How did the imperial concubine in a dream of red mansions die?

As we all know, in A Dream of Red Mansions, the wealth of Jia Wang and Shi Xue's four families is quite rich. However, this book mainly describes the decline of the four major families. With the decline of the four families, some characters in the four families will naturally experience some tragic fate.

Among them, for the fate of Jia Yuanchun, because there are not many descriptions in the book, many people will wonder what she died for as an imperial concubine in the palace.

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Many people have different views on Jia Yuanchun's death. However, after watching A Dream of Red Mansions, I think Jia Yuanchun is more likely to be put to death in limbo.

Why? Let me talk about my point of view.

The Rise of Jia Yuanchun

In fact, from the beginning of the story, we can know that the rise of expect the unexpected suddenly caught the whole Jia family off guard. In the long years before she became a virtuous princess, she was never liked by the emperor and remained unknown. So there are many unreasonable places in her favor.

The four Jia aristocratic families are so arrogant, why did the emperor spoil their daughters?

In fact, at the beginning of the story, the buzzwords of the four families were nothing to us now, but at that time, this was a big contradiction.

"Jia is not false, white jade is the golden horse in the hall. The East China Sea is short of white jade beds, and the Dragon King came to invite King Jinling. In good years and heavy snow, pearls are as gold as iron. Abang Palace, 300 Li, can't live in Jinling for history. "

I don't know how readers will react when they see this, but if I were the emperor, I would think that these four families were too arrogant, even openly proclaiming among the people that he was worse than my emperor, and slandering that my emperor lacked something and insisted on "pleasing" them. Moreover, even if this is said in other places, it is still circulating in Beijing.

This is simply a big violation!

Moreover, Jia Fu is only a five-level official, and he dares to openly interfere with the court's employment and engage in cronyism, which is even more serious. Besides, Jia Fu's arrogance and absurdity in Beijing are unforgivable. In this case, the emperor suddenly favored Jia Yuanchun, which was illogical. Because of this, Xue Baochai came to choose Princess Bandu or something, and was directly cut.

So, why is Jia Yuanchun suddenly favored? I think there are two main reasons.

First, Jia Yuanchun had a miscarriage, and the emperor gave her compensation, or hush money.

From the book, we can know that Jia Yuanchun should be pregnant in the pomegranate flowering season. In fact, everyone who has planted pomegranate knows that pomegranate blooms twice a year, once in spring and once in autumn. Pomegranate flowers in spring mean that many children are blessed and children can be born. Pomegranate blooms in autumn, but it can only blossom but not bear fruit. Therefore, Jia Yuanchun should have been found pregnant in autumn.

Jia Yuanchun's pregnancy is not a good thing for the emperor.

After all, the Jia family has always been a cigar in Beijing. If Jia Yuanchun is pregnant and has children again, it will not encourage Jia Fu's arrogance. So with this in mind, the emperor will try to abort Jia Yuanchun's fetus. This, like the second sister you's fetus was aborted, is a truth. It's all an excuse to kill the fetus by using a knife.

Of course, after the fetus fell, the emperor naturally gave Jia Yuanchun a compensation, so this compensation was actually to give her a false name and let her go home to visit relatives or something. At this point, we can also come to this conclusion by looking at what kind of fake name Sister You took after the abortion.

After Second Sister You was aborted by Feng, Feng suddenly became virtuous and hated it. However, on the surface, she burns incense every day and prays for Second Sister You. Second Sister You committed suicide shortly after losing her child. By the same token, since the emperor gave birth to a child he didn't want, it is natural to give Jia Yuanchun some benefits, that is, let her be a concubine and tell her to shut up.

Second, Jia Yuanchun's concubines and mothering were actually a trick for the emperor to confuse Jia Fu.

The so-called abscess is not bad enough to be radically removed. Although Jia Fu did some ridiculous things before this, if he wants to destroy Jia Fu just by those things before, it will also be said by others. In this case, the emperor deliberately flattered Jia Yuanchun, so that Jia Fu people were "unappreciative".

Sure enough, the emperor's move was very effective.

After becoming a concubine, Jia's arrogance is more prosperous than before: the filial piety of the country, Wang Xifeng as a housewife let the servants buy off the government to frame Zhang and so on. It's really not too late for all kinds of movements. Although the successful construction of the Grand View Garden has made the Jia family's house beautiful for some time, the "property fee" subsidized by the Jia family every year is also an astronomical figure. It costs a lot of money to take care of such a big garden every year, not to mention so many maids living in it, as well as labor costs, tree planting costs, garden maintenance costs and so on. It will cost more than building a garden for many years. So through this means, on the one hand, the emperor deliberately made Jia Fu more arrogant, so that he could catch more handles; On the other hand, we can also use this trick to make Jiafu decline. The Jia family was not as good as before, and the wall was pushed down by everyone. The emperor didn't have to do anything, and the Jia family declined.

The death of Jia Yuanchun.

In fact, after analyzing the emperor's intentions, we can easily understand the statement that Jia Yuanchun was sentenced to death. After all, after the end of Yuan Chun's mothering, the emperor's role of letting Jia's family leave more handles in his hands is over. Since she is no longer needed, she will naturally be abandoned and put aside.

Therefore, Jia Yuanchun's death can be analyzed from two points.

First of all, the root cause of Jia Yuanchun's death is that she has no use value.

As I said above, Jia Yuanchun was favored for her usefulness: the emperor gave her the title of a virtuous princess to show his generosity, calling her virtuous, and also warned everyone in the Jia family to save themselves. So, after meeting her family in Jia Yuanchun, she also told them not to be so arrogant in the future, which actually meant secretly warning them.

But unfortunately, people in Jiafu didn't understand that Jia Yuanchun was in bereavement at that time and didn't think too much. Moreover, after the mothering in Jia Yuanchun, the emperor gave all the gifts to Jia Fu and let Jia Fu live in the Grand View Garden, which increased Jia Fu's expenses for no reason. In this case, if the emperor continues to love Jia Yuanchun, won't the royal family bear a large property fee for the Grand View Garden every year?

Therefore, in this case, the emperor must find an excuse to make Jia Yuanchun fall out of favor. As long as she falls out of favor, the Jia family will increase some unnecessary expenses because of the existence of the Grand View Garden.

So, what is this excuse? This is the direct reason I will talk about next: Jia Yuanchun, a virtuous princess, is not virtuous.

Secondly, the direct cause of Jia Yuanchun's death is her words and deeds in the process of parenting.

Jia Yuanchun's mothering period is vast, and there are many etiquette officials around him. In this case, when Jia Yuanchun returns to her mother's home, she must pay attention to her manners. Otherwise, she will be caught by the etiquette officer and go back to his book, and she will get more than one bargained for. However, even so, Jia Yuanchun didn't pay attention to the etiquette officials around him and indulged his feelings to speak and do things.

She should be very happy to go back to visit her relatives after sealing the imperial concubine. However, when Jia Yuanchun came home, he didn't show much joy, but cried. You know, this is the mercy of heaven. Jia Yuanchun should be happy to receive such an honor. She has broken the taboo by crying. Words differ from deeds. The emperor named her the imperial concubine and allowed her to go back to visit her relatives. In fact, he also wanted to make her happy. But what did she do? When I met my mother Jia Mu and others, I said the palace was a "dark place". When I met my father, on that formal occasion, she publicly declared that "although I am extremely rich today, it is not interesting in the end." Such wealth is not as good as ordinary poor families and so on. The emperor kindly arranged such an activity for her to ease her mood, but she openly complained about the royal family. For these reasons, the emperor naturally has reason to let her fall out of favor directly. Therefore, her death was because she lost the function of balancing the Jia family and the emperor, so the emperor used her words and deeds as an excuse to directly make her fall out of favor and enter the cold palace. In the palace, an out-of-favor concubine is nothing. As the saying goes, "the wall topples and everyone pushes", Jia Yuanchun, who was originally rich, has long attracted the red eyes of ladies-in-waiting. After she fell out of favor, all kinds of slanderous words will be heard. Therefore, Jia Yuanchun's final outcome can only be sentenced to death.