So far, the earliest manuscript of A Dream of Red Mansions (The Story of the Stone) is JOE, copied in the 19th year of Qianlong. Based on this, it is estimated that the creation time of A Dream of Red Mansions (The Story of the Stone) should be completed at the latest 19 years before Qianlong. Considering that Cao Xueqin spent ten years reading, adding and deleting the original works, The Story of the Stone should be finished nine years before Qianlong at the latest, and the events or historical background described in the novel should have happened nine years before Qianlong.
A Dream of Red Mansions deliberately hides the specific dynasty in which the story happened, but deliberately mentions that Emperor Kangxi of the Qing Dynasty visited the south of the Yangtze River six times, and mentions in many places that there were a large number of western objects in Jia Baoyu's room during the Kangxi period. Therefore, the creation time of "The Story of the Stone" should be after the Qing Dynasty entered the Central Plains, even after Kangxi's six trips to the south of the Yangtze River and before Qianlong's nine years. Considering that The Story of the Stone is a documentary autobiographical work, the author who created the Story of the Stone in this period should be an abandoned prince who did not become an emperor in Kangxi, Yongzheng or Qianlong periods of the Qing Dynasty.
Who is the author of The Story of the Stone? A Dream of Red Mansions has told us from the beginning that the author is a "stone" after the experience of ordinary people. As for who this "stone" is, we can completely speculate and judge according to the relevant descriptions in the novel.
A Dream of Red Mansions describes the origin of the "stone" in this way: this "stone" is one of the 3650 1 hard stones made by Goddess Mending Heaven at the beginning, of which 36500 pieces became the stone mending the sky, and only this one was discarded. So, what is the "stone that fills the sky"? The so-called sky can not only refer to the natural sky and vault, but also refer to the world and country of personnel. Then "the stone that fills the sky", as its name implies, refers to people who can govern the world and help the country. Who does this person's identity refer to in China's ancient traditional thought of harmony between man and nature? The emperor, of course.
However, this "stone" in A Dream of Red Mansions is not a real emperor. Because Nu Wa is only allowed to spare him to "mend the sky", that is to say, he is just an emperor in preparation. So, who can be the "preparatory" emperor? Of course, it is the son of the emperor, that is, the prince.
So, who is the prince who writes the stone? First of all, it must be affirmed that the author of "The Story of the Stone" should be the abandoned prince who did not become emperor in Kangxi, Yongzheng and Qianlong dynasties of the Qing Dynasty.
Emperor Kangxi Michelle Ye had 35 princes in his life, 24 of whom had continuous teeth. As a result of the dispute over the location in the late Kangxi Dynasty, many anecdotal explorers in the Red Chamber focused on several princes who were able to win the succession to the throne in different degrees during this period, especially the Crown Prince Yin Yong, who "established the binary system and abolished the binary system". Yin Yong didn't become emperor in the end, which was the greatest tragedy in his life, but he shouldn't be the sad prince we are looking for.
The philosophers of the Qianlong dynasty can also be excluded, because their age and experience conflict with the creation time of A Dream of Red Mansions.
In this way, this sad prince can only be the prince of Yongzheng dynasty. Yong Zhengdi had ten sons in his life, only four of them lived to adulthood, and the rest died young. The four princes who lived to adulthood were the third son Hongshi, the fourth son Li Hong, the fifth son Hongzhou and Hongzhi. First of all, we can rule out Emperor Li Hong who later succeeded to the throne. Then, we will rule out Hong Yong, because he adopted three-year-old Prince Guo Yi in the early years of Qianlong. Hirohito, the fifth son of the Emperor, had a very good relationship with Emperor Qianlong. Yong Zhengdi not only didn't designate him as a storage, but also he didn't intend to be an emperor himself, so Hirohito can be ruled out.
After the above exclusion, this sad prince can only be a red stone. -Yongzheng once had many puzzling mysteries. However, the most mysterious and puzzling thing is the mysterious Yong Zhengdi's third son, Hongshi.
In the Draft of Qing History, there are only nine short words under "Hongshi": "Sejong Sanzi. Good morning. No children "; In the Biography of Kings, it is written like this: "Hongshi, Yongzheng for five years, for the sake of indulgence, cut the books. No seal. "
According to the records of Emperor Gao Zongchun of the Qing Dynasty, in the 13th year of Yongzheng, Prince Yunlu of Yuezhuang and others presented a memorial to Emperor Qianlong who had just acceded to the throne about restoring the ancestral home of Hongshi. According to the memorial records, Yong Zhengdi issued an imperial edict on February 18th, the 4th year of Yongzheng: "Hongshi is not allowed to stay in the palace, so he is the son of Yun Yun. Now the yellow belt has been removed from the crime of karma, and its name has been removed from the jade book. How can Redstone not take off its yellow belt? Immediately remove its yellow belt and give it to Yunjin for restraint and support. Respect this. "
It seems that a brief life file can be established for the third son, Hong, by combining the Qing History Draft, The Memorial of Zhuang Qinwang, The Record of Gao Zongchun and The Family Tree of Aisingiorro in Manchuria:
Hongshi, the third son of Sejong, was born on February 13th, the 43rd year of Kangxi. His mother's name is Li, the daughter of the county magistrate. On the sixth day of August in the fifth year of Yongzheng, he died at Shenshi at the age of 24. My first wife Dong 'e was the daughter of Hilda, a senior minister. My concubine Zhong Shi is Zhong Da's daughter. Concubine Shi Tian. In the second year of Yongzheng, his mother and son died at the age of four. Hongshi was once called the son of Yin Gui. In February of the fourth year of Yongzheng, he was banished from the palace. In October of the 13th year of Yongzheng, Emperor Qianlong returned to his ancestors.
In the imperial edict to restore the ancestral home of Hong's family, Qianlong once said: "In the past, the third brother was young and ignorant, indulgent and disrespectful, so that the court imposed heavy penalties to teach our brothers how to be vigilant ..." So, what kind of mistakes did the sad third son Hongshi make and took such a heavy responsibility? In the Record of Sejong in the Qing Dynasty, there is no mention of Hongshi. It seems that Redstone should be guilty, or at least wrong. So what kind of mistake did he make, which made Yongzheng unwilling to point it out directly, so that later Qianlong had to be vague? It should be said that Yongzheng didn't want to publicize Hong's crimes, but he was hiding something. The mistakes made by Hong's family must be embarrassing and embarrassing for Yongzheng, and it is unbearable to be recorded in the Record of Sejong in Qing Dynasty!
To sum up, the original version of A Dream of Red Mansions, The Story of the Stone, was written by Shi (Shi Xiong), the third son of Hongshi. "Self-pity and self-sighing, wailing and shaming day and night" Shi Hong wrote a book with indignation, and wrote his experience of compassion into The Story of the Stone. This "red stone" is a homophonic red stone, a huge stone, and a homophonic red stone, and the waiter Shen Ying in Chixia Palace.
So, who is the prototype of King Jing of Beijing?
To answer this question, we must explore from two paths, because King Bei Jing is the unity of two archetypal figures, Kangxi Dynasty and Gan Yong Dynasty.
Path 1: The Palace of Eternal Life written by Hong Sheng in Qing Dynasty not only provided the background time for the creation of A Dream of Red Mansions, but also indirectly revealed the prototype of King Jing of Beijing.
Fairy Palace was published in the 27th year of Kangxi (1688). In the 28th year of Kangxi (1689), Hongsheng was "disrespectful" and was "reprimanded and imprisoned" for performing "Palace of Eternal Life" during the death of Tong Jiashi, the queen of Xiaoyi. In the 18th episode of A Dream of Red Mansions, "The emperor's kindness is more important than Yuan Fei's parents' home, and Baoyu is a talented person", and Yuan Fei's second play is "The Palace of Eternal Life". Begging for cleverness "shows that the time of Yuan Fei's mothering was after the completion of the Palace of Eternal Life in the 27th year of Kangxi (1688). In A Dream of Red Mansions, the scene of Qin Keqing's funeral "pressing the Yinshan Mountain" and the "four kings and eight lords" are all funeral specifications that come to sacrifice, and they are all portrayed according to the real scene of Tong Jiashi's funeral for Xiao Yiren. -In the 28th year of Kangxi (1689), Tong Jiashi became queen on July 9th and died the next day. Tong Jiashi was queen for less than a day.
When Yuan Fei returned to the province, she booked four plays, the first one was Snow Banquet, the second one was mentioned above, the third one was The Story of Handan, and the fourth one was Peony Pavilion. These four plays imply that a person like Tang Qin will appear in A Handful of Snow, and he will show "childlike innocence" like the love between Tang Xuanzong and Yang Guifei in Palace of Eternal Life, and become a monk like Lu Sheng in Handan.
The focus of Yuan Feidian's four plays should be the Palace of Eternal Life, because one of them hides Yuan Fei's own destination, and the other is the creation of the Palace of Eternal Life, which is quite dramatic as a drama legend. It was created by Hong Sheng at the request of Prince Zhuang and moved to A Dream of Red Mansions (Stone Story), that is, Prince Zhuang. Mao Qiling, a famous scholar in the early Qing Dynasty, recorded in Preface to the Palace of Eternal Life: "Hong Junyun thought kindness was a word and traveled to the capital with four disciples. It was first sung in Xishu, then in Sheng Da Yuefu, and was composed by people in the Jin and Yuan Dynasties. Since then, in Chang 'an as a reward for singing. Try not to worry about your parents, and make a drama "Tianya Tears" to show the purpose of missing your parents. At the request of Prince Zhuang, I took the Song of Eternal Sorrow of the Tang Dynasty as the original version of the Palace of Eternal Life and put it into action for a period of time. A year later, it is said that the news is getting worse every day:' Every time Chang 'an House performs the song "Palace of Eternal Life", people who watch it hate it.' It is a pleasure to be compassionate to the country. Its official in Beijing, Da Hong Xiao Hong, has died, but he has not been trained. The official said it was disrespectful to suppress secret reading of songs, and Lai Mingsheng was lenient. He was the first person to punish the four school members, but he was innocent, and officials in Beijing and North Korea later stopped. "
In A Dream of Red Mansions, there are four kings in the southeast and northwest, and the other three kings are empty companions, but the king of Beijing writes very carefully. When was Jia Baoyu's audience with King Jing? It was on the way to Qin Keqing's "big funeral", in other words, during Xiao Yiren's big funeral. When Empress Xiao Yiren went to the funeral, the case of "National Funeral Collection" had not yet broken out. As the prince of Tianhuang Noble Village, it is impossible not to offer a "road sacrifice". This prince Zhuang should be the prototype of King Jing's life at the funeral. Why? Because the prince of Zhuang is the wise king who invited Hong Sheng to build the Palace of Eternal Life.
Who is this "Prince Zhuang Wang Qin"? According to the draft of Qing history, Zhuang was one of the eight "iron hat kings" in the early Qing Dynasty. The fifth son of Qing Taizong, Shuosai, was named King of Chengze County in the first year of Shunzhi. In the eighth year of Shunzhi, Prince Chengze was awarded meritorious service. Boguoduo, the eldest son of Shuosai, was renamed Zhuang in the 12th year of Shunzhi (1655). In the first year of Yongzheng, Bo Guoduo died childless. The 16th son of Kangxi, Yun Lu, was appointed as the successor of Boguoduo, succeeding Zhuang Wang Qin. The "Prince Zhuang" mentioned in Mao Qiling's Preface to the Palace of Eternal Life is the village that Xiao Yiren reigned after his death. He can't be the prince of Chengze who died in the twelfth year of Shunzhi, nor can he be the Yunlu who inherited Zhuang in the first year of Yongzheng. He can only be the thin fruit of Zhuang Wangqin, who was in power in Kangxi Dynasty.
The book A Dream of Red Mansions explains that the four kings, east, west, north and south, "only succeed that day, and people will especially attack the baron in the future". This is realistic. The first prince, Cheng Ze, won the contest, seized Li Zicheng and pacified Jiangnan. He has indeed made outstanding achievements.
Why did Boguoduo, the "King Zhuang", "please" Hong Sheng to build the Hall of Eternal Life? What does it mean to take the song of everlasting regret in Tang Dynasty as the original work of the Palace of Eternal Life? This involves the snipe.
The Palace of Eternal Life is a Kunqu version adapted from Bai Juyi's Song of Eternal Sorrow, which praises the "children's true feelings" between Li Longji, Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty, and Yang Yuhuan, the imperial concubine. Does Li Yang's love story have anything to do with Sniper? That's true. Li Longji, Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty in history, is a typical infatuation. He not only had a touching love with the imperial concubine Yang Yuhuan, but also maintained a deep brotherhood with his brother and five kings. Tang Xuanzong attached great importance to friendship and harmony with the five brothers. At the beginning of his reign, he ordered people to make pillows and quilts and sleep with his brothers. After the next dynasty, we will feast, fight cocks and play ball games with them, or go hunting in the suburbs or go swimming in villas. On weekdays, there are constant rewards. If there are wines from all directions, they will be distributed to the kings and given to * * *. This is rare among emperors of past dynasties.
In the autumn of the ninth year of Kaiyuan, thousands of owls flew in front of Linde Hall, making noise all day and avoiding people. After ten days, these wrens still didn't walk, and finally they were very close, even if the people next to them clapped their hands, they didn't fly away. Owls were regarded by ancient people as a symbol of brotherhood and friendship. Seeing this auspicious sign, Tang Xuanzong was overjoyed! So he invited five brothers to gather in Linde Hall, read Tang Di's poems while watching blackbirds, and chatted with each other about brotherhood. He told his brothers that emperors of all ages paid attention to taking medicine to take off. "I want to take medicine and beg for wings. Why is it like brotherhood and natural wings? " To this end, he personally created and wrote an ode to the kite to express his feelings. Mo Bao's Ode to the Bird, written by Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty, has been handed down to this day, which is not only brilliant in literary talent, but also a rare calligraphy treasure.
What is the relationship between the story of brothers Xuanzong chanting Tang Di and admiring owls in Tang Dynasty and Prince Zhuang? It turns out that this Zhuang Boguo, with Emperor Kangxi Michelle Ye, has a brotherly relationship similar to that of Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty.
Path 2: In the first year of Yongzheng, he inherited Zhuang's genealogy. Eight years after Hong's death, he gave Emperor Qianlong a memorial about restoring Hong's genealogy, which Emperor Qianlong allowed to play.
In the first year of Yongzheng, he inherited Zhuang Yunlu and became the sixteenth son of Emperor Saint Zuren. Mao was born on June 18th, the thirty-fourth year of Kangxi, and his biological mother was Shunyi Mi. Kangxi was in charge of the internal affairs office in sixty-one, followed by Zhuang in the first year of Yongzheng, Zongrenfu in the second year of Yongzheng, prime minister affairs in the thirteenth year of Yongzheng, deliberation of government affairs in the third year, management of the hospital affairs in the twenty-first year, Zongrenfu affairs in the afternoon of February 21st in the thirty-second year, and died in seventy-three.
King Bei Jing is the only "wise king" in A Dream of Red Mansions (Stone Story). His life prototype includes Boguoduo written by Zhuang in Kangxi period and Cloud Road written by Zhuang in Qianlong and Yongzheng period. During the reign of Kangxi, Zhuang Boguo had a brotherly feeling of "Yan" with the emperor during the reign of Kangxi, and Zhuang Yunlu had a brotherly feeling of "Yan" during the reign of Yongzheng. In A Dream of Red Mansions (Stone Story), there is also an "erotic relationship" between King Jing of Beijing and Jia Baoyu. However, there is a saying that "brothers climb the wall" in the allusion of "Raptor", which is related to Jia Yucun's couplet "Jade asks for a good price in the coffin, and women wait to fly in the coffin" in A Dream of Red Mansions (Stone Story).