Cao Xueqin is more thoroughIt broke through the first-class single-line structure in ancient Chinaway, tookA network structure in which multiple threads go hand in hand, intertwined and restrictive each other。The stubborn stone under the Qinggeng Peak was carried into the red dust by a monk, experienced the joys and sorrows of the world, and was brought back to the Qinggeng Peak by a monk, which formed a tight circular structure that fits the cycle of heaven and earth in the whole book. Under the control of this mythical world, with the ideal world of Daguanyuan as the stage, it focuses on the generation, development and tragic ending of Bao and Dai love, and at the same time, reflects the decline process of the real world of Jiafu and the whole society from prosperity to decline, from the perspective of love tragedy, the rise and fall of Jiafu is a typical environment for this tragedy; From the perspective of the rise and fall of Jiafu, the declining trend of Jiafu promoted the breeding of rebel love, and the love of rebels had a huge impact on Jiafu and accelerated its decline. In this way, the three worlds of the book form a three-dimensional intersecting and overlapping grand structure.
The many characters and events of Dream of Red Mansions are organized in this grand structure, influencing each other, criss-crossing each other, layered and orderly, it is like a colorful brocade woven with thousands of colored threads, seamless and natural, not only as rich and complex as life itself, real and natural, but also shrouded in a veil of mystery of true and false, false and illusionary.
"Dream of Red Mansions" adopts the method of "grass snake gray line, thousands of miles of veins", "note this and write the other, and send it with a wave of your hand".Each plot has a multifaceted meaningThe transition between the story and the picture is very natural and unobtrusive. Not only does a plot play a multifaceted role, but the transition between plots is very natural. The plot transitions and runs like a hundred streams meandering in one direction at different times, only rushing without stiff interruptions or connections.
At the same time, "Dream of Red Mansions" putBig and small events are intricately combined to write, small contradictions condense into big contradictions, small events accumulate into big events, after a peaceful life, there is a wave coming, although it is all daily life, but it is still ups and downs, full of fun. Before Baoyu was beaten, he first wrote about Mingyan in the study, uncle and sister-in-law meeting the five ghosts, Baoyu vs the heart, Jiang Yuhan gave Qian Xiangluo, Jin Chuan threw himself into the well, Jia Huan denounced, etc., making Baoyu's beating a major event that gathered many contradictions. After the beating, a series of incidents such as attacking people and slandering, Qingwen sending handkerchiefs, Daiyu inscribed poems, Baochai sending medicine, and the Xue family brothers and sisters quarreling, unfolded the conflict between Baoyu and Jia Zheng on different life paths, revealed the contradictions between concubines, husband and wife, mother and son, portrayed the characters of many characters, and promoted the development of the plot and the transformation of life scenes.
[Li Fan keywords:The network structure of the plot has multifaceted significance, and the large and small events are intricately combined
[Li Fan said:In terms of narrative structure, "Dream of Red Mansions" adopts a network structure, placing many characters in this big net, so that each plot has multi-faceted significance, and the large and small events are intricately combined, reflecting superb narrative art. This is one of the key points in our examination, and we should carefully grasp it.