Abstract: There have always been different opinions on the title of "A Dream of Red Mansions". As a symbolic experience, the title of "Dream of Red Mansions" clearly reflects the author's meaning on the levels of lust, love, and emptiness. Through the sixteen-character motto of Taoist Kongkong, "Seeing color from space, feeling from color, conveying emotion into color, from color into emptiness", it tells people's life insights of "seeing emotion from color, realizing emptiness from color". Life is both reality and fantasy. Only by opening up the relationship and seeing the true face can we achieve the true and complete "enlightenment" of our hearts.

Keywords: "A Dream of Red Mansions"; color; love; emptiness; obscenity

About the author: Sun Lin, female (1980.3-), born in Chengcheng, Shaanxi, graduated from Shaanxi Normal University University College of Liberal Arts, received a Master of Arts degree. Currently, he is a teacher in the School of Liberal Arts of Xi'an University of Arts and Sciences, and his research direction is Chinese literature.

[Chinese Library Classification Number]: I207.411 [Document Identification Code]: A

[Article Number]: 1002-2139(2012)-16-00-01

As we all know, the titles of "Dream of Red Mansions" include "The Story of the Stone", "The Record of the Love Monk", "Feng Yue Bao Jian", "The Twelve Hairpins of Jinling", etc. The most well-known book of "Dream of Red Mansions" is "Dream of Red Mansions". There are different opinions among scholars on these various book titles. This is because literary text cannot be separated from the specific context in which it was created. It is not only a reflection of the author's intention, but also open to readers' understanding. Different perspectives will lead to different perspectives. It is not surprising that such a phenomenon occurs. How much more is it a masterpiece that reflects Chinese history and culture and has a profound impact on Chinese scholars? Its vast connotation is far from being fully understood by us, but we can only try our best to get a glimpse of it. We can say that the title of the book is the formal presentation and condensation of meaning of the text frame structure, which is a symbolic revelation of the "cultural grammar" underlying the text structure. From this perspective, the title of "Dream of Red Mansions" is not only a symbolic revelation of the sixteen-character motto "Seeing color due to the void, generating emotions from the color, conveying the emotion into the color, and realizing the emptiness from the color" realized by Taoist Kong Kong in Chuezi, but also It symbolically shows the philosophical implications of the "color, emotion, and emptiness" constructed in the article.

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Grand View Garden is the ideal home that Jia Baoyu found in reality. It is the abode of a daughter who is like water, without the filthy air of men. As "Shi", he maintains a marginalized position and does not align with the mainstream ideology, but identifies with the female group who also belong to the margins. This is an ideal world and aesthetic world constructed based on the laws of art, and it is the poetic residence of the perceptual subject. Let the wandering soul temporarily settle down and the exiled mind find its direction. In this aesthetic world, Baoyu pays special attention to women - "loves red". This is the main way of his existence. "Red" is firstly a symbol of "color", and secondly, it is a code for a daughter and a symbol of youth value. The latter is mostly a kind of meaning construction and spiritual protection. P462 Baoyu lives among the daughters of the Grand View Garden. Regardless of whether they are sisters or maids, he cares for them with love and cares for them. He hopes that such a pure and flawless world can last forever, so he "likes to gather and not like to separate." Loving red means the perception and response to color, the exploration and construction of beauty, the identification of female gender, the protection of natural personality, the persistence of marginal values, and the keeping of oneself in a clear and authentic state. Moreover, Baoyu has a strong desire to protect the natural nature of women's cleanliness - red. For example, in Chapter 78, "The green leaves form a shade and the branches are full of branches." From "love red" we naturally associate it with "sexual obscenity", and "love red" is one of the manifestations of "sexual obscenity". Baoyu's lust is due to "a period of infatuation born in nature, which we call 'infatuation'", so he can transcend physical lust. His lust is a constructive behavior of participation, sharing, creation and promotion of "color" , that is, the improvement of the spiritual value of "color". It is not a kind of appropriation and infringement of the exclusive enjoyment of sex.

It does not have the sexual characteristics of bodyism, nor is it self-centered despotism. It is essentially an aesthetic experience and a kind of love. This kind of love implies the reading and aesthetic appreciation of the body.

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Jia Baoyu, the "Prince Yihong" who grew up among the stars, saw that the Twelve Hairpins of Jinling, which represented a beautiful life, were either dead or separated, or were staying in empty houses. Or wandering to the end of the world, the lingering feelings of the past have dissipated and are hard to find, the wealth of the Red Mansion has turned into an unfulfillable spring dream, the once steaming "home" has collapsed, and the place to stay has disappeared, as Lu Xun said, "The mist of sadness, Covered by Hualin." The author ironically wrote a song with profound meaning and strong symbolism. With profound life experience, the author sublimated the specific story of the rise and fall of the family through the mouth of Zhen Shiyin, who escaped after a profound understanding of life. to an abstract philosophical level. That is to say: the world of aesthetic feelings centered on the Grand View Garden has passed away. There is a famous saying in modern Western existential philosophy: The most painful thing in life is not being able to find a home. This short sentence reveals the survival essence of human beings that has repeatedly appeared since ancient times. The word "home", understood from a philosophical level, refers to the destination of life, that is, the place where people settle down and live their lives. It is also the radiant form of the life process. It can be transformed into religion, politics, ethics, wisdom, and affection, but there is a prerequisite: it must be integrated into it wholeheartedly. In "A Dream of Red Mansions", the Grand View Garden was inspected, the Jia family collapsed, people fled to all directions, and almost everything turned into a vast cloud. Not to mention anything else, the protagonist Baoyu is not interested in anything. His only intention is to accompany young women, especially the sisters in the Grand View Garden. In chapter 57, he said to Zicuckoo: "If we are alive, we will live together; if we are not alive, we will live together." A place turned into ashes and smoke." But the only pure ideal was also swallowed up. This is really because real life is too painful and discouraging. Everywhere he looks is dim. How can it be called "home"? So, he walked towards real life. Regarding the end of the exile in life at the "Grand View Garden", Baoyu has always been immersed in the pleasure of sensibility in the form of rejecting the future, "recognizing a foreign country as his hometown", but "when the fake is true, the truth is also false", false ideology and Realistic hostility, there is no such eternal fairyland in the world, and he cannot protect his daughters. The tragic ending is the motivation for his awakening, and it is also the motivation for pushing him to the road of return. Everything is empty, and the world is not a beautiful place, which urges his soul to go on the road. From the article, we see that Baoyu is trying to find such a path - to follow the natural call of life and pursue the goal of self-realization. However, this path is forbidden. Obviously, here (for Baoyu) there is no direct method of killing, but an indirect method - not satisfying the requirements of natural life, and openly defying this natural requirement that is equally important as the requirements of life. Finally, the door of religious liberation is opened and the pain of life is resolved. Through the creation of dreams, the illusory consciousness of life is revealed and the return of the true self is promoted. The cleverness of the naming of "Dream of Red Mansions" lies in conveying the author's pursuit through symbolic creative methods, and ultimately achieving inner clarity and complete awareness through experiences beyond reality.

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