The environmental atmosphere provided by a person's home can not only reflect his hobbies, habits, style, needs and desires, but also reflect the person's strengths and weaknesses.

As mentioned in my work "A Talk on the Colors of Costumes in a Dream of Red Mansions", the most exciting descriptions of clothing gradually appeared as the eyes of Miss Lin, who had just entered the house, appeared. The most detailed bedrooms in the Red Mansions were also The description of the environment was also gradually developed when the niece first entered this "house with bells and cauldrons" to meet her second aunt. Inside the Yimen is a large courtyard with five main rooms, wing rooms with deer roofs on both sides, and the ear door is drilled into the mountain, extending in all directions, which is different from other places. Outsiders will know this is the main inner room as soon as they see it. Please pay attention to the three words "this side is". Sister Lin first went to visit her eldest aunt and then came to visit her second aunt. This was also due to the feudal order of elders and younger ones. However, the introduction of Mrs. As for Mrs. Wang's residence, special emphasis was placed on this being the main inner room, with a large corridor leading directly out of the gate. Entering the main room, you look up and see a large red gold plaque with the emperor's seal on it, and the three characters "Rongxi Hall" are written on it. The place where Rongxi Hall is located is naturally the main inner room. The main inner room is not located in the eldest son Jia She (who has inherited the title), but is located in the second son Jia Zheng, which clearly shows the disastrous defeat of Mrs. Xing's side in the power struggle in the Rongguo Mansion. Mrs. Wang, who was sure to win, relied on the strength and status of her natal family: "There is a shortage of white jade beds in the East China Sea, so the Dragon King came to invite the King of Jinling." Mrs. Wang's natal brother Wang Ziteng became the governor of the Beijing camp, and was later promoted to the governor of nine provinces. As one of the four major families in the Guardian Talisman, the Wang family is responsible for the tributes and congratulations from various countries. The Wang family supports all foreigners who come. All foreign ship cargo in Guangdong, Fujian, Yunnan and Zhejiang belongs to the Wang family. It's true that he is powerful and popular. Moreover, Mrs. Wang's eldest daughter has been chosen to accompany the king in the palace. Relatively speaking, Mrs. So, this side is small and chic, and the other side is majestic. The contrast of environment vividly sets off the contrast of strength.

What is further displayed in Sister Lin’s eyes (that is, in the eyes of readers) is the indescribable magnificence: on the large red sandalwood carving table, there is a three-foot-high green bronze tripod, hanging there. The large ink dragon painting of Lusui Chao reflects the glory of meeting the emperor; on this side is an ancient Yi inlaid with gold and silver, and on the other side is a rare artifact of the year - a glass basin; sixteen nanmu chairs are lined in two places underground. There is another pair of couplets, which are ebony couplets inlaid with chiseled silver writing, saying: The sun and moon shine brightly on the seat, and the haze glows in front of the hall. A line of small characters below reads: "The disciples of the same country and the world have come to pay homage to Mu Shi, the king of Dong'an County, in a handwritten letter." The number sixteen means the extraordinary level of Rongxi Hall, and the couplet fully shows the wealth and splendor of the owner of Rongguo Mansion as the Duke of the country and his friendship with the princes. It also hints at the strength and status of the marriage between Jia and Wang.

This intense description does not end here. The heroine was introduced into the three wing rooms on the east side. She saw a scarlet ocean blanket spread on the big Kang by the window, with a red money python backrest, an azure money python pillow, and an autumn fragrant money python large mattress on the front. There is a pair of plum blossom style foreign paint small tables on both sides. On the left table is a Wenwang cauldron with a box of incense spoons beside it. On the right table is a Ru kiln beauty goblet with fresh flowers. There are four chairs in a row on the west side of the ground floor, all with silver and red flower-sprinkled chairs, four sets of footrests underneath, and a pair of high tables on both sides with tea bowls and vases of flowers. Detailed descriptions such as clothing patterns and foreign paint and carpets explain the identity of the residents: the lintel and honor of Mr. Jia's government as a descendant of Rong Guogong and a Yuanwai Lang.

What is interesting is that the author lets us readers follow Daiyu out and into the three small main rooms in the east corridor. There is a Kang table across the Kang table in the main room. There are books and tea sets on the table, and a half-worn blue satin back pillow is placed on the east wall and west. There are three chairs in a row next to the kang, and there are also half-worn elastomeric chair bags. Mrs. Wang sat at the lower end of the west side, also on a half-worn green satin backrest mattress. What stands out to people are the three "half-old" ones. A very ordinary room, very ordinary furnishings, very inconspicuous colors, and decorations that are not new but old. He looks like a clean and honest gentleman who is happy to live in poverty. Compared with the magnificent scenes in the previous two halls, it is like heaven and earth. A short visit, three different scenes, depict the living environment, identity, background, interpersonal relationship, quality, psychology, etc. rich content. Jia Zheng's homophonic pronunciation is "false righteousness", and his usual "seemingly regular" false righteousness was fully exposed.

A person's living environment is not only a reflection of his material life, but also a reflection of his spiritual life. The interaction, communication and unity between objective scenery and subjective emotion are the laws that can never be violated in artistic creation. There are many descriptions of the living environment that reflect the personality and taste of the residents in the Red Mansion. Due to space limitations, only one of them is selected for analysis and introduction.

The third girl Tanchun Suxi is broad and bold, and she has a bold and unrestrained character. The three rooms in her living room are not separated, which means they are spacious. There is a large rosewood marble case on which there are various dharma stickers of famous people, dozens of inkstones, various pen holders, and a sea of ??pens inserted like a forest. On the other side is a large Ru kiln flower bag, filled with white chrysanthemums filled with crystal balls.

In the middle of the west wall hangs a large-scale painting of Xiangyang's "Smoke and Rain", and on the left and right hangs a couplet, written in Yan Lugong's ink, with the following words: "Misty and hazy leisurely bones, spring and stone wild life". There is a big cauldron on the case. On the red sandalwood shelf on the left is a large plate from a large official kiln, containing dozens of delicate yellow and exquisite Buddha hands. There is a white jade chime hanging on the foreign paint shelf on the right, and a small hammer hangs next to it. The couch is a step-by-step bed with a gauze curtain hung with green double embroidery of flowers and insects. It gives the impression that the overall structure is wide and the details are dense, and it is full of a natural and elegant bookish atmosphere. At the same time, the precious relics of celebrities from the Tang and Song Dynasties also retain the identity of the daughter of the Jia family. The atmosphere of this room is consistent with Tanchun's cheerful personality and cultural quality.

The crowd visiting the garden accompanied the old lady and Grandma Liu to Sister Bao's room again. At first glance, it looks like a snow cave with no toys at all. There was only an earthen vase on the case with a few chrysanthemums (not the full vase mentioned above), two books, and tea cups. Note that the word "just" is used brilliantly. There is only a green gauze curtain hanging on the bed, and the quilt is also very simple. The article specifically points out a Tuding vase, and it is "only one". It should be noted that this Tuding vase can never be compared with the Ru kiln official kiln mentioned above. Although Ding kiln and Ru kiln official kiln are equivalent to the five famous porcelains of the Song Dynasty, the Ding kiln produced in Dingzhou comes in two types: thick and thin. The thin one is called "fending" and is an expensive treasure; while the thick one is just "pinding". "Tu" is fixed, which is the household items that ordinary people can use in their homes. Miss Bao's skill of being humble and pretending to be stupid has really come true. "Pearls are like earth, gold is like iron." It is obvious that the daughter of an imperial businessman has huge wealth, but she wants to live in poverty and hide her wealth. The scheming Bao Yatou once again left a deep impression on Jia Mu.

The Yihongyuan where the male protagonist Jia Baoyu lives is a living environment that the author focuses on describing. In the courtyard is a banana seawall that alludes to red, fragrant and green jade. The crabapple specifically named is a foreign species, Xifu crabapple, which is also an unusual imported product. In Tanchun's Qiu Shuangzhai, there are no separations in order to be refreshing, but here, there are no separations in order to be fancy. It turns out that this place is different from other places. It is surrounded by exquisite wooden boards carved with colorful pins, gold and jade by famous hands. There are all kinds of patterns engraved on it: hundreds of bats in the flowing clouds, three friends in the cold year, long life, landscape figures, feathers and flowers, and there are all kinds of collections. Some may be covered with light gauze to form small windows, or some colorful silk curtains may be used to create secluded rooms. After turning around a large glass mirror (another rare object), we saw more and more doors. Twists and turns, confusing. Even if she wasn't drunk, Grandma Liu would still be lost. The style is garden-shaped, with sunflowers, banana leaves, chains and half-walls. On the exquisite wooden boards, there are tripods for storing books, pens and inkstones, and vases of flowers and bonsai. The complicated Duobao partition turned the room into an art showroom, used to display the rich and leisure life of Mr. Yihong. The walls on all four sides are exquisitely carved, with harps, swords, bottles and stoves all attached to the walls. They are covered with brocade veils, gold and pearlescent, and even the bricks on the ground are all carved with green flowers. There are clusters of flowers everywhere, piled up with small and exquisite flowers. Even Grandma Liu could tell that this must be the lady's boudoir, and the makeup of the male owner of the room naturally came to light. As a wealthy and idle man, Mr. Bao's unique personality of seeking sorrow and hatred for no reason, loving lively and colorful things, and being favored as Mrs. Shi's darling are also fully reflected in this environment.

The description of living environment in literary works must involve certain material objects. These depicted objects have two functions: one is a description of the real world, and the other is a reflection of the spiritual world. These two functions are inseparably combined. The more detailed the model is and the more profound the reflection, the higher the author's artistic skills and the social impact of the work will be. It is a pity that Cao Gong died young, and it is no longer possible for us to see the Jia Baoyu Snow Prison Temple described in it. But it should be inferred that if the environment and atmosphere of the Prison Temple are compared with those of Yihong Courtyard in those days: the ruined walls reflect the lonely lamp, the desolation of the environment sets off the desolation of the heart, today the ragged coat is too short, yesterday it was too long for the purple python, in the past The contrast between the bustling city and the desolate scene in front of you must be shocking.

Cao Xueqin is also good at using the description of the characters’ living environment to hint at the plot and the fate of the characters. An example of this is Hengwuyuan mentioned above. The first sentence describing this scene is "When we entered the house, it looked like a snow cave." The word "Snow Cave" foretells Miss Bao's ultimate destiny. Even though I thought, "The good wind will send me to the blue clouds with its power," I still ended up in the situation of "The vast white land is so clean." Another description of the bedroom environment that is often mentioned is Qin Keqing's bedroom. "Begonia Sleeping in Spring" painted by Tang Bohu has a couplet written by Qin Taixu, a scholar of the Song Dynasty, on both sides. The couplet goes: The tender cold locks dreams because of the cold spring, and the aroma is the fragrance of wine. On the table is a precious mirror that Wu Zetian had set up in the mirror room at that time. On one side is a golden plate with flying swallows standing and dancing. In the plate is a papaya that An Lushan threw and injured Taizhen's milk. On it is the couch where Princess Shouchang lies on His Royal Highness Hanzhang, and hanging on it is a linked-bead account made by Princess Tongchang. Everything you see is related to the love affair in the legendary story. The beautiful spring scenery that is as deep as the sea not only hints at the beauty that seduces a virgin, but also hints at the lasciviousness of the father-in-law, hints at Qin's extraordinary origin, and even hints at what happens next after Baoyu has a relationship with Keqing. The round is to experience sex life again with the attacker.

The description of the living environment in the Red Mansion also provides us with knowledge and information about various decorations and utensils used in the city during the Qing Dynasty. Due to limitations of level and space, this article only lists some foreign goods in order to illustrate the prosperity of trade exchanges with overseas countries at that time.

The article mentions the small foreign tea tray used by Jia Mu, the foreign lacquered gold table, and the foreign towel for washing; the scarlet ocean blanket, the foreign lacquer shelf, and the Xifu Begonia that appeared above; the glassware includes a glass still glass basin, and other items. An old uncle's wife gave the second aunt Lian the glass kang screen "to display for an important guest." These descriptions not only illustrate the lavishness and pomp of the users, but also reflect the prosperity of commodity exchange at that time.

Chinese traditional customs often express festive and auspicious meanings in architectural decorations. This feature is also reflected in the description of the living environment of the Red Mansion. As mentioned above, the "Hundred Bats in Flowing Clouds" pattern is decorated with a hundred flying bats among carved flowing clouds. This is called "Fu from the Sky" because bat and blessing are homophonic. The pattern of "Three Friends of Suihan" is pine, bamboo and plum. These three have always been regarded as symbols of nobility. In addition, the pine tree symbolizes longevity, and is congratulated as "the longevity pine in Nanshan"; each bamboo branch has three leaves, which is called "three bamboo buds"; each plum blossom has five petals, which is called "the five blessings of plum blossoms". The interior decoration is like the flower arrangement art of "Yutang Fugui" in Jia Mu's room, which is composed of three kinds of flowers: peony, magnolia and begonia. Among them, Haitang (Tanghetang) is a homophonic pronunciation, while peony is an apotheosis, originating from the fact that peony is often called rich planning. The Buddha's Hands and the Big Eyed Jade Chime in the Tanchun Room symbolize happy gods and auspiciousness. The former is metonymic (the Buddha's hand means gods), and the latter is a homophone (Qing and Qing, fish and surplus). In addition, in Tubi Villa, where the Mid-Autumn Moon is viewed, the tables and benches are all round, which means reunion, which is also a pictographic approach.

The last thing worth noting is that, just like the description of the clothing in the Red Mansion, the description of the living environment in the Red Mansion also has a clear difference between the first eighty chapters and the last forty chapters. The first eighty chapters have rich color descriptions and delicate environment descriptions; the last forty chapters seem monotonous and rough compared to the previous ones. If a computer is used to conduct statistical analysis, it is very likely that the two authors will come to completely different conclusions. Just as the author of the first eighty chapters is familiar with the colors of clothing, the author of the first eighty chapters also has a noble taste for the decoration of his bedroom. The author expresses his pride through the words of Jia Mu: "If you really like simplicity, you may want to have a few things. I am the best at cleaning the house, but now that I am old, I no longer have such leisure. The sisters are also learning to clean up." Okay, I'm afraid it's tacky and some of the good stuff is spoiled. I think they are pretty good. Now let me clean them up for you. I guarantee that they are both generous and neat. Baoyu has never seen them since I received them. , if it passed through his eyes, it would be gone." Then he called Yuanyang and said personally: "Place the stone bonsai, the gauze table screen, and the ink-frozen stone tripod. That's enough for this case. Bring the white silk curtain with ink calligraphy and painting and replace this curtain as well." With a few simple words, you can immediately tell whether your artistic skills are good or bad.

The description of the living environment of the Red Mansion is an important part of the precious literary heritage left by Mr. Cao Xueqin to our descendants. It is a colorful chapter in the feudal encyclopedia "A Dream of Red Mansions". Through the analysis of the description of the living environment of the Red Mansion in Cao Xueqin's works, we can not only appreciate the author's generous works, but also get inspiration and reference from the rich traditional characteristics. With the pace of reform and opening up and the continuous improvement of people's lives, people are paying more and more attention to the layout of their living environment. To this end, television media, newspapers and magazines have successively launched some meaningful selection and award activities, and many interesting interior decoration designs have played a vital role in beautifying people's daily lives. I believe that on the occasion of the 200th anniversary of the publication of Cheng Jia, revisiting the description of the living room environment in the Red Mansion is of great benefit to decorating the daily living environment, cultivating our taste for life, enriching the surrounding artistic atmosphere, and improving our literary accomplishment.