"Actually, Qingluo, you said that the Red Chamber is a tragedy, and it is not true.

I remember someone writing about the Red Mansion, and I think it should be like this......

Mr. Lu said: "A "Red Chamber", economists see "Yi", Taoists see lewdness, geniuses see lingering, revolutionaries see Pai Man, gossip writers see palace secrets..."

So how should we, as a lover of red studies or ordinary readers, read the book "Red Mansions"?

The first point: be objective enough, don't mix too many likes and dislikes, and don't have double standards for different roles. Or overly flattening a character.

For example, if you think of Daiyu, you can only remember that she has loved to cry since she was a child, and she can't see her bold wisdom in talking. Xiang Baochai only thinks that she is shrewd and sophisticated, and accuses her of hypocrisy for all her generosity and understanding. Thinking about Sister Feng, because she could only think of her fierce and ruthless side, she ignored her torment between her powerless family business and her husband who shared a different dream.

The second point: don't irresponsibly put the background of the times you are now in on the protagonist of the book.

The authors and critics of "The Red Chamber" have repeatedly emphasized that this book is a matter for everyone. That is, the richest and most expensive people under that kind of wealth and its concentration of feudal system, their world, which is impossible for the vast majority of our readers to access. Coupled with the fact that they think differently from our system, the distance between us and the people in the book is even greater than we imagined.

The third point: one of the ideas of "Red Mansion" should not be taken as the creed of one's life.

The author believes that the existence of "Red Mansion" is a mirror with edifying significance, in order to let us see the beauty and ugliness, joy and sorrow in our own life state.

But at the same time, due to the limitations of the times, Cao Gong's thinking is not completely objective, and more or less has some limitations that he may not be aware of. This is like dust on the mirror, we need to know how to brush it off, so that we can truly live in our own time

"The Red Chamber" is a book worth reading for a lifetime. We should try our best to understand the humanity depicted in each stroke of the author's words, respect the author's thoughts while maintaining our own thoughts. ’”

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"Huh... Is that so? ”

Actually, I don't know this kind of statement, another master said:

Anyone who values "Red Mansion" and is willing to touch the taste of it will probably have similar troubles to the subject. I would like to compare Cao Gong's "ultimate" nothingness with Camus's "The Plague", because both point to the same place, that is, everything in life is inherently meaningless. Why? Because it is very difficult to establish the meaning of things, it is very easy to dissolve their meaning.

In other words, the existence or non-existence of the "meaning" of things is not objectively verifiable, it is just a subjective opinion, and you can deconstruct everything in life and live as an outsider.

Camus believed that "not choosing" is the "real" renunciation and disidentification of life, and suicide is not.

And back to "Red Mansion", what Cao Gong did was a kind of emotion of prosperity and decline, he deduced the conclusion that "prosperity is empty" based on "prosperity is not eternal", and the things that Cao Gong thought were meaningful in life were actually those youthful years, rich and leisurely, and the beautiful girls he knew in those years - and these things were just extinguished with the ashes of the Cao family.

It can be seen that Cao Gong's method of deconstructing "prosperity and wealth" is to point out that it is not eternal, that is, "in the end, it is all about making wedding clothes for others".

It's just a method, just Cao Gong's judgment on his own memories, but in reality? Even after realizing that the meaning of everything in the world can be dissolved by using "eternity", Cao Gong still vomited blood and wrote a "Stone Record", is this book "eternal"?

No, it will one day be completely forgotten, and the reason why we don't think that reading "The Red Chamber" is meaningless is because this day of complete oblivion is not only far away, but also beyond our actual understanding.

Therefore, my opinion is that "meaning" and "nothingness" are just one of the wordplay to describe the characteristics of objective things, and everything in this world cannot be summed up by simply "recognizing other places as hometowns".

One of the greatness of "Red Mansion" is that it points out the absurdity and insignificance of "life" and "human aspirations" on a large scale, which is indeed in line with my life experience.

Therefore, when I was young, I often cried when I read "The Red Chamber", and even more so when I read "The Golden Vase of Plums", the despair of "everything is fleeting" almost killed me.

But I still have to say with a shy face that my understanding of the world is diverse, and it is better to know the world in despair - to live pessimistically - to accept my "destiny" as a way to live. Just like today, I still think that life has no meaning, and that a person does not have any natural mission, but I still live well, shake hands with pessimism, nihilism, and then live.

Having said that, in the life of a person, you really have the right to hold any point of view and live in any way. Pessimistic people by nature cannot find happiness in optimism, on the contrary, they can only find rest in pessimism, find and live in the way you agree with, and do not look at others, this is the small opinion of one pessimist to another pessimist. ’

Seriously, I k... When I heard this, my heart was shocked. For a long time, readers of "Red Mansions" have been extremely controversial about its content and characters. However, the two masters just mentioned were not affected by the contents of the book in the slightest.

We can read books and we can review books, but we must not be held back by books. In any case, we must remember that our will is the most important thing! ”

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"Miss. Qingluo suddenly found that Miss, you seem to have really changed. ”

"Huh? How do you say that? ”

"The former lady, like Daiyu in the book, often wept secretly... But today, I was really happy to see the young lady just now, Qingluo! ”

"Qingluo... Don't worry, Miss, I'm no longer my former self! ”