The First Deep Interpretation of A Dream of Red Mansions (Ⅱ)

Last time we talked about Zhen following a monk to the dreamland. Just want to follow the past, suddenly a thunder, the dream was awakened, he didn't remember the contents of the dream.

When I woke up, I only saw the wet nurse coming with her three-year-old daughter Zhen. Zhen, the first woman to appear in A Dream of Red Mansions, is homophonic, which means you really should be poor. The name also implies the tragic fate of winning in a row.

Zhen took her lovely daughter out for a walk and amused her along the way. He must regard such a lovely daughter as a treasure. At this moment, a lame monk and a lame Taoist suddenly appeared. Later, we learned that these two men were actually the incarnations of two monks who brought stones to the world in Zhen Meng's dream. And they have a mission to the earth. This monk specializes in crossing women and Taoist priests specialize in crossing men. Zhen Huaizhong is the first woman that the monk wants to cross.

I really heard the monk shout, "What are you doing with this child that harms your parents?" Leave me alone! Get up! " As a father, Zhen Yinshi must be scared to death when he hears this. He thought the monk was mentally ill, so he quickly carried Lian Win into the room.

Here, the first poem of A Dream of Red Mansions, which hints at the fate of the characters, is about to appear. We call it a verdict. The fifth time we will see that every woman in Jinling has a verdict, which hints at their future fate.

The monk sang a poem to Zhen:

"Jiao smile jun chi, LingHuaKong snow zhuo. After the Lantern Festival, it's time for the smoke to go out. "

Zhen Yinshi's eldest daughter has only one daughter, so of course he can't give it away. At the back of this poem, Zhi Yanzhai gave a comment: "Crying all over the world."

From ancient times to now, we have never heard of "the thread in the hands of a loving mother, making clothes for her wayward boy's body" and "children travel thousands of miles to worry about their mother" Only spoony parents, few spoony children. Even if parents love them again, it is only their infatuation, because the children will leave sooner or later. Monks have long understood the truth that good things in the world are not forced, and colorful clouds are easily broken. Let him give up as soon as possible. "Laughing at your stupidity" in that poem is actually not a sneer, but a kind of helplessness.

People's fate is sometimes predestined by heaven. This sentence is particularly appropriate in A Dream of Red Mansions, especially for these unlucky people, because they are looking for a marriage that will experience the world of mortals in the next life.

We know that it will be renamed Xiangling after winning in a row, so Ling Hua refers to Xiangling. Melissa Zhou, the homophonic Xue, means to contact with Xue Pan, an idiot, in the future. The sound of snow is the sound of falling snow. "Ling Hua" blooms in summer and snows in winter, alluding to the tragic fate of divorce after marriage with Xue Pan. As we will see later, Lian Win is an outstanding woman who combines romance, poetry, talent and beauty. Such a woman meets a dude who only eats, drinks, whores and gambles all day, and the ending can be imagined. A word "empty" writes the sadness and helplessness of winning the fate in a row.

Lantern Festival hints at the time line when winning streak is abducted by traffickers. The reason is that on the night of the Lantern Festival, Hodge, the housekeeper of Zhen family, took her out to watch the lights. Because she suddenly wanted to go to the toilet and felt embarrassed, she put Lian Win on a step and went to other places to pee, which led to Lian Win being abducted by traffickers. Hodge's homonym actually means disaster. The Zhen couple almost lost half their lives because of their daughter's disappearance. Every day is Lacrimosa. In the second half of the poem, the smoke goes out, suggesting that the Zhen family will lose everything because of a big fire. Sure enough, an unexpected fire later burned all the family property of Zhen, leaving only half a life. He had to go to his father-in-law's house to live in his sponsor's house, be looked down upon by others, and be a gangster every day.

One day after a long time, Zhen Yinshi had nothing to do. He wandered aimlessly in the street like a walking corpse on crutches. Suddenly, he heard a crazy lame Taoist singing while walking.

Everyone knows that immortals are good, but their fame is unforgettable!

Where will the past and present be? A pile of grass on the wasteland is missing.

Everyone knows that the fairy is good, but gold and silver can't forget it!

In the end, I only hate getting together, but I close my eyes for a long time.

Everyone knows that immortals are good, and only a good wife can forget them!

You said hello on your birthday, and you died with others.

Everyone knows that immortals are good, and only children and grandchildren can't forget them!

There have been many infatuated parents since ancient times. Who has seen filial piety for children and grandchildren?

When I was in high school, I actually learned only half of this poem. But when I get older and have some life experience, I seem to know what it is written about gradually. I often think like this: "People in the world are always caught up in the world of mortals, or make a lot of money, or have children and grandchildren, or get married, and the authorities are fascinated and lose themselves, which is hard to let go." I thought it was all true. But when you suddenly fall from the position of wealth and floating clouds and become empty, you will doubt whether everything you used to be true or not. "

Cao Xueqin likes to write sadness with happiness. For example, on the occasion of the family reunion on the Lantern Festival, it was originally a happy scene, but the plot turned sharply and the joy was extremely sad. It is intended to suddenly give a slap in the face and vigorously alert the world. What's he trying to tell us? Again, when it's true, it's really false, and inaction is everywhere.

When Zhen heard this good song, his heart suddenly seemed to have an epiphany, so he immediately made some comments on this good song:

The humble room is empty and the bed is full; Dry grass withered poplar, used to be a ballroom.

Spider silk is covered with carved beams, and green yarn is attached to the awning window. What do you say about thick fat and fragrant powder? Why are your temples frosted again?

Yesterday, the loess dragon sent bones, and tonight, the red light lies at the bottom of the account.

A box full of gold and a box full of silver, all beggars were slandered in an instant.

I am lamenting that his life span is not long, and I will know that I am dead when I come back!

If you train well, you will never be a strong beam in the future. Choose cream beam, who wants to live in Yanhua Lane!

Because the gauze cap is too small, it locks the cangue bar. I felt embarrassed about the cold coat yesterday, but now I think the purple python is too long.

Noisy, you sing me on stage, but you think that other places are your hometown. That's ridiculous. In the end, it was all on wedding dresses for other girls!

Zhen's Notes on Good Songs is a further concrete and vivid interpretation of the idea of Good Songs. A bed full of water refers to a long and narrow wooden board held by ancient monarchs and their subjects when they met the emperor in the imperial court. It is made of jade, ivory or bamboo according to the grade. Full-bed Cave refers to the story that all relatives and friends came to celebrate Guo Ziyi's 60th birthday in Tang Dynasty. Because they are all senior officials of the imperial court, they all hold water boards in their hands and fill the bed with water boards when offering birthday prayers. Full bed is a grand occasion to express family prosperity.

In popular terms, the whole poem is: the water board full of beds is gone, leaving only the empty and dilapidated hall; The ballroom is overgrown with weeds, and the glittering eaves are covered with cobwebs; Time flies, youth is a little longer, and pink becomes bald in a blink of an eye; I reluctantly bid farewell to the old man yesterday and got married again today; What's the use of a box full of gold and silver? When you were a beggar, everyone spurned you, and no one appreciated your style. I just learned that someone else died, but I didn't know that my life had come to an end; Even though his parents taught him well, he became a robber after his parents died. Parents choose a good source of goods for their daughter, but they didn't expect to end up in a place of fireworks; An official always does not satisfy his own desires, but the result is imprisonment; It was pitiful to wear a shabby coat yesterday, but today I feel that the official is too small to have prestige. This step down, that step up again, it's ridiculous and absurd. In the final analysis, it's all about making wedding clothes for others.

The annotation of this good song is actually written by Cao Xueqin after witnessing the great changes of the family from prosperity to decline. It can be said that all the valuable information of this book and the meaning it wants to express are in these two poems. Every sentence in these two poems actually has the function of suggesting the plot. It's just that it's hard for friends who are unfamiliar with the later chapters to understand. In later chapters, we will constantly mention the meaning of these poems.

These two poems sound heartless. Somehow, every time I read them, I don't feel desperate, but I also realize the vagaries of the world. Because of its constant contrast in the whole song, it makes people feel hot and cold, happy or sad, and there is a sense of vicissitudes that I think of heaven and earth, with no limit and no end, and I am alone with my tear drops.

The story in the world is like a play, which goes back and forth endlessly. When you sing, I will appear. People always come and often go. It turns out that life is actually a cycle in the end. Although my family lost, there are still so many upstarts, black powder. But it can't last, because there are others to replace you, which is ridiculous. In the end, there was nothing, but the world still didn't wake up.

Many people say that these two poems are too negative, urging the world to see through the world of mortals and choose independence as soon as possible. Some people say that if I can, I hope that when I was young, I never read A Dream of Red Mansions or recited the Tao Te Ching. Watch more Korean dramas, think less about life, and live less profoundly. That's why there's a saying that young people don't study in the Red Chamber and old people don't study in the Three Kingdoms. Here, I remain neutral.

In fact, what I want to defend the author is that what he wants us to learn is an attitude towards life. We can be modest when going through big storms, not sad or happy when we get a box full of gold and silver, and modest when we reach the peak of our lives. When you know what Cao Xueqin wants to express, you will look at the Red Chamber and the things around you, and you will be full of compassion, and there will be no difference between rich and poor, and there will be no difference in life.

So Jiang Xun always said, A Dream of Red Mansions, you must read it as Buddhism.

Maybe my thoughts are not deep enough. Welcome redology lovers to join the discussion.