Well, the only fly in the ointment is that even if the Qi Mei case is today, what's the point?

"Sighing that the world is getting worse, there is a fly in the ointment. Even if Qi Mei is introduced, it will be difficult to settle in the end." It comes from Cao Xueqin's Big Mistake in Life in the Qing Dynasty, which means "Sighing now that I believe that everything in the world is not perfect, and there are some fly in the ointment. Even if I finally get married, there are still some imbalances."

The original text of "A lifetime mistake"

All roads are good marriages. I have only seen the alliance before Mushi.

Facing the sky, the nobles in the mountains are crystal clear with snow; I will never forget the lonely forest in the world.

Alas, the only fly in the ointment is today's letter: even Qi Mei's case is hard to settle.

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Jinyuliangyin: refers to the marriage between Baoyu and Baochai. Jin Yu: semantic pun, which is both valuable and refers to Baochai and Baoyu. Wood and stone, meaning pun, are opposite to "golden jade" and refer to Daiyu and Baoyu.

The former alliance of wood and stone: the opposite of "good marriage" refers to the love between Jia Baoyu and Lin Daiyu due to their previous alliance.

Snow: The homonym of "snow" refers to Xue Baochai, which also means cold. Gao Shi: A gentle and cultured person refers to Baochai. The author compares Baochai to a "scholar in the mountains", which shows Baochai's noble character.

Shu: Beauty. Lin: It refers to Lin Daiyu.

Mei Qi gave an example: here Baoyu and Baochai maintained a ceremony of mutual respect between husband and wife on the surface. Although Baochai treated Baoyu well, Baoyu refused to let Daiyu go, saying, "It's hard to end peacefully." Case: There are enough snack plates.

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Creation background

In this era, Cao Xueqin wrote Twelve Dreams of Red Mansions and Twelve Women's Judgments in Jinling in a romantic way. These two groups of poems with complete structure are the outlines of the image of twelve women in Jinling. Some plots in Twelve Poems of a Dream of Red Mansions and even the whole Dream of Red Mansions are superficial love, and Cao Xueqin opposes the vulgar and low-level love of "talented people and beautiful women".

The love affirmed by Cao Xueqin is based on the betrayal of feudal patriarchal order, Confucian ethics and the same ideology. This kind of love is essentially a political issue and a reflection of the ideological struggle at the end of feudal society. Cao Xueqin put "Life Wrong" at the head of the twelve poems, which showed Baoyu's completely different feelings and intentions towards Baochai and Daiyu, and expressed Baoyu's resentment against the "golden marriage" that he had no chance to have for life.

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This piece of music is from A Dream of Red Mansions, which symbolizes the "good fortune" of feudal marriage and the "alliance of wood and stone" of free love. It has been painted with the charm of the monk in the novel and loaded into the fairy book of the police and robbers. In this way, the tragedy of Jia Baoyu and Lin Daiyu, and the combination of Jia Baoyu and Xue Baochai have all become doomed fate.

Feudal oppression can force people to be in a position they don't want to be in, which can lead to weak struggle failure, but it is impossible to eliminate the stronger resistance of people who have realized that the real environment is unreasonable. Without love, a "golden marriage" cannot eliminate Jia Baoyu's great mental pain, make him forget his true spiritual companion, and reconcile the essential conflict between him and Xue Baochai.

"Even in the case of Qi Mei, it is difficult to draw a balance." As a result, Jia Baoyu was desperate and abandoned his family. Xue Baochai lived alone in her empty boudoir and held a lifelong grudge. The so-called "golden jade marriage" is actually "golden jade becomes empty"! The works show Cao Xueqin's ideological tendency and his bold and profound critical spirit to feudal traditional concepts.

Brief introduction of the author

Cao Xueqin (about1765438+May 28th, 2005-about1February 763 12), whose real name is Zhan, real name, real name and Qin Pu, is the author of China's classic Dream of Red Mansions, and his ancestral home is disputed.

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