First, Xue Baochai: lifelong mistake
All roads lead to gold and jade. I only saw the alliance between wood and stone. Facing the sky, the nobles in the mountains are crystal clear with snow; I will never forget the lonely forest in the world. Sighing about the world is a fly in the ointment. Even in the case of Qi Mei, its significance is hardly flat.
Second, Lin Daiyu: vain eyebrows
One is Xianpa in Yuen Long, and the other is flawless jade. If there is no strange fate, I will meet him again in this life; If you say there is a strange fate, how does your mind eventually become empty? One is futile, the other is alarmist; One is the moon in the water, and the other is the flower in the mirror. How many tears can you have in your eyes? How does autumn flow to the end of winter and spring flow to summer?
Third, Jia Yuanchun: Hate impermanence
I like splendor, but I hate impermanence. Look, throw everything away. Idle wandering consumes the fragrant soul. Looking around, the road is long, and the mountains are high. So, I told my parents in my dream: My son's life is in the grave, and my family needs to step back and leave early!
Fourth, Jia Tanchun: Divide the flesh and blood
Sail for 3,000 days, and join the family of flesh and blood. I'm afraid crying will damage my old age. Tell my parents not to worry. Poverty has been fixed since ancient times, and there is no chance of clutch. From now on, we will be divided into two places, each keeping safe. I want it back, don't get involved.
Verb (abbreviation of verb) Shi Xiangyun: sadness in joy
When I was a baby, my parents lamented their death. Living in the jungle, who knows how to pet it? Fortunately, natural heroes are generous and never care about their children's affairs. In that way, the moonlight was bright in Yutang. My fellow has both talent and beauty, and won for a long time. When he was young, he must have folded into a bumpy shape. Finally, the clouds disappeared and the water dried up the Xiangjiang River. This is how many ups and downs in the world, so why be sad!
Extended data writing background:
Born at the end of the feudal society in China in the18th century, when the Qing government closed its doors to the outside world, the whole country was intoxicated with the dream of prospering and going to China. This period seems peaceful on the surface, but various social contradictions in the bones are intensifying, and the whole dynasty has reached a turning point from prosperity to decline.
During the Kang Yong period, Cao Jiazu Sun San worked in Jiangning for 58 years on behalf of four people. In its heyday, the Cao family had done four large-scale pick-up and drop-off of drivers. Cao Xueqin grew up in Nanjing and experienced a rich aristocratic life in his youth.
However, the family gradually declined. In the sixth year of Yongzheng (1728), Cao Xueqin returned to Beijing with his family. After returning to Beijing, he worked as a handyman in charge of literature and ink in a royal school, "Right-wing Religion". His family was poor and his life was difficult. In his later years, he moved to the western suburbs of Beijing, and his life was even poorer. He is "full of wormwood" and "the whole family often eats porridge and wine on credit".
A Dream of Red Mansions was written in poverty after Cao Xueqin went bankrupt. The creation time is from the early years of Qianlong to about thirty years of Qianlong.
The first opening paragraph of A Dream of Red Mansions, "The author speaks from the cloud", is the preface of Cao Xueqin. In this preface, Cao Xueqin appears as a real person and tells readers the origin of writing.
According to himself, this book was written according to his prosperous old dreams in Nanjing in his early years. Because I lived in the western suburbs of Beijing at that time, I was mediocre and accomplished nothing. I suddenly recalled all the girls in my family when I was young, and felt that their knowledge and talents far exceeded their own. I couldn't help feeling ashamed and sorry.
My ancestors established this family business after a narrow escape. In those days, I was happy, but I didn't do my job well and didn't listen to my parents and teachers. As a result, I grew up with nothing and was down and out for half my life. Cao Xueqin wrote this experience and confession as a novel, just to tell readers that although their crimes are inevitable, those girls are real people in life, and their deeds must not be lost in obscurity to cover up their crimes.
Thinking of this, my heart is full of ripples, and all difficulties are not a problem. What's more, the carefree rural life and pleasant scenery made him think like a spring and write like a god. Cao Xueqin's modesty made him ignorant of learning, so he wanted to write this novel in vernacular Chinese, aiming to make a biography for the girls, relieve his distress and provide readers with fun and appreciation.