Female hymns in A Dream of Red Mansions

The judgment of twelve women in Jinling

★ Lin Daiyu and Xue Baochai

It's a pity to stop working, but it's a pity to praise talents. The jade belt hangs in the forest and is buried in the snow.

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"Stop Virtue" refers to the story that the wife of Leyangzi in the Warring States period stopped knitting and persuaded her husband to seek fame and virtue. A woman who meets the feudal moral standards is called "Shutdown Virtue", which is to praise Baochai.

"Yong" refers to a woman's talent in poetry. Later generations praised a woman who is good at poetry and writing as "Yong", meaning that Daiyu should be pitied.

"Jade belt hanging in the forest" refers to "Lin Daiyu" in turn. A beautiful feudal bureaucratic belt was reduced to hanging on a dead tree, which is a portrayal of Daiyu's neglected talent and tragic fate.

"Golden hairpin burying snow" means that Xue Baochai is buried in the snow like the golden hairpin in the picture, which is also inappropriate, suggesting that Xue Baochai is bound to be left out in the cold.

★ Wang Xifeng

All the birds from the last days know that they love this life. Obeying two orders, three people were in a daze, and crying to Jinling was even more sad.

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"Fanniao comes to the end of life" refers to the misfortune that a capable woman like Xifeng was born in the end of life. "Rice bird" is the word "phoenix" in traditional Chinese characters, which also means Wang Xifeng. The word "Fanniao" separated from the word "Phoenix" is a metaphor for mediocrity, and it is naturally ironic to point out "Phoenix" by borrowing Lu An's allusion to happiness. The "second order" is interpreted as "cold", which means that her husband is gradually cold and begins to give orders to her; "Three-person wood" refers to the fate that she was finally abandoned by divorce. "Crying till Jinling is sadder" is a sad portrayal of her returning to her parents' home in tears after being abandoned. In the feudal society at that time, it was very tragic to be abandoned by divorce.

★ Shi Xiangyun

What is wealth? Parents were disobedient when they were babies. The eyes of the exhibition hang obliquely, and the Xiangjiang River water dies in Chu.

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"What is wealth? Parents are disobedient in infancy? " Xiangyun was born in a wealthy family in feudal Houmen. The so-called "Epang Palace, 300 Li, Jinling can never live" refers to her home. But what can it do? Xiangyun's parents died in infancy. Although wealth was neglected, she never grew up.

The third sentence of "The beautiful eyes hang on the sunset, and the Xiangjiang River died of Chu Yunfei" is that in a blink of an eye, Xiangyun is the only one who is sad about the sunset alone. "Xiang Jiang Died in Chu Yun Fei" points out the word "Xiangyun". Xiangjiang River is located in Hunan, belonging to the ancient Chu State, so it is called Chu Yun. The death of Xiangjiang River and the dispersion of Chu mean the decline of historians and the short life of Xiangyun couple.

★ Jia Yuanchun

For the past twenty years, Liu Bloom has been responsible for judging right and wrong. Three spring for the early spring scenery, the tiger and rabbit meet and dream of returning to their hometown.

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The first sentence, "Distinguishing right from wrong in recent twenty years", describes that Yuan Chun has lived in the palace for more than twenty years and gained a new understanding of human joys and sorrows. He felt that he was really in a "place where no one was seen" and "finally boring".

The second sentence, "Liu bloom sees the palace", describes the history from women's history to Fengzao Palace, until virtuous and noble, and the brilliance is as red as pomegranate flowers. To outsiders, a woman in a feudal society should be satisfied, but Yuan Chun concluded that she knew how to "distinguish right from wrong", recognized all kinds of darkness and corruption in the court, and held a negative attitude towards her own life path.

In the third sentence, "Three Spring Strives for Early Spring" refers to Yuan Chun's three sisters Yingchun, Tan Chun and Xichun. ""Strive for early spring scenery in early spring "refers to Yuan Chun, which means that Yingchun, Tan Chun and Xi Chun are not as rich as Yuan Chun.

The last sentence "in the dream of tiger and rabbit meeting" and "tiger and rabbit meeting" refers to the alternation of the year of the tiger and the year of the rabbit. The month of Yuan Chun's death1February is both the end of the Year of the Tiger and the beginning of the Year of the Rabbit. Therefore, "the tiger meets the rabbit" and the rabbit is eaten by the tiger, which is the inevitable result of Yuan Chun entering the palace as a concubine. Here, the author directly points the criticism at the imperial power that most people think is "sacred and inviolable"!

Note: Some versions are "Tigers Meet in Dreams", and tigers and tigers are legendary beasts.

★ Jia Yingchun

My son is a Zhongshan wolf. If he succeeds, he will be crazy. The golden boudoir is full of flowers and willows, and she goes to Huang Liang with one load.

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The word "Zi" in the first sentence "Zi is a Zhongshan Wolf" combines the traditional Chinese character "Sun" and refers to Yingchun's husband. "Zhongshan Wolf" uses the allusions in "The Story of Zhongshan Wolf" to describe a cruel and ungrateful person. Here is a metaphor for Sun Shaozu, Yingchun's vicious husband and Yingchun's pain.

"If you succeed, you will be furious" and then do evil. Once, when Sun Shaozu was in trouble at home, he knelt outside the house and begged. Later, Sun Shaozu made his fortune in Beijing, and became an "upstart" when the Ministry of War was short. After the downfall of the Jia family, they forced debts and trampled on the Spring Festival. However, Yingchun and Sun Shaozu were married for only one year, and were humiliated to death by their husbands.

★ Jia Tanchun

Only from the Qingming high ambition, was born in the last days. Qingming Riverside Map, Dongfeng Dream!

Precautions:

Tanchun is the third young lady of Jia's family and the daughter of Jia Zheng's aunt Zhao. "She is smart and ambitious" means that she is ambitious, smart and alert, and is not blinded by wealth. "Born in the last days" means that she was born in the last days of the decline of feudal society, which is also the misfortune that "talent" and "ambition" can not be fully developed.

"The riverside scene on Qingming Festival, a thousand miles away from the east wind and a distant dream" means that Tanchun will marry to the frontier, just like a kite with a broken line that never comes back, and she will go by boat when she gets married. The word "Qingming" in the sentence points out that she will marry in a different place in Tomb-Sweeping Day, and "hide her face and cry" by the river on the boat, like a woman in a comprehensive painting, bidding farewell to her parents and family, and only reuniting with her family in her sleep.

★ Jia Xichun

It can be seen that the spring scenery is not long, and the clothes are replaced with the makeup of the year before. Poor embroidered maid, lying alone beside the ancient Buddha in Deng Qing.

Notes on works:

The first sentence of the judgment, "Three spring scenes don't last long", is a pun. Literally refers to late spring, that is, late spring, but actually refers to the experiences of three sisters, namely Yuan Chun, Yingchun and Tanchun. In the second sentence, "Yidun changed her makeup the year before last", Yiyi refers to the black clothes worn by nuns. In four words, "poor embroidered maid, lying alone beside the ancient Buddha", especially pointed out that Miss Jia Xichun finally became a nun, no longer the daughter of the government, and lived a life of "naked and hungry".

Xi Chun, who wrote this judgment, foresaw from the misfortunes of his three sisters that he would not have a good result in the future and decided to become a monk. However, this road to escape from reality is bleak and lonely, or it won't work. The sympathy and regret revealed in the poem clearly reflect the author's ambivalence.

★ Qin Keqing

Boundless love has deep fantasies, and when they meet, they will dominate her. If you talk nonsense, you will have honor. It's a good start to trouble.

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The first sentence of the judgment "Boundless love, love with fantasy" and "Boundless love, love with fantasy" refer to the deep and wide love for men and women. "Fantasy" is illusory and absurd. This sentence exposed the unfair and ambiguous relationship between Jia Rong's father Jia Zhen and his daughter-in-law Qin Keqing.

The last two sentences point out that "all sons who talk nonsense are honored, and the disaster is really peaceful at the beginning", and the disaster is caused by the people of Ningguo at the beginning. Ke Qing was also forced to commit adultery by Jia Zhen and committed suicide.

★ Li Wan

Who is like an orchid after the spring breeze of peaches and plums bears fruit? Like ice water, you are jealous in an empty space, and you play jokes on others in vain.

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The first sentence says, "peaches and plums bear fruit in the spring breeze." "Li" and "Wan" here imply Li Wan's name. Li Wan's youth, like peach blossoms and plum blossoms in the spring breeze, withers when it bears fruit. The second sentence "Who is like a pot of orchids" refers to both Jia Lan and the picture. Among the last descendants of the Jia family, no one can compare with Jia Lan in The Promise, which is as clean and beautiful as ice water in the eyes of feudal rulers. "Empty envy" means that although Jia Lan won the prize and Li Wan won the reputation of "chastity", it can't save the decline of the Jia family, but it can only be envied in vain. The fourth sentence "playing a joke on others in vain" is to treat others as jokes for nothing to talk about the "three obedience and four virtues" pursued by Li Wan all his life, which is a kind of feudalism.

★ Miaoyu

If you want to be clean, why have you never been clean? Poor Xiaoyu finally got stuck in the mud.

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This is Miaoyu's judgment. & gt There is a saying, "How can I see it? The prince sighs", which is based on the original clue and the comment on writing by Zhi Yanzhai. Here, Prince refers to Chen's son. But "stuck in the mire" has nothing to do with him. According to experts' speculation, Miaoyu rushed to Guazhou (> "dirty dust" also means this), but it finally fell into the hands of a powerful old goat, so it is said that "washing clouds is not necessarily empty" and "will eventually sink into the mud".

★ Jia Qiaojie

If you are defeated, you will lose your family. I happened to meet a benefactor because I helped a village woman.

Notes on works:

The first sentence "Don't worry about your wealth if you lose power" means that power has declined, so don't mention the wealth of the past.

The second sentence, "The family dies, not the relatives", means that the family business is dying, so don't talk about kinship.

In the third sentence, "occasionally helping a village woman" means that Qiaojie's mother, Wang Xifeng, once "helped" Granny Liu. In the fourth sentence, "Qiaojie meets her benefactor by chance" is a semantic pun, indicating that Qiaojie's benefactor refers to Granny Liu. Qiaojie was abducted by her uncle Wang Ren, whose homonym is "Forgetting Benevolence", but fortunately she was taken away by Granny Liu before she escaped from the jaws of death.

This judgment exposed the hypocritical relationship between people within the feudal rulers. When the situation is defeated, it will be swindled and the flesh and blood will be ruined; This is a naked power transaction. Qiaojie's experience is sympathetic. She came to the countryside, grew up in a farmhouse and became a village girl. Comparatively speaking, she is much luckier than her aunts.

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The final decision of Twelve Women in Jinling is a description of the unfortunate woman in A Dream of Red Mansions.

In every verdict, the obscure poetic context hints at their fate in advance-under the bondage and destruction of feudal ethics, beauty will inevitably die first, which takes care of the theme of "a hole of red flowers (crying) and a cup of beauty (sadness)" in A Dream of Red Mansions, and also reflects the sorrow of women in China for thousands of years, as well as Cao Xueqin's profound literary foundation and extraordinary and accurate thoughts. Of course, this is also Cao Xueqin's favorite sentence. Cao Xueqin often uses this name to call the Dream of Red Mansions that we saw today.

A Dream in Red Mansions

[Introduction to a Dream of Red Mansions] Who is the lover of HarmonyOS system? It's all about romance. Take advantage of this helpless day, sad day, lonely day, try to send off your stupidity. So, I participated in and performed A Dream of Red Mansions.

Precautions:

This is the prelude to the twelve songs of a dream of red mansions, which leads to the twelve songs and is also the summary and prompt of these twelve songs. This overture explains the origin of A Dream of Red Mansions. Here, the author Cao Xueqin expressed his "stupidity" in a fairy tone. It is true that Cao Xueqin wrote "romantic" in A Dream of Red Mansions, which showed the love between Bao and Dai. However, this kind of love is not a "gifted scholar and beautiful woman" love, but a pure love based on the rebellion against feudal ethics. Therefore, "Mourning for Gold and Jade" is neither an illusory description nor a work of "repentance in love", but a profound theme of "Heaven" in the last days of feudal society is expressed through the love stories of young men and women. The author's "stupidity" is an ideological contradiction that the author intends to make up for "Heaven" and cannot make up for it.

[lifelong mistake] All roads are good marriages. I only saw the Mushi Qianmeng. Across the sky, the mountains are crystal clear with snow; I will never forget the lonely forest in the world. Sigh that the world and the fly in the ointment are not true. Even in Qi Mei, it's hard to understand!

Note: This song eulogizes Lin Daiyu and Xue Baochai in Jia Baoyu's tone. Marriage and Snow Crystal refer to Xue Baochai. Because she has Huang Jinbao and psychic treasure, "snow" is "Xue". The word "Lin" in Lonely Forest refers to Lin Daiyu.

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, and the other is alarmist. One is the moon in the water, and the other is the flower in the mirror. I don't know how many tears there are in my eyes, how to stop autumn from flowing to winter and spring from flowing to summer!

Note: This song is sung by Shi Xiangyun and Miao Yu in Jia Baoyu's tone. Some people say it's Daiyu and Baochai or Daiyu and Baoyu. Opinions vary, each with its own reasons, depending on the reader's judgment.

[Hate impermanence] It's just right to like prosperity, and it's time to hate impermanence. Just watch and throw everything away. Wandering leisurely, consuming 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!

[Divide the flesh and blood] Sail for 3,000 days, and throw the flesh and blood home together. 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!

【 Joy begets sorrow 】 My parents died in infancy. Living in the jungle, who knows how to pet it? Fortunately, he is a generous man by nature and never cares about children. Like the moonlight in the Jade Hall. 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!

"Things are unbearable" temperament is like orchid, and talent is richer than fairy. There is little natural loneliness. Your way is right, your meat is disgusting, and you think it is vulgar to continue the frontier. But I don't know, the taller people are, the more jealous they will be, and lead a totally clean life. Alas, the people in the ancient temple of Deng Qing are getting old; Let's live up to it. It's spring in Pink House. Finally, it's dusty (see Wen Tianxiang's poem "The end of pollution is Han"). Like a flawless white jade, stuck in the mud; Why, the prince sighed!

Zhongshan Wolf, a ruthless beast, has no idea about the cause of a day. Blindly arrogant, lustful and greedy. Look at that, Houmen banquet is the same as Liu Pu; If you practice, the government's money is as dirty as it is. Sigh sweet soul, carry leisurely swing!

How about seeing through those three spring days? Knock out youth and find a bright sky. Say what? There are many peaches in the sky and many apricots in the cloud. Who survived the autumn? Look, people in Bai Yang Village are sobbing, and ghosts are singing under the green maple forest. What's more, even the grass covers the grave. What's more, yesterday's poverty and today's hard work, spring glory and autumn decline. Like this, who can escape life and death? According to the news, the precious trees in the west are called whirling trees with lasting fruits.

[Smart and tired] The authorities are fascinated, but they have calculated Qingqing's life. Heartbroken before death, ethereal after death. It is better to have a rich family, but eventually a family will die and everyone will go their separate ways. Waste of time, half a century hanging in my mind. It's like three nights and a dream. Suddenly like the first floor, suddenly like Yi Deng. Ah! One happy and one sad. Sigh the world, it's hard to decide!

[Stay in Qing Yu] Stay in Qing Yu, stay in Qing Yu and suddenly meet a benefactor; Lucky mother, lucky mother, accumulate yin work. Persuade students and help the poor, don't be a cruel uncle like me, a traitor who loves money and forgets his own flesh and blood! It's multiplication, division, addition and subtraction, with the sky on it!

Kindness in the mirror is more worthy of fame in the dream! That beautiful youth went to He Xun! Don't mention the embroidery account again. Only by wearing a pearl crown and a phoenix coat can we resist impermanence. Although it is, life should not suffer from old age and poverty, but also need to accumulate children and grandchildren. Wearing a tassel on his head and a gold seal on his chest; Wei Hehe, Mr. Lu, Wei Hehe, Mr. Lu, faint and miserable, near the yellow road. Can ancient generals still exist? In name only, everyone respects each other.

Draw a picture of Liang Chun, and all the incense will fall. Being good at amorous feelings and grasping the moon phase is the foundation of losing home. Losing power is respectful, and the death of family affairs is the original sin. Always because of love.

[The ending, the birds cast into the forest] is an official, and the family business is dying; Wealth, gold and silver; If you are kind, you will survive; Ruthless, retribution is clear; If you owe your life, your life has been repaid; Those who owe tears have exhausted their tears. Revenge is not light, and it's all settled. If you want to know about past lives, you are really lucky to be rich when you are old. He who sees through escapes into an empty net; Obsessed, lost his life in vain. Just like eating all the birds and throwing them into the forest, the land is so clean!