There are a lot of fruits mentioned in "Dream of Red Mansions", just for the first 80 episodes, there are more than a dozen, such as peaches, apricots, pears, watermelons, oranges, grapefruits, oranges, etc., which can be found in **. In addition to these common fruits, there are also some more valuable fruits such as lychees in ancient times, **The thirty-seventh chapter specially explained that Qingwen sent lychees to Tanchun, and it was necessary to use a white agate plate wrapped in silk to send it to look good, it is really a precious fruit, and the plates containing fruits are exquisite, not more ordinary than peaches and apricots. In "Dream of Red Mansions", fruits are not only written about fruits, but also cleverly used fruits to write about the world's sophistication and the ending of the characters. In the fifty-eighth chapter, Baoyu was first recovered from illness, came to the apricot blossom tree, and saw that the apricot blossoms had fallen, and the green apricots were full of branches, so he thought that the daughter of Daguanyuan would one day be the same as Xing Xiuyan, out of the pavilion to marry, and the green leaves were full of branches. ** Write citron and write Buddha's hand, which cleverly hints at Jia Yuanchun's tragic ending, and secretly ambushes Sister Qiao's rural marriage with Ban'er the day after tomorrow. **The first eighty chapters write about fruits, basically a kind of fruit only appears once, at most twice, but there is a kind of fruit, but it appears three times in the first eighty chapters, and the characters in ** have several dialogues related to this fruit. Among them, did the author deliberately use this fruit to implicitly express some profound connotation other than the fruit?
Let's take a look at what this fruit is, it is all too familiar to those of us who eat melons today - watermelon. 's description of watermelon, we described it through "Xue Da Fool", but we still don't know how big this watermelon is, so that it blinded Xue Pan's eyes. However, through Xue Pan's self-aggrandizing words, we can know that in May, there are watermelons, there are lotus roots, with our today's planting technology and fast transportation, of course, it is commonplace, but in the ancient northern land, the watermelons and fresh lotus roots that appear at this time are either produced in foreign countries or transported from southern provinces, which is about the reason why Xue Pan deliberately shows off his self-satisfaction. The history of watermelon cultivation in our country is said to have been in Shennong when he tasted a hundred herbs, and it was said that it came from the Western Regions when Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, and the earliest classic record of watermelon is Hu Qiao's "Trap Record" in the Five Dynasties: "Then I entered Pingchuan, there were many plants and trees, and I began to eat watermelons." "In the Northern Song Dynasty, watermelons have begun to be cultivated in the Beijing area of the Liao Kingdom, but the yield is small, and it is a treasure in the royal orchard, which is still rare for ordinary people in the north. The history of watermelon planting in a large area in Beijing can be traced back to the Ming Dynasty, and the main planting area is in the south and southwest of the capital. According to the "History of the Ming Dynasty", as early as the first year of Hongwu, watermelons have appeared in Taimiao as an offering fruit. 
Since watermelons have been widely planted in the Ming and Qing dynasties, have the ordinary people of these two dynasties also realized the freedom to eat melons at the same time?Not necessarily. According to the "Daqing Huidian Case", the Mid-Autumn Festival in the first year of Guangxu, the vegetable library prepared 432 watermelons in Cining Palace, according to the ** of Daxing and Wanping counties at that time, each watermelon was 200 Wen, which is equivalent to today's forty or fifty yuan a watermelon. It is not as good as us today, because of the great contribution of Academician Wu Mingzhu, everyone can realize the freedom of watermelon. This is talking about the last years of the Qing Dynasty, and during the Kangxi period, watermelons were much more expensive. Emperor Kangxi often rewarded watermelons to ministers, officers and soldiers of seven provinces, etc., to show grace, to the forty-fifth year of Qianlong, the sixth elder brother Yongying also rewarded watermelons to the sixth Panchen Erdeni. It can be seen that at the time of Kangqian, the watermelon, which could be used as an important carrier of communication between monarchs and ministers, would definitely not be an ordinary thing on the rotten street that ordinary people could eat at will. Because of this, **The thirty-sixth episode, in the hot summer season, the author specially explained that Mrs. Wang waited here to eat watermelon, in order to show the wealth of Jiafu, watermelon can be eaten at will on a hot day. **In the seventy-fifth chapter, I wrote that Jia Zhen specially sent moon cakes and watermelons to Jia Zhen for the Mid-Autumn Festival before the Mid-Autumn Festival, in order to honor Jia's mother, but Jia Mu didn't look at the watermelon sent by Jia Zhen: "The moon cakes you sent yesterday are good, and the watermelon looks good, but it's okay to open it." ”
During the Ming and Qing dynasties, the Mid-Autumn Festival, the moon cake and watermelon are a must-have, according to the Ming Dynasty's "Imperial Scenery and Things" record: "August 15 sacrifice month, its sacrificial fruit cake must be round;."The division must be carved by the wrong petals, such as lotus flowers. Although the watermelon sent by Jia Zhen looks green and complete on the surface, it is poor on the inside, just like the huge rich Jia Mansion in which she is located, outsiders look bright, flowers and brocade, but the inside is like this watermelon, which is not good at all. What's more, now that she is ushering in the Mid-Autumn Festival, she can't even sit at a table with a family reunion and have a reunion dinner, and she is more and more inferior to this watermelon with a perfect appearanceThe wealth of the big family is compelling, not like the nouveau riche, which is directly reflected in wearing gold and silver, fat and round, even walking sideways, and even eating a bun to start at 100 yuan, but is reflected in the small watermelon that can be eaten at any time from the Dragon Boat Festival to the Mid-Autumn Festival. It's just that this wealth is like a yellow flower in the morning after all, and once the sun rises and the cold wind rises, it falls into mud and dust. The watermelon that can't eat the sweet taste, the glory and wealth that can't be kept, and the crises under the surface of perfection, one day, when the accumulation erupts, in an instant, the eyes are full of carved beams and paintings, young beauties, countless love and hatred, all turned into powder.