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In the entire "Dream of Red Mansions" (the first 80 chapters), Cao Xueqin has only two texts describing the decoration of Lin Daiyu's clothes:
One is the eighth time when Baoyu, Daiyu, and Baochai had dinner at Lixiangyuan than psychic, through the eyes of Baoyu, it was said that Daiyu was "covered with a big red feather satin cardigan", Baoyu looked at her outfit and asked if it was snowing?
The other is the chapter of the forty-ninth Luxue Nunnery to appreciate the white snow and red plums, saying that Daiyu "changed into small sheepskin boots that pinched gold and dug the clouds and red incense, covered with a crane in a big red feather veil and a white fox, tied a green gold and green double-ring four-fold Ruyi silk, and covered her head with a snow hat." Daiyu and Baoyu, who had changed their clothes, walked through the snow together and went to Daoxiang Village.
While the only two descriptions of Daiyu's clothing are also compared and described, Xue Baochai's clothing is also compared.
In the eighth round, it was said that Baochai was wearing "a honey-colored cotton jacket, a rose-purple two-color gold and silver mouse shoulder gown, and a green and yellow silk cotton skirt, which was half-new and not old, and it didn't look luxurious." ”
The forty-ninth chapter said that Baochai "wore a lotus green bucket pattern icing on the brocade and a crane with a silk line." ”
If we don't take stock of all the descriptions of the clothes and accessories of the two heroines, it is not easy to find these two places, Cao Xueqin has a sense of contrast.
The purpose of the comparison is also very simple, whether it is the material or accessories, the style of Daiyu's clothes, the red feather yarn, the feather satin, the white fox skin, the gold digging clouds, the red incense, the green gold shining green double ring quadrangle, every detail reveals the noble and elegant, extremely luxurious.
Xue Baochai compares with it, although the clothing is also a good thing, and the craftsmanship must not be bad, but whether it is in terms of value or regulation, it is too shabby, and the gold and silver rats are also valuable, but compared with the white fox, it is 108,000 miles worse, especially the cranes made in this white fox, so it must be several to be able to have a crane? Crocus silk is an imported fabric, but compared with the quota of royal allocation of feather yarn and satin, it is not half a star.
Moreover, this time in the Luxue'an Poetry Society, the girls and ladies are either feather yarn and feather satin, or orangutans, which provoked Ping'er to sigh: More than a dozen red clothes reflect the heavy snow, so it's not neat! Only Li Kun is wearing a green Doluo cardigan because of her widowhood, but the color of Xue Baochai's clothes is lotus green, which is a dark blue color with blue, which is lighter than the widow Li Kun's clothes. It's really not in line with the identity of a young lady who hasn't left the cabinet.
In this Grand View Garden snow appreciation activity, Jia's mother participated with great interest, she praised Xue Baoqin in a golden and brilliant Qiu standing in the snow reflecting the beauty of plum blossoms, Ping'er only participated for a while, and still want to highlight her exquisite shrimp bracelet, even Li Kun, a widow, saw the red plum blossoms of the Lucui'an, and also sent Baoyu to pick a branch for her to decorate the house.
At this luxurious fashion exhibition, there is also a discordant note, that is, Xing Xiuyan, who is poor, is wearing a broken felt cloak, but this can't be blamed on Miss Xing, it can only be said that Mrs. Xing is not doing things properly, Ping'er saw it in her eyes and remembered it in her heart, and the next day she gave Sister Feng's cloak of big red feather yarn to Miss Xing, Xue Baochai is naturally also that discordant note, she is more pure than the widow Li Kun, the yearning for beauty, the love of life, here in Xue Baochai, there is only a dead silence.
Jiafu has a set of rules for how to raise girls who have not left the cabinet, such as the equipment of the slave team, in addition to the nurse, the big and small maids, the rough mother-in-law and others, there are also four nurturing grandmothers. Miss's clothing and jewelry also have a fixed sub-example, what season, what festival is what kind of dress standard, there are regulations, the spring silk golden phoenix is specially prepared for the festival, three springs are available, Jia's mother for Daiyu's parenting standards, everything is the same as Sanchun, in fact, because Jia's mother raised Daiyu and Baoyu in her own compound, the standard of Eryu is almost the same, higher than Sanchun, ** The original text said, compared with Daiyu, Sanchun is temporarily behind.
* At the beginning, the economy of Jiafu has gone downhill, Jia's mother said that now is not as good as the time of the day, Mrs. Wang burst into tears when she received Wang Xifeng's report that she wanted to streamline the minions of Miss Gongzi in Daguan Garden, and said that your sisters are already pitiful enough, and the maids are already few enough, and they don't look like individuals, they are just like ghosts in the temple, saying that when your sister Lin's mother was a young lady at home, she was called a thousand noble and pampered, and that was the body of a young lady.
Jia Min grew up in the heyday of Rongguo Mansion, and Jia Min was not out of the cabinet, but it was much higher than the current level of education of Sanchun and Daiyu.
The style of Miss Daughter. It is the bottom line of Jiafu's raising girls, and it is also the bottom line standard for Jia's mother to treat the girls in the boudoir at home. How to arrange the young lady's house, how to decorate, how to reflect the dignity, in Jia's mother, there is no sloppiness, although the family economy is not as good as in the past, but this individual is not negotiable. Jia Mu gave many examples on this issue:
The window screen of the Xiaoxiang Pavilion is not green enough, and it does not match the tone of this courtyard, so it is required to replace the window screen immediately, and the aesthetic is not sloppy.
The sycamore in the Qiushuang Courtyard grows well, Jia's mother likes it very much, but this sycamore is still fine, and it will take time to become a talent, so she observes this kind of thing carefully.
To Xue Baochai's Wuyuan, needless to say, readers are very familiar with it, the inner room of the snow-cave-like Wuyuan is not decorated in any color, which makes Jia's mother angry, and bluntly says that the young girl's house is so pure and unlucky, if you want to do this, wouldn't an old woman like us want to live in a horse ring?
All the descriptions are just to serve the theme, through the comparison of Xue Baochai and Lin Daiyu's clothes, Cao Gong just wants to tell the reader: What is noble? What is crude? The detailed difference between the scholarly family of the prince and the merchant family.
The author of this article: Pingshan Magenta Mansion
Refer to the original work: "Jiazhu Ben Fat Yan Zhai Re-evaluation of Stone Records" and "Gengchen Ben Fat Yan Zhai Re-evaluation of Stone Records".
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