In the eighth episode of A Dream of Red Mansions, Jia Baoyu knew the golden lock, while Xue Baochai skillfully knew the psychic.
His father Qin Bangye is now a doctor in the camp. He was nearly seventy years old and his wife died young. Because he was in his fifties and had no children and daughters, he took a son and a daughter to the Yangshengtang. Who knows that his son died again, leaving only one daughter, nicknamed Kerr, and a formal name called Bian Mei. When I grew up, I was described as charming and charming, and the factors were related to the Jia family, so I got married. Qin Bangye is 53 years old. Qin Zhong is 12 years old this year. I went back to the south last year and reviewed my old lessons at home. I was about to discuss with Jia's in-laws about attaching a school.
Looking through the first volume of Longman, Chen Kangqi's Notes on the History of Qing Dynasty, I found that item 140 was "nursery":
"In the Yuan and Ming Dynasties, the nursery was not open yet. Since the country's loyalty began ... triggered by the banquet given by the Sai-jo Emperor, it is forbidden to drown women. Only at home, the nursery is a good deed. However, there is no fixed food in the government. Sourdrang queen and Yang Wei awarded Mi Lu first, and the ministers of Manchu and Han lost their help one after another. Within a few years, from the capital to the county seat, nursery schools are all over the world. " (P70, Zhonghua Book Company 1984 March Edition)
Qin Keqing in A Dream of Red Mansions was born in Yangshengtang, that is to say, she was adopted from the nursery. It can be said that the historical background of A Dream of Red Mansions must be after the Kangxi Dynasty, because if the author was from the Ming Dynasty, he could not know the social phenomenon of "child care" that only appeared in the Qing Dynasty.