Lin Daiyu embodies the shining qualities of a character such as talent, capriciousness, sensitivity, detachment, aloofness, independence, and self-love.
The melancholy, haggard, soft and thin image shown in Lin Daiyu's works such as "Ode to Burial Flowers", "Autumn Window Stormy Evening", "Peach Blossom Journey" and so on are similar to the "curtain" in Li Qingzhao's "Drunken Flower Yin" When the west wind blows, people are thinner than yellow flowers." The poem "Slow Voice" is "The yellow flowers pile up all over the ground, and they are haggard." Sorrow, tears, and thinness are common themes in the poems and works of Li Qingzhao and Lin Daiyu, and they are also portrayals of their lives and destiny.
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Cao Xueqin used the myths and legends of Shun's concubine Ehuang Nv Ying as the material to conceive Lin Daiyu's spiritual outlook and living environment, and used Ganoderma lucidum and Wushan goddess Yao Ji as the crimson beads. The mythical origins of jelly grass and the Fairy Jiangzhu have unearthed and prepared a rich source of beauty for Lin Daiyu.
Taking materials from the image of Cui Yingying in "The Romance of the West Chamber" and the biographies of talented women Feng Xiaoqing, Zhu Chusheng, Ye Xiaoying and others in the late Ming Dynasty to shape Lin Daiyu's character of pursuing free marriage; inheriting the "vanilla" pioneered by "Chu Ci" According to the tradition of "Beauty", bamboo, hibiscus and plantain are used to symbolize Lin Daiyu's spiritual outlook; "Daiyu's Burial" is conceived by borrowing from the Tang Dynasty poet Liu Xiyi's "Ode of Sadness" and the Ming Dynasty Tang Yin's "Drinking Song under the Flowers" and the anecdotes of the flower burial. Flower" plot.
Lin Daiyu rebelled against ethics and pursued true love. She was inspired by "The Romance of the West Chamber" and recalled that "The Romance of the West Chamber's wonderful words and opera language". Bao Dai reading the West Chamber is a classic scene in "A Dream of Red Mansions". The more Lin Daiyu read it, the more she loved it. She felt that her words were warning and left a lingering fragrance in her mouth. Although I finished reading the book, I just lost my mind and memorized it silently in my heart. Later, on many occasions, he unconsciously blurted out the lyrics of the Western Chamber tune: "Bah, it turns out he is also a 'silver-shaped gun head'." Even in his sleep, he would forgetfully recite the sentence "Every day, I feel sleepy with family love." , and chanted the sentence "There is no matchmaker on the screen window" when giving the order.
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