How to evaluate Xue Baochai?

"Filial piety comes first". Filial piety is the first of all trades, the source of all goodness and the first duty of people in this trade. People must be unfilial. Filial piety is like a rootless tree and passive water. Confucius and Mencius put forward the filial piety of "not violating" and "pleasing relatives", and they should serve their parents in accordance with the ceremony before and after death. People who love their loved ones always make their parents happy. In A Dream of Red Mansions, it seems that only Xue Baochai really understands and practices these two kinds of filial piety proposed by Confucius and Mencius.

Although Baochai was born in four big families, she had no worries about food and clothing since she was a child, but when the Xue family was in decline at that time, she was destined to be worried and even have a disaster. Coupled with the death of her father, even if she had a brother, she didn't make progress and made trouble, although she didn't make trouble. Only mother can rely on it. Although Baochai is spoiled in a rich family, she is very sensible, humble and filial. The thirty-fourth time, after Baoyu was beaten, xiren said in front of Baochai that Xue Pan had instigated someone to do it, and Baochai went home and told her mother. Feeling wronged, Xue Pan made a scene, saying that Baochai was "protecting" Baoyu. He wrote angrily: "Baochai is full of grievances, full of anger, and afraid that her mother will be unhappy ... When she got up the next morning, she didn't care about grooming and went out to see her mother." It can be seen that Baochai is very filial to her mother, and even on her own marriage issues, Baochai respects her mother's opinions. When Xue's mother told Baochai that she had been betrothed to Baoyu, the book answered 97 times: "Baochai bowed her head and said nothing first, and then cried." (Mu Xue) Just looked at Baochai as if she didn't want to. Even so, he is a daughter's home. People who are always filial and polite know that I recognize him, and he has nothing to say. ""It can be seen that Baochai is not willing to this marriage, but only out of filial piety.

Baochai's filial piety is regarded as the best among all women in the Grand View Garden by the people in Jiafu, and has become an example for all women to learn.

2. Baochai's thoughtfulness:

Xue Baochai is the first person in the Grand View Garden who carefully considers other people's mood and situation, gives care, thinks what others think and is anxious about others.

Shi Xiangyun is the person who remembers Baochai best in the Grand View Garden. Baochai once helped Xiangyun to take the needlework that Aroma wanted, in order to reduce Xiangyun's burden. The thirty-second time, xiren couldn't sew because she was "in poor health these two days" and asked Xiangyun to help make a pair of Baoyu's shoes. Baochai criticized xiren when she found out. "Why can't you be considerate for a while?" I've been looking at Miss Yun's face recently, which sounds like talking about rain in the wind. You can't be the master of the family. Their family doesn't need those people who work with needles and needles. Almost everything is done by their women. "Judging from Baochai's narrative, it's not what Xiangyun said directly in front of her. With keen observation, she felt the difficulty of Xiangyun. So I took the initiative to take the next step. On the 37th time, Shi Xiangyun had a good time with all the sisters in the Grand View Garden, and on the spur of the moment he wanted to invite his host to dinner. Baochai put herself in the other's shoes, knowing that she couldn't be the master at home, and she spent a lot of money in January. If she invited the host to hold a banquet in the garden where the club was located, she would be complained by her aunt when she went back, so she sponsored Xiangyun to hold a crab banquet. Xiangyun was impressed by Baochai's thoughtfulness and treated her like a sister.

After Xing Xiuyan came to the Grand View Garden, Baochai thought that he was "poor in family business, other people's parents are old and virtuous, but her parents are full of distiller's grains, which is normal for her daughter; Mrs. xing is just a face of love, not really love; Yingchun is also an honest man. Even if she hasn't taken care of herself, how can she take care of her? What is often needed in the boudoir is either lacking or neglected, but Baochai is considerate and supportive. Baochai found it was still very cold, so Xing Xiuyan changed all the clips and chose "behind the stone wall" as a place to avoid people's eyes. After asking about the situation, she knew that her winter clothes had been pawned and was in an embarrassing situation, so she ordered Yingying to take them back from the crowd and send them quietly. Wait, Baochai gave timely care and help.

3. Baochai is generous and open-minded:

After Baochai entered the government, she was very generous to everyone in Jia's complicated and contradictory family. Even for people who are looked down upon, such as Aunt Zhao, she never shows indifference and contempt, so she is praised by all kinds of people in the Jia family. Aunt Zhao, who never praises others, also calls herself "generous". Even the little girls are close to her, and the upper-class people in Jia's family even praise her. She has always been regarded as an "opponent" and an "imaginary enemy", but Xue Baochai can't help but face a series of verbal attacks. She satirized Xue Baochai: "His heart is limited to other things. Only when these people bring it can he have a heart? " The thirty-fourth time, Baochai suspected that Baoyu's beating was caused by his brother's careless speech and complained a few words. Instead, my brother robbed me and cried all night. The next day, Daiyu saw that she was crying, so she smiled and said, "Sister, take care. Even if you cry two altar tears, you can't cure the sore! " Baochai didn't strike back at such words, and wrote at the beginning of chapter 35: "Baochai clearly heard that Lin Daiyu was bad to him, but she didn't come back and walked all the way." At first, Xue Baochai was unaware of it. Later, she felt it, too, but she didn't hold a grudge and waited for an opportunity to get back at Daiyu, but she never had any bad feelings. The 40th time, Daiyu blurted out the sentences in the forbidden books Peony Pavilion and The West Chamber in the order of her drinking. Baochai did not take the opportunity to retaliate against Daiyu, but gave her a sincere exhortation: "Don't read miscellaneous books", "You and I only do some needlework" and "A woman without talent is virtue". It can be seen that tolerance and kindness are the reasons why Lin Daiyu later marveled at her.

Xue Baochai is tolerant and kind to people because she is open-minded. Forty-seventh time, Xue Pan was beaten, and Aunt Xue was so angry that she wanted to find Liu Xianglian. With her usual generosity and openness, Baochai tried her best to dissuade and resolve a conflict.

It is this "woman who can bear hardships and stand hard work". I can't see her arrogance when I am rich, and I can look at it calmly when I am ruined. Her open-minded attitude towards life can also be regarded as a glimmer of life in her tragic fate and a ray of light on the dark road of life; This kind of open-mindedness will not make her suffer because of nothing, nor will it be beyond redemption because of a hundred years of changes ... She will pack up all her injuries and full of pain, showing her calmness and openness as always, doing housework with all her heart, filial piety to her in-laws, raising her posthumous child, and helping to complete the expectation that "Guilin will be released and her family will recover".

4. Baochai's knowledge:

Baochai is talented and learned. Her educated family environment and intelligent mind in her childhood have created her profound artistic accomplishment and extensive knowledge. She is proficient in some classics and history, as well as poetry. She has extensive knowledge of art, history, medicine, a hundred schools of thought contend and Buddhist classics, which can be described as omniscient.