In the first episode of "Dream of Red Mansions", it is said that "hide the real things" and "use false village dialects", that is to say, the things recorded in the book are true (Zhen), false (Jia), and false (?). There are real (historical) ......
When I first read it, I speculated based on the homophonic stalk: there should be a "virtual" home in the book! But after reading the whole book one hundred and twenty times, I didn't find anyone with the surname Xu or Xu?
Am I wrong in my prediction?
Later, while flipping through this lipo review in the library, I made an astonishing discovery:
The fifty-eighth review of the fat review book "Dream of Red Mansions", the old lady concubine, ".Jia Mu, Xing (Mrs. Xing), Wang (Mrs. Wang and Wang Xifeng), You (You Shi), Xu (?) Mother-in-law, daughter-in-law, grandchildren, etc., all enter the court every day to worship
So who is the "Xu" here?
Some red scholars speculate that the Xu family here should be Jia Rong's wife, because the surname of the daughter-in-law of Ning Guofu follows a certain law, Cao Xueqin took it from the "Zhu Qin You Xu" in the book "Hundred Family Names", in which after Qin Keqing's death, Jia Rong soon continued to be a family affair, and it was this "Xu" family.
"Xu" here can be understood as "continuation" or "fiction". But she can become the granddaughter-in-law of the Jia family, it should be said that her identity has a certain background, after all, most of the great-granddaughters-in-law of Jiafu's grandchildren are among the twelve hairpins, you are like Wang Xifeng, Qin Keqing, Xue Baochai, quasi-granddaughter-in-law Lin Daiyu, Shi Xiangyun, Miaoyu and other ......
Chekhov said when talking about the creation of the screenplay".If you write in Act 1 that there's a gun on the wall, then you have to put the gun in the back, or the gun doesn't have to hang there.
According to Cao Xueqin's writing technique, this Xu should have a lot of scenes in the second half of the book.
But the continuation of the book, Gao He and others, was a Ma Daha, and they didn't see the word "Xu" before, or they didn't know how to write it when they saw it, so Cheng Jiaben simply deleted it and became ".Jia MuXing Wang YouxuMother-in-law, daughter-in-law, grandchildren, etc., all enter the court every day to worship
But later, when I proofread again, I felt that there was no need to delete these four words, Cheng Yiben only changed the word "Xu" to the word "Hu", and Jia Rong's wife became Hu in a daze.
In the sequel, "Hu's" only appears these two times, and this Hu's is guilty of the previous Jin Rong's mother "Hu's", which is very inconsistent with the author's creative ideas Cao Xueqin.
I guess Jia Rong would be angry if she saw itWho tm to help me change my wifeLet's read Dream of Red Mansions together