Eighty Red Treatises: Xue Baoqin

Xue Baoqin is the niece of Aunt Xue, the sister of Xue Zhen, the cousin of Xue Pan and Xue Baochai, the daughter of the Xue family, and has followed her father to many places since childhood. If Yuanchun's perfection lies in virtue www.biquge.info and virtue, then Baoqin's perfection lies in innocence and sincerity, and her appearance is not accidental.

In ancient times, the doctrine of "the sky is round and the place is round" is not only a world view, but also an outlook on life, as well as a methodology. "Heaven is round and the place is round" is a simple description of the ancient "Heaven Theory", and this idea has gradually touched on all aspects of social life. The concept of Fangyuan has also become a manifestation of the theory of yin and yang, which is reflected in the "Book of Changes" and "Neijing"; Many representative landmarks were born in the social buildings, such as the Temple of Heaven, and the decoration of houses from ancient courtyards to modern buildings is also displayed; In the economic realm, it is evident that the ancient design of round square-hole coins; In terms of personal cultivation, it is emphasized that the person is outside the circle and the inside, cultivating as the "outer Confucian inner law", and cultivating the "inner saint and outer king", which is manifested in the so-called "harmony like the spring breeze, solemn like autumn frost" in the world, and to achieve the "gentleness, kindness, courtesy, thrift, and letting" advocated by Confucianism, to be modest, tactful, but without losing righteousness, backbone and morality, and to adhere to principles and independent personality. From this to the present, a stable social outlook has been spliced together, which is the background of the existence of Jiafu and many other social units.

Looking at Jiafu as a whole, Xue Baoqin's connection with Jiafu is simple, which is simpler than Xing Xiuyan's connection with Jiafu, or for Jiafu, Xue Baoqin is just a passerby. Like Shi Xiangyun's poem "Crossing the Crane Shadow in the Cold Pond", passers-by are like flying cranes taking pictures, and there is nothing worth it or not. Judging from the development in the book, Xue Baoqin is a character who has good results later. Then, judging from the trend of Jiafu, most of the characters in it have corresponding calamities, and Xue Baoqin's simple connection with Jiafu makes her not implicated in Jiafu, and the so-called no knot is no calamity. This is not to emphasize the negative aspects of the development of Jiafu, because many people have lamented that the individual is indeed a passer-by in relatively long-term things, and the individual is just a drop of water in the long river of relative society.

What Xue Baoqin reflects is the relevance of the background society at that time, such as the so-called Huayi relationship. In the fifty-second episode, Xue Baoqin said, "There is a girl from the real country, only fifteen years old, and her face is the same as that beauty in Western paintings", "She knows Chinese poetry and books, can speak the Five Classics, and can compose poems and fill in the lyrics", and then Baoqin read the poems of this foreign woman, "Everyone listened to it and said: 'It's hard for him!'" It's better than us Chinese.'" This is a microcosm of Huayi relations. In ancient China and the small states of East Asia, there was a Huayi order circle. The Huayi relationship is a self-sufficient international space composed of a huge central power and a small barbarian state in the surrounding area, and politically the suzerainty and the tributary state have their own obligations and responsibilities. Economically, culturally, there is an internal "center-periphery" structural radiation relationship. In "Dream of Red Mansions", this passage of foreigners learning poetry and art is a cultural reflection of the relationship between China and Yi. With the rise and fall of China, the four Yi returned to and stayed away; The relationship between China's suzerains and tributaries is different from that of Western colonialism. China's relations with the surrounding small countries are relatively hostile, and the obligations of the small countries after the "Huayi relationship" is determined are not strong. Western colonial overlords and vassals were built on the basis of divided and degraded vassals, with the result that the suzerains had nothing more than a sweat-soaked overseas territory. The tributary states under China's suzerainty often guaranteed the establishment of a stable order; It is the basic model for the vassal powers under the colonial color of the West to mess up their internal divisions so that the suzerains can profit from them, and even if they withdraw from the Western colonists, they will leave the seeds of division and create gaps so that they can intervene in the camp and continue to benefit later, as is the case in the Middle East and South Asia.

Compared with facing a sky every day and every woman in a place, Xue Baoqin is one of the bright colors. In the fiftieth chapter, he wrote, "When I saw the four-flour makeup and silver bricks, I suddenly saw Baoqin standing on the hillside wearing a beautiful fur and waiting, and a maid behind her was holding a bottle of red plums. Everyone laughed and said, 'There are two people missing, but he is waiting here, and he has gone to get plum blossoms.' Jia Muxi smiled and said, "Look, this hillside is equipped with his character, this clothes, and behind it is this plum blossom, what does it look like?" Everyone laughed and said, "Just like the old lady's house hanging in Qiu Shizhou's painting of "Double ***** Jia Mu shook her head and smiled: 'Where is this dress in the painting?' People can't be so good! What stands out here is Xue Baoqin's personal characteristics, all of which are related to Xue Baoqin's rich life experience in traveling around the world. Aunt Xue said: "His father is happy, because there are trades everywhere, with his family, this province for a year, and next year to that province for half a year, so the world has stopped five or six out of ten", which was the so-called material basis in ancient times. As the saying goes, "It's better to read 10,000 books than to walk 10,000 miles", and this "10,000 miles" will undoubtedly create Xue Baoqin's healthy and lively character and talent. Compared with Daiyu, who picks on people to defend herself, and Baochai, who is afraid of finding faults and prides herself on herself, Xue Baoqin has more self-confidence that the women in Daguanyuan do not have. This kind of self-confidence is gained from the life experience of traveling around the world that the woman of Jiafu, who is often sick, does not have. Therefore, Xue Baoqin is also very special, and this special is not only reflected in the fact that he is not ranked among the twelve hairpins of Jinling.

2016.11.25