Analysis:
There is a so-called "north-south dispute" in the study of redology. Due to the great influence of A Dream of Red Mansions, during the 200-odd years from Qianlong to now, everyone has been speculating about the novel and asking: Is it in Beijing or Nanjing that A Dream of Red Mansions is so magnificent, and all kinds of cultural phenomena and natural features are reflected in it? There has been an argument here, and there are two factions. One is the Beijing School in Beijing, and the other is the Ning School in Nanjing. Mr. Wu believes that the social life, natural scenery and cultural characteristics reflected in A Dream of Red Mansions actually reflect the southern culture. We can give a few examples. Take Lin Daiyu as an example. The image of Lin Daiyu mainly represents the southern culture. Sister Lin's temperament and elegant cultural background all represent southern culture. Her Xiaoxiang Pavilion is set off by bamboo and surrounded by a bamboo forest, which is vividly described in A Dream of Red Mansions: "Fengming is the end, and the dragons are fine." Bamboo represents southern culture. During the Six Dynasties, a famous book Shi Shuo Xin Yu was devoted to bamboo. Wang Xizhi has two sons, the eldest is Wang Xianzhi, a great calligrapher, and the second is Wang Huizhi. Wang Huizhi likes bamboo best. He said other things could be left out. Appreciating bamboo is indispensable for a day. Therefore, Sister Lin was cultivated by southern culture. Bamboo also represents a person's temperament and integrity, which is very elegant. Bamboo is one of the symbols of traditional culture in China. Known as "three friends in cold years", it represents the noble quality of people. Bamboo can only form bamboo forests in the south. Of course, there is bamboo in the north, but it doesn't grow well. A few years ago, in order to shoot TV, Beijing built the Grand View Garden and Xiaoxiang Pavilion. Bamboo was also planted around Xiaoxiang Pavilion, but it didn't grow well for several years, and it was yellow and thin. The bamboo in Sister Lin's Xiaoxiang Pavilion is of course Nanzhu, which is a characteristic of Nanjing.
Here's another example. In the 49th chapter of A Dream of Red Mansions, Bai Xuehongmei was written, saying that Baoyu got up early that day and had a heavy snow, which was more than a foot thick. Baoyu walked past the jade temple of Miaoyu. A dozen red plums have just come out of Cui Rui Temple, and the plum blossoms are in full bloom. Jia Baoyu asked Miaoyu for a red plum. Snow and red berries are also typical Nanjing scenery. Plum blossoms are plums in spring. After the Spring Festival, the plum blossoms in Nanjing are in full bloom, but the cold air from the north came and suddenly it snowed heavily. This is the unique weather in Nanjing. The temperature in Beijing is very low and it is still snowing. Plum blossoms won't bloom at all in the first month. Therefore, white snow and red plum are also typical natural scenery in Nanjing. In addition, on the seventeenth trip, I went to the Grand View Garden to visit my mother during the Lantern Festival in January and spring. There are mountains, water and boats in the Grand View Garden. Yuan Chun also plays on the water by boat, which can only sail on the water during the Lantern Festival in the south. The Lantern Festival in Beijing is still very cold. The ice in Kunming Lake and Beihai is several feet thick, so it is impossible to take a boat trip. I'm just giving an example here to show that the natural features reflected in A Dream of Red Mansions are basically from the south of the Yangtze River. There are many places in the Dream of Red Mansions to visit Nanjing. But Cao Xueqin is very powerful. His writing is true and false, and he uses "fake village words". As we all know, the literary inquisition in Kangxi, Yongzheng and Qianlong periods was very strict, or it would be caught by the feudal ruling class. Therefore, Cao Xueqin deliberately does not write specifically, but writes specifically, which is easy to commit literary inquisition. Sister Lin went to Beijing, but he didn't say it was Beijing. He only said Beijing and Shenjing, but never wrote about Beijing. However, some people say that the hometown of Ning Guofu and Guo Rongfu is in Nanjing. On the second trip, Jia Yucun and Leng Zixing said, "Last year, I went to Jinling. Because I wanted to visit the ruins, I went into Stone Town that day and passed by the door of his old house. There is Ningguo House in the east and Guo Rongfu in the west. " This is actually written by Nanjing.
A typical example, A Dream of Red Mansions was not originally called A Dream of Red Mansions, but called The Story of the Stone. There is also a name called twelve women in Jinling, which is irrefutable. Cao Xueqin grew up in Nanjing. Based on his life in Nanjing, he was later taken to Beijing. The novel is written in Beijing, but the life base is in Nanjing. There is no need to argue about this.
More importantly, the life prototype of Grand View Garden is in Nanjing. This is the hot spot of the dispute between North and South. Now all the experts who study a dream of red mansions are in Beijing. Zhou is a native of Tianjin and now lives in Beijing. Represented by him, he must say that the Grand View Garden is in Beijing. He said the Grand View Garden is in Gongwangfu. King Gong is Prince Gong. He verified that the Grand View Garden was in Gongwangfu. Looking at his data, it turns out that Mr. Zhou has reversed the causal relationship. The Palace Wang Fu was built according to the Grand View Garden of A Dream of Red Mansions, because one of the concubines of the Palace King likes to watch A Dream of Red Mansions. Cao Xueqin was in Kanggan period and Gongwangfu was built in Tongzhi period, so the causal relationship was reversed. Where is the Grand View Garden? Practically speaking, it is certainly needless to say about literary and artistic creation. This is the writer's artistic creation. To put it another way, if the life foundation of the Grand View Garden is there, it can be discussed and verified. There is a famous writer, Yuan Mei. Yuan Mei, a talented person, once served as Jiangning county magistrate and resigned at the age of forty. He likes writing poems and Nanjing, so he took a fancy to the garden from Guangzhou Road to Wulongtan and bought it. This place originally belonged to Cao Xueqin's family. After Cao Cao's property was seized, it was transferred to Sui Hede. Later, Sui Hede was robbed again, and the garden was bought by Yuan Mei and named Sui Garden. The main entrance of Suiyuan Garden was at the North Gate Bridge of Zhujiang Road, and Ximen all the way to Wulongtan, which was the largest garden in Jiangnan at that time. Guangzhou Road was then a big pond along the garden, and the mountains on both sides were called Xiaocang Mountain. In Yuan Mei's Poems with the Garden, there are several places about A Dream of Red Mansions and Cao Xueqin's family. Some places are unclear, but one place makes it clear: "The so-called Grand View Garden is the garden in it." (In addition, "The History of Ming Yi: The Former Site of Suiyuan is the Red Mansion", he said that the Grand View Garden in a Dream of Red Mansions is actually his garden.
We know that Cao Xueqin's home is in Nanjing. Cao Xueqin's ancestral home is Liaoyang. When Nurhachi implemented the Eight Banners System, his ancestors became soldiers of Zhengbaiqi of the Han army, and entered the customs with Dourgen, making meritorious military service and entering the internal affairs office. Later, Cao Xueqin's great-grandfather Cao's wife became Kangxi's nanny. After Kangxi proclaimed himself emperor, he reused Cao Jia and appointed Cao xi as Jiangning Weaving. Cao furniture has a dual identity, on the one hand, it is * * *, and at the same time it is the children of the Eight Banners, and it is the confidant of Emperor Kangxi. So Emperor Kangxi sent Cao to Jiangnan to do national unity work. In the thirty-eighth year of Kangxi, Kangxi visited Nanjing for the third time and stayed at Cao Xueqin's house. He learned that adherents of the Ming Dynasty used the Ming Tombs as a symbol to carry out anti-Qing activities. Kangxi is very statesmanlike. He wrote "Governing the Song Dynasty" and commented that Zhu Yuanzhang, the Ming emperor, had surpassed his ancestors in unifying the whole country. After Kangxi wrote it, he gave it to Jiangning to weave and carve tablets. This is Cao Yin's term of office. Jiangning weaving used to run once every three years, but in order to make the Cao family contribute to national reunification, he always asked his family to do it. Cao is doing it now, and then Cao Qinghe worked for 58 years, and then went to Beijing because of his property. Emperor Kangxi visited the south six times and lived in the Cao family four times.
Knowing this relationship, we can know that A Dream of Red Mansions is based on historical facts. Everything written in A Dream of Red Mansions was unmatched by ministers at that time. Food, clothing, housing and transportation were first-class at that time. Baoyu's Hongyi yard is full of imported goods: bells, spring doors and so on. Qingwen's fur is also imported from Russia. It goes without saying that eating eggplant requires more than a dozen ingredients and is very particular. This is for the emperor, with the best chef in Nanjing. In the sixteenth time of A Dream of Red Mansions, when Wang Xifeng was chatting with Mammy Cao, she wrote that she picked up the driver four times, which was consistent with the number of times the Cao family picked up the driver. Cao Jia is in Jiangning Weaving Institute, which is now the Daxing Palace. Later, Daxing Palace Primary School built a house, dug the foundation, and dug up the remains of Cao Jia Garden and rockery. The underground excavation proved the correctness of Mr. Wu's textual research. There are thirteen sites of Cao family in Nanjing, the most important of which are Suiyuan and Daxing Palace, as well as Jiangning Weaving and Layout Factory, Ming Tombs and so on.