Eighty Red Theory: Conspiracy or Revolutionary Aunt Zhao (1)

When evaluating a work, there are two evaluation methods: literary evaluation and social evaluation. The difference between these two evaluation methods www.biquge.info reflected in the positive and negative directions may coincide or may be different. In the case of Dream of Red Mansions, it is a great work in literature, and it is successful in the literary description of characters, landscapes, and things; From a sociological point of view, this is an encyclopedia of feudal society, and the descriptions of people, landscapes, and things in it are evidence of criticism of feudal society. From a literary point of view, people can often substitute for the situation, but not from a sociological point of view. Taking Jia Baoyu as an example, from the perspective of literature, it can be substituted from the perspective of the protagonist, and from the perspective of sociology, after deducting his literary accomplishment, he is a gentleman and a representative of the feudal and decadent system.

Therefore, on the other hand, when we look at Aunt Zhao, the number one villain in "Dream of Red Mansions", her character level will increase a lot, and she is unique from the perspective of character complexity.

First of all, look at the existence of Aunt Zhao in the book. Aunt Zhao is Jia Zheng's concubine and the mother of Tanchun and Jia Huan. Aunt Zhao's background is the birth of a family daughter, that is, the next generation born by the combination of the little maid and the maid who was released. For example, the children born and raised by Baoyu's slave Mingyan and maid Wan'er should not be compared to Jia Yun, who is poor in this branch, and the maid Xiaohong, the daughter of housekeeper Lin Zhixiao.

Why was Jia Zheng able to approach Aunt Zhao or under what circumstances did he contact Aunt Zhao? The problem is more complicated. Because Baoyu is older than Tanchun and Jia Huan, Mrs. Wang said in the thirty-third chapter, "I am now fifty years old", and Baoyu is thirteen years old, so Jia Zheng came into contact with Aunt Zhao around the age of thirty-five. In the second "Leng Zixing's Speech Rongguo Mansion", it was said that Jia Zheng embarked on a career as the emperor, "gave this political father an additional title of principal, so that he entered the ministry to study, and now he has been promoted to a foreign officer", Jia Zheng is a member of the foreign lang, which is equivalent to a deputy position, and when the officials discuss seniority, he does not belong to the serious imperial examination and does not have an advantage, so Jia Zheng's career cannot be smooth sailing, there must be ups and downs, so in the seventy-eighth chapter, he said, "Recently, Jia Zheng is old, fame and fortune are gray, but at first he was also a person of poetry and wine." If Jia Zheng's career is bumpy and his poetry and wine are released, then Jia Zheng will also be likely to come into contact with characters like Aunt Zhao. Aunt Zhao was pregnant and gave birth to Tanchun, and she jumped from an inferior person to an aunt, not to mention giving birth to a boy named Jia Huan, which was a great achievement in that era when patriarchy was a major event. At that time, Aunt Zhao may have been only eighteen or nineteen years old.

So, how does Aunt Zhao look? She should be very beautiful, it may be a combination of Third Sister You and Xia Jingui, she is both beautiful and scheming, but her character is too poor. I say this because the book depicts Tanchun very beautifully. But some people say that in the twenty-third episode, Jia Huan "has a trivial character and sparse manners", note that this is to say that Jia Huan is a villain, like Aunt Zhao, who is small-minded and easy to do some calculations that work hard but in vain, so "trivial" is to describe StarCraft tactics and trivial, which refers to the character's trivial, and the behavior is very "ridiculous", like Jia Zheng criticized Baoyu in the thirty-third chapter: "Good and decent, what are you doing when you are depressed?" Fang Cai Yucun came to see you, and asked you to come out for half a day; Now that it has come out, there is no generosity at all, and it is still a leafy flower. I saw a sad look on your face, and then you coughed and sighed. Are you not enough, are you not comfortable? For no reason, but why? Baoyu's sadness because of Jin Chuan is an accidental phenomenon, and Jia Huan is a common phenomenon of being narrow-minded and ignorant of people and treating people absurdly. Pan An Song Yu's beautiful gentleman is a kind of phenomenon of the crowd, and the villain can also be as good as Pan Anwen Song Yu, not to mention those embroidered pillows that have no life ideals in modern society.

Why is Jia Zheng unusually close to Aunt Zhao, or does Jia Zheng love Aunt Zhao? Considering the huge difference in cultural accomplishment between the two, it is impossible to say that Jia Zheng loves Aunt Zhao. At the beginning of the seventy-third round, Aunt Zhao "sent Jia Zheng to rest", this small paragraph is not placed in the previous round, and it is very eye-catching, very interesting, and very intriguing, Cao Xueqin can't because of the last time he said, "I just heard a sound outside, I don't know what it was, everyone was taken aback" The storyteller had to put it at the beginning of a time, which shows that Jia Zheng rested at Aunt Zhao on weekdays, It's like the forty-fourth episode has to say something to Daiyu and Baochai doesn't answer to the beginning to highlight that Daiyu is a bosom friend. So, does Jia Zheng have any other reasons besides the things in the house? Some. Aunt Zhao's strengths in addition to her appearance are that she can calculate. As a cultural person, Jia Zheng is naturally not interested in calculations, and Jia Zheng can't blame Baoyu for the fact that father and son are born together. Jia Zheng's perennial career is nonsense, but people like Jia Zheng may not be good at deceit, and these are what people like Aunt Zhao are good at, and from the plots of "Nightmare Magic Sister and Brother Meet Five Ghosts", "Insulting Relatives and Foolish Concubines to Fight for Leisure", "Jasmine Powder Removes Rose Nitrate" and other plots, Aunt Zhao belongs to an insidious and dangerous person who dares to think and dare to do things and is not afraid of taking risks. Such a person is a perennial character who blows the pillow wind all year round like Mrs. Wang, so Aunt Zhao has a vast living space in the book "Dream of Red Mansions". Of course, Jia Zheng may not care about Aunt Zhao's opinion at all, but he needs to have someone like Shiye in Jia's mansion to provide another possibility for easy reference.

said that Aunt Zhao is the number one villain in "Dream of Red Mansions", in addition to Cao Xueqin's direct description of "scorpion sting" in the sixty-seventh chapter, but also because of the various injuries she has caused to the protagonist Jia Baoyu and others. It should be noted that Aunt Zhao's ability and energy are very powerful, for example, in the thirty-seventh round, Musk Yue said: "The bottle should also be collected." The old lady's house is still there, and there are many people in the wife's house. Others are okay, but Aunt Zhao and Grandma Zhao and her gang saw that it was something in this house, and they should have broken the black heart. Mrs. doesn't care much about these things, it's better to take them in the seriousness earlier", for example, in the sixtieth chapter, "When the people who came with Aunt Zhao outside heard this, they all made their own vows in their hearts, and they all recited the Buddha and said, 'There is also today!'" And the old woman who had a grudge saw that she had beaten Fang Guan, and she also wished." Aunt Zhao has no friends in the upper echelons of Jiafu, but there are a group of accomplices in the lower echelons of Jiafu. And pay attention to the fifty-second episode" Baoyu smiled again: "It is precisely an important sentence that I will remember." As he spoke, he leaned over and whispered, "I want Sister Bao to give you bird's nest," and before he could say a word, he saw Aunt Zhao walk in and look at Daiyu, and asked, "How are the girls, these two days?" Daiyu knew that he was coming from Tanchun, passing by the door, and being a favor on the way. Daiyu hurriedly sat down with Xiao and said, "It's rare for my aunt to think about it, it's strange and cold, and she came in person." He was busy pouring tea, and his eyes were colored with Baoyu. Baoyu understood, and walked out", if only Jia's mother agreed to the "Mushi Qianmeng", and Mrs. Wang and Sister Feng were all opposed, Aunt Zhao might also oppose the combination of Baoyu and Daiyu out of small economic interests like the sixty-seventh episode, not to mention that the competition between the upper and lower classes of society for small profits is the result that the upper and lower classes like to see.

All of the above is the story of Aunt Zhao's calculations that harm others and are not beneficial to herself, and she can be said to have gained a small amount in the book, and she has lost a huge amount of face and honor that she paid attention to in the feudal era, so she is a villain-like existence, and everything she does belongs to the category of conspiracy.

2016.8.20