中国经典 A Dream of Red Mansions   》 CHAPTER I.      Cao Xueqin    Gao E


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甄士隐梦幻识通灵 贾雨村风尘怀闺秀
第一回 甄士隐梦幻识通灵 贾雨村风尘怀闺秀
"Dream of Red Mansions" is written in the Qing Dynasty Qianlong's a Chapters classical novels, Former "The Story" "Love Monk recorded" "Treasure," "Twelve Beauties of Jinling," the four famous Chinese classical novels , called the "Comments On The Story." According to research, scholars generally think of are: Cao Xueqin. Reviewer: Dream. Approximately 80 existing back. As the original end of the loss, many continue to have released, according to statistics, "Dream of Red Mansions," continued the book up to 50 kinds of species. Renewal of the more famous Qing dynasty and Tongxing Ben Talented illustratedby who continued on the high E, etc., or order. Through this book of poems can be seen after the 40 back to substantially promote the renewal of superstitious karma, fate of the feudal nothingness toxin, a serious distortion of the novel to expose and criticize the reality of political and social mindset of the dark. High-E continued after 40 back, most of this with the first 80 chapters constitute a complete version of "Dream of Red Mansions" 【Author Description】 In the early 20th century, "Dream of Red Mansions original author who is" the issue has caused controversy over China's academic circles, the controversy still exists. Can be broadly divided into two, said: First, the Dream of Red Mansions, written by Cao Xueqin Cao Xueqin, a great writer in the Qing Dynasty in China, were stained (zhān), the word dream Nguyen, No. Xueqin, then No. Pu Qin, Qin Kai, native of Liaoyang, Liaoning Province, born 1724, died in 1764. The bloods and was originally a Han Chinese, Manchu is a white flag after coating (slaves). Cao Xi Cao Xueqin's great-grandfather, grandfather, Cao Yin, father of Cao Yong and Cao overlooking Jiangningzhizao 60 years have served as long as, well received by Emperor Kangxi specially trusted. Cao Xueqin grew up in wealth and splendor. Yongzheng dynasty, as the feudal ruling class implicated in the internal struggle, suffered a number of anti Cao Cao was dismissed overlooking the prison and family, not copied, his family moved back to Beijing, consist in from the wane. This turn to Cao Xueqin great inconstancy of human relationships, more conscious of the essence of the feudal social system. From then on he lived poor and he can draw poetry, good writing, perseverance and sense of purpose to engage in novel "Dream of Red Mansions" of the writing and revision, Piyue a decade, additions and deletions of five, wrote this to the Chinese classic novels Writing into the peak of literary masterpiece. "Dream of Red Mansions," with its rich content, the plot twists and turns, deep thinking and understanding, and superb artistic as the great classical Chinese novel work of realism. Qianlong 20 years (1762), son premature death, sorrow and grief over Cao Xueqin caught, to this year's New Year's Eve (February 1, 1764), died without a physician for the sick (the year of death on the CAO, the other Twenty eight years have Qianlong (1763) and 29 (1764) in two versions) (Cao died in 1763, is the Dream said: those who can Xie, Fang bitter tears, Ku Cheng book . Horse New Year's Eve, the book not yet finished, celery for the tears to make dies. I try to cry celery, tears will be doing), demeaning the expense of the Friends funding. In addition, contemporary or later with the Yuan Mei Cao, Yu Rui and others, and later in other people's notes, also have Cao Xueqin is "Red," the author's records. 1921, Hu published in "Dream of Red Mansions research," notes and Cao Xueqin in the Qing Dynasty on the basis of family research to determine the Cao Xueqin as "Dream of Red Mansions," the author said from a set. The discovery of the Dream of fat later more strongly support this conclusion, but the problem is very much different from Dream of the contradiction between, A Dream is probably false. Second, the author of Dream someone else Although in recent years been a claim of "Dream of Red Mansions" by someone else, but all lack of evidence relied upon. 【Introduction】 story Jia Yucun in the highest imperial examination of any magistrate, be dismissed as greedy, to Salt's daughter Lin Lin Lin Ruhai school tutoring. Leather workers from participation in the capital complex. Asked Lin Ruhai seek Yuejia Rong Jia Yucun State Government to help: Lin Tai-yu mother died because of Jia's mother to take her is to go around. Lin Tai-yu to send it Togya Amemura Beijing. United States House and Rong Jia Yucun cases. And brother-in-Jia Zheng Lin Ruhai may help, too Renjin Ling Ying Tian. Daiyu jin young national government, in addition to his grandmother, but also met with great aunt, that is, the wife of Jia She Xing wife, two aunt, that is, Jia Zheng's wife Ms. Wang, a young niece of household management of Ms. Wang, Jia She, Jia's wife, the son of Wang Xifeng , and Chun, Tan Chun, Xichun and with Jade was born in yu. Bao Dai Er people first saw a familiar feeling, but the gem Meirutianxian cousin see her is because they hit their Magic Stone, gave rise to a slow. Ying Tian Jia Yucun sitting in the British Lotus abducted. Business for the Huang home buyers, Ms. Wang's sister, Aunt Xue Xue Pan's son. Although the fight Ying Lian Xue Pan killed the original buyer, but to decide cases Jia Yucun casually, put Xue Pan. Xue Pan and his mother, sister, also with chai wing national government to stay here. Ningguo plum blossom, the wife You Shi Jia Zhen Jia Mu, etc. Please Entertaining. Yu nap, living in the bedroom Qin Ke Jia Zhen daughter, sleepwalking fantasyland, see "Twelve Beauties of Jinling" map book, listen to play "Dream of Red Mansions" song, and the fairy Keqing cloud, wake up for nocturnal emission was found that the maid was very hot, two-place relations. Beijing officials have reduced dog king generations farming the countryside, because of ancestors Ms. Zeng Huowang, Xifeng her parents were together, they make my mother Grandma Liu Rong national government to look for Ms. Wang to play autumn. Wang Xifeng reception, to a 22 silver. Chai monk who was the first gift Jinsuo leprosy treatment, has been worn since. The Dream is said Daiyu taboo, often secretly ridiculed Bao Chai, warning gem. Jia Zhen Jia Jing father to give up the world level, Immortality School Road home. The date of his birthday, celebrated by Jia Zhen dinner at home. By Lin Ruhai sick, Jia Lian with her is to Suzhou, molested his cousin Jia Rui Feng's been all sorts of fun of Feng's death. Qin Ke died, Jia Zhen wanton luxury, not everything finest selection, also spent thousands of taels of silver for his son to donate Lung Wei ban for funeral scene. Funeral on the way, Xifeng covet 3200 silver, breaking lover, so that a pair of young men and women have swallowed their anger and suicide. Lin Ruhai death, Daiyu only resident Rong Fu. A kind of depend on others enveloped her bleak, often secretly tears, the body and more sick. Jia Zheng Yuan Chun eldest daughter was canonized Wei Fei, Emperor graciously grant such meetings. Wing national government in order to meet this ceremony, the construction of extravagant Grand View Garden, another acquisition actresses, nuns, Nvdao Shi, birth family, and the illness into the Buddhism of Miaoyu also into the Rong Fu. Lantern Festival night, Yuan Chun back to her parents stayed for a while, to gem and Zhongjie Mei Xian Shi. Daiyu wanted Exhibition Wizards, but ordered only for 1. Aroma Jiao Chen said that to leave the gem, deeply regret the gem requirements do not go very hot, very hot take the opportunity to advise yu reading "dry down to business." Bao-yu and Tai-yu Liangxiaowucai, feelingly. Because of a chai or other small things. Two often argue, constantly bickering in the deeper emotions. Baochai birthday singing, Sitting as Daiyu, Jia Mu granddaughter The Figure I quickly tell her mother, afraid of her is angry jade block, the results have angered two students gem gas. Yuan Chun Grand View Garden idle fear. Let the gem and Zhong Jiemei move there. Jin Park, the gem is more all day and these girls Sihun; Shu Tong to "The West Chamber" and other books to steal into the garden, gem, and with her is appreciated. This is a classic one back. Aunt Zhao Jia Zheng concubine by a son, brother Shu Jia Huan jealous jade jewelry and copy book fashion by missed prostrate candle burns gem, Ms. Wang cursed Aunt Zhao. Aunt Zhao has Shenhen Xifeng, then please Shi Ma Road, PO Nightmare magic, so Xifeng, gem of evil almost died. Leprosy monk, lame Taoist wipe psychic jade, save a good two. Daiyu melancholy, sad fallen flowers in late spring season, to bury them, known as the flower mound, and write "Enjoyed by." Yu maid Qingwen missed or bad fan, jade said she. She would contradict, Aroma advised, she satire, anger gem to be rid of her. To the cool night Qing Wen. Gem did she tear her fan to Bo laugh. Jade will be advised once Shi Xiangyun officials to talk about career, was jade dress down, and that darn Daiyu never say such words; happened to pass by her is to hear, deep hi intimate. Ms. Wang Jinchuan Er and Jade make fun of the maid was Mrs. Wang Tou Jing died out and was told Jia Zheng Jia Huan. Gem they make obedient princes like actor Jiang Yuhan, making Royal Highness came for. Jia Zheng furious, will yu play Pikairouzhan. Ms. Wang look very hot, asked her to report the situation at any time. And decided the future was very hot to the gem Zuoqie. Grand View Garden in idle, Tan Chun advocated the establishment of these societies. Yong Bai Haitang first Po Chai won the first prize; the second time for chrysanthemum poetry, Lin overwhelming crowd. Binary Granny Liu Rong national government, was Grandmother Jia know, they left her stay here. In the Grand View Garden Bai Yan, clean off her make fun of women; the pool of sophisticated woman also want to act this role. Granny Liu Jia Mu brings tour around Grand View Garden. Tsui Temple in the rope, Miaoyu hospitality Daiyu Bao Chai tea, yu have to benefit from them. Feng's birthday to celebrate, from Grandmother Jia, the molecules do everyone a seat. Feng's drinking too much, want to go home and rest, hit is seduced Pu Fu Jia Lian. Feng's crying. Forced Pufu hanging, Grandmother Jia Jia Lian forced to apologize to the Xifeng. Year to, the Founding Ningguo rent, give the number of amazing things, Jia Zhen also too few. As the New Year rapidly, and Xifeng miscarriage, not homemaker, will be by the Tan Chun Bao Chai, Li Wan, who coordinated members. Tan Chun as Aunt Zhao born, Aunt Zhao brother died, Tan Chun routinely more than giving money, a mother and daughter row. Tan Chun has implemented some reforms in the garden, the entire school staff management, both public and a number of property exchanges. Gave some benefit managers. Brief Analysis on Zijuan Daiyu maid is really about JiaBaoYu test, the hypothesis Daiyu to return to Suzhou, gem believe the incidence of mental disorders back and forth, thus, better known gem Daiyu psychological, everyone also thought that they will become happy marriage. Aunt Xue Daiyu also recognized as the godmother, Chai Dai Er people achieve the most harmonious relations between periods. Wing national government of contradictions. Jia Huan ringworm rub the gem Office to see the rose nitrate, like some, gem maid Fang Guan Jia Huan gave a number of jasmine powder. Aunt Zhao Department to row a gem. Fang Guan Lu gave her some roses Ganniang, raises her nephew to steal Poria Ganniang cream. A few things so much noise chaos, almost breaking the balance between the servant. While gem birthday feast, the Jia Jing swallow Dan died. You Shi state funeral busy. Please his mother and sister and Similarities, Third Sister to help. Jia Lian see beautiful sister, to be establishing another account, to steal home Fuwai. Jia Zhen old sister and not innocent, Jia Zhen want to muddy the waters, Jia Jia Zhen Lian are trying to play Third Sister. Third Sister is righteousness that will Zhen, Lian cursed, and said she had loved that beat Xue Pan in LIU Xiang-lian. Jia She, Jia send out work, Xue Pan Jia Lian Lu-yu, LIU Xiang-lian. Xue Pan case of robbery, was Liu rescue, two became brothers, Jia Lian Liu mentioned for the media, Liu promised. To the capital after the mother of Third Sister Liu first set gift exchange, chat Youshi a case of gem and suspicious, went to cable break off an engagement ceremony, Third Sister Suicide, Liu monks. Jia Lian Feng's aware of things to steal married, pretend virtuous. The second sister received into the House. Please Jia Mu and other promised. Jia Lian come back, because work is good, Jia She tours a concubine. Feng's swallowed by my hand to force the gold Similarities suicide. Coarse to maidservants carried to silly big sister in the garden embroidered with erotic art of the sachets, Ms. Wang was furious; in some egg on the next Pufu Grand Garden, Yingchun weak, let the maid is off; Tan Chun angry, the anger hits Pufu; Xichun then cut off between brother and sister in law. Mrs. Wang Qing Wen was out, have a gnawing regret death; yu do nothing, write "Lotus Dirge" sacrifice her. Xue Pan wife Xia Jingui, the greedy dowry maid Baochan beauty, Kim for the addition Xiangling, agreed. In the summer of instigation. Xue beat Xiangling, Aunt Xue allowed. Xia Jingui and grandmother noisy. Xue Pan can not be at home. Had to go out. (After the loss as the original, content-agnostic. Of the last century some scholars began to hint that under the existing 80 back to writing features, etc., began to explore the 80 back to the system after the plot, such as Yu Pingbo, Mr. Zhou Ruchang and the beam return intellect, Linguan Fu, Wang Meng, etc. .) Daquan】 【figure "Dream of Red Mansions" in what was the number of characters, Qi Jiang Qing Jiaqing statistics of 448 people. Early Years Blue on White Star made up a "Dream People spectrum," received a total of 721 people, who have their own biography, words of different lengths, this book has received, "Dream of Red Mansions" and described Twenty-three of ancient emperors, ancient 115 people, concubines 18 people, out women 20 persons, Fairy 20 persons, deities 47 people, stories, people figure 13, a total of 200 60 persons, each a little test of his life and legend. Connect the two together, and a total 980 persons. In recent years, when new statistics Xu Christine. Basic areas: reading process in the calendar year, the first to Gengchen Ben for a libretto, by returning to the names of material Zuocheng paragraph by paragraph notes, wide view of various family forms spectrum, cross-checking, the final classification of the figures. The statistics: (1) Ning Rong, two governments in this branch: male 16, female 11 people, Ning Rong, two governments, 31 were female dependents. (B) Jia The Family: Thirty-four men, eight women. (C) Jia Yin Ya: Fifty-two male, three female 40. (D) of the two government servants: maid 70 persons, Pufu 125 people, butler 67 people the servant 27 people. (5) royal figures: nine men, six women. Eunuch 27 people, seven maidens. (6) knighthoods People: Male 37 people, dependents 14 people. (7) official: the names and ranks were men and 26 crown last name of the person who is only 38 titles, three Clerks men. (8) Social People: The class hundred and two male, female 71 people. Fourteen male doctor, ten men and hangers. Actors male and six female 17 people. Monk Male 17 people, Nepalese woman 49 people. Even cases of four men, four women. (9) Aliens: Female duo. (10) Jing Huan Heaven: Female 19 people, men and six. Total: Male 495, female 480 people, total: 975 people. Including the names of 730 persons title, no title in the 240 names of three persons. When the most important is the "Legend" - Jia, Shi, Wang and Xue, a poem: "Merchants do not leave white gold for Malaysia for the Church; Metrical, 300, the house over a history of Nanking; the East China Sea the lack of white bed, the Dragon King to please Jinling Wang; harvest good snow, pearl gold, such as soil, such as iron. "feet were four of the rich. "Poetry and painting": hold Qin, Louise, paternity books and art. "Four Treasures": pearl, amber, glass, jade. Legend: Jia (Ning, Rong Ergong after), history (Book of Order after bowling designate), Wang (after all Qiu Bo rule counties), Xue (Lagerstroemia Toneri business after Wong) Jin Yuliang marriage: chai and other V The Figure and yu yu (gold unicorn) Engagement: yu and Lin Tai-yu 1, Jia Baoyu Yu is an odd hero has another popular figure. Constitute the main features of his character is rebellious. He acts "remote and perverse," the feudal society traitor. Cyril, his contempt for fame, do not want to take the "excellent learning official" career. He hated the "eight-legged essay" insulting an official who read the "traitor Lu Bookworms", called lazy to contact them. He does not like the so-called "serious book", but prefer to "miscellaneous books," love in "Peony Pavilion", "The Western Chamber." He also made a bold Neo doubts, that "In addition to the" Four Books ", the coined too much." This fully shows his feudal monarchy "inverse sub-Er Chen." He believes that "the fine mountains and sun and the moon shows, only minutes to the daughter of men, but some eyebrows Cloud foam waste it." Shocked the world in this Hai vulgar thought, the gem all day long, "including the curtain Si Hun," and the girls love and mercy, love their beauty, purity, filled with the angry, extraordinary intelligence, compassion, their misfortune, pity it will be cloudy and smelly married men lost their holy beauty. Yu Road: Women married before Pearl, married and died after loss of light into beads, and then it and the dirty old man with the flow, as Siyu Yan was. He even gave birth to a man for his body of which was irreversible regret. In the course of his life, the most important thing is, no doubt and Lin's love blossomed. This love, begins his rebellious spirit on the one hand, on the other hand led to his rebellious character of the final forming. This is the largest and most important of his life in the history of treason. Bao, Dai requires not only marriage, autonomy, and in love in a departure from the way of life in feudal society. They are farther and farther down the road of rebellion, and finally led to the tragedy two. Second, Lin Lin is a talented and character of the arrogant woman, "Alas stop Germany, Yong Xu misery only. Jade forest hanging, Jinzan snow buried in the" in "Ode to Xu was pitiful. Jade forest hanging", it is Her portrayal. Small loss of her parents, housed in Wing Nationalist government, while Jia Mu has added to her love, but because of lofty self-esteem personality, she often students "depend on others," the wound. She sentimental, often pay no attention to the little things for others rather sad tears. As depicted in the novel "Daiyu" scene, to highlight this point. Huakaihuaxie originally natural scene, but she thought this and vicissitudes of life, everything is uncertain. Flower and her sigh, her gem cited as the confidant, with the see "The West Chamber", and hopes for life in the gem body. She loves the gem, but found it difficult to 如愿. So, she was trying to fight for his place but many failed and the Advantages and Disadvantages, An Qi was no between. Her inner world seems elusive, but often their exposure on the outside. If Stone "offend" her, she would get angry, tearful, even for him ill. The surface, so, in fact, still thinking of his heart, an excuse to see him. Gem of a disease, for which she was sad for it and weep. However, the feudal ethical code of moral constraint, she can not tell the truth, not their own, the final day in the Po Chai Chu Ge depressed died, did not the have their own wish. Third, Wang Xifeng Rong Fu, the there is a distinctive character, she is Wang Xifeng. Wang Xifeng's insidious indeed known as the Rong Fu, "Explorer", as if she was ever before, duplicity. She killed with deadly trap Jia Rui, another conspiracy Forcing Third Sister. She does not harsh in the end harm the family. Her personality is bold and vigorous, and the text is highlighted everywhere forget that day as her birthday, and Na Yinfu hard to help the old lady, enough to appear. But after all she is capable smart, Rong Fu had to her upper and lower size of the transaction the final say, and at meet Grandmother Jia, won the old lady's favor. It was so jealous. 4, Tan Chun Jia Tan, Jia Zheng's daughter - she did not fine her is pity, and no clever clever Baochai not Xiangyun lively, cheerful, and there Zhuo super talent, extraordinary wisdom, deep secluded views, great vision, those back in the 56th, "In addition to residential and disadvantages Hennessy Tan Chun Min, Yin Bao Chai Hsiao all general" in the wonderfully shown. Wang Xifeng bedridden due to illness, then by the Tan Chun Bao Chai, Li Zhi, who presided over the household during this period, Tan Chun see the size of the family accounts and found that the monthly payment of money to each room and issued to the overlap of the comprador and tried way out of the endowment, and Po Chai and others discuss. "years to rely on you to go where the girls chat with them, I discovered that they eat bamboo fish dishes, also packages a year, and year-end enough for two 100 taels of silver, from that day I learned that a broken leaf, a broken child is valuable grass-roots. "payment of money on things overlap and disadvantages in the Jia has long can a girl garden girl child not a man pointed out that a January 23 years, but never rely on us Tanchun be inspired, and contrast their own situation, and finally made good way, is it enough to see her competence and lean, and with the words now, is to analyze an integrated solution quality problems. Who blame Baochai said, "Barbara Gaoliang talk! You though is the daughter of the former do not know these things," then Baochai another joke like that, "You just do a couple of days and it was consumed by greed, to read all virtual Zhu. You go out, met with the pros and cons so big, even the more virtual the Confucius also see it. "Tan Chun Wen's remark, but in all seriousness replied," You such a learned person, Jing Mei Ji son saw the book, the day Jizi goes: "A Field of Paul Denley , shipments of the industry such as those poor words of Yao and Shun, Confucius and Mencius ... back ... "so some brilliant words, How can it be an ordinary daughter has said, non-political vision to carry on! 56th Chapters of Tan Chun, able to handle things a firm shows her super abilities Zhuo, and the Po Chai in the play made it raises her political views, really Jiaoren memorable, lovely! 5 Mansions Twelve Beauties of Jinling, one of Aunt Xue's daughter. She looks beautiful, musculoskeletal shiny, behavior creating tranquility amongst, on the surface seems to be the orthodox ladies of the model, but in fact she was quite cynical bones personality factor, she was critical of society have a strong spirit. For example, the "Dream of Red Mansions" at 38 back, she would be "crab Wing", and then those who ride roughshod over the official figures such as Jia Yucun and his ilk, for the sharp satire. And her own favorite lyrics, is actually a Indignation richest man in the rebel colors of the "gate • parasitic grass!" Due to the high of the misleading way, the red circle in understanding the character chai thinking long-term deviation from the actual situation. For example, the traditional view that the Servant "deep Ayutthaya, can win over the people, by Jia praise from top to bottom." But the fact is that in Cao Xueqin's pen, Po Chai precisely because his personality and offending parents! Such as the novel 22 back, Po Chai once a "more Hong mystery", attracted Jia Zheng greatly disappointing to think that the "little person for this expression, I find ominous thing that the longevity of the generation forever." 40 back, bring in Grandmother Jia Liu grandmother visited Grand Park, Bao Chai Heng-wu Court that "the main chamber" generally modest interior decoration, but also caused Jia Mu is much dissatisfaction, that is a very sweeping in front of relatives and her face. Grandmother Jia Bao-chai on one Zeyue "useless," the second Zeyue "not like", three Zeyue "taboo", 4 Zeyue "not very much children from the grid," Five Zeyue "our old woman, the more the dongmajuan went live. " - All uniformly negative evaluation. Later, "Wing State House Lantern Open Banquet," moments, his own beloved life of Jia Bao Qin, Xiangyun, Daiyu, gem four, and his master with sitting table, except how to Baochai squeezed to the main table of outside, with Wen-Li Qi generation sit together. There is no doubt these are from the front of Jia Bao Chai in the "favored" to "favor" an important symbol. If Baochai really "deep Ayutthaya, can win over people's hearts," Why would she fall into such a result? Can be seen in Cao Xueqin's original, the Po Chai is precisely what most bothered playing "shrewdness" in order to please the parents of the people! Precisely, Zhi for Chai, Dai wrote Poem of the reviews is the issue: "Bao Qing give birth in contempt of this, Dai Qing was actually less than one." Real sympathy for the weak, but then those in power, "disdain" This is the act of Baochai tone! Another view is also wrong unbearable. Namely that Baochai "keen on career economy", only "talk talk talk talk about career economy." On the contrary, just the gem Po Chai as officialdom was the most hate, hate to, represented by Jia Yucun this official figure! School official Baochai advised gem, but gem is to be able to master the power to destroy those "Lu Bookworms" only. As her "crab Wing" in call "wine is not the enemy fishy also use flowers, the cold set of anti-plot to be ginger." As Baochai on Gem plain speaking, her words also caused a gem once the misunderstanding that it is the so-called "bastard talk." But the mistake, after all misunderstanding, then read Bao Chai Baoyu's "crab Wing" and also could not help but be cynical to the idea of Baochai applauded and shouted "write happy!" Interestingly, by Jade as a "bastard words never said," and "friend" of the forest sister, then it really took time and again, "bastard words" to advise gem, warned him: "You may have changed from the strike, "" I advise you to change the temper strike. " Moreover, in dealing with the problem Jia Yucun, the gem, the attitude of her is almost contracting if the differences are! Bao, Dai similar between the near and the fact that much of the situation, something to do with gem, Bao Chai fact that seems distant and close to the situation, forming a reverse "contrast." For this book, Cao's confidant before his death - if the concept of Ming Dao Shi-dong fire. He (she) has long been noted that, in these life and values of choice, "Chai, Yu-shaped landscape than two nearly everyone, ... ... two away, really close to matter to too. To knit the brows children in gem like near the Zhiyi, far matter to have "," Yu Yuan Chai and nearly, nearly COSCO frown and jade, are critical two shares, not careless read! " Therefore, the gem and Daiyu seem to have common ideals and sense of fun, actually two ideas are diametrically opposed positions; gem and Po Chai seemingly no common vision and sense of fun, actually two choices are achieving the same! - Are based on the extreme indignation of society at that time! After the 40 back on high this is clearly distorted the original concept of Cao Xueqin, denied the original guide in Baochai Stone "enlightenment" of the major themes. Led later commentators on the outcome of Baochai says, are a series of misjudgments. This obviously is a great distortion of the original CAO, and blasphemy! 】 【Qing Bang Zhi comment is related to intelligence chart are: 1, Dragon double batch folder: Miao Qing appear. To this breakdown of 12 hairpin, together with the Jia Yan Xue Liner Guan four, six, seven Qin Ke Tian, Xi Feng, eight, nine Li Wan, now and again is only a ten Miaoyu carry on. The Figure and Xifeng after the daughter of Qiaojie were twelve children, Xueqin title called "The Twelve Beauties of Jinling" is the number of "Dream" 12 was intended. After Bao Qin, Xiu Yan, Wen-Li Qi are Peiqia also, "Dream of Red Mansions" in the so-called second hairpin is also deputy. Also there are broken words, deputy register 3 Qing Wen, very hot, Xiangling three, I did not much and, to the Jinchuan, Yu Chuan, mandarin ducks, Miao Yun (Note: the book is not met with the person thinks it is the clouds? ), flat children, who no doubt carry on. Goes without saying that the viewer can see, it need not cost more than ink. 2, Dragon Meipi: Miaoyu the world outside can not, so writing with a pen, wonderful very proper! Abnormal Wat. 3, Dragon Meipi: Department cited 12 hairpin is not always true, may all be too diffuse. To the back end of Jing Huan Qing Bang realized that the Deputy, then deputy and 34 aromatic taboo. Horse spring season. Abnormal Wat. (Note: The first comment is approved should the Dream, the latter two as abnormal Wat old man.) 】 【Artistic achievement "Dream of Red Mansions" is the history of Chinese fiction is not beyond the peak. "Encyclopedia of China," commented, Dream estimated value of how not too. "Encyclopedia" commented, "Dream of Red Mansions" is equal to the value of a whole of Europe. 1, Mao Zedong, "Dream of Red Mansions" Evaluation and opinion: 2, China has three were novel, "Three Kingdoms", "Water Margin" and "Dream of Red Mansions," who do not read these three novels, not Chinese! 3, do not read five times, "Dream of Red Mansions", no need for comment. 4, Grand Garden yu's lifeblood is tied around the collar of a stone, the KMT's lifeblood is its army, how good you say "protection", or despite "protection" and not "really" mean? Second, Lu Xun, "Dream of Red Mansions" Evaluation and opinion: 1, "Dream of Red Mansions" is many people know, at least, is aware of the names of the book. Who is the author and continued by Let us not dwell on, just the life meaning, on account of the reader's eye and there are various: the scribes saw the "easy" moralists see prostitution, Wets see lingering, revolutionaries saw booked, gossip home to see Gong Wei Confidential ... ... in my immediate gem, but saw he saw many of the deaths; justify more great anguish when a loved one, because the world, unfortunately, many people. However, monks and others, taking a look at life, too little joy little anxious about obstruction. But monks who have nothing but love vs escape road, and Po Wang has finally become a monk, the same stingy. 2, "written the book, although not outside the sorrows and joys of love, and everything of the tracks, but the accident figures, then get rid of old sets, and very different from the earlier of the human novel. ... ... Lid are described in the True, learned by experience the smell , because of realism, turn into a new. ... ... "(" History of Chinese Fiction ") 3, Qi order of the sequence: I have heard two songs Jiangshouju tree, I heard in the throat, I heard in the nose; Huang 2 slips, left wrist to Kai, right wrist to grass. God has also almost Technology, Wu Wei opinion also. This is almost two songs without distinction, nose and throat, two slips almost no area left, I heard the two songs are also single-handedly have the two slips, this must not have things, can not get the odd, but actually was the "Stone "a book. Hee! Different carry on. Fu Hua Yan deposited algae and shows off the previous words and no one set pattern, the inherent purpose Dramas, regardless of non-theory; the first concept in mind and express their Implication on the hands, while he wrote this note, watched and waved, like Tactful which is, like you and prostitution, such as the Spring and Autumn Annals are critical of, as many historians writing technique. 11 Reading and Interpretation of the test: writing boudoir is also extremely Yong Su, and Yan Ye have nothing but a piece carry on; shaped valve also read the whole great abundance, while the decline has surplus eyelashes carry on; written gem of obscene and crazy too, and passionate Shan Wu, Lixia not reduced Langya; write Daiyu of jealousy and pointed also, and deep affection for deep pity, as good as Sang-e stone female. He painted such as copy jade hairpin Kanaya, Characterization of Ru Xiang ozero, extravagant extravagant Yan few to give a heart rendering Shenyi men, and the desire of its single word of indecent obscene, can not have too. Cover soon as sound only, hands only one hand, and Yinyizhenjing, sorrow joy, as good as two-pronged tube also. Eh! Different carry on. The Scots book of anecdotes of the blindness in the left and moved almost rot? However I have two opinions on that, as readers with a bent. Analogy of painting, stone has three sides, good office, but a peak; Road to see the two Xi, quiet office not more than one tree. Must be intended to read a book, is to be on purpose micro. Such as catching Moon Water, just pour Kiyoteru; rain smallpox, but the smell aroma, Shu was outside the strings sound almost the book? Is, or to not see the whole as the hate, I do not know is the success or failure of the loop, nothing but magic bubble million Yuan, of eye well-intentioned, is no longer necessary for transfer language, but millions of understanding, then with numerous Ci Hangyi. Mulberry leaf carved Yan He complacent view of those who with a few open-book and Wu Xi! Homophonic】 【character name Many people in the name of the book and its harmonics has a special meaning, or irony, or sigh, one for the art of Lou. Zhi's approval indicate some hidden meaning. Chen Shi Yin - true, hidden Zhenying Lian - really should pity Fok Kai - from disaster Jia Yucun - fake language survival Jiao Xing - lucky Feng Yuan - every injustice Qin Ke - Love can be light, amiable situation (two kinds of statement) Qin Zhong - Love species Jane Light - dipping Bu solid repair - regardless of shame Bo Shiren - not people Wu Tang - No Star arbitrage Stone fool - real fool Yuan Chun, Chun, Tan Chun, Xichun - should have a sigh JIA Hua - lie One recruit Jen - good at deceiving Pendant - crime children Indigo children - children mat Wearing the right - power Zhang Youshi - Zhang emergency Qin Industry - Qing Nie Xiao Xiangguan - scent Museum Lei Hong Yuan - Leaving resentment Heng-wu Hospital - missed the hate Yan Qing Lane - Lane human Ten Mile Street - forces Street Yihong - Heritage Red resentment Green Peduncle peak - peak conditions root Jia Zheng, Jia Jing - cannot Jiang Yuhan - the jade with Flower Aroma - who spent Xi Jia Wang Xue History - Family History Wangxue Jia - leave the government 【Theme】 As this monumental work by several stories of large spindle made of many small interspersed, so on the "Dream" theme, has never been a unified statement, but the most important of which are yu and Lin Tai-yu and Servant of between Love and Marriage, some people think that this masterpiece is a nobility in the description of traditional Chinese life, corruption and decadence. There are many book on Buddhism, Taoism, Confucian thought, the myth of color-rich, and the book reflects the prevailing political propriety, social life, economic and cultural development, and even clothes to wear, food diets, building pavilions, journey line sedan and so level. Sequels】 【Main "Dream of Red Mansions" written more for the continued renewal of the for mink, we can study it as a phenomenon. Sequels are mainly: 1, "Red Dream" Synonyms: drawing Jinling; 12 hairpin after the transfer Back: 30, from 120 back to continue from Analysis: Pro Heshan Editions: Jiaqing 19 edition written in red Qiang Court; Dalian City Library Collection 2, "Red Shadow" Back: 24, from 120 back to continue from Analysis: Gu Chun Editions: Guangxu type printed poly Jane Hall, Liaoning Province, library 3, "Red dream" Synonyms: dream Romance Back: 24, from 97 back to continue from Study: Flowers on idiot Editions: Sparse, fast Editions Daoguang 20 years, Liaoning Province, library 4, "Yee House re-dream" Synonyms: Red continued dream; mirage love dream; new Dream of Red Mansions Back number: 48, from 120 back to continue from Analysis: Wang Lan isle Editions: Editions for the first four years of the Park Man disabilities Jiaqing Syria this, not seen the original book, the only remaining titles. Earlier Editions existing Jiaqing years for the Swedish Church of the condensate. Peking University library. 5, "added Dream of Red Mansions" Synonyms: fill Stone Back number: 48, from 120 back to continue from Of: Lang Wan Shan Qiao Editions: Editions Jiaqing twenty-five years, Beijing Normal University Library 6, "Dream up" Synonyms: Red companion Back number: 48, from 97 back to continue from Study: children go hoe Editions: Goto Jiaqing spent twenty-four years of precious Editions, Hong Kong, Fung Ping Shan University library 7, "added Dream of Red Mansions" Synonyms: Qin continued Dream Back: 30, from 97 back to continue from Author: Qin Zichen Editions: Jiaqing hold four urns Landmark Editions, Liaoning Province, library 8, "Red True Dream" Synonyms: Stone fill Back number: 64, from 120 back to continue from Study: while Yun Guo Editions: Republic of India and type of the twenty-nine families, Liaoning Province, library 9, "Dream of the Red House compound" Back: 100, from 120 back to continue from Author: Chen Shaohai Editions: Jiaqing four Editions, possession of the Royal Asiatic Society 10, "added New Dream of Red Mansions" Synonyms: continued Dream; by Dream; added to Dream; Red re-dream; sea continued Dream Back: 40, from 120 back to continue from Study: Sea nursery owner Editions: Jiaqing years Wenxiu MING, Tianjin Normal University Library 11, "continued Hundred" Synonyms: continued Dream Back: 20, from 120 back to continue from Of: Zhang Yao Sun Editions: This book is not the final volume of the script nine, Zhou Shaoliang possession 】 【Xiehouyu 1, the Grand Garden cry Jia Mu - each have their own grief 2, yu maid - hi (attacks) were 3, Wang Xifeng killed Similarities - harden hand poison 4 Granny Liu out of Grand View Garden - a rewarding experience 5, Liu strange, feminine Park - dazzling 6, Lin Daiyu - sighed Ming Bao 7, yu live in a small Westinghouse - where to say where 8, is the white flag of Cao Xueqin - real individual Back to the original pre-80: 9, arm sleeves folded to Tibet - from the cover hardship (7 back Jiao Da) 10, show from the sidelines - get all of its profits (section 16 back to Wang Xifeng) 11, by the sword to kill - without a trace (16 back to Wang Xifeng) 12, cited in the wind the fire - not much effort (16 back to Wang Xifeng) 13, Station dry shore - do not stick things (wet) (16 back to Wang Xifeng) 14, pushed oil bottles are not helping - home of the lazy (16 back to Wang Xifeng) 15, dog bites Dongbin - Bushihaodai (No. 25 back to Choi Ha) 16 miles take a long shelf - not a ghost of the feast (No. 26 back to ruby) 17, Zhangba Menorah - photo see other people, according to not see their own (19 back Limo Mo) 18, Ying Huang grasped the kite's foot - the buckle of the ring (No. 30 back to Wang Xifeng) 19, gold hairpin in the well - have you only have your (first 30 back Jinchuan) Of 20, camel traders Nine - everywhere touting (46 back to mandarin) 21, Huizong eagle, Zhao Ziang horse - all good things (painting) children (46 back to mandarin) 22, Imperial Irrigation pox children's syrup children - it is full of pleasant event (46 back to mandarin) 23, Cork wood pan hammers - outside, inside decent bitter (back to Jia Zhen 53) 24, deaf placed firecrackers - scattered (54 back to Wang Xifeng) 25, Meixiang sworn brothers - all I (No. 60 back to Fang Guan) 26 mice and Laogua go for grain storage - with no guarding, fly are (Chapter 61 of Liu's) 27, water under the Zamian - you eat what I see (No. 65 back to Third Sister) 28, see the Son of man carrying a video game play - good and evil do not puncture the skin's paper (No. 65 back to Third Sister) 29, rat tail single sitting - how much pus and blood children (Article 68 back to Wang Xifeng) 30, top left true spirit of trabecular bone - scared to death (Article 68 back to Wang Xifeng) 31, saw the mouth sub-gourd - not articulate (No. 68 back to Wang Xifeng) 32, green onion mixed with tofu - clear the innocent white (No. 74 back to Ms. Wang) 33, could be his head made into a hat - can not be a bit redundant (No. 75 back to mandarin) Continuation of the last forty chapters: 34, ran out of the camel herd in coming - just you on the big (88 back to Grandmother Jia) 35, with her bare bones, meat - are equivocal (section 88 of the return of Wang Xifeng) 36, scorched the tail a little child - and non-repeatable (No. 117 back to everyone) 【Information】 Television First the "Dream of Red Mansions" is the story of Mei Lanfang the big screen. Autumn 1924, China Film Company will perform the five Peking opera Mei Lanfang fragment, shooting film into a two-long drama short, among them "Daiyu." 1927 film "Dream of Red Mansions": Lin - Lu Jianfang yu - Lu Jianfen. This is truly the first "Dream" film and television works, its structure is very clever to Granny Liu is the main line of the play structure, rather point the "postmodern" means. Shanghai Fudan Pictures. 1929, Xia Peizhen, Yin Pearl, Yan Yuexian edition film "Dream of Red Mansions." Shanghai Peacock Pictures 1936 audio feature film, Li Xuefang, Feng Xia soul version of "Daiyu." Shanghai Dahua Pictures 1939, Gulan Jun, Mei Hay, White Rainbow Edition "row Ning Wang Xifeng State government." Shanghai Xinhua Pictures 1942, "Dream of Red Mansions." False "in the UN" Pictures 1944 film "Dream of Red Mansions": Lin - Zhou Xuan yu - Yuan Meiyun chai - the ocean mountain at this time is in a golden age of Chinese cinema, actors are extremely popular at that time a big star. Shanghai Kunlun company 1951 words Huizhu, Lin Mo I, Lu Shan version of "Red House 2 in particular." Shanghai Cathay Pacific Pictures In 1952, Li Lihua, Yan Jun, Juan-juan edition "new Dream of Red Mansions." Director: Yue Feng, Hong Kong Great Wall Pictures 1962, Tongzhi Ling, Wang Xichun Edition "Third Sister" (Peking Opera). Shanghai Film Studio 1962 Hong Kong film "Dream of Red Mansions": Lin - Music Tidjane gem - Ren Jie. 1962, Shaoxing opera film "Dream of Red Mansions": Lin - Jane Wang yu - Xu Yulan. Unfortunately, due to political reasons, this film out on a film banned, and until the 80's when the ban. 1975 Hong Kong Wireless Edition TV "Dream": Lin - Liza yu - Wu Weiguo. It is worth mentioning that the film has a utility man in the yard became superstars, he is playing Jiang Yuhan's Chow Yun-Fat. Good as the version of the 1977 Hong Kong TV "Dream": Lin - Teresa Mo yu - WU Wei-guo chai - Michelle. 1977 Hong Kong film "Dream of Red Mansions": Lin - Sylvia Chang yu - Lin Ching-chai - Michelle. Shaw Brothers studios in Hong Kong 1977 Hong Kong film "dream of red chamber": Lin - Cecilia yu - Leslie Cheung. This is Leslie's first film, is also a three piece. Siyuan film companies in Hong Kong In 1978, Dreams of eroticism, thinking, "Dream of Red Mansions." Director: Mudun Pei, Hong Kong's Shaw Brothers film company (nature of the above) 1978 Hong Kong film "Dream of Red Mansions": Lin - Zhou Zhiming yu - Ling Po. 1989 North Shadow Edition film "Dream": yu - yu Tao Huimin - Xiaqin chai - Fu Yiwei Wang Xifeng - Liu Xiaoqing. This is our familiar version, which used to be a number of Golden Rooster Award, and now occasionally found it in the radiator movie channels. In 1996, the bell of the decorative gem Wei, Chang Yu-yen decorated Daiyu, 73 episode of "Dream of Red Mansions." Director unknown, Taiwan and China, as the film company 2002, 30 sets Shaoxing TV series "Dream of Red Mansions." Zhejiang Sheng Wenlian Zhejiang Great Wall Pictures Taken in 2007 to plan new TV series "Dream of Red Mansions", and in Beijing and Taiwan, the "Red Man" large-scale draft, yu, yu, Servant of three roles played by those who will eventually be elected, the public have a many disputes, widely considered unlikely to exceed old rookie. New Dream shot, the main cast is as follows: * Yu (adult): Yang Yang - People's Liberation Army Institute of the Arts dance majors. * Chai (adult): Bai Bing - Bai Bing Bao Chai group from the third draft, became the candidates are printed Baochai. * Jia Yuanchun: Lin He - He Lin Zeng Yin Yang Yang starred in the director's "Holding Hands" won the China TV Golden Eagle Award. * Jia Yingchun: Zhang Di - in the film "Falling Leaves" with Uncle Zhao on the show, starred in shrewish sister salon. * Jia Tan: Ding Li - Representatives: "True Life." * Jia Xichun: Xu row - no data. * The Figure: Maxiao Can - No data. * Miaoyu: Gao Yang - represents the work: "Valentines Day gift," "pure Love," "brothers." * Li Wan: Chi Wah King - Representatives: "Liu Hulan", "16 year-old young", "cricket prime minister", "Red Alert." * Qiaojie: Liman Jia - No information. * Qin Ke: A Philippine Tang - representative: "Chasing Love Story", "darkness bride"; mv: "wolf dressed in sheep's clothing." * Yu (Junior): in Xiaotong - from the Beijing Dance Academy, he was in the Movie "Mei Lanfang" Mei Lanfang, who played small. * Lin (Junior): Jiangmeng Jie - Jiang Mengjie professional ballet from the Beijing Dance Academy. * Chai (Junior): Li Qin - Li Qin is the Shanghai Opera School students, is a rare 20-year Kunqu Inner door once seedling. * Jia Mu: Zhou Caiqin - Zhoucai Qin Zhou Xinfang Peking opera master's daughter, has been seven years old and graduated from the Royal Academy of Drama. * Ms. Wang: Gua Ah-lei - Ms. Wang was second only to the play the role of middle-aged Jia Mu. Li Shao said: Gua Ah-lei is the chosen one. * Mrs. Xing: Wang Fuli - Mrs. Xing called "embarrassing", she really is kind of embarrassing to others to make their own people. Liu, Granny: Ye beautiful jade - Granny Liu did not read the book but the extraordinary courage. Mix farmers can enter the Jia Liu grandmother can probably only when this task. * Aunt Xue: Gong Lijun - chai sent to Beijing to be elected, throughout the book, is a foil for the more important figure. * You Shi: Janie - You Shi, Jia Zhen's wife. Although the state government headed Ning grandmother, but no real power, he had no talent. * Jia Lian: Wang Longhua - Wang Longhua Central Theatre Academy, has appeared in more than drama. * Qin Zhong: Shi Jinyu - No data. * LIU Xiang-lian: Xu Yao -1984 was born, height 180 cm, Shanghai Theatre Academy. * Xue Pan: Wang Peng - Representative: "Find Romance on Lushan Mountain." Production Team General Producer: Han Sanping - chairman and general manager of China Film Group. Executive producer: The spring festival - producer, founder of Wing Cinda film. General Director: Li Shao - the fifth generation of Chinese film directors on behalf of women. Photography: Ping has been studying - the 26th Golden Rooster Award for Best Cinematography Award winner. Art Direction: Tim Yip - Best Costume Design Oscar winner. The verdict】 【Dream 正册 verdict 1, Lin and Xue Bao-chai Painting: 2 dead wood, wood on the hanging of a Circuit jade; another pile of snow, snow an Jinzan. Verdict: Alas stop Germany, Yong Xu misery only. Jade forest hanging, Jinzan buried in snow. 2, Jia Yuanchun Painting: a bow, bow hanging from the citron. Verdict: two decades distinguish right from wrong, Liuhua prescribed according to Gong Wei. 3 spring competition and early spring landscape, Tiger Meet SI dream go. 3, Jia Tan Painting: Two fly a kite, a sea, a ship, boat, there is a woman, face veiled Qiti the like. Verdict: it from the Qing Ming Chi haughty, born end of the world transport partial cancellation. Wang Ching Ming Chui send river, a thousand miles east of a dream away. 4, The Figure Painting: wisp Fei, a Bay PASSING. Judgments: how rich is? Between the parents against the infant; show oblique eye hanging Hui Xiang River water died Chu Yunfei. 5, Miaoyu Painting: a jade, fell into Nigou. Verdict: For cleaning ever clean, empty cloud may not be empty. Kim Ok poor quality, the final settlement mud mud. 6, Jia Yingchun Painting: a wolf chasing a beautiful flapping - For the meaning of taste. Verdict: Son Department of Liaocheng, Dezhi be rampant. Jin Gui venereal quality, set to go to a yellow beam. 7, Jia Xichun Painting: a temple, which has a beauty, including the look by sitting alone. Judgments: the great passage 3 Harukage not long Ziyi Dayton makeup changed in those years. Poor households Hou door embroidered women, single bedroom lamp in Buddha next. 8, Wang Xifeng Painting: a tip of the mountain there is a female phoenix. Ruling: side from the end of the world where birds come, they know love this life only. A three wood from the second order, to cry even more grief to the Nanking incident. 9, Jia Qiaojie Painting: 1 Deserted Amazing stories, there is a beauty in there spinning. Verdict: Potential lost off the Yunnan-Guizhou, home of pro-death MO. Even for economic Liu, Qiao was met benefactor. 10, Li Wan Painting: Maolan pot, next to a phoenix coronet Xiapei beauty. Verdict: Tao Li finished spring knot rewards with who like a pot of orchids? Empty ice water jealous as well, really regrettable to joke with others. 11, Qin Ke Picture: high-rise buildings, there is a beauty cantilever hanging. Verdict: Love day Qinghai magic feeling body, the situation will not only meet, the main prostitution; Man Yan Rong unscrupulous are out, making Wuhan as it is rather the beginning. Vice-book ruling 12, Xiangling Painting: 1 Osmanthus, following a pond, where water, dried mud dry, dry lotus lotus failure. Judgments: a lotus root and stem Hong, portraying his life is indeed a wound. Since the two students Gu Mu, causing Lake of Scented Soul return home. Also, Deputy Book verdict 13, Qingwen Painting: Another non-person, nor landscape, but ink-dyed Full of dark cloud Weng fog only. Verdict: Come on Ji, Choi fugitive. Heart sky high, as pariahs. Merry smart complained of. Shouyao more students for defamation, passionate son of empty Qian Nian. 14, Hua Xiren Picture: a bunch of flowers, a broken seat. Verdict: Wang Zi soft rolls, empty cloud like Guiru Lan. Worthy of envy Actors blessed, behold son missed. 【Music】 Dream 14 1, "Dream of Red Mansions primer" Open Hong Meng, Who Love species? Only for the Romantic Everlasting. Taking advantage of this is regrettable that day, sad day, solitude, the trial removal Yu Zhong. Therefore, the performance that Huai Yu Jin Mourning the "Dream of Red Mansions." 2, "wrong life" All Road is Jinyu Liang marriage, I just read Engagement. Space in front, Crystal Hermit snow; finally forgotten, lonely world outside Xian Shu Lin. Sigh human, fly in the ointment this side letter. Even if the case is Qimei held, in the end means it hard. 3, "Drawn Brows" One is Langzhong Court cents Pa, one is flawless jade. If that did not Romance, this life he was sympathetic Crackdown; if that there Romance, how empty his mind of the end? 1 Wang Zi sigh Yeah, an empty labor care. One is in the water, one is Jing Zhonghua. Tears to the eyes, the number of children, how to flow through autumn and winter was spring and summer flow! 4, "Hate Uncertainty" Hi splendor just hate it to impermanence. Stand and to throw everything wide. Rendering of time, the consumption of the concluding episode. Hope home, road mountains high. Therefore, compared to the father and mother to find a dream warning: child life has been into the deaths, Tianlun Oh, have to withdraw early setbacks! 5, "sub-flesh" Yifan storm Road 3000, Let's throw home to flesh flash. Fear loss of their old age tears, told father and mother, the children break suspense. Since ancient times, Qiong Tong has a certain predetermination, clutch Qi miss? From now on, in two places, their security and peace. Slave to have, MO implicated. 6, "Music of Sadness" Infancy, parental sigh sometimes both. Longitudinal home that Qi Luo Cong, behold pampered? Fortunately born, IH generous in scope in the amount of children, never mind an affair a little rayon. Good Yi Si, Ji-Yao Yu-tang wind moonlight. Account, easier in the allocation of beauty and talent cents Lang, won a Forever and Ever, quasi-fold as rough shape when young. Will end in the clouds scattered Gaotang, water, dry the Xiang River. It is this world in the number fluctuation should be, why is really regrettable that sad! 7, "the world tolerate this," Temperament Mei Lan, Fu talent than cents. Tian Gu Pi everyone rare. You Drive is the topic to popular taste of meat, as Qi Luo customs tired, but I do not know too much more jealous person, over the world with clean too. Alas this, the old lamp in the ancient temple will; unworthy, pink Zhu Louchun color Lanna. In the end, is still against the wish of eolian dirty. Good Yisi, flawless white jade was mud depression; then why Wang Sun Gongzi sigh missed. 8, "hi enemies" Liaocheng, merciless beast, it does not read the root causes of the day. Monotonous Jiaoshe sensuality huan marry. Longingly that, the quality with the Pu-liu Yan Hou door; spoil, and public government daughter seems obscene. Sigh 芳魂 Yan soul, a swing a lengthy set. 9, "Flowers of Understanding" The three will see through the spring, pink Liulv be how? Fighting off this Shaohua, seek that light days. What to say, the sky yao Tao Sheng, Xing Rui cloud over; the end, who endure the fall? The Look, Poplar villagers whine, Seifu forest ghost warble. Even take forward, groaning Cuicao cover the grave. It is this rich, poor and hard work yesterday, Chun-Rong Qiu Shabana torture. Like so, students who could hide stolen off dead? Wen said, the West Fangbao Shu call dancing, the knot with Changsheng Guo. 10, "smart tired" Tricks too much, forget his tail. Heart has been broken before his death, after death of ethereal. Rather rich family, who scattered the dead end of a home, Pentium. No purpose, meaning Xuan Xuan Half a Heart; good Yisi, finishes a lengthy three-shift dream. La La like building suddenly dumping, faint Cancan like light will do. Yeah! A joy suddenly Sadness. Sigh into the world, and eventually set! 11, "left Yuqing" Stay Yuqing, stay Yuqing, Hu Yu benefactor; Fortunately Niangqin Fortunately Niangqin, plot was really unfair. Advised life, the poor and needy of helping the poor. Love of money off it like I forgot to flesh and blood of the ruthless uncle evil brother! Is the multiplication and division addition and subtraction, there is the sky. 12, "Late Shaohua" Kindness of the glass, and more nakan dream fame! Then go to the U.S. Shaohua He Xun! Hugh again mention Xiuzhangyuanqin. Only the crown with beads, Phi phoenix jacket, it arrived not impermanent life. Although, the life Mo by old and poor, children and grandchildren also have Yin Zhi product. In high spirits wearing Zanying; Guangcan Can chest hanging golden seal; Weihe He Peerage and Gordon; faint Cancan Death's Road near. Asked since ancient times to phase can also exist? Only in name children and future generations respect and admiration. 13, "good end" Liang Chun-Xiang Chen to do off the draw. Good at style, Ping-month outlook, that is, the fundamental lag behind the others. Carried on decadent fall are from the King, the crime family rather die first. Su Nie General Affections. 14, "ending the cast forest birds" Official, the family business withered; rich, and gold and silver cleared; have grace, and survived; relentless, clearly retribution; less life, and life has also; less tears, tears have done. Retribution is hardly light, separating polymer are pre-set. For the short life asked past lives, old rich are really lucky. See through, and fled to the Buddhism; obsessed, Wang Song of life. Fresh investment to make a bird good Yisi forest, down a piece vast expanse of land really clean! Dream of Red Mansions was much 【】 "Dream of Red Mansions" Results from the dream in a dream, a dream the surface of the actual writing is not a dream, then write it in the end how many dreams? According to statistics, the book is written big and small dreams of 32, first 80 of the 20 dreams, 12, after 40 write-back dream. In addition to the "Dream of Red Mansions" and "laugh" and "cry" also has statistics, the description laughing 173 times, of which Wang Xifeng banter 21. Description cry 260 times, 40 of which Lin cry. Dream of Dreams (first 80) 【Song "Stone"】 Music: Liu Yida Words: Mike / Chan Siu Kei / Zuni Icosahedron Sing: Tat Ming Pair Look all over the cold wind and snow and gradually clearing thick Soaked shoes you wear Road Look over the far Aoyama blowing Feixuruoliu Wasting disease has been drunk alone Heard all over the world that transitory man ethereal melodies to send Solo chaos clothing coming from the people As one might discard the thoughts as true virtual Re drifting deep nosocomial dreams Wholeheartedly to students with drinking and alcohol related knot How can we know that laughter Yancangleiyin The slightest bit of calculation Chosen to be significantly different from Beating around the bush Bonds of this world turned into paragraphs Chaos of a wedding Spring Night Unforgettable change linked True or otherwise Noted the joys and sorrows of resentment was originally fraud (See all colors of the Hong) 【"Dream of Red Mansions" version】 1, Awake 2, The Spring of the 3, Gengchen Ben 4 out possession of the 5, 6 Qi of the Mongolian government of the seven, Jiachen the 8, Ji You the nine, Cheng possession of the 10, Jing of the 11 and 36 of the Hashimoto chu 12-way high in this
CHAPTER I. Chen Shih-yin, in a vision, apprehends perception and spirituality. Chia Yue-ts'un, in the (windy and dusty) world, cherishes fond thoughts of a beautiful maiden. This is the opening section; this the first chapter. Subsequent to the visions of a dream which he had, on some previous occasion, experienced, the writer personally relates, he designedly concealed the true circumstances, and borrowed the attributes of perception and spirituality to relate this story of the Record of the Stone. With this purpose, he made use of such designations as Chen Shih-yin (truth under the garb of fiction) and the like. What are, however, the events recorded in this work? Who are the dramatis personae? Wearied with the drudgery experienced of late in the world, the author speaking for himself, goes on to explain, with the lack of success which attended every single concern, I suddenly bethought myself of the womankind of past ages. Passing one by one under a minute scrutiny, I felt that in action and in lore, one and all were far above me; that in spite of the majesty of my manliness, I could not, in point of fact, compare with these characters of the gentle sex. And my shame forsooth then knew no bounds; while regret, on the other hand, was of no avail, as there was not even a remote possibility of a day of remedy. On this very day it was that I became desirous to compile, in a connected form, for publication throughout the world, with a view to (universal) information, how that I bear inexorable and manifold retribution; inasmuch as what time, by the sustenance of the benevolence of Heaven, and the virtue of my ancestors, my apparel was rich and fine, and as what days my fare was savory and sumptuous, I disregarded the bounty of education and nurture of father and mother, and paid no heed to the virtue of precept and injunction of teachers and friends, with the result that I incurred the punishment, of failure recently in the least trifle, and the reckless waste of half my lifetime. There have been meanwhile, generation after generation, those in the inner chambers, the whole mass of whom could not, on any account, be, through my influence, allowed to fall into extinction, in order that I, unfilial as I have been, may have the means to screen my own shortcomings. Hence it is that the thatched shed, with bamboo mat windows, the bed of tow and the stove of brick, which are at present my share, are not sufficient to deter me from carrying out the fixed purpose of my mind. And could I, furthermore, confront the morning breeze, the evening moon, the willows by the steps and the flowers in the courtyard, methinks these would moisten to a greater degree my mortal pen with ink; but though I lack culture and erudition, what harm is there, however, in employing fiction and unrecondite language to give utterance to the merits of these characters? And were I also able to induce the inmates of the inner chamber to understand and diffuse them, could I besides break the weariness of even so much as a single moment, or could I open the eyes of my contemporaries, will it not forsooth prove a boon? This consideration has led to the usage of such names as Chia Yue-ts'un and other similar appellations. More than any in these pages have been employed such words as dreams and visions; but these dreams constitute the main argument of this work, and combine, furthermore, the design of giving a word of warning to my readers. Reader, can you suggest whence the story begins? The narration may border on the limits of incoherency and triviality, but it possesses considerable zest. But to begin. The Empress Nue Wo, (the goddess of works,) in fashioning blocks of stones, for the repair of the heavens, prepared, at the Ta Huang Hills and Wu Ch'i cave, 36,501 blocks of rough stone, each twelve chang in height, and twenty-four chang square. Of these stones, the Empress Wo only used 36,500; so that one single block remained over and above, without being turned to any account. This was cast down the Ch'ing Keng peak. This stone, strange to say, after having undergone a process of refinement, attained a nature of efficiency, and could, by its innate powers, set itself into motion and was able to expand and to contract. When it became aware that the whole number of blocks had been made use of to repair the heavens, that it alone had been destitute of the necessary properties and had been unfit to attain selection, it forthwith felt within itself vexation and shame, and day and night, it gave way to anguish and sorrow. One day, while it lamented its lot, it suddenly caught sight, at a great distance, of a Buddhist bonze and of a Taoist priest coming towards that direction. Their appearance was uncommon, their easy manner remarkable. When they drew near this Ch'ing Keng peak, they sat on the ground to rest, and began to converse. But on noticing the block newly-polished and brilliantly clear, which had moreover contracted in dimensions, and become no larger than the pendant of a fan, they were greatly filled with admiration. The Buddhist priest picked it up, and laid it in the palm of his hand. "Your appearance," he said laughingly, "may well declare you to be a supernatural object, but as you lack any inherent quality it is necessary to inscribe a few characters on you, so that every one who shall see you may at once recognise you to be a remarkable thing. And subsequently, when you will be taken into a country where honour and affluence will reign, into a family cultured in mind and of official status, in a land where flowers and trees shall flourish with luxuriance, in a town of refinement, renown and glory; when you once will have been there..." The stone listened with intense delight. "What characters may I ask," it consequently inquired, "will you inscribe? and what place will I be taken to? pray, pray explain to me in lucid terms." "You mustn't be inquisitive," the bonze replied, with a smile, "in days to come you'll certainly understand everything." Having concluded these words, he forthwith put the stone in his sleeve, and proceeded leisurely on his journey, in company with the Taoist priest. Whither, however, he took the stone, is not divulged. Nor can it be known how many centuries and ages elapsed, before a Taoist priest, K'ung K'ung by name, passed, during his researches after the eternal reason and his quest after immortality, by these Ta Huang Hills, Wu Ch'i cave and Ch'ing Keng Peak. Suddenly perceiving a large block of stone, on the surface of which the traces of characters giving, in a connected form, the various incidents of its fate, could be clearly deciphered, K'ung K'ung examined them from first to last. They, in fact, explained how that this block of worthless stone had originally been devoid of the properties essential for the repairs to the heavens, how it would be transmuted into human form and introduced by Mang Mang the High Lord, and Miao Miao, the Divine, into the world of mortals, and how it would be led over the other bank (across the San Sara). On the surface, the record of the spot where it would fall, the place of its birth, as well as various family trifles and trivial love affairs of young ladies, verses, odes, speeches and enigmas was still complete; but the name of the dynasty and the year of the reign were obliterated, and could not be ascertained. On the obverse, were also the following enigmatical verses: Lacking in virtues meet the azure skies to mend, In vain the mortal world full many a year I wend, Of a former and after life these facts that be, Who will for a tradition strange record for me? K'ung K'ung, the Taoist, having pondered over these lines for a while, became aware that this stone had a history of some kind. "Brother stone," he forthwith said, addressing the stone, "the concerns of past days recorded on you possess, according to your own account, a considerable amount of interest, and have been for this reason inscribed, with the intent of soliciting generations to hand them down as remarkable occurrences. But in my own opinion, they lack, in the first place, any data by means of which to establish the name of the Emperor and the year of his reign; and, in the second place, these constitute no record of any excellent policy, adopted by any high worthies or high loyal statesmen, in the government of the state, or in the rule of public morals. The contents simply treat of a certain number of maidens, of exceptional character; either of their love affairs or infatuations, or of their small deserts or insignificant talents; and were I to transcribe the whole collection of them, they would, nevertheless, not be estimated as a book of any exceptional worth." "Sir Priest," the stone replied with assurance, "why are you so excessively dull? The dynasties recorded in the rustic histories, which have been written from age to age, have, I am fain to think, invariably assumed, under false pretences, the mere nomenclature of the Han and T'ang dynasties. They differ from the events inscribed on my block, which do not borrow this customary practice, but, being based on my own experiences and natural feelings, present, on the contrary, a novel and unique character. Besides, in the pages of these rustic histories, either the aspersions upon sovereigns and statesmen, or the strictures upon individuals, their wives, and their daughters, or the deeds of licentiousness and violence are too numerous to be computed. Indeed, there is one more kind of loose literature, the wantonness and pollution in which work most easy havoc upon youth. "As regards the works, in which the characters of scholars and beauties is delineated their allusions are again repeatedly of Wen Chuen, their theme in every page of Tzu Chien; a thousand volumes present no diversity; and a thousand characters are but a counterpart of each other. What is more, these works, throughout all their pages, cannot help bordering on extreme licence. The authors, however, had no other object in view than to give utterance to a few sentimental odes and elegant ballads of their own, and for this reason they have fictitiously invented the names and surnames of both men and women, and necessarily introduced, in addition, some low characters, who should, like a buffoon in a play, create some excitement in the plot. "Still more loathsome is a kind of pedantic and profligate literature, perfectly devoid of all natural sentiment, full of self-contradictions; and, in fact, the contrast to those maidens in my work, whom I have, during half my lifetime, seen with my own eyes and heard with my own ears. And though I will not presume to estimate them as superior to the heroes and heroines in the works of former ages, yet the perusal of the motives and issues of their experiences, may likewise afford matter sufficient to banish dulness, and to break the spell of melancholy. "As regards the several stanzas of doggerel verse, they may too evoke such laughter as to compel the reader to blurt out the rice, and to spurt out the wine. "In these pages, the scenes depicting the anguish of separation, the bliss of reunion, and the fortunes of prosperity and of adversity are all, in every detail, true to human nature, and I have not taken upon myself to make the slightest addition, or alteration, which might lead to the perversion of the truth. "My only object has been that men may, after a drinking bout, or after they wake from sleep or when in need of relaxation from the pressure of business, take up this light literature, and not only expunge the traces of antiquated books, and obtain a new kind of distraction, but that they may also lay by a long life as well as energy and strength; for it bears no point of similarity to those works, whose designs are false, whose course is immoral. Now, Sir Priest, what are your views on the subject?" K'ung K'ung having pondered for a while over the words, to which he had listened intently, re-perused, throughout, this record of the stone; and finding that the general purport consisted of nought else than a treatise on love, and likewise of an accurate transcription of facts, without the least taint of profligacy injurious to the times, he thereupon copied the contents, from beginning to end, to the intent of charging the world to hand them down as a strange story. Hence it was that K'ung K'ung, the Taoist, in consequence of his perception, (in his state of) abstraction, of passion, the generation, from this passion, of voluptuousness, the transmission of this voluptuousness into passion, and the apprehension, by means of passion, of its unreality, forthwith altered his name for that of "Ch'ing Tseng" (the Voluptuous Bonze), and changed the title of "the Memoir of a Stone" (Shih-t'ou-chi,) for that of "Ch'ing Tseng Lu," The Record of the Voluptuous Bonze; while K'ung Mei-chi of Tung Lu gave it the name of "Feng Yueeh Pao Chien," "The Precious Mirror of Voluptuousness." In later years, owing to the devotion by Tsao Hsueeh-ch'in in the Tao Hung study, of ten years to the perusal and revision of the work, the additions and modifications effected by him five times, the affix of an index and the division into periods and chapters, the book was again entitled "Chin Ling Shih Erh Ch'ai," "The Twelve Maidens of Chin Ling." A stanza was furthermore composed for the purpose. This then, and no other, is the origin of the Record of the Stone. The poet says appositely:-- Pages full of silly litter, Tears a handful sour and bitter; All a fool the author hold, But their zest who can unfold? You have now understood the causes which brought about the Record of the Stone, but as you are not, as yet, aware what characters are depicted, and what circumstances are related on the surface of the block, reader, please lend an ear to the narrative on the stone, which runs as follows:-- In old days, the land in the South East lay low. In this South-East part of the world, was situated a walled town, Ku Su by name. Within the walls a locality, called the Ch'ang Men, was more than all others throughout the mortal world, the centre, which held the second, if not the first place for fashion and life. Beyond this Ch'ang Men was a street called Shih-li-chieh (Ten _Li_ street); in this street a lane, the Jen Ch'ing lane (Humanity and Purity); and in this lane stood an old temple, which on account of its diminutive dimensions, was called, by general consent, the Gourd temple. Next door to this temple lived the family of a district official, Chen by surname, Fei by name, and Shih-yin by style. His wife, nee Feng, possessed a worthy and virtuous disposition, and had a clear perception of moral propriety and good conduct. This family, though not in actual possession of excessive affluence and honours, was, nevertheless, in their district, conceded to be a clan of well-to-do standing. As this Chen Shih-yin was of a contented and unambitious frame of mind, and entertained no hankering after any official distinction, but day after day of his life took delight in gazing at flowers, planting bamboos, sipping his wine and conning poetical works, he was in fact, in the indulgence of these pursuits, as happy as a supernatural being. One thing alone marred his happiness. He had lived over half a century and had, as yet, no male offspring around his knees. He had one only child, a daughter, whose infant name was Ying Lien. She was just three years of age. On a long summer day, on which the heat had been intense, Shih-yin sat leisurely in his library. Feeling his hand tired, he dropped the book he held, leant his head on a teapoy, and fell asleep. Of a sudden, while in this state of unconsciousness, it seemed as if he had betaken himself on foot to some spot or other whither he could not discriminate. Unexpectedly he espied, in the opposite direction, two priests coming towards him: the one a Buddhist, the other a Taoist. As they advanced they kept up the conversation in which they were engaged. "Whither do you purpose taking the object you have brought away?" he heard the Taoist inquire. To this question the Buddhist replied with a smile: "Set your mind at ease," he said; "there's now in maturity a plot of a general character involving mundane pleasures, which will presently come to a denouement. The whole number of the votaries of voluptuousness have, as yet, not been quickened or entered the world, and I mean to avail myself of this occasion to introduce this object among their number, so as to give it a chance to go through the span of human existence." "The votaries of voluptuousness of these days will naturally have again to endure the ills of life during their course through the mortal world," the Taoist remarked; "but when, I wonder, will they spring into existence? and in what place will they descend?" "The account of these circumstances," the bonze ventured to reply, "is enough to make you laugh! They amount to this: there existed in the west, on the bank of the Ling (spiritual) river, by the side of the San Sheng (thrice-born) stone, a blade of the Chiang Chu (purple pearl) grass. At about the same time it was that the block of stone was, consequent upon its rejection by the goddess of works, also left to ramble and wander to its own gratification, and to roam about at pleasure to every and any place. One day it came within the precincts of the Ching Huan (Monitory Vision) Fairy; and this Fairy, cognizant of the fact that this stone had a history, detained it, therefore, to reside at the Ch'ih Hsia (purple clouds) palace, and apportioned to it the duties of attendant on Shen Ying, a fairy of the Ch'ih Hsia palace. "This stone would, however, often stroll along the banks of the Ling river, and having at the sight of the blade of spiritual grass been filled with admiration, it, day by day, moistened its roots with sweet dew. This purple pearl grass, at the outset, tarried for months and years; but being at a later period imbued with the essence and luxuriance of heaven and earth, and having incessantly received the moisture and nurture of the sweet dew, divested itself, in course of time, of the form of a grass; assuming, in lieu, a human nature, which gradually became perfected into the person of a girl. "Every day she was wont to wander beyond the confines of the Li Hen (divested animosities) heavens. When hungry she fed on the Pi Ch'ing (hidden love) fruit--when thirsty she drank the Kuan ch'ou (discharged sorrows,) water. Having, however, up to this time, not shewn her gratitude for the virtue of nurture lavished upon her, the result was but natural that she should resolve in her heart upon a constant and incessant purpose to make suitable acknowledgment. "I have been," she would often commune within herself, "the recipient of the gracious bounty of rain and dew, but I possess no such water as was lavished upon me to repay it! But should it ever descend into the world in the form of a human being, I will also betake myself thither, along with it; and if I can only have the means of making restitution to it, with the tears of a whole lifetime, I may be able to make adequate return." "This resolution it is that will evolve the descent into the world of so many pleasure-bound spirits of retribution and the experience of fantastic destinies; and this crimson pearl blade will also be among the number. The stone still lies in its original place, and why should not you and I take it along before the tribunal of the Monitory Vision Fairy, and place on its behalf its name on record, so that it should descend into the world, in company with these spirits of passion, and bring this plot to an issue?" "It is indeed ridiculous," interposed the Taoist. "Never before have I heard even the very mention of restitution by means of tears! Why should not you and I avail ourselves of this opportunity to likewise go down into the world? and if successful in effecting the salvation of a few of them, will it not be a work meritorious and virtuous?" "This proposal," remarked the Buddhist, "is quite in harmony with my own views. Come along then with me to the palace of the Monitory Vision Fairy, and let us deliver up this good-for-nothing object, and have done with it! And when the company of pleasure-bound spirits of wrath descend into human existence, you and I can then enter the world. Half of them have already fallen into the dusty universe, but the whole number of them have not, as yet, come together." "Such being the case," the Taoist acquiesced, "I am ready to follow you, whenever you please to go." But to return to Chen Shih-yin. Having heard every one of these words distinctly, he could not refrain from forthwith stepping forward and paying homage. "My spiritual lords," he said, as he smiled, "accept my obeisance." The Buddhist and Taoist priests lost no time in responding to the compliment, and they exchanged the usual salutations. "My spiritual lords," Shih-yin continued; "I have just heard the conversation that passed between you, on causes and effects, a conversation the like of which few mortals have forsooth listened to; but your younger brother is sluggish of intellect, and cannot lucidly fathom the import! Yet could this dulness and simplicity be graciously dispelled, your younger brother may, by listening minutely, with undefiled ear and careful attention, to a certain degree be aroused to a sense of understanding; and what is more, possibly find the means of escaping the anguish of sinking down into Hades." The two spirits smiled, "The conversation," they added, "refers to the primordial scheme and cannot be divulged before the proper season; but, when the time comes, mind do not forget us two, and you will readily be able to escape from the fiery furnace." Shih-yin, after this reply, felt it difficult to make any further inquiries. "The primordial scheme," he however remarked smiling, "cannot, of course, be divulged; but what manner of thing, I wonder, is the good-for-nothing object you alluded to a short while back? May I not be allowed to judge for myself?" "This object about which you ask," the Buddhist Bonze responded, "is intended, I may tell you, by fate to be just glanced at by you." With these words he produced it, and handed it over to Shih-yin. Shih-yin received it. On scrutiny he found it, in fact, to be a beautiful gem, so lustrous and so clear that the traces of characters on the surface were distinctly visible. The characters inscribed consisted of the four "T'ung Ling Pao Yue," "Precious Gem of Spiritual Perception." On the obverse, were also several columns of minute words, which he was just in the act of looking at intently, when the Buddhist at once expostulated. "We have already reached," he exclaimed, "the confines of vision." Snatching it violently out of his hands, he walked away with the Taoist, under a lofty stone portal, on the face of which appeared in large type the four characters: "T'ai Hsue Huan Ching," "The Visionary limits of the Great Void." On each side was a scroll with the lines: When falsehood stands for truth, truth likewise becomes false, Where naught be made to aught, aught changes into naught. Shih-yin meant also to follow them on the other side, but, as he was about to make one step forward, he suddenly heard a crash, just as if the mountains had fallen into ruins, and the earth sunk into destruction. As Shih-yin uttered a loud shout, he looked with strained eye; but all he could see was the fiery sun shining, with glowing rays, while the banana leaves drooped their heads. By that time, half of the circumstances connected with the dream he had had, had already slipped from his memory. He also noticed a nurse coming towards him with Ying Lien in her arms. To Shih-yin's eyes his daughter appeared even more beautiful, such a bright gem, so precious, and so lovable. Forthwith stretching out his arms, he took her over, and, as he held her in his embrace, he coaxed her to play with him for a while; after which he brought her up to the street to see the great stir occasioned by the procession that was going past. He was about to come in, when he caught sight of two priests, one a Taoist, the other a Buddhist, coming hither from the opposite direction. The Buddhist had a head covered with mange, and went barefooted. The Taoist had a limping foot, and his hair was all dishevelled. Like maniacs, they jostled along, chattering and laughing as they drew near. As soon as they reached Shih-yin's door, and they perceived him with Ying Lien in his arms, the Bonze began to weep aloud. Turning towards Shih-yin, he said to him: "My good Sir, why need you carry in your embrace this living but luckless thing, which will involve father and mother in trouble?" These words did not escape Shih-yin's ear; but persuaded that they amounted to raving talk, he paid no heed whatever to the bonze. "Part with her and give her to me," the Buddhist still went on to say. Shih-yin could not restrain his annoyance; and hastily pressing his daughter closer to him, he was intent upon going in, when the bonze pointed his hand at him, and burst out in a loud fit of laughter. He then gave utterance to the four lines that follow: You indulge your tender daughter and are laughed at as inane; Vain you face the snow, oh mirror! for it will evanescent wane, When the festival of lanterns is gone by, guard 'gainst your doom, 'Tis what time the flames will kindle, and the fire will consume. Shih-yin understood distinctly the full import of what he heard; but his heart was still full of conjectures. He was about to inquire who and what they were, when he heard the Taoist remark,--"You and I cannot speed together; let us now part company, and each of us will be then able to go after his own business. After the lapse of three ages, I shall be at the Pei Mang mount, waiting for you; and we can, after our reunion, betake ourselves to the Visionary Confines of the Great Void, there to cancel the name of the stone from the records." "Excellent! first rate!" exclaimed the Bonze. And at the conclusion of these words, the two men parted, each going his own way, and no trace was again seen of them. "These two men," Shih-yin then pondered within his heart, "must have had many experiences, and I ought really to have made more inquiries of them; but at this juncture to indulge in regret is anyhow too late." While Shih-yin gave way to these foolish reflections, he suddenly noticed the arrival of a penniless scholar, Chia by surname, Hua by name, Shih-fei by style and Yue-ts'un by nickname, who had taken up his quarters in the Gourd temple next door. This Chia Yue-ts'un was originally a denizen of Hu-Chow, and was also of literary and official parentage, but as he was born of the youngest stock, and the possessions of his paternal and maternal ancestors were completely exhausted, and his parents and relatives were dead, he remained the sole and only survivor; and, as he found his residence in his native place of no avail, he therefore entered the capital in search of that reputation, which would enable him to put the family estate on a proper standing. He had arrived at this place since the year before last, and had, what is more, lived all along in very straitened circumstances. He had made the temple his temporary quarters, and earned a living by daily occupying himself in composing documents and writing letters for customers. Thus it was that Shih-yin had been in constant relations with him. As soon as Yue-ts'un perceived Shih-yin, he lost no time in saluting him. "My worthy Sir," he observed with a forced smile; "how is it you are leaning against the door and looking out? Is there perchance any news astir in the streets, or in the public places?" "None whatever," replied Shih-yin, as he returned the smile. "Just a while back, my young daughter was in sobs, and I coaxed her out here to amuse her. I am just now without anything whatever to attend to, so that, dear brother Chia, you come just in the nick of time. Please walk into my mean abode, and let us endeavour, in each other's company, to while away this long summer day." After he had made this remark, he bade a servant take his daughter in, while he, hand-in-hand with Yue-ts'un, walked into the library, where a young page served tea. They had hardly exchanged a few sentences, when one of the household came in, in flying haste, to announce that Mr. Yen had come to pay a visit. Shih-yin at once stood up. "Pray excuse my rudeness," he remarked apologetically, "but do sit down; I shall shortly rejoin you, and enjoy the pleasure of your society." "My dear Sir," answered Yue-ts'un, as he got up, also in a conceding way, "suit your own convenience. I've often had the honour of being your guest, and what will it matter if I wait a little?" While these apologies were yet being spoken, Shih-yin had already walked out into the front parlour. During his absence, Yue-ts'un occupied himself in turning over the pages of some poetical work to dispel ennui, when suddenly he heard, outside the window, a woman's cough. Yue-ts'un hurriedly got up and looked out. He saw at a glance that it was a servant girl engaged in picking flowers. Her deportment was out of the common; her eyes so bright, her eyebrows so well defined. Though not a perfect beauty, she possessed nevertheless charms sufficient to arouse the feelings. Yue-ts'un unwittingly gazed at her with fixed eye. This waiting-maid, belonging to the Chen family, had done picking flowers, and was on the point of going in, when she of a sudden raised her eyes and became aware of the presence of some person inside the window, whose head-gear consisted of a turban in tatters, while his clothes were the worse for wear. But in spite of his poverty, he was naturally endowed with a round waist, a broad back, a fat face, a square mouth; added to this, his eyebrows were swordlike, his eyes resembled stars, his nose was straight, his cheeks square. This servant girl turned away in a hurry and made her escape. "This man so burly and strong," she communed within herself, "yet at the same time got up in such poor attire, must, I expect, be no one else than the man, whose name is Chia Yue-ts'un or such like, time after time referred to by my master, and to whom he has repeatedly wished to give a helping hand, but has failed to find a favourable opportunity. And as related to our family there is no connexion or friend in such straits, I feel certain it cannot be any other person than he. Strange to say, my master has further remarked that this man will, for a certainty, not always continue in such a state of destitution." As she indulged in this train of thought, she could not restrain herself from turning her head round once or twice. When Yue-ts'un perceived that she had looked back, he readily interpreted it as a sign that in her heart her thoughts had been of him, and he was frantic with irrepressible joy. "This girl," he mused, "is, no doubt, keen-eyed and eminently shrewd, and one in this world who has seen through me." The servant youth, after a short time, came into the room; and when Yue-ts'un made inquiries and found out from him that the guests in the front parlour had been detained to dinner, he could not very well wait any longer, and promptly walked away down a side passage and out of a back door. When the guests had taken their leave, Shih-yin did not go back to rejoin Yue-ts'un, as he had come to know that he had already left. In time the mid-autumn festivities drew near; and Shih-yin, after the family banquet was over, had a separate table laid in the library, and crossed over, in the moonlight, as far as the temple and invited Yue-ts'un to come round. The fact is that Yue-ts'un, ever since the day on which he had seen the girl of the Chen family turn twice round to glance at him, flattered himself that she was friendly disposed towards him, and incessantly fostered fond thoughts of her in his heart. And on this day, which happened to be the mid-autumn feast, he could not, as he gazed at the moon, refrain from cherishing her remembrance. Hence it was that he gave vent to these pentameter verses: Alas! not yet divined my lifelong wish, And anguish ceaseless comes upon anguish I came, and sad at heart, my brow I frowned; She went, and oft her head to look turned round. Facing the breeze, her shadow she doth watch, Who's meet this moonlight night with her to match? The lustrous rays if they my wish but read Would soon alight upon her beauteous head! Yue-ts'un having, after this recitation, recalled again to mind how that throughout his lifetime his literary attainments had had an adverse fate and not met with an opportunity (of reaping distinction), went on to rub his brow, and as he raised his eyes to the skies, he heaved a deep sigh and once more intoned a couplet aloud: The gem in the cask a high price it seeks, The pin in the case to take wing it waits. As luck would have it, Shih-yin was at the moment approaching, and upon hearing the lines, he said with a smile: "My dear Yue-ts'un, really your attainments are of no ordinary capacity." Yue-ts'un lost no time in smiling and replying. "It would be presumption in my part to think so," he observed. "I was simply at random humming a few verses composed by former writers, and what reason is there to laud me to such an excessive degree? To what, my dear Sir, do I owe the pleasure of your visit?" he went on to inquire. "Tonight," replied Shih-yin, "is the mid-autumn feast, generally known as the full-moon festival; and as I could not help thinking that living, as you my worthy brother are, as a mere stranger in this Buddhist temple, you could not but experience the feeling of loneliness. I have, for the express purpose, prepared a small entertainment, and will be pleased if you will come to my mean abode to have a glass of wine. But I wonder whether you will entertain favourably my modest invitation?" Yue-ts'un, after listening to the proposal, put forward no refusal of any sort; but remarked complacently: "Being the recipient of such marked attention, how can I presume to repel your generous consideration?" As he gave expression to these words, he walked off there and then, in company with Shih-yin, and came over once again into the court in front of the library. In a few minutes, tea was over. The cups and dishes had been laid from an early hour, and needless to say the wines were luscious; the fare sumptuous. The two friends took their seats. At first they leisurely replenished their glasses, and quietly sipped their wine; but as, little by little, they entered into conversation, their good cheer grew more genial, and unawares the glasses began to fly round, and the cups to be exchanged. At this very hour, in every house of the neighbourhood, sounded the fife and lute, while the inmates indulged in music and singing. Above head, the orb of the radiant moon shone with an all-pervading splendour, and with a steady lustrous light, while the two friends, as their exuberance increased, drained their cups dry so soon as they reached their lips. Yue-ts'un, at this stage of the collation, was considerably under the influence of wine, and the vehemence of his high spirits was irrepressible. As he gazed at the moon, he fostered thoughts, to which he gave vent by the recital of a double couplet. 'Tis what time three meets five, Selene is a globe! Her pure rays fill the court, the jadelike rails enrobe! Lo! in the heavens her disk to view doth now arise, And in the earth below to gaze men lift their eyes. "Excellent!" cried Shih-yin with a loud voice, after he had heard these lines; "I have repeatedly maintained that it was impossible for you to remain long inferior to any, and now the verses you have recited are a prognostic of your rapid advancement. Already it is evident that, before long, you will extend your footsteps far above the clouds! I must congratulate you! I must congratulate you! Let me, with my own hands, pour a glass of wine to pay you my compliments." Yue-ts'un drained the cup. "What I am about to say," he explained as he suddenly heaved a sigh, "is not the maudlin talk of a man under the effects of wine. As far as the subjects at present set in the examinations go, I could, perchance, also have well been able to enter the list, and to send in my name as a candidate; but I have, just now, no means whatever to make provision for luggage and for travelling expenses. The distance too to Shen Ching is a long one, and I could not depend upon the sale of papers or the composition of essays to find the means of getting there." Shih-yin gave him no time to conclude. "Why did you not speak about this sooner?" he interposed with haste. "I have long entertained this suspicion; but as, whenever I met you, this conversation was never broached, I did not presume to make myself officious. But if such be the state of affairs just now, I lack, I admit, literary qualification, but on the two subjects of friendly spirit and pecuniary means, I have, nevertheless, some experience. Moreover, I rejoice that next year is just the season for the triennial examinations, and you should start for the capital with all despatch; and in the tripos next spring, you will, by carrying the prize, be able to do justice to the proficiency you can boast of. As regards the travelling expenses and the other items, the provision of everything necessary for you by my own self will again not render nugatory your mean acquaintance with me." Forthwith, he directed a servant lad to go and pack up at once fifty taels of pure silver and two suits of winter clothes. "The nineteenth," he continued, "is a propitious day, and you should lose no time in hiring a boat and starting on your journey westwards. And when, by your eminent talents, you shall have soared high to a lofty position, and we meet again next winter, will not the occasion be extremely felicitous?" Yue-ts'un accepted the money and clothes with but scanty expression of gratitude. In fact, he paid no thought whatever to the gifts, but went on, again drinking his wine, as he chattered and laughed. It was only when the third watch of that day had already struck that the two friends parted company; and Shih-yin, after seeing Yue-ts'un off, retired to his room and slept, with one sleep all through, never waking until the sun was well up in the skies. Remembering the occurrence of the previous night, he meant to write a couple of letters of recommendation for Yue-ts'un to take along with him to the capital, to enable him, after handing them over at the mansions of certain officials, to find some place as a temporary home. He accordingly despatched a servant to ask him to come round, but the man returned and reported that from what the bonze said, "Mr. Chia had started on his journey to the capital, at the fifth watch of that very morning, that he had also left a message with the bonze to deliver to you, Sir, to the effect that men of letters paid no heed to lucky or unlucky days, that the sole consideration with them was the nature of the matter in hand, and that he could find no time to come round in person and bid good-bye." Shih-yin after hearing this message had no alternative but to banish the subject from his thoughts. In comfortable circumstances, time indeed goes by with easy stride. Soon drew near also the happy festival of the 15th of the 1st moon, and Shih-yin told a servant Huo Ch'i to take Ying Lien to see the sacrificial fires and flowery lanterns. About the middle of the night, Huo Ch'i was hard pressed, and he forthwith set Ying Lien down on the doorstep of a certain house. When he felt relieved, he came back to take her up, but failed to find anywhere any trace of Ying Lien. In a terrible plight, Huo Ch'i prosecuted his search throughout half the night; but even by the dawn of day, he had not discovered any clue of her whereabouts. Huo Ch'i, lacking, on the other hand, the courage to go back and face his master, promptly made his escape to his native village. Shih-yin--in fact, the husband as well as the wife--seeing that their child had not come home during the whole night, readily concluded that some mishap must have befallen her. Hastily they despatched several servants to go in search of her, but one and all returned to report that there was neither vestige nor tidings of her. This couple had only had this child, and this at the meridian of their life, so that her sudden disappearance plunged them in such great distress that day and night they mourned her loss to such a point as to well nigh pay no heed to their very lives. A month in no time went by. Shih-yin was the first to fall ill, and his wife, Dame Feng, likewise, by dint of fretting for her daughter, was also prostrated with sickness. The doctor was, day after day, sent for, and the oracle consulted by means of divination. Little did any one think that on this day, being the 15th of the 3rd moon, while the sacrificial oblations were being prepared in the Hu Lu temple, a pan with oil would have caught fire, through the want of care on the part of the bonze, and that in a short time the flames would have consumed the paper pasted on the windows. Among the natives of this district bamboo fences and wooden partitions were in general use, and these too proved a source of calamity so ordained by fate (to consummate this decree). With promptness (the fire) extended to two buildings, then enveloped three, then dragged four (into ruin), and then spread to five houses, until the whole street was in a blaze, resembling the flames of a volcano. Though both the military and the people at once ran to the rescue, the fire had already assumed a serious hold, so that it was impossible for them to afford any effective assistance for its suppression. It blazed away straight through the night, before it was extinguished, and consumed, there is in fact no saying how many dwelling houses. Anyhow, pitiful to relate, the Chen house, situated as it was next door to the temple, was, at an early part of the evening, reduced to a heap of tiles and bricks; and nothing but the lives of that couple and several inmates of the family did not sustain any injuries. Shih-yin was in despair, but all he could do was to stamp his feet and heave deep sighs. After consulting with his wife, they betook themselves to a farm of theirs, where they took up their quarters temporarily. But as it happened that water had of late years been scarce, and no crops been reaped, robbers and thieves had sprung up like bees, and though the Government troops were bent upon their capture, it was anyhow difficult to settle down quietly on the farm. He therefore had no other resource than to convert, at a loss, the whole of his property into money, and to take his wife and two servant girls and come over for shelter to the house of his father-in-law. His father-in-law, Feng Su, by name, was a native of Ta Ju Chou. Although only a labourer, he was nevertheless in easy circumstances at home. When he on this occasion saw his son-in-law come to him in such distress, he forthwith felt at heart considerable displeasure. Fortunately Shih-yin had still in his possession the money derived from the unprofitable realization of his property, so that he produced and handed it to his father-in-law, commissioning him to purchase, whenever a suitable opportunity presented itself, a house and land as a provision for food and raiment against days to come. This Feng Su, however, only expended the half of the sum, and pocketed the other half, merely acquiring for him some fallow land and a dilapidated house. Shih-yin being, on the other hand, a man of books and with no experience in matters connected with business and with sowing and reaping, subsisted, by hook and by crook, for about a year or two, when he became more impoverished. In his presence, Feng Su would readily give vent to specious utterances, while, with others, and behind his back, he on the contrary expressed his indignation against his improvidence in his mode of living, and against his sole delight of eating and playing the lazy. Shih-yin, aware of the want of harmony with his father-in-law, could not help giving way, in his own heart, to feelings of regret and pain. In addition to this, the fright and vexation which he had undergone the year before, the anguish and suffering (he had had to endure), had already worked havoc (on his constitution); and being a man advanced in years, and assailed by the joint attack of poverty and disease, he at length gradually began to display symptoms of decline. Strange coincidence, as he, on this day, came leaning on his staff and with considerable strain, as far as the street for a little relaxation, he suddenly caught sight, approaching from the off side, of a Taoist priest with a crippled foot; his maniac appearance so repulsive, his shoes of straw, his dress all in tatters, muttering several sentiments to this effect: All men spiritual life know to be good, But fame to disregard they ne'er succeed! From old till now the statesmen where are they? Waste lie their graves, a heap of grass, extinct. All men spiritual life know to be good, But to forget gold, silver, ill succeed! Through life they grudge their hoardings to be scant, And when plenty has come, their eyelids close. All men spiritual life hold to be good, Yet to forget wives, maids, they ne'er succeed! Who speak of grateful love while lives their lord, And dead their lord, another they pursue. All men spiritual life know to be good, But sons and grandsons to forget never succeed! From old till now of parents soft many, But filial sons and grandsons who have seen? Shih-yin upon hearing these words, hastily came up to the priest, "What were you so glibly holding forth?" he inquired. "All I could hear were a lot of hao liao (excellent, finality.") "You may well have heard the two words 'hao liao,'" answered the Taoist with a smile, "but can you be said to have fathomed their meaning? You should know that all things in this world are excellent, when they have attained finality; when they have attained finality, they are excellent; but when they have not attained finality, they are not excellent; if they would be excellent, they should attain finality. My song is entitled Excellent-finality (hao liao)." Shih-yin was gifted with a natural perspicacity that enabled him, as soon as he heard these remarks, to grasp their spirit. "Wait a while," he therefore said smilingly; "let me unravel this excellent-finality song of yours; do you mind?" "Please by all means go on with the interpretation," urged the Taoist; whereupon Shih-yin proceeded in this strain: Sordid rooms and vacant courts, Replete in years gone by with beds where statesmen lay; Parched grass and withered banian trees, Where once were halls for song and dance! Spiders' webs the carved pillars intertwine, The green gauze now is also pasted on the straw windows! What about the cosmetic fresh concocted or the powder just scented; Why has the hair too on each temple become white like hoarfrost! Yesterday the tumulus of yellow earth buried the bleached bones, To-night under the red silk curtain reclines the couple! Gold fills the coffers, silver fills the boxes, But in a twinkle, the beggars will all abuse you! While you deplore that the life of others is not long, You forget that you yourself are approaching death! You educate your sons with all propriety, But they may some day, 'tis hard to say become thieves; Though you choose (your fare and home) the fatted beam, You may, who can say, fall into some place of easy virtue! Through your dislike of the gauze hat as mean, You have come to be locked in a cangue; Yesterday, poor fellow, you felt cold in a tattered coat, To-day, you despise the purple embroidered dress as long! Confusion reigns far and wide! you have just sung your part, I come on the boards, Instead of yours, you recognise another as your native land; What utter perversion! In one word, it comes to this we make wedding clothes for others! (We sow for others to reap.) The crazy limping Taoist clapped his hands. "Your interpretation is explicit," he remarked with a hearty laugh, "your interpretation is explicit!" Shih-yin promptly said nothing more than,--"Walk on;" and seizing the stole from the Taoist's shoulder, he flung it over his own. He did not, however, return home, but leisurely walked away, in company with the eccentric priest. The report of his disappearance was at once bruited abroad, and plunged the whole neighbourhood in commotion; and converted into a piece of news, it was circulated from mouth to mouth. Dame Feng, Shih-yin's wife, upon hearing the tidings, had such a fit of weeping that she hung between life and death; but her only alternative was to consult with her father, and to despatch servants on all sides to institute inquiries. No news was however received of him, and she had nothing else to do but to practise resignation, and to remain dependent upon the support of her parents for her subsistence. She had fortunately still by her side, to wait upon her, two servant girls, who had been with her in days gone by; and the three of them, mistress as well as servants, occupied themselves day and night with needlework, to assist her father in his daily expenses. This Feng Su had after all, in spite of his daily murmurings against his bad luck, no help but to submit to the inevitable. On a certain day, the elder servant girl of the Chen family was at the door purchasing thread, and while there, she of a sudden heard in the street shouts of runners clearing the way, and every one explain that the new magistrate had come to take up his office. The girl, as she peeped out from inside the door, perceived the lictors and policemen go by two by two; and when unexpectedly in a state chair, was carried past an official, in black hat and red coat, she was indeed quite taken aback. "The face of this officer would seem familiar," she argued within herself; "just as if I had seen him somewhere or other ere this." Shortly she entered the house, and banishing at once the occurrence from her mind, she did not give it a second thought. At night, however, while she was waiting to go to bed, she suddenly heard a sound like a rap at the door. A band of men boisterously cried out: "We are messengers, deputed by the worthy magistrate of this district, and come to summon one of you to an enquiry." Feng Su, upon hearing these words, fell into such a terrible consternation that his eyes stared wide and his mouth gaped. What calamity was impending is not as yet ascertained, but, reader, listen to the explanation contained in the next chapter.



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【选集】红楼一春梦
CHAPTER I.CHAPTER II.
CHAPTER III.CHAPTER IV.
CHAPTER V.CHAPTER VI.
CHAPTER VII.CHAPTER VIII.
CHAPTER IX.CHAPTER X.
CHAPTER XI.CHAPTER XII.
CHAPTER XIII.CHAPTER XIV.
CHAPTER XV.CHAPTER XVI.
CHAPTER XVII.CHAPTER XVIII.
CHAPTER XIX.CHAPTER XX.
CHAPTER XXI.CHAPTER XXII.
CHAPTER XXIII.CHAPTER XXIV.
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Comments (3)

hepingdao wrote (2010-05-10 12:35:46):

  曹雪芹(1724—1764),清代小说家。名沾,字梦阮,号雪芹,又号芹溪、芹圃。祖籍河北省丰润县。清初,入满洲正白旗籍。他本人生于南京。
  
  曹雪芹生活在一个“百年望族”的大官僚地主家庭,从曾祖父起三代世袭江宁织造达60年之久。祖父曹寅当过康熙的“侍读”,曾祖母又是康熙的乳母,曹家与皇室的关系非常密切。少年时代,他“锦衣纨绔”、“饫甘餍肥”,过了一段豪门公子的奢侈生活。雍正五年(1727),他父亲曹頫因事受到株连,被革职抄家。从此,家族的权势和财产都丧失殆尽。他的家庭居处屡迁,生活极不安定,有时甚至不得不投亲靠友,以维持生活,还常常受到歧视和凌辱。经历了由锦衣玉食到“举家食粥”的贫民百姓的沧桑之变,使他对封建统治阶级的没落命运有了切身感受,对社会上的黑暗和罪恶有了全面而深刻的认识。
lingzhi1968 wrote (2010-11-14 06:27:23):

  簡體、繁體轉換之間,錯誤甚多,幾不忍卒讀。。。
hepingdao wrote (2012-05-16 05:05:29):

  从简体到繁体的转换比较困难, 需要化很多时间来完善, 感谢意见

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