The descriptions of Lin Daiyu and Xue Baochai in the book are all carried out through comparison. From Daiyu's entry into Jiafu, Xue Baochai's entry into Beijing, to Xue Baochai's marriage as a bride price, Lin Daiyu burned the manuscript, which broke her infatuation. Without Lin Daiyu's company, Xue Baochai's "status" declined sharply after 1998. Looking back, every time after 1998, it was almost a confession of the decline of Jiafu and the personal fate of Jiafu people. The aura of Xue Baochai's heroine suddenly disappeared. Married into the Jia family, she gradually became an abandoned wife, which was quite different from the situation when she was "Baochai".
The plot of "swallow butterflies with flowers" appeared 27 times in the novel. At that time, Xue Baochai's heart was budding, and her position in Jia's house was also flourishing. It can be described as a hot potato of Jia's family. Excuse me, which lady in the Jia family can be "anti-customer-oriented", only Xue Baochai. This plot seems to be incompatible with Xue Baochai's coldness, but Cao Gong's "anti-writing" plays a vital role here.
As we all know, the fate of Lin Daiyu and Jia Baoyu is doomed, and there was a congenital love "wood-stone alliance" before. Tso naturally let Lin Daiyu into Jia Fu and met Jia Baoyu. They fell in love and staged a touching love tragedy.
But the meeting between Xue Baochai and Jia Baoyu was more or less accidental. Xue Baochai didn't go to Beijing, entered Jia Fu, let alone met Jia Baoyu. Her real purpose is to run for election in Beijing, hoping to become a female history in the palace, and finally have a chance to be promoted to a princess and become a figure like Jia Yuanchun. This is her ideal in life.
But it was also an act of god that I mistakenly entered Jia's house and met Jia Baoyu. This is a great sight. Jia Baoyu happens to have jade on her body, and she happens to have gold on her body. In the "warning" of her life, a monk said that marriage can only happen if she meets jade. Just entering the palace is also yellow, and staying in Jiafu is also a good choice. Anyway, since his father's death, the Xue family is not what it used to be, just going downhill. It is also a good choice for the Xue family to stay in the capital next to Jia Fu.
Xue Baochai's life is also full of coincidences. Her common relationship with Jia Baoyu and Cao Gong's efforts are another human tragedy cultivated through painstaking efforts.
Since Xue Baochai entered Jiafu, she has been open-minded and won unanimous praise from top to bottom. So what kind of expectations does Xue Baochai have for Jia Fu? Of course, Xue Baochai won't confess, but Cao Gong helped her confess through the plot of "catching butterflies with a treasure".
First of all, it is certain that "one treasure and one butterfly" is a positive attitude towards life, which is in line with the truth that people strive for heights. That is to say, Baochai originally went to the Xiaoxiang Pavilion to find Lin Daiyu. When Jia Baoyu went in, she withdrew herself. Just want to get back, service road:
Suddenly I saw a pair of jade butterflies in front, as big as a round fan, flying in the wind, which was very interesting. Baochai wanted to jump in and play, so she took out her fan from her sleeve and jumped on the grass. I saw a pair of butterflies coming and going, covered with willows, trying to cross the river. Baochai, led by someone, crept all the way to the dripping pavilion by the pool, sweating and panting. Baochai was just about to come back when she heard someone talking in Didi Cuiting.
This plot seems to be inevitable by accident, just like Xue Baochai met Jia Baoyu and then lost the election. A person who wants to be a "Yang Fei" accidentally strays into Jiafu and meets a good marriage. Therefore, one of the images of "catching butterflies with one treasure" is Xue Baochai's accidental life opportunity, and in this opportunity, compared with the missed ideal of life, marrying Jia Fu is also a good choice in life.
Xue Baochai has always regarded revitalizing the family as his mission. Her father taught her to read and write when she was a child, and she was stubborn when she was a child. She also reads The West Chamber and other books. But since her father died, she no longer focused on reading, family planning and other things, and began to share her worries for her mother.
She did this because in 30 times, Baochai expressed her helplessness. "I look like Yang Fei, but I don't have a good brother. I can be Yang Guo Zhong. " She has a positive attitude towards her personal abilities. It is conceivable that after her father's death, she helped her mother with a lot of housework. An unmarried daughter participated in housework with such fanfare because of Xue Pan's incompetence. Besides causing trouble, she is just having sex.
She is determined to revitalize her family at the expense of her personal happiness. How to choose the palace and how to stay in the Jia family are all calculated. Therefore, the plot of "a treasure girl pouncing on a butterfly" reveals the contingency of her life, which seems to drift with the tide, but in fact she has her own plans. She not only wants to "jump" to this new goal, but also hopes to get a satisfactory result.
So whether Xue Baochai loves Jia Baoyu or not, let's look at the image of "Baochai flying butterfly".
In a novel full of love and with a good image of "flapping butterflies", the words and deeds of the characters should have their own characteristics. In the Red Chamber, Xue Baochai's greatest feature is rationality, and the reaction is the word "cold" on the surface. Xue Baochai, who has always been calm and formal, suddenly has a girlish heart and pursues butterflies. It is really unusual.
In ancient literature, especially after the Song Dynasty, "flapping butterflies" is a common image or scene, whether it is poetry, novels or opera painting.
Su Shi's Butterfly Loves Flowers with Butterfly Flying to the West Garden. Bloom flowers fall, lovesickness fades away. "The king's" Cold Window chain mail "has" recent love, afraid to read poetry. "Try to rely on him and running water to send love, rejuvenation will not go further. Tang Xianzu's "Flower Dynasty" has "I am jealous of the flower storm and I am afraid that it will be difficult to sell, so I will fly the butterfly away. "And so on, these poems are written from different angles, but they all have one thing in common, that is, they are all related to the love of acacia. It can be seen that the ancients used to use "flapping butterflies" to express the lovesickness between men and women.
In the Ming Dynasty, Gao Qi's painting poem "A Beautiful Woman Throwing Butterflies" vividly depicts the scene of a beautiful woman throwing butterflies. In traditional Chinese opera, there is even a matchmaker flapping butterflies in The West Chamber, which is intended to express feelings on behalf of Cui Yingying and hint at the beginning of love. Even Pan Jinlian in Jin Ping Mei jumped on the butterfly, and more than once, both of them led to the ambiguous relationship between Pan Jinlian and Chen Jingji. Therefore, the ancients used to put the scene of "catching butterflies" together with implicit love, and even reached a crazy state in love.
Therefore, through the interpretation of the ancient "catching butterflies" scene, it is not difficult to see the intention of Cao Gong to use this scene here. "Baochai catches butterflies" symbolizes her budding heart. Her snow-like heart can't control itself in the face of human lust and human instinct. She is hopelessly in love with Jia Baoyu.
The image of "butterfly" in China's literature also has a special meaning, and it is also a frequent visitor in ancient poetry. In the two stories about cold food, there are "dancing to love butterflies and singing to listen to many warblers", in "Feeling before cold food", there are "lingering butterflies and sleepy warblers", and in "Sit in the Afternoon" by Fan Chengda, there are "It is better to let the butterflies fly and make a breeze", and so on.
It can be seen that "flying butterfly" not only represents love, but also symbolizes a happy result. In the novel, the "flying butterfly" as big as a fan leads Xue Baochai to Didi Pavilion, which is only the externalization of Baochai's desire for love, and also includes her hope that her love is as perfect as any little daughter.
Coincidentally, in the Didi Pavilion, Xue Baochai also heard a story about the affair of her young children, which triggered a controversy about framing Daiyu for Jin Chan. In fact, this matter was originally related to Lin Daiyu, and there is no such thing as "framing".
The affair between children is ugly in Xue Baochai's eyes, but she has inadvertently become an eavesdropper, which is exactly the same as her role as an intruder. In her view, Lin Daiyu is the biggest obstacle to her golden marriage with Baoyu. In her consciousness, Lin Daiyu has penetrated into the bone marrow, so that the first person she thinks of subconsciously is Lin Daiyu.
Therefore, Lin Daiyu is not wronged in this plot. At this moment, for Xue Baochai, all her ridicule is just a kind of "revenge", which also means that Xue Baochai officially declared war on Lin Daiyu.
In the next 28 times, we saw that Xue Baochai wore the musk deer string presented by Jia Yuanchun aboveboard. You know, she used to avoid it, but this time she rewarded the same thing as Baoyu, but she took it out aboveboard. Then for the 30th time, I borrowed a fan and slapped it twice to humiliate Baodai, knowing that what she humiliated was the sacred love between Baodai.
To sum up, through the plot of "Baochai Becomes a Butterfly", combined with the plot before and after the novel, it is not difficult to draw a conclusion that Xue Baochai entered the Jia family and fell in love with Jia Baoyu, inadvertently becoming the intervener of Baochai's love and embarked on a road of no return. Although she has always controlled her lust with a rational and calm appearance and cold fragrant pills, she still shows her daughter's heart in the plot of "A Baochai shoots a butterfly to death".
Xue Baochai likes Jia Baoyu very much. Compared with Daiyu's straightforward and enthusiastic love for Baoyu, Baochai's love is full of implication, low-key and introverted. She not only worships Jia Baoyu, but also loves him to the extreme.