Since the publication of A Dream of Red Mansions, there have been different opinions about where the "story" described in the book originated.
The most widely circulated and reliable book is A Dream of Red Mansions, which describes the "pearl family affairs" of important officials in the Kangxi Dynasty. Nalan Mingzhu used to have various scenery in the Kangxi Dynasty. Later, after being ousted by Kangxi for the crime of cronies, his family was rich and prostitutes were like clouds. Many people think that Jia Baoyu's prototype is Nalan Xingde, the son of Pearl.
Liang said in his Four Chapters of the North East Garden: "A Dream of Red Mansions is said to have a family background; Chen Kangqi said in his two notes about Moon Hee by Lang Qian: "I heard from Mr. Xu Liuquan that the novel A Dream of Red Mansions is to remember family matters. Twelve golden hairpin were honored by Nalan Shi Yu. Baochai's shadow is high, and Miaoyu is the shadow of Mr. Xi ... "; Zhang Weiping said in "A Brief Introduction to the Poets of Past Dynasties in China": "Rong Ruo, formerly known as Chengde, is the son of the pearl of a university student, and Jia Baoyu, a legendary figure in a Dream of Red Mansions, is a human being."
In the late Qing Dynasty, Sun, a Sichuan red scientist, combined the characters and events in A Dream of Red Mansions with Nalan Xingde and reached some conclusions. For example, the seventh place of Jia Baoyu in A Dream of Red Mansions is precisely the seventh place of Bingchen in the fifteenth year of Kangxi, and so on.
It seems that since the Qing Dynasty, this theory of "pearl family affairs" has spread widely and convincingly, and we have written "Red Chamber" in Nalan Ci handed down from generation to generation more than once, such as "Red Chamber is as sad as heaven and earth this night"; For example, "there is no wind dream tonight, I know which floor of the red building"; For example, "Because of listening to the midnight rain, I remember the three-night red dream lamp", and there is a flower burial saying: "When do you hate this? It's raining, and the weather is burying flowers ",which seems to be inextricably linked with A Dream of Red Mansions.
It is said that when Cao Xueqin wrote A Dream of Red Mansions, the manuscript was unfinished and people died first. Xiao Shenyang, who was the first to get the manuscript, presented it to Emperor Qianlong, who read it and said, "This cover is also the work of Pearl Family." Although the idea of linking A Dream of Red Mansions with Nalan's family remains to be discussed, it is certain that Nalan Xingde and Jia Baoyu do have many similarities, and Cao Xueqin's Dream of Red Mansions is indeed influenced by Nalan Xingde.
It turned out that Nalan Xingde and Cao Xueqin's grandfather Cao Yin were both bodyguards of Emperor Kangxi. They are only four years apart. They have been together for eight years and have a deep friendship. Later, Cao Yin left Beijing to work in Jiangning, Nanjing. Many years later, Nalanxingde visited Cao Yin with Emperor Kangxi when he went down to the south of the Yangtze River. They are all very literary, close ministers of the emperor, and are inextricably linked with the royal family. Since my grandfather, the Cao family has always been the coating of the Manchu nobility and belongs to the courtiers of the imperial court. Our biological mother is Kangxi's wet nurse and the emperor's attendant, and Cao Xueqin's sister is the princess of Naersu, the son of Prince Li. In addition, both of them were involved in the court power struggle consciously or unconsciously and experienced the cycle of honor and disgrace. /kloc-When Nalanxingde died 0/0 years later, when Cao Yin and his friends missed this good friend, he sighed in his own poem: "How many times did Nalanxingde worry?"