An Analysis of the Decapolis Book of Stones

? Today in the online search for information on the "decryption of the stone", I did not expect three years have passed, about this book is true or false, is still a diversity of opinions, and some people's words are even very unkind. I try to record my entire cognitive process of this as follows, to say my personal opinion.

? When I was in high school, I began to read "Dream of Red Mansions", which is a version of the 120 times of Gao Osprey's continuation, and the author shown on the book is "Cao Xueqin Gao Osprey by". At first, I only pursued the plot, hoping to understand a complete story. For the last forty times, there is no obvious feeling, but the book before the death of Daiyu a mouthful of phlegm a mouthful of blood, a mouthful of blood a mouthful of phlegm, quite intolerable, think that Daiyu such a woman should not be so dead.

? At that time, I was only one person at home, I do not watch TV, during the summer vacation, that hot summer days, long nights is really difficult to pass, when there is only a copy of "Dream of Red Mansions" around, so I can only look at the "Dream of Red Mansions" in order to pass the time, and sometimes a night, some of the reminiscences have to look at the more than three times. Gradually, there are some feelings, as later Eileen Chang said, the original words do not quite remember, to the effect that this sentence is not "Dream of Red Mansions" language, a read will know. Zhang later wrote A Small Reunion, in which the language style was obviously influenced by her, and even some sentences came from A Dream of Red Mansions. Zhang was already old, she also wrote the "Red Chamber Dream Nightmare", and for me this is a young boy, can only be regarded as the Red Chamber Dream Legacy.

? To the university, bought a set of Gengchen Ben "Li-Yan-Zhai re-assessment of the stone" and a book of A Xu Ben "Li-Yan-Zhai re-assessment of the stone", compared to the reading of the. At that time, read very seriously, each paragraph to savor before giving up. My university library has a lot of commentaries analyzing "Dream of Red Mansions" works, almost one by one to read, personally thought the most affectionate or Zhou Ruchang. There are also some foreign scholars' works, although more shallow, but also shows the prosperity of red science, there are still so many people rely on a "Dream of Red Mansions" to eat it.

? At that time, there is a writer in Sichuan Liu Xinwu mystery "Dream of the Red Chamber", I am also listening to a lot of fun, after Liu was also a large number of red scientists boycott and intervention. From this, these red scientists are also visible in the measure. Although I am a looker, but Liu Xinwu advocated familiar with the text of "Dream of Red Mansions", quite recognized. At that time, I often lamented: If I can see the last 28, this life is no regrets, the so-called morning, evening death can be carried out.

? After graduation, I bought a gengchen photocopy of the Dream of Red Mansions, for collection and from time to time to read. This set of photocopies published by the People's Literature Publishing House, to October 2014 has been published five times, *** 11,000 copies, which shows that there are still so many people in the folk want to see an understanding.

? In 2015, I bought the second edition of the second 28 times of the second edition of the book "Decapolis Stone Records", and the author's place on the book is "(Qing Dynasty) anonymous". If this book is the real manuscript, then this is first of all a miracle, because it is the book disappeared in history for nearly three hundred years ah. About the book circulated from the collector said: grandfather is Shanxi, before liberation in Shanxi as a military doctor on a battlefield, grandmother is a nurse with the army, the book is then a casualty to the grandmother. The book was given to my grandmother by a wounded soldier at that time. The collector brought the book to Taiwan for safety. The hardships of the book's inheritance are also visible here.

? I can not help but feel constantly in the process of reading this book, this book must be a true manuscript. At that time also briefly summarized, one, the storyline and the first eighty highly consistent, the first eighty poems and songs and other metaphors here in the 28 back in the validation, and even can be said to be exactly the same, the fat inkstone Zhai in the first eighty times to remind of some of the criticism of the text is also very compatible with the fate of the characters of the end of the account is clear, so that I really understand what it means to hang with a jade belt in the forest, the gold hairpin buried in the snow, and also really understand the fat inkstone Zhai praised. really understand the grass snake gray line, ambush pulse thousand miles praised by Lip Yan Zhai. Second, the words and phrases in the text and the first 80 very close, some wonderful strokes make people feel that only the author of the first 80 can write. Third, the description of some scenes in the text, the characters of a large number of language expression must be the author of the first 80 back to write, imagine, if the author of the first 80 back to our Baoyu, Daiyu, Xiangyun, etc. is a flesh and blood with a soul of the characters, then the soul of these inevitable habits of language, thought and emotion will be in the back 28 back to show, the fact is that, to create the atmosphere of the author of the first 80 back and create the author of the back 28 back The fact is that the author who created the atmosphere of the first 80 books and the author who created the second 28 books is the same person. Fourth, there are a lot of comments and reflections on current politics in the text, and these comments are far beyond that era, which is the manifestation of the author's spirit, which is the same as the spirit of the author who touched us y in the first 80 times. I seem to feel the author's breath between the lines, and goodness, for me personally, can I say that this Book of Stones isn't real? This whole experience of my association with The Dream of the Red Chamber, to say that the book is a true manuscript, is a given for me. Its best proof is its own language and thought.

? If this book is a true manuscript, then the biggest impact on the red science is the author and the author of the writing background of the subversion, as well as this background of the "Dream of the Red Chamber" of the new literary significance. Before the author of "Dream of Red Mansions" has been basically recognized as Cao Xueqin, its writing background for the Cao family in the period of Kangxi, Yongqian, Xueqin's grandmother for the nanny of the Kangxi, his grandfather, thus making a fortune, served as Jiangning Weaver. The Cao family was suppressed by the Yongzheng Emperor because they were partisans of the old Prince Yinreng, and the family fell into disrepute. During the Qianlong period, Hongli to heal the political scars of the previous dynasty, the Cao family had a second boom, after Yinreng's grandson Hongshi rebellion, the Cao family suffered another blow, and since then fell apart, and then Cao Xueqin wrote a book yellow leaf village, and there is this weeping gold mourning jade "Dream of Red Mansions".

? But now, the author of "Dream of Red Mansions" has become a Jiangzuo everyone Wu Meicun, the background of its writing before and after the death of the Ming Dynasty. Before so many years, so many people's research, exploration, the index can simply be said to be the opposite, you can imagine, this version of the "Stone Book" how to attract people's jealousy.

? I think the process of the book is as follows: Wu Meicun is Chongzhen when the list, Chongzhen has a knowledge of its grace, Ming died, descended to the Qing Dynasty, after resigning, regret, wrote the "Stone", at this time the "Stone" structure is complete, but the content of the poor, because of its anti-Qing Dynasty, so it has not been passed down to the world, and only by a few friends to save, and then after Cao Xueqin saw the book, reminiscent of their own lives, empathy, increase and delete the book, the achievement of the great cause! The book was added and deleted to achieve a great success. The original name of the book is "Wu's Stone Records, add and delete the trial evaluation of the book", so the author of "Dream of Red Mansions" should be Wu Meicun, Cao Xueqin. This complete version of "Dream of the Red Chamber" has not been passed down, is really a political reason, the first eighty times the political part has been modified without revealing, after 28 times may be because of Xueqin's death or other reasons, did not complete the final modification, so it has not been passed down. Gao Osprey, Cheng Weigao's continuation, in all fairness, has been considered very good, so I also appropriate conjecture, they renewed before they read the full manuscript. Curious, who is the first to keep this lonely book, is that the monstrous man mentioned the borrowed book has not been returned to the friend, or Gao Osprey and Cheng Weigao high school one, or other people with a heart.

? I will be a little selection of some of the latter 28 back of the text, try to shallow proof of the authenticity.

? The Dream of the Red Chamber is the most wonderful Baoyu and Daiyu rivalry, let's take a peep at the leopard, and then see how these purposes and ideas in the latter 28 back to continue and develop. In the 30th chapter, Lin Daiyu said: I'm going home. Baoyu laughed and said: I'll go with you. Lin Daiyu said: I'm dead. Baoyu said: you die, I will be a monk. After ...... Daiyu cried, Baoyu laughed: my organs are broken, you still just cry. The 31st, the attacker laughed: Miss Lin, others do not know how, I first cried to death. Baoyu laughed: you die, I become a monk to go. Attacker laughed: you honestly, why bother to say these words. Lin Daiyu will be two fingers a stretch, pursed lips and laughed: do two times a monk, I remember from now on you do the number of monks. The 20th, Baoyu asked: good and angry? ...... Lin Daiyu said: you care about me? Baoyu laughed: I naturally do not dare to control you, only not a look at your own trampled body it. Lin Daiyu said: I practiced bad body, I die, and you have nothing to do! Baoyu said: why bitter, in the first month of the year, dead and alive. Lin Daiyu said: I'm afraid of death, you live a long life! You are afraid of death, you live a long life, how? Baoyu laughed and said: to be like only such a mess, I'm still afraid of death? Better to die clean. Daiyu busy said: exactly, if so, better to die clean. Baoyu said: I said I died clean, don't listen to the wrong words to rely on people. ...... Lin Daiyu spit: do I ask you to sparse her? I have become a what person? I am for my heart. Baoyu said: I also for is my heart. Do you know your heart, do not know my heart is not. Lin Mei simple sentence "I for is my heart", how penetrating ah.

In the second chapter, there is a quote from Baoyu: "Daughters are made of water, and men are made of mud". This also shows the weirdness of this book.

The 82nd time, Daiyu advised Baoyu to read, Daiyu said: listen to the good, quickly take out the books! Baoyu laughed and said: "The West Wing" or "Peony Pavilion"? Daiyu said: it is "Mencius", "Medievalism", "University", Baoyu laughs rolling on the bed. Daiyu said: don't laugh, listen! I tell you, this day I also do a Sister Bao, persuade you to read books. Baoyu laughed: you learn strike, I see learn like not like,.......? Daiyu laughed: you are not afraid that I take a ruler stick to beat hands to force you to read? I can be very powerful. Gao, Cheng two people about Daiyu persuasion, which can be compared with this, this is Baoyu, this is Daiyu. The 87th, Baoyu laughed: then you sue to go ah, I did not expect you to be more annoying than sister Bao. Daiyu laughed: Sister Bao and I have become one, I see how you do? Baoyu laughed: that is, the girls are the same, I will accept the sister, who called me and sister predecessor destiny! This is the Baoyu and Daiyu rivalry ah. Here the "two into one" also reminds me of the previous text has "died half of it". Look at the 89th, Jia Zheng told Baoyu that month to do his marriage with Daiyu, Baoyu's performance, Baoyu and Daiyu's conversation, Xueyan's flirtation, this is not the first 80 back in their daily conversation, the continuation of daily life? In the 93rd chapter, Daiyu begs Aunt Zhao to let Baoyu go and not to want this family, saying: I only ask to live in the countryside with Baoyu, to grow my own food, and never to rely on others. In the 96th time, Baoyu said in his dream: as long as I can be with sister Lin together, this garden land all to you, I would rather live in the countryside with sister! These two sentences although in different back, but really is the language of the two of them.

? Look at the following two paragraphs again. Baoyu returned to the garden, Daiyu has been a pile of white bones, Baoyu's crying: ...... I'm late! I so hate ah! ...... God Heaven is above, why don't you open your eyes ah! I curse you this thick earth and high heaven, not even good and bad . Baoyu sacrificed Lin sister this paragraph also tearful, "with the garden as the old, Qing why thin life? Willow cover acacia hidden, who is lonely bones lonely? The maple ghost chanting, but only good people without a grave. ...... How many similarities are there between ancient and modern times? ...... Heaven and earth is so miserable, the world is so bleak, love is so painful, nostalgia is so broken, spring flowers, autumn and moon, dust and past events, everything has changed. ...... The heavens are so poisonous, taking away my favorites. ...... Suddenly the world started a heavy rain, Baoyu is still in the rain, pointing to the sky, drenched, still refused to move a step, shouting: Lin sister, I want you to come back! I want you to come back! You come back ah! I expect no echo not feel sadly lowered his head, looking at the earth without saying anything, eyes full of despair cold silence.

? Xiang Yun all the way begging, looking for the whereabouts of Daiyu, finally found Daiyu's grave, this paragraph is also very touching: "Heaven is not long-eyed ah, have to break people's anus cry before they are willing to give up, good people are dead. You don't open your eyes to see what kind of a bastard heaven and earth this is! ...... I am sitting at the head of the section by the rusty hedge, holding my knees in the cold incense and chanting, and my sister is counting the number to go even more without Jun Ao Shi, and a thousand years of high winds are said to this day. I am the world no talker, but my sister is my soulmate. ...... "The more I think about it, the more it hurts, and I just rubbed the dry grass to pieces. These two paragraphs of text is not another person can be based on the first eighty and write out?

? Then look at the latter 28 back of the treasure Dai Xiang three people's strange talk about it. The 92nd: Daiyu heard this fallacy, indignation: between heaven and earth, the most honorable is the person ...... Daiyu in 93 back to save Bao Yu, looking through the book to find the law of the enemy, here is how wonderful. Excerpts from the words of Daiyu: things are not equal, since ancient times, the king's majesty, little sympathy for the people's plight, as if the country only one person, thousands of people's lives as mustard. ...... Villain is a scoundrel and villain, pretend to believe in righteousness "benevolence and righteousness" are lies. ...... replaced over the generations, change the soup but not change the medicine, the people when there has been affluence and peace. The 93rd, Daiyu scolded Jiajia robbers that on "what is a man's words" is also quite wonderful. The 95th, Daiyu said: these days the family turmoil, I also figured out, what masters and lackeys, what treasure two grandma's position, I have seen light. Or Li Houzhu said well: 'Anchorage spring wind a leaf boat, a spandex cocoon strands a light hook. Flowers are full of islets, wine is full of ou, and I am free in the waves of ten thousand hectares.' The power, the war I do not Shang, the spring breeze and warm rain, falling flotsam and jetsam is what I seek. ...... From the text I know that Bao Yu, Dai Yu are appreciated by Zhuangzi, Peony Pavilion, this style of writing, of course, also have Li Houzhu, and this kind of words is not another person to write out. The 96th Baoyu said: hearts are meat long, they that manage to daughter is also smart and spiritual a hundred pains, the enactment of the national law is to fill men's selfish desires ....... 96th Daiyu and robbers debate: just ask you all seize the river and mountain and how? ...... Generations are cycle after cycle after cycle, the original are not for the people to dig wells cleaner, Feng cold spring, is to change the dynasty and how, are all the same raccoon. 97 back, Daiyu spit: ...... Everyone is a human being, who is more than who what to? ...... Dai Yu forced smile: those thieves Li et al. to break in, ancient times, the country broke the war, women are always trampled, or sold to the greenhouse. I am so worried about you and Xueyan, I am sworn to maintain innocence, is a head of death, force fight, can not be sullied by the thieves! 104th Baoyu words: fame is like sludge, let you and I drowned in greed, anger and love can not break out. Originally, people are born with a heart of gold, how pure! But by the dirty dust net can not break free, really sad. 107 back, Xiang Yun to him about the past, they are also poor and downtrodden, because they will not be dipped again, so has been alone, not noble but the world is difficult to find a soulmate. 107 back Bao Yu has long seen through life, this life has been so, the future is just a death, but also look at the light of day. Xiang Yun said: ...... Although we are poor, but we have not done anything wrong, death is also innocent, I do not regret. I read these words, a few tears for them. These words, these thoughts are not ordinary people can be written in that era of transcendent ah.

? The 83rd, the old lady and family members together with the Chung Yeung paragraph, single fishing this paragraph, mother said, "but it is fun, who still eat him, fast don't put aside in the water to raise, still put back to the water it. This is the words of the old lady, the old lady and Daiyu, Baoyu, a class of people, its realm and interest in the first eighty times before the embodiment of the realm, and embodied here. Next, the mother touched the scene of sadness, crying, and said, "I'm this day is how, nagging no fun, delayed us fishing for fun," this naturally reminds me of the previous text of the words of the mother of Jia, "looking at a lot of people to eat, the most interesting".

? When Xixue died, Baoyu was crying his heart out, shaking Xixue with all his might, saying: 'Benefactor wake up, Yu'er won't let you die! The 96th Baoyu said: I consciously read some poetry and books, but is no knowledge, I think this life to do what he? Without me in heaven and earth, it would be clean. Tangchun married far away, "Baoyu tears look at the boat angrily to go up to reason"? The 93rd, Baoyu was taken by robbers, Daiyu just crying, "but tears like broken beads flow endless. Zijuan can not help but cry: 'girl always crying, how many teardrops in the eyes in the end, flow of the heart are broken'". This is Baoyu, this is the language of "Dream of the Red Chamber" ah.

? Look at a description of the environment: gently down to the bed, walked to the window, open the window, only to see the Milky Way Geng Geng, the bright moon clear, the autumn air day deep, suddenly feel cold, looking at the distant Milky Way, blurred a few stars, the heart more and more sentimental. This paragraph is simply world-class, a good fuzzy a few stars, this kind of atmosphere baking techniques in the first 80 back more than seen, not a person can not to this. Then look at a sentence: cloud light blue sky floating out of a bay moon, startled the magpies on the branch. This floating word, and the former 80 back Jia Zheng scolded the boys to brew a bad brewing word, its meaning is different, its wonderful one.

? Baoyu alone lying in bed tears fall like roll, thinking about it is difficult to suppress, biting the pillow and crying. This one bites the pillow and cried with the previous Xiangyun crying Daiyu there, the more you think the more pain, only to rub the withered grass. These words are very "Dream of the Red Chamber".

? The 102nd time to write Miao Yu. From then on, Miao Yu in the temple day after day to receive guests, gradually some numbness, become loose. Do not realize that the years are gradually going, the old monk will have a life, Miao Yu long color no one is willing to patronize, leave the temple alone to find a green lamp ancient temple to pass the days. After a few more decades, Miao Yu head of green silk for white hair, people will be old. These few short sentences can't be written without profound skills. I've excerpted the passage from City on the Plain where the author writes about Billy growing old. "He rode on and on and on. Rode the sunrise, rode the sunset ...... Billy kept going forward, walking day after day, year after year, all the way to the old age, to the gray hair".107, Baozhan said musk moon: I went to see him a few days ago, his head of black hair actually all white, we are old.

? 104 back in a sentence Jin Gui said: how about the past is right as the wind to blow away. This sentence and Mrs. Mitchell's Gone with the wind how like. I'm familiar with American history and American culture, and I think it's just like that.

? 103 back to Liu Lou Lou Lou three into the Grand View Garden "can be a garden of grass and trees are called people want to panic", this is the words of Liu Lou Lou Lou! 105 back to write Phoenix that is really Phoenix, Phoenix listened to the heart and lungs such as being taken off the general cried out in pain. ...... "Go to the mother of the Rongqiang, causing my family to die, this national hatred of blood I can not forget two hundred years. ...... I am ashamed of my ancestors, committed an unforgivable sin natural sadness, but that has a broken family more called people broken heart ah!"

And then pick some of the poems in the last 28 back:

Autumn demon mercilessly stirred poetry demon, winter cold intentionally urge the heart to cold.

The dream is life and hate is flower.

I think of the wind and dust I also dust.

The stars are like broken mirrors in the middle of the sky.

The human world is a place of flying flowers.

This is the first time I've ever seen a woman in the world.

This is the first time I've seen a full moon in the world, and I'm not sure if I've seen a full moon in the world. The first thing you need to do is to get your hands dirty.

? These verses should also come from the same person compared to the first eighty.

And then pick and pick a few sentences of criticism: every read here are choked up can not be criticized. 94 back: Feng Sister Lian brother if the ground knows, I do not know what to think. Dec. September night window tears pen. 96: See and here do not feel heartbreaking sobbing tears. But the good times do not last long, the beauty of Shaohua to go in a hurry? Do not realize that the batch of book sideburns and into frost carry on. I can not help but feel, even the fat inkstone Zhai and the monstrous Watsho's approval of the text in the emotion are so coherent.

? 108 back to Baoyu and Xiangyun before the death of the paragraph is incredibly moving, tearful. Baoyu see the sea shore stop a lonely boat, step foot into, let the boat drift along the water, he is lying in the boat fell asleep, but was woken up by the morning wind. Opened his eyes, only to see the boat carrying their own roaming in the sea, surrounded by a vast, a round of red sun from the remnants of the night, and large and round, more and more seemingly mundane and quiet, not stained with half a bit of dust. Baoyu do not realize that look at the dull, tears overflowed, feel themselves also melted, look at the sea jumped, thud sound sank to the bottom of the sea.

? This paragraph is already the peak.

? 108 back there is a love evening, 108 people each person on a love word, extremely fit. The world has long known that there is such a love in the evening, but nearly 300 years, no one can make it up. Today this love evening appeared, is not true?

? After the confession of Baoyu in the realm of illusion: ...... misinterpreted the way of Confucius and Mencius. I think that the boudoir skirt hairpin civilian children also have smart spirit beautiful posture Qian Rong, and make it die out, how wrong. God has a good life of virtue, the world law is equal, not to misunderstand the saint's teachings, but I have a sincere heart of clouds. This is the first time that I've ever seen a man with the same name, but I've never seen a man with the same name, and I've never seen a man with the same name.

? The second half of the Ming Dynasty, the capitalist economy began to bud, the public life is thriving. At this time, people's thinking began to change, people's awakening, political views of progress (such as Gu Yanwu), a variety of ideas stone. The Dream of the Red Chamber is the culmination of that era, combining many levels of emotion, and its higher significance lies in his reawakening of the human being, his promotion of individual freedom, his rejection of traditional politics, and his anticipation of enlightened politics. Wu Meichun died in 1672, and Cao Xueqin died in about 1763, when there were only two capitalist countries in the world, England and Holland, the United States had not yet become independent, and the French Revolution would have to wait for several more decades. Wu Meicun and Cao Xueqin were doing the same thing as their contemporaries Rousseau and Voltaire. They were representatives of the "Chinese Enlightenment". The Qing Dynasty destroyed the Ming Dynasty, the country broke up and the family died, and these thinkers pursued this more progressive trend was also cut off by history, can not be sad?

? Over the years, I also heard a lot of disparagement of "Dream of the Red Chamber" to pursue "Jin Ping Mei", such as Gao Xiaosong. Personally, I think that "Jin Pingmei" and "Dream of Red Mansions" for that era of the sisterhood, a metaphysical, a metaphysical. But from the height of thought, "Dream of Red Mansions" thought is "Jin Ping Mei" is far less.

For those who question the authenticity of this book, they are unfortunate, because they did not sink into the text, really feel the breath of the Dream of the Red Chamber. And the existence of this Dec. Some people, the so-called "citation", is not a fish out of water, know that the truth is in the text itself. My generation is fortunate, because I believe.

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