The original description of Jia Baoyu's appearance
Mei Qi wears a purple and gold crown with inlaid jewels, a double dragon catches the money, a double-colored golden butterfly with red arrow sleeves, a long tassel tied with colored silk flower, azurite and blue satin-soled boots. If the face is like the mid-autumn moon, the color is like spring flowers, the temples are like knives, the eyebrows are like ink paintings, the nose is like fear, and the eyes are like eyes. Although angry, I sometimes laugh, that is, I look at it with emotion.
Analysis:
In this article, Baoyu's looks are so outstanding that almost no boy is handsome. His face was radiant. The moon flowers are beautiful, and the moon in the Mid-Autumn Festival is particularly round and clear. The flowers in Chunxiao are especially bright and moist.
His "face" and "color" are so matched, full of youthful vitality, his heart is as pure as the moon in the Mid-Autumn Festival, and his feelings are as vibrant as the flowers in the spring dawn.
"If you cut your temples with a knife, your eyebrows are like ink paintings, your face is like peach petals, and your eyes are like eyes." Here the author uses four metaphors in succession. Neat sideburns, thick slender eyebrows, rough and lovely, full of heroic spirit; There is also a ruddy face, a flexible and affectionate eye, and a little girlish, but this is not light, which is the unique temperament brewed by his too kind heart.
Different from Qin Zhong's daughter spirit, Baoyu's daughter spirit is full of vitality and agitation, because he is a person who is dissatisfied with reality and strongly pursues freedom.
"Laugh when you are angry, and you will see feelings." This strange and beautiful expression can only appear on Baoyu's face. He is pure and clinking, advocating the beauty of youth and freedom. In the social environment where men are superior to women, he sympathizes with the tragic fate of women (from aristocratic ladies to lowly maids).
"Make friends with girls", because of this, he experienced the "sad fog" of "being surrounded" and "loving Bo but working hard" for the first time. He pursues beauty too much, and will never defile his face with a bad expression. He will always be gentle and affectionate.
"Face like powder, lips like fat" is still about his beauty, but in beauty, he brought some spoiled children. Baoyu grew up in a prosperous land of flowers and willows, a gentle and rich country, which is in line with his identity. "Looking forward to love, words often laugh" or talking about his sentimental feelings echoes "If you laugh sometimes when you are angry, you will look at it with affectionate eyes".
"Born coquettish, all in the brow; There are thousands of feelings in life, and I am aware of the corners of my eyes. " This sentence is the most wonderful: between the eyebrows and eyes, emotions are flying and touching. The "Sao" here is different from the "Sao" of Xifeng. It is a natural and unrestrained temperament, which not only shows Baoyu's cleverness and versatility, but also represents his "stupid" side.
His infatuation is mainly manifested in his efforts to love all beautiful things, including love, youth, life and even natural things.
Seeing the flowers wither, I think of the aging of Daiyu Baochai and others and sigh for it; I learned that the relationship between Lingguan and Jia Qiang was related to the passage of life, and my face burst into tears. Make a eulogy for Qingwen, feeling that the good days are gone forever; Crazy about Daiyu, she fled the world and never came back.
It is precisely because of the pursuit of freedom that Baoyu has no interest in worldly fame and wealth and resists the shackles of ethics. Therefore, he is "too pedantic and strange to the world, full of ridicule and dazzling" and "down and out, ignorant and afraid to read articles." He became a rebel of Jiafu, "the home of poetry and tassels, the home of fancy flowers".
Baoyu's appearance description highlights the characteristics of "sentimental" and successfully depicts his character.
Extended data
Jia Baoyu's role prototype: Cao Xueqin said
This theory was put forward by Mr. Hu Shi. He believes that Jia Zhen and Yu Bao in A Dream of Red Mansions are the incarnations of Cao Xueqin himself; That day and Jia Fu were the shadows of the Cao family.
First, A Dream of Red Mansions clearly states at the beginning that it is a self-narrative book of "hiding the truth". Since the author is Cao Xueqin, Cao Xueqin is the self-confessed "I" at the beginning of A Dream of Red Mansions, that is, the two treasures of Jia Zhen in the book (true and false).
Secondly, Shi clearly said that "this book is my own personal reason" and "I spent half my life seeing it with my own eyes".
Third, back to 16, I said southern tour. The Zhen family and Jia family are both Cao Shi families, and Emperor Kangxi made six southern tours, and four were poor drivers. This is also a poem given to him by Dunmin, which says, "Old dreams of Qinhuai recall prosperity".
Fourth, Jia Zheng in A Dream of Red Mansions is also the second son, the first one not to attack the Lord and the foreign minister. These three floors are consistent with Cao Fu, so Jia Baoyu is Cao Xueqin, the son of Cao Fu.
Fifth, it is said at the beginning of A Dream of Red Mansions that the author, the protagonist in the book, was already in a sad and unfortunate situation when writing this book. From the poems given to Cao Xueqin by the Duncheng brothers, we can see that Cao Xueqin is a man living an old dream of prosperity. He is a genius in art and literature. He can write poems and draw pictures. He was in a very poor situation in his later years. This is the history of Jia Baoyu.
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