The Unrestraint and Tenderness of Jia Baoyu

I. Jia Baoyu's Personality:

(1) Jia Baoyu's Relationship with Other Main Characters

(2) Other Main Characters' (or Author's) Opinions (Evaluations) of Jia Baoyu {Indolence}

II. Specific Episodes Reflecting the Character's Characterization (Tenderness)

(1) Episodes of Jia Baoyu and Lin Daiyu

III. p> (2) The plot between Jia Baoyu and other main characters

III. The author's intention on the characterization of Jia Baoyu:

(1) The author's background

(2) The author's intention

IV. The General Theory:

(1) The role of the two opposing personalities on the story plot (or the inevitability of the story's development) and the expression of thoughts (or the influence)

Main article:

Jia Baoyu is the second son of the second master of the Rongguo mansion, Jia Zheng, and Madame Wang, and his brother was dead when he appeared on the scene, so he is the only full-blooded son of Jia Zheng. He has a younger half-brother, Jia Huan, and a younger sister, Tanchun, both born to Aunt Zhao. Jia Baoyu was the baby of the Jia family and was loved by his mother. He was born with a jade in his mouth and was therefore named Jia Baoyu. Lin Daiyu was his cousin, and their story is an afterthought.

Jia Baoyu did not formally debut before, Leng Zixing did this evaluation: although naughty abnormal, but smart and well-behaved, a hundred less than one of him, talking about the children's words are also strange ....... The future colorful ghost undoubtedly. So some evaluation, more disparagement less, a loose, cynical playboy image in front of the readers appeared. After Jia Baoyu debut, the author also made a poem cloud:

A

No reason to look for sadness and hate, sometimes like a fool like crazy; even if the birth of a good bag, the original grass in the abdomen.

The scribbler is not able to understand common affairs, and the fool is afraid of reading articles; his behavior is eccentric, and he cares about the world's slanders!

Two

The rich don't know how to enjoy their work, the poor can't bear the misery; the poor fail to live up to the good time, in the country and the family have no hope.

The world's incompetence is the first, the ancient and modern unqualified; send word to playboy and sorghum: do not follow the shape of this child!

So, the Jia Baoyu said nothing. His mother, Mrs. Wang, said to Lin Daiyu: If the sisters ignore him (Jia Baoyu), he is still quiet: If one day the sisters and he said more than one sentence, his heart a happy, they will give birth to a lot of things ...... His mouth for a moment sweet words, a moment there is no day, crazy and stupid. Lin Daiyu and Jia Baoyu after recognizing, its evaluation is more unforgiving face, its cloud: the most expensive treasure, the most firm jade. What is noble? You have what firm? Can really should be the name of Jia Baoyu. However, there is another side of Jia Baoyu, that is, the soft side.

Jia Baoyu first met Lin Daiyu, they gave Daiyu up a called "knit knit" of the watchword, said it was taken from the "Ancient and Modern Characters" on the: Western stone name Dai, can be replaced by the ink of the eyebrow. Another cloud: "This Lin sister eyebrows if knit, with these two words, is not two wonderful! Foolish afraid of reading articles of Jia Baoyu, can come up with such elegant words, and fit Lin Daiyu's appearance, it is not difficult to see Jia Baoyu's tenderness and delicacy. Another example, forty-three times, phoenix sister's birthday, treasure jade, but a person to hide out, only to sacrifice because of their own death of goldushi. Apart from anything else, the fact that Jia Baoyu is so affectionate towards his pet shows that he is kind-hearted and a person who values love and justice. Another example is the forty-sixth time: Jia Pian wanted to take Yuanyang, Yuanyang refused, she and Ping'er met in the garden, talked about it, and then came the attacker, the three were talking, Baoyu came again. Yuanyang know bei baoyu heard, very ashamed, then lying on the stone pretending to sleep ignoring baoyu. Baoyu said: "This is the head cold, let's go back to the room to sleep, is not good?" This is a sharp contrast to his seeming foolishness and insanity, and Jia Baoyu's tender side is fully displayed. For the uninhibited and tenderness of the description of the character image therefore stood up, the author's intention to see the beginning of the end.

In his childhood, Cao Xueqin was naughty and abnormal, detested the eight-legged essay and disliked reading the Four Books and Five Classics, and was disgusted by the imperial examinations and the economy of the career path. Although Cao Fu strict discipline, tutors, and attended a few days of home school, but because of grandmother Li's doting, every time to protect the little Cao Xueqin . This is very similar to the persona of Jia Baoyu. And Yongzheng five years (1727), Cao Xueqin thirteen years old (false age), in December, then served as Jiangning weaving officer uncle (said father) Cao Fu to harass the post, weaving deficits, transfer of property and other crimes were dismissed from his post and sent to prison, the next year the first month of the Lantern Festival was raided before the family (family members of men, women, large and small, as well as the servants of the 114 mouth). Cao Xueqin moved back to Beijing with his family. The Cao family has been in decline ever since. This is the same as the end of the Jia family. Cao Xueqin writes about Jia Baoyu's uninhibited and tender feelings, comparing himself to Jia Baoyu, giving his own experience to Jia Baoyu through words, and writing Jia Baoyu in such a vivid way. As to why the author wrote this, there are different opinions. Combined with the specific description, Jia Baoyu is afraid of reading articles, disgusted with the imperial examinations, to a large extent, the author's disgust and criticism of the imperial examinations, reflecting the gradual ossification of the imperial examination system as a continuation of the thousand years of the system of selecting officials, but also expresses the author's desire to be free from secularism, which at that time was a departure from the norms of the world, so the author shaped the unruly image of Jia Baoyu, to express his own heart for the secular loathing and desire to break through the net of the secular world. Therefore, the author portrayed Jia Baoyu as unruly to express his inner disgust for the world and his desire to break through the net of the world. If you look at it this way, the phrase "Never mind the world's slander!" A sentence has a kind of ironic meaning, "Dream of the Red Chamber" as a masterpiece with rich ideological connotations have such a need to understand, besides, the image of any artistic characterization is not empty, must be with the author's shadow. As to why write Jia Baoyu's tenderness, one is for the development of the plot, the second is for the sublimation of the need for characters, and the third is for the need to enrich the thought. The two opposing personalities of Jia Baoyu's uninhibitedness and tenderness play a great role in the development of the storyline, and even predetermine the ending of the story, and the reconciliation of these two personalities also makes the character of Jia Baoyu come to life. The whole book is thus much richer in ideological connotation.

The depiction of opposition and unity of character is the usual method of characterization, and it is also the human nature of every present person. Jia Baoyu's famous words, "Daughters are made of water, men are made of mud; I am refreshed when I see daughters, and I feel turbid and stinky when I see men." Baoyu's uninhibited and tender feelings are vividly reflected in this quote. Baoyu always treats his daughters with respect and consideration, and that is how he attracts the favor of many daughters, which leads to the step-by-step development of the plot afterwards. In addition, Jia Baoyu's tenderness is not only the love of children, but also an extensive love for the world. This kind of worldly love is manifested in the contempt for the feudal system of male superiority and female inferiority and the respect for women, this kind of love through his uninhibited added a strong color, the author's intention may also lie in this. The ending of the book is that the Jia family was copied, Baoyu saw through the world and became a monk. Although this ending was not written by Cao Xueqin himself, according to his inference at the beginning of the book, "the white earth is really clean", as well as Jia Baoyu was originally a divine Ying attendant, this ending may not be Cao Xueqin's predetermined ending. The fact that Baoyu has become a monk and that his four great qualities are all empty is a perfect fit for the inevitable end of his uninhibited and tender character development, which is to be completely reconciled and returned to nothingness. There are many things that Cao Xueqin wants to express through this, the most obvious of which is that, combined with his own experience, he satirizes the ugliness of the world and expresses the pursuit of freedom through the end of a fop who is not versed in the ways of the world and who disdains the norms of the world, and who ends up in a white and clean land. Jia Baoyu's life is also Cao Xueqin's life, and Jia Baoyu's indolence and tenderness is also Cao Xueqin's indolence and tenderness, and the portrayal of Jia Baoyu's image carries the color of Cao Xueqin's autobiography. This has to be further deduced; "Dream of Red Mansions" as the encyclopedia of Chinese feudal society, its ideological connotation is the embodiment of the seed of emancipation of thought nurtured under the feudal system? Or is it a flare of people's emancipation? Cao Xueqin, through the characterization of Jia Baoyu's uninhibited and tender character, depicts a traditional secular book of sins in a small way, which is of great artistic value and historiographical research value.