The more times I read the Red Mansion, the more intense this feeling becomes. In a Dream of Red Mansions, the word "sensible person" appeared many times, some people advised Daiyu, some talked about Xifeng, but others talked about Xiangyun. In fact, Daiyu's infatuation and Xifeng's competitiveness are both a kind of punishment for her own life, and Miaoyu's lofty and precious spring becoming a monk is also an escape from her own life, while Xiangyun shows the "true understanding" of a wise and wise person in her unique way.
1. Cherish
Xiang Yun is a person who really understands love. She cherishes her life, her happiness, every meaningful moment, her friends and her relatives. Compared with the love of the daughter of the Red Chamber, her treasure is more broad and pure.
She loves her sister in the Grand View Garden, and also loves her "brother". She loves the grandmother who loves her and pities her, and also loves those maids who have played with her since childhood. She sympathized with and cared for Lin Daiyu, who felt sorry for herself. This kind of heart is rare among others. She will also personally deliver the small gifts she brought to the hands of those little maids. Even the maids know that what she sent is actually "nothing" in Jia's house. What is rare is her heart. She doesn't divide people into classes like other people. Her master's idea of being a servant is the lightest. She is not afraid of kitsch, and she doesn't laugh at or bully her. . Is this unique in the Grand View Garden?
Cherishing others shows that she is kind, but at the same time, she will cherish herself more. Her life was born to be extremely noble and should be loved as much as Baochai in Yuan Chun, but she was born to be unfortunate. Her parents died early and no one really loved her, so her life became as light as grass in that family. But she cherishes her life and respects her personality. She can do the handiwork done by the lower people in Jiafu, but she has always been optimistic. Because she smiles at life.
Second, chivalry
Actually, Xiang Yun gave me the initial feeling of being "chivalrous" and "manly", much like people in martial arts novels. Although the book also describes her as a drunken peony, she always feels that she should fight the sword like Liu Xianglian, and it is most appropriate to be a Jianghu child.
When you think of Xiangyun, you will always think of her delicacy in Luxue Temple. In that particular place, at that particular moment, Daiyu's loftiness makes people feel fake, and she is "a real celebrity who loves herself". Her laughter, her happiness and her poetic aspect make people feel that the gathering of ancient literati and gentlemen is nothing more than that. At the same time, there is something about Chu Liuxiang's fighting for the world, which makes the legendary swordsman look lonely, making people feel that she lives truly, heartily and naturally. This section always gives me a long sigh of relief in the dreary air of the Red Chamber, as if the cloudy sky over the Grand View Garden has finally left a clear sky!
Although she is optimistic and adaptable to her own destiny, she can't turn a blind eye to the injustice she sees. Dai-yu laughed at her: What are you, Jing Ke and Nie Zheng? In fact, Jing Ke and Nie Zheng are really in her bones, hoping that everyone in the world can live in peace and justice. Although she can't do it, she is her heart, but she has been trying so hard.
Third, simplicity
Reading Red Chamber and Red Xiangyun is always the happiest, and sometimes I think she is a transparent person. Everything about her is simple, her thoughts are blurted out without thinking, and her love and hate are directly expressed. Her simplicity makes her intelligent and makes her extraordinarily lovely.
"returning to the truth" refers to Xiangyun. Simplicity is not rough, nor is it stupid. The simplest is often the richest and longest. Leave more blanks for yourself and others. All people who live in complexity are happiest if they move towards simplicity. The simplicity of Xiangyun is the same. Everyone in the Grand View Garden is living for himself, Baochai for her future, Daiyu for her love, Xifeng for the power of Jiafu, Tanchun for the rise and fall of the family, and Xiangyun for what? She just lived a happy life day by day, always thinking about whether she could give others more happiness. She taught Xiangling poetry with her heart and patiently enlightened Daiyu. Even the servants in Jia's family wanted to see this master who was not the master.
In fact, she lives the most clearly and happily. Because she spent every happy day in her life happily, and didn't think about those unnecessary unhappiness when she was happy. In this way, when unhappiness comes, she can accept it calmly, because after all, she has had a lot of happiness in her life, much more than Daiyu and much more than Baochai.
Just because she lives a simple life, she is simple and bright, and she enjoys being bright.
Fourth, maturity
Many people think that Xiang Yun is naive and unruly, but is Xiang Yun really like this?
Xiang Yun's life experience is not much better than Dai Yu's, and her uncle and aunt treat her badly, making her a heavy-duty actress. Can Xiang Yun be innocent as a child in such a life?
in my opinion, it's better to say that Xiangyun is extremely shrewd. The more innocent she looks, the more depressed she is. She often falls into economic crisis and is poor compared with her relatives. She doesn't have the love of her parents, and compared with Baodai, Jia won't think of this tomboy-she can only disguise herself. Xiangyun looks naive, smiling all day, being kind to everyone, just like a child-this is because no one cares about children! She doesn't want to be as sad as Daiyu, but she can't cope with the complicated human relations in the Grand View Garden, so she has to pretend. This is one reason why people play dumb.