Even if you haven't read the whole book A Dream of Red Mansions, you have read some fragments of it. This is an indescribable book, and neither legend nor greatness can set off the true connotation of this book! Since the formation of A Dream of Red Mansions, many generations have not fully understood it, and there are still different opinions until now.
I have a lot of dissatisfaction with the ending of A Dream of Red Mansions, but someone said to me, "Since you are dissatisfied, Lin Daiyu finally died with regret and Jia Baoyu became a monk, what do you think is the perfect ending?" Indeed, I am very dissatisfied with each other's death. The other party is also a rebellious character, who just wants to show his talents all day, which violates the old saying that "a daughter without talent is a virtue". There is no doubt about each other's talents in the article. I really admire her and her rebellion. But why can't she rebel to the end? Grandmother Jia has always loved her, especially Baoyu. They want to get married, but Jia Mu doesn't necessarily object. Instead of fighting for it, she looked for trouble and was so angry. Come to think of it, she is always suspicious, and even if she marries Baoyu, she will inevitably get angry. It's not like Feng can drown his sorrows in wine. How can she have such a mouth with Jia Mu? Her strength is so meager that she is not as popular as Baochai in Jia's family after all. Baochai is a smooth and likable person. Finally, she couldn't get rid of her parents' instructions and married Baoyu. In the end, she lived alone, which made people feel a little sorry. "Jin Chai was buried in the snow." Except Baoyu, he finally saw through the world of mortals and became a monk. Is becoming a monk really the best ending? If so, the world will become a monk. My idea is too extreme. "If you die, I will become a monk." It indicates all this, as if everything is fixed and cannot be changed. What I am dissatisfied with is that Bao and Dai still can't escape the bondage of fate. The man said to me again, "Baoyu, you didn't become a monk for Daiyu. What can Baoyu do without becoming a monk? Go after fame and gain? " Yes, in terms of fineness, this is the best ending for Baoyu. He has lost his fame and fortune, which means nothing to him. Seek fame and gain, let history repeat itself, and watch your descendants perform this Dream of Red Mansions again? He doesn't seem to be free from the bondage of fate, but fate can no longer bind him. He became a monk not for each other, but for himself. Different from the secular, he is carefree and sees through the world of mortals. The man also said to me: "There are two kinds of monks, one is to escape and the other is to face." What I want to escape is "seeing the world of mortals wrong", but what I face is really "seeing through the world of mortals".
Jia Baoyu, the hero, is a strange and vulgar figure. The main feature of his character is rebellion. His behavior is eccentric and perverse, and he is a rebel in feudal society. He despises fame and fortune and is unwilling to take the official career of "learning to be excellent and becoming an official". He hates stereotyped writing, insults the "traitors" who study and are officials, and is too lazy to meet them. He doesn't like so-called "serious books", but prefers "miscellaneous books" and loves Peony Pavilion and The West Chamber. He also boldly questioned Zhu Cheng's Neo-Confucianism, believing that there were too many fabrications besides the Four Books. This fully shows that he is the "rebellious son and second minister" of feudal monarchy.
He believes that "the beauty of mountains, rivers, the sun and the moon is only for daughters, and men with beards are just scum." Under the guidance of this shocking thought, Baoyu hung around all day, loving and pitying the girls, loving their beauty, purity, exuberance and extraordinary intelligence, pitying their unfortunate experiences, and pitying the man they are going to marry who stinks and loses their holy beauty. Jia Baoyu said that women were pearls before marriage, but after marriage, they lost their light and became dead pearls. If she is old, she will walk with a dirty man and become a dead fish eye. He even felt irreparable regret for having a man.
In his life, the most important thing is undoubtedly his love for Lin Daiyu. This love, on the one hand, began with rebellious character, on the other hand, it promoted the final formation of his rebellious character. This is the biggest and most important treason in his life history. In love, Bao and Dai both demanded the autonomy of marriage and deviated from the lifestyle of feudal society. They went further and further on the road of rebellion, which eventually led to their tragic ending.
Quiet as flowers shine on the water, moving as weak willows support the breeze, the heart knows better than the stem, and the disease is as good as the west. "Through Jia Baoyu's eyes, the author painted us an intelligent, versatile, beautiful and weak morbid beauty. 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 sadness before death. " The day is over! Where is Xiangshan? "It is no wonder that dai jade buried flowers 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. A pair of young men and women who are pursuing freedom are under the shackles of feudalism in "Where Are You Going?" There is no elegy for me, and I don't know if the flowers fall and people die! In this way, Daiyu died in Baoyu's wedding. "。 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.
When I first met Daiyu, the author did not directly draw her beauty, but skillfully used Xifeng's mouth and Baoyu's eyes to highlight Lin Daiyu's peerless beauty. Feng, who is outspoken, was surprised when she saw Daiyu's appearance: there are such beauties in the world! I just saw it today! But in Baoyu's eyes: two frowning eyebrows, a pair of watery eyes, a pair of watery eyes, a sad state, a charm all over. Tears a little, breath slightly. When it is quiet, it shines like a flower on the water, and when it is moving, it is like a weak willow. The heart knows better than the stem, and the disease is not as good as the west. What an elegant daughter and a fairy-like sister! At this point, a living and beautiful Daiyu has emerged from the paper, which is the external beauty of Lin Daiyu.
Lin Daiyu is sensitive and kind. On the one hand, her dependence on others makes her always cautious when dealing with people, forming a mentality of "fear of being looked down upon"; On the other hand, the narrow-mindedness of a girl with a heart and wisdom can add a little cleverness and cuteness to her, thus making the role of Lin Daiyu more vivid, vivid and touching. This is the genius of the author. In a large part of some literary works, the author often praises the positive characters too much, which makes the protagonist almost deified, leading to the characterization divorced from real life and becoming empty and boring.
Daiyu's kindness can be seen from the words she gets along with Baochai. Although they are a little tired of love and have some friction on weekdays, Baochai is ten times better than others, and Baochai is also very considerate of her, letting her eat fine bird's nest once or twice a day to nourish yin and replenish qi. Moreover, from her tireless teaching of poetry and her behavior of burying flowers, we can also see her inner kindness. Facts have proved that it is not that Baochai is always kind to people, but that Daiyu is sincere and has no reservations about people. This shows her natural kindness and frankness.
The love between Jia Baoyu and Lin Daiyu also transcends the mode of "gifted scholars and beautiful women". Jia Baoyu is not the No.1 scholar in No.1 scholar, but an infatuated person who despises fame and fortune and is "hopeless at home". Lin Daiyu loved Jia Baoyu only out of her own heart and never advised Jia Baoyu to seek fame and fortune. It is on the basis of understanding beyond secular prejudice that Baodai established pure love with mutual admiration above all else. This kind of love supported Jia Baoyu to go further on the road of breaking through the shackles of feudal thought, and the destruction of love made him cut off the last contact with the feudal family. Jia Baoyu finally died and became a monk. His complete despair of the world actually expressed Cao Xueqin's ruthless denial of the society at that time.
The Encyclopedia of China commented that the value of A Dream of Red Mansions cannot be overestimated. The Encyclopedia Britannica commented that the value of A Dream of Red Mansions is equal to the whole of Europe. A Dream of Red Mansions is a great book. Some critics say that in China's literary history of thousands of years, if we only have A Dream of Red Mansions, its brilliance is enough to illuminate all times, at home and abroad. A Dream of Red Mansions is a romantic novel. It is about the love between men and women, and it is only with love that it is great. There must be one condition: it begins with love and ends with love, but it is not limited to love. The usual romantic works are often superficial, but the great romantic works have the basis of not expressing love, so as to show the depth of love!
A Dream of Red Mansions seems to me to be a complicated, profound and abstract literary masterpiece. In the book, all the people looking for marriage interpret the joys and sorrows of their lives in the shadow of the light of love. But every era has its own tragedy, but the way of emotional tragedy will pass, but emotion and tragedy will not be lost. They have their own living space and their own emotional tragedies and experiences. Looking at ourselves in a blink of an eye, maybe we also have our own tragic history to see, maybe it is happening, maybe it has happened, but we haven't fully seen the particles of emotional tragedy drifting away in the world of mortals.