Chapter 1: Wedge (Pseudo)

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As for the book "Dream of Red Mansions", it was probably written a little more than 200 years ago. Since the day it came out, the book has had a huge impact, from the word of mouth of ordinary people, the adaptation and interpretation on the stage of theater, the joys and sorrows of scholars and literati who lamented the book and the author's joys and sorrows, and countless fans of men and women, plunged headlong into the world of the Red Mansion, unable to extricate themselves. Although the book has been banned and destroyed many times, it has survived. In an environment of peace and prosperity, the circulation of "Dream of Red Mansions" has become more and more extensive, and it has basically reached the level of being a household name, known to women and children. There are also many scholars who study the Red Chamber, and the guide has produced a special discipline called "Red Studies" - in other words, this book is not a great truth like the Four Books and the Five Classics, but it has such an influence, it is definitely a wonder of the past and present!

Moreover, although "Dream of Red Mansions" has been handed down, the content of its circulation is incomplete - "the most desperate ......pit in my life" because it is not a final article, at least the author has not yet uploaded the finished state, and there are only 80 times that can be pieced together into a complete chapter. After these eighty times, there are a lot of people who have tried to continue to write, and there have been quite a lot of sequels and releases, but no matter how good or bad these things are, they were not made by the original author Cao Xueqin after all. And because the content of this book is incomplete and not finished, there are more mysteries about the ending, characters, and emotional sustenance hidden in future generations. But it's just such a pit, people still like it, and they will still be deeply attracted to the author and the characters in the book, because there is no definite ending, and the speculation about the real ending is even more varied, and there are countless cases of noisy fights over the different characters of the Red Chamber they like, which has not only been the case for hundreds of years, but also has a tendency to get worse. "Dream of Red Mansions" has done this, and it can be called a great wonder of the past and present!

The main content of "Dream of Red Mansions" is the journey of a family from extreme prosperity to extreme decline, and the description in the book is full of details of various parents' shortcomings, eating, drinking, and having fun, and through these details, you can feel the happiness of the owner at that time, and the sadness of only memories after losing this qiē. In addition to the parting of life and death in the story, which is sad and painful, none of the main characters can be considered happy in the end.

However, most people prefer a "happy ending" and hope that a lover will eventually become married. It just so happens that "Dream of Red Mansions" is a pit, there are only eighty episodes, and the ending has long been incomplete, so many people have been aroused to complete the story and have a happy ending. Moreover, Jiafu written in "Dream of Red Mansions" is called a rich and powerful, and ordinary people and even ordinary people do not necessarily have this kind of momentum - it is said that soon after the book came out, some people said, "This is the story of the Pearl family of the former dynasty (Kangxi Dynasty)"-so in addition to writing an ending so that the talented and beautiful people in it can achieve a hundred years of good together, there are many people who hope to describe the sequel of Guò, the improvement of improvement, The innovation of innovation, so that Jiafu to revitalize the family, is also a kind of hope for the late Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China and even the current real society in urgent need of various reforms and rectification - when Cao Xueqin wrote this novel, he said that he was a "fool", probably not at all I thought that he would be such a wood and stone alliance, Jin Yu Liang Liang printed out how many real fools; he wrote a Rongguo Mansion and Ning Guofu in the book, but he did not expect how many Zhang Sanfu and Li Sifu were involved. This kind of sequel, the text can slightly imitate "Dream of Red Mansions", but its taste is often far from the same - but because of the large number, even if one out of a hundred miles may not be able to pick out the good one, but what about one out of a thousand, one out of a thousand? There will still be a few books that are brilliantly written and worth a look.

"Dream of Red Mansions" is not only liked by many people, and it is a sequel or imitation of writing similar novels, but also a group of readers who like to study, especially the characters in the book. So in the so-called "Red Studies", there is such a school, which specializes in studying the roots of the author and the characters in the book. Their general statement is: The Jia Mansion in the book is the Cao family of the Jiangnan Weaving Mansion alluded to, because the author Cao Xueqin's grandfather and father are the officials. Later, there was a theory that "Dream of Red Mansions" was actually written about the wild history of the imperial family, and it was banned because it exposed some secrets of the Manchu emperor. This kind of statement gradually has a market, so in addition to the original imitation red mansion novels that like prosperity and wealth and specialize in writing about the short children of parents, another category has been added: they directly "restored" the Jia Mansion in "Dream of Red Mansions" to the Cao Mansion of the Qing Dynasty, and took the Cao family as the protagonists of the novel, striving to change the fate of the Cao family, so that the Cao family could not only continue to be officials, but also further prosper.

This type of novel is still interesting, but if you want to talk about the taste, it has completely lost the flavor of "Dream of Red Mansions". Because, if Cao Xueqin is indeed the author of "Dream of Red Mansions", and he is really the descendant of the Cao family of Jiangning Weaving Mansion, then he really had the kind of rich and prosperous life of his youth, and the authors of sequels or imitations do not have such life experience, so no matter how they write, they can't write the rich and noble taste of Cao Xueqin's pen. But then again, do you really have to see and experience it to make a story authentic and credible, and to be able to infect others? Sima Qian has never seen the battle of Qixia, it is just as wonderful and moving. Therefore, future generations continue to study evidence, continue to create, and pick one out of a thousand, and there will always be novels that are very in line with the truth and are worth watching. And just for the sake of one or two novels worth reading and getting, it is enough for us, the readers, to exert the fearless spirit of minesweeping, and search for them on the Internet every day, "although tens of millions of thunders have gone".

What, there are a lot of miscellaneous lala, and it is estimated that many people think that this is making up the number of words. But my dear readers, eh, saying so much is actually just trying to dig out my heart to talk to you.,Why am I digging a million-word pit with HP and at the same time opening another Red Mansion fandom.。 I'm sure my loveliest and most determined readers will have the patience to read my ramblings, and those who come to the pit for the first time...... It's not up to me to jump or not, but if I don't, I'm a little lonely......

I've always felt that whether the Red Mansion fandom is good or not, the author is very important. Many people say that Gao Yi is not good, but people can withstand the pressure, and the one hundred and twenty times "Dream of Red Mansions" has been popular for so many years. Other sequels or adaptations don't have this level. Recently, although Red Studies has flourished (and even flourished a little strangely), there are basically no real scholars or senior literati who write the continuation of Red Mansions (a certain Liu Nai is not a strange thing). What we can see, the absolute majority of them are online fan fiction, a general group of young authors. Then, the problem arises.

In the past 5,000 years of Chinese history, the vicissitudes of life have changed the most, and it is definitely the most drastic change in the last 180 years: from the □□ kingdom to the sick man of East Asia, after suffering humiliation from the great powers, it has finally reorganized the country and rejuvenated the country, and ushered in a new life after more than 100 years of suffering. However, from the perspective of a country or history, a hundred years may not be too long, and from a person's point of view, a hundred years is already a lifetime. Therefore, for those of us who were born in an era of peace and grew up in the stage of the overall rise of national strength, even if we can know the past from history books, teachers, and elders, after all, it is not a personal experience, and there is a lack of a sense of skin. In this era, information was so developed, and it was the most relaxed and free period in terms of speech and other aspects recorded in history, so young people often dared to comment on something when they heard something, and they would insist that their opinions were correct and superior. There are also some people, probably out of the psychology of "watching the scenery from the other side", always feel that the scenery on the other side of the river is more beautiful, always feel that the ancient life is better, blindly nostalgic, all kinds of "retro" hats; or those who claim to like classical literature, like to dance and write poems and lyrics, but really look at their works, neither meet the basic requirements of poetry tonal rhythm, nor have profound meaning and charm, just simply pile up words, look gorgeous and bluffing, but in front of the real experts, they can only laugh and be generous.

All of the above can be classified as "young and ignorant". However, there is another kind, which may be more mature and calm, they have experienced some of their own, have an understanding of human feelings, and can see the so-called "flowers without a hundred days of redness", in fact, there are always many crises hidden in the prosperous era, and there are always many gaps between ideals and reality. If you look at the things written by ancient people at such a time, you can often dig deep into the deep meaning of the words and trigger all kinds of emotions, and if those novels and works are similar, the experience and emotions of the author or characters are a little similar to your own, it is very easy to empathize, so the feelings are even deeper - this kind of mental fit, of course, will not be in tune with the current reality, plus "crossing" is so popular, once you drill the tip of the horns, you will subconsciously have the idea of running back to ancient times in one breath. In this case, it is often the young people themselves who do not adjust their mentality well, or they do not see the problem comprehensively, or they try to avoid the problem with the simplest way...... When time passes, when you look back, you will feel that your thoughts are actually quite ridiculous. This is like Nan Ke Taishou's dream of Huangliang, and like the twelve hairpins of Jinling in the Stone Record, even if they have experienced those splendid prosperity, they have finally become a passing cloud, and they still have to return to the most realistic current life after all. The final value of those young ideas seems to be just to make people laugh.

At this point, I almost made it clear what I was writing this about. In short, when they are full of food and support, young people are worried about the brightness of the country and the people while dreaming of big heads, and then they are suddenly splashed down by a basin of cold water -- why take it so seriously? The various deep and shallow pits dug on the Internet are, in the final analysis, a relaxation and entertainment. How much pain a person has to have.,Will write a book full of evidence.、Reasonable Red Mansion Douren just to fight with others,Shouting "I've seen it all and come to see it, I'm the real Red Mansion Doujin"?——If that's really the case,Probably I myself can only point while having a toothache while complaining in the penguin group, "There are two goods from time to time,There are a lot of strange things"。

So I opened such a pit, on the one hand, to commemorate my bright youth who used to worry about the country and the people, and on the other hand, to learn from the leisurely and comfortable literati life of those old and young people three hundred years ago. There will be a lot of "real elements" added to it, but there will also be more "pure fiction" content. Because it involves a lot of content related to the south of the Yangtze River, the name of this pit is called "Scenery Old Zeng Chen". The text, of course, is to imitate the vernacular style of "Dream of Red Mansions" as much as possible, and I hope it will not be too out of shape.

The last sentence: This is a YY story, please don't be too serious with me!

Okay, that's the end of the indecent gossip, and here's the serious text content.

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