What is the connection between the first episode of A Dream of Red Mansions and Jia He in the following episodes?
After becoming an official, I ran into the Zhen family and learned that I was missing. When Xue Pan's murder case was pronounced, she talked about winning in a row and learned that she changed her name to Xiangling and was robbed by Xue Pan. Jia Yucun and Leng Zixing talked about the Rong Ning Mansion, and it can be said that the story of the Red Chamber began with his words.
From the embryonic story of Zhen's life experience, the author previews the process of the theme of A Dream of Red Mansions from prosperity to decline and then to decline, and Zhen's thorough understanding also indicates the similar ending of Jia Baoyu, the protagonist of the novel.
But the original only lasted eighty times, so it should be in line with Cao Xueqin's original intention to let Zhen Yinshi appear at the end of the sequel. The difference is that Zhen and the discussion about that position are full of vulgar wealth and splendor, which can only be regarded as a reflection of the idea of sequel, distorting Zhen's role in the book.
Daughter Zhen (meaning really pitiful), lamenting her pity. He is Zhen's only daughter and loves treasures. When I was three years old, I was abducted by a swindler and then by a trafficker because I didn't take care of my domestic slave Hodge (who was in trouble) during the Lantern Festival. The Zhen couple disappeared and fell ill one after another.
Not long after, the Hulu Temple next door caught fire, and Zhen's house was burned into ruins. He wants to settle down at the grange. However, in recent years, floods and droughts have failed, and rats and bees have mushroomed, which is nothing more than grabbing fields and land, stealing rats and dogs, which makes people restless. Therefore, it is difficult for officers and men to settle down. Yin Shi had to change the grange and take his wife and two maids to her husband's house.
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Cao Xueqin said in the introduction of the famous "Open Book" of A Dream of Red Mansions: "Therefore, it is called Zhen. ..... hence the name' Jia Yucun'. " Cao Xueqin made a pun: on the one hand, he told people that I also concealed the true story in the book and the theme of the novel with "false words"; On the other hand, it introduces two important characters in the novel: Zhen He.
Zhen described by Cao Xueqin is a microcosm of a squire who was unwilling to cooperate with the Qing court and suffered from the "literary inquisition" and cruel persecution of the Qing court.
Zhen in the first cycle and Jia Baoyu in the fifth cycle have both experienced the "illusory dreamland" of "truth is false, inaction still exists". However, in this very illusory place, both of them experienced a nightmare. First of all, Zhen Yinshi "suddenly heard a thunderbolt and shouted (for the first time) if there was a landslide."
Later, Jia Baoyu "thundered in the maze, and many witches and sea ghosts dragged Baoyu down, making Baoyu sweat like rain, and at the same time shouting:' Can you save me (the fifth time)! """is obviously suggesting that Zhen and Jia Baoyu have experienced a soul-stirring cruel blow, and they have the same unfortunate fate.
Cao Xueqin introduced Zhen and his family like this: "On that day, there was a Gusu City in the southeast, which was the most prosperous and romantic place in the world of mortals. There is a Shili street outside this door, and there is a Renqing lane on the street. Because the place is narrow, everyone calls it Hulu Temple.
There lived a hometown official next to the temple, whose surname was Zhen. The first wife is a surname, virtuous and courteous; Although his family is not very rich, it is also a famous family in the local area. Because of this, Zhen is indifferent and doesn't care about fame. He only likes watching flowers and planting bamboo, drinking and reciting poems every day. It is a first-class figure with a fairy spirit; There is only one shortcoming: she is over 500 years old, childless and has only one daughter, named Lianying, who is three years old this year. "
What happened to Zhen Yin Shi and his family was very tragic. However, in Cao Xueqin's works, the Zhen family's tragedy is the unfortunate and unexpected loss of their daughter, an accidental family fire and a plot against their father-in-law. This shows that what happened to the Zhen family has nothing to do with politics.
Cao Xueqin, on the other hand, asked Zhen to make a "comment" on the lame Taoist's "Good Song", which was so closely related to politics, so profound and thought-provoking? This is incomprehensible anyway:
"The humble room was empty, and the bed was full that year (note: ministers in previous dynasties used water boards before the Ming Dynasty, but they were abolished after the Qing Dynasty); Dry grass withered poplar, used to be a ballroom; Cobweb covered with carved beams, green yarn covered with awning windows. What do you say about thick fat and fragrant powder? Why are the temples frosted again? Yesterday, white bones were buried in the Loess Plateau, and tonight, Yuanyang lies in a red tent.
The box is full of gold and silver, and all beggars are slandered in the blink of an eye; I am lamenting that his life is not long, but who knows that he will come back and die? Well-trained, you can't be a girder in the future. Choose paste beam, who wants to live in Yanhua Lane! Because the gauze cap is too small, it has a lock cangue; I felt embarrassed about the cold coat yesterday, but now it is too long: it's too noisy, you can sing and I'll go on stage, but you think other places are your hometown; That's ridiculous. In the final analysis, it's all about making wedding clothes for others. "(for the first time)
Cao Xueqin vividly described a series of tragic political images in the process of foreign invasion and regime change in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties, made an image annotation on the tragic experiences of bureaucrats, gentry and literati who were brutally attacked by "dismissal of cases" and "literary imprisonment", and mercilessly exposed those who were framed and promoted.
More importantly, Cao Xueqin satirized the "noisy" and "absurd" of the feudal political stage in Qing Dynasty with very obscure language and pungent tone. And "in the end, they all make wedding clothes for others." This "other" is the feudal emperor and his autocratic rule.
Therefore, it is doubtful whether what happened to Zhen and his family is true or not. Cao Xueqin once again used "fake village dialect" when describing the Zhen family's tragedy.
When Cao Xueqin introduced Zhen's hometown Suzhou, he skillfully borrowed the myth of "the sky falls in the northwest and the ground falls in the southeast" in ancient China. The myth of "the sky falls in the southeast" implies a major historical fact, that is, under the massive attack of the Qing army, a large area of land in the southeast, including Suzhou, has fallen, and Jiangnan has been under the cruel rule of the Qing Dynasty.
Cao Xueqin took great pains to name his characters. The typical figure of Cao Xueqin, Gusu City, is a "noble family" and "township official" with a surname of Zhen Mingfei and a word of a hermit. Suggesting that the truth is hidden from Zhen. Gusucheng, where Zhen lives, is an area with rich economy, concentrated gentry and fierce people's anti-Qing struggle in the south of the Yangtze River.
In Shunzhi 18 of Qing Dynasty, the Qing court ousted all the officials and gentry in Suzhou, Songjiang, Changzhou, Zhenjiang and Liyang counties in the south of the Yangtze River who sold out their surplus grain last year.
At first, the case was limited to Wuxi and Jiading counties, and it was popular in four houses and one county in the summer of 18. Zhu Guozhi, the governor of Jiangning, reported in a book that the Qing court would ask the size of people who owed food, no matter how much they owed food. The gentry registered in the whole country were dismissed by name, and the scholars, juren and Jinshi, who had endless money and food, were all removed from fame and fortune; The current official will be demoted two levels.
A total of 135 17 people were arrested and sent to the Ministry of Justice. Even flower hunters owe only a penny for silver. Wu, Xu, Xu, Wang Wan and other famous gentry figures in the south of the Yangtze River were almost all included. For a time, "there was no scholar" and then, ten years after the great creation, they merged. "The detention of officials is no different from that of wolves and tigers, and scholars are no different from prisoners."
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