"Nong buried people laugh today. Who did he know when he was buried? " This sad sentence that Daiyu hummed was sung by lonely people through the ages. This poem, written by Cao Xueqin, seems to imply the tragic ending of the novel and the unique desolation and helplessness of feudal society contained in it.
I remember reading & gt I was depressed and didn't like reading when I was a child. The complexity and noise of the Grand View Garden in my impression seems to be my childhood. Baoyu's frivolity, Daiyu's melancholy, Baochai's generosity, Granny Liu's kindness and Xifeng's meanness, all in all, this book only records the rise and fall of a family in the middle and late Qing Dynasty, which was my understanding at that time.
After reading it carefully, with the enrichment of views, this book in my mind not only means a purely tacky story, but also begins to have a deeper meaning. The unknown sadness and suffering revealed behind that story also made me appreciate the profound thoughts and rebellious thoughts of Cao Xueqin, a talented writer.
Baoyu once said, "Women are made of water and men are made of mud. The former is pure before marriage and natural after marriage. " Why does Baoyu feel this way? Doesn't this imply that Cao Xueqin was extremely disgusted and indignant at the phenomenon of patriarchal society at that time? Why is Daiyu unhappy and happy to leave but unhappy to get together? Because the author expresses his sad and melancholy mood through this beautiful beauty and the unfriendliness of the literati in feudal society, the vitriol of other characters, such as Feng, is also a true portrayal of the wretched villain of that era. There are also good-hearted dissidents, such as attacking people mentioned above, and there are also helpful and kind-hearted people, which is the moment when the author is kind and peaceful. The color of tragedy still hangs over this beautiful and ironic story, and the loss of family and the separation of Rong Ning's two governments also show the author's extreme disappointment in society and the freedom and sadness of seeing through the world of mortals, which makes readers feel uneasy.
Although the social indifference revealed between the lines of this book can really make people sigh like the author, it also has a good and kind side. For example, the family in the Grand View Garden drinks and reads poems together, enjoying the excitement and happiness of Spring Festival couplets together, just like Baoyu's cleverness and eloquence when facing Daiyu, and feeling the warmth of the family together also makes readers feel a little duckweed when reading. This is also a true portrayal of folk customs, good upbringing and the rich culture of the Chinese nation. However, the more so, the more miserable the outcome, the more reluctant it is. Otherwise, the author's sharp language and spearhead will not point directly at the deepest part of people's hearts, so sad.
After reading & gt, I escaped from the social shadow of suppressing feudalism and breathed a sigh of relief. Looking around, my living environment can at least have room for me to breathe. What about people then? I can't help myself, my mind is locked up. What is their mood? Therefore, every time I finish reading it> the tension and depression before reading seem to disappear, and my inner understanding of suffering and hardship is deeper and my pursuit of dreams is more persistent. We should also be happy about it. We live in a democratic era, and there are hardships and difficulties in life, but they are inevitable in the course of life and have nothing to do with the environment and ideas. However, compared with people in feudal society, we at least
Leaning on the bookshelf & gt, quietly emitting a faint fragrance, is happy, is worried, is gathering, is dispersed. It breeds the connotation of fanaticism; It inherited profound thoughts; It is full of intoxicating sadness. ...
In China's ancient literary works before A Dream of Red Mansions, women mostly appeared as weak, ignorant or sharp and dissolute disgraceful images. In these works, women are either a curse or a foil. A Dream of Red Mansions appeared, and her evaluation of women changed fundamentally. It depicts a group of vivid, flesh and blood, unique, intelligent and beautiful images of ancient women. The author uses a variety of techniques to describe women, such as physical description, psychological description and action description, but I think the most successful description of A Dream of Red Mansions is her language description.
After reading A Dream of Red Mansions, I can clearly see many characters with different personalities, and the performance of these different personalities is largely due to the successful description of each person's different language characteristics. Take Wang Xifeng, one of the most creative and distinctive figures, for example. Her language is very distinctive.
When mentioning Wang Xifeng, the first thing people will think of is the conclusion given to her in the book: the organs are exhausted. Indeed, Wang Xifeng really tried her best to get everything she wanted. She tried her best to be have it both ways, vigorous and smooth, sharp and hypocritical in dealing with people. No wonder she is called "Feng Chili", and the author of every sentence tries his best to reveal her personality.
Take a passage that Wang Xifeng said when she first met Daiyu for the third time. "There are such beautiful people in the world, and I just met them today! And this style is not like the grandson of our ancestors, but actually the granddaughter of our own relatives. We can't blame our ancestors for forgetting it for a while! "
On the surface, Wang Xifeng's remarks seem to be just to please Daiyu and praise her beauty and demeanor. This passage by Feng Jiao, who can be called the best organ, is not so simple. In fact, she flatters all three sisters, including ancestors and ladies, and welcomes and cherishes them.
Xifeng said, look at this perfect style. It turned out to be the granddaughter of the first family. Not to mention that an ancestor made grandma happy, let's take a look at the implication: why is Daiyu so beautiful and stylish? Because she is like the granddaughter of her ancestors. In other words, only Jia's granddaughter has such a beautiful demeanor. Doesn't this mean that granddaughters can only be inherited by Jia's family demeanor and beautiful demeanor? It really makes our ancestors happy without expression.
Just praising Daiyu, the ladies and gentlemen present may be a little unhappy: "Is it only the granddaughter who is beautiful?" What about our first granddaughter? Hearing this, Xifeng praised Daiyu as her first granddaughter, saying that Daiyu was beautiful and imposing, but the first granddaughter was really elegant and beautiful, and Daiyu was just an elephant. "。 So, please the ladies again.
Wang Xifeng is well aware of the position of Jia Mu in this big family. She knows that if she wants to establish prestige in this family, she must please her ancestors. As long as you become the favorite of your ancestors, everything will be easy. Therefore, she paid special attention to understanding the mind of Jia Mu. The sentence "I can't blame my ancestors for not forgetting for a while" seems to be an understatement, but it is actually the grandmother's heart. Grandmother Jia misses Daiyu day and night, and she really wants Daiyu to know that she cares about her caress, but it is inconvenient to say so. When Wang Xifeng said this, she was neither sincere nor insincere, and she also fulfilled her ancestors' worries. Very clever. Hearing this, Grandmother Jia will surely think, "Miss Feng knows what I think. This girl really knows my mind. " Can such a "caring person" ancestor not be spoiled?
This passage is only a few crosses, but it is exquisite and takes care of everything. Thanks to Cao Xueqin's originality, with these crosses, Feng Chili, who is hypocritical, smooth and far-sighted, came alive. It's a wonderful language description.
Only by this, A Dream of Red Mansions can be called a masterpiece, and it will last for a long time.