Why can Jia Fu hang a dragon card, sit in a dragon chair and wear a dragon robe?
Some people say, why can the Jia family hang dragon cards, sit in dragon chairs and wear dragon robes? I want to hang a dragon card, which should be related to Jia's status at that time. Judging from the background of A Dream of Red Mansions, Jia Fu is equivalent to a weaving yard in the south of the Yangtze River and is loved by the emperor, so Yuan Fei is also the favorite princess around the emperor. It is also common to hang dragon cards.
But when it comes to Jia Fu wearing a dragon robe and sitting in a dragon chair, I think it should be a big taboo at that time, because this thing can be said to be the privilege of the emperor. No matter how much you are loved by the emperor, you must never get your hands on it. Just like Dourgen in the early Qing Dynasty, he was so powerful that he dared not wear a dragon robe or sit in a dragon chair. He did it in private, what's more, you are just a courtier favored by the emperor, and you shouldn't. Therefore, it is also related that Jia Fu was robbed of his property.
But from the author's point of view, this is what he wants to write, because after all, the author was in his childhood, but his family was well-off. His father was a minister in the DPRK and his grandmother was Kangxi's wet nurse. But in the end, his house collapsed and was robbed by Yongzheng. Then his son died first.
It can be said that in the second half of his life, he has tasted the warmth and coldness of the world and experienced all the things that should and should not be experienced in the world. Therefore, it is possible that he has such a passage in A Dream of Red Mansions to attack the feudal society and times at that time, so as to convey his dissatisfaction.