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The Cultural Tradition of Dream of Red Mansions

It is not by chance that the book Dream of Red Mansions appeared in the history of Chinese literature, it is the product of a specific cultural background. It is a product of a specific cultural background. From the distant past until the middle of the Qing Dynasty, four thousand years of cultural traditions can be regarded as the background of Meng of Red Mansions. The factors of traditional culture

that permeate it are very rich, in terms of reflecting the richness of life, it is an encyclopedia of traditional Chinese society; in terms of the factors of culture that permeate it, it is a compendium of traditional culture. The various forms of classical literature, art and craftsmanship are all

present in Meng of the Red Chamber.

Similarly, to read and understand Meng of the Red Chamber requires a considerable knowledge base. That is why among the four great masterpieces of China, the other three works are widely accepted by readers, but only the Dream of Red Mansions needs to be read by people with a little higher level of knowledge, and it is a cultural paradigm

. The book devotes a large part of its text to the daily life of that large family in the mid-18th century. A large part of it belonged to cultural life, and the book talks about reciting poems, composing poems, performing drinking rituals, guessing riddles, drinking tea, painting, playing chess, playing the zither, telling books, watching plays, feasting and drinking,

basically all cultural activities. Originally, like a lot of things are material enjoyment, in the Dream of the Red Chamber has been sublimated to an artistic level, mutated into a part of cultural activities.

In the 38th chapter, Xue Baochai assists Shi Xiangyun in hosting and inviting Jia Mu to eat crabs. This activity is combined with gardening, flower-viewing, and poem-writing, and its artistic value exceeds its use value. The 40th time to write Jia mother and Shi Xiangyun return to the table, the food is not

specifically written, but several people's seating order, the color of the plate, the dish, the dish arrangement, the dish passes the way to write a clear way. The author is intentionally writing about the cultural aspects of feasting inside the extended family. In the 71st Jiamu's 80th birthday banquet, the Rongning and Ning mansions held banquets

. The Ning House invites official guests and the Rong House invites regular guests. This banquet also focuses on highlighting the row and etiquette. Cao Xueqin, on the one hand, has brought art to life and art to life.

Culture is a big concept, not only reading and learning book knowledge is culture, speech, behavior, manners, hospitality, instrumentation, dress reflect a person's cultural style. Some people in the Dream of the Red Chamber have no culture, but they know how to behave, the reason is

they know how to "honor". This cultural factor is reflected in Jia Baoyu's body, cultural character is also there. A few people compose poems together, Jia Baoyu always humbly said that he did not do well, this is not hypocrisy but modesty, modesty in front of the crowd is always

a virtue.

Cao Xueqin in the writing of the characters, often take the brush and writing a combination of techniques, the abstraction of the figurative, physical animation, the appearance of charm, environmental imagery, leaving the reader with ample room for imagination. Just like Chinese painting, can not be painted

too full, but also to leave a place to inscribe poems, inscriptions, seals, and even the blanks make you feel not blank. Dream of Red Mansions" in writing the characters is also so, so the characters written really wonderful trick, sometimes he did not write the character what kind of long, did not write the size of the eyes

eyes, stay hair accessories, body height, but you just feel Lin Daiyu is very beautiful, we look at it carefully, she is generally slim, so "action like if the willow to help wind "; write her eyes did not write double single eyelids, did not write the size, just that she "

like happy non-happy with love eyes"; write her eyebrows like a touch of light smoke. Writing Shi Xiangyun also did not write her appearance, face, eyebrows, eyes, mouth did not make a positive description. In the 62nd chapter, Shi Xiangyun lies drunk in the shade of the peony, but she also shows her

beauty from other people's eyes. Xiangyun lying on a stone bench in a secluded area of the mountain, the industry by the fragrant dream sound, four peony flowers flew all over the head, face and lapel are red incense scattered, the fan in the hand on the ground, but also half buried by the falling flowers, a group of bees and butterflies clamor around her, and with a shark's handkerchief wrapped in a bag of paeoniae flower petals pillow. Very beautiful picture, how the face is not written, we think Xiang Yun is very good-looking. The author's technique of writing characters is like painting a sketch.

Overall, the book Dream of the Red Chamber reflects the deep structure of Chinese culture, a mature cultural form.

Memories of a Century of Redology

Dream of Red Mansions was written during the Qianlong period. It started out as a handwritten copy, and only in 1791, in the 59th year of Qianlong's reign, was it engraved. The earliest book was only 80 times, 80 times is not completely written, some missing the end, some missing the beginning. By 1791, there were two people named Cheng Weiyuan and Gao Osprey. They searched everywhere, found the plot and content of the last 40 times, organized them together, and became 120 times of the Dream of the Red Chamber. After the carved version of Dream of the Red Chamber came out, it had a big impact, and there were more people studying it. The real study of Dream of the Red Chamber began with the three greats, Cai Yuanpei, Wang Guowei, and Hu Shizhi.

I think more than 100 years of red study is characterized by modern Chinese scholars, first-class thinkers, almost all different degrees of involvement in the tide of red study. 1904 Wang Guowei published a review of the Dream of Red Mansions, which is the first time that Chinese scholars use Western literary aesthetic ideas to re-interpret the classical Chinese culture, and he proposed that the Dream of Red Mansions is a tragedy of tragedies. Cai Yuanpei wrote a book called Index to Dream of Red Mansions. Hu Shizhi published "The Examination of the Dream of the Red Chamber" in 1921, criticizing Cai Yuanpei. Hu Shizhi said, "I love my teacher, but I love the truth even more; the teacher's index is a riddle." Because Hu Shizhi found a new version, he believed that the Dream of the Red Chamber was written about the family history of the Cao family, while Cai Yuanpei's index was written about the history of the Ming and Qing societies.

There are many other scholars, you must not have guessed that Chen Duxiu also wrote a review of Dream of Red Mansions at a very early stage - New Review of Dream of Red Mansions. Yu Pingbo, an expert in poetics, Wu Mi, the director of the National Academy of Tsinghua and a poet of poetic romance, Mou Zongsan, who later became a representative of Neo-Confucianism, and some other very famous literary historians and historians like Guo Moruo, Wang Li, and Guo Shaoyu, all of them wrote articles on Dream of Red Mansions. Mr. Jiang Liangfu of Hangzhou University, who is a Dunhuang scholar, has also studied the Dream of the Red Chamber.

In addition to this, there are many writers who have been involved in red studies, adding highlights to red studies, like Lu Xun, Bajin, Shen Yanbing, Bingxin, Zhou Libo, Xu Chi, Lin Yutang, etc., some of them have specialized writings and some have specialized articles. The poet He Qifang, who became the director of the Institute of Chinese Literature after the 1950s, had a book called Dreams of Red Mansions, which already represented a very high level at that time. Zhang Ailing wrote Nightmare of the Red Mansions, and the dramatist and translator Yang Jiang had an essay "Art Overcomes Difficulties" in 1963 when commemorating the 100th anniversary of Cao Xueqin. In the last decade, several writers have also begun to study the Dream of the Red Mansions:one is Wang Meng, who published The Revelation of the Red Mansions. There is also Liu Xinwu. Writers have joined the field of red studies to make red studies more famous and add new colors. There is a difference between the vision of writers and the vision of scholars. The history of the study of the Dream of the Red Chamber in the past hundred years has been the most noisy area of academic research. Agree with 20| Comments.