Eighty Red Theory: Absurd Jia Zhen

Jia Zhen is the contemporary patriarch of the Jia family. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info Jia's ancestor Jia Taigong gave birth to two sons: the eldest son Ningguo Gong Jia Yan and the second son Rongguo Gong Jia Yuan. Jia Yan, the Duke of Ningguo, gave birth to four sons: the eldest son Jia Daihua, and the other three sons are unknown; Jia Dai gave birth to two sons: the eldest son Jia Fu (died young) and the second son Jia Jing; Jia Jingsheng Jia Zhen (eldest son); Jia Zhensheng Jia Rong. Rongguo Gong Jia Yuansheng Jia Daishan (eldest son); Jia Daishan married Jia's mother (that is, Shi Taijun), and gave birth to Jia Yu (eldest son), Jia Zheng (second son), Jia Min (eldest daughter), Jia (second daughter), Jia (third daughter), Jia (fourth daughter); Jia Yu gave birth to Jia Lian (the eldest son born to the original partner), Jia Cong (the second son), Jia Yingchun (the eldest daughter); Jia Zhengsheng Jia Zhu (the eldest son born to Mrs. Wang), Jia Yuanchun (the eldest daughter born to Mrs. Wang), Jia Baoyu (the second son born to Mrs. Wang), Jia Tanchun (the concubine born to Aunt Zhao), Jia Huan (the concubine born to Aunt Zhao).

The Jia family has gone through five generations of water, generation, literature, jade and grass. And like the famous article of "Warring States Policy", "Touching the Dragon and Saying the Empress Dowager Zhao", there is such a passage: "Zuo Shigong said: 'Before the third generation, as for Zhao Zhi as Zhao, the son and grandson of King Zhao, who is the successor? He said, "Nothing." He said: "Wei Duzhao, do the princes care?" She said, "The old woman doesn't hear it." ''Woe to those who are near, and to those who are far away and their descendants.'' Shall the sons of the Lord not be good? The position is respectful but useless, the generous but no labor, and the heavy equipment is also many. The meaning of this passage is: Zuo Shuaigong said: "From now on, three generations will be pushed up, until the time when the Zhao family establishes the Zhao state, if the descendants of the king of Zhao are crowned marquis, will their heirs still be on the throne?" (The Queen Mother) said, "No." "Not only the Zhao State (no), but also the descendants of other vassal states who have been feuded, are there any heirs on the throne?" (The Queen Mother) said, "I have not heard of it." He said, "This is the calamity of the nearness of these feudal lords to themselves, and the calamity of the distant and their descendants." Is it necessarily bad to be the son of a king? (The fundamental reason is that they have a noble position but no merit, a good fortune but no hard work, and they have many valuable treasures. "If the family heirloom is not lawful, it is often less than three generations, and later generations insist on five generations and beheading. The Jia family heirloom has gone through five generations, and by the time Jia Rong's generation has begun to decline, this is the main content of the second episode of "Dream of Red Mansions" "Leng Zixing's Speech on Rongguo Mansion".

Jia Jia's Ningrong Second Mansion, Ningguo Mansion Residence. During Jia Zhen's management of Ning Guofu, his father Jia Jing was obsessed with Taoist immortals "burning pills and refining mercury", "thinking that he would soar sooner or later", and "didn't care about family affairs", so Jia Zhen "turned Ning Guofu over, and no one dared to take care of him". In the thirteenth episode of "Qin Keqing's Death and Sealing the Dragon Forbidden Lieutenant", due to the particularity of Ning Guofu, although Jia Zheng is Jia Zhen's elder, he is also mainly persuaded and cannot make decisions in preparing for Qin Keqing's future. The aristocratic family has a big business and complex management, Leng Zixing said that Jia Zhen messed up Ning Guofu, although there are some reflections in some things, but on the whole, Ning Guofu is still stable. Regarding "Wang Xifeng's Assistant's Ning Guofu", some people then said: "I'd rather work hard for a month and rest later", "In terms of reasoning, we also have to have him to sort it out, it's not like it." "What is reflected here is the situation that the management of Ning Guofu is a little lax, and it is important to note that Jia Zhen is not ignorant. As the patriarch, he has more or less influence on things like Qin Keqing's aftermath, the construction of the Grand View Garden, the provincial relatives, the Qingxu Guan Jiao, Jia Jingbintian, the New Year's events, the ancestor worship, etc., and in the face of the decline of Jiafu, Jia Zhen is not unmanageable.

For example, this section in the 29th Qingxu Guan Jiao is very interesting, everyone in Rongguo Mansion arrived first; Jia Zhen, as the patriarch, was in charge of the door, but the men in Jiafu were lazy in the shade of the wall. How can Jia Zhen and Jia Rong infer that it may be too much to be "embarrassed" on weekdays, but it is not far away, and this time to discipline Jia Rong is a bit pretentious; But you should pay attention to the fact that Sister Feng said that she wanted to rest upstairs next to her, so the same generation who served Jia's mother was the first to recommend Jia Zhen's wife You Shi, so Jia Rong urged her Mrs. Ning Guofu and Jia Rong's mother to hurry over, although the later article is Baoyu Daiyu, and You Shi is not written, but it contains meaning; In addition, it is added that why Baoyu takes the golden unicorn, Baoyu and Xiangyun have always been brother and sister, Xiangyun is a tomboy and a female man according to modern terms, and the forty-ninth chapter says that "he only likes to dress up as a boy", Baoyu took the golden unicorn to think that the golden lock of Bo Baochai made it not lonely, so as not to have the words of "golden and jade good fate", so "only Lin Daiyu looked at him and nodded, as if there was admiration", so that in the thirty-first episode "because of the unicorn Fu white-headed double star" you can understand why Hui Mo Jimao (Gengchen) originally had" After dozens of times, the unicorn that Ruolan admired in the shooting garden was also "because Baoyu was further prepared for Wei Ruolan, the Xiangyun spouse he once met."

In the fifty-third episode, Jia Zhen talked with Wu Jinxiao, who came to pay the rent a year ago, which reflected the current embarrassing situation of Jiafu. In addition to various local products, there are also 2,500 taels of silver in the list of rent paid by Wu Jinxiao, and Jia Zhen said, "I have calculated that you have at least 5,000 taels of silver", indicating that Jiafu has at least half of the deficit; Jia Zhen said, "Now you only have a total of eight or nine Zhuangzi left", reflecting that Jiafu may have owned a large number of granges in the past, but now they are decaying in the fundamental land management of feudal society, so even if they have an annual income of more than 20,000 taels of silver, they are not exempt from "not losing a few thousand dollars of silver in these two years and that year"; Jia Zhen's way to avoid complete bankruptcy is: "Exactly, I can do it here, there is no other major matter, but it is just a year's expense." I'll save some of my grievances. In addition, if I give someone to invite someone, I will be thicker-skinned, but I can save some and it will be over. Compared to Nafuri, there have been a lot of things that have been spent in recent years, and it must be inevitably spent, but there is no silver industry. I have lost a lot in the past two years, and if I don't want you, who will I go to! This was followed by two events that reflected this. One is to teach Jia Qin, who manages the Jade Emperor Temple and Dharma Nunnery; The second is that "the prince of Beifu Water sent a couplet and a purse", Jia Zhen knew that he was about to return the meager gift with a big gift, so he avoided and went to the inner house.

Although in the fifth Qin Keqing's comments and lyrics, there are "the beginning of the provocation is really Ning" and "the first sin of the death of the family", but from the facts, Jia Zhen can also be regarded as "absurd and not absurd, absurd and not absurd", it is possible to say that Jia Zhen is a "scapegoat", otherwise it is the abridged content or something new in the other "Cao Xueqin has been reading in the mourning Hongxuan for ten years, adding and deleting five times".

So, how to understand the emergence of people like Jia Zhen? In fact, it can be understood from the British writer Charles Dickens's famous book "Great Expectations" and translated "Lone Star Blood and Tears", the latest version of "Great Expectations" directed by Mike Newell was officially released in the United Kingdom on November 30, 2012. Is there no comparison between a duke's descendant and a blacksmith's apprentice? It's like the legend "The King and the Beggar". This is not the song of Hua Chenyu and Yang Zongwei, but the story of happiness in the famous legend of the king and the beggar. In "Great Expectations", 20 years of grievances and hatreds revolve around a fraud case, which is simply a discussion topic of social quality; The protagonist Pip gradually becomes a member of the torrent of Western capitalist money empires from a simple and kind apprentice; Estella is impressed by the innocence of young Pip and always preserves a shining side of it in her heart; Wealth and ordinariness, distortion and happiness run through the life paths of these two people. A person who can be as contented as Joe ends up being corrupted by society, although the return of Pip in Dickens's first-person seems to change that at the end. The human mind is changeable, and concealment or erosion under the surface will eventually break the fullness of life. Pip had already deviated from the true character of the rustic rural working people when he began his ambitious path to the upper class, which is not only one of the content representatives of the fall of human nature in the process of capitalist development reflected by many critical realist writers in the West, but also one of the costs of the commercialization and industrialization of Western capitalism. It is an interesting topic to understand the material, technological, ideological, and spiritual entanglements of Western society, but the times have indeed developed, and a new balance has been established. Therefore, looking back at the material and spiritual gains and losses of Western society 200 years ago, the comparison between the literary discussion and the rich civilization achievements of modern society is also very connotative.

The time difference between Pip, who is in a relatively ascending state, and Jia Zhen, who is in decline, is about 50 years, "Great Expectations" is set on the eve of Christmas in 1812 to the winter of 1840, and "Dream of the Red Chamber" was written around 1758. Compared with Pip in the social environment after the completion of the bourgeois revolution, Jia Zhen was under the Eight Banners system, which gradually began to decay, although he was a powerful person, his future goals had been lost, and his life of extravagance and ideological greed began to become their common disease. There is no need to discuss the difference between Xue Pan, Jia Zhen, Jia Lian, and Jia Baoyu in 100 steps, just look at their pursuit of the future. If you indulge in the present, then there is no difference between a duke and a blacksmith; If poverty can temper people's hearts, then abundance will give people depravity. At that time, whether it was the Jia Mansion or the Cao family in reality, the decline was just a stepping stone to the rise of another family. Like the Sui Garden of the Cao family was originally Wu Yingji Jiao Garden at the end of the Ming Dynasty, it became a part of the Cao Yin family garden of Jiangning weaving during the Kangxi period of the Qing Dynasty, and then it was renamed "Sui Weaving Garden" and "Sui Garden" by Sui Hede, who took over Jiangning Weaving, and then Yuan Mei purchased this garden and named it "Sui Garden" during the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty, and was razed to the ground during the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, and the tiles were gone. This is the meaning of the rotation of the world, Jia Zhen is just a member of the crowd.

2019.7.31