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On the face of it,"Wei Long".It may just be a transliteration of the English name violet, a common English name, just like the ** of the names of "Su Xi", "Mi Qiuer" and "Mi Lisheng" in Zhang's pen.
Women are like flowers, and violets are often used in the West to express sacred love, and they are also easy to understand in the Chinese context. And there are two cursive prefixes in the name, and even the surname "Ge" is also very good"Climbing vines and attaching kudzu".The herbaceous atmosphere subtly echoes the general environment of plants and trees and the various plant imagery that fills the whole text.
But if you look closely, it seems that there is much more to it than that.
First of all, do you know that this "First Incense" was first published in **?
Those who know the answer are probably there. That's right, a magazine called Violet. The person who inscribed the cover is still the famous Mei Lanfang. The reason why the magazine got this name is because its founder, the writer Mr. Zhou Shoujuan, has a strong "violet complex".
It is said that when he was in middle school, he once fell in love with a rich female student, but because the door was not right, the woman was forced by the family to marry again, which made Zhou grief-stricken. Because this girl's English name is violet, Zhou Shoujuan has been in love with violets since then.
He offered violets on his desk, wrote articles in violet ink, loved to name his collection after violet, and even the editor-in-chief of the magazine named "Violet". Violets have become his favorite flowers throughout his life, which have had a long-term and profound impact on his literary creation and life process, and have become a symbol of his aesthetic concept.
Zhang Ailing, who was unknown at the time, was introduced by someone and personally brought her works to visit Zhou Shoujuan. The latter read the "Agarwood Crumbs" series she submitted in one breath and appreciated it greatly. Soon Zhang's ** began to be on "Violet", and he himself began to become famous.
Therefore, some people speculate that the reason why Zhang Ailing named the **heroine as the translation name of violet is to cater to the founder of the magazine. Although it has not been confirmed, this claim is not entirely groundless.
Well, after the gossip, let's look at the name "Weilong" from the Chinese itself.
Most of us tend to ignore the last name of the name"Kudzu".。Don't think that this surname is taken casually.
The original meaning of kudzu is kudzu, a perennial herbaceous plant, the name of which was first seen in the Book of Songs:"Bi Cai Gexi, not seen for a day, like March. ”Its flowers are small and have small hairs on the surface, like strings of lilac butterflies. Kudzu is said to resemble wisteria, but few people notice that it sometimes resembles a violet. At least color-wise.
However, how can the wild kudzu that grows at will in the wild be compared with the noble violet? It's like tuberose at first glance in the text"Tamba mushroom"., because the vase and the overall environment look noble.
Wei Long once saw in a study room with "old Chinese decoration" in the Liang Mansion:"There is a two-foot-high cloisonné square bottle on the ground, and the flowers are all small white swish, which looks like tuberose, and only people who have lived in South China for a long time know that it is a tamba mushroom flower. ”
Tuberose is also known as nightshade and moonlight incense, with a rich aroma and refreshing spleen. Tambaco, which is the transliteration of tobacco (Spanish tabaco), was introduced to China from Luzon, that is, the Philippines, and is widely cultivated in South China. Tobacco flowers are very undesirable because they affect the growth of tobacco leaves, so they are removed.
The seemingly noble tuberose is actually just an abandoned tamba mushroom flower, and it is also a true portrayal of the aunt who looks infinitely beautiful. Even the pronunciation of "菰" and "gu" is the same. Many of Zhang Ailing's metaphors for people are very intriguing.
The way of using flowers as a metaphor can be seen everywhere in "The First Incense", and Mrs. Liang is not only compared to this flower. I'll go into more detail if I have the chance. This article analyzes only ** and "kudzu flower" compared to the "tamba mushroom". For a more in-depth understanding, read my other related explainers.
"Since my aunt married Liang Jiteng, a wealthy businessman in eastern Guangdong, as the fourth aunt's wife, she fell out with Weilong's father, and she couldn't celebrate the hanging, and Weilong was not born at that time. ”"Celebration" means celebration and condolence, as well as happy events and funerals. In a humane society like China,"No celebration".Even if you don't even pay attention to family events such as happy events and funerals, it can be seen that there is almost no contact.
Alone in a foreign land, being a low-status aunt wife, and not even having a family member who can speak, you can imagine how lonely and helpless Mrs. Liang was when she was young, and how complicated her feelings were for her parents.
But what did the brothers say about her in the first place? Look at what Mrs. Liang herself complained:
"I just want to help, but I can't help you; Let your father know, you have to bite me to abduct a woman from a good family. Who am I in your family? ——I am willing to be cheap, corrupt the style, I don't want the people my brothers found for me, but I married the surnamed Liang to be small, and I lost the face of my mother's family. Wow! The more dilapidated the house, the more the bricks in the latrine are smelly and hard. You were born late, you didn't catch up with the excitement, and you didn't hear your father scold me at the beginning! ”It can be seen from this that Ge Yukun's words to scold her were at the beginning!
Love is so deep that she tells Wei Long:"I said this at the beginning: One day Ge Yukun died, and I obediently took out the money to buy a coffin for him. He lives for a day, don't think I borrow a money! ”is so bitter about her mother's brother, and it also buried her motive for designing Weilong's fate later, just like Cao Qiqiao, who is psychologically ** in "The Golden Lock", there is a viciousness of "I'm unlucky, don't you want to be happy": Don't you look down on me? Look at what has become of your own biological daughter now? Maybe not as good as me!
She is like a superfluous "tamba flower" abandoned by her own family. Now she also wants to add the same fate to her niece, so that Weilong will eventually become an abandoned lowly "tamba mushroom flower", or even worse.
What's more, after thinking about it, didn't my aunt also have the same surname as her niece "Ge", and she used to be the same "Gehua"? The fate of the two generations of aunts and nephews is like these flowers and plants, intertwined and entangled, and they become inseparable. Mrs. Liang's present is the future of Weilong.
Tamba mushroom flower. I don't know if you have noticed, Mrs. Liang's sentence"I'm not a place for you to walk around here, and I haven't insulted your good name and surname! ”In fact, it is derived from "Dream of Red Mansions", and the word "dragon" is still the upper part of the word "attack". In addition to the meaning of kudzu, the word "kudzu" can also mean kudzu cloth, and can also represent "textiles with patterns on the surface". In other words, kudzu may correspond to the word "clothes" in the lower half of the word "raid".
In "Dream of Red Mansions", when Baoyu was angry, she said to the girl "Huixiang":"Ming'er is called 'Si'er', and there is no need for 'Huixiang' and 'Lanqi'. That one is worthy of these flowers, and it doesn't insult a good name and a good surname. ”The raider and the musk moon heard it outside"Purse your lips and smile".。Later, the attacker also took advantage of this to say coquettishly:"I'm tired of coming over there, and there's a 'four' and 'five' here to serve. Our thing is in vain, but it has 'disgraced a good name and a good surname'. ”
The name "Ge Weilong" alludes to the possession of various"Good name, good surname".'s maids, especially Huixiang and Raider.
In addition, there is no "Wei" in "Dream of Red Mansions", but there is a "Jia Qiang", who is with Huixiang, who later became "Si'er" and "Xiaohong". Zhang Ailing once analyzed the marriage between Xiaohong and Jia Qiang in "Nightmare of Red Mansions", and may have taken some inspiration from these characters when choosing the name.
Dream of Red Mansions is also mentioned"Rose trellis".Next, Ling Guan, who was obsessed with Jia Qiang, drew the word "Qiang" on the ground with a golden hairpin, and he was unconsciously wet by the shower. The corresponding to the word "Qiang" can be "Wei". Isn't Weilong also in love to "get crazy"? However, Ling Guan, who looks like Lin Daiyu, is not a real Daiyu, and Ge Weilong is not a real "Violet".
In addition, "Joe" is also pronounced similarly to "Qiang". And Jia Qiang, the ***, also has some similarities with Qiao Qi, including the "feminine" in the name. From this point of view, Qiao Qiqiao and Ge Weilong are really a natural pair!
It's the flowers and plants of "Hui Essence Lanxin", and it's a "dragon", and "Ge Weilong" is indeed one"Good name, good surname".come, but will eventually be "defiled" like other plants and trees, and will be reduced to a mud pit.
Rosebush. Have you noticed that when naming women or describing women in Chinese, do you use the word "phoenix" more than the word "dragon"? The word "dragon" is generally reserved for the "supreme" male. In contrast, it is George's name "George Joe" that implies the feminine beauty of "Angel", and there is a taste of "yin and yang reversed". Just like the ending of the two, the wife humbly supports her husband, which is also an inversion.
In short, "Dragon" is used as a girl's name, which is indeed a bit special, it seems to break the limitations of gender, and even a bit ironic. Because in fact, Wei Long is not only not a "dragon", but at most a "worm".
From the romantic tenderness and heroic pride of "Wei Long", we can see her various contradictions, such as although she is addicted to the drunken gold fans in Hong Kong and has the ambition to go up, but she is bound by traditional morality, she still has an innocent side in her heart, and she feels even more tormented.
As my aunt commented, she was not a first-class talent in this area, but she wanted to enter the industry. Or, in the words that are now easier to understand, "ability does not match ambition".
Looking back, she knew that her arrogant aunt could not welcome her from the beginning, but she still insisted on staying in the Liang Mansion under the pretext of studying, and squeezed into a circle that did not belong to her. I'm afraid that reading books is just a front for her.
Weilong's real purpose is to "cling" to the upper class, like vines. She was extremely yearning for a flashy and extravagant life, eager to take a shortcut to realize her life "dream", but she didn't expect it to be in such a tragic way.
Wei Long is incompetent. Her self-confidence had been completely destroyed by Georgie, along with the little self-esteem and self-love she had barely maintained.
She first thought that she could resist corrosion, finish her studies, and marry a lover; Later, she thought that she could refuse ** and withdraw rationally; Later, she thought that she would be the weight of the prodigal son's return; In the end, she thought that everything would be fine by selling her body to support her husband, and that her great sacrifice was only for the ...... of great love
The result? It's not like being blindfolded and pretending to be nothing. It's not about pretending to be happy, but you can be really happy.
After all the hardships, the incense is born: solve the mystery of the title and beginning of Zhang Ailing's "Agarwood Crumbs: The First Incense".
Ge Weilong vs Xiangling: The life of agarwood in "Dream of Red Mansions" and "Agarwood Crumbs: The First Incense".
Zhang Ailing's "Tulip": The brushwork of the Red Chamber, ** crossing, the end of the peak period of creation.
Red Rose and White Rose": The love is wrong, and the scumbag has a lot of money.