Notes on a Dream of Red Mansions

1, I have always thought that the greatness of A Dream of Red Mansions lies in the fact that it embodies a declining trend, which is rare in China's classical novels. I like to get together rather than leave, and I like a happy ending.

I have to thank Gao E, his successor. Although he couldn't keep up with Cao Xueqin's thoughts in many aspects, he at least let Daiyu die. Whether she died or not, at least she left Baoyu, which is very good.

It's not that I'm born cruel and like to watch other people's tragedies, but isn't there a saying? An old frontiersman loses his horse—a blessing in disguise. For a fragile feudal girl like Dai Yu, death is her liberation, the end of all her tragedies and her happiness. When she slept quietly in the ground and watched Baoyu still looking for a way out on earth, I had to say that she was still happy.

Maybe two people are romantic people, and romantic people should not meet each other by nature, because life is not romantic, and life will kill romance completely. Finally, the red rose turned into mosquito blood on the wall, and the white rose turned into white rice stuck to the chest. So, let romance come to an end at the most beautiful time and leave beautiful memories in each other's hearts.

But you might say that Daiyu's death was tragic and not romantic at all. In this respect, I don't approve of Gao E's sequel. Maybe Cao Xueqin didn't mean it. Maybe Daiyu really should shed tears to prove the front. Isn't this better? She was worried about Baoyu and wept bitterly for her bosom friend. After careful consideration, such a death is noble and sacred. However, Gao E did not write this. He finally made Daiyu vulgar, resentful and furious. This is not like the arrogant and self-admiring Daiyu we know, but like an ordinary woman who is frustrated in love.

Nevertheless, she finally left this trouble spot before Jia Fu collapsed, otherwise, because of her fragility, I'm afraid she couldn't stand such a big stimulus. Baoyu is a dude. He is not a man of indomitable spirit. He can give Daiyu little, let alone protection and comfort. He is still a weak person who needs protection from others, and Daiyu can't be happy around him.

So it is a kind of happiness to leave him memories. Baoyu himself can only give Daiyu a few good words. He's not even obsessed. Looking at Baochai's fate, I have to say that Daiyu is happy. Of course, some people say that Baochai only wants Grandma Bao's throne and doesn't care about Baoyu. Is that so? Is there a woman who naturally likes loneliness? Anyway, it is always painful to live alone. Besides, it is still a question whether she took the so-called grandmother Bao's throne.

If Jia Fu fails, at least Baochai still has a place to live, at least she has no husband and wealth, but isn't that right? Finally, Jia Fu was reduced to the point where the white land was really clean. What is the significance of the title of Grandma Bao Er to Baochai? Without a happy life and the care of her husband, isn't it a greater tragedy to live alone and die alone?

I always suspected that Baoyu didn't leave Jiafu because of Daiyu, otherwise he wouldn't have married Baochai. He was born at last, because his world had undergone earth-shaking changes, his ivory tower collapsed, and he finally understood his struggle. In fact, all his thoughts are on his family, and his family has collapsed, and everything is finished. Without any thoughts and struggles, he had to run away from home, perhaps to avoid disaster.

Imagine, can you imagine Daiyu washing her hands and cooking soup? Dressed in rags and skirts, and even relying on the relief of attacking people, then of course she can no longer be mean and gossip, but can only cry alone, not about love, but about life. When life has put a huge question mark on Baodai's love, can Daiyu still love Baoyu as always? I don't think so. I'm afraid the Longwang Temple will be flooded. Then Baoyu finally couldn't stand the pressure at home and left, which is very possible. He can't afford to live without taking good care of Baochai. The same is true of Daiyu.

Another possibility is that if Jia Fu can regroup, Gui Lan and Qi Fang, Dai Yu and Baoyu still live their happy lives, after many years, Baoyu may suddenly find his face wrinkled, then he will find the attacker around him like Aunt Zhao, and then his love will pass away in the years, and then Baoyu will recall that round and smooth baby sister.

In fact, love is very short. At least this kind of cross love gives us many beautiful fantasies and expectations, just like Jack to Ross. He is the most beautiful memory in her life, but not the only one.

2. A Dream of Red Mansions takes Jia, Shi, Wang and Xue as the background, takes the fierce struggle between feudalism and rebels around Jia Baoyu's life path as the main line, and takes the tragedies of Jia Baoyu and Lin Daiyu as the main content. Through the vivid description of the decline process of feudal families represented by Jiafu, it profoundly exposed and criticized all kinds of darkness and decay of feudal society, and further pointed out that feudal society had arrived.

A Dream of Red Mansions vividly describes the whole life of China feudal society in the first half of the 8th century. The book is large in scale, rigorous in structure, vivid in characters and beautiful in language. In addition, there are some obvious artistic features that are worthy of future generations' taste and appreciation.

The author of the novel makes full use of all the excellent traditional techniques of China's calligraphy, painting, poetry, songs and music, showing a social tragedy. For example, Jia Baoyu and Lin Daiyu read the Romance of the West Chamber, Daiyu buried flowers, Baochai shook butterflies, Qingwen mended fur, Baoqin made snow, and Daiyu burned manuscripts. Such as Lin Daiyu's floating posture, poetic eyebrows, clever expression, deep smile, moving sobs, elegant taste and natural literary talent ... all these are attributed to the author.

Cao Xueqin truly reproduces the complexity of the characters in A Dream of Red Mansions, which makes us feel that the characters in the works are as real as those in life. Jia Baoyu in A Dream of Red Mansions is "difficult to be virtuous, stupid, good and evil, aboveboard, illegitimate, intelligent and talented, vulgar and ordinary", which makes people comment. Not only Jia Baoyu and Lin Daiyu are the protagonists who endow the author with personality beauty, spiritual beauty and ideal beauty, but even Wang Xifeng, a notorious figure, did not write her as "all bad", but mixed some "loveliness" with "abomination", thus presenting various contradictory and complicated actual situations and forming a "charming reality" of personality.

I don't know when I began to like A Dream of Red Mansions and The Story of the Stone, and I fell in love with the lingering sadness of this century ago.

I like to watch it all night in the dead of night and dim light. Will laugh, cry and lament with it. What flowed out of the lamp was the agarwood of dried osmanthus petals, which lingered in the dark blue and faint purple light. In this way, I was sipping a book called A Dream of Red Mansions all night. ...

I never know who will bury the fallen flowers tonight. I am afraid that with this scene, there is no feeling, no sadness and regret. Fall under the tree, fly in the sky, and finally fly to the end of the sky with the wind. It can be seen that when the flowers are lost, who will be pitiful when they are buried? After a lifetime of robbery, I also shed tears all my life. Now, I just fly to the end of the day with flowers and finally die with another flower. I am not arrogant, but I am lonely. If I lose my nobility again, what can I deserve? Not narrow-minded, but I did my best for him, and I spent my whole heart. Seeing his "golden wedding", how can I not cry? The only way is "hello, I'm fine", but this is a mutual use of heart, mutual misunderstanding. When, when, can you appreciate his sentence "Don't worry"? You know, for you, he's tired of being sick all over. I dare not say, let alone say, I can only keep it in my heart. I only hope that you will get better soon. The only way is "Hello, he will get better". When in the end, when can you put your heart down and get rid of your lifelong debt? Isn't it? If so, you won't be called Lin Daiyu? If so, will you lose your heart covered with soft gauze?

I don't know, is the love you left everywhere unintentional or intentional? Is the eternal love robbery really so tangled? Why do you look at Daiyu but Baochai? Why do you attack people when you talk about gold? Why are you holding xiren in your hand and shouting Daiyu? Which one do you want? If there is no thousand-year fate, which one can snuggle in your arms forever? You are good, you see through it, you enter an empty door, and you live a thousand sorrows; It never occurred to me that those who can't see through all die for you. Attacking people, Jinchuan, Dai Yu, Qingwen ... If you get a little bit of your heart, it's worth it, but who, who finally got your heart?

I have been thinking, if the fairy stone is not a legend, can it really make a "golden wedding"? I have always stubbornly believed that the love between Baoyu and Baochai is only a matter of time, because there is something called first come, then come. Because Daiyu came first, because she had that feeling and love first, she couldn't see the beauty of Baochai in his eyes. Perhaps, there really is something called the arrangement of providence, the trick of fate; Perhaps, there really is such a thing as fate.

Buddha said, suddenly looking back on the Millennium will be free from this life. However, why can't reincarnation be staggered? Why can some people be happy in reincarnation, and some people can only be outsiders in reincarnation?

A dream of red mansions is still the tragic love between Baoyu and Daiyu, and no one can intervene. I'm afraid it's unfair to the injured Baochai, the injured Attacker and the accused Jin Chuaner.

Holding a thick dream of red mansions, soaked in intoxicating flowers, hazy eyes, fell asleep. Facing Baoyu, I am by no means Daiyu. Me? Who could it be? Baochai? Attack? Or that stupid Jinchuan, Qingwen? Maybe, neither. Just one of those silly girls who love Baoyu, but Baoyu will never know, that's all.