hall. After leaving, she ordered the servant to wash the floor with water. Grandma Liu took a sip of the teacup, which was too dirty to throw away. Later, Jia Baoyu begged to give it to grandma Liu, but grandma Liu led her and said, "Fortunately, that cup is something I have never eaten. If I try, I'm screwed. I can't give it to her. " However, what she gave to Jia Baoyu, an affectionate son, was "the green jade bucket that she often eats tea every day". Although she keeps company with futon and meditation hall every day, she is flushed with Baoyu's gift. Even Baoyu remembered his birthday and sent a birthday card specially. It can be seen that Tang Can's lonely life has not erased her attachment to the secular world and her yearning for a happy world. Her inner world is full of fierce conflicts between religious teachings and human nature. She is a girl who is regarded as a decoration by feudal giants and imprisoned by religious teachings.
Miao Yu's "The End of a Dream of Red Mansions: A Dream of Red Mansions" wrote: "... in the end, I was totally ashamed and didn't want to. In that way, the flawless white jade was stuck in the mud; Why bother, sighed the prince and grandson. " Jing Ben wrote: "Miaoyu is remote, and this so-called purity is also doubtful. One day, at Guazhou Ferry, each of them gave an idea that beautiful women should not give in to bones. Not sad! " With the decline of Jiafu, Miaoyu went to Guazhou Ferry in Zhenjiang in the south, or was forced to become a prostitute. In short, such a woman who flaunts "cleanliness" and "emptiness" has fallen into the dirtiest and most humiliating situation in the world. In the last forty chapters, I wrote that Miaoyu's fate was not broken, and she became an evil spirit because of internal deficiency, and then she was robbed by thieves and did not die.
Attached is a dream of red mansions; Dream of Red Mansions:
Temperament is as beautiful as orchid, and talent is rich in fairy.
There is little natural loneliness.
Your way is to spit out the meat and see the continuation of the front edge as vulgar;
But I don't know that the more jealous good people are, the cleaner the world will be.
Alas, people in the ancient temple of Deng Qing will get old.
Lonely, pink floor spring diaphragm!
Finally, it is dirty and against one's will;
In that way, the flawless white jade was stuck in the mud;
Why, the prince sighed?
Appreciation of Characters in A Dream of Red Mansions (8) —— Jia Yingchun
The son is a Zhongshan wolf, and if he succeeds, he will be crazy;
The golden boudoir is full of flowers and willows, and she goes to Huang Liang with one load.
Xie Jia's daughter, Jia Yingchun, whose birth mother is unknown, knew from Mrs. Yun's words for seventy-three times that she was not born to Mrs. Yun, and she and Jia Lian were half-brothers. Yingchun has no maternal love since she was a child, and she is weak and lacks literary talent. Seventy-three times her wet nurse broke the law and was scolded by Mrs. Yun, which showed that she could not get sympathy and warmth. At the age of 79, she wrote that her father decided to marry Sun Shaozu, a very miserable guy, and she was tortured. According to Yingchun's judgment, "a golden girl is a willow, and she goes to Huang Liang for one year", she should have died shortly after her marriage. It is continued that she died at 109, which is different from the author's original idea after Yuan Chun's death. Among the children in the Grand View Garden, Yingchun was the first to reveal her tragic fate. Her marriage makes the Grand View Garden even more desolate, which is reflected in Baoyu's sadness.
Attached to A Dream of Red Mansions Happy Enemies:
Zhongshan Wolf, a ruthless beast.
I don't care about the root cause of that day.
Blind, arrogant, lustful and greedy.
Look at that, Houmen banquet is the same as Liu Pu;
For practitioners, government money is as obscene as money.
Sigh fragrant soul, a long time.
Appreciation of Characters in A Dream of Red Mansions (9) —— Jia Xichun
It can be seen that the spring scenery is not long, and the clothes are replaced with the makeup of the previous year;
Poor embroidered maid, lying alone beside the ancient Buddha in Deng Qing.
Jia Xichun, daughter of Jia She, sister of Jia Zhen, unknown birth mother. Xichun is the youngest of the four seasons. When she appeared, the author described her as young and did not change her young image in the following plot. She didn't take part in the poetry reading activities of her sisters, but the 42 paintings in Grand View Garden were specially written for her, which shows that she knows the art of painting. Xichun's visit to the Grand View Garden shows her lonely and determined character. In this incident, all the people sideways showed their own personality characteristics. Unlike Yingchun's cowardice, Xichun showed a very calm personality at an early age. It's just that this calmness is a kind of abandonment and escape from reality. This feature of her finally made her have a more positive performance after 80. During the funeral when she was seriously ill, she and Feng did housework together. She is often with Miaoyu. Miaoyu was robbed and finally made up her mind to cut her hair and practice. The result of Xi Chun's becoming a monk in the end has been clearly written in the verdict of twelve women in Jinling. "After three spring, all flowers are gone." Cherish spring is the last one to end, so the carefree days of these sisters are gone forever.
Attached to A Dream of Red Mansions, Virtual Flower Enlightenment:
How about seeing through those three springs?
Knock out youth and find a bright sky.
What do you mean there are many peaches in the sky and many apricots in the cloud?
Who saw Qiu survive?
Look, people in baiyang village are sobbing, and ghosts are singing under the green maple forest.
What's more, even the grass covers the grave,
What's more, yesterday's poor people and today's rich people have worked hard, and spring is at first, and Qiu Guang is at first.
Like this, who can escape life and death?
According to the news, the precious trees in the west are called whirling trees with lasting fruits.
Appreciation of Characters in A Dream of Red Mansions (10) —— Wang Xifeng
All birds from the last days know that they love this life;
Obeying two orders, three people were in a daze, and crying to Jinling was even more sad.
Wang Xifeng, commonly known as Sister Feng, was jokingly called Feng Chili. Born in Wang Fu, one of the four aristocratic families in Jinling. Mrs. Wang's niece and Jia Lian's wife. Jia Zheng and Mrs. Wang left the housework to Jia Lian and Wang Xifeng. Jia Lian was incompetent and completely under her control, so he became the actual authority of Jia Fu.
Wang Xifeng is the head of the family, smart and capable, and a jealous woman with a strong desire for money and power. She knew that if she wanted to gain a foothold in Jiafu and expand her power, the first thing to do was to get the support of her ancestors. Therefore, she flatters and does everything according to Jia Mu's eyes, winning Jia Mu's favor and making Jia Mu inseparable from her. Among her peers, as the head of the family, she takes care of them everywhere and meets their various requirements. For example, the sisters and Baoyu organized a poetry club, and Li Wan and others asked her to be the supervisor of the poetry club. Although she can't write poetry and knows that they just want her to pay, she still readily promised, "What is this? If I don't join the club and spend a few dollars, I won't be a rebel in the Grand View Garden. I still want to eat here ... "This path shows her intention. On the other hand, she used high-handed means to make slaves completely obey her rule. Anyone who violates family laws will be severely punished. All this is to consolidate her position in Jiafu and satisfy her greed for power.
When Wang Xifeng appeared, she was only about eighteen. She used to be Ning's assistant, and she was arrogant, showing her excellent housekeeping skills and her competitive and manipulative side. She said, "Why? I just want to do it. " This is her golden age. However, this situation did not last long. In domestic management, there is a sharp contradiction between profligacy and financial exhaustion. No matter how housekeeper Wang Xifeng is, no matter how good at interpretation, it is hard to maintain. As far as the internal relations of Jia family are concerned, the contradiction between Mrs. Bian and Mrs. Wang puts Wang Xifeng in an awkward position, and her mother-in-law Mrs. Bian often has to be embarrassed with her. And the housekeeper and slaves under her rule, seeing that their master was tired and weak, also took the opportunity to make trouble. In particular, the relationship between her and Jia Lian has gone from bad to worse. Wang Xifeng didn't have a son. Jia Lian's childless concubinage directly affected Wang Xifeng's position. Her design killed Second Sister You, not only failed to remove the threat of childlessness to her status, but also increased Jia Lian's disgust and dissatisfaction with her in vain. With the decline of Wang Fu and Jiafu, her backers, these contradictions became increasingly serious and sharp. Although she also had the idea of "taking a step back, taking a step out", in the end, as she said, "riding a tiger is difficult" and she can't get on or off. She was in a dilemma and was attacked on all sides.
We can't see the final outcome of Wang Xifeng. Forty times in the sequel, Wang Xifeng described mediocrity and lacked artistic brilliance. According to fat criticism, Wang Xifeng later struggled for humble service and swept the snow with a broom. This is the only thing. The contrast between the past and the present is shocking enough. The fifth verdict said: "It is even sadder to cry to Jinling." It implies that she was eventually abandoned by Jia Lian and sent back to her hometown in Jinling. In Cao Xueqin's original artistic conception, the ending of this "hero in the powder pile" is thrilling and very tragic.
Attached to A Dream of Red Mansions: Clever and Tired;
What a coincidence! Forget it!
Heartbroken before death, ethereal after death.
The rich are richer; In the end, there will be one, and the family will be ruined.
Hanging in my heart for half my life is a waste of time. Night is like a dream.
Suddenly like the first floor, suddenly like Yi Deng.
Ah! One happy and one sad.
Sigh the world, it's hard to decide!
Appreciation of Characters in A Dream of Red Mansions (XI) —— Jia Qiaojie
If you are defeated, you will lose your family.
I happened to meet a benefactor because I helped a village woman.
Jia, Jia Lian and Feng's daughter. Originally, she was only called big sister, because the seventh day of July was her birthday, and granny Liu gave her the name "Qiaojie" when she entered Guo Rongfu. She is one of the "Twelve Women of Jinling". In the first eighty chapters, I didn't say much except that she had acne and was sick. Judging from Qiaojie's judgment and a passage in A Dream of Red Mansions: Leaving Qing Yu, she will be one of the characters described by Cao Xueqin in the last dozens of chapters.
The words about Qiaojie in the sequel are quite different from the original intention. Qiaojie's judgment is "if you are defeated, don't talk about your relatives;" Occasionally, because of the village women, I accidentally met the benefactor. " The picture book depicts an abandoned shop with a beautiful woman spinning. This clearly shows that Qiaojie's ending is from a government daughter to a village weaver. It is undoubtedly contrary to the spirit of the original work to continue to write that Qiaojie married a Zhou Xiucai with millions of wealth and fertile land. In addition, the criticism of obesity suggested that Qiaojie was predestined friends with Banel, and finally she got married. The forty-first time, Qiaojie exchanged bergamot and grapefruit with Banel, and there were two comments. One said: "The child is natural, so it becomes a thousand miles"; There is another cloud: "Pumping (pomelo) belongs to this fragrant circle and should be connected with fate." Buddha refers to the lost. As the children play, it is dark and transparent, without any leakage. Is it because of grandma Liu's slang and laughter? "(Geng) was finally saved by grandma Liu. The sequel takes this into account and writes that Qiaojie is about to be sold by a "vicious uncle and traitor". Fortunately, grandma Liu entered the government to design and rescue her to the countryside.
There are still some puzzling places about the continuation of writing and Qiaojie's age. Chapter eighty-eight She just learned to speak and cried at the sight of Jia Yun. It was clearly the image of a young girl, but three months later, in chapter 92, she wrote that she had recognized it for several years. In Chapter 118, only four or five years later, Wang Ren and others already wanted to sell her to foreign vassals as concubines.
Attached to A Dream of Red Mansions, Stay in Qing Yu:
Stay in Qing Yu, stay in Qing Yu, and suddenly meet a benefactor;
Lucky mother, lucky mother, accumulate yin work.
Persuade students to help the poor.
Don't be a cruel uncle like me, a traitor who loves money and forgets flesh and blood!
It's multiplication, division, addition and subtraction, with the sky on it.
Appreciation of Characters in A Dream of Red Mansions (12) —— Li Wan
After the spring breeze of peaches and plums bears fruit, who is like an orchid?
Like ice water, you are jealous in an empty space, and you play jokes on others in vain.
Li Wan, the word Gongcai, is one of the twelve women in Jinling. Yes daughter, yes wife and Jia. She was born in a family of famous officials in Jinling and was influenced by feudal ethics since childhood. After the bereavement of her youth, she was put on a heavy mental yoke, quiet and sober, and faced with the complicated contradictions and entanglements of Jia family, she was like an outsider. Apart from being in a daze in the morning, she is polite. She lives in Daoxiang Village most of the time, either doing acupuncture or taking classes. Even though she was ordered to take care of her family temporarily, she just "played by the rules" instead of "showing off her talents", and even got the reputation of "Great Bodhisattva". The pages also said that she was "the first virtuous person". But once she entered the kingdom of poetry with her sisters, she was rejuvenated. She was the first poetry club to support Tanchun, and she was the first to give herself a different name in the poetry world. She also recommended herself to be in charge of the poetry circle, making jokes and making poetry flourish. When she was drinking, the lottery ticket was Lao Mei from first frost Han Xiao, and she also liked the red berries in full bloom in the temple. It can be said that the plum blossom in "Xiang Qi" is the symbol of this beautiful but not bright young woman who leads an honest and clean life.
She doesn't judge people easily, but she has her own likes and dislikes. Pinger was wronged and beaten, and she comforted first; Daiyu was seriously ill, so she was the only one who rushed to see the doctor in tears. With Xifeng's sharpness and fierceness, no one ever dared to criticize her face to face and make her give in. She was the only "kind person", but Lian Xiao ironically did so, forcing Xi to smile in front of everyone and ask for forgiveness, even calling her "good sister-in-law". Laugh with the girls