What is Lin Daiyu's home taste like in "A Dream of Red Mansions"?
Continuing from the last chapter of the book, on the same day that Baochai’s space was renovated, Jia’s mother and her team came to Lin Daiyu’s residence, showing precise aesthetics of soft decoration.
On the first day Lin Daiyu entered the house, Jia Mu hugged her granddaughter and cried loudly, saying, "The one I love most is your mother." Wang Xifeng, who was good at flattering people, often complimented Lin Daiyu, "She is like a direct relative." granddaughter". In terms of many details of life, including food, clothing, housing and transportation, Jia's mother is simply a hardcore luxury goods lover. Lin Daiyu's aesthetic style can be traced back to her inheritance. In other words, Jia Mu and Lin Daiyu's aesthetics are from the same country. Therefore, when Jia Mu came to Lin Daiyu's residence, she was in a happy mood.
"Seeing the pens and inkstones on the case and the bookshelves full of books," Grandma Liu said, "This must be some brother's study." Jia Mu smiled and pointed at Daiyu. : "This is my granddaughter's house." This "laughing finger" was so arrogant that Xue Baochai and Mrs. Wang were probably a little upset.
Having money and taste, she likes to collect elegant objects and literary works. Lin Daiyu’s family background must be mentioned here. As the saying goes, it takes three generations of wealth to cultivate a generation of nobles, and Daiyu is a typical ancient noble. Her father, Lin Ruhai, was born in Tanhua. The two officials Cao Xueqin arranged for Lin Ruhai were very interesting. One was a very elegant "Doctor of Lantai Temple" and the director of the National Library. The second one is the "Salt Inspector" who smells like copper. In the past, the salt industry was managed and monopolized by the state. The Salt Inspector is the supervisory official of the salt industry management department. This position has great power and is a lucrative position.
Money, knowledge, and taste. So when it comes to the aesthetic masters in "Dream of Red Mansions", Lin Daiyu is the first.
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Study
Home
Talking about Lin Daiyu’s home, the classic scene where Jia Mu changes the window screens cannot be skipped.
The old lady saw that Lin Daiyu’s window screen was old, so she arranged for people to use silver-red soft smoke to cover Daiyu’s window screen, saying that it would look green and moist when the green bamboo poles in the Xiaoxiang Pavilion were reflected. "Entangled", this plot has become the most memorable confrontation in the entire "Dream of Red Mansions".
The green and dense atmosphere is an extremely sophisticated architectural atmosphere. The green is not tacky, barren, or rural. They are all independent courtyards full of plants and greenery. Why are some courtyards like farmhouses, while others are high-end and fashionable?
On the one hand is the art of choosing vegetation. I believe you who live in a big city can also feel that in shopping malls with LV and CHANEL, the plants are 10,000 times more fashionable than ordinary small shopping malls. The higher-end hotels, the more artistic the floral arrangements. When discussing with Baoyu which courtyard to live in, Daiyu smiled and said: "I thought Xiaoxiang Pavilion was good. I love those bamboo poles, reflecting a curved railing, which makes it quieter than elsewhere."
Before , Cao Xueqin borrowed from Jia Zheng and others to describe the Xiaoxiang Pavilion as "an area of pink walls, with several couplets and buildings, and thousands of green bamboo poles to shade it." The use of a large number of bamboos is very elegant, and there are large pear trees in the back garden of the Xiaoxiang Pavilion. and broadleaf plantain.
If you watch the 1987 version of the TV series, even the color matching of the cotton fabrics in the room follows the combination of pink and pink and green, great! It’s really high! (Please ignore the pixelated pixels in the screenshots and the loss of details from film to digital)
It should be noted that Lin Daiyu lives in a separate house, so she can have a bamboo forest. If you don’t have a front room or a backyard, it’s best not to plant bamboo indoors. In terms of Feng Shui, bamboo is a “loose” plant and is prone to branching out from the nodes. In addition, the lines of bamboo are too fragmented, which can easily make people upset when placed at home. I don’t really like plants such as sedge, which can easily make the space fragmented.
Furniture
The courtyard of Xiaoxiang Pavilion is quite large, but the inner room is just enough for living. That’s good, it avoids the taboo in Feng Shui that “the big house suppresses people”.
The furniture in the Xiaoxiang Pavilion described in Chapter 17 is "a bed and table set up together." It can be seen that the Xiaoxiang Pavilion is not a large apartment, and is actually more suitable for a frail and sick girl like Lin Daiyu. The body that melts away.
The designer chose the integration and combination of indoor furnishings according to local conditions. This indoor furniture design method was the inspiration for modular furniture in later generations.
Moreover, Daiyu has many books, pens, and collections of ornaments. Designing and combining furniture according to the size of the indoor space can maximize the use of indoor space. You see, the ancients were already doing storage. Organized.
Lin Daiyu’s home furnishing taste also has another clever trick, which is the aesthetic spirit of “one period, one session” that has been talked about by countless literary and artistic youths before. It's just that the literary and artistic middle class want to fly to Kyoto to enjoy the cherry blossoms, so Sister Lin can just stay in her own yard. Seizing the beauty of each season and talking to nature is a state reserved for spiritual aristocrats (who have trouble with their leisure time). Most of us just go to and from get off work, so we lamented above that it takes three generations of affluence to raise a true of nobility.
Lin Daiyu
Life Aesthetics
Compared with welcoming the blooming of flowers, understanding the disappearance of beauty requires more love and courage. "When the flowers fade and the flowers fly all over the sky, who will pity her when the red fades and the fragrance fades?" This is Daiyu's life aesthetics.
I personally admire Lin Daiyu’s home furnishing taste.
Of the other courtyards in the Grand View Garden, the Yihong Courtyard is the most elegant and magnificent, and should be in the European classical style; Refined, if I have to say what style it is, it should be neoclassicism.
Dear readers, what do you think?