After reading "A Dream of Red Mansions":
From "A Paper Full of Absurd Words" written by the Qing Dynasty poet Cao Xueqin
A paper full of absurd words brings a handful of bitter tears.
It is said that authors are crazy, who can understand the meaning?
Origin:
After Taoist Kongkong transcribed the poems from "The Story of the Stone" from beginning to end, he changed the "The Story of the Stone" to "The Record of the Love Monk". Donglu Kongmeixi wrote the title "Fengyue Baojian". Later, Cao Xueqin read it for ten years in the Mourning Hongxuan, added and deleted it five times, and compiled it into a catalog. It is divided into chapters and titled "The Twelve Hairpins of Jinling". And inscribed the poem.
Explanation:
From the perspective of the poem, "absurd" not only refers to the author's introduction of absurd stories such as "Refining Stones to Mend the Sky" and "Qinggeng Peak" in the book, but also It also refers to the decadence, cruelty, mutual strife and the path to destruction of the society at that time described in the book.
Confucian scholars at that time also believed that this was a "big lie", so the author wrote "a page full of absurdities" with resentment. Because the author has sympathy for many characters in the book, he said that he wrote this book with "a handful of bitter tears". He was afraid that future generations would not know his true intentions, so he said, "It is said that the author is an idiot, who can understand the meaning?" p>There are different perspectives depending on the readers: Confucian scholars see "Yi", Taoists see prostitution, intellectuals see lingering, revolutionaries see the secrets of the palace, and gossips see the secrets of the palace." Here, the author expressed his difficulty in speaking out and was deeply afraid. Qu Lian who is not understood.
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