The story of Cao Xueqin, the author of A Dream of Red Mansions, is familiar to many modern experts, but at first, Cao Shi was a little-known "nobody". Will Yongzhong know his sad life experience before reading a novel? The answer is yes. Because Duncheng and Yongzhong knew each other before, before Xueqin died, they and Xueqin were close friends for many years. Qin Xue impressed him so deeply, and Yongzhong's friendship with him was so true that he couldn't help telling Yongzhong about Qin Xue.
It is meaningful to learn what happened to Xueqin forever. The family of two people originally had an unusual connection. Yong Zhong's grandfather Yun Chan is the favorite son of Emperor Kangxi, and Qin Xue's grandfather Cao Yin is also a powerful official in the Ministry of Interior of Emperor Kangxi. Before the Yongzheng dynasty, the Yongzhong family was also known as the "son of the Emperor". As of the Kangxi dynasty, the Xueqin family was also a century-old family of Zhong Ming. Yongzhong's grandfather Yunchan was defeated by Yong Zhengdi. Qin Xue's father Cao Fu was also arrested during the Yongzheng period. Yunchan was poisoned by the struggle for the throne. Why is Cao Fu unlucky? A conclusion of the redology circle is that Cao Fu's sister (Qin Xue's aunt) married the princess Naersu, the king of Pingjun County, who was Yunchan's right-hand man in the Western Expedition! In Yong Zhengdi's mind, if you treat Yunchan, you will be implicated in Nairsu; Cao Fu must be involved in the treatment of Nalsu, because they are on the same side. The chain reaction has just appeared. In the fourth episode of A Dream of Red Mansions, the Hulu monk once pointed out that Jia, Shi, Wang and Xue were "a loss, a glory." After reading this, Yongzhong is bound to restore the artistic processing of the novel to an unforgettable scene that happened in life, and lament with the author of the novel!
I have so many similarities with Xueqin. This is what Yong Zhong found and felt particularly strongly when reading A Dream of Red Mansions. Family background is just one of them. More importantly, in terms of thoughts and feelings.
Qin Xue's detailed description of the feudal "last days" in his Rafts is familiar to Yong Zhong and runs through his life. In the eyes of today's readers, the human world displayed in the novel is accurate, vivid and vivid; Then, at that time, in the eternal life in the field, it was simply aggressive and terrified.
"The humble room is empty and the bed is full; Dry grass and withered poplar used to be a ballroom. " Yong Zhong and Qin Xue, after they were both prisoners, the "boiling oil" that our predecessors met in the past drifted away like a passing smoke, leaving them only a wisp of illusory feelings! "I like splendor just right, but I hate impermanence." "Sighing that the world is hard to decide." They are facing a dangerous and fleeting life, and they feel helpless. They always feel that there is a mysterious force that can't be driven, playing with their own destiny mercilessly. As a result, he gradually became confused about cause and effect, fled to nothingness, or tended to Laozi and Zhuangzi, or approached Buddhism, in order to find a way of self-control for the thin group. In A Dream of Red Mansions, the author finally designed such a road for Baoyu, which was defined by Yong Zhong's grandfather according to his own experience.
In his own works, Qin Xue publicly showed the riddled and incurable diseases of feudal society. Because, he really tasted the ups and downs of the world, and he was used to the vision and nature of the world. Yongzhong didn't have the same experience! They have a gnashing hatred for "Zhongshan Wolf" from top to bottom, and they are absolutely disappointed with the whole era, but they are attached to the existing feudal system and feudal class to varying degrees. Their spirit lingers painfully between "being born" and "joining the WTO", and is still torn between "breaking Taiwan" and "mending the sky".
Baodai's love story of "Mushi Meng Qian" hit the heart of "loving goodness" and being loyal forever. He will never be color blind-facing the strong rebellious character of the hero and heroine in the novel, he eulogized "Pinpin and Baoyu" as his favorite image. Yongzhong has the ideological basis of getting rid of the shackles of the spiritual key and striving for individual liberation, which was expressed as early as in the poem "The West Chamber". Pinpin and Baoyu, however, are more * * * opposed to hypocrisy and ethics, and despise fame and fortune. It must be that Yongzhong can get the message and send it to support.
What makes Yongzhong sigh unceasingly is that Qin Xue wrote these curses and elegies, which Yongzhong had in mind, but he didn't write them. Yongzhong was surprised to find that besides his rare close friends, there will be a better confidant like Qin Xue! Unfortunately, this confidant can only be known through his works. He said goodbye to this world five years ago ... Speaking of this, it was heartbreaking, thousands of grievances burst, and tears poured down. On several occasions, he hid the volume and cried Cao Hou! He wished that he could invite the "gifted scholar and ghost" under this grave to his erotic room to express his feelings about wine and get drunk.
Emotional * * * and ideological recognition make Yongzhong take the farthest step in his life in poetry creation. At the beginning of the novel, Qin Xue asked in a sad poem: "The paper is full of absurd words, a bitter tear! Dou Yun's author is stupid, who knows the taste? " On the other hand, Yong Zhong's three poems are the exact answers to Qin Xue's mourning for his soul, which proves that he is the one who understands the "taste" of Qin Xue's books the most among contemporary readers. When Qin Xue died, his good friends Duncheng, Dunmin and Zhang Yiquan all wrote poems with sincere feelings, and they had a clear understanding of and spoke highly of Qin Xue. But I haven't written a thoughtful review of Qin Xue's book. At the same time when A Dream of Red Mansions was written, Yan Zhi, the first "red scientist" who criticized the book, had made some useful revelations to the author's creation and story design of his works, but when he understood the purpose of novel writing, he (she? ) The advice given really deviates from the author's intention. At the same time or later with Yong Zhong, some other appreciators were lucky enough to read A Dream of Red Mansions, and even a few people were impressed by the novel's powerful literary skills and wrote some poems. However, these poems are limited to the general praise of the artistry and plot of the works, far from the profound meaning of the novel, let alone Wan Li. Ming Yi (Yizhai), an imperial poet in Qianlong, wrote 20 poems "Reading Red", which was the most prominent among similar poems in Qianlong and Jiaqing periods. In fact, it did not break through this barrier. Yongzhong is the first person to break this situation! He is worthy of this "first person", and regardless of the possible tracing method, he resolutely copied these three poems into his "Poetry Collection of the Pink Room". His respectable uncle Hongyun was very timid when he saw this, and even criticized him in his poetry anthology, declaring that he "had heard the novel A Dream of Red Mansions for a long time and didn't want to read it, for fear that it would hinder the language!" Just from the side, Yong Zhong's courage is extraordinary.
On the other hand, Yong Zhong's own artistic accomplishment enables him to appreciate A Dream of Red Mansions from his literary achievements. Yongzhong himself wrote many poems and several essays in his life, but his literary interest far exceeded his own literary style. His greatest hobby is collecting books. "A young man with a clear mind is full of books." Moreover, I put more interest in reading miscellaneous books: "I often walk around the city without clothes and shoes, and I will buy strange books and books when I meet them, although I don't complain about hunger strike." "Strange books" obviously refers to novels, plays and other literary genres despised by feudal literary orthodoxy. Therefore, he can become one of the discerning literati who realized the significance and law of novel creation earlier in Ming and Qing Dynasties. He found that the creation of A Dream of Red Mansions is based on the author's personal experience, but it is not limited to the material of a family life, but a precious artistic crystallization that makes a broader social life "come from my eyes and recover my heart" and is the product of "hard work" literary labor. He tasted such a colorful and vast world that only ingenious hands can "write three inches"; He asserted that the style of writing is so vivid that it is a masterpiece that lasts forever. How similar these incisive poems are to our literary concept today and our evaluation of the novel A Dream of Red Mansions today!