Eighty Red Treatises: Aunt Xue (1)

Aunt Xue is the mother of Xue Pan and Xue Baochai, and the sister of Mrs. Wang, so the name is derived from the title of Baoyu and others. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 infoAunt Xue is the surviving elder of the Xue family described in the four major families of Jia, Shi, Wang, and Xue in the book "Dream of Red Mansions".

From the fourth round, the Xue family is different from the Jia family's ancestors, and their career as a horse was secular and secular. In the book, the first official matter of Jia Yucun's reinstatement was the Xue Pan case, his disciple took out the "talisman" and said "The harvest year is good and snowy, and the pearls are like earth and gold like iron", and the criticism of Fat Yanzhai is "After Xue Gong, Ziwei Sheren, is now receiving the inner government banker, a total of eight rooms". Why did the Xue family get the title of "Ziwei Sheren" in the imperial court? Judging from the rise of successive dynasties, the support of secular forces was an important force for emerging dynasties. For example, the rise of Liu Xiu in the Eastern Han Dynasty depended on the Guo family, and his queen was also Guo; When he was called emperor, there were also Confucian scholars who offered red fu charms to flaunt the will of heaven. There is no explanation in the book about why the Xue family arose, but from the Xue family's descendants Xue Zhen and Baoqin, they have the ability to walk the world.

The current situation of the Xue family is also very detailed in the fourth chapter. In the past, he always emphasized "loving mother and strict father", strict father is filed, and loving mother is blessed, so Xue Pan "widowed mother and pity him for being a lonely species, but he is spoiled and connived, so the boss is useless". The foundation of the Xue family is that "the family has millions of riches, and now they are receiving money and grain, and purchasing miscellaneous materials", and Xue Pan "Although he also went to school, he only knows a few words, and he only fights cocks and horses all day long, and travels in the mountains and rivers." Although he is an imperial businessman, he is completely ignorant of economic and world affairs, but he relies on his grandfather's old affection, the household department has a false name, receives money and grain, and the rest of the affairs have his own partners and old family members"; The criticism of Fat Yanzhai is "This sentence is added to the brother, but it is written in reality", but it is like "Xue Pan" is really looking at the text next to Cao Xueqin, so the scene of writing a book in Xishan Village can be imagined.

Due to the fact that "all the trading bureaus in the provinces, the general managers, the guys, etc., saw that Xue Pan was young and ignorant of the world, so they took advantage of the time to abduct and deceive, and several businesses in Kyoto were gradually consumed", the Xue family is also going downhill from the current situation, but the Xue family is out of Xue Baochai. Baochai's description of "since his father's death, seeing that his brother can't follow his mother's arms, he doesn't take books as a thing, and only pays attention to things such as needlework and family planning, so as to share his mother's worries and relieve his labor" is a bit too modest, because Xiangling said in the seventy-ninth chapter that "our girl's knowledge is often praised by our aunt", if even Jia Zheng praises it, then Baochai is a generalist who understands both men and women's abilities and knowledge; It is not an exaggeration for such a character to be the chief of the twelve golden hairpins, compared to Daiyu's literary feelings, his eyes are dazzling, and his eyes are indeed shining under his eyes.

One of the original purposes of the Xue family's trip to Beijing was that Xue Pan heard that "the recent reason is that the present is advocating poetry and etiquette, recruiting talents, and descending to the longen of the world, in addition to hiring concubines, the daughters of all famous eunuchs are all named Dabu, and they are selected as princesses and county lords to accompany them in school, and they are used as talented people and praise for goodness", so "send my sister to be selected". In other words, compared to the royal family, Jia Baoyu of Jiafu is just a spare tire; The paradox is that for Jia Baoyu, who already has Daiyu, Xue Baochai is also an alternative. If Baoyu is like a wise person, it would be fine, but he is as Sister Feng said in the fifty-fifth chapter, "He is not the goods here". It is difficult to explain how to understand Jia Yucun's theory of good and evil in the second episode, but it is really not easy for Baoyu's one-sided theory of love and righteousness to turn around. Therefore, from this point of view, the detour that the Xue family took in Jiafu was really a long distance and a long time.

2016.10.8