When you find that the bibliography of each chapter is extremely neat, you will wonder whether it is unintentional or carefully designed by the author. What does the author want to convey through such a list of chapters? With such a question, let's go to the book to find the answer.
First, Four Great Classical Novels's catalogue setting shows that the catalogue in A Dream of Red Mansions is intentional. He thinks that the bibliography design of A Dream of Red Mansions is unique because he didn't deliberately create such a neat title for the general bibliography. In order to verify the conjecture in his mind, he had a whim, leafed through three other famous books and found this hidden secret.
"The Water Margin" said that "Master Wang went to Jiulongzhai in Yan 'an mansion privately and made a big scene in Shijiazhai", Journey to the West said that "the fertility of spiritual roots originated from the cultivation of the heart", and the Romance of the Three Kingdoms said that "the Taoyuan banquet was a hero, and the yellow scarf cut the hero's first contribution". The other three masterpieces also adopted this method to set the chapter catalogue, so this unique repetition can indeed be seen that this move in A Dream of Red Mansions was carefully designed by the author.
A Dream of Red Mansions often contains knowledge about literature, such as poems and songs, which can appear in all aspects of life, from a post-invitation, a few wine lists, a poetry game to changes in ancient and modern theories and ideological fields. Poetry as a whole is a part of the author's life, which has been imperceptibly integrated into people's lives.
The author deliberately borrows the mode of poetry to make the title of the bibliography, and also expresses and conveys what the author is doing with his heart. Small details such as bibliographic chapters can be taken seriously, so the deeper knowledge described in A Dream of Red Mansions is worth studying carefully.
Second, the antithesis of chapters is convenient for sorting out writing, unfolding story context and promoting plot development. A Dream of Red Mansions is a masterpiece of 73 10 17 words written by Zuo Gong. During this period, I don't know how many memories and stories have been written, and I don't know how many times they have been deleted. Therefore, it is difficult to know which characters and events have been written without summarizing and summarizing such subtitles in sections. Cao Gong wrote such a title for the purpose of ".
Among the four classical novels, the other three books can be connected by storytellers through a certain context, but A Dream of Red Mansions can't, because it doesn't have a main line to tell a complete story. The whole Red Chamber has Cao Gong's own writing logic, but this is the key point that everyone can't understand, and the connection of subtitles may be this logic.
When I first read A Dream of Red Mansions, I thought it was like a memoir. It tells the story of Cao Gong's past with a series of intricate short stories. All the little things he didn't care about at the beginning have become the original things he wants to go back to now, which makes people miss.
These subtitles may not be as neat as today's antithesis when they were first written, but only as a record of memories. However, with the ten deletions of all the stories in the book, Cao Gong slowly found a fusion point, connected them through subtitles, and then processed the subtitles, which became what it is now.
Third, neat chapters are convenient for readers to read and understand the priorities of the article. If a book is not for others to read, but as a self-entertaining text, then there is no need to make any format adjustment at all, just a whole paragraph, as long as you can understand it anyway.
However, if a book is to be passed down forever and read by more people, its essence is to attract readers and make people read it. A dream of red mansions naturally understands this truth, and the content of a dream of red mansions is wonderful enough, so what it needs next is to process and sort out the "chapter catalogue" as the finishing touch of the article for readers to read and understand the primary and secondary articles.
First, the progression of time, the contrast with characters, and the ever-changing things.
Many things can be seen through the catalogue of each chapter, such as the progression of time, the contrast of characters and the ever-changing changes between things.
The change of time. From the sixth time granny Liu entered Guo Rongfu, the thirty-ninth time granny Liu was talking nonsense. The characters in both chapters were granny Liu, and the middle chapter was the change of time. A Dream of Red Mansions has been deliberately blurring time, just to make people happy for a long time and sad for a short time. Maybe this time is like a dream. You can remember what happened, but you can't remember when everything happened.
Character comparison. Chapters in the book often use pairs of opposites, so two characters in each topic are present. For example, when Jia Yuanchun ascended the throne, it happened to be the day when Qin Zhong died, and Baoyu's birthday was also the day when Jia Jing disappeared, which was the reincarnation of life and death; The contrast of characters has also changed in different periods. Qingwen can bravely make up for Baoyu's illness, but there will also be a chapter in which Baoyu visits her dying, and so will the relationship between people.
Changes between things. The poetry club is the most lively activity in the Grand View Garden and everyone's favorite place. From the exploration of the occasional Haitang Society in the Spring and Autumn Period to the reconstruction of the Peach Blossom Society by Lin Daiyu, the change of the name of the poetry society also indicates the change of people's destiny, and deliberate emphasis is often an important hint.
Headlines are never useless. Their existence and appearance have many meanings and functions, especially the symmetrical chapter specially arranged by Cao Gong. If you don't read the red chamber, you may not know what these subtitles are about, but when you have a certain understanding of the text, you can find the meaning by looking back at the title. Whether it is the change of time, the contrast of characters or the change of things, it is cleverly arranged in the title.
Secondly, the catalogue of each time is the focus of a short story, and the characters that appear are the most important.
The title is often the argument or the finishing touch in the article, so the catalogue deliberately made by Cao Gong is naturally the focus of the book, and the characters appearing are the most important. The description of A Dream of Red Mansions has a very long time span, a lot of contents and complicated characters, so it is very difficult to distinguish the key points in the text. Therefore, in order to let everyone distinguish between priorities, subtitles will give clear guidance.
The people mentioned most in the subtitle, such as Wang Xifeng, Daiyu, Baoyu and Qingwen, are all important people. They are Tsao Gong's favorite protagonists or characters. They found something important from the details. Zuo Gong's "seeing the big from the small" is very well used, and every small detail is hidden, so the subtitle is the key point that cannot be ignored.
Generally speaking, A Dream of Red Mansions was carefully designed by Cao Gong, and this setting has a tacit understanding among the other three masterpieces. Two important things can be seen in the table of contents of each chapter. One is that the author wrote a subtitle in order to write cheaply, and the other is for readers to read. Cao Gong wrote many hints in the subtitle. As long as you look at the title carefully, you can not only find the logic of the author's writing, but also find some hidden secrets.
Author: eleven, welcome attention: the novel The Red Chamber, together to find interesting people and things in a dream of red mansions!