Empty Dao people, [then changed his name to the love monk, and changed the "Stone Record" to the "Love Monk Record". To Wu Yufeng's inscription "Dream of Red Mansions". Donglu Kongmei Creek is inscribed "Fengyue Baojian". Because there are too many people in history with the characters, numbers Yufeng and Meixi, there is also a lot of research on "Wu Yufeng" and "Donglukong Meixi". Some people believe that "Wu Yufeng" is Wu Wen, who died in the forty-third year of Kangxi in "Qing History", with the word Tianzhang and the number Yufeng. Some people also believe that "Yufeng" refers to Zhao Shilin, the governor of Jiangsu in the twenty-fifth year of Kangxi, and the word Yufeng. Some scholars believe that Kunshan, Jiangsu is also known as "Jade Peak", so those poetry and literary talents in Wudi in the south of the Yangtze River can be called Wu "Jade Peak" in a specific sense.

As for "Donglu Kong Meixi", there are those who have verified that they are Kong Jihan, the sixty-ninth grandson of Confucius, and there are also those who have verified that they are Li Yu, a literati of the Qing Dynasty, and there are also those who have been verified as the opera artist Kong Shangren, etc., in fact, the reason for these studies is nothing more than the formation of some related characters from the words "Wu", "Yufeng", "Donglu", "Kong" and "Meixi".

There is also a point of view, because there is no punctuation in ancient literary works, people have different understandings of the sentence "to Wu Yufeng's inscription called Dream of Red Mansions", which will produce different sentences. If we regard the three characters "Wu Yufeng" as a person's name, then the sentence formed according to this understanding is "to, Wu Yufeng, the title is "Dream of Red Mansions", which means "the book was passed into the hands of Wu Yufeng, and he set the title of the book as "Dream of Red Mansions". If we do not regard the three characters "Wu Yufeng" as a person's name, but read it separately, we will form such a broken sentence: "To Wu, Yufeng, the title is "Dream of Red Mansions". Here, "Wu" refers to the land of Wu, including the area of present-day Zhejiang, southern Jiangsu and southeastern Anhui. "Yufeng" is the homonym of "want to be sealed", which means "want to be blocked". Then to interpret this sentence according to this kind of broken sentence, it should be "This book was transmitted to Wu Di, and if it was wanted to be blocked, it was titled "Dream of Red Mansions".

Later, "Donglu Kong Meixi is inscribed as "Fengyue Baojian", and the "Kong Meixi" in the sentence "Fengyue Baojian" is also likely not to be a person's name. "Kong Meixi" here should be the homonym of "I am afraid of no regrets", this book is afraid that no one cherishes, so this sentence can be understood as "Shandong literati are worried that they will not be able to arouse people's attention and cherishment of this book, so they named it "Fengyue Baojian".

If you change the title of the book, you can avoid the ban, and you can attract people's cherishment, I don't think so! Therefore, I still interpret mainly the text of "Dream of Red Mansions" and some important criticisms. There is an eyebrow criticism corresponding to the title of "Donglu Kong Meixi", which is called "Fengyue Baojian", [Jiaxu Meijian: Xueqin used to have the book of "Fengyue Baojian", which is the preface of his younger brother Tang Village. Today's Tang Village has passed away, and the new nostalgia is still there. This sentence is the critic telling us that when he saw the "new" work of "Stone Records", he remembered "Xueqin's old book of "Fengyue Baojian", not only remembered this old book, but also thought of the relevant people, Xueqin's brother Tangcun wrote a preface for the old book! Now that Tangcun is dead, time is flowing, things are changing, and the book critics "see the new and nostalgic, so they are still because of it". The four words "so still because of it", before a better explanation, can only be understood as "Therefore, the title of the book "Fengyue Baojian" is used". In other words, "I see the new and nostalgic", so Xueqin's new work was named "Fengyue Baojian". So, "Yu" is what I mean, and who am I? The text of "Dream of Red Mansions" clearly reads, "Donglu Kongmeixi is inscribed with "Fengyue Baojian". Therefore, I think that this criticism with a considerable status in the Jiazhu book should be called Meixi.

Flip the book back, and in the thirteenth chapter, there is really an eyebrow criticism signed "Meixi". This comment is written in response to "After the three springs are gone, everyone must find their own door": "You don't have to read it, you want to cry when you see these two sentences." Plum Creek. "This batch of words is both Jiazhu and Gengchen. It is common for the ancients to write notes for criticism, and it is common for them to leave their names and words and omit their surnames when they make a payment. From the content of the criticism, it can be seen that Meixi not only has its own person, but also has an extraordinary relationship with Xueqin, that is, the "Kong Meixi" in the text, so by extrapolation, "Wu Yufeng" is also a person surnamed Wu Yufeng, and Xueqin in the "Kong Meixi" comment also appears in the text.

[Later, because Cao Xueqin read it for ten years in the mourning red pavilion, added and deleted five times, compiled a catalog, and divided the chapters, it was titled "The Twelve Hairpins of Jinling". 】

This sentence of text says that Cao Xueqin has revised, added and deleted "Dream of Red Mansions" many times, and he has sorted out "The Story of Stones", divided it into chapters, compiled a table of contents, and gave it a new name "The Twelve Hairpins of Jinling". At the same time, this sentence further wants to emphasize that Cao Xueqin is not the original author. This sentence is followed by an important comment.

[Jiazhu Mei Criticism: If Yun Xueqin reads additions and deletions, then who writes this wedge so far? ] It shows how cunning the author is. There are many such cases in the following article. This is exactly where the author uses the smoke and clouds to blur, and the viewer must not be deceived by the author, because it is a giant eye. 】

The critic said that if Xueqin was only the compiler of "The Stone Record", then who wrote this large introduction from the beginning to the present? It can be seen that the author is too cunning and the routine is too deep. Read down, there are still a lot of ambiguities in the text, this is exactly the place where the smoke and clouds are deliberately blurred when painting, readers must not fall for the author, it is the giant-eyed hero!

"Blurred clouds" is not only the author's reluctance to reveal his true identity, but also one of the author's writing techniques, and there are many of them in the following article, so I will give an example here.

Xue Tao is not only beautiful, but also talented, rhetorical and insightful, all of which are her strengths, and she has the experience of living in the capital. Now, in the Chengdu casino, she was quickly favored by the high-ranking officials released by the central government, which made her have dealings with many celebrities at that time, Bai Juyi, Zhang Ji, Liu Yuxi, Du Mu and other literary leaders have experienced Xue Tao's demeanor.

Xue Tao's talent is comparable to Cai Wenji, and his personality is more like Zhuo Wenjun. "Dream of Red Mansions" is about love, and I will also talk about Xue Tao's sister and brother love.

In March of the fourth year of Yuanhe (809), Yuan Zhen, a literati who was in the middle of the day at that time, was ordered to work in Sichuan as a supervisor of the imperial history. We mentioned Yuan Zhi in the sixth episode, that is, Yuan Zhi who wrote for his wife that "the sea was once difficult to water, except that Wushan is not a cloud", and he also created the legend "The Legend of Yingying". In the Jin Dynasty, "The Legend of Yingying" was adapted into the drama "The Legend of the Palaces and the West Chamber", and Wang Shifu of the Yuan Dynasty was adapted into "The Story of Cui Yingying Waiting for the Moon in the West Chamber".

Yuan Zhi heard Xue Tao's name for a long time, and when he left the capital, he wrote a letter to ask Xue Tao to meet, just arrived in Sichuan, Xue Tao was waiting there, and as soon as he met Yuan Zhen, Xue Tao was attracted by Yuan Zhen's handsome appearance and excellent literary talent. The 31-year-old Yuan Zhi brought unprecedented shock and passion, and the 41-year-old Xue Tao decided that this man was the person she dreamed of, so she did not hesitate to offend the senior officials, pushed away all entertainment, and threw herself into the arms of Yuan Zhi every day.

From meeting to Yuan Zhen's transfer out of Sichuan and returning to Luoyang to take up his post, they spent up to three months together. This netizen meeting changed the second half of Xue Tao's life, belated love, and made Xue Tao feel happiness that he had never had. During that time, the two of them lingered in the sunset, holding hands by the river, which was the happiest time in Xue Tao's life.

went to Luoyang, although there was a Hongyan to pass on the book, Yuan Zhen never came back, Xue Tao can understand. For the rest of her life, she took off her red dress and changed into a robe to avoid the prosperity and hustle and bustle of the world. It's a pity that I don't know how to score music, this paragraph should be accompanied by Lu Guanting's song: "The lover will never come again after farewell, sit alone without a word and look at the world, the flowers will always wither but will bloom again, and the love of my life is faintly outside the white clouds." The sea of bitterness turns over love and hate, it is difficult to escape fate in the world, and the blind date is unapproachable, or I should believe that it is fate. ”

27, Chaoyun

Wang Chaoyun was adopted in a singing and dancing class since he was a child because of his poor family, and he was born beautiful, smart and dexterous, and could sing and dance. Su Dongpo was demoted to Hangzhou for opposing Wang Anshi's change of law, one day, he and several friends traveled to the West Lake, singing and dancing during the banquet, melodious silk and bamboo sound, several dancers appeared in heavy makeup, Wang Chaoyun with gorgeous posture and superb dancing skills, eye-catching.

The performances in film and television dramas are not very real, the singers sing and the dancers don't come out after dancing, in fact, they have to change their clothes, and then sit down to accompany the wine. Wang Chaoyun stepped back and changed his outfit, washed off his heavy makeup, and painted light colors, "E's eyebrows are lightly swept and powdered lightly, and the red lips are a little crazy", a plain dress, fresh and elegant, Chu Chu is pitiful, twelve-year-old Wang Chaoyun, like a small lotus with sharp horns and a quiet orchid in the empty valley accompany Su Dongpo.

The sun is shining, the sparkling West Lake, the weather changes abruptly, the drizzle is misty, the wine is fragrant, the dishes are beautiful, and the people are beautiful, which eliminates the troubles of the ups and downs of Su Dongpo's officialdom, and writes that "the water is bright and sunny, and the mountains are empty and rainy." If you want to compare West Lake to Xizi, light makeup is always appropriate. This is also the way to write "Ming Xiu Plank Road Darkness Chen Cang", clearly writing the beautiful scenery of the West Lake, and secretly writing Su Dongpo's heart-warming feeling when he first met Wang Chaoyun. Chaoyun admired Su Shi's talent very much, and was treated well by Su Shi and his wife, very fortunate to meet Su Shi, after being ransomed by Su Shi, he entered the Su family as a maid and maid, and became a concubine at the age of 16-18, determined to follow Su Shi for life.

Because Wang Chaoyun was still young when she followed Su Shi, she was often instructed and taught by Su Shi, and Su Shi had a deep influence on her in terms of literary and artistic cultivation. Raising her hands and throwing her feet, she knew her husband's intentions, and the poems written by Dongpo, even if they mentioned the past lightly, would cause Chaoyun's joy and sorrow.

The most typical is "Butterfly Love Flower", "The flowers fade and the red and green apricots are small, and when the swallows fly, the green water surrounds them." There are few willows blowing on the branches, where is there no fragrant grass at the end of the world? The swing in the wall, the road outside the wall, the pedestrians outside the wall, and the beautiful woman in the wall laughs. The laughter gradually faded into silence, but the amorous was ruthlessly annoyed. ”

When Su Shi was demoted to Huizhou, he was close to the age of sixtieth, and seeing that it was rare to have another chance to be promoted, the maids and concubines around him were scattered one after another, only Wang Chaoyun was consistent, following Su Dongpo for a long journey, crossing mountains and mountains to Huizhou.

Su Shi often asked Chaoyun to sing the song "Butterfly Loves Flowers" to relieve his depression. Whenever Chaoyun sang "The willows on the branches blow less", he cried and couldn't go on. Dongpo would put his arm around her and ask the reason, and Chaoyun said: "The concubine can't sing because 'there is no grass at the end of the world'!" This sentence, in today's parlance, is "Don't hang yourself from a tree"! It is to persuade the infatuated lover to have a chance in the face of feelings, and it is also to persuade Su Dongpo to have a chance in the face of his political future.

Unfortunately, Wang Chaoyun encountered the plague in Huizhou, his body was very weak, and he was only thirty-four years old when he died.

The author of "Dream of Red Mansions" classified the great benevolence and evil through Jia Yucun's mouth, and then wrote about the people born of the two endowments of good and evil. The trajectory of the fate of these people is affected by the innate good and evil temperament, and also by the acquired educational environment, which is divided into three categories, one is the "rich and noble family of the prince", the second is the "poor family of poetry and books", and the third is the "Bo Zuo Hanmen".

The author gives us 27 examples of celebrities, one thing we must understand, "such as the previous generations of Xu You, Tao Qian, Ruan Ji, Ji Kang, Liu Ling, Wang Xie Er, Gu Hutou, Chen Houzhu, Tang Minghuang, Song Huizong, Liu Tingzhi, Wen Feiqing, Minan Gong, Shi Manqing, Liu Qiqing, Qin Shaoyou, and recently Ni Yunlin, Tang Bohu, Zhu Zhishan", these people are all free people, and the lowest social status is also commoners.

These two episodes say, "Another example is Li Guinian, Huang Wanqiu, Jing Xinmo, Zhuo Wenjun, Hongfu, Xue Tao, Cui Ying, Chaoyun and the like". According to the values of the society at that time, Li Guinian, Huang Wanqiu, and Jing Xinmo were three plays, and they were ninth-rate. The three of them are men, but their identities are Youling, and Li Guinian is also a drama when he becomes famous. In ancient times, there was a bad habit of raising male pets, and the well-behaved ones who were raised were originally lowly, and then with the blessing of gay men, they often had to carry the pot of disaster to the country and the people, and their social status can be imagined. In the text of "Dream of Red Mansions", the relationship between the drama Jiang Yuhan and the prince is so close, the author has an indirect description, which directly breaks the relationship between Jiang Yuhan and Jia Baoyu, and Qin Zhong, who is more obscene than the play.

Zhuo Wenjun eloped with Sima Xiangru during his widowhood when he returned to his parents' house and was lewd. Red Whisk, character, difficult to distinguish between true and false, free love with Li Jing, obscene. Xue Tao, singer, lower ninth rate. Cui Yingying, a drama character, is in free love with Zhang Sheng, and is obscene. Wang Chaoyun, the singer turned into a concubine, and she was a ninth-rate.

Tang Bohu, Liu Qilang and others are not obscene, Cui Ying, Hongfu, Zhuo Wenjun, women are despised when they quietly date and fall in love freely, and they are classified as dramas, which is a demonstration of the limitations of the author's feudal thoughts. This kind of feudal thinking is reflected in the text of "Dream of Red Mansions", for example, the twelve hairpins of Jinling are all masters, and Qin Keqing is also in the main book, and concubines and maids cannot enter the main book.

Nor can we ask the author to be completely ahead of his time against the era in which he lived, and there has already been a huge breakthrough in his "Dream of Red Mansions", just as it is impossible for us ourselves to completely oppose the era in which we live.

(End of chapter)