When it comes to the professional reference book for reading the Dream of the Red Chamber, the Dictionary of the Dream of the Red Chamber, edited by Mr. Feng Qiyong and Mr. Li Xifan, is a miracle in the history of Chinese Red Studies and an essential reference book for professional research on the Dream of the Red Chamber. The first edition of "The Dream of Red Mansions" is a dictionary reference book published by the Culture and Art Publishing House in January 1990, edited by Feng Qiyong and Li Xifan, and compiled by many famous scholars. The dictionary is classified and arranged, with the upper part including all kinds of entries in the main text, the lower part including all kinds of entries other than the main text, and the appendix including tables, figures and major events in the year, as well as a stroke index and a secondary index of the text.
About 20 years later, The Dictionary of the Dream of the Red Chamber (Revised Edition) was officially published, which surpassed the original version, with moderate additions and deletions, and was also a Langyuan immortal tree bred by traditional Chinese culture. In the course of the birth and circulation of Dream of the Red Chamber for about hundreds of years, the countless allusions in the text have become an obstacle for ordinary readers to read, and here the Dictionary of the Dream of the Red Chamber (Revised Edition) has played a fundamental role in promoting the wide dissemination of the Dream of the Red Chamber. The contents of the new dictionary are divided into two parts, the upper and lower parts of the main text, and five appendices.
The upper part includes twenty-one categories: allusions, clothing, utensils, architecture, gardening, food, medicine, titles, officials, classics, customs, years, philosophy and religion, poetry and rhyme, opera, art, amusement, characters of the Dream of Red Mansions, literary and historical figures, and geography. Its sub-section includes eight categories: the author's family history travels, the Dream of the Red Chamber version, the Dream of the Red Chamber translation, the continuation of the Dream of the Red Chamber, the commentary on the Yan Zhai, the words of Hongxue, the bibliography of Hongxue, and the characters of Hongxue. The five appendices are: the history of Cao Xueqin and the study of "Dream of the Red Chamber", the summary of the institutions, publications and conferences of the Red Studies, the list of characters of "Dream of the Red Chamber", the brief list of Cao's lineage, and the map of the Grand View Garden. In particular, it is worth mentioning that the "Dictionary of Dream of Red Mansions" is right"Translation of Dream of the Red Chamber"All the entries in this section have been revised to the best of their ability, and the contents of most of the entries have been added to a greater or lesser extent, and more than 40 entries in the translation of "Dream of the Red Chamber" that had not been recorded have been added before.
In addition to the "Dictionary of the Dream of the Red Chamber", there is also the "Dictionary of the Dream of the Red Chamber" is also worth referencing. "Dream of Red Chambers Dictionary" is a dictionary reference book published by Guangdong People's Publishing House in December 1987, edited by Mr. Zhou Ruchang, a master of red studies, a total of more than 10,000 words in "Dream of Red Mansions", the entries are arranged in alphabetical order in Chinese pinyin, and the text is accompanied by "Dream of Red Mansions" character relationship table" and "Introduction to the version and continuation of "Dream of Red Mansions", as well as "stroke index". Thankfully, the Dictionary of the Dream of the Red Chamber, edited by Mr. Zhou Ruchang, was later published in a new edition called The New Dictionary of the Dream of the Red Chamber, which was published by the famous Commercial Press.
Regardless of the attitudes and practices of the two dictionaries towards the Cao Xue system, here is a mistake for the "Dictionary of the Dream of the Red Chamber" and the "Dictionary of the Dream of the Red Chamber", that is, the words in "The Daughter of Furong" that are crucial to the entire text of the Dream of the Red Chamber. This term plays an extremely important role in judging the place where the story of the Dream of Red Mansions took place and the war that affected the fate of the family and country.
Runan's tears and blood come from "Furong Daughter": Today, he committed Ciwei, reinstated his cane and threw away his lonely slur. and heard that the coffin was burned, and he was ashamed to violate the alliance of the common cave; The stone coffin became a disaster, and it was ashamed of the ashes. Ernai West Wind Ancient Temple, drowning Qinglian; Sunset barren hills, scattered white bones. Catalpa elm is sassy, Peng Ai Xiao Xiao. Through the fog, crying apes, crying ghosts around the smoke. In the red silk tent, the son is deeply affectionate; I believe that in the loess ridge, my daughter's life is thin! Runan tears and blood, speckled to the west wind; Zi Ze was heartfelt, silently appealing to Leng Yue. Alack! If the ghosts are plagued, the gods will be jealous. Suppress the mouth of the slave, and ask for leniency; Dissect the heart of a fierce woman, and the anger is still unreleased!
There are many opportunities for the word Runan related to Runan's tears and blood to appear in the text, but ordinary people don't pay attention to it. In the fifth chapter of the Dream of Red Mansions, the plum blossoms of Ningguofu are open, and the plum blossoms in the garden of Ningguofu are spring plums, wax plums, red wax, white plums, October plum blossoms, heart-saving plums, old plums, etc., some of these plum blossoms are in the Ningfu Garden, some are in the Lucui Nunnery, and some are in the too illusory realm. Lu You once praised "the snow abuse wind is more awe-inspiring, and the temperament in the flower is the highest and strongest", and the stiff lying who asked each other is related to the "Biography of the Sages of Runan" by Li Xian in "The Book of the Later Han Dynasty: The Biography of Yuan An" Li Xian quoted Jin Zhoufei's "Biography of the Sages of Runan": "When the snow was heavy, Luoyang ordered the body to go out of the case, and saw that everyone was out of the snow, and there were beggars." To Yuan'anmen, there is no road. It is said that An is dead, so that people can remove the snow and enter the house, and see An lying stiffly. Ask why not. An said: "The snowmen are hungry, and it is not suitable to do people." 'Let him be virtuous, and be filial and honest. ”
In the "Dictionary of the Dream of the Red Chamber" and the "Dictionary of the Dream of the Red Chamber", Runan's tears and blood are misinterpreted, and they all believe that Runan here refers to the king of Runan hundreds of years ago, and he lost his beloved concubine Jasper, so he became a bloody tear. The basic meaning of the misreading here is to compare Baoyu to the king of Runan, and Qingwen to Jasper. This is a huge misinterpretation, according to historical records, there were two crucial wars around Ruzhou in the late Ming Dynasty, and both wars inevitably affected Mengjin. The first time was to win with the army of the Ming Dynasty, and the second time was to win with the peasant army, and the last field army of the Ming Dynasty was all wiped out.
The first war took place in the eighth year of Chongzhen, and the achievements of Hong Chengchou and Zuo Liangyu in this battle were outstanding. Ming History:
On the sixth day of the first month of the first month, the thieves trapped Rongyang Tu flooded, and then fell into the beginning. When there were tens of millions of thieves in Qin, there were 36 ways out of the customs, plundering the counties, and often said to the matter: The Central Plains, the safety of the world is in danger, and now the group of thieves is full, but only Zuo Liangyu and a brigade are plugged in Xinmi, Chen Bangzhi and other battalions strangle Ruzhou, Chen Yongfu is alone in the army to block Nanyang, the thief camp is in the thousands, the officials and soldiers are blocked, why are the thieves afraid and not driven for a long time? Beg to select the border soldiers, unify the honest and brave generals, and select the important ministers to see the division, so that the heart will not break. Henan thieves re-entered Hanzhong and trapped Ningqiang. The Ministry of War decided to transfer the troops of the northwest frontier and the southern army, issued 200,000 yuan of silver and more than 900,000 household salaries, and ordered Hong Chengchou to lead the customs to control Zhulu Fuzhen and work together to suppress the thieves, with a deadline of six months.
When Hong Chengchou led the army to Henan, the thieves came and went, especially in central Henan, it was called to rush, east of Guanshan, south of the Yellow River, north of Xiangyang, stretching for thousands of miles, where it was rushing. In June, the governor of Xiahenan Yuan Hey was imprisoned. It is said that it is weak. and replaced by Chen Biqian. Biqian, a frequent acquaintance, was a scholar in the forty-second year of Wanli, and Lu Xiangsheng worked together to suppress thieves, and the generals of the town. Zuo Liangyu, Chen Yongfu, Zhao Guozhu, etc., beheaded the king of the world in Jiaxian, the king of the world in Baisha, the king of neatness in Yiyang, and the king of sweeping the ground in Jiayu. The thief broke the Lu clan again.
On October 15, he attacked Shaanzhou, besieged Yongning, broke Jizhuang, Fengzhuang and other villages, and thirteen villages such as Xunyu. In November, the general soldier Zu Kuan, the thief was broken in Jiusong, and the thief was defeated into two. Go to Yangong in the east, go to Ruzhou in the south, attack it with a wide division of troops, and behead a thousand ranks. On the 10th day of the first month of December, the thieves broke into the king Cao Cao hundreds of thousands, surrounded Gwangju, 20 cannons, attacked the city, burned two cannons, and the city collapsed. The city was immediately on fire, thieves entered, officials and people, and slaughtered everything.
The second war took place in the sixteenth year of Chongzhen of the Ming Dynasty, and Li Zicheng led a peasant rebel army to fight a decisive battle with the Ming army in Ruzhou, Henan. This war is related to Zhu Jianze, the king of Chongwang at the end of the Ming Dynasty, he is the sixth son of Zhu Qizhen of Ming Yingzong, Jingtai was born in Nangong in the sixth year (1455), Nangong is the place where Ming Yingzong was imprisoned by his younger brother Zhu Qiyu, so Zhu Jianze is equivalent to being born in prison, fortunately, he is blessed with great fortune, and more than a year after his birth, his father Ming Yingzong was successfully restored.
In the first year of Tianshun (1457), Zhu Jianze was named King Chong, and died in the eighteenth year of Hongzhi (1505) on the fifth day of the third month of the tenth year of Chenghua (1474). This one is more honest, there is no big evil thing, it is more ordinary, ordinary and forgettable, perhaps because the first generation of King Chong was born in prison and has an honest bloodline. In the fifteenth year of Chongzhen (1642), Li Zicheng captured Runing Mansion, Chongwang Zhu Youqiao and his younger brother Zhu Youcai, the king of Heyang, Zhu Cixuan (Hui), and the second son Zhu Cikun were captured. In July 1645, his son Zhu Cijiao fled to Huai'an, became King Chong, surrendered to the Qing Dynasty, and was taken to Beijing with his two sons, where he was executed by the Qing court in 1646.
Note: This article refers to some professional literature.