Today is the Mid-Autumn Festival, which reminds me of a poem about the moon in A Dream of Red Mansions. This poem first appeared in the book; Jia Yucun spent the Mid-Autumn Festival alone in Hulu Temple, watching the mouth of the moon occupy the rhythm of five characters. Then I sang a couplet. At this time, I was catching up with Zhen Yinshi next door to invite him to dinner. They returned to Zhen Yuan and sat down.
"Drink slowly first, and then talk slowly. I don't like flying and offering it. At that time, every family in the neighborhood was in charge and every family was singing. The bright moon is in the sky, and the two are even more excited and the wine is dry. Yucun was already seven or eight points drunk at this time, and he couldn't help being crazy. It's the month, and the mouth is like a cloud:
Speaking of reunion,
Manchu jade fence;
It circled in the sky before it persisted.
Look up at all surnames in the world. "
This poem has no title, and there is nothing particularly good at first glance; Rhyme and rhyme are not very standard. The authority of the predecessors and modern scholars of A Dream of Red Mansions is even more dismissive, and no one has ever analyzed it. This is mainly because people have never understood the theme of A Dream of Red Mansions. In modern terms, what is the theme of this book is not clear to everyone. If people lock the title of A Dream of Red Mansions on the big topic of imperial power politics, many puzzles in the book can be solved easily.
"Three-five-day reunion" refers to the fifteenth day of the lunar calendar in China, which is a common concept of time; Year after year, the full moon is the most beautiful actual landscape at this time. In this first sentence, Jia Yucun has a deep political implication, that is, it records the time when the Qing Dynasty entered Beijing-A.D. 1644. Let's add up the four numbers 1644 respectively:1+6+4+4 =15; This 15 means that the Qing government unified China. Interestingly, there are two dynasties in history that were unified in the Yuan Dynasty, and the time was 15. One is the Tang Dynasty-AD 6 18, and the other is the Northern Song Dynasty-AD 960. Both were relatively large dynasties.
"Full handle to clear the light and protect the jade fence" is a parallel prose, which makes us more aware of Jia Yucun's intention. We moved the second word "Ba" after the word "Qing", and this sentence became "Put the lamp on the jade fence". Obviously, this means that the Qing Dynasty entered Beijing, and the mountains and rivers of the Ming Dynasty were under the control of the Qing Dynasty. On the surface, the word "jade fence" refers to the guardrail of white marble in Beijing, which means supreme ruling power and national integrity. In Chapter 51 of the book, in Xue Xiaomei's first riddle "Red Cliff Nostalgia", the phrase "Red Cliff sinks and does not flow" can prove each other from a distance, and mountains and rivers in Ming and Qing Dynasties. Jiangshan = imperial power = unity.
The neck sentence and the tail sentence of this poem are easy to understand compared with the above explanation. "I turned around in the sky before I came out, and all the surnames in the world looked up." The emperor who went to Beijing was the Crown Prince Aisingiorro Fu Lin of the Qing Dynasty. His father, Emperor Taizong of the Qing Dynasty-Huang Taiji thought that the Ming Dynasty was the fire of life, and the emperor's surname Zhu was "red" or "red"; It's all about fire. Therefore, from a strategic point of view, the word "Jin" in the State of Jin (the name of the State of Jin was used by Taizu Nurhachi when he established the Yuan Dynasty, and it was called "post-Jin" in history) is to be erased by the word "fire". If you want to put out the "fire" of the Ming Dynasty, you must change your name and put out the fire with water.
So he changed Xu Jinguo to the Qing Dynasty; Jurchen nationality changed to Manchu nationality; At that time, the territory of Jianzhou (three northeastern provinces) was changed to Manchuria. In this way, the words "full", "clear" and "week" all have three points of water, meaning "three waters and one fire" (or nine waters and one fire). There is a saying in the fifth time of A Dream of Red Mansions: "One is the moon in the water, and the other is the flower in the mirror." The combination of "Moon in Water" is "Qing" and the spelling of "Mirror" is "Jin Lier". Therefore, Shunzhi, the "son emperor" who entered Beijing, is "the water of the main moon" and "the son of Li Jing"; Just like the full moon in the night sky during the Tenth Five-Year Plan, it attracted people all over the world to look up.
There are many riddles in A Dream of Red Mansions, which have not been completely solved yet. With the coming of Mid-Autumn Festival, we will open the historical classics left by our ancestors and enjoy this feast of Manchu and Han. Don't let this delicious meal be wasted in the hands of our generation!