Text/Chang Zhimei
Author brief introduction Chang Zhimei, pen name Yifan, Gansu native, teacher, post-80 s in-service teacher.
This article is published with the authorization of the author.
Cao Xueqin has an open mind and a wide range of hobbies. He has studied epigraphy, poetry, painting, gardening, Chinese medicine, darning, craft and diet. With perseverance and years of hardships, he finally created a great work-A Dream of Red Mansions, which contains many excellent poems in the history of China literature. Therefore, A Dream of Red Mansions can be described as an all-encompassing encyclopedia.
This novel, its flowing prose, is permeated with the fragrance of poetry everywhere. Among them, a large number of poems and songs are like pearls and stars embedded in the blue sea and blue sky, shining with strange light.
He is a great genius, but he issued a "paper full of absurd words, who can understand the taste?" Lament, but I think his greatest sorrow is not limited to this.
The lofty position of A Dream of Red Mansions in China's novels and even in China's literary history is well known. The poems in this poetic novel are different from those in previous classical novels, and are an organic and inseparable part of the novel. They play an important role in expressing theme, creating intention, shaping image, constructing plot, creating atmosphere, embodying style and predicting ending. It must be noted that the same poem may have two or more functions. It can be seen that the difficulty coefficient of these poems is much higher than that of ordinary poems expressing emotions.
According to sensible Zhi Yanzhai, "Cao Xueqin wrote this book to convey the meaning of poetry" (Jia Xu's poem was criticized before the first poem). It can be seen that Cao Gong broke the traditional ideas and writing methods and painstakingly created a large number of poems of A Dream of Red Mansions, which served the art of fiction, but did have the intention of making these poems come out and spread with this wonderful book.
However, the position of this poetic novel in the history of China's poetry has not been confirmed by people. There is no place for Cao Xueqin in the newly published Selected Poems of Qing Dynasty.
Mr. Guo Cheng once sent a poem to Cao Xueqin, saying, "I love you. My pen is wonderful, and I take the long valley to break the fence fan." He compared Cao Xueqin with Li Changji. Coincidentally, Li Changji's poems have only been circulated for more than 200 years. And there are more than 200 poems in A Dream of Red Mansions. In the eyes of scholars and readers, are the poems of A Dream of Red Mansions really not those of Cao Xueqin? I think this is very unfair.
Besides, Cao Xueqin's two poems, "White Fuji Mausoleum should be very happy, and savage ghosts will be taught to put on airs." This idea is very novel and can be called police strategy. Shouldn't such a subtle sentence break be written in the history of China's poetry?
Perhaps Cao Xueqin's poems, besides those in the novel, should still exist, only hating the ruthlessness of heaven, devouring the eternal genius who can break the fence and chase the long valley, and unexpectedly making his kind words outside the Dream of Red Mansions vanish and disappear without a trace. As a result, we can't appreciate more talents of this literary master.
This is the sorrow of Cao Xueqin, fans and China's poetry history.
Time is ruthless, taking away many precious things left by Cao Xueqin. But fortunately, it left us a masterpiece "Dream of Red Mansions", which gave countless red fans a magnificent dream. As time passed, it became as fragrant as wine. I love the Red Chamber, and I love the lingering fragrance of the poems in it. At the same time, I also want to sing my own uneven voice for this wizard, even if it is weak.
To complain for Cao Xueqin: This is the sorrow of red fans and also the sorrow in the history of China's poetry.