Looking back at the classic Dream of Red Mansions, there are countless exquisiteness. No matter the names of people, museums, places, or descriptions of people's living environment, they all point to people's quality and imply their fate.
Let's talk about the Accord in the Grand View Garden. Whether it is pavilions, flowers and trees, furnishings of indoor furniture and accessories, or even the name of a maid, there are hidden meanings. Among the twelve women in Jinling, the Xiaoxiang Pavilion where Lin Daiyu lives is especially worth pondering.
Let's review the classics and taste the author's description of the architectural layout and quiet environment here:
Suddenly I looked up and saw the white wall in front of me, where there were several houses to be repaired and thousands of bamboo poles were covered. Everyone said, "Nice place!" So everyone went in and saw that the entrance was a winding veranda, and the stones under the steps overflowed into a forever road. There are two or three small houses on it, one bright and the other dark, all of which are beds and chairs. There is a small door from the back and out of the backyard. There are big pears and plantains. There are two minor setbacks. A gap suddenly appeared under the wall of the backyard, and there was a spring in it. This ditch is only a few feet long, and it is poured into the wall, bypassing the terrace to the front yard, and then going around the bamboo forest.
The order of the author's writing is from far to near, from a distance, it is a repair room surrounded by a "powder wall" and covered by thousands of bamboo poles-the color is pink green; Looking closely, what stands out is the exquisite twists and turns of houses and courtyards: winding verandahs, Yong roads, courtyards and streams flowing under bamboo; Exquisitely in the house, in the door, on the bed, in several boxes and so on. There are "big pears and bananas" in the backyard.
These descriptions are related to Lin Daiyu's talent and personality, and to her future destiny. Let's take a look at what Jia Zheng and Yuan Chun's father and daughter said about this building:
Jia Zheng said with a smile: "This place has just been returned. If you can sit under this window and read on a moonlit night, you will live your life in vain. " Therefore, when the public put forward to write a plaque for this place, Jia Zheng was not satisfied with their "Qi Shui Heritage" and "Suiyuan Heritage", and even used the word "vulgar" to deny it.
It was Baoyu who wrote the word "Feng", and the title was linked to "Bao Ding Tea Shang Qing, chess in the window is still cold", which was Jia Zheng's default.
In Jia Zheng's eyes, this is a quiet and honorable place, and the best place for scholars to read and recite poems. This was further confirmed when Jia Jia and Granny Liu visited the Grand View Garden for the 40th time:
Grandma Liu saw a pen and inkstone on the case under the window and books on the bookshelf. "。 Granny Liu said, "This must be my brother's study." . Grandmother Jia smiled and said to Daiyu, "This is my granddaughter's home." Granny Liu looked at Daiyu carefully and said with a smile, "This embroidered room looks like a young lady, even better than that excellent study." "
After visiting the Grand View Garden, relatives in the province liked it best, and personally renamed the inscription of "Feng" as "Xiaoxiang Pavilion". Mother Yuan Chun, why did you rename this place "Xiaoxiang Pavilion"?
On the surface, we can't just read Yuan Fei's mothering status; From the homophonic metaphor, we can read the tragic fate of Daiyu's young death. As friends all know, Xiaoxiang Pavilion obviously borrows the myth and legend of "a mottled bamboo tears a thousand times".
In ancient times, there were two concubines, Heying and Ying, both daughters of Yao. Shun Di went to Jiuyi Mountain in Xiangxiang County to punish the Nine-wen Dragon who killed the people, but he never came back a few years later. The second princess was in a hurry and came to Jiuyi Mountain to find her. After learning of Shun Di's death and overwork, they were heartbroken and couldn't help crying and waving their bamboo poles.
Therefore, the bamboo in Xiangxian is called "Feixiang Bamboo". There is only bamboo in the Grand View Garden, so Yuan Chun renamed it "Xiaoxiang Pavilion". Lin Daiyu's nickname in the Grand View Garden Poetry Society is also "Princess Xiaoxiang", which is one of them.
From the homophonic point of view, Xiaoxiang Pavilion can be interpreted as "fragrant pavilion", and the reverse order is "fragrant pavilion"-and the word "fragrant pavilion" reminds people of the idiom "fragrant pavilion eliminates jade", which is consistent with the tragic fate of Jia Yuanchun's "tiger and rabbit meet and dream of returning to their hometown" and Lin Daiyu's "jade belt in the forest".
Based on the analysis of Lin Daiyu's life experience, her father is Lin Ruhai, a salt official in Yangzhou. Due to the death of Daiyu's mother Jia Min and the sincere invitation of her grandmother, Daiyu took refuge in Beijing.
Here, although she got the love and care of the Jia family, she also met her confidant Jia Baoyu, but the situation of relying on others made her feel that Lady menstruation didn't like herself.
In the feudal era, when "parents' orders and matchmakers' words" decided the major events of marriage, she felt an invisible pressure. Soon after, her father died of illness, which put her in a difficult position.
I can't help but burst into tears when I think of my life under the guarantor and my emotional home with Baoyu. Although I live in an elegant house in the Grand View Garden and live a luxurious life, I often feel the mental pressure of "wind and sword pressing each other".
Although she is well-read and ice-smart, she is exhausted by her repressed and sensitive personality. The reason why she lives in Xiaoxiang Pavilion is, according to her own statement, "I love those few bamboos and feel quieter than other places". The author refers to Lin Daiyu's lofty and aloof temperament and character by borrowing the noble and refined character of bamboo.
Delicate bamboo in Xiaoxiang Pavilion, and then watch "Big Pear with Banana". "Pear Flower" is elegant and free from vulgarity, as white as snow. The ancients often used "pear blossoms bring rain" to describe the beauty of women when they are sad and crying.
Dating back to the former Wood-Stone Alliance, Lin Daiyu followed the waiter in Shen Ying in tears to repay his rain and dew irrigation. So in reality, Daiyu shed tears to test Baoyu's feelings for himself, just like pear blossoms bring rain; Banana leaves are wide and stretched, and the shade is like a cover. They are often planted in front of windows or corners for viewing. The rain hits the banana, and the sound is heard, adding a poetic melancholy.
Thousands of bamboos, pears and plantains constitute a sad and elegant style, which skillfully combines Lin Daiyu's personality ideal, moral integrity and the tragic fate of losing her mother, being dependent on others and dying young.
The writing of this metaphor implies the character and fate of the characters; The description of the winding and compact architectural layout of Xiaoxiang Pavilion implies the ups and downs of Baodai's love road from another side. In such an environment, Lin Daiyu will naturally touch the scene and write something like "the cold smoke courtyard is turned into a depression, and the bamboo curtain is about to drip". I don't know when the storm will stop, but I have taught tears to wet the window screen.
Surprisingly, the author not only describes people by writing landscapes, but also the names of Lin Daiyu's maids, such as the little girl's name "Snow Goose", which can be homophonic as "Blood Goose". Wild goose is a kind of migratory bird, its singing is piercing and it flies to the south regularly, which symbolizes the tragic fate of Lin Daiyu's burial in the south after her death.
The name of the eldest girl "Zi Juan" reminds people of the story of "Wang Di Jay Juan": According to legend, Wang Di was the monarch of Shu in the late Zhou Dynasty, and his name was Du Yu. Once the Zen retreat because of water control, then the country will die and the soul will become a cuckoo. In late spring, the cry is still like "it is better to go home!" Until he bled to death in his mouth. Later scholars often compare the sad cry of cuckoo with the tragic situation of human beings.
For example, there is a famous sentence in Wen Tianxiang's poem, "From now on, don't turn into a bloody crow on the Jiangnan Road"; Not only that, but even the parrot raised by Daiyu said the famous sentence in "Flowers Buried": It will not only learn to sigh in her tone, but also recite in five tones: "Who is he burying flowers today?"