What historical prototype was Cao Xueqin based on when he wrote A Dream of Red Mansions?
The Life Prototype of Jia Xue's "Four Masters"
There are "four big families" in A Dream of Red Mansions.
These four families "are all connected by relatives, one loses all, one honors all, and all the supports and decorations are taken care of."
In the case of Gourd Monk's Arbitrary Judgment of Gourd, he specifically mentioned the "official protection symbol", saying that he wrote about the "most powerful, extremely rich and extremely expensive" big squire, and also noted that the ancestral rank and title were combined into one: "Jia Weizhen was the Golden Horse of the Tang Dynasty (Ningguo,).
* * * Twenty rooms.
In addition to the eight rooms sent by Rong Ning in the capital, there are now 12 rooms for the original residents); Epang Palace, 300 Li, can't live in this mausoleum for a period of history.
* * */room kloc-0/8.
There are ten guest rooms in the capital.
Eight rooms of origin); In good years and heavy snow, pearls are as gold as iron.
Now we are bankers of funds within the government.
* * * Eight rooms); The East China Sea is short of white jade beds, and the Dragon King came to invite King Jinling (after Du Taiwei ruled the county magistrate).
* * * 12 rooms, all in the second room, I am in the book).
The analysis of "official protection symbol" shows that it is "the most powerful, extremely rich and extremely expensive", and it is also called the official title of attacking ancestors in Beijing, and its main rooms are in Beijing.
In that case, the whole world is not the land of the royal family, and no matter how rich it is, it cannot surpass the royal family.
Therefore, the prototype of life implied by the so-called "four big families" must be the royal family and the royal family.
First, Jia Jia implicitly pointed out that the royal family loves Xinjue Roche.
During the "speech in the government", the first generation of Jia family, corresponding to the Qing Taizu Nuerhachi and his brother Shuerhachi, "speech" was for ning Guogong and Rong Guogong; Jia Daihua, the eldest son of the second generation, attacked the officials corresponding to Huang Taiji of Qing Taizong; Jia Fu, the eldest son of the third generation, died young, and Jia Jing, the second son, became a monk after attacking the official, corresponding to the legend of becoming a monk in Shunzhi.
Subsequently, corresponding to the Qing Dynasty entering Beijing as its capital, after the death of Rong Gong, the eldest son Jia Daishan attacked the official as the second generation, corresponding to the Qing sage Kangxi; The third generation, the eldest son Jia She and the second son Jia Zheng, were annotated as "the third generation" in Jia Zheng's office. Although the eldest son Jia She was called an official, he was also called Jia Zheng, who studied in the Ministry and was promoted to Yuanwailang.
This is in response to the question of Yongzheng's succession.
Because the author hides his notes, he calls himself a "speech".
Therefore, it is enough to have a corresponding pen, and don't "get lost" in interpretation.
According to the truth, both Jia She and Jia Zheng in the book reflect Yong Zhengdi.
Jia Baoyu painted many characters: Yong Zhengdi and Hong He.
Jia Zhen, Jia Lian and Jia Huan drew portraits of Emperor Qianlong, Prince Bao and Xiao respectively.
The body is double, and the other members of the Jia clan are also members of the Qing clan.
However, because the writer's hidden pen focuses on the characters, the relationship between the characters in the book and the prototype of life is unpredictable, so we must not fix a character on a prototype.
According to "Strike Two Tones" and "The Story of the Stone", the real story did not happen in a "Grand View Garden".
According to the statement that "Rong Ning sent eight schools in the capital (echoing the political system of eight kings in the previous dynasty), and now they live in their original places (in fact, Huangliangzhuang surrounded by banners)", it can be seen that the so-called Jia family in the book not only maps the imperial clan in the capital, but also maps a set of swords and guns living in the "original place".
For example, Jia She, Jia Zheng, Jia Zhen, Jia Lian and other figures who built the "provincial compound" earlier should be the banners living in the fief of Huangliangzhuang; Another example is Jiafu, which was later raided. It should also be the flag fief of the country of origin.
The Jia She, Jia Zheng and other Jia Clans written here should be the imperial clan who returned to the flag land after the fall.
Naturally, the specific origins of these characters have been impossible to verify.
Second, historians implicitly mentioned Cao Shi in the south of the Yangtze River.
Some people may ask: Isn't there a Jiangnan Zhen Shi in the book Map of Cao Shi in the South of the Yangtze River? How can this historian be Cao Jia? As can be seen from the book, Zhen Shi in Jiangnan refers to Cao Shi in Jiangnan, which is deliberately explained in the book.
The author Cao Xueqin is also very clear in the book.
However, in "Yue Feng Treasure Mirror", the author clearly stated that "both sides can take pictures of people" and annotated "the viewer remembers! Don't look at the front of this book, you will. "
He also borrowed a fire to burn (implicitly referring to "Stone") and led out: "Who told you to look ahead! You take fake (Jia) as true (Zhen), why burn me? " This hint that "Jia can't be true" did not arouse readers' re-understanding, and they still wrongly located the true story in Cao Shi, south of the Yangtze River.
In fact, the identity of this historian was fully revealed in Jia Fu's speech: "Jia Daishan (referring to Kangxi) attacked the official [the second generation], married the young lady of Hou Shijia, a master of Jinling [the fat group: the story of Xiangyun], and gave birth to the eldest son Jia She (assuming) and the second son Jia Zheng [the fat group: the third].
Now that Daishan has passed away, Taitai is still here. Xiangyun Zugu Stone Taijun also].
The author points out that Taijunshi is Shi Xiangyun's grandmother, which proves that he is telling readers that Taijunshi and Shi Xiangyun are Cao Shi in the south of the Yangtze River.
This "Miss Hou Shijia of Jinling Shixun" became the "Jia Mu" (formerly known as Jia Shi) in the book because she married Jia Fu, and became Mrs. Shi Tai today.
So the prototype is that Cao's Jiangnan daughter entered the palace and became the imperial concubine of Emperor Kangxi, that is, her twin sister.
For example, Jia Zheng (Yongzheng) hit Baoyu (Hongshi), and Jia said, "Your wife (Li) and Baoyu will go back to Nanjing at once."
This grandmother's house is in Nanjing.
It is precisely because the Cao family in the south of the Yangtze River has this old lady sitting in the palace that her daughter married Prince Yin and became the "Shi's Crown Princess" (obliterating the history of Cao); Only Cao Yin's granddaughter (Baoyu, born with a jade title) was married by Kangxi at birth and married Hongxi as a princess when she grew up; Only Cao Yin's nephew Cao Fu (Shi Ding) was adopted to replace Jiangning Weaving; Only Cao Fu's second son Cao Xueqin (Shi Xiangyun) stayed in the palace for a few days.
Third, it refers to the Li family in Suzhou.
Studying the genealogy of Suzhou weavers, I know that a younger sister is married, but I don't know that the Li family is also an orthodox royalty.
The so-called "the East China Sea (implicitly referring to the Prince's Mansion) is short of white jade beds, and the Dragon King invited the King of Jinling", which reflects that in history, Lingpu, the husband of Prince Yinwa's wet nurse, went to Jiangning Weaving Mansion and Suzhou Weaving Mansion to "register".
Why did the prince regard these two weaving houses as his "treasure house"? First of all, these two weaving houses are under the jurisdiction of the Palace Office, so it is logical for Prince Yin Yong to send someone to fetch things.
Then there is a little-known reason: Cao Jia Cao Yin has a daughter who married the prince and became a crown princess; The Li family has a daughter who married the prince and became a side Fujin (played by Li).
In addition, Suzhou Weaving also had a daughter who married Prince Yong and became a side Fujin (Li), so Yongzheng became the emperor and the Li family in Suzhou became a real royal family.
On the history of qing dynasty, Yongzheng became the "stealing emperor" after he ascended the throne.
The property-stealing emperor "If you catch a thief, you must catch the king first", and the first one started with the Li family in Suzhou.
But who does not know such a thing? So there was the embarrassment that the Li family's property was "auctioned" by the government but no one dared to buy it. Finally, it has to be reported to the emperor for approval, and the government has to pay for the Li family to escort it to Beijing.
To tell the truth, the prototype of Mrs. Wang in the book is Li of Yongzheng; Aunt Xue's prototype is Fujin and Shili around Yin Yong.
They are both Xu Li's daughters.
As an "uncle", Wang Ziteng is the son of Li Xuzhi.
As a daughter, "Wang Xifeng" is the prototype of "Li Wan" of Fujin, the eldest son of Mrs. Wang (Hong).
This is a relative of "uncle, aunt and sister". When Hongshi was here, she appeared as Xifeng. After Hongshi died, he became Li Wan who obeyed the etiquette.
According to the book, although Mrs. Wang was a second wife, she became the master's wife, corresponding to the early death of Nora, the wife of Emperor Yongzheng in September of the ninth year of Yongzheng (Mrs. Xing), which won the favor of Yongzheng (most children can prove this). Naturally, she is the master of the harem.
Fourth, the Xue family suggested that the waste prince was a vein.
"In good years and heavy snow, pearls are as gold as iron".
The implication is not that the Xue family is full of pearls and gold.
But because of the heavy wind and snow, pearls are like earth, and gold has become scrap iron.
From this perspective, it just corresponds to the fact that Prince Yin Ren was deposed.
Then through the analysis of Xue's specific surname, it is directly connected with the word "cut".
The author has a saying called "under the guise of Han and Tang Dynasties". In the era of Wu Zetian in the Tang Dynasty, there was a history of Princess Taiping marrying Ma Xueshao.
Xue Shao's father is attached to the horse, and Xue Shao is attached to the horse, so he and Hong's father assumed the title of Prince, and Hong was selected as the successor by Kangxi, and the two reflected each other.
At the same time, Xue Shao was later convicted of rebellion, which is consistent with Hong's "conviction".
Therefore, the author Hong also borrowed the pen of Han and Tang Dynasties to draw up his own surname "Xue".
In addition, three of the four families have rooms in their original place of residence, but the Xue family does not, which shows that there is no one in their original place of residence.
Xue Baochai interpreted the true feelings, entered the garden as body double, Hongxi's body, and was selected, and Yong Zhengdi mapped Hongxi as the heir to the throne.
Aunt Xue's prototype is Fang Fujin, and she is a sister with Princess Yongzheng (Mrs. Wang), but she is actually Hong's stepmother.
The prototype of Xue Pan's life corresponds to the eldest son, who should be born to Li.
In the book, the other generation refers to Yin Yong's daughter Xue Baochai, and Yin Yong, Huang Anjun and Yinlu each have a daughter in the palace for foster care.
Then there is Xue Baoqin, who is very beautiful in the book. She is Baochai's cousin, and her status is the same as Hongxi's cousin, the Fifth Prince.
But since Hongzhou is the fifth son of Yongzheng, how can he be included in the "Xue" family? This depends on the fact that the historical materials implied by the word "Xue" have been eliminated.
The fifth son of Emperor Hongzhou is the same age as the fourth son of Li Hong, and Yong Zhengdi likes Hongzhou very much.
Because later Li Hong became emperor, I'm afraid that only this "absurd prince" is recorded in the history of Qing Dynasty.
In a word, it is precisely because of the "severance of family history" that the author Hong Cai corresponds to family history and writes the brilliant family history that has been erased into Jia's and four big families.
Unfortunately, due to the deliberate revision of the pre-Qing history (especially the alternate history of Kang, Yong and Gan) after the succession of Qianlong, it is difficult to find traces of the true history of the four major families in the Qing history.
However, according to the author's suggestion, only by understanding the life prototypes of the above four families can we call them "relatives' exchanges" or "the most powerful and powerful", and we can also ask why these four families are "extremely rich" according to the official protection symbols.
5. Jia family also "carried" home.
Ma's family is the maiden of the first queen of Qianlong.
Just as "two horses eat the grass in the world", the double body is the "Feng" family in the book and is called the "fifth family".
However, as the fifth largest family of "the skeleton of a good educated youth is a person who hides his face in the red chamber", the author wrote "Ningfu" for fear of "revealing secrets".
As a result, Jia Zhen, Jia Lian, Jia Rong and others in Ningfu became the body body double of the Ma family: Jia Zhen has a horse-like side; Jia Lian has a Ma Wu side; Jia Rong has the side of March's son.
So, why does the author describe this horse family implicitly? Because the Ma family participated in the shocking assassination of Yongzheng, if it is not covered up, it is easy to lose its reputation.
What is the relationship between the Ma family in Fu Cha and the four big families? First, Fu Cha, the Queen of Qianlong, was a girl of Ma family, so Ma family became a "uncle" family, and the two families were naturally "in-laws".
Second, Ma Shi, the daughter-in-law of Cao Yin (Cao Qing's widow) of the Cao family in the south of the Yangtze River, is a family girl, so the two families have "aunts and uncles".
Third, yongzheng emperor Hong Fujin is the granddaughter of Suzhou Xu Li, and Prince Li Hong Fujin is Fu Cha Ma Shi. These two daughters are sisters-in-law of the royal family.