Chapter Forty-Eight: Dream of Red Mansions, The Story of Stones

Later, I said it on the radio

"I really admire my prophet, when I wrote the book, I read a fixed subscription of 100, and I predicted that it was almost 100, writing 1 word is 100, writing 1 million words or 100, amazing! There are 100 true friends who will never change!

Reading friends silently heard the message and said: Gaga, make persistent efforts.

The author replied to the author of "True Immortals": "How can you forget, there is a person named Long Yinyue among my readers, one person represents 10,000 readers, and he is currently saying that he is trying to become one person representing 100,000 readers!

There are no readers, there are no readers, we still have to write, just for the sake of heaven and earth witness: to prove that you like to write, to witness that you are strong, even if the world hates you to say that you are strong, even if the world does not agree.

What you think is right, do what you like, and move forward bravely, this is not afraid of the world!

The crystal building is the heart of the Demon Hero, and the group of beings in it are the guardians of the Demon Hero. There is also a group of automatic protectors, which exist in the mind of the demon man.

One of the guardians of the Demon Hero, Cao Xueqin

Cao Xueqin (1715-1763), known as Mengruan, Xueqin, Qinpu and Qinxi, was the author of the famous Chinese novel Dream of the Red Chamber.

"Dream of the Red Chamber" is a peak of Chinese novels, and most red scholars consider Cao Xueqin to be the author of "Dream of the Red Chamber", and they believe that "Dream of the Red Chamber" is an autobiographical novel, so the Jia family in the book has a great relationship with the deeds of Cao Xueqin's real family.

Many red scholars believe that Cao Xueqin is writing the history of the Cao family. However, some people think that it is to write the history of Nalan Xingde during the Qing Dynasty.

Since the early manuscripts of Dream of Red Mansions have been circulated, the author has not signed them. Since Hu Shi published "A Dream of Red Mansions" in 1921, it is generally believed that the original author of "A Dream of Red Mansions" was Cao Xueqin.

The evidence that Cao Xueqin is the author of "Dream of Red Mansions" mainly comes from the first chapter of the book, which says: "Cao Xueqin read it in the Mourning Red Pavilion for ten years, added and deleted it five times, compiled it into a table of contents, and divided it into chapters, and the title is "The Twelve Keys of Jinling". 」

The fat criticism also clearly indicates in many places that the author and "Xueqin" are the same person, such as the first comment of the Jiazhu book: "If Yun Xueqin is read and added, deleted." However, who wrote this wedge at this point? This shows how cunning the author's pen is. The fat batch that was later found matched the clues of the Cao family. Therefore, it is widely accepted by mainstream red science.

The Qing Dynasty poet Ming Yi said in the preface to his poem "Dream of the Red Chamber": "Cao Zixueqin wrote a copy of The Dream of the Red Chamber, which remembers the prosperity of the wind and the moon, and covers his ancestors as Jiang Ning's weaving mansion. Its so-called Grand View Garden is the site of the garden. It is a pity that his book has not been passed on, and the world knows little. Yu saw that his banknote was original, "because of the fragrance of ink, the novel "Dream of Red Mansions" and the three quatrains of hanging Xueqin (surnamed Cao)".

Although Hu Shi, a famous scholar of Chinese studies, was the pioneer of the study of Cao Xueqin and "Dream of Red Mansions" in modern times. But he himself did not have a very high opinion of Cao and his works.

He thinks: "If you compare Cao Xueqin and Wu Jingzi. I think Cao Xueqin's thinking is very ordinary, while Wu Jingzi's thinking is ahead of the times and has a strong sense of resistance."

He also said in a letter to Gao Yang: "'Dream of Red Mansions' is not as good as 'The Outer History of Confucianism' in terms of ideological insight. In terms of literary techniques, he is not as good as "Flowers of the Sea" and "The Travels of the Old Remnant", and the reason why he researched "Dream of Red Chambers" is only to break the "Suoyin faction" represented by Wang Mengruan, Xu Liuquan, and Cai Yuanpei to "go along with "Dream of Red Chambers"; to prove that Dream of Red Mansions is just a private affair of Cao Xueqin's family; and his ultimate goal is to "teach people to believe after doubting, to believe after examination, and to believe after having sufficient evidence."

Dream of the Red Chamber, formerly known as The Story of the Stone, is a classical Chinese novel and one of China's four great masterpieces. ""Romance of the Three Kingdoms", "Journey to the West", "The Legend of the Water"

The titles mentioned in the book "Dream of Red Mansions" also include "The Record of the Love Monk", "The Treasure of the Wind and the Moon", and "The Twelve Treasures of Jinling", and the preface to the dream of the master in the 49th year of Qianlong (1784) is titled "Dream of Red Mansions" (Jiachen Dream Preface Manuscript). In 1791, after the first movable type printing (Cheng Jiaben), "Dream of the Red Chamber" replaced "The Story of the Stone" as the popular title.

Originally, there were 120 times, but the last 40 times were lost. (Mr. Zhou Ruchang, a red scholar, believes that there are 108 original episodes of "Dream of Red Mansions", and 80 of them are extant, so the last 28 episodes are lost.) )

Nowadays, scholars generally believe that the first 80 chapters of the popular book were written by Cao Xueqin, and the last 40 chapters are not known to be written by anyone. However, the people generally believe that it was made by Gao Ling, and there is another theory that Gao Lu and Cheng Weiyuan cooperated to write the book. According to the latest examination of the People's Literature Publishing House, it is considered to be an anonymous continuation, compiled by Gao Ju and Cheng Weiyuan.

Dream of Red Mansions has been rated as the pinnacle of classical Chinese Zhanghui novels, with extremely high ideological and artistic value. Because it is incomplete, it leaves many mysteries that lead people to explore, and it also constitutes an academic independent research discipline - red studies.

Since Hu Shi's research on the Dream of Red Mansions, it is generally believed that Cao Xueqin projected the fate of her family in the book "Dream of Red Mansions".

The author focuses on the rise and fall of aristocratic families. In order to avoid touching on current affairs and avoiding the Qing government's literary prison, he fictionalized dynasties, concealed real events, and avoided them by describing boudoir women.

However, the most well-known thing in this book is the love affair between Jia Baoyu and Lin Daiyu and the relationship between the two and Xue Baoyu.

This magnum opus fictionalizes dynasties and places, and uses the myth of the maiden mending the heavens as the source of the story. But it reflects the life of the nobles under the Qing Empire.

It also reflects the social life at that time, the wedding and funeral sacrifice system, and even the aspects of clothing, diet, medicinal food, architectural pavilions, landscaping, boats, cars, sedans, etc. There are many descriptions and jokes about Buddhism, Taoism, and Confucianism throughout the book.

Some scholars have pointed out that Dream of the Red Chamber adopts a completely different structure from Western novels, in which the author adopts a "wave-like" structure in which many small events are stacked into one big event, with several large axes interspersed with many small stories.

The novel also contains the creation and criticism of various genres such as poems, lyrics, songs, fu, verses, wine orders, jokes, riddles, inscriptions, and eight-strand texts. There are even numerology divinations, pulse case prescriptions, lawsuits, etc. And it's already a novel in itself. The text titles involved are all-encompassing and magnificent.

I know some friends who recommend the author to watch Dream of Red Mansions, I bought it when I was a child, I bought it at the beginning of my tens, I bought it many times at the beginning of my twenties, I bought it many times with the prefix of the second word, and I bought many versions of the prefix with the third word, but I haven't seen it either.

I have lent some friends, but now I think about it, but they don't seem to have returned it.

Look for a chance to see it at any time, the author thinks about it, it should not be in vain!

Reading the Theme of the Book Review of the Demon Lotus in the Fire: Reading the book of Long Yinyue, I feel the two levels of fearlessness

Looking at Long Yinyue's book, I feel the two levels of fearlessness. The first level, the fearlessness in the world, is not hot-headed and rushes up to death, not sad and angry crying to death, but proudly and unyieldingly with calm and composed, condensing all the wisdom and bravery, in the master duel, coldly moving, looking for the potential weaknesses of the opponent, always waiting for the opportunity to fight back, even at the moment of death, is also looking for, is also fighting!

Even if the soul floats out of the body, the strength of the will can save him! Therefore, do not die for the confidant, live for the confidant! Save yourself and your brother by all means!

This level is a sharp sword, cutting through all vanity and dangers, don't tell me, you can't overcome it, you have no choice but to give up, and it's all an excuse for cowardice.

It's like when I see A saying to B, I love you, that's why I want to cry and leave you, that's what P says. Sometimes, elegant words can't express the disdain and happiness in their hearts!

The second level of fearlessness, fearlessness has been deeply introverted into the bones, a real master, but the outside is ordinary. Soft as water, invisible, around the boulder shoal, smooth and natural, the waves crash on the shore, swallow the mountains, the size of the strength is not restricted, in the soft to break through the enemy's defense, in the spring breeze let the enemy die inexplicably.

In this kind of silent sword, gun, sword and halberd that is more suitable for modern society, in addition to the background, the decisive victory is the psychology, who can be more fearless? Who can be more calm and grasp the opportunity quietly? Who can suppress the opponent with spirit and momentum? Who can dare to give up? If you don't give up, where does it come from? Fortune and misfortune, yin and yang, change at all times, and everything is one and two.

Fear of death, there can be no fearlessness, and without wisdom, there can be no fearlessness. The magic is one foot high, and it must be one foot high to defeat. The devil uses conspiracy, and the Tao uses yang conspiracy. (To be continued......)