In "Dream of Red Mansions", Cao Xueqin wrote a total of 3 Lin Daiyu stand-ins, have you found them all?They are Qingwen, Ling Guan, and one is a character in Grandma Liu's story.
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Qingwen has similarities with Daiyu in both appearance and personality.
In the seventy-fourth episode, Qingwen was sued by Wang Shanbao's family in front of Mrs. Wang, and Mrs. Wang verified with Sister Feng whether Qingwen was "Last time we went into the garden with the old lady, there was a water snake waist, shaved shoulders, and eyebrows and eyes that looked a little like your sister Lin, and she was scolding the little girl there."
After Qingwen was called, Mrs. Wang teased her again, "She really looks like a sick Xi Shi", which shows that Qingwen and Daiyu are similar in appearance and physical signs, and they both have the style of Xizi.
The second is character. In terms of personality, both of them have sharp and sharp mouths, "when they say a word, they are sharper than a knife". Because Zhou Rui's palace flower was finally given to Daiyu, she sneered and said, "If others don't pick the rest, they won't give it to me";When Mama Li persuaded Baoyu to eat less alcohol, Daiyu said that she thought "Aunt must be an outsider", and Mama Li was speechless for a while.
Even Qingwen kept calling her mother when she died, which is also close to Daiyu's life experience, why arrange such a role, because if Daiyu was born in a civilian family, she would probably have the same ending as Qingwen. It's the epitome of the pauper's version.
The second stand-in is Ling Guan.
Ling Guan is a play, and he is also very similar to Daiyu in appearance. The original text "The eyebrows are frowning in the spring mountain, the eyes are autumn water, the face is thin and the waist is slender, and the curls are Tingting, there is a lot of Lin Daiyu's state, and the play sings very well." ”
And in the face of Baoyu's request, Ling Guan dared to refuse, and was only willing to accept the person he liked, even if it was a prince and grandson like Baoyu, he was proud and had his own pursuits. This is also very similar to Daiyu's. looks and temperament like Lin Daiyu, and has Lin Daiyu's sensitivity and loftiness. And the story of her and her sweetheart is not like Daiyu and Baoyu's relationship.
She and Jia Qiang are on good terms. One day, Baoyu saw her write dozens of "Qiang" words on the ground with a golden hairpin, and Baoyu was stupid. In order to make her happy, Jia Qiang spent one or two or eight dollars of silver to buy a bird named Yuding'er, who will play with flags, and Ling Guan saw it and said, "Your family has brought a good person and locked it in this prison, it's not enough to learn this, you will get a bird to do this wasteful thing!."You made it clear that you made a joke to describe us ......After Jia Qiang heard this, the gambling god swore that he didn't expect this, and then released the finch alive.
Every time Jia Baoyu angered Daiyu, she also swore various oaths. Cao Xueqin wrote Lingguan in order to highlight the use of Lingguan to reflect Daiyu's embarrassing position in Jiafu, and secondly, to show the gap and feelings between Baoyu and Daiyu.
The third stand-in is from the story of Grandma Liu. After Grandma Liu entered the Grand View Garden, she told Jia's mother three stories, one of which is as follows.
This old man has no sons, only a young lady named Mingyu. The young lady is literate and literate, and the old lady loves it like a treasure. It's a pity that this Miss Mingyu was born to the age of seventeen and died of illness.
Because the old lady couldn't miss it enough, she built this ancestral hall, sculpted the statue of Miss Mingyu, and sent someone to burn incense and make the fire. Now that the years have passed, the people are gone, the temple is rotten, and the image has become a fine.
This story implies a Daiyu ending.
What is embarrassing is that the ending of the three stand-ins or the miniature version of Daiyu in parallel time and space is not very good.