" Dream of Red Mansions " the 76th episode of Jia's house over Mid-Autumn Festival , it is really deserted, Jia Mu brought a few people in Convex Hall to enjoy the moon, in the shade of osmanthus, the sound of the flute Sad, mother Jia weeps.
What is even more pitiful is , Daiyu, , and Xiangyun, who are coldly guarding a concave crystal pavilion, , facing the full moon in the sky, and a breeze on the water. There is also no joy in the poems in the snow that day, the pride of the chrysanthemum poems, the same deserted and miserable, this is the last Mid-autumn festival of the Grand View Garden, before the building will lean forward, there is a miserable wind everywhere. Fog, unbearable to hear.
Therefore, when readers read this time, they feel the same as the people in the book, and have no intention to go to the Mid-Autumn Festival in this book. Of course, if you are blindly grief-stricken and full of grievances, it will be more and more unbearable to read. Therefore, when Daiyu and Xiangyun combined poems, the author also arranged for us one or two places with a little bit of joy. description.
For example, when wrote two talented women's poems to "competing for cakes and laughing at yellow hair, dividing up and laughing at green girls", the author specially arranged a paragraph between the two of them.
firstly said Daiyulian's sentence "fight for cakes and ridicule yellow hair", Xiangyun laughed immediately after hearing it: "This is not good, you made up, you are trying to embarrass me with common things." Daiyu is not to be outdone: "I said you've never seen a book before. Eating cakes is an old classic, TangshuTang Zhi, you can read it and talk about it."
Next, Xiangyun said "divide the melon and laugh at the green girl", at this time, Dai Yu also replied: "The division is real, but you made it up."
Xiangyun immediately retorted: "Tomorrow we will check it out for everyone to see, don't waste time."
is here, The two of them quarreled with each other about whether there is an allusion to the two lines of poetry. It was a rare word that made us smile at this bleak Mid-Autumn Festival.
It's just, at this time, there are only two orphans from the end of the world. No matter how much we bicker, we can't mix up the lively and festive grand occasion in the snowy autumn day. In this sad river, two flowers of joy are occasionally aroused. The waves are fleeting, and it is too late for people to even sigh.
Now, let's go back to these two poems. If you look closely, are these two poems by Daiyu and Xiangyun made up? Just like a non-existent ancient book by Baoyu and "A Comprehensive Examination of Ancient and Modern Characters";
Let's first look at "striking for cakes and laughing at yellow hair", this sentence is an inverted sentence, the correct sentence sequence is "jokes about yellow hair and sparring cakes", the "yellow hair" in the sentence refers to the elderly, we all know this, then, Who is this old man? He is Xu Yin in the last years of the Tang Dynasty.
Xu Yin was a relatively well-known writer in the late Tang Dynasty. In his early years, "The Geometry of Life" was read for a while, but this person is somewhat similar to Pu Songling, who later became famous in the Qing Dynasty. , but failed repeatedly.
Tang Xizong Qianfu five years, 29-year-old Xu Yin entered the capital to take the imperial examinations. It was not until the first year of Qianning that he was jinshi and . In that year, he was 46 years old and took the examination for seventeen years. The ancients grew old very early, and at the age of nearly fifty, they could completely rank among the elderly, not to mention Xu Yin, an old candidate who had been studying poetry and books for nearly twenty years.
Of course, even in old age, getting a Jinshi is still a great event in Xu Yin's life.
This year's Mid-Autumn Festival, Tang Xizong tasted delicious cakesIt was abnormal, so I asked the royal chef to specially wrap it up with red silk and give it to the new scholars who were traveling in Qujiang.
Xu Yin is naturally among the rewards. However, because of his old age, Xu Yin was laughed at by the group of young and successful scholars, and maybe he just joked: "Can your old teeth bite the red silk cake bestowed by the emperor?" Even if you can't eat, you have to eat it. This is not eating bread, it is clearly the glory and glory of life. Therefore, Xu Yin later wrote a poem and boasted: "Don't bully the old man with missing teeth. He used to eat red silk cake stuffing." , "moon group" and so on.
This is the source of the poem "Fight for cakes and ridicule yellow hair" in Daiyulian's poems, which are recorded in detail in "Luozhong" and "Luozhong Jiyi".
Regarding eating cakes, there is also a saying that the protagonist is not Xu Yin in Tang Xizong, but Lu Yanrang in Tang Zhaozong and .
Lu Yan made 25 scientific exams, but he failed to get the jin shi. Later, he took a sharp turn and wrote many poems about cats, dogs and foxes. He became famous. During a banquet in Qujiang, he received a red silk cake from Emperor Zhaozong himself. Lu Yanrang then wrote a poem: "Don't bully and lose your teeth, you once ate red silk cake stuffing", which is slightly different from Xu Yin's poem.
Let's take a look at the sentence "divide the laughing green girl".
and Daiyu's old classics of eating cakes are evidenced by poems, and the protagonists have diverse and complex narratives. The sentence
is the same as the previous sentence, but it is also an inverted sentence.
"Luyuan" refers to young women, "green" means "green temples" and "green clouds", referring to women's hair like clouds. "Melon" refers to watermelon. The code for dividing the melon comes from " Yanjing Years Old Years ":
The 15th month of the August festival, the fruit cake must be round, and the melon must be wrong.
This "wrong tooth" partitioning method also has a detailed operation process in the book:
When the Mid-Autumn Festival is given to the moon , the watermelon must be cut unevenly, like a lotus petal.
The shape of the melon is like the character of eight, and it implicitly refers to the sixteen-year-old of a woman, so the year of the broken melon refers to the twenty-eight beauties.
Here, the beautiful picture presented by Xiangyun's phrase "The Divide of Laughing Green Yuan" came out.
Under the bright full moon, a round and green watermelon is quietly placed on the clean table. There is a woman's slender hand, holding a small knife, bathed in the bright light of the courtyard, spinning and moving, raising and falling. In between, as if the spring ice was just beginning to melt, the petals of the watermelon were lightly arranged on the table in the shape of a blooming lotus flower. Inside the lotus petals, a layer of green and a layer of bright red were really beautiful.
The family and friends, the old and the young, who were sitting around the case under the moon, all with smiles on their faces, secretly praised the woman's ingenuity.
Duan Chengshi has a poem "Playing High Servant", there are two lines in it, which can be read in contrast to Xiangyun's "The Dividing of the Laughing Green Lady":
still pity the day of the smallest division, when Naixu welcomes the lotus root . "Lotus" in the sentence
is homophonic "even", which refers to a woman's marriage. From this extended poem, we naturally think of Jia Yingchun, the second young lady of Jia's house. In this Mid-Autumn Festival, when Mother Jia admires the moon, the author, through the mouth of Mother Jia, clearly explained that this granddaughter of Jia's family, regardless of the deep exposure of the night, insisted on accompanying the ancestors to the end.
"Just three poor girls, still waiting. You can go too, we are gone. "
As for Jia Yingchun and other sisters, the author took it through the mouth of Mrs. Wang :
"It's been four shifts, their sisters couldn't make it, they all went to sleep. "
Daguanyuan was censored, was kicked out, and the honest and honest Jia Yingchun was not in the mood to accompany his grandmother to appreciate the moon on this Mid-Autumn Festival. She never thought that bad luck would soon befall her.
Mid-Autumn Festival full moon night, she can also be a Pingting woman who divides her hands, and her wedding date is coming soon.
It's just that she gets It's not a sweetheart, but the Zhongshan wolf Sun Shaozu who sent her to Huangquan Road.
's Mid-Autumn Festival couplet "Competing for cakes and laughing at yellow hair, dividing melons and laughing at green girls" has various interpretations, and has one. One interpretation is that the "red" of the red silk cake alludes to the Ming Dynasty, while "mocking yellow hair" satirizes the former ministers of the Ming Dynasty who had eaten red silk cake to surrender to the Qing Dynasty, and "dividing the melon" refers to the disintegration of the Ming Dynasty. , read from the perspective of our ordinary readers, these two poems are really the true expression of Daiyu Xiangyun's sadness and affection for her family.
During this Mid-Autumn Festival, Daiyu Xiangyun, who lives in Jia's house, has no home to return to. , On the Mid-Autumn Festival full moon night, when the family was supposed to be busy offering sacrifices to the moon and eating cakes, they could only write poems in front of this pool of bright moonlight, loneliness and coldness. Isn't it sad!
Author: our specially invited author Wumeng Hall Master
