"Dream of the Red Chamber", also known as "Stone Record", one of the four classical masterpieces in China, has been debated endlessly about the author and the things said in the book for more than 200 years since its publication. At the beginning of the last century, Mr. Hu Shi came to the conclusion that the author of "Dream of the Red Chamber" was Cao Xueqin, and the author of "Dream of the Red Chamber" was Cao Xueqin, and the book was "the author of the book himself", based on the statement in "Dream of the Red Chamber", adding and deleting five times, compiling a catalog, and dividing the chapters and returning chapters" to the title "The Twelve Chao of Jinling". However, even so, the controversy about who the author of "Dream of the Red Chamber" is still not stopping. There is also a rough statistic that in recent years, there have been more than sixty authors of "Dream of the Red Chamber", and there are many various theories.
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◆ Statement 1: The author of "Dream of the Red Chamber" is Cao Xueqin's father Cao Fu
Chen Lin, a young scholar, proposed in his long essay "Deciphering the Mystery of Time in the Red Chamber" that the 120 novels of "Dream of the Red Chamber" are an organic whole, and its real author is Cao Xueqin's father, Cao Fu, that is, the famous critic "Fat Yanzhai" in the early manuscripts of the novel; and Cao Xueqin is only the creator of some of the poems in the novel.
According to this paper, the author of the novel hides and implies a "real chronological sequence" in the work, and the 120 novels are narrated year by year according to such a real chronological sequence from 1706 to 1724, and its main argument is the plot of the calendar astronomy, the eight-character numerology, the death and burial of the old empress (princess), and the Great Decisive Mouth of the Yellow River in Henan.
The verification method proposed in the paper is that since all the plots are marked with real ages, the plots of the novel, such as calendar celestial phenomena, royal funerals, and major natural disasters, are also marked with real ages; using the Qing Dynasty calendar astronomical data and the letter history documents to verify, it is possible to find out whether there are any situations described in the novel in those years in history.
According to the "restored" chronological sequence, the date of birth of Jia Baoyu verified by the paper should be June 8, 1706 (the 28th day of the fourth month of the lunar calendar, "Christmas of the Medicine King"). The paper further proposes that since the novel has shown that "author = stone = Jia Baoyu", then Jia Baoyu's real date of birth is the birthday of the author of the novel himself. The paper compares Cao Xueqin's family history with this birthday, looks for Jia Baoyu's "literary archetype", and believes that the only correct counterpart is Cao Yin's step-son, Cao Fu, who once succeeded his father and brother Jiang Ning weaving, and the prototype character of YuanChun is Cao Yin's eldest daughter Cao Jia.
On the basis of confirming that "the 120 novels are Cao Fu's chronicled autobiographical works", the thesis carefully combs through the "fat batch" on the early manuscript of the novel, and believes that "Fat Yan Zhai" is Cao Fu, who wrote his dying pen on the "Jia Wu Ren Day" (February 17, 1774, the seventh day of the first lunar month). The paper argues that the "Shu Shu Shu" and the "Jingzang Ben Commentary" refer to the author of the novel as Cao Xueqin, and falsely claim that the novel manuscript is missing and the pretense does not appear in the plot of the 120 surviving novels, so it must be a forgery.
The last two chapters of the paper focus on Cao Xueqin's identity, the year of birth and death, and her contribution to Dream of the Red Chamber. Cao Xueqin is either the son of Cao Fu or the son of Cao Fu, and the two must be one of them. The thesis believes that the corresponding novel character of Cao Yan's son is Jia Lan, and Cao Xueqin's poetry and madness are incomparable to Jia Lan, so Cao Xueqin is Cao Fu's son, and the corresponding novel character is Jia Gui, Jia Baoyu's "widowed son".
The thesis argues that according to the real chronological sequence hidden in the novel, the birth year of Jia Baoyu's "widowed son" Jia Gui should be 1725. Based on the time clues provided by the novel text, combined with the estimation method of the expected date of delivery and the traditional method of estimating the "fetal yuan", the thesis presumes that Xue Baochao became pregnant at the beginning of the eighth lunar month in 1724 and gave birth to Jia Gui on June 6, 1725 (the twenty-sixth mangzong of the fourth month of the lunar calendar).
"Dream of the Red Chamber" Jia Shu Ben unique eyebrow criticism: "The facts are facts, but there are also gaps, twists and turns, there are reversals, there are reflections, there are hidden views, there are positive and leap, so that the grass snake gray line, the empty valley sound, one blow and two sounds, the Ming Xiu Trail, the dark crossing Chen Cang, the cloud dragon fog and rain, the confrontation between the two mountains, the cloud and the moon, the back of the powder, the secret method in the thousands of dyes in the strange books, there is no less." Yu also searched for the cut in the return, understood the annotations, waited for the mastery, and then gave false instructions. Chen Lin believes that this is a figurative comment by the novel's author Cao Fu on the way he conceals the true age of the work.
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◆ Statement 2: The author of "Dream of the Red Chamber" is Mao Xiang
Huang Weimin, who was born into a family that studied the dream of the Red Chamber, believes that the literary scholar of the late Ming and early Qing dynasties wrote "Dream of the Red Chamber".
Mao Xiang (1611 ~ 1693), character Peijiang, number Nest people, no. 1 Park An, also known as Park Chao, Nanzhi Li Rugao (present-day Rugao, Jiangsu) people, late Ming and early Qing dynasty writers, one of the four princes of the late Ming Dynasty. Mao Xiang wrote a lot of works in his lifetime, including "Records of the Ancestors Before the Ancestors", "Collection of Poems of Pu Chao", "Copy of The Collection of Poems of Yue Cha", "Poetry Collection of Water Painting Garden", "Memories of Yingmei An", "Hanbi Lonely Yin" and "Collection of Poetry of Sixty Years of Teachers and Friends". Among them, "Yingmei An Memoirs" has 4,000 words, recalling his and Dong Xiaowan's entangled love life, and is the originator of China's reminiscence style.
After examining the literature, Huang Weimin believes that:
First, the typical prototype of "Lin Daiyu" is Dong Xiaowan, which is the basic basis for Mao Xiang's work "Dream of the Red Chamber".
There are many artistic models emerging in "Dream of the Red Chamber", and Lin Daiyu can be regarded as one of the most prominent artistic models. The reason why he was able to portray this character image so successfully was that in addition to his literary talent, there was an extraordinary woman Dong Xiaowan around him, towering over his heart.
Why do you see that Lin Daiyu's prototype is Dong Xiaowan? As long as we compare the relevant poems of Mao Peijiang and his friends with the relevant descriptions in "Dream of the Red Chamber", there is no doubt whether Dong Xiaowan is the prototype of Lin Daiyu. For example, Dong Xiaowan once accompanied Qian Qianyi on a tour of Huangshan, which attracted Qian Qianyi's attention to her. Qian Qianyi helped her pay off her debts and get out of her citizenship. And Dong Xiaowan is bent on marrying the person he likes. According to the "Yingmei An Reminiscences", Qian Qianyi "spun to buy a boat and send it to Wugao". In this way, Dong Xiaowan came to Rugao. Later, Su Yuanfang, the wife of Mao Xiang, was introduced to The Mansion. The 3rd time in "Dream of the Red Chamber" writes: "Dai Yu listened, and Fang shed tears to bid farewell,...... Board the boat and go. In the 64th to 65th times, using the "one hit, two sounds" method pointed out by "Fat Yan Zhai", It is written that Jia Zhen transferred You Erjie to Jia Lian. Second Sister You spent four months in the Huazhi Hutong room before being introduced to Jia Mansion by Jia Lian's wife, Wang Xifeng. These things that happened before Dong Xiaowan entered the Mansion were not written directly on Lin Daiyu, but were transcribed to Sister You. Comparing the two, we can clearly see that it is precisely because of the story of Dong Xiaowan in real life that there is the story of Lin Daiyu and You Erjie in "Dream of the Red Chamber".
Second, the "Jia Yuanfei Provincial Relatives" come from Dong Xiaowan's provincial relatives, which is a concrete proof of Xiang Xiang's work "Dream of the Red Chamber".
Opening the "Complete Collection of Adventures in Xinjiang", we can see the record of Dong Xiaowan's provincial relatives; flipping through the "Dream of the Red Chamber", we can see the description of Jia Yuanfei's provincial relatives, the two are basically consistent. For example, the same preparation and process. In order to welcome Dong Xiaowan's relatives, Mao Xiang made meticulous preparations and built a large number of civil engineering to repair the Water Painting Temple (i.e., the Water Painting Garden). Mao Xiang's "Records of the Repair of the Water Painting Temple" wrote, "This temple has been cultivated for a long time, and there are dozens of acres of empty land left", so it was repaired on the original garden site. But where does such a massive renovation project cost? Some people accused Mao Xiang's father, Mao Qizong, of doing something terrible for the cultivation of the garden, and he was so angry that he died after sixty-five days of illness, which stung Xiang Xiang's heart. After the garden was completed, Mao Xiang recorded in the "Records of the Repair of the Water Painting Temple" that he and his family and friends visited the garden to enjoy the scenery and enjoy the poetry. The 16th, 17th and 18th times of "Dream of the Red Chamber" wrote that "our eldest lady is promoted to the title of Shangshu of Fengzao Palace, and is crowned a virtuous concubine", and will be "provincial relatives", "Now Zhou Guiren's father has started work at home, repair the provincial relatives' hospital". This refers to the construction of the Grand View Garden. The land use is also the same as the water painting garden, using the existing garden land, "from the east area, through the East Mansion Garden, turn to the north, a total of measurement is accurate, three and a half miles large, you can build a provincial hospital." "The Construction of the Grand View Garden was successful, and Jia Zheng took Bao Yu and others to visit the garden and inscribed plaques and couplets; later, there were also eight poems of the Great View Garden.
Third, the criticism of "Fat Yan Zhai" is a vivid record of Mao Xiang's work "Dream of the Red Chamber".
More than 2,200 "Fat Yan Zhai" criticisms have become an indispensable part of "Dream of the Red Chamber". So, why is "Fat Yan Zhai" also allowed? Mr. Zhou Ruchang, a famous red scholar, came to the conclusion: "If this person is not a woman, everything is difficult to make sense." He also said that the woman was the wife of the author of "Dream of the Red Chamber.". Mr. Zhou's conclusion was correct. I further studied along Mr. Zhou's train of thought, and finally figured out that the "Fat Yan Zhai" was the three concubines of Mao Xiang: Cai Han, Jin Yue, and Zhang Shinu. In Mao Xiang's "Yingmei An Memoirs" and "The Lamentations of the Dead Concubine Qin Huai Dong Clan Xiao Wan", their criticisms also appear. It is self-evident that both the "Dream of the Red Chamber" and the two works closely related to the "Dream of the Red Chamber" are approved, and who is the "Fat Yan Zhai". After Cai Han and Mao Xiang died in 1685 and 1693, "Fat Yan Zhai" wrote down a heartfelt and painful word: "And in the future, I only wish that the Creator will produce another parsley and a fat, it is the book He Xing, and the remaining two people are also very happy to be in the Nine Springs!" From this point of view, it is even clearer who "Fat Yan Zhai" is.
Fourth, "Cao Xueqin", "Xueqin" and "Qin" are the pen names of Xiang Xiang.
The "Cao Xueqin", "Xueqin" and "Qin" mentioned in the main text of "Dream of the Red Chamber" and the criticism of "Fat Yan Zhai", who is this? After in-depth research, I finally came out with the truth, and it turned out to be a risk. Mao Xiang's use of the pen name "Xueqin" was first seen in the book "Shushi Jiyuan" compiled by Xia Zhaochang in the Ming Dynasty. The Book History Jiyuan is now in the collection of the Dai Temple in Tai'an City, Shandong Province. Immediately below the five words of "The End of the Book History", there are four words of "Xueqin School Character" signed by hand; and then under the "Xueqin School Character", a small seal engraved with the three words "Sauvignon Blanc" is stamped. And this "Sauvignon Blanc" idle chapter is exactly what Xiang Xiang has. In addition, Mao Xiang revealed his pen name "Cao Xueqin" in the first and last episodes of "Dream of the Red Chamber". It is very particular to take these three words as pen names. Cao, in fact, was a hidden shot of the Ming Emperor Zhu Shi. The use of "Cao" to conceal "Zhu" is the "volt line thousand mile method" pointed out by "Fat Yan Zhai". At the same time, this "Cao" character is a combination of "Mao" and "Dong". Let's talk about the word "snow parsley". Throughout his life, Mao Xiang revered the "Three Masters of the Su Clan" (苏洵, 苏轼, 苏辙), and Su Shi had a poem: "Mud parsley has roots, and an inch is alone." When the snow parsley moves, the spring dove can be done. The word "snow parsley" is likely to have been taken from this. And "snow" is also the nickname of Mao Xiang to Dong Xiaowan, that is, "Xue'er", and the poets of Mao Xiang also like to call Dong Xiaowan this way.
Fifth, "Yong Xiaoxiang" and "self-written pre-life photos", which is a direct expression of Mao Xiang's work "Dream of the Red Chamber".
Zhang Mingbi, a literary friend of Mao Xiang, wrote in the "Biography of Dong Xiaowan of Mao Ji" that when Mao Xiang and Dong Xiaowan met, he said: "The main guest is double jade, and there is light like the moon, flowing in the church. Mao Xiang was once known as "Jade Mountain", and later transferred this number to his concubine Jin Yue; and Dong Xiaowan's name, character or number, did not take this "jade" character at all. Calling them "Double Jade" clearly shows that Zhang Mingbi has read "Dream of the Red Chamber" and understands very well that Jia Baoyu written in the book is Maoxiang and Lin Daiyu is Dong Xiaowan. Zhang Mingbi, as a reader of "Dream of the Red Chamber", just confirmed that the author of "Dream of the Red Chamber" was Mao Xiang. In particular, Wu Qi(号園次), a literary friend of MaoXiang, not only carefully read "Dream of the Red Chamber", but also wrote a commentary in the name of "QiYuan", and also wrote a poem praising Maoxiang for "writing a book that has been three autumn dreams".
◆ Statement 3: The author of "Dream of the Red Chamber" is Xie Sanman, a woman from Loudi, Hunan
Xie Zhiming, a lover of "Dream of the Red Chamber" in Loudi City, Hunan Province, and a member of the China Dream of the Red Chamber Association, in his monograph "The Cultural Examination of Xianglou in the Red Chamber", identified the author of "Dream of the Red Chamber" as a woman in Loudi, Hunan Province, Xie Sanman (Man, the Loudi people call her aunt Manman).
Xie Zhiming's reasons are: first, Cao Xueqin did not claim to be the recorder of the original material, and his age did not coincide with the time of writing; second, from the perspective of writing style and disparagement of the flag people, the original author should be Han Chinese and female; third, the opening of the Dream of the Red Chamber: "For the Boudoir Zhao Biography"; fourth, the first and second chapters and the end of the novel, the writing style is very different from the middle part, and it can be analyzed that the middle part is from the woman's hand. The large number of Loudi dialects and customs in the book can be determined that the original author is a loudi woman.
"Dream of the Red Chamber" has written the scenery and place names of Hunan many times, such as "Xiangjiang", "Xiangjiang Old Traces Have Been Blurred", "Xiaoxiangguan", "Xiangyun", "Spotted Bamboo", "Wuling Beijing" and so on. The recorded customs and habits are very similar to those in loudi, such as tea drinking customs, accumulating old rainwater, chewing betel nuts, funeral customs, etc., and even folk sayings, such as "haba", "mourning" and "chewing hair" (also called chewing tendons, referring to false reasoning, not accepting defeat) and so on. Especially dialects (false language village dialect), such as "sun head", "poisonous sun head", "look like it", "you can reach out", "don't pick up shoes for XX", "labor half-day god", "get dizzy", "Rausch", "guy" (referring to things) and so on.
In the eighteenth poem of "Dream of the Red Chamber", it is written: "Who is called the pond song, the Xie family has a long dream." Xie Zhiming believes that the novel does not involve people and events related to the Xie family, so why do you repeatedly include the allusions and names of the Xie family's distant ancestors in the book? The only explanation is that the original author deliberately left traces of his own reality.
According to his research, Taolin Bay (formerly Xiangxiang), the current Lianyuan Jinshi Town in Loudi, did indeed settle in a large Xie family, as evidenced by the "Le Kai Hall", a building in the early Qing Dynasty that had experienced more than 300 years of wind and rain. The Qing Dynasty imperial plaque "Taixue" is still intact. The other branch lives in Fuzhou, Xiangxiang. All are descendants of the Duke of Xie's Minhu. Therefore, in the novel, as soon as Lin Daiyu read the word "Min", she read it as "secret".
The Xie clan genealogy records that after the Fuzhou Xie clan was a branch of the Duke of Yingde in Dongshan, his fourteenth generation of Shaofang Duke married his wife Yi. Shao Fanggong died early, the Yi clan was ostracized by the clan, and when he was only 40 years old (1661), he took many of his children to settle in Taolin Bay, and more than 10 years later, he and his two sons jointly built a three-into-nine hall house in Taolin Bay. After that, his third son returned to Fuzhou and built a two-into-six-hall house in the style of Taolin Bay.
"The relationship between the characters in the family tree and the characters in 'Dream of the Red Chamber' is amazingly consistent." Xie Zhiming believes that the two Xie Mansions in Taolin Bay are the original sources of the "Rong" and "Ning" two mansions in the novel. Yi Shi was known as "Hengyu Taibao", and she was the prototype of Jia Mu.
"Dream of the Red Chamber" writes about the four major families of a dynasty, which are connected with the royal family, how brilliant and magnificent. Even if it is like the royal palace in Nanjing, it is extremely rich. "Le Kai Tang" lives in a corner of Xiangzhong and is rich and noble, but how can it be compared with the royal palace? But Xie Zhiming believed that "rong and ning are not really royal palaces. The palace should be heavily guarded, but in the second mansion of Ke Rong and Ning, there are no soldiers guarding, and Grandma Liu can come and go at will, laughing and cursing, without scruples... The original author only used literary techniques to exaggerate and integrate the author's imagination and observations. This method is not uncommon in classical literature. ”
◆ Statement 4: The author of "Dream of the Red Chamber" is Gu Jingxing
Wang Qiaolin, a grassroots scholar from Puchun in Hubei Province and the author of the book "Gu Jingxing, author of the Dream of the Red Chamber", believes that the author of "Dream of the Red Chamber" is Gu Jingxing, a native of Puzhou in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties.
Gu Jingxing (1621~ 1687), also spelled Chifang, also spelled Huanggong, was a native of Puzhou and a literary scholar of the Ming and Qing dynasties. In the twelfth year of Ming Chongzhen (1639), at the age of 18, he was in the middle and vice-ranking. In the sixteenth year of Chongzhen (1643), he took refuge with his father in Kunshan and lived in Dianhu Lake. During the reign of King Fu of the Southern Ming Dynasty, The Seven Provinces Liuyu Gongsheng was tested in Nanjing, and he ranked among the best and served as a Fujian governor. At that time, Ma Shiying was good at state politics, and let people secretly recruit him to join him, but he refused. The Qing army went to Kunshan and ordered him to follow him in his original position, but he did not obey. After returning to Puzhou, he did not go out behind closed doors and lived in a knot, named "White Mao".
The core viewpoints of the book "Gu Jingxing, Author of the Dream of the Red Chamber" mainly have five contents: one is Cao Xueqin and Wu Yufeng, that is, the two pseudonyms of Gu Jingxing; the second is that the 120 times of "Dream of the Red Chamber" are also written by Gu Jingxing; the third is that the main prototype of the Grand View Garden is from the garden of the Ming Dynasty Jingwang Palace; the fourth is the history of the rise and fall of the Cao Yin family of the traditional "Red Studies" to the history of the blood and tears of the Han Nationality; the fifth is the 80 times of the "Book of Stones" signed by the approval of The Fat Yan Zhai and the Deformed Wat Sorcerer, which is actually the many names that Gu Jingxing made to escape the needs of the "word prison". That is, the lipogram concocted in order to create confusion.
Many of the ideas in the book have subverted ordinary people's cognition, specifically:
First, it subverts the mainstream "red studies" that Cao Xueqin, the author of "Dream of the Red Chamber", is a descendant of Cao Yin, a Manchu flag bearer. It is revealed that "Cao Xueqin" is a pseudonym used by Gu Jingxing to avoid "literal prison", and also implies Gu Jingxing's determination as a ming dynasty widow and not to serve the Qing court.
Second, it subverts the mainstream "Red Studies" conclusion that the four major families of "Jia, Shi, Wang, and Xue" with the Daguan Garden as the main body are the gardens of the Northern Manchu Banner Eunuchs, and the characters in the book are all Northern Manchu nobles. It is revealed that the Grand View Garden in "Dream of the Red Chamber" is copied from the Garden of the Jingwang Mansion in Puzhou in the Ming Dynasty, and the characters in the book are the epitome of Gu Jingxing's own family affairs. The architectural complexes described in the Grand View Garden, such as palaces, arches, pavilions, pavilions, temples and Taoist temples, river port bridge gates, water wells and springs, and snow caves and other structural layouts, are the same as those recorded in the literature. Gu Jingxing's book "Baimaotang Collection" is well documented.
Third, it subverts the conclusion that the mainstream "Red Studies" has always believed that "Dream of the Red Chamber" is "the history of the rise and fall of the Cao Yin family of the flag bearer". It is revealed that "Dream of the Red Chamber" is a portrayal of the history of national blood and tears of "the death of the hanging" and "the loss of the unveiling". As for the Chu feng and chu dialects in the book, there are many more.
◆ Statement 5: The author of "Dream of the Red Chamber" is Hong Sheng
Historian Tu Moge believes that the author of "Dream of the Red Chamber" is not Cao Xueqin but Hong Sheng, the prototype of Daguanyuan is in Hongsheng's hometown of Hangzhou Xixi, the prototype of Jinling Twelve Chao is "Banana Garden Twelve Chao", it is Xixi that nurtures Hong Sheng, and it is Xixi culture that gives birth to "Dream of the Red Chamber".
Hong Sheng (1645~1704), zi Ri Fangsi, no. Barnyard, Barnyard Village, Qiantang people. A famous opera composer in ancient China. His legendary script "The Hall of Eternal Life", which took ten years of work, depicted the love story of Emperor Tang Ming and Yang Guifei. He and Kong Shangren (representative work "Peach Blossom Fan") and called it "Nanhong North Kong". According to the book "Xixi", he was the sixth generation grandson of hong zhong, a great clan of Xixi in the Ming Dynasty. His ancestors lived in Hongjiawan, Xixi, Hangzhou for generations. The Hong family has lived in Xixi since the Song Dynasty, and has produced many officials and eunuchs in history, especially in the Ming and Qing dynasties, and is known as the "Century-old Noble Family".
Hong Sheng was born in 1645 when the Qing soldiers went down to Jiangnan in the midst of the chaos of soldiers, and on the way to escape, his mother gave birth to Hong Sheng in the hut of a peasant woman surnamed "Fei", and was doomed to the fate of many disasters and difficulties in his life. In the first half of his life, Hong Sheng had a good life, a fat horse and a light fur, and after middle age, he suffered three consecutive "family difficulties".
The first "family difficulty" is the difficulty of "the dispersion of children and grandchildren"; the second "family difficulty" is the difficulty of raiding the family; the third "family difficulty" is the difficulty of "rebuking the revolution". In the twenty-eighth year of the Kangxi Dynasty (1689), because Hong Sheng "performed the "Hall of Eternal Life" during the "National Funeral", he was stripped of his qualifications as a guozi supervisor by the imperial court, which completely ruined Hong Sheng's career path and completely buried Hong Sheng's hope of reviving the family. In the thirty-first year of the Kangxi Dynasty (1692), Hong Sheng returned to his hometown of Hangzhou with his spiritual pain. From this year to Hong Sheng's death (1704), for twelve years, Hong Sheng, full of national hatred and family hatred, created the immortal masterpiece "Dream of the Red Chamber".
Tumure believes that what "Dream of the Red Chamber" writes about is exactly the hatred of the country and the family in Hong Sheng's heart: the book says that when creating this book, "there is a great helpless feeling of regret and no benefit", it is exactly the true portrayal of Hong Sheng's mood when he returned to his hometown; comparing himself to the stubborn stone, lamenting that "there is no material to make up for the heavens", it is also the sigh that Hong Sheng issued after experiencing the destruction of the country, the destruction of the family, and the destruction of his body; the author explained that the purpose of creating this book is to "make up a record" of his own sins and "tell the people of the world", and what he wants to tell the world is that Hong Sheng himself is "a hundred-year-old noble family". The feeling of regret after falling into a white expanse of land is really clean"
The core scenic spots of Daguanyuan in the book "Dream of the Red Chamber" are the five courtyard-style buildings of Daguanlou, Xiaoxiangguan, Daoxiangcun, Suwuyuan and Yihongyuan, the prototype of these five buildings is the Yulin Town, Xixi Mountain Villa, Shenjia Village, Huawu and Hongyuan in Xixi, Hangzhou in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties. They are all concentrated near the mouth of the deep pond, forming a beautiful complex of buildings. The prototype of lotus champs is in today's Qushui'an, and there are still place names of Lotus Bridge next to Qushui'an. The prototype of Zi lingzhou is in today's Zilu'an, which is indeed rich in red ling.
In the book "Dream of the Red Chamber", it is described that Baoyu and Jia Mu went to Luxue'an twice, both of which were "Xuexue", the so-called "Xuexue", which means to take a boat through Luhuadang, which is today's Qiuxue'an. The prototype of the Tiezhan Temple in the book is in today's Ximuwu, which is the location of the ancestral tomb of the Hong family, as evidenced by the stone people and stone horses today. "Dream of the Red Chamber" in the Grand View Garden "Fangyuan Zhuxiang Emperor called the West", Hangzhou is one of the seven ancient capitals of China, of course, can be called "Imperial City", Xixi's location is in the western suburbs of Hangzhou, the location is just in line.
In the form of the book, the form of the Grand View Garden is "the mountain hugs the water to build the essence", "the tower rises up in the five clouds", and the Xixi is the "bit" of the old and the mountain, the small mountain, the noon tide mountain, the "hug" of the water of the mountains and rivers, and the landscape situation is also completely consistent with the description in the book.
Tu Moge believes that the locations and characters described in "Dream of the Red Chamber" are completely based on the true story of what happened in Hangzhou Xixi in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties.
◆ Theory 6: One of the authors of "Dream of the Red Chamber" is Wei Tingzhen
Zhang Zhijian, a member of the China Red Chamber Dream Association, who has published works such as "Another Talk about the Red Chamber" and "The Truth of the Dream of the Red Chamber" believes that Jia Yucun has the shadow of Wei Tingzhen, the minister of military aircraft of the Qing Dynasty, who is one of the authors of "Dream of the Red Chamber."
Zhang Zhijian said: "Many people talk about deleting the last 40 times of "Dream of the Red Chamber", saying that the level of text is far apart. This made me full of curiosity, and I found that I had repeatedly written about Jia Yu Village since 82 times. The results of the combing and verification were: before the death of The Yuan Concubine on the 19th of December 95 times, the "Military Aircraft Jia Yu Village" who entered the Jia Mansion to report the news was Wei Tingzhen, who was promoted to the Grand Sima by the 53rd Time. To this end, I made a detailed comparison, from the aspects of taking Tanhua, Jiangnan as an official Yanzheng, age, Hubei Inspector, Yongzheng 12 years of Layue as a soldier Shangshu, Qianlong Chu dismissed the official dismissal, etc., I am sure that Wei Tingzhen is the prototype of Jia Yu Village. And "Dream of the Red Chamber" the first time Zhen Shiyin dream psychic, Jia Yu Village wind and dust nostalgic show, the 120th time is Zhen Shi Yin said in detail is too vain, Jia Yu Village attributed to the Dream of the Red Chamber. This is actually to say: Jia Yu Village is full of wind and dust, and Jia Yu Village is attributed to the dream of the Red Chamber. ”
Zhang Zhijian believes that "Cao Xueqin" is only Wei Tingzhen's pen name, and it is also a comprehensive pen name for a group of authors. This is explained in the mouth of Jia Yucun, who borrowed Jia Yucun in "Dream of the Red Chamber", "I can only say that Cao Xueqin is not the only author, but also Wu Yufeng, Kong Meixi, Tangcun and so on." Zhang Zhijian said that the first time of "Dream of the Red Chamber" also said that "Cao Xueqin read it for ten years in the mourning Red Xuan, added and deleted five times, compiled into a review, and divided the charter, then the title is "The Twelve Plates of Jinling". The twenty-second time also commented: "This time it did not succeed and Qin passed away." sigh! sigh! It can be seen that although a person who has done a lot of work, this book cannot be regarded as written by one person.
Wei Tingzhen was a native of Jingzhou County, Hebei Province, and kangxi had been exploring flowers for fifty-two years before learning superhuman. The eighteen-volume "Shiji of The Lesson Zhongtang" he left behind is a disguised genealogy of Wei Tingzhen, which is now in the library of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. Zhang Zhijian found that there was a record of the "Year of Yongzheng Jiayin", which corresponded to the death day of the Yuan Concubine in the 95th time of the "Dream of the Red Chamber"; in the "Lingyu Collection", he heard the sister voices of "Flower Soul" and "Bird Dream" that were the same as Daiyu's "Flower Soul and Bird Soul"; reading the "Yannan Collection" Had a stronger flavor of the Red Chamber, "Alone to the autumn frost, do not release flowers and branches with the spring rain." "Zhongfang took the order to praise Zhu Zi, and the proud bone should be sent later." Just like Daiyu's 'lonely standard is proud of the world, who is hidden, just like the blossom is late at the bottom" and so on. Generally speaking, after reading the "Lesson Zhongtang Poetry Copy", we will unequivocally draw a conclusion like in "Dream of the Red Chamber": Wei Tingzhen is dusty and nostalgic, and Wei Tingzhen is attributed to the dream of the Red Chamber. (Source: Beijing News Wang Xiaoshan/Wen, Jiangnan Times Huang Weimin/Wen, Changsha Evening News Fan Yaxiang Zhang Guangzhi/Wen, Huanggang Daily Han Jinlin/Wen, Today Morning Post Wu Jianzhong Shan Jinfa Wei Haofen/Wen, Sanjin Metropolis Daily Zhou Junfang/Wen)