-"Vanity Eyebrows"
A Dream of Red Mansions is a tragedy with a smile. A Dream of Red Mansions not only describes the life of three generations of a feudal aristocratic family from glory to decline, but also boldly accuses the feudal aristocratic class of its shamelessness and depravity, pointing out their hypocrisy, fraud, greed, decay and sin. It not only points out the inevitable collapse and death of this family, but also implies the inevitable collapse and death of the class and society to which this family belongs. The heroes created and loved by Cao Xueqin's brushwork are two ministers and traitors who dare to judge the dying feudal aristocracy; Those who sympathize and mourn are the victims under the feudal system; What is criticized and denied is the hypocritical morality and unreasonable social system in feudal society. On the one hand, it was the former wood and stone alliance, on the other hand, it was a golden wedding. On the one hand, it is the aura of fame and fortune that feudal society must pursue, on the other hand, it is a fascinating free body. A Dream of Red Mansions written by Cao Xueqin shows us this silent contest. The tragic love story of Jia Baoyu and Lin Daiyu condensed all the smoke in this contest. "One is Xianpa in Yuen Long, and the other is flawless jade." The pursuit of quality is clean and neat. "In the face of all kinds of persecution and indifference under feudal ethics, even at the cost of life, the pursuit of quality and purity has never given up. While lamenting the love tragedy between Jia and Lin, we can see an important factor that caused the tragedy: Lin Daiyu's lofty personality was incompatible with the secular world at that time and could not be "integrated" with society. Her inferiority complex is the embodiment of her self-esteem and the beginning of her tragedy.
In A Dream of Red Mansions, she buries flowers, which is the focus of her personality. Her inferiority, self-esteem and self-pity are fully revealed in her "mourning poems": "Flowers wither, flowers fly all over the sky, and the fragrance dies. Who has pity for the fragrance?" "Three hundred and sixty days a year, wind knives and frost swords are pressed against each other, bright and bright, and it is hard to find a wandering. Flowers bloom easily, but they fall hard to find. I am worried about burying people in front of the steps, stealing flowers and crying alone, and spilling blood on the branches. " "May Nong have wings this day and fly to the end of the day with flowers. The day is over! Where is Xiangshan? Without a trick, I hid my love with a pure land. It's better to be clean than trapped in a ditch. I am going to die and be buried, but I don't know when Nong will die. The man who buried the flowers is laughing today, but who did he know when he buried them? Let's see the residual flowers of spring gradually falling, which is the time when beauty dies of old age. If you don't mourn for me, I don't know that flowers will fall and people will die. "
A secular person can't understand her thoughts. "I am dead and buried, but when will I die?" The man who buried the flowers is laughing today. Who did he know when he buried them? "In the face of falling flowers, she thought of the scene after her death, and she couldn't let go and shed tears. In front of feudal ethics, her inferiority aroused her self-esteem. When Baoyu was beaten, it was difficult for a clever woman to send Dan medicine to Xue Baochai, who had no rice to cook, and she also advised Baoyu to change his ways with admonition. As a supporter of Baoyu, a rebel of feudal ethics, Lin Daiyu, who is kind and aloof, just cried blindly, tears like peaches. Her crying is not weak. She sincerely supported Baoyu with her unique emotional experience of crying, and silently opposed feudal ethics. Therefore, it is only recently that I have a heart and a favorite.
"Quiet as a flower shines on the water, moving like a weak willow, the heart is dry, and the disease is as good as Xizi wins three points." Through Jia Baoyu's eyes, the author depicts a morbid beauty that is intelligent, versatile, beautiful and weak. Such a weak woman ignores the secular traditional laws and does the opposite. After countless times of destruction, when the end of life came, the ferocious face of feudal society accelerated her death. After reading A Dream of Red Mansions, we will never forget the scene before Daiyu died. When she was dying, Zijuan asked for help everywhere, but no one wanted to help. The old lady moved Baoyu's marriage to another place to avoid disaster. On the one hand, it is a festive scene of marriage, on the other hand, it is a sadness before death. "The day is over! Where is Xiangshan? " No wonder Daiyu buried flowers and kept chanting. Where is a clean and ideal place? Where is my own ideal place? Is it Xiang Qiu? The real society I live in now is filthy. I want to find my ideal place. Daiyu will never give up her pursuit of freedom until she dies. We are worried and dissatisfied with this. Under the yoke of feudalism, a pair of young men and women who are pursuing freedom are writing Where Are You Going? "Don't mourn for me, I don't know if the flowers fall and people die!" In this way, Daiyu passed away in the sound of Baoyu's wedding drums. Left with her sweetness. Where is the sweetness? Sweetness gains understanding and love in a world where one person does not accept the world and the world does not accept people. In the lonely world, Baoyu is the eternal warmth in her heart. In this world where love is nowhere to be found, Baoyu is the eternal pain in her heart. Although in the end she became a victim of those feudal systems.
"It's true when it's fake, it's really fake, and there's no way." The fake is true, which makes people wonder everything in A Dream of Red Mansions. As a soul figure, Lin Daiyu is different from ordinary people. She is her, a bunch of lofty, aloof and narcissistic empty valleys. Lin Daiyu's inferiority complex was given by fate, and she also wrote about her fate.
A dream of red mansions is extensive and profound. Often watch, often update, everyone feels it. Being enlightened every time is its immortal charm. Above, I will talk about A Dream of Red Mansions from the perspective of Daiyu's personality, and my opinions are shallow. I hope you can correct me more.
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Model essay 2:
A Dream of Red Mansions is an encyclopedia of China's late feudal society. Focusing on the four families in the upper class, the novel vividly describes the whole life of China feudal society in the first half of the18th century. It is a mirror and miniature of this historical life, and a true portrayal of the irretrievable collapse of China's ancient feudal society. The characters are vividly written, and a story-the story of stone-begins with the fairy tale of Nu Wa. There is a clue to the hermit, which ends the whole story.
On the other side of the distant ocean, there is another country-Britain. She gave birth to a great, outstanding and brilliant playwright-Shakespeare. He developed a unique art form-drama with his own life experience. At that time, a nation, the immortal soul of that era, expressed itself in various forms and enriched itself. Just like the subtle relationship between Shakespeare and drama, Cao Xueqin and his Dream of Red Mansions are both part of the immortal soul of our Chinese nation. He is not so much an asynchronous masterpiece as a general history of China. It is not so much a description of aristocratic life as a true portrayal of the present situation. It reflects the charm of that language from small details, and creates many characters with vivid language. From the character's every move, smile and relax. Nothing can show the characteristics of the characters, so it can be said that there is no flaw in the narrative of that language. It can be seen that the development of a nation, the specific crux and the specific national planning are all related to this. This is not only a literary work, but also a Cambodian book.
The first 80 times and the last 40 times, I think it's just the opposite. There are many flaws in it. Jia Baoyu, for example, has been hinted that he is a tragic figure in the first eighty chapters, but in Gao E's works, he has become a scholar who is willing to study and take exams. From an urchin to a studious person, there is almost no connection between the two, which is incredible. Finally, I left my pregnant Baochai and became a monk. Moreover, it is said that Gao E continued to write A Dream of Red Mansions because of the previous funds. I don't think a person with a less pure original intention can understand Cao Xueqin's Dream of Red Mansions. Can't write well. Besides, it is very difficult and not easy to create a character like Cao Xueqin. I think it's better to keep these forty chapters from writing, to give people room for daydreaming or to listen to beautiful things.
Model essay 3:
After reading the red chamber, my heart is sour. I don't know why. Is it to destroy the second house in Rong Ning? Is the fragrance of imported marble disappearing? Or the name of the speculator? It seems that there is a little of each kind. But I always feel that this is not the whole story. From a man's point of view, I was suddenly enlightened. This is jealousy. I envy Baoyu in the dark. It's embarrassing to say, but how many men are not sad to see a dude surrounded by countless beautiful women for no reason?
Speaking of it, there are countless love stories in a dream of red mansions. The first thing to push is Baodai's infatuation with pink. In a dream of red mansions, the love between these two people is the purest. Growing up, falling in love when you grow up. Cao Gong simply pushed the boat with the tide, making readers feel that another love story spread all over the world was born. Its appearance is so natural that few people doubt that it is so pure.
. But untimely love is synonymous with pain. Daiyu's unique rebellious and withdrawn personality and disdain for the secular make her stand out from the crowd everywhere. Reading the West Chamber before the flowers, there is nothing taboo; I don't like rhetoric, and I will do what I say; Advocating the truth, indifferent to fame and fortune ... all these make her like a lotus, always clinging to her purity, purity and cleanliness, as clear as jasper. Looking at her from an ordinary person's point of view, what I appreciate most is Dai Yu's poetry and humor. Daiyu often opposes her sisters by drinking, enjoying flowers and reciting poems. She is always brilliant and full of artistic sense. Whether it is a teenager listening to the poems on the rain song building, I want to be immortal; Or the desolation of plants and the return of wild geese to the south, the tenderness of flowers can solve the affair of language; All of them reflect her elegant and refined poet temperament. The most sighing thing is Daiyu's sentimentality. Her beauty is unlucky. Daiyu's life experience doomed her to be lonely and helpless, and her personality doomed her to be lonely and sad. Even though the people in the Grand View Garden are very busy, there is no relative she can rely on, no confidant she can confide in, and only the romantic and affectionate Baoyu makes her secretly promise, but she always suffers from considerations of gain and loss. So she's helpless.
"At the end of the day, where will Xiangshan go", lamenting that "the fragrant nest has been built in March, and the swallow nest between the beams is heartless", lamenting that "flowers are flying all over the sky, and the red fragrance is broken", and finally ending in the sad ending of "a wisp of fragrant soul scattered with the wind and never dreamed at night".
It is not so much that Lin Daiyu's position in Jiafu and her own cowardice are the causes of the tragedy, but rather that the feudal group headed by Yuan Chun ruthlessly killed the love between Baoyu and Daiyu, and this feudal society has a vicious track of responsibility. If A Dream of Red Mansions is really a description of Cao Xueqin's personal experience, then I can feel the pain of a man losing his beloved. The fire of hell is burning around me, which is terrible and makes my mind stagnate. This is not painful pain, but painful love. When Cao Gong, who had shed all his blood and tears, turned to face that unbearable history, how could he not sigh "full of absurd words and bitter tears"!
There is also the love tragedy of Xue Baochai. It's still so sad to see Daiyu die of depression. But after reading it, I heard Zhen Yinshi talking about "Qi Fang in Guilin".
China has four classical novels, The Water Margin, Romance of the Three Kingdoms, The Journey to the West and A Dream of Red Mansions, all of which are wonderful. As a girl, the first three books are of little interest to me. They involve military affairs, politics and myths, so A Dream of Red Mansions attracts me the most.
A Dream of Red Mansions has a sad and desolate atmosphere, which often makes people want to cry without tears, and there are countless poems in it, which makes people have to be impressed. No wonder so many people are studying A Dream of Red Mansions.
The story is about the rise and fall of a family and the size of a family story. The protagonist is Jia Baoyu, it should be said that he is a slightly gentle man. His softness is partly due to the environment. Almost from top to bottom are women, women who are in charge of the whole family. Naturally, they should say, "The people near Zhu Zhechi and Mexico are black people". Their family flourished because a woman in the family entered the palace and became the emperor's favorite concubine, so she sang poems and had fun every day. Two of them had to be mentioned, namely Xue Baochai and Lin Daiyu. Lin Daiyu is jealous and sentimental by nature, and Jia Baoyu just likes her. She was weak and her ancestors didn't like her, so she tricked Jia Baoyu into marrying Xue Baochai. Lin Daiyu was very angry when she heard the news. Jia Baoyu opened Xipa and found that it was not Lin Daiyu, but Lin Daiyu who died, heartbroken and became a monk.
The right and wrong here is "cutting constantly, reasoning is still chaotic", which makes people see the flaws of ancient marriage. They are often arranged by their parents. What's even more ridiculous is that they sometimes get married without meeting each other. Moreover, in ancient times, women fought for the palace, because it would make the family rich, but the emperor had thousands of concubines, which were favored for a while and would soon be forgotten. Why did they enter the palace? The emperor's grandmothers drank and had fun, but the people ate the last meal without the next. The hardships of life are unimaginable, and it is no wonder that there have been "rebellions" again and again. The fate of disaster still lies with the emperor. This kind of tragedy makes people feel chilling and angry, and people can't help but hate the ancient exorbitant taxes and levies, pushing the people to the edge of the fire pit step by step, which is really terrible.
A Dream of Red Mansions makes me happy and sad, angry and emotional, and it also makes me think a lot. Perhaps, everything is not perfect, and so are people.
Reflections on Reading A Dream of Red Mansions —— The tragedy of smiling after reading A Dream of Red Mansions
I have always thought that the greatness of A Dream of Red Mansions is that it embodies a declining trend, which is rare in China's classical novels and likes happy endings.
I have to thank Gao E, his successor. Although he couldn't keep up with Cao Xueqin's thoughts in many aspects, he at least let Daiyu die. Whether she died or not, at least she left Baoyu, which is very good.
It's not that I'm born cruel and like to watch other people's tragedies, but isn't there a saying? An old frontiersman loses his horse—a blessing in disguise. For a fragile feudal girl like Dai Yu, death is her liberation, the end of all her tragedies and her happiness. When she slept quietly in the ground and watched Baoyu still looking for a way out on earth, I had to say that she was still happy.
Maybe two people are romantic people, and romantic people should not meet each other by nature, because life is not romantic, and life will kill romance completely. Finally, the red rose turned into mosquito blood on the wall, and the white rose turned into white rice stuck to the chest. So, let romance come to an end at the most beautiful time and leave beautiful memories in each other's hearts.
But you might say that Daiyu's death was tragic and not romantic at all. In this respect, I don't approve of Gao E's sequel. Maybe Cao Xueqin didn't mean it. Maybe Daiyu really should shed tears to prove the front. Isn't this better? She was worried about Baoyu and wept bitterly for her bosom friend. After careful consideration, such a death is noble and sacred. However, Gao E did not write this. He finally made Daiyu vulgar, resentful and furious. This is not like the arrogant and self-admiring Daiyu we know, but like an ordinary woman who is frustrated in love.
Nevertheless, she finally left this trouble spot before Jia Fu collapsed, otherwise, because of her fragility, I'm afraid she couldn't stand such a big stimulus. Baoyu is a dude. He is not a man of indomitable spirit. He can give Daiyu little, let alone protection and comfort. He is still a weak person who needs protection from others, and Daiyu can't be happy around him.
So it is a kind of happiness to leave him memories. Baoyu himself can only give Daiyu a few good words. He's not even obsessed. Looking at Baochai's fate, I have to say that Daiyu is happy. Of course, some people say that Baochai only wants Grandma Bao's throne and doesn't care about Baoyu. Is that so? Is there a woman who naturally likes loneliness? Anyway, it is always painful to live alone. Besides, it is still a question whether she took the so-called grandmother Bao's throne.
If Jia Fu fails, at least Baochai still has a place to live, at least she has no husband and wealth, but isn't that right? Finally, Jia Fu was reduced to the point where the white land was really clean. What is the significance of the title of Grandma Bao Er to Baochai? Without a happy life and the care of her husband, isn't it a greater tragedy to live alone and die alone?
I always suspected that Baoyu didn't leave Jiafu because of Daiyu, otherwise he wouldn't have married Baochai. He was born at last, because his world had undergone earth-shaking changes, his ivory tower collapsed, and he finally understood his struggle. In fact, all his thoughts are on his family, and his family has collapsed, and everything is finished. Without any thoughts and struggles, he had to run away from home, perhaps to avoid disaster.
Imagine, can you imagine Daiyu washing her hands and cooking soup? Dressed in rags and skirts, and even relying on the relief of attacking people, then of course she can no longer be mean and gossip, but can only cry alone, not about love, but about life. When life has put a huge question mark on Baodai's love, can Daiyu still love Baoyu as always? I don't think so. I'm afraid the Longwang Temple will be flooded. Then Baoyu finally couldn't stand the pressure at home and left, which is very possible. He can't afford to live without taking good care of Baochai. The same is true of Daiyu.
Another possibility is that if Jia Fu can regroup, Gui Lan and Qi Fang, Dai Yu and Baoyu still live their happy lives, after many years, Baoyu may suddenly find his face wrinkled, then he will find the attacker around him like Aunt Zhao, and then his love will pass away in the years, and then Baoyu will recall that round and smooth baby sister.
In fact, love is very short. At least this kind of cross love gives us a lot of beautiful fantasies and expectations, just like Jack to Ross. He is the most beautiful memory in her life, but not the only one.
Thoughts on Reading A Dream of Red Mansions —— Rebound Pipa Qingwen
"Ji month is hard to meet, the clouds are easy to disperse, and the heart is higher than the sky, which is base. Romantic dexterity makes people complain. Shouduo was born of slander, and his affectionate son was empty. "
From this poem, we can see Mr. Cao Xueqin's attitude towards Qingwen. Mr. Cao Xueqin thinks that she is in the spirit of heaven, and her character is very rare and aboveboard. She will die because of the darkness of the surrounding environment, which shows that Cao Xueqin's basic attitude towards her is still positive.
But I want to put it another way, because when Mr. Cao Xueqin wrote this book, he often restored his life as it was, so even though he was partial to this arrogant slave, he still wrote a lot of her mistakes in writing, and of course many of them were the reasons for her death.
First of all, in many books, in order to praise this rebellious slave, she will be described as an advanced soldier. What is it? Is she really as considerate as everyone says? Wrong, she is just like Baoyu at best. On the one hand, she realized that this seemingly comfortable life actually oppressed people like them, but on the other hand, she couldn't live without it. She can only cling to this life, leave this life and return to a poor home. She died like a newly opened gladiolus being sent to a pigsty.
Secondly, is she really a slave? Of course not. Although humble, no parents were sold into Jia's house, but they were kept by the old lady, and they were able to introduce their brother into the house. Later, she followed Baoyu, who was also one of the best girls in the room. In the pyramid structure of Jiafu, this big girl is actually the second master after the master. What is a slave? In the Grand View Garden, there are people with lower status than her, such as women and old ladies. Even in Hongyi's garden, there are a group of little girls sent by them. This kind of big girl sometimes has great power and can discipline her on behalf of her master. If it is a kind of helplessness in feudal society that her master bullies her slaves, it is the sorrow that they compete with each other. On one occasion, Qingwen punished the little girl who broke something. She pinched her first, then poked her with a hairpin, and then kicked her out with the last sentence, making others irrefutable. The little girl in the middle was wrong, but it was Qingwen.
Third, does Qingwen really not love Baoyu? Personally, I think she is loving. You see, she always quarrels with xiren. Although a large part of it is that she doesn't like attacking people, isn't there jealousy in it? Aaron said "we", but she clung to it and made a lot of cynicism. She also satirized the musk moon. When she got two clothes from her wife, she couldn't see Musk Moon's smile. However, after several times, she rushed to send something, saying that she would "show her good looks." Baoyu combs Musk Moon's hair, and Musk Moon hides at the door to eavesdrop. In fact, she has been paying attention to this Baoyu, paying attention to the girls who are close to Baoyu, such as Xiaohong and Baoyu, and they are rudely interrupted by her. She once said with a smile, "There is nothing I don't know" because she has been paying attention! But Qingwen is a slave with bones. She doesn't want to love someone humbly. She always wants to be an equal with Baoyu. She can't love someone as lowly as xiren. She has her own characteristics, a bit like a savage girlfriend, beautiful but not gentle. Xiren once laughed at Baoyu, "I can't live without her hard words every day." Obviously, Qingwen's playing hard to get is still useful.
Fourth, Qingwen's ambition. What ambition can Qingwen have? No matter how much she resists, can she know what to resist? She struggled blankly, but in fact she didn't know what she was fighting for. What does she expect? Equality? What kind of equality? She is a girl who grew up in a rich country. She is spoiled. What can she do if she leaves this rich and beautiful place? To a large extent, she doesn't know what to complain about and what to fight for. She knew she was too humble to stand on the same level as Baoyu, but she wanted to. Her highest goal is just to become a young lady and have an equal love affair with Baoyu. Her tragedy is because she hopes more than she gets, her heart is too high, and she will never be as happy as Xiren, so she has been suffering.
Fifth, Qingwen's interpersonal relationship, why Qingwen ended up like that, largely because of her extremely failed interpersonal relationship, she could not get a relative from her superiors. This is normal, even now most people don't like such stubborn people; She doesn't get the favor of her subordinates either. She likes to bully others. She looks down on people who are humbler than her and takes the lead in everything. So once it happened, a group of people sued her and were finally kicked out of the house. In my opinion, this is really not as good as xiren, who is far more sociable than her.
After a few words, I still feel unable to express my meaning.
Reflection on A Dream of Red Mansions: Baochai's Tragedy
After reading the Red Mansion many times, I always feel that Lin Daiyu's life is so bleak. I can't bear to read the burning manuscript of Daiyu for the next few times. Baoyu is married. I think it's enough to know the cruel ending, and I don't want to relive that sadness over and over again.
A few days ago, I read the book "Red Mansion Supplement" written by a Qing Dynasty man. I used to reject this kind of books. I think it is meaningless for those people to come up with a happy ending, or come back from the dead, or meet again in wonderland. Such a bad update is boring. But when I went to the library this time, I saw several versions of this kind of book on the shelf, so I took out a book and flipped through it, but it made me have the idea of rereading the last chapters of the Red Chamber.
It's still so sad to see Daiyu die of depression. But after reading it, I couldn't help but feel sad when I heard Zhen Yinshi say that "the laurel blossoms in unison". Should a person like Xue Baochai be buried in this cold garden all his life like Li Wan?
Before, I hated Xue very much. From catching butterflies at the Honeycomb Bridge to my last marriage, I always thought she was a cold and selfish person. But now, I can't help feeling sorry for her. In fact, if you think about it carefully, her tragedy may be more tragic than Lin's.
Xue Baochai's family is well-off, and she has read many poems since she was a child. She received an extremely comprehensive and orthodox education. General Jia praised her as "quiet and generous". Yes, this is the way she was educated when she was a child, and it is also the virtue that ancient women should have. Even sadness and joy should not be shaped by color, otherwise it is "disrespect." Throughout the book, her behavior almost never goes beyond these constraints. Only once did Baoyu compare her to Yang Fei, which made her angry, but the past was only a cold irony. I used to hate the part where she framed Lin under the bee waist bridge. Now that I think about it, it's actually not a completely incomprehensible vicious move. She grew up in an imperial family, and this method of "seeking good fortune and avoiding evil" should have been deeply imprinted in her heart. Although she is selfish, people may think that people should take it for granted. In fact, she is the saddest person, who has been influenced by other people's opinions and education all her life. She never knew what she wanted, and she was neither happy nor unhappy, just let nature take its course. She was never completely loved, and no one really cared about her. And she thinks the world is like this. She thinks that what husband and wife have is not sincere feelings, but "taking Qi Mei as an example". She thinks that what exists between mother and daughter is filial piety rather than blood is thicker than water. Such cold rules have actually made her abide by the principles of life, numb and unconscious.
In fact, what she did was not a free choice. She is just a typical submissive. She is smart and talented, but she was educated that it is useless for women to study. Xiangling and Xiangyun talked about poetry. She said, "A girl's family talks about serious things with poetry, so that learned people can listen to it and laugh at her for not keeping her duties." She is also familiar with drama and traditional Chinese opera, but she thinks that these obscene words and clever sentences can't be known to dignified ladies, so she gently criticized Baoqin's poems. She wants to have a better life like anyone else, but when her mother married Baoyu for the power of the Jia family, she had to accept it with tears because her mother told her that she had promised. Until Baoyu finally became a monk, her tragedy reached a climax. Even so, she still can't let her nature do it. Lady Wang said, "Baochai cried, but he didn't leave at all, but he advised me." Think of Baochai, such a character and so young. At this moment, I thought about how my life would end. Her pain is not actually under the burning manuscript of Daiyu! But she can only restrain herself. This is her "respect"!
Compared with Lin, his life may be even more miserable. Lin at least pursued his own happiness and got a sincere feeling. In the end, Baochai was "ignorant" all her life. According to her personality, she could only let the blunt knife of life cut her life bit by bit!
"It's a pity to stop work, but it's a pity to praise talents. The jade belt hangs in the forest and is buried in the snow. "
These words doomed Xue to be one of several tragedies in the Red Chamber. For her life, the author Cao Xueqin should also regret it!