Regarding the age and place of "Dream of the Red Chamber", the first time it was perfunctory:
However, at the age of the dynasty, the state of the earth was lost.
In the seventy-eighth "Furong Recitation", due to the requirements of the stylistic format, it is necessary to have a year, month and day, and the response is:
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Taiping is not easy yuan, Rong Gui Jingfang's moon (only to see that it is August), helpless day.
The location is often true or false. In addition to Suzhou, Huzhou (the first time), Jinling, Ying Tianfu (the third time), etc., which are not only famous places in the Qing Dynasty, the rest are mostly "false language village dialects", such as what is da ruzhou, iron net mountain, Xiaoci County, Ping'an Prefecture, etc., which are basically some false place names, or vague place names such as "the land of the four major continents to the middle, Fengtian Yongjian Taiping Kingdom". The book repeatedly mentions "Beijing", but all of them use "Chang'an" to deal with it ambiguously, or only say "enter Beijing" and "come to Beijing". None of them use "Beijing".
So, when and where did these things written in the book happen? This is a little secret of the author, "Don't tell you, don't tell you!" "Naughty like a little dragon man.
However, the "little dragon man" is "cunning" and there are also times when he "accidentally" exposes his "horse's feet".
Let's start with the chronology.
Forty-fifth time:
Bao Yu heard that, and pulled out a gold watch the size of a walnut in his arms, and looked at it, the needle had pointed to the end of the beginning of the sea, busy and carrying...
Regarding the time when the pocket watch entered China, Guangzhou Daily said: In January 2006, the Qing Dynasty "Fuman Qiankun" pocket watch successfully restored by the China Watch Association and the Forbidden City cultural relics experts was displayed in Guangzhou. According to experts, the prototype of the watch was first designed by the Kangxi Emperor in 1710 and was awarded as a birthday gift to his mother, Empress Xiaohui. This table is made of gold and jade, carved dragon and phoenix in the form of auspicious, containing the five elements of yin and yang.
News reports did not explicitly say whether this "Fu Man Qiankun" was the first pocket watch to enter China, but it was undoubtedly an earlier one.
In the twenty-eighth year of the Ming Dynasty (1600), the Italian missionary Matteo Ricci introduced Western clocks to the mainland, which was then called "self-chiming bells" - which appeared many times in the Dream of the Red Chamber; and the entry of pocket watches was even later, during the Kangxi Dynasty of the Qing Dynasty. As a relative of the imperial family, the Jia family can use fashionable daily necessities such as pocket watches almost simultaneously with the imperial palace, and it is quite popular. The fourteenth time, Sister Feng said, "Su Ri and my people have their own clocks with them."
More than just pocket watches. There is something else.
The sixth time, Jia Rong borrowed a "glass kang screen" from Wang Xifeng.
Fifty-two times:
Musk Yue really went to take a flat box with gold inlaid double-button Venus glass and handed it to Baoyu. Baoyu then opened the box fan, and inside there was a yellow-haired with Western enamel, two ribs and flesh wings, and some real Wang Cha Yang smoke inside.
Fifty-seven times:
For a moment, Baoyu glanced at a golden Western self-propelled ship displayed on the ten gold lattice...
Wang Chayang tobacco, also known as snuff, was first introduced to China during the Ming Dynasty. Glass products, according to "Yongzheng Decade: The Story of the Swedish Ship" (published by the Line Bound Book Company in 2006), the palace really uses glass, and the exquisite screen made of glass is popular in the homes of the rich and noble in Beijing, using Western glass imported from Guangzhou, when Yongzheng was in the seventh to tenth year.
The Great Qing Huidian records that in the third year of Yongzheng (1725), the western Kingdom of Idariah (i.e., Italy) sent envoys to celebrate and pay tribute to "root silk seat ships, four-wheeled ships, mirrors, snuffs" and other objects.
Pocket watches, glass Kang screens, glass boxes with angel patterns, snuff, Western self-propelled boat models, these daily imported objects of Jia Fu, revealed the coordinate information of the times, all pointing to the Kangxi (end) and Yongzheng years.
One more detail:
The fifty-third time "NingguoFu Chinese New Year's Eve Sacrifice Ancestral Hall":
There is a plaque hanging on it, which reads "Jia Clan Ancestral Hall" in four large characters, and the side book is "Yan Sheng Gong Kong Ji Zong Shu" (there is also a version of the "Book of Wang Xi, the Former Hanlin Governor of the Special Jin Dynasty").
When it comes to the person with the plaque, this time is revealed more specifically.
Because this inscription is not an ordinary person, it is a "Yan Sheng Gong"; Kong, Meng, Yan, and Zeng use the "Tongtian Family Tree", which is orderly in the inheritance of generations, not chaotic for thousands of years, and it is easy to check. The "Ji" character Yan Sheng Gong, the 69th grandson of Confucius, named Kong Ji Hao, died prematurely at the age of twenty-three in the fifty-eighth year of the Kangxi Dynasty (1719), and his dukedom of Yan Sheng was posthumously given.
It also points to the last years of the Kangxi Dynasty.
And then there's the location.
Fifty-seventh time: Xing Xianyan told Xue Baochao that her cotton clothes were in "Shu Heng Dang" and "Gulou West Street".
Coincidentally, this pawnshop was opened by the Xue family. Therefore, Bao Chao took this matter and hit Xing Xiuyan, who was already engaged to Xue Tao: "People didn't come, but things came first." ”
This "Shu Heng Dang" opened on "Gulou West Street" is one of the "several businesses in Kyoto" mentioned in the fourth time of the Imperial Merchant Xue Family.
By the way, looking out at the four major families of "fierce roar" and "great yangyang", the pawnshop run by the Xue family in the capital, even the cotton clothes of the cold people's families such as Xing Xiuyan were collected, and the business was a little cold, but it corresponded to the fourth time, and the business in Kyoto was "gradually consumed" and began to decline - why can the novel "Dream of the Red Chamber" make people so respectful, because of its self-respecting and rigorous writing attitude.
Gulou West Street is located on the north bank of The Shichahai Sea in Beijing. The Yuan Dynasty was the most lively place in most of the capital, called the Xie Street Market.
Of course, "Chang'an" also has a drum tower, and there is also a drum tower street. However, this "Gulou West Street" (the name of this place also has old and new sayings) in Cao Xueqin's "Dream of the Red Chamber" written by "Old Beijing" cao Xueqin will obviously not be "Chang'an".
The great, genius, wise, and intelligent Cao Xueqin, not only wanted to write such a family history and family affairs (the Qianlong Emperor thought that "Dream of the Red Chamber" was written as an anecdote about the Ming Pearl family of the Powerful Ministers of the Kangxi Dynasty), but also wanted to avoid the harsh "word disaster" of the Yongzheng and Qianlong periods. However, mastering such a huge work of more than 700,000 words, portraying the activities of the characters inevitably brings out a lot of time and space background information, and if there is really nothing in it, it is simply impossible. It doesn't matter if he's "intentional" or "unintentional."
It is this east and west, rare, seemingly inadvertently dropped real information, like the naughty little dragon people deliberately sold guanzi, more and more arouse our interest in reading this world masterpiece.
Author: Qian Jie Responsible Editor: Yang Mengzi