Xue Baochai's father in A Dream of Red Mansions

Xue Baochai's father, whose name is unknown, is called Wei Zi Scheler Gong Xue in the novel. He is a royal businessman of the Ministry of Interior and a nominal family. When Fu Xue was alive, he regarded Xue Baochai as the hope to revitalize his family. Fu Xue and Li Wan's father, Li Shouzhong, are both academic bureaucrats. However, their concepts are different. Unlike Li Wan's father, Fu Xue refuted the idea that "a woman is virtuous without talent", which shows that he is a knowledgeable and far-sighted person. The fourth reply: "His father was in Japan that day. He loved this girl very much. She can read and write, ten times taller than her brother." Fu Xue was very disappointed in his son Xue Pan. He loved Baochai. He placed ardent hopes, carefully trained him to read and write, devoted countless efforts to Baochai, and laid a solid foundation for Baochai from an early age.

Fu Xue is a Confucian businessman with high political literacy and cultural literacy, and his political vision is no less than that of Lv Buwei in the Warring States Period. Fu Xue knows that education is very important. Education is the foundation of life and the premise and foundation of other investments. Xue's father is rational, develops strengths and avoids weaknesses, and he knows all about the beauty contests of various dynasties in the Manchu court draft. Although virtue, talent and appearance are the necessary conditions in the Manchu draft, it is essentially a political show to engage in marriage with strong bloodline. Fu Xue knows very well that although the emperor merchant owns the banner, he is not the same as the royal family in blood and politics, and his status and family have no political advantage at all. Knowing his daughter's qualifications and talents, he cultivated her carefully and deliberately, making her a talented woman with all-round development in morality, intelligence and physique, and was selected as a female monk to revitalize the Xue family. Xue's father is pragmatic and insists on education-oriented. He thinks that choosing or not choosing is not the ultimate standard for his daughter, in order to cultivate her into a lady with both ability and political integrity. In feudal society, the husband is a mountain for women. If a daughter is virtuous and talented, it is the capital to marry a good husband and win honor for the Xue family. Although it is not clear why Xue Baochai was "abandoned" in the election, Xue's father contributed a lot, and finally cultivated his daughter into a model lady with both morality, industry, speech and appearance. In the fundamental sense of the novel, Xue Baochai's choice of a female tutor is only the initial goal, and the ultimate goal is to become a wealthy housewife in charge of Fu Rong. Xue Baochai and Lin Daiyu are a couple with conflicts. To put it bluntly, it is for the competition between master Bao and the conflict between them. The contest between two women always has advantages and disadvantages. After all, it is a competition of comprehensive strength. After the contest, Xue Baochai won by virtue, honesty and physical strength. This is an indisputable fact, not a compliment. It can be said that Xue Baochai's good luck was not gained by flattery and intrigue, but a painful choice made by the upper class of Jia family after repeated weighing and evaluation. Reflecting on the reasons for the marriage of gold and jade proves that Fu Xue's painstaking efforts in cultivating his daughter have not been in vain. He made a good marriage for his daughter and built a solid foundation for a positive result. Although it was "alas, the machine stopped, and the golden hairpin buried the snow", the feudal society paid the most attention to birthright, and Xue Baochai became Jia Baoyu's orthodox principal room after all. Although Fu Xue did not appear on the novel stage, he was the most influential figure in Xue Baochai's life.