Analysis of plot characters such as Shi Xiangyun in A Dream of Red Mansions (in detail)

Shi Xiangyun in A Dream of Red Mansions is one of the typical figures created by Cao Xueqin in the first eighty chapters. She is an orphan of Hou Shi family, an aristocrat in Jinling, written in the fourth official protection symbol, and the only person in A Dream of Red Mansions who positively describes the decline and replacement of Hou Shi family. She is the granddaughter of Jiafu, the ancestor of Jiafu, and was loved by Jiafu since childhood, so she can often live in Jiafu and establish a close relationship with Jia Baoyu in her innocent childhood. Moreover, she is wearing a golden unicorn, which is exactly the same as the golden unicorn that Jia Baoyu got from the Taoist priest at Qingxuguan. This is a female and a male, making a pair. In the words of Pang Ping, this is the "shading method" of the author's painting. In the entanglement of Jia Baoyu's love and marriage tragedy, she seems to be involved at arm's length, which makes this tragedy more profound and moving. All these are enough to explain the important position of Shi Xiangyun in the whole image system of A Dream of Red Mansions, and his important role in expressing the theme of the book and deepening the social connotation of the tragedy of marriage and love. Unfortunately, in Cao Xueqin's works, the image of Shi Xiangyun, like other major figures, is an unfinished image, her personality needs to be enriched, and her fate is changing and developing. Compared with other characters, the treatment of this image in Gao E's sequel is more sloppy and inferior, which completely violates Cao Xueqin's original artistic conception, making this vivid and vivid character in the first eighty chapters suddenly eclipsed, making people a little less angry. It is precisely because of these reasons that the fate and outcome of Shi Xiangyun after 1980s has become a problem that the Red Chamber has been trying to explore and discuss for more than 200 years.

Cao Xueqin's foreshadowing and suggestion on Shi Xiangyun's future fate in the first eighty chapters is not only rare, but also the only clue for thinking and deduction. They are subtle enough to lead people to have different understandings and make different judgments. The relationship between them seems so contradictory, which also causes people greater doubts and differences. Both sides hold their own opinions and may come to fundamentally opposite conclusions. Some people think that Shi Xiangyun's ending is premature death, or widowhood. In short, husband and wife will never end. This statement is based on Shi Xiangyun's album "Poems and Songs in the Fifth Wonderland". Some people think that Shi Xiangyun's ending is harmony between the piano and the harp, and the husband and wife grow old together. Based on the thirty-first eye, "because Kirin has a white-headed binary star." As for who Shi Xiangyun married, some thought it was Jia Baoyu, some thought it was Wei, and some thought it was someone else. According to different materials, the conclusions are different. The two theories seem to have their own reasons and shortcomings, so it is difficult to speak fluently.

Cao Xueqin left an unfinished manuscript of A Dream of Red Mansions. After his death in160 s, the authors who first came into contact with this problem were the sequels. The last forty sequels of Gao Ying's existing book did not make Shi Xiangyun appear. Only in the first 106, with the help of two female historians, I introduced "my uncle is very good-looking and very peaceful" and "his literary talent is not bad", and added a few words, which is an echo of the sentence "that fellow is both talented and beautiful" in Song Dynasty. Chapter 109 explained that Jia was critically ill and wanted to see Xiangyun and sent someone to pick her up. The person who sent it back said that Shi Xiangyun was crying very sadly, because her husband suddenly fell ill, and the doctor said that she could not afford to get sick and could not expect to be well. Jia mu is dying, and she can't come to die. By the time 1 18, I explained that her husband had passed away and she was determined to be a widow. Gao Ying only sent Shi Xiangyun to marry a man who didn't know his surname in the fifth session according to the verdict and tune, and soon became a widow, regardless of this arrangement and the consciousness between the thirty-first session. This is far from Cao Shi's original idea. No wonder some critics later criticized Gao's book and pointed out the defects of his sequel. Qing Ping Qing once said that a Dream of Red Mansions was first printed, and after eighty times, it went to anecdotes. Uncle Gao Lan attended it and it was easy to delete it. It turns out that Shi Xiangyun married Baoyu, so there is a chapter entitled "Because Kirin is a white-headed binary star"; Baochai was widowed early, so there is a riddle of' loving couples are not in winter'. Blue books change each other, but the chapters and riddles don't change, which leads to inconsistency, which is also obvious. "("the outer fragments ",Guangxu edition, volume 9)

At the same time, there is another sequel circulating in the society. This sequel, which has not been handed down yet, can be roughly outlined according to all the materials recorded by Qing people and neighbors and Shi Xiangyun's handling in this sequel.

Tang Fu Yi Shi's Notes on Wei Caotang's Further Reading contains: "A Dream of Red Mansions is widely known, and we especially like reading it. However, after a hundred times, it was not written by one person. Dai Juncheng has just seen an old original, but after watching it eighty times, it is completely different from today. After Rong Ning was born, he was extremely depressed; Baochai also died early, and Baoyu had no writer, so he fell into the stream of blows; Shi Xiangyun was a beggar and later married Baoyu. Therefore, there is a saying in the book that' Kirin White, Double Star White'. " This material is the source of a passage in A Dream of Red Mansions in My Notes published by Bao Jing later in Shanghai. Zhao, a Qing Dynasty man, said in Zhang Ke Miscellaneous Notes (the manuscript of the eleventh year of Xianfeng) that "Baoyu is a street policeman, and Shi Xiangyun met Baoyu again before the book was finished." Dong Kang's "On Bo Shu" Volume 4 also records that his mother "read a book when she was young (referring to A Dream of Red Mansions), Lin Xue died young, Rong Ning was replaced, and Baoyu's dross was matched with Xiangyun, so it belonged to a double star." Mr. Zhou's New Proof of A Dream of Red Mansions (1976 edition) records the story of A Dream of Red Mansions written by Mr. Zhou, the story of A Dream of Red Mansions scribbled by Chu Deyi's postscript, and the story of Japanese talking about the 36 bridges seen by Professor Datong, which is similar to the story of A Dream of Red Mansions contained in Notes on Continuing Reading Wei Caotang. It is said that Xue Baochai is married. Jia Baoyu was poor and became a street watchman; Shi Xiangyun was married and widowed, so she married Baoyu.

Judging from the plot and content involved in the last few materials, although we are not sure that all scholars have recorded the same version, it is no problem to say that it is a sequel of the same type. The treatment of several main characters in this sequel book is different from Gao Xu's. After Jia's property was seized, Baoyu was devastated and he became a watchman. Baochai died young, and Baoyu and Xiangyun married in poverty. This kind of sequel arranges Shi Xiangyun's fate in this way, completely to take care of the foreshadowing of the thirty-first time "because Kirin has a white-headed binary star", while ignoring the hint of the fifth episode atlas and the song "Joy with Sadness". It can be seen that the echo of "Because of the White-headed Double Star of Kirin" has a great influence on the authors of this kind of sequel books. Gao E's sequel to Shi Xiangyun is mediocre and inferior, but it is not wonderful. Also paranoid, did not understand Cao Xueqin's original intention.

About the ending of Shi Xiangyun, not only those sequels who can't hope for Cao Xueqin's success find themselves embarrassed by lack of money, but also the red scholars of past dynasties are puzzled and have different lawsuits. Commentators have put forward various ideas and speculations, but they can't unify the fifth melody with the thirty-first melody.

Commentators have long pointed out that the contradiction caused by the "double stars grow old because of Kirin" in the thirty-first catalogue Gaoxu 120 catalogue:

Some people say that Qin Xue wrote the Story of the Stone for eighty times, and others will continue to write it for the next forty times ... This is a vulgar hand to increase losses. Only 31 times, "because unicorns have white-headed binary stars", the second half of the sentence can no longer be taken care of, but this is a big doubt. Critics have never singled it out, and I don't know why.

Shi Xiangyun is a poetic character created by Cao Xueqin. As soon as the reader closes his eyes, the characters appear alive: wearing men's clothes and laughing loudly; Romantic, informal; Sharp poetic thinking, talent detachment; Speaking "lisping" is called "Second Brother" and "Love Brother" ... This is a romantic and lovely figure.

Shi Xiangyun, an orphan of Jinling's famous family, is the grandniece of Jia's ancestors. Because of his "disobedience to his parents as a baby", he was deeply loved by the Jia family and often lived in the Jia family. He established childhood friendship with Baoyu in his innocent childhood. As she grew older, she wore a golden unicorn, and later Baoyu got a female and a male, which were paired. In the words of Zhi Yanzhai, this is the "shade method" of the author's painting. She implicitly wrote a "golden marriage". This symbolic meaning involved her in the love and marriage tragedy of Bao, Dai and Chai. Thus making this tragedy more tortuous and moving. Therefore, her important position in A Dream of Red Mansions plays an important role in expressing the theme of the book and deepening the social significance of love tragedy.

When Shi Xiangyun was a child, his parents died and his fate was ill-fated. He lives on his aunt. However, she is a "great optimist" because of her bold nature and open mind. In A Dream of Red Mansions, we don't seem to see her real troubles. She always laughs and is full of interest and enthusiasm for life. As for her personality, the author not only made achievements in commenting and reconciling the songs of A Dream of Red Mansions, but also made many poems and paintings. The author showed the personality characteristics of "love to laugh" and "bite the tongue" when she first appeared, saying that she was caught in the love entanglement of Bao, Dai and Chai. Her arrival made Daiyu jealous and quarreled with Baoyu. The next morning, Baoyu came to see Daiyu and Xiangyun:

I saw two sisters still lying in bed. Daiyu is tightly wrapped in the apricot HongLing quilt, which is safe and harmonious. Xiangyun is resting on a pair of moss; There is a pink silk quilt outside the quilt, which is only chest high and covered with the curved white arm. There are obviously two gold bracelets on it. Baoyu sighed, "It's still dishonest to sleep! ..... Through the description of their sleeping state, they show two completely different personalities, and the precision of Daiyu's works is in sharp contrast with the magnificence of Xiangyun.

When Cao Xueqin portrays the image of a beautiful woman, he never writes the characters perfectly. Often written as a beautiful jade flaw. Such as Daiyu's weakness, Baochai's fever and Yuanyang's freckles. These "flaws" not only did not affect the aesthetic feeling of the characters, but added features to make the characters more vivid. This aesthetic dialectics is also used to shape the image of Shi Xiangyun. He not only gave this beautiful girl the flaw of "lisping her tongue", but also mixed her with some charming masculinity. She always likes men's clothes. Every time it snows heavily, her dress is different: she wears a big coat with fire inside and outside, a red gorilla suit on her head and a big mouse collar. Daiyu smiled and said to her, "Look, the monkey is coming. He usually holds a cigar and deliberately pretends to be a bit coquettish. " They also laughed: "He only likes to dress smaller, more beautiful than his daughter." She cooked venison with Baoyu and Pinger. Dai-yu laughed at them, and Xiangyun said, "You know,' it's true that celebrities love themselves' ..... We have eaten and drank a lot now, but when we came back, we were full of smiles." Even when writing a poem, she would recite the poem "Sitting by the fence, tuck in the Leng Xiang" and behave like a hidden woman. Shi Xiangyun's image is more attractive because there are some romantic couples in her beauty and charm.

Cao Xueqin also showed her enthusiasm and frankness when she created the image of Shi Xiangyun. She is a very talkative person, a "chatterbox" and shows enthusiasm for people and things. Xiangling wants to learn poetry; She dared not disturb Baochai, so she asked Xiangyun for advice. She's "getting happier and happier, talking about it day and night." To this end, Baochai criticized her for "not keeping her duty"; Not like a girl's house. She is what she appears to be, outspoken and doesn't mind her boss. Once in the theater, Feng pointed to a child on the stage and said, "This child is dressed like a person." Everyone knows who Feng refers to, but they won't say it for fear of offending people. Xiangyun said bluntly, "I know, like Sister Lin V ... for this reason, she offended the fifth issue and also had contradictions with Baoyu." On one occasion, she advised Baoyu to take the road of "career economy" and asked Baoyu to make an "eviction order". Some people say that this shows that Xiangyun has a strong feudal consciousness. Actually, it's not like this. It just shows her naivety. Later, I went to Jiafu and lived with Baochai all the time, and she was also influenced by it. But those words to persuade Baoyu were by no means Xiangyun's own thoughts, just parroting.

The author also shows Xiangyun's transcendental talent and the agility of poetry. Xiangyun's poems come the fastest and most in Lu Xueting's couplets, concave crystal pavilion's couplets and every poetry competition, and show her chic style. Ode to Bai Haitang, she came late. In the case that others have almost exhausted the meaning, she actually won two songs in a row, which is novel and unique, and has won everyone's admiration and appreciation. When Lu Xueting wrote poems, she ate venison and drank wine, so her poems became excellent, many and good, which led to the situation that Baoqin, Baochai and Daiyu were all war criminals. Everyone laughed: "It's all because of fast venison." The sixty-second Han Xiangyun Drunk in the Peony Garden is a hymn of youth and a movement of life, which is very lively, and Shi Xiangyun is one of the most active elements. Everyone guessed, drank, and wrote poems. Three called four, seven called eight, and the whole court was full of red flies and green dances, and jade beads shook. Once, at the end of the banquet, Xiangyun suddenly disappeared:

Just then, I saw a little girl coming with a big smile and said, "Look, Miss Yun was drunk and fell asleep on the bluestone stool behind the rock." When everyone heard this, they all laughed: "Stop arguing." Looking around, I saw Xiangyun lying on a stone bench in a secluded place on the rock, with fragrant dreams, peony flowers flying in all directions and red incense scattered all over her skirt. The fan in his hand is underground, half buried by fallen flowers, surrounded by a group of bees and butterflies. Another bag of peony petals is wrapped in a shark handkerchief as a pillow. When everyone saw it, they all loved and laughed, and rushed to call for help. Xiangyun was still talking in her sleep and drinking, and DuDu shouted, "Spring fragrance is about to drip, and ... it's suitable for meeting relatives and friends." .....

This is a poem, this is a painting, and it is a poetic Shi Xiangyun. Who doesn't feel cute in the face of such a role? Who doesn't fall for it? But it is a pity that Cao Xueqin died young before Shi Xiangyun's characterization was finally completed. We obviously feel that Shi Xiangyun is a developing figure, and her character and image need to be further enriched and enriched. There is a return to the title of "Double Star with White Head and Kirin" in the book; The fat batch has the prompt of "Wei Pai Nursery"; Especially in her judgments and songs, we generally know her fate and destination; In some of her poems, there are also many revelations and hints. The general view in Dream of Red Mansions is that Shi Xiangyun later married Wei, and she was very satisfied with her "Maung Saw Xianlang" and her happy life after marriage. However, the good times did not last long, from joy to sadness, and finally "the clouds are high and the Tang Dynasty is high, and the water dries up the Xiangjiang River", which is classified as the unfortunate division of the illusory world.

A vigorous and beautiful life like Shi Xiangyun was destroyed without exception. How will this cause people to think? How do you feel about destroying her society and power? Therefore, it is understandable that Jia has become a "dirty embryo".