Chapter 52: Gao E's Decision
I've watched "Dream of Red Mansions". I watched it when I was a child, and I watched it when I grew up. Speaking from the heart: I really can't see it.
Mr. Cao's writing is so good, I really don't know many words. I've watched it several times intermittently over the years, but I still can't understand it.
No way, graduate student, the level is too low.
One day, my cousin found me. Ask me: Have you watched "Dream of Red Mansions"?!
I said, "Yes!"
He said: It's really well written.
I'm stupid: rub, you understand?!
He said, "Yes."
Later, I understood: reading "Dream of Red Mansions" also depends on fate.
My little cousin was in the first year of junior high school at the time, and I grew up watching him grow up. The level of education is not high, but he can quote chapters and excerpts, and memorize them backwards.
Immediately bowed.
I can't see it anyway.
I'm really not interested.
As for why it is so popular, I have studied it carefully.
Personal disdain: "Dream of Red Mansions" is popular in the last twenty-eight times.
There are children's shoes will ask.,Isn't there no after twenty-eight times?!
It's because there is no talent fire.
You think, a stunning beauty stripped off her top little by little, and was about to reach the bikini, she suddenly stopped. What's your mood?!
It's like "Monla Lisa".
Is the Mona Lisa beautiful?!
I think so-so. The key was her smile, and no one could figure out why he was smiling. That's the point.
The same goes for "Dream of Red Mansions".
The front is well written, I don't deny it. But what's behind it is where his true value lies.
What is "Dream of Red Mansions" studying?!
After twenty-eight rounds.
Who doesn't want to see WU code?!
He took the sequel "Stone Notes" handed over by Gao E, and slapped it on the table at that time.
"The ending is so sad, it has to be changed!"
"And my lord, I can't change it! At the beginning, Gao continued to write the last forty times, just because he liked this book too much. Whether it's the first 80 times or the last 40 times, you can't move any of them! If a happy ending is imposed, I am afraid that the original intention of Cao Gong will be distorted. Gao really didn't dare! ”
"Do you think I can't see Cao Xueqin's original meaning?! "The Story of the Stone" is based on the background of the four major families of Jia, Wang, Shi and Xue, with the love story of Jia Baoyu and Lin Daiyu as the main line, and describes a series of love stories of young men and women inside and outside the Grand View Garden around the emotional entanglement of the two main characters. At the same time, through the depiction of the social environment produced by these love tragedies, it involves the issues of feudal society, political law, patriarchy, women, morality, marriage, etc., showing the state of the world at the end of feudal society, exposing the decay and crime of the feudal aristocratic class and its rule, praising the rebellious characters who pursue light, and announcing the inevitable demise of this society through the tragic fate of the rebels. What is it?! Lies confuse the public, he wants to rebel! ”
"This ......"
""The Story of Stones" is **, and it is a strange book through the ages. The disappearance of this book into this world is a loss of this era. Rather than that, it is better to save the first eighty episodes and arrange a happy ending for it. Let it see the light of day again, be famous all over the world, and spread through the ages. ”
"Hey, alright! Then I'll rewrite it. Gao He thought about it and finally understood the stakes.
The times are not good, what can I do about it?!
"You'd better let the Jia family regain the emperor's grace, the ending must not be as tragic and desolate as Cao Xueqin arranged. Even in the first eighty episodes, the words of world-weary and hatred of the court must be deleted one by one. Otherwise, the emperor will blame him, and you and my lives will be difficult to protect! He told the adults again and again.
"Got it. I hope that Cao Gong's spirit in heaven can forgive me for what I have done today. Gao He was sad: Cao Gong, Gao He is ashamed!
Soon, Gao Yi handed in the draft again. And adults carefully look through it, although the first 80 chapters have deleted some words, but to a large extent retain the original meaning of the original work. The last 40 chapters are fluent, and the previous 80 chapters are connected to a certain extent, and the faint ones are all singing praises and whitewashing the peace.
"It's so positive! Well done, Gao E! “
"Thank you for the compliment!"
"I took the manuscript to the emperor and applied for the lifting of the ban on "The Stone Record" and reprinted it. Mr. Cao knows underground, and he can also smile at Jiuquan. ”
Outside the Forbidden City, it was getting late. And adults stopped.
He was so excited that he lost track of time.
"At this point, the leader should have gone to bed early, right?!"
After hesitating again and again, he resolutely took a step forward and called the door open.
"The Stone" is like a fire, and he can't stop.
"And my lord, why did you come to the palace so late?! Anything important?! "As soon as I arrived outside the Qianqing Palace, I met my 'old friend' Wang Lian.
"Princess, it's not an important thing to say it's an important matter. But if I can't see the emperor today, I feel uncomfortable, so I have to enter the palace overnight. Has the emperor rested?! If the emperor sleeps, I will come back tomorrow. ”
"The emperor is still studying at this time, otherwise where would I have time to come out? You wait, I'll go in and let you know. ”
Not long after, Wang Lian walked out with the dictate of Lord Qianlong: "Xuanhe Shen is here!" ”
"The emperor forgives the sin, the slave is still bothering so late, it is really a crime that deserves death!"
"Please, I'm looking for someone to talk to! I'm busy all day, and I'm tired to death. Qianlong Ye smiled, "Is there anything wrong with you coming so late?!" ”
"The slave has a book, and I implore the emperor to read it."
"Good book?! What book?! The book you recommend must be good, so show it to me. ”
"Your Majesty, this is a **, but the slave thinks this is the first strange book in the ages." While explaining with the adults, he presented the "Stone Record" over and over again. Qianlong Ye took the manuscript and looked at it briefly.
"It turned out to be "The Story of Stones", I had heard of it before. It seems that this book is not so famous that even you are fascinated. ”
"Your Majesty, "The Story of the Stone" breaks through the traditional way of taking materials and conceiving things, and highly condenses the society into the family for the overall display, which seems to be ordinary life on the surface, but can see the big from the small, see the small and know the little, reflect the essence of life, and have rich and profound social significance. The novel absorbs the nourishment of the classical Chinese language, and refines the popular language, and melts it into an accurate, refined, pure, expressive, and elegant language. The plot arrangement is clearly aligned and is an organic whole; Its structure is not only connected with the tendons, criss-crossed, but also the primary and secondary are distinct, orderly, just like life itself, without revealing the traces of artificial axes and chisels. In addition, his writing skills have also reached the point of perfection, the characters described are lifelike, distinctive, with multiple personalities, breaking the previous novel writing typed characteristics, the author's main methods of shaping the character image are: in the broad social background, with meticulous carving, to create different character images; Pay attention to the individualization of the characters, and the psychological description is specific and concise; Place the characters in a specific artistic atmosphere to bring out the inner emotions of the characters. ”
"Oh?! According to you, "The Story of the Stone" is extremely valuable?! ”
"That's what the slave thinks."
"Well, it seems that you haven't worked part-time in vain in "Siku Quanshu", have you learned a lot?"
"Emperor Domeng's love!"
"Okay, you go down first, and I'll pass you on the next day!"
"Wow!"
That night, I didn't sleep all night with adults.