Eighty Red Theory: Jia Min

Jia Min is the daughter of Jia Daishan and Shi Taijun, Lin Ruhai's wife, and Lin Daiyu's mother. Pen Fun Pavilion www.biquge.info Jia Min, Lin Ruhai, and Lin Daiyu can be said to be full of doubts if they analyze the content inside and outside the book.

Let's start with Jia Min. The second chapter of "Dream of Red Mansions" introduces Lin Ruhai and Jia Min more, and the book says, "Now Ruhai is forty years old, and he only has a three-year-old son, but he died last year." Although there are several concubines, Nai has no children, and there is nothing to do. Now there is only his wife, Jia, who gave birth to a daughter, whose name is Daiyu, who is five years old." At this time, Lin Ruhai was in his forties, and in the third round, he also said, "Your father will be half a hundred years old." How old Jia Min is can be deduced. In ancient times, most women were married between the ages of fifteen and seventeen. "Twenty-eight years old", "twenty-eight young girl", "twenty-eight years old", "twenty-eight girl", twenty-eight is sixteen years old, and she is at the age of marriage. Considering the young age of marriage and Daiyu's birth, Jia Min was about twenty-two years old at this time. In the article about Yuan Chun, it was said that Yuan Chun and Jia Min had lived together, and from here it seems that there is such a possibility. On the thirty-ninth time, when Liu Lao Lao and the second child entered Jia's mansion, Jia's mother summoned her and asked her age, "Grandma Liu hurriedly stood up and replied: 'I am seventy-five years old this year. Jia Mu said to everyone: "At such an old age, he is still so healthy. I'm a few years older than me. I'm going to be so old that I don't know why I can't move. It shows that Jia's mother has just passed the age of seventy, but by the seventy-first time, Jia's mother has passed her eighty birthday. The woman according to the "Yellow Emperor's Neijing, Su Wen" "Qiqi, Ren pulse is weak, Taichong pulse is weak, the sky is exhausted, the tunnel is impassable, so the shape is bad and childless." "Assuming that Jia's mother is like Mrs. Wang's nearly forty years of life Baoyu, then Jia Min should be in her thirties at this time, and after subtracting Daiyu's eight or nine years of growth age, Jia Min's age may be different, but in fact it is not too big. And judging from the plot development of the thirty-ninth to seventy-first episode "Because the third day of the eighth month of this year is the celebration of Jia's mother's eighties" and the age changes of other characters, it seems that it is only a matter of two or three years, because the age of the protagonists such as Bao Daichai has not increased much. It seems that the age setting of the characters in "Dream of Red Mansions" has always been full of doubts, and if there are archetypal characters in Cao Xueqin's real life, then the contradiction of splicing will indeed exist. From Jia Yucun's mouth, he said, "It's strange that my female student's speech and demeanor are the same, not the same as the recent woman, her mother must be extraordinary, so that she can get her daughter, and now she is known as the grandson of Rongfu, and it is not rare", reflecting that Jia Min's cultural accomplishment is very high, and if you consider Jia Mu and Jia Zheng, there is no need to compare.

Secondly, look at Lin Ruhai. He is "born from Kedi", "Tanhua of the previous department, and now he has been promoted to the doctor of Lantai Temple, the Gusu people's clan, and now he is hand-picked as the imperial history of patrolling salt", and it seems to be Cao Xueqin's relative Li Xu's family from the historical facts. Fat Yan Zhai's criticism of it is: "Gaiyun 'learns Hai Wenlin' also." Always secretly write Daiyu". In the fortieth episode of "Shi Taijun's Two Banquets in the Grand View Garden", it was written: "Jia's mother took a break for a short time, and naturally led Grandma Liu to see and understand." arrived at the Xiaoxiang Pavilion first", "Grandma Liu saw a pen and inkstone on the desk under the window, and saw that the bookshelf was full of books, Grandma Liu said: 'This must be that brother's study. Mother Jia smiled at Daiyu and said, "This is my granddaughter's house." Grandma Liu looked at Daiyu attentively, and said with a smile: "This embroidery room that looks like a young lady is better than the first-class study." Lin Daiyu is good at literature and Xue Baochai is good at economy, which is exactly the contrast between the two sides; And Lin Daiyu's Xiaoxiang Pavilion is a study in the eyes of Grandma Liu, and Jia Baoyu's Yihong Courtyard is an embroidery room in the eyes of Grandma Liu, which is also a contrast between the two sides; Considering that in the future, Mrs. Wang will take care of Baochai as a practical benefit, and Jia's mother will be a career of Daiyu, which is also a comparison between the two sides. The relationship between Lin Ruhai and Lin Daiyu is very interesting in the book. Lin Ruhai seems to be in a hurry to send Daiyu to Jiafu, because there seems to be no problem with the future of raising Lin Daiyu with the Lin family; The Lin family "Benguan Gusu", the criticism of Fat Yan Zhai is "the place where the twelve hairpins are coming out, so it is true", and the fifty-seventh Zijuan said that Daiyu has relatives here. But it is strange that Lin Ruhai is less than 50 years old, but he has little confidence in the future. Jiafu didn't value Lin Ruhai much, and in the fourteenth time Lin Ruhai died, everyone in Jiafu seemed to have expected it, so Sister Feng and Baoyu only talked about Daiyu alone. In the nineteenth episode of "The meaning is still quiet, the day is fragrant", Baoyu uses "Salt Class Lin Master" to say allusions, and Daiyu's anger is limited. It is not like saying that Daiyu is from the prototype of Li Xu's family. Cao Xueqin's family had a brief resurgence politically when they were in Beijing, and adopting Li Xu's family was possible, but there were contradictions; Because during this period, Li Xu's family was escorted to the Internal Affairs Office as slaves because of the family members and ten wives and children after the raid; The reason for this can be left for later.

Most of the people who criticize Lin Daiyu are because of her princess's strong illness. In the West, both Snow White and Rapunzel arrange their lives from a human point of view in literature. Lin Daiyu is different, in the book "Dream of Red Mansions", the sacred things that make up for the heavens, the Shenying attendant and the Zhuzhu fairy grass are the heavenly stones, the Shenying waiters and the Zhuzhu fairy grass, so she has proud capital in the book, but she has an identity and no status, and she is mostly sad in the book. Jia Baoyu was packaged by Cao Xueqin from divinity to appearance because of the protagonist's aura, because Cao Xueqin's own appearance is historical; It is unknown where Lin Daiyu's divinity comes from, maybe it is Cao Xueqin's true lover, or maybe there are other reasons; For Jia's mother in the book, it seems that it is acceptable to Jiafu, so how can it be expected in actual life.

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