Recently, before going to bed at night, I began to listen to "Dream of Red Mansions" by Ou Lijuan and Zhang Guoli again. The reason why this one is good is that I will listen to the full version of the audio ** first, and then start explaining. And pay more attention to the interpretation of the ** itself, and do not focus on the commentary. I think it's good, because reading is still very important.
Because I listen to it every time, this time I heard the plot of Jia Baoyu and the attacker's first trial of Yunyu and Grandma Liu's first entry into Rongguo Mansion.
In the past, when I read this paragraph, I didn't feel anything, but I vaguely felt strange, why did I explain the relationship between the attacker and Jia Baoyu so clearly from the beginning?
Later, I read that Mrs. Wang copied and inspected the Grand View Garden, Qingwen, into the painting, Si Qi and other maids, all of whom were implicated because of the affairs of men and women, died and died, and walked away, and then thought of the incident of attacking people and Baoyu, and I would feel even more puzzled.
Later, as I read "Dream of Red Mansions" more and more, I felt more and more that there were always some complexities and contradictions in the affairs of men and women in it - for example, in Rongguo Mansion, especially in Daguanyuan, it seems that I am very shy about talking about the relationship between men and women.
This kind of evasion has almost reached the extreme in the 32nd episode of "Telling the Heart, Fascinating Living Baoyu, Shameful and Fiercely Dying Jin Chuan".
In this story, in many things, it has reached a small peak-
Lin Daiyu and Jia Baoyu confirmed each other's intentions, and since then, Lin Daiyu has never been petty because of the gains and losses of this relationship. Every time I read "Dream of Red Mansions" and read this paragraph, I feel that in fact, Lin Daiyu has already got what she wants most, so she has long been ignorant of many things.
At the same time, what reached the peak was the avoidance of the love between men and women by a group of people, including Madame Wang, including the attacker.
When the attacker heard Baoyu complain from the bottom of his heart, and expressed his love for Lin Daiyu in such an extreme way, his first reaction was panic and fear, and then he began to think of ways to prevent the occurrence of the love between Baoyu and Daiyu. The attacker seems to have completely forgotten, and if there is something untalented, it seems that she is the first to make a mistake.
Of course, Mrs. Wang's taboo has also reached the extreme. This extreme performance is that in this chapter, Jin Chuan, who made a few jokes with Jia Baoyu, jumped into the well and died because he was humiliated.
When you read this kind of plot, you will inevitably think, as for it? As for hiding the little thing between men and women like this?
It seems that when I wrote Second Sister You and Third Sister You, I didn't hide it so much, it seems that everyone mentioned Jia Lian's things outside, and they all felt that it was commonplace, and Jia Yu made it clear that he wanted to let Mandarin Duck be his little wife, and everyone didn't feel ashamed?
Even Mrs. Wang didn't always talk about the marriage of her children with her own sister Aunt Xue from time to time, except for the first time with Baoyu, she didn't cross the line again, and met Baoyu in her own house in private.
How did they get to Lin Daiyu, and even to Qingwen and Jin Chuan, they had to commit such a big taboo.
I always couldn't understand this at first, but later I heard many famous artists talk about "Dream of Red Mansions", and I always felt that something was missing, and I always felt that it didn't completely speak to my heart.
For example, most of the opinions are that in fact, it is not that Lin Daiyu is afraid of committing a taboo, but that Mrs. Wang has already selected Baochai and attackers, so it is natural to use those traditional morals to kidnap Lin Daiyu and Qingwen, in the final analysis, to suppress others, but to fulfill herself.
But if Qingwen is Daiyu's shadow, so as soon as she gets close to Baoyu, she will be implicated, and it is barely reasonable, but what about Jin Chuan, and later Si Qi, Si Qi doesn't even have anything to do with Baoyu, she just took the initiative to fall in love.
Later, I watched "Nei Yan", watched "The Boudoir Teacher", and then read "Dream of Red Mansions", and I suddenly realized that in fact, Mrs. Wang's people are not afraid of Lin Daiyu, they are not afraid of Qingwen, they are afraid of [emotional awakening].
Raider and Baoyu rolled the sheets, even Qingwen already knew, can a person like Mrs. Wang, who has a pair of eyes firmly staring at the corner of Daguan Garden, not know?
But why wouldn't she mind?
One is because the attack is the shadow of Baochai, Mr. Cao Xueqin wants to tell everyone through this way of writing that Mrs. Wang chose Baochai and the attacker, which is also a kind of grass snake gray line foreshadowing, the emotional direction between Jia Baoyu, Lin Daiyu and Xue Baochai, in addition to the sleepwalking at the beginning is too illusory, in the real story, it is also written at the beginning.
Later, it was repeated countless times.
The second is that what Mrs. Wang is afraid of is not the so-called physical contact, and the things that attack people and Mrs. Wang understand are not the same thing as the things that I, as a reader, understand [things that are not talented]. This is also the most important point.
In that story of extreme maintenance of feudal patriarchy, of course, men and women must have physical contact, and of course there must be marriage, in addition to marriage, of course, there must be multiple relationships between men and women, otherwise how to reproduce, otherwise how to rely on various complex in-laws to further consolidate patriarchal power.
Mrs. Wang is not taboo about attacking people, the most important reason is that although Mrs. Wang is a woman, she is actually a representative figure who defends patriarchy, and the attacker has become a very qualified [tool man] in the patriarchal consolidation system.
Although the controversy of attacking people is very large, I have never felt that attacking people is a bad person, I still have that point of view, Cao Xueqin wrote "Dream of Red Mansions" with great compassion, he created so many women, not for everyone to attack and abuse, attacking people has her good, has the tragic side of her fate, and has the warmth of human nature worthy of the reader's pity.
She is just like countless ordinary women, helpless, unconscious, and unconsciously becomes a maintenance tool of the patriarchal system.
Her values are molded.
And Jin Chuan, Si Qi, Qingwen and Lin Daiyu have different degrees of awakening. Maybe some of them don't know that the unique aura on their bodies comes from **, but they give people the feeling that they are disobedient, uncooperative, unwilling to sacrifice, and have to cut a little bit at any time.
What Mrs. Wang doesn't like about Qingwen the most is this consciousness in Qingwen.
What Mrs. Wang taboos about Lin Daiyu the most is the incomparably clear [awakening] and [self-awareness] on Lin Daiyu's body.
In this Grand View Garden, if you want to live a happier life, you need to be less self-conscious.
Mrs. Wang, or the feudal system, likes the [Xue Baochai] who they think is obedient and easy to control.
Lin Daiyu used to look down on Xue Baochai very much, because she thought Xue Baochai was "hiding traitors", but since the 42nd time Lin Daiyu said two words in "The Peony Pavilion" and "The Legend of the West Chamber", Xue Baochai said a bunch of heartfelt words to Lin Daiyu in private, and the two of them completed a complete reconciliation, and Lin Daiyu no longer looked down on Xue Baochai.
Why? Because she finally understood that Xue Baochai's daily behavior, such as choosing dramas and picking what Jia's mother liked, and eating what the elderly liked, was not because she didn't have [self-awareness], but,She had already awakened, and probably experienced the pain of awakening earlier than Daiyu, so she changed to a more sleek way of living her life that could cope with others without hurting herself.
When I first read "Dream of Red Mansions", I didn't like Xue Baochai very much, and like Daiyu, I felt that Baochai was flattering. But then I gradually felt that in Xue Baochai's [Always Consider Others], there was also compassion for those [victims] in the patriarchal world, such as Shi Xiangyun, such as Xiangling, and later Daiyu, she was sincere.
She is different from Mrs. Wang, she believes that women are a community of destiny, and she has human consciousness, so she can empathize with their difficulties and give birth to a sense of [cold lips and teeth].
It's just that after [awakening], she chose to be pragmatic and protect at the same time. If you are interested, you can reread the 42nd Baochai persuading Daiyu, and you will know how sober she is and how insightful she is about the world, but she knows that she is powerless to change, so she would rather pretend to be confused.
But because of that bit of pragmatism and that bit of pretending to be confused, she couldn't please the sober people if she was pleasing the king's wife. But sometimes I think about it, Baochai is not easy, she is really a person who is struggling to survive in the gap between two values. She's done better than many, many people.
And Lin Daiyu, from beginning to end, although her body is under the fence, her spirit has never existed in the cracks. She is always naïve, always confrontational, and always wants to be a real person. This is Lin Daiyu's most likable and even admirable place.
Sister Lin has never been weak.
Sister Lin has never been afraid of letting people see her [awakening] and [self-awareness].
Therefore, she is destined to become the person that Mrs. Wang is most taboo and wants to suppress. As for attacking people, she and Baoyu will sleep together, anyway, in their eyes, she can't be considered a person.