I don't want to explore the mystery of Qin Keqing's life. I want to analyze the contradiction in Qin Keqing's personality in detail-she had sex with Jia Zhen voluntarily, but at the same time, after the scandal was exposed by Jiao Da, she chose to commit suicide in Tianxianglou. The former violates general ethics and does not conform to women's morality, while the latter has the wind of chastity. Is this the contradiction of Cao Gong's narrative style?
Qin Keqing voluntarily entrusted himself to Jia Zhen. Many readers and critics are unwilling to accept this fact. They often can't get rid of the thinking mode that "good people must be good and bad people must be bad". Since Qin Keqing is one of the twelve women in Jinling, she is naturally a top-notch woman. How could she voluntarily stay with someone like Jia Zhen? Therefore, from the emotional point of view, they prefer to believe that Qin Keqing was coerced by Jia Zhen. Only in this way can the perfect image of Qin Keqing be preserved.
Unfortunately, according to the details in A Dream of Red Mansions, there is no doubt that there is "love" between Qin Keqing and Jia Zhen.
If nothing else, let's say that Qin Keqing's verdict begins with "boundless love is deep love, and when we meet, we are the prostitutes". This evaluation can be described as explicit. If Qin Keqing was frightened by Jia Zhen, how could there be the word "love"? Where is the argument of "love meets"?
Therefore, it can be seen from the verdict that the ambiguous relationship between Qin Keqing and Jia Zhen belongs to your love and my wish, and there is no unilateral coercion by Jia Zhen. Moreover, after Qin Keqing's death, Jia Zhen cried more sadly than Jia Rong and You Shi, which shows that his love for Qin Keqing seems to have sincere elements.
Why did Qin Keqing hang himself in Tianxianglou? Although the current version of A Dream of Red Mansions has deleted the plot of "Qin Keqing's mourning for Xiang Ju" and given the ending of "Qin Keqing's death", according to the criticism and the details in the book, it is not so simple to imply Qin Keqing's death.
According to this book, on the night of Qin Keqing's death, the news came, which surprised everyone in the whole government. Why? Naturally, I was surprised by Qin Keqing's death, because Qin Keqing's death was so sudden and unreasonable.
In addition, there is a criticism at the end of 13 "Qin Keqing closes the dragon to ban the captain", which can be said to directly point out the secret of Qin Keqing's death: Qin Keqing mourns the Tianxiang Tower. The author used the pen of history. ..... Although useless, its meaning makes people sad and convincing, but I forgive it. Because the Western Qin Dynasty was ordered to delete the articles of "Legacy Chai" and "Change Clothes", there were only ten pages, and the section of Tianxianglou was deleted, omitting four or five pages.
But why did Qin Keqing hang himself in Tianxianglou? There has always been a popular saying, that is, the famous seventh "Jiao Da Kou Scold" incident. When Jiao Da was drunk, he was dissatisfied with the arrangement that the page asked him to send Qin Zhong home, so he shouted at the top of his lungs, "Climb the ashes, raise the brother-in-law's adopted brother-in-law".
"Climbing the Ash" refers to whether there is proper relationship between father-in-law and daughter-in-law. Besides Jia Zhen and Qin Keqing, who else can you say? More importantly, Jiao fell ill at 10 shortly after he was drunk and scolded, which led to the plot of "Dr. Zhang's theory of disease source poverty".
So, the high probability is that Qin Keqing learned from Jiao Dakou that she and Jia Zhen had long been known, and she was intelligent by nature, so she had to think about every little thing for half a night, and so on, so she thought she was ill. This theory is also consistent with Zhang Taiyi's diagnosis of Qin Keqing's etiology.
From this perspective, Qin Keqing finally committed suicide, which is also the beginning.
Why is Qin Keqing's behavior inconsistent? In this way, we return to the question at the beginning: If Qin Keqing is ashamed, why did he have an affair with his father-in-law, Jia Zhen? It can be seen that he is not chaste or fierce; But later, unwilling to gossip and self-doubt, he chose to hang himself in Tianxianglou, which seemed to show chastity and heroism. Is the behavior pattern contradictory before and after this?
The author thinks that if we look at Qin Keqing's behavior with a normal mind, we can't understand it naturally, but if we use a word "love" to connect her behavior before and after, we can get enlightenment.
Qin Keqing's nature is destined to be chaste and fierce. There is a small detail in 10. Several doctors treat Qin Keqing by turns. Qin Keqing always wants to change clothes before seeing several doctors, so his clothes are changed again and again. Jia Zhen and You Shi were very upset and blamed Qin Keqing for being too serious.
Just like you go downstairs to take out the garbage, you won't wear a suit and tie, and women won't mend it, because it's unnecessary. But Qin Keqing is a very serious person. If she wants to see a doctor, she wants to see outsiders. She must pack her clothes and dress neatly, instead of lying in the hospital bed for treatment. This is the psychological internal cause of Qin Keqing's suicide.
Then, since Qin Keqing is so chaste, why did he take the initiative to have an affair with Jia Zhen?
Because of the word "love", Qin Keqing's name is homophonic as "love can be light", and his brother Qin Zhong is homophonic as "love species". It seems that the Qin family means "sneaking around" in the mouths of lame monks and monks. Once you fall in love, you can't get rid of it.
"Love" is unreasonable and uncontrollable, and it does not depend on people's objective analysis. There is no doubt that Qin Keqing fell in love with Jia Zhen. For Jia Zhen's sake, she violated her moral bottom line-her daughter-in-law had an affair with her father-in-law. After Jia Zhen uncovered this fig leaf, there was a psychological conflict between morality and emotion, and finally she was overwhelmed and chose to hang herself in Tianxianglou.