Lin Daiyu entered the Rongxi Hall alone, subverting the perception of the Red Mansion
Lin Daiyu has always been regarded as a silly white sweet who cries and cries, has a narrow heart, is weak and sickly, and has a love brain in "Dream of Red Mansions".
This image completely misunderstands her role and is too one-sided and biased.
Lin Daiyu has the uniqueness of the characters in "Dream of Red Mansions", ** with the rise and fall of Jiafu as the main line, expanding to the rise and fall of the four major families and the four kings and eight princes, and the Lin family is the representative of Wenzhi and is not among them.
The ancestors of the Lin family had attacked the liehous, although they were originally only hereditary for three generations, but due to the emperor's special favor, they made an exception and attacked another generation, and Lin Ruhai was already the fifth generation, much deeper than Jiafu and the four kings and eight dukes.
It can be said that Cao Xueqin wrote two more generations through the Lin family, expressing that the Lin family has crossed dynasties and cycles, which is attributed to the poetry and ritual genes of the Lin family. Lin Ruhai is a former detective, in charge of the country's highest academic institution, is a doctor of Lantai Temple, Cao Xueqin therefore made his surname Lin, because Wenqu Xing Bigan once lived in seclusion in Changlin Mountain, and his descendants are surnamed Lin.
Therefore, the Lin family is a symbol of Wenzhi in "Dream of Red Mansions", which is one of Cao Xueqin's important themes and Lin Daiyu's uniqueness.
It turned out that the route and ceremony of Lin Daiyu's entry into Jiafu was not that Rongguo Mansion neglected Daiyu, but a misunderstanding of feudal etiquette. The two mansions of Rongning are both royal edicts, and the political value of the gate is far greater than the practical value, and only major political figures or activities will be opened, and Daiyu only returned to her mother's house as a family member of Jiafu, not a political figure, so the gate was not opened.
This reveals the reason for the decline of the four great families and the Jiafu, namely the failure of the family to complete the cultural transformation and the lack of cultural cultivation of the descendants. Although the Lin family provides a model and example for learning, many people fail to understand and learn the essence of it.
Therefore, we should learn from the experience of the Lin family, focus on cultural transformation and the education of future generations, and avoid repeating the mistakes of the past.
The Lin family was in stark contrast to the Jia family and the Four Kings and Eight Princes Group, and Lin Daiyu saw this unusual contrast on the first day she entered the Jia Mansion. She walked into the five main rooms above, and the wings on both sides of the deer top ear room drilled the mountain, extending in all directions, and magnificent.
It was not a place to live, but a place of political power and royal majesty. On the big red sandalwood carving case, there is a three-foot-high blue-green bronze tripod, hanging to be leaked with the large painting of the Molong of the Dynasty, on one side is the golden dragon, and on the other side is the sea of glass.
Sixteen Nanmu chairs on the ground, and there is a pair of couplets, which are ebony cards, inlaid with chiseled silver handwriting, and the road is: the sun and the moon are shining on the seat, and the front of the hall is dark and smoky.
Lin Daiyu is the only woman in "Dream of Red Mansions" to set foot in Rongxi Hall, where she tastes a cup of tea, and even all the female relatives of Jia's mother, Sister Feng and Ning Rong are not described as having visited Rongxi Hall.
Although Jia Zheng usually met guests in his study or in the ear room of Rongxi Hall, such as the chief historian of Zhongshun Wangfu and Jia Yucun, in the whole story of "Dream of Red Mansions", the main room of Rongxi Hall seems to have only been used when the Yuan Concubine was provincial, but ** is not described, probably because the main scene of the Yuan Concubine is in the Grand View Garden.
Lin Daiyu's image in "Dream of Red Mansions" seems to have nothing to do with politics, she seems to belong completely to the boudoir and the inner curtain, but only she has the closest connection with Rongxi Hall, she has really become a guest of Rongxi Hall, and when she eats tea, she also becomes the owner of Rongxi Hall.
Although there are many women closely related to politics in "Dream of Red Mansions", such as Yuan Chun and Tanchun are political figures and victims of politics, and the ladies represented by Jia's mother are also political figures, they not only participate in the wedding and funeral events of the imperial court, but also an important link and participant in the contact between the family, they seem to have a more political role in the ** story, but they and Lin Daiyu are completely different types of women.
Lin Daiyu is the only person who can save Jiafu, after she came to Jiafu, Jia's mother's series of actions are to make Daiyu become Baoyu's future wife, so that the Lin family's Shili family style will be inherited by Jiafu because Daiyu is the main mother of Rongguo Mansion.
With the arrival of the Xue family, a battle began between the golden and jade good relationship and the wood and stone marriage in the Rongguo Mansion. In the end, Daiyuxiang died, and Baochai became the new daughter-in-law of Jiafu.
This accident caused Jiafu to lose the opportunity to transform into a literati family, and at the same time, it also married with merchants, which made Jiafu's status even lower. Mother Jia asked Daiyu what medicine she was taking, and Daiyu replied, "Ginseng Yangrong Pill."
Daiyu knows how to take care of herself, but those people in Rongguo's mansion are short-sighted, eager for quick success, and only care about their own selfish interests. The author of this article: Pingshan Magenta Mansion, referring to the original works: "Jiazhu Ben Fat Yan Zhai Re-evaluation of the Stone Record" and "Gengchen Ben Fat Yan Zhai Re-evaluation of the Stone Record", * in "Sun Wen Painted the Whole Book of Red Mansions".