After reading the red chamber, my heart is sour. I don't know why. It seems that there is a little bit of each kind, whether it is for the ruin of the second mansion in Rongning, the fragrance of Pink Lady, or the reputation of speculators. But I always feel that it is not all. From a man's point of view, I was suddenly enlightened. This is jealousy. I envy Baoyu in the dark. It's really embarrassing to say, but several men have seen a wan ku.
Speaking of it, there are countless love stories in a dream of red mansions. The first thing to push is Baodai's infatuation with red powder. In a dream of red mansions, the love between these two people is the purest. Growing up, falling in love when you grow up. Zuo Zongtang simply points out the way and makes readers feel that another love story has been born in the world. Its appearance is so natural that few people doubt it. There is no stain. But untimely love is synonymous with pain. Daiyu's unique rebellious and withdrawn character and disdain for the secular make her stand out from the crowd everywhere. She read the romance of the West Chamber before spending time, without any taboo. I don't like rhetoric, and I will do what I say; Advocating the truth, indifferent to fame and fortune ... all these make her like a lotus, always clinging to her purity, purity and cleanliness, as clear as jasper. Looking at her from the perspective of an ordinary person, what I appreciate most is Dai Yu's poetic and delicate wit. Dai Yu often opposes her sisters drinking, enjoying flowers and reciting poems. She is always very talented and artistic. Or the desolation of plants and the return of wild geese to the south, the tenderness of flowers can solve the affair of language; All these reflect her elegance and refinement as a poet. What makes people sigh most is that Daiyu is sentimental and unlucky. Daiyu's life is doomed to be lonely and helpless, and her character is doomed to be lonely and sad. Even though people come and go in the Grand View Garden, there is no relative she can rely on, no confidant she can confide in, and only the romantic and affectionate Baoyu makes her secretly promise, but she is always worried about being swayed by considerations of gain and loss. So she was helpless. Where there is a fragrant hill, it is sad that "the fragrant nest has been built in March, and the swallow nest between the beams is heartless", and it is sad that "flowers are flying all over the sky, and the red fragrance is pitiless", and finally it ends in a sad ending of "a wisp of fragrant soul scattered with the wind and never dreamed at night".
Lin Daiyu's position in Jiafu and her own cowardice are not so much the cause of the tragedy, but rather the ruthless killing of the love between Baoyu and Daiyu in the feudal society headed by Yuan Chun. If a dream of red mansions is really a description of Cao Xueqin's personal experience, then I can feel the pain of a man losing his beloved. The fire of hell burns around me and makes my mind stagnate. This is not the pain of flesh and blood, but the love of blood.
What's more, it is the love tragedy of Xue Baochai. It is still so sad to see Daiyu's tragic death. But after reading it, when I heard Zhen talking about "Gui Lan", I couldn't help feeling sad. People like Li Wan and Xue Baochai will be buried in this cold garden all their lives, facing a man who doesn't love himself at all, regardless of his good or bad marriage and what she really needs. It's grandma Bao's throne. But I can't help asking, are there really lonely women in the world? I always thought she was a cold and selfish person. But now, I can't help feeling sorry for her. Actually, if you think about it carefully, her tragedy may be more tragic than Lin Daiyu's. What she needs most is not the irrigation of love, but freedom Xue Baochai's family is rich and she has read many poems since she was a child. She received a very comprehensive and orthodox education. General Jia praised her as "quiet and generous". Yes, this is the way she was educated since childhood, and it is also the virtue that ancient women should have. Even sadness and joy should not be shaped by color, otherwise it is "disrespect." Throughout the book, her behavior almost never goes beyond these constraints. Only once did Baoyu compare her to Yang Fei, which made her very angry. But this is just a cold irony of the past. In fact, she is the most sad person. She has been influenced by other people's opinions and education all her life. She never knows what she wants, and she is unhappy and unhappy. She just follows the path of nature. She has never been loved wholeheartedly, and she dare not pursue love bravely. No one really cares about her. And she thinks the world is like this. She thinks there are problems between husband and wife.
In fact, what she did was not a free choice. She is just a typical submissive. She is smart and talented, but she was educated that it is useless for women to study. Xiangling and Xiangyun talked about poetry. She said, "A girl's family talks about serious things with poetry, so that learned people can listen to it and laugh at her for not keeping her duties." She is also familiar with drama and traditional Chinese opera, but she thinks that these obscene words and clever sentences can't be known to dignified ladies, so she gently criticized Baoqin's poems. She wants to have a better life like anyone else, but when her mother married Baoyu for the power of the Jia family, she had to accept it with tears because her mother told her that she had promised. Until Baoyu finally became a monk, her tragedy reached a climax. Even so, she still can't let her nature do it. Lady Wang said, "Baochai cried, but he didn't leave at all, but he advised me." Think of Baochai, such a character and so young. At this moment, I thought about how my life would end. Her pain is not actually under the burning manuscript of Daiyu! But she can only restrain herself. This is her "respect"!
A Dream of Red Mansions takes Jia, Shi, Wang and Xue as the background, revolves around Jia Baoyu's life path, takes a feudal road related to Jia's interests as the main plot, and takes the tragedies of Jia Baoyu and Lin Daiyu as the main content. By vividly describing the depravity process of the feudal family represented by Jia family, it profoundly exposes and criticizes all kinds of darkness and decay in feudal society, and further points out that feudal society has reached the end of the world.
A Dream of Red Mansions vividly describes the whole life of China feudal society in the first half of the 8th century. The book is large in scale, rigorous in structure, vivid in characters and beautiful in language. In addition, there are some obvious artistic features that are worthy of future generations' taste and appreciation. The author makes full use of all the excellent traditional techniques of China's calligraphy, painting, poetry, songs and music, and shows a social tragedy. For example, Jia Baoyu and Lin Daiyu read the Romance of the West Chamber, Daiyu buried flowers, Baochai saved butterflies, Qingwen mended Qiu, Baoqin made snow, and Daiyu burned manuscripts. Such as Lin Daiyu's floating posture, poetic eyebrows, clever expression, deep smile, moving sobs, elegant taste and natural literary talent ... all these are attributed to the author. Cao Xueqin truly reproduces the complexity of the characters in A Dream of Red Mansions, which makes us feel as real as the characters in the works and in life. Jia Baoyu in A Dream of Red Mansions "can't say that he is virtuous, stupid, kind, evil, aboveboard, wicked, intelligent and talented, vulgar and ordinary." People are talking about it. Not only Jia Baoyu and Lin Daiyu are the protagonists who entrusted the beauty of the author's personality, spirit and ideal, but even the notorious Rainbow Xifeng did not write her as "all bad", but mixed some "lovely" and "disgusting" to show various contradictory and complicated actual situations, forming a "charming reality" of her character.
The author is good at revealing its unusual aesthetic significance through the artistic description of seemingly ordinary daily life, and even some unwritten and unrecorded social habits and details are vividly portrayed in A Dream of Red Mansions.
The outstanding achievement of A Dream of Red Mansions in ideological content and artistic skills has not only become an insurmountable peak of China's novel literature in China. Moreover, it has also been paid attention to and studied by scholars in many countries internationally. Some French critics praised Cao Xueqin: "Cao Xueqin has Proust's keen vision, Tolstoy's sympathy, Miao Sai's clever humor, Balzac's insight and the ability to reproduce the whole society from top to bottom."
Thoughts on Reading A Dream of Red Mansions
The Buried Beauty —— Xue Baochai
Spring dreams disappear with the clouds, and flowers fly out of water; Send a message to the children, why bother to find leisure.
Jia Baoyu, Lin Daiyu, Xue Baochai and Xiren are the main characters in A Dream of Red Mansions, and their tragedies run through. Although Xue Baochai is not a party to this love tragedy, she also has a very high status.
I have a lot of dissatisfaction with the ending of A Dream of Red Mansions, but someone said to me, "Since you are dissatisfied, Lin Daiyu finally died with regret and Jia Baoyu became a monk, what do you think is the perfect ending?" Indeed, I am very dissatisfied with each other's death. The other party is also a rebellious character, who just wants to show his talents all day, which violates the old saying that "a daughter without talent is a virtue". There is no doubt about each other's talents in the article. I really admire her and her rebellion. But why can't she rebel to the end? Grandmother Jia has always loved her, especially Baoyu. They want to get married, but Jia Mu doesn't necessarily object. Instead of fighting for it, she looked for trouble and was so angry. Come to think of it, she is always suspicious, and even if she marries Baoyu, she will inevitably get angry. It's not like Feng can drown his sorrows in wine. How can she have such a mouth with Jia Mu? Her strength is so meager that she is not as popular as Baochai in Jia's family after all. Baoyu finally saw through the world of mortals and became a monk. Is becoming a monk really the best ending? If so, the world will become a monk. My idea is too extreme. "If you die, I will become a monk." It indicates all this, as if everything is fixed and cannot be changed. What I am dissatisfied with is that Bao and Dai still can't escape the bondage of fate. The man said to me again, "Baoyu, you didn't become a monk for Daiyu. What can Baoyu do without becoming a monk? Go after fame and gain? " Yes, in terms of fineness, this is the best ending for Baoyu. He has lost his fame and fortune, which means nothing to him. Seek fame and gain, let history repeat itself, and watch your descendants perform this Dream of Red Mansions again? He doesn't seem to be free from the bondage of fate, but fate can no longer bind him. He became a monk not for each other, but for himself. Different from the secular, he is carefree and sees through the world of mortals. It's a pity that Baochai is smooth and likable, and finally she lives alone, which makes people feel a little sorry.
Baochai was also a victim of feudal ethics. She married Jia in the name of Lin Daiyu. She knew Bao and Dai had the same heart, but she couldn't resist. Xue's mother loves her again, and there is nothing she can do. Jia is so sincere, how can he politely refuse? Besides, the Jia family has done a lot of work on Xue Pan, and Baochai doesn't want to embarrass her mother. After marrying Baoyu, although Daiyu died and Baoyu treated her well, Baoyu still remembered Daiyu. Finally, she got pregnant, and Baoyu left her and became a monk, leaving her alone. Speaking of which, what about winning people's hearts? Finally, I am not happy.
I always feel that Baochai is the real strong player in the whole play. She never embarrasses others in front of them or confronts them. Her talent is by no means inferior to that of the other party. I admire her most. She never asks for anything, never says anything she shouldn't say, and even stubborn words are extremely cautious and even impeccable. Her cleverness is also rare. Unlike Xifeng, she doesn't say anything, and she doesn't seem to shy away from speaking. It's no exaggeration to describe her as ruthless, but she is as clever as Xifeng.
Take these two things to analyze. She sometimes exhorts Baoyu, who has no intention of repentance, and she is not forced. First, she is from menstruation's family, so it's not convenient to say more. Erxiren's encouragement is still useless, and it is useless to say more. So far, I have no intention to say more. When she married Baoyu, she waited for an opportunity to tell him about her son's death, which also showed her cleverness. These are obvious to all.
Speaking of my own opinion, I think I don't know enough about Baochai's character, personality and thoughts. I just think from an ordinary angle.
Baochai's handling of the world is very smooth, and almost everyone loves it, but it is inevitable that she will feel a little hypocritical. She is so kind to everyone that she doesn't pour out her heart as easily as others. She seems to be hiding herself. In my opinion, no one wants to bury himself. Maybe she did it to establish her position or win people's hearts. In front of her mother, she is sweet, in front of outsiders, she is sensible, and Aunt Xue has light on her face. She may be likable, but at the same time she buried the real Xue Baochai. In the whole book, she may be the most perfect on the surface, but I always feel that she betrayed her heart and soul. What is perfection? Maybe family ties forced her to do this. There is a glutton of Xue Pan at home. Although there is Xue Ke, she is not her own brother after all. She may want to put up with it for a while, and when the time is right, she can find herself, but where will she find herself then? Although she is strong, I personally think it is not easy to bury herself. It wasn't the weak who did it, but in the end, she wasn't the real winner.
This dream didn't come true after all. Youth is gone, and the face is declining. A person sat in front of a candle and sighed, feeling tears crawling all over my face. The past is like a cloud, and the temples in the mirror are frosted. I am an adult, and my room is as empty as ever. I have nothing to do but look up at the moon. I have nothing to say but tears!
I often hear people discuss whether Baochai is miserable or Daiyu is miserable. But if you read the full text and comment carefully, you will feel that this issue is no longer important.
It's a pity to stop working, but it's a pity to praise talents.
Jade hangs in the forest and is buried in the snow.
Thoughts on Reading A Dream of Red Mansions
"Nong buried people laugh today. Who did he know when he was buried? " This sad sentence that Daiyu hummed was sung by lonely people through the ages. This poem, written by Cao Xueqin, seems to imply the tragic ending of the novel and the unique desolation and helplessness of feudal society contained in it.
I remember reading & gt I was depressed and didn't like reading when I was a child. The complexity and noise of the Grand View Garden in my impression seems to be my childhood. Baoyu's frivolity, Daiyu's melancholy, Baochai's generosity, Granny Liu's kindness and Xifeng's meanness, all in all, this book only records the rise and fall of a family in the middle and late Qing Dynasty, which was my understanding at that time.
After reading it carefully, with the enrichment of views, this book in my mind not only means a purely tacky story, but also begins to have a deeper meaning. The unknown sadness and suffering revealed behind that story also made me appreciate the profound thoughts and rebellious thoughts of Cao Xueqin, a talented writer.
Baoyu once said, "Women are made of water and men are made of mud. The former is pure before marriage and natural after marriage. " Why does Baoyu feel this way? Doesn't this imply that Cao Xueqin was extremely disgusted and indignant at the phenomenon of patriarchal society at that time? Why is Daiyu unhappy and happy to leave but unhappy to get together? Because the author expresses his sad and melancholy mood through this beautiful beauty and the unfriendliness of the literati in feudal society, the vitriol of other characters, such as Feng, is also a true portrayal of the wretched villain of that era. There are also good-hearted dissidents, such as attacking people mentioned above, and there are also helpful and kind-hearted. This is the moment when the author is kind and peaceful. The color of tragedy still hangs over this beautiful and ironic story, and the loss of family and the separation of Rong Ning's two governments also show the author's extreme disappointment in society and the freedom and sadness of seeing through the world of mortals, which makes readers feel uneasy.
Although the social indifference revealed between the lines of this book can really make people sigh like the author, it also has a good and kind side. For example, the family in the Grand View Garden drinks and reads poems together, enjoying the excitement and happiness of Spring Festival couplets together, just like Baoyu's cleverness and eloquence when facing Daiyu, and feeling the warmth of the family together also makes readers feel a little duckweed when reading. This is also a true portrayal of folk customs, good upbringing and the rich culture of the Chinese nation. However, the more so, the more miserable the outcome, the more reluctant it is. Otherwise, the author's sharp language and spearhead will not point directly at the deepest part of people's hearts, so sad.
After reading & gt, I escaped from the social shadow of suppressing feudalism and breathed a sigh of relief. Looking around, my living environment can at least have room for me to breathe. What about people then? I can't help myself, my mind is locked up. What is their mood? Therefore, every time I finish reading it> the tension and depression before reading seem to disappear, and my inner understanding of suffering and hardship is deeper and my pursuit of dreams is more persistent. We should also be happy about it. We live in a democratic era, and there are hardships and difficulties in life, but they are inevitable in the course of life and have nothing to do with the environment and ideas. However, compared with people in feudal society, we at least
Leaning on the bookshelf & gt, quietly emitting a faint fragrance, is happy, is worried, is gathering, is dispersed. It breeds the connotation of fanaticism; It inherited profound thoughts; It is full of intoxicating sadness. ...