Subtitle: "Plum Blossom View Nostalgia": Revealing Jia Xichun's painful thoughts, becoming a monk is revenge for his father Jia Jing
Fun Talk about Red Mansion 234: Plum Blossom View Nostalgia, Du Liniang is resurrected, The Grand View Garden was broken, and Jia Xichun became a monk
The last of Xue Baoqin's ten nostalgic poems is "Nostalgia in the Plum Blossom View", which is a classic from "The Peony Pavilion".
As lantern riddles for the Spring Festival, the ten nostalgic poems are also simple "common sayings" that Jia Mu likes. First, they should express auspiciousness, secondly, they should be simple, and finally, they should be common. So the lantern riddles of the ten nostalgic poems are not difficult.
The last song "Meihua Guan Nostalgia" is the simplest. You can tell at a glance that it is a round fan or a fan. As for the metaphorical golden hairpin in "Plum Blossom View and Nostalgic Past", there is no doubt that only Jia Xichun remains. As for the specific foreshadowing, please read below.
The Plum Blossom View is nostalgic for the past.
If it is not by the plum blossoms but by the willows, who will pick up the painting of Chan Juan among them.
Don’t remember the fragrance of spring when reunion comes, and say goodbye to the west wind for another year.
"Plum Blossom Viewing and Reminiscing about the Past" is a reference to "The Peony Pavilion". Plum Blossom Temple, like Pudong Temple, is a secular fabricated tourist attraction, just like the current Grand View Garden and Ningrong Erfu.
The Plum Blossom Temple that Xue Baoqin visited was built based on the story of "The Peony Pavilion". The most important thing to pay attention to in this lantern riddle poem is the first sentence "Not by the plum blossoms, but by the willows". People often use it to say that Xue Baoqin did not marry Mei Hanlin's son in the end, but married Liu Xianglian. This is completely wrong.
First of all, both Liu Xianglian and Jia Baoyu ended up becoming monks. There is no possibility of "remarriage" later.
The so-called marriage between Liu Xianglian and Xue Baoqin, Jia Baoyu and Shi Xiangyun, absolutely does not exist!
Secondly, the foreshadowing of the poem "Plum Blossom View and Nostalgia" is Jia Xichun, not Xue Baoqin. "Not by the plum trees, but by the willows" refers to the story of Du Liniang who was buried under the plum trees but came back to follow Liu Mengmei. The deeper meaning means that Jia Xichun became a nun and had nothing to do with Xue Baoqin. More details later.
"The Peony Pavilion" is the most famous dream among Tang Xianzu's "Four Dreams in Linchuan", also known as "Four Dreams in Yumingtang". Also called "The Return of the Soul". The literary form of "dream" means "story". The name "Dream of Red Mansions" was also influenced by this.
"The Peony Pavilion" tells the story of Du Liniang, the daughter of an official, who is beautiful and intelligent, but is imprisoned at home by her stubborn father. The small and medium-sized buildings are not allowed to have contact with outside things.
When Du Liniang reached her teenage years, her father hired an old Confucian teacher to teach her the first lesson of "The Book of Songs: Guan Ju". Once upon a time, she felt the beauty of love and began to yearn for it.
In the following days, the maid Chunxiang led Du Liniang to the back garden for a spring outing to enjoy the scenery. For the first time, she felt the beauty of spring and the wasted years. She yearned even more for the love in The Book of Songs
After returning from a garden trip, Du Liniang had a dream. In the dream, the scholar Liu Mengmei came to see her with willow branches, and the two fell in love and experienced a "cloud and rain" at the Peony Pavilion. "The joy of ".
After Du Liniang woke up from the dream, she felt lost and suffered from lovesickness. She died of lovesickness on the night of the Mid-Autumn Festival on August 15th.
Du's father was promoted and buried his daughter in the backyard. Under the plum blossoms, a "Plum Blossom Temple" was built as a memorial.
Three years later, scholar Liu Mengmei came to Beijing to take the exam, stayed at the Plum Blossom Temple, met Du Liniang's ghost and married her in the underworld. She shouldn't give up, so she came back to life.
Liu Mengmei took the initiative to meet her "father-in-law" and told her about her relationship with Du Liniang. After many twists and turns, Du Liniang recognized her father again and got married to Liu Mengmei. As a couple, they get a happy ending.
"The Peony Pavilion" actually tells two stories, one is the love story of Du Liniang and Liu Mengmei, and the other is the father-daughter relationship between Du Liniang and her father Du Bao. >
Du Bao's treatment of his daughter Du Liniang was too rigid and pedantic, even unkind. He never really understood and entered Du Liniang's life.
After Du Liniang's death, he buried his daughter in a plum tree. Next, a plum blossom temple was built to commemorate.
Hearing that Liu Mengmei had dug his daughter's grave, he was furious. Rather than verifying his daughter's life, death and happiness, he wanted to execute Liu Mengmei just for his reputation and personal feelings. Du Liniang does not agree with her father!
The father-daughter relationship is the main theme of this song "Plum Blossom View Nostalgia"!
"Not by the plum trees, but by the willows," Du Liniang "resurrected" and was dug out of the grave under the plum tree by Liu Mengmei and came back to life. It meant that she no longer belonged to the Du family and followed Liu Mengmei.
Before her death, Du Liniang painted a portrait of herself and wrote a poem on the painting:
“Seeing clearly from up close seems to be something different, and from a distance looking as comfortable as a flying fairy.
When he was young, he was a guest of Toad Palace, not by the plum blossoms but by the willows."
The poem foretells that she will "come back from the dead" to marry Liu Mengmei, who won the first prize in the exam. "Not by the plum blossoms, but by the willows" fits Liu Mengmei's name.
"Who among them picked up the painting of Chan Juan." Liu Mengmei stayed at Plum Blossom Temple and picked up the portrait of Du Liniang, and the story of the meeting of yin and yang between the two happened.
"Painting" is very important and is the fateful medium between Liu Mengmei and Du Liniang.
"Reunion Mo Yi Chunxiang has arrived," Du Liniang was once led to the back garden by the maid Chunxiang for a "park tour", and then she met Liu Mengmei in her dream. Now the two meet again for a "reunion", but the original Chunxiang is no longer there. There is quite a sense of right and wrong.
"Farewell to the west wind and another year." After Liu Mengmei and Du Liniang got married, they had to go to Beijing to take the "competition examination". In the autumn, he set off and waited until he returned from the imperial examination. Another year had passed.
"West Wind" refers to autumn. In ancient times, the imperial examination and provincial examination began in August in autumn. The joint examination begins in February in spring, and is followed by the palace examination.
In ancient times, transportation was inconvenient, and scholars who took long-distance imperial examinations usually set off for Beijing in the autumn. Liu Mengmei went to Beijing to take the exam and had to say goodbye to Du Liniang for a short period of time. From autumn to the next year, "one goodbye to the west wind and one year to another", which reflects the reluctance to say goodbye.
On the surface, "Plum Blossom View Nostalgia" is about the reunion of Du Liniang and Liu Mengmei's marriage as husband and wife. The purpose of the poem is the story of Du Liniang's reincarnation as the daughter of the Du family.
The first thing Du Liniang did when she came back to life was not to find her father, but to marry Liu Mengmei. She was reluctant to part with Liu Mengmei for a short time, and even thought of her maid Chunxiang's help in her "park visit", but she did not think about her parents, because she had resentment in her heart.
There is almost no controversy as to the answer to "Plum Blossom View Nostalgia" is the round fan.
Plum represents winter and willow represents summer. Fans are used in summer. That’s why it’s called “not by the plum blossoms, but by the willows”.
The "round fan" is usually painted with patterns of ladies, flowers and birds. The shape is mostly round, which represents circle. Fan also means "dispersion", which means separation between life and death.
When autumn comes, the fans are put away and will be used again the next year. "Farewell to the west wind and another year" points out the characteristics of the fan.
As for "Plum Blossom View Nostalgia" alluding to Jia Xichun, there are mainly several reasons.
First, Du Liniang did not agree with her father's upbringing. After her resurrection, she did not long to be reunited with her father. Similar to Jia Xichun's cold break with his father Jia Jing and Ning Guofu.
Jia Jing was fond of Taoism and would rather go to Taoist temples and interact with the Taoist priests than pay much attention to his daughter.
Du Bao spent much time building a Taoist temple to commemorate Du Liniang after her death, but he did not really understand his daughter when she was alive.
Both fathers, Jia Jing and Du Bao, are indifferent to their daughters.
Second, Du Liniang is good at painting, and the portraits she painted become the key to her reunion with Liu Mengmei. Cherishing the spring is also good at painting, which is also the key to foreshadowing the cherishing of the spring in "Plum Blossom View and Nostalgia".
However, Jia Xichun's ending was not like that of Du Liniang who won Liu Mengmei's sincerity, but instead became a nun.
Third, the plum blossoms in the Plum Blossom Temple represent Taoism. Willow branches represent Buddhism.
Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva inserts willow branches in a jade vase. It is said that the Bodhisattva has thirty-three bodies, one of which is Willow Guanyin, also known as Medicine King Guanyin. She made the fearless seal in her left hand and held a willow branch in her right hand. Willow is a symbol of Buddhism.
Jia Jing was a good Taoist, and Du Liniang’s father, Du Bao, built the Plum Blossom Temple, so he should also be a good Taoist.
Fourth, the round fan is also a fan, which is loose. As the last of the ten nostalgic poems, "Plum Blossom View and Nostalgia" uses a fan as a metaphor for the "dispersion" of the Jia family, and also hints at Xichun's determination to become a monk as the last person in Ningguo Mansion.
Jia Zhen and Jia Rong, father and son of Ningguo Mansion, will undoubtedly die. Neither of them had any more children. Jia Xichun, the eldest daughter of Ningguo Mansion, was the only bloodline left, but she left the home, which foreshadowed the complete demise of the Jia family of Ning Rong and the Second Duke!
Jun Jian Yakan Red Mansion used ten articles to explain the answers to the ten nostalgic poems, and foreshadowed the story of the twelve beauties in Jinling. This article ends with a brief summary.
In "Chibi Nostalgia", the answer is "River Lantern". Foreshadowing Jia Yuanchun.
In "Jiaozhi Nostalgia", the answer is "carriage (doubtful)". Foreshadowing Jia Tanchun.
The answer to "Zhongshan Nostalgia" is "salt". Foreshadowing and wonderful jade.
In "Guangling Nostalgia", the answer is "vinegar". Foreshadowing of Qin Keqing
In "Huaiyin Nostalgia", the answer is "rice". Foreshadowing Wang Xifeng and Qiao Jie.
In "Peach Leaf Crossing Nostalgia", the answer is "tea". Foreshadowing Li Wan.
The answer to the mystery of "Green Tomb Nostalgia" is "jiang". Foreshadowing Lin Daiyu.
In "Mawei Nostalgia", the answer is "oil". Foreshadowing of Shi Xiangyun.
In "Pudong Temple Nostalgia", the answer is "Chai". Foreshadowing Jia Yingchun.
The answer to "Plum Blossom View and Nostalgic Past" is "Tuanfan". Foreshadowing Jia Xichun.
The reason why there is no Xue Baochai is that Xue Baoqin is the "shadow" of his sister Baochai. Baoqin's theory is equal to Baochai's theory.
This concludes the interpretation of the ten nostalgic poems. The following article will continue to interpret the original story.
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