What is the official symbol?

Official protectors used to refer to the list of local dignitaries. When a new official takes office, he must protect his own interests in order to gain a firm foothold and keep his official position. Jia is real, the golden horse in the hall. After the second public service in Guo Rong, Ningguo, there were 20 rooms, except for eight rooms sent by Rong Ning in the capital, and now there are 12 rooms for the original residents. Epang Palace, 300 Li, can't live in Jinling Yishi. After bowling Hou Shangshu made Shi Gong, he was divided into eight rooms, and now they all live in ten rooms, which used to be eight rooms. The East China Sea is short of white jade beds, and the Dragon King came to invite King Jinling. After the king of the county came under Qiu's rule, there were * * * twelve rooms, all of which were in the second room, and the rest were registered. With so much snow in good years, pearls are as gold as iron. After giving up Gong Xue in Wei Zi, I am now the banker of Neikutang, with eight rooms. [Explanation] Xue Panqiang robbed a commoner and killed someone. Jia Yucun got four families from an "official protection symbol", so he and bending the law decided the case indiscriminately. The author explains the meaning of "official protection symbol" through the mouth: now all local officials have a private list with the names of the most powerful and wealthy squires in the province, which is the case in all provinces; If you don't know, you will not only be an official but also lose your life if you violate such a family for a while! -so it is called "protector". "Official amulet" is a new term derived from the word "amulet", which can be proved by the comments of contemporary Zhifuzhai that "the three characters are finally missing, and they are extremely strange" (Jiaxuben). It may be a mockery made privately by someone who hates the dark status quo of officialdom, which Cao Xueqin boldly wrote into his works after hearing about, or it may actually be the author's own creation. [Note] 1. The phrase "white jade" describes the wealth and luxury of the Jia family. Meet in Han Yuefu: "Gold is the door, and white jade is the hall." 2. Epang Palace, 300 Li-Epang Palace is a large-scale building built in the Qin Dynasty, and its scale is extremely grand. According to the biography of Hanshu Jiashan, the length and width of Epang Palace are "five miles from east to west and a thousand steps from north to south". "Historical records. The Biography of Qin Shihuang contains: The front hall of Epang Palace is "500 steps from east to west and 50 feet from north to south". The so-called "300 Li" is an exaggeration of "more than 300 Li, isolated from the sun and the moon" in Mutu's "Epang Palace Fu" in the Tang Dynasty, which is used to describe the prominence of historians. 3. The Dragon King-In ancient legends, people thought that the Dragon King had many jewels and was very rich. Here I borrow the Dragon King for help, and I highly value the wealth of the Wangs. 4. Snow-the homonym of "snow". Here is a rhetorical device of homophonic pun. [Appreciation] A Dream of Red Mansions appears with the characteristics of "trivial matters in the family", "grand mood" and "not disturbed by the times", and it is often confused with the real. Concealing is out of necessity, so the author sometimes has to open some small holes in his "puzzle" to let people see the truth. This is the story of The Official Protector, which was specially arranged before the plot of the book, occupying the main space of the fourth chapter. Why did Xue Pan kill Feng Yuan, the son of a small township official, and take the abducted girl away, and "he took this as a child's play, spent a few stinking money himself, and there was nothing impossible"? Why did this "nothing difficult to decide" life lawsuit drag on for a year and "nobody cares"? Why just listen to the plaintiff complaining and scold "there is such a fart matter! Jia Yucun, who killed someone, left for nothing and couldn't get it back, and later made his own "such a fart"? Why did he listen to the explanation that the abducted girl was the daughter of his "great benefactor", and Xue Pan, who dragged her to death, was "the best man in the world", and he also knew that the Xue family was "full of concubines", so this girl would not have a good result, but she ignored Zhen Xuan's kindness and the "must" she had promised. All these questions can be answered from this "official protection symbol" that describes the power and wealth of the four major families. It is this "official protection symbol" that directly exposes the corruption of feudal politics and the darkness and cruelty of the whole society, and shows readers that the rich and luxurious Rong Ning Mansion and the rich and fragrant Grand View Garden have only swallowed up the blood, sweat and sin of countless oppressed and exploited people. A Dream of Red Mansions takes the rise and fall of four big families (mainly Jia Fu) as the central clue of the book, and the symbol of official protection implies this plot structure. Through the introduction of the door, the author said: "These four families are all connected and have relatives. If you lose, you lose, and you are proud. They will support, cover up and take care of. "In the first half, we saw that the four families were indeed' honored' because they' supported the decorations and took care of them'; Shouldn't the second half write "all lost" because of their "failure" and mutual guilt? That's true. 1959, Jing's manuscript "The Story of the Stone" (hereinafter referred to as "Ben") was discovered in Nanjing. Next to these words, there is a chubby comment on writing (the original book was lost a few years later and is now recorded by Mr. Mao), saying: "The four schools are in the lower half. "The so-called" Fugen "refers to the decline of the future four * * * with fate. It can be seen that the words "a loss is a profit, and a glory is a glory" are a summary of the plot of the four major families from prosperity to decline throughout the book. In the last forty chapters of the sequel, it was not intended to put aside the three schools of history, Wang and Xue; However, the decline and revival of Huang Muen and Yan Shize, which wrote about Jia Fu, fundamentally distorted the theme of this novel describing the decline history of feudal families. It should be pointed out that it is wrong for some books to delete the small words after the four common sayings of "official protection". Because, in the words of Menzi, it has been clearly stated in word of mouth that "the following are marked with ancestral official titles and room numbers". The purpose of marking the titles and rooms is to explain the power and property distribution of the four families, let people who read the private list know their prominent position in politics and economy, and implement the meaning of these four proverbs, which is the proper text of this private list that plays the role of "official protection". The copywriter of the fat book mistakenly thinks that all the small characters are added by calligraphers, so it is confused with the fat batch. For example, in the JOE version, the note that should be under the proverb has been moved to the side of the proverb; What should be written in the same ink as the proverb is written in Zhu, which is tantamount to fat batch. In the first eleven chapters of Chen Geng's version, redundant comments were deleted, and only the text was copied. As a result, even the original notes were deleted as comments, but this was not intentional. (Geng also deleted the first three words of the sentence "Take this day" in the song "An Introduction to a Dream of Red Mansions", because the author wrote three lines of "Take this day" in fine print according to the format of the song, and the copywriter mistakenly made a fat batch. However, when several later versions of the original text, such as Cheng Gaoben, were greatly changed by later generations, the situation was different: it simply deleted all the words with comments under the proverb. This is intentional. Probably the forger thinks it's a novel anyway, not a matter of remembering facts. Why is it so trivial? Or he is worried that such a note is too specific. If there is any suspicion of insinuating a family, it will cause trouble. It is better to delete it to save trouble. But now, this private list, which was originally used as a memo and was "clearly written", has become a bit like an endless riddle. When it comes to the losses caused by the deletion of the original book by future generations, it should also be mentioned that after the above-mentioned "these four families are all related and have relatives, they have also deleted the words" support and cover, take care of everything ". The nine words in the original work tell an important fact, that is, the four families are not only related by marriage and blood, but more importantly, they have formed a closely linked group politically. Their "glory" and "defeat" are actually the result of the struggle between one faction within the landlord class and that faction. It is precisely to establish this kind of political relationship of "supporting and shielding" that they "connect with each other", not the other way around. Words related to the political essence of feudalism and the basic contents of the book have also been deleted, so it is not difficult to imagine that Cao Xueqin's thoughts and the political theme of his novels have been seriously distorted.

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