It is useless to read all the poems and books without talking about "A Dream of Red Mansions"!
So why does "A Dream of Red Mansions" have to be "red"?
This question that I find very new was raised in the book "The Twelve Floors of the Red Building" written by Mr. Zhou Ruchang, the "master of Red Learning". It’s not a “yellow building” or a “green building”, so why is it the “red building”?
Mr. Zhou said that it was not because of Bai Juyi’s “Rich Man Girl”, but because of Wei Zhuang’s “Who dominates the spring scenery in Chang’an, it has always been the girl from the Red Mansion” and “Beauty’s feelings are easily hurt, secretly. The red building stands."
The former originates from "Chang'an Spring" by Wei Zhuang, a poet of the Tang Dynasty: Chang'an is full of fragrant dust in February, and there is the sound of cars and horses on the six streets. The upstairs of every house is like a flower, with thousands of red branches. Laughter between the curtains asked one another, who has captured the spring of Chang'an? The spring beauty of Chang'an has no owner, but it has always belonged to the girl from the Red Mansion. Now the people of Xingyuan are helpless, with horses and light chariots approaching.
The latter is also derived from Wei Zhuang's poem "Moon in the Boudoir": The bright moon shines in front of you, and the smoke and cymbidium are wet. Wherever the breeze blows, the white dew and chilling cicadas are imminent. Beauty is easy to be hurt, so she goes to the red building secretly. I have no words to say, but I cry to Chang'e.
The "Red Mansion" in the poem all represents the aristocratic family and the boudoir of the wealthy family. There is a saying in an ancient poem that "the rich family smells of wine and meat." The words "Zhumen" and "Red Mansion" also have the same meaning. Compared with Bai Juyi's "The rich girl in the red mansion, embroidered with gold thread and Luo Ru", these two poems by Wei Zhuang are indeed more charming.
Looking at the whole book "Dream of Red Mansions", who is the most popular person? There is no doubt that this person is the hero of the book - the passionate young master Jia Baoyu!
In the third chapter of the book, Jia Baoyu wore a "two-color gold butterfly dress with red arrow sleeves" for her first appearance. After greeting Jia's mother, she changed her clothes before coming to see Lin Daiyu. , wearing a "half-worn coat with silver and red flowers." In Chapter 19, Jia Baoyu went to Ningguo Mansion to watch a play. He wore a "big red gold python fox armpit arrow sleeves". In the sixty-third birthday party, "Shou Yi Hong Qun Fang's Night Banquet", Baoyu is wearing a "big red cotton gauze coat".
Jia Baoyu loves red clothes. His love for red is not only reflected in his love for wearing red clothes, but he also pays special attention to people wearing red clothes. When he meets a beautiful woman by chance, he first asks "Who is that one wearing red?", and in his heart, not everyone is worthy of wearing red clothes.
In Chapter 19 of the book, when he heard the attacker say that the ones in red were his two aunts and sisters, he sighed twice, and the attacker said: "What are you sighing for? I know the reason in your heart, and I want to It's about how he deserves to wear red." In fact, Baoyu's "sigh" was admiration. Realizing that Xiren had misunderstood, he quickly smiled and said: "...No, no, such a person doesn't deserve to wear red, who would? Dare to wear it?..."
It can be seen that Baoyu not only likes Hongshang, but also has a sense of respect.
Jia Baoyu’s incarnation, the Shenying Waiter, lived in the “Chixia Palace” before descending to earth. Jia Baoyu lived in “Jiangyunxuan” when he lived in the Rongguo Mansion, and in “Yihongyuan” when he lived in the Grand View Garden. ". Chapter 37: When everyone in the Haitang Poetry Club was picking nicknames, it can be found that Jia Baoyu was called "Jiangdong Flower Master" when he was a child, and called himself "Yihong Gongzi" when he grew up. "Chixia", "Jiangyun", "Yihong" and "Jiangdong" are all inseparable from the color red.
In addition, Jia Baoyu not only wore red clothes, but also wore a "red fragrant gauze pillow" and hung a "big red gauze curtain." He also liked playing with his daughter's rouge.
Jia Baoyu seemed to be born with the problem of "loving red". He liked to "eat the rouge on people's mouths". He did not like reading in his life, but liked to have fun. His biggest hobby was steaming various flower dews and making rouge.
In the ninth chapter, he and Qin Zhong went to school together. Before leaving, he met with Daiyu. In addition to telling Sister Lin to "wait until I finish school before eating," he also emphasized that "I will not eat with Rouge Cream either." Wait for me to make it again.”
In Chapter 19, Xiren once strongly requested him, "...you are not allowed to eat the rouge on other people's mouths and the child who loves red." Daiyu wiped it off for Baoyu and rubbed it on her face. When he asked Rouge, he also persuaded, "You have done these things again. No matter what you do, you must bring a cover. That is, your uncle cannot see it, but others see it. You treat it as a strange thing and say something new to please your son, and blow it to your uncle." In the ears, it's time for everyone to be unclean and make people angry."
Chapter 21 Shi Xiangyun lived in Daiyu's room. When he got up early to dress up, Baoyu came and looked at the dressing items "unconsciously. He picked up the rouge again, intending to bring it to his mouth." When Xiangyun saw it, he stretched out his hand and knocked the rouge out of his hand, saying, "It takes me a long time to correct this problem of not making progress."
But none of them knew that Jia Baoyu's "love of red" could never be changed in his lifetime. Otherwise, after many times of persuasion, they would still smile playfully like a monkey in front of the mandarin duck and say, "Good sister, let me eat the rouge on your mouth." This provoked the mandarin duck to call out to the attacker: "Come out and take a look. You have never tried to persuade him all your life. You are still like this."
But Jia Baoyu likes to eat rouge from other people's mouths, which does not mean that he It is intentional to be frivolous about the beauty. If we take a closer look at the details of "Ping'er's makeup" in Chapter 44, we can understand that Jia Baoyu's love for Rouge is pure, and he is not teasing others in the name of Rouge.
... Baoyu smiled and advised: "Sister, you should put on some makeup, otherwise it will look like you are angry with Sister Feng.
Besides, it's his good day again, and the old lady has sent someone to comfort you. "
Ping'er heard the truth and went to look for the powder, but there was no powder. Baoyu hurriedly walked to the dressing table and opened a Xuanyao porcelain box, which contained a row of ten jade hairpin flower sticks. , picked up one and handed it to Ping'er. She smiled and said to him: "This is not lead powder, it is made from purple jasmine seeds, ground up and mixed with spices. ”
When Ping’er lay it down on the palm and looked at it, the fruit was light white, red and fragrant. It was beautiful in all four aspects. It was easy to apply evenly on the face, and it could moisturize the skin. It was not as heavy and astringent as other pinks and greens. Then Seeing that the rouge was not in sheets, but a small white jade box, it contained a box of rose paste.
Baoyu smiled and said, "The rouge sold in the market is not clean. The color is also thin. This is made by squeezing out the juice from the best rouge, washing out the residue, and steaming it with floral dew. Just pick a small amount with a hairpin and apply it on the palm of your hand. Dissolve it with a little water and apply it on your lips. It will be enough to hit the cheeks in the palm of your hand.
Ping'er followed the instructions and made up her hair. The fruit was unusually bright and sweet, and her cheeks were full of sweetness. Baoyu then used bamboo scissors to pick off a branch of Qiuhui in the basin and put it on his temple. Suddenly he saw Li Wan sending a girl to call him, so he went in a hurry. ...
Mr. Zhou once said in his book "The Twelve Floors of the Red Building": "Red" is the first of the seven colors for us, and it is the representative color of beauty, joy, celebration and prosperity. .
But when I was a student, I read a book that said, "Red is an extremely sad color!" There is a legend that when mixing red dye, raccoon blood must be added to stabilize it.
In Chapter 62, Baoyu saw Xiangling's pomegranate skirt dragging in the water, and said, "It's a pity that this pomegranate red damask is the least dyed." This sentence can also be regarded as a prophecy, It expresses the sadness and sadness of Baoyu.
Jia Baoyu loved red all his life, which doomed him to a lifetime of sorrow!
In Gao E's sequel, everyone knows the tragedy of love and marriage between Bao Dai and Chai. Even people who don’t know much about Dream of Red Mansions know the tragic ending of Sister Lin’s death and Brother Bao marrying Sister Bao.
Some people say that Baoyu and Daiyu are a tragedy of love, and Baoyu and Baochai are a tragedy of marriage; some sympathize with Lin Daiyu's death in tears, and some sympathize with Xue Baochai's young widowhood, but not many people sympathize. Jia Baoyu.
I think Baoyu's tragedy is greater than that of "Chai" and "Dai". He lost the person he loved most and married someone he didn't love. "Looking at the sky, the snow is crystal clear in the mountains; I will never forget the lonely forest in the fairyland." Whether it is love or marriage, it is a tragedy for him.
Jia Baoyu needs the sympathy of the world. Under the double blow of ideals and reality, he lost hope in life. Whether he becomes a monk or dies, it is the sorrow of life for him.
In Gao E's sequel, the scene where Jia Baoyu comes to bid farewell to Jia Zheng is as follows: There is a person in the snow shadow, with a bare head and bare feet, and a gorilla felt collar covering his body. He took off his cloak and bowed down to Jia Zheng.
What the once "rich and idle man" finally owned was nothing more than a scarlet tattered cloak...
Six Suns. Gold
2017 ·07.30
Attached is a beautiful photo of Sister Lin