The mysterious number "twelve" in Dream of Red Mansions may have a lot to do with Cao Xueqin's situation and the history at that time. It even has a series of connections with the royal family at that time. For Cao Xueqin, it was a "soft spot". It was originally called "Twelve Hairpins of Jinling" and later changed its name to "Dream of Red Mansions".
Cao Xueqin lived between 1689 and 1763 AD, and passed through the three generations of Kangxi, Zheng and Qianlong. The Jinling he wrote should be the capital of his life. The stories in "Dream of Red Mansions" must also be related to the Three Dynasties. "Jinling Twelve" is the most important among the five titles of "Dream of Red Mansions". Books such as "Dream of Red Mansions" must have The fate of "Jinling Twelve" cannot but be called "Jinling Twelve", but it is for the purpose of attacking the Cao family. The titles of books such as "A Dream of Red Mansions" must be called "Jinling Twelve".
The third and twelve poems in "Twelve Poems on Ink Bamboo" all involve Oozhu. The third one has the poem "For love to clear up old friends, a forest of cold jade is beaten by the wind", it seems that you can vaguely see Lin Daiyu. The author changed the "cold" in the poem into the color of bamboo, and "a forest of jade" also changed from the original bamboo poem Come out. In "A Dream of Red Mansions", the author changed "cold" to "cold" and wrote it on Lin Daiyu, but it was just an appearance, and coldness was the essence of the connotation.
In "A Dream of Red Mansions", the number "twelve" refers to the mysterious Kangxi who had twenty-four sons, who happened to be the twenty-four sons of the Dream of Red Mansions. The stone in Dahuang Mountain is twelve feet high, and the family name has twelve rooms, and the Wang family has twelve rooms, which cannot be proved by the real family. There are twelve "chrysanthemum poems" in "A Dream of Red Mansions": remembering chrysanthemums, visiting chrysanthemums, planting chrysanthemums, chrysanthemums, chanting chrysanthemums, painting chrysanthemums, listening chrysanthemums, chrysanthemum shadows, chrysanthemum dreams, and residual chrysanthemums. Hua Xiren's birthday is on the twelfth day, the flower is a beauty, the flower in the mirror, the attack is a charge, the person is pointing at you, the beauty attacks (seduce) Renjun.
Our country has twelve years of stems and branches, Western countries have twelve constellations, a year has twelve months, twenty-four solar terms, and a day has twelve hours, so the representation is completed successfully, and it is also The suffix of "twelve" represents the beginning, which is closely related to major life events. What's more coincidental is that the Qing Dynasty was the end of the twelfth emperor Xuantong.