The subject said that in A Dream of Red Mansions, red plum was used to describe the wonderful jade. I'm a little rusty at the moment, probably because the activity of "choosing a flower name" held on Baoyu's birthday was so famous and impressive. Li Wan picked plum blossoms in the activity, so I subconsciously regarded plum blossoms as the representative flowers of Li Wan.
But if you think about it carefully, it is also reasonable for the subject to ask. There are not many appearances of Miao Yu in the book, but in one winter, the appearance rate of more than a dozen red berries planted in her village is very high. First and forty-ninth, Jia Baoyu saw that the red plum was in full bloom and couldn't help but stop and watch for a while.
Obviously, Baoyu is not the only one who noticed this red plum. Then in the fiftieth session, Li Wan also mentioned the plum blossom in the Jade Hall when she presided over the poetry club activities, but she didn't like Miaoyu, so she sent Baoyu, who had a good relationship with Miaoyu, to ask Miaoyu for one. Baoyu lived up to expectations, not only successfully retrieved a plum blossom, but also went to the Jade Hall after the activities of the poetry club, and brought back the red plums that Miaoyu gave to Baochai, Daiyu and others.
There seems to be no clear connection between other flowers in the book and Miaoyu, so it makes sense to take Hongmei as a symbol of Miaoyu.
Since Li Wan won the plum blossom lottery, Miaoyu's residence is also full of plum blossoms. Although Li Wan "hates Miaoyu", from the perspective of onlookers, we can still find similarities between them.
Widow Li Wan is young, but her heart is as dead as ashes. However, with strong perseverance, she brought her son Jia Lan very well, with unique quality. Just like plum blossoms that open in winter, they are lonely but determined, not calling for friends, but also complacent. Shuang Ling stands proudly in the season when flowers are dying, which is a model of independence.
Miaoyu's situation is similar. As a monk, she is doomed not to be too close to the world. Miaoyu's temperament is aloof and arrogant, just like the red plum in full bloom in winter, bright and bright, but without friends, she only exudes her own independent brilliance.
Speaking of the connection between Li Wan and Miaoyu, there is another detail that is also very subtle. It is the seventy-sixth time in the book that Xiangyun and Daiyu each wrote a poem on Mid-Autumn Festival night, which was heard by Miaoyu, and Miaoyu continued to write the following poem for them. One of them is this:
Zhongming Cuiqi Temple, where there are chickens crowing in Daoxiang Village. Isn't the Jade Hall a Jade Hall? That's Miaoyu's residence. Isn't Daoxiang Village Li Wan's residence?
When the bell rings and the chickens sing, they all mean dawn. Miao Yu and Li Wan will probably know how to start abstinence practice day after day when others are busy.
In addition, in the fifth round of the judgments and songs of the twelve women in Jinling, the two also had a * * * connection through another flower. Li Wan's verdict is "Who is like a pot of orchids after all", and Miaoyu's verdict is "blue temperament". Orchids, like plum blossoms, are regarded as one of the "Four Gentleman Flowers" in traditional culture. Orchids are fresh and elegant, low-key and quiet, and it is also very appropriate to describe the state of self-cultivation outside the crowd.