Appreciation of Poems in A Dream of Red Mansions ——286. Please focus on protecting officials.

Catalogue six

Please focus on protecting official symbols and tell the world your sorrow.

The author's tears are the same as mine, but Yanshan still has no sinus.

[Brief Description]

This is a poem written by Qi before the fourth defense, probably written by the reviewer-Zhi Yanzhai.

The last sentence of the poem says: Is Duke Dou of Yanshan still there? It means that the Duke of Yanshan has long since disappeared. He refers to Dou Yujun, a native of Yuyang in the Five Dynasties, an official to a doctor, a big bureaucrat and a big landlord. When he was an official, he chose many so-called "four wise men" to strengthen his personal strength, consolidate his position and sell his reputation. His five sons, Yi, Yan, Kan, Zhuo and Nuo, graduated from the department successively, and were called Yanshan Five Dragons. This place is more beautiful than the author's ancestors.

The first two sentences of the poem emphasize the importance of official protection symbols, and it is very valuable to use this article to "blame others" and reveal the author's intention to express his inner grief and indignation. The last two sentences show that the relationship between the approver and the author is extraordinary, which has attracted the attention of some researchers.

It can also be seen from this poem that A Dream of Red Mansions written by Cao Xueqin is an elegy about the decline and fall of the feudal family, not a novel with the theme of expressing the freedom of marriage of the feudal family (this is only part of the ideas in the book).