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One of the "Treasured Dream of Red Mansions"

A letter to the predecessors of redology research

(2) Cao Yin's life, the foreshadowing of despair)

When chatting with you, I said that I used the trinity method of "cultural relics collection (cultural relics collection), literature (letters between the royal family and Cao family) and text (Cheng Yiben, the author of a dream of red mansions novel 120)" to research the author and version of a dream of red mansions.

Cao Xueqin's name appeared twice in the first chapter and chapter 120 of the text.

So who is the author of a dream of red mansions?

There is no Cao Xueqin in the world,

Don't treat Lu Xun as a Q.

In my opinion, Cao Xueqin is a pseudonym. In the text of A Dream of Red Mansions, "Cao Xueqin" appeared for the first time and the 120th time, but he did not say that he was the author.

Zhonghua Book Company published Dream of Red Mansions for the first time;

From then on, the empty Taoist priest changed his name to Love Monk, and changed the stone record to Love Monk Record. Meixi, the east foot of the sky, engraved Yue Feng Bao Jian. Later, because Cao Xueqin spent ten years mourning for Hong Xuan, it was added and deleted five times, sealed into a catalogue and divided into chapters, with a unique title of "Twelve Women in Jinling". In other words, this is the origin of "stone", and the poem says:

The paper is full of absurd words, a bitter tear! Dou Yun's author is crazy, who can understand the taste?

Zhonghua Book Company published China's classic Dream of Red Mansions for the first time120th time;

Empty Taoist firmly remembers this sentence, and I don't know how many generations have passed. Sure enough, there is a mourning hall, and Mr. Cao Xueqin is reading ancient history in it. The ethereal Taoist showed this "stone" what Jia Yucun said. Then Mr. Cao Xueqin smiled and said, "It's really Jia Yucun's words!" The Taoist monk asked, "Why do you know this man and are willing to preach for him?" Seeing Mr Qin Xue smile, he said, "You are empty, but your stomach is really empty. This is a "false story", but Lu Yu and his absurdity are not contradictory. ...

For the first time, Qin Xue "read" and "added and deleted" without writing a book;

In paragraph 120, Mr. Qin Xue only "narrates" and "narrates Jia Yucun" for Jia Yucun.

The empty Taoist priest concluded: "It's really perfunctory and absurd! Not only the author does not know, the copy does not know, and the reader does not know. "

Cheng Jia this preface, said very clearly, "a dream of red mansions novel, real name is" the stone ". The author has been passed down from generation to generation, and it is unknown who he came from, but it is recorded in Mr. Cao Xueqin's several books. " In addition, the literary inquisition in the Qing Dynasty was quite strict. Cao Xueqin and A Dream of Red Mansions are all aimed at the Cao family. Didn't you just inform the royal family to seal off the descendants of the Cao family?

So who wrote this book?

In my opinion, A Dream of Red Mansions was written by Cao Yinxian, with an outline of the book, which was successively completed by Cao Fu and other people.

Let's go back to the "Seal of Cao Yin", whose year is "JOE". This year is 1694. In the thirty-third year of Kangxi, Cao Yin took over the second year of Jiangning weaving. He left Suzhou for Jiangning in June of 1692 165438, that is to say, he didn't return to Jiangning until the eighth year after his father Cao died (1684, Cao died in Jiangning). Cao Zao was succeeded by Sanger (from 23rd year of Kangxi to 3rd1).

The collector's edition of A Dream of Red Mansions, published by People's Literature Publishing House, has been marked as "Cao Xueqin's Writing, Unnamed Continuation". I think it is extremely serious. Since it is based on Geng, and followed the copy of Cheng Jiaben 120, the words "Cheng Weiyuan and edited" should be written more realistically. In addition, the preface of this collector's edition reads: "In the second year of Kangxi, Cao was appointed as the first weaver girl in Jiangning and served as a special envoy for a long time. Twenty-three years, died in Jiangning weaving. Kangxi immediately ordered his son Cao Yin to weave for Suzhou, and later served as Jiangning Weaving and Two Huai Salt Patrol, and ordered him to seal Tang poetry and Pei Yunwen to Yangzhou. " The word "immediately" here is not exact, but I don't know that a "spin" is eight years. In these eight years, Cao became the "Sanger" of Jiangning.

When Cao died at 1684 1 1, Emperor Kangxi visited Shangyuan in the south and was "summoned as the general manager of Jinnei" and "assisted in Jiangning's weaving affairs". In the same year1February, Massingue assisted Yuan Wailang in weaving in Jiangning, and Cao Yin was dismissed at the same time. In other words, Cao Yin was only transferred from his father's class for one month.

1690, Cao Yin was appointed by Kangxi to manage Suzhou weaving in order to return to Jiangnan from Beijing.

It has been six years since Cao Xi died.

When we review Cao Yin's resume, we will realize his motivation and ability to create A Dream of Red Mansions.

Cao Yin, born in 1658, died in 17 12, with a clear word, built pavilion, No.1 Li Xuan, No.1 Snow Bridge (this number was not written by people who play textual research, because it is not conducive to them to regard Cao Xueqin as the grandson of Cao Yin, and the word "snow" is taboo). In the second year of Kangxi 1663, he went to Nanjing with his father at the age of six. In other words, he grew up in Beijing with Kangxi before he was six years old. His mother Sun Shi was Kangxi's wet nurse, and Cao Yin, the chief of Kangxi, was four years old. Before he was six years old, it was hard to say how many days Cao Yin could remember when he accompanied Kangxi in the palace, but he could still remember the experience of growing up together. Cao Yin studied in Jiangnan from 1633 to 1675, and accompanied his father in Jiangning. 18 years old, 1675, was chosen as a bodyguard to accompany Kangxi and become friends with Nalan Xingde.

From 1675 to 1682, Cao Yin worked as a bodyguard for seven years. At the age of 25, 1682 was the fifth participant in the official ceremony and the third leader in the painting of the official white flag.

1684 27-year-old Cao Yinzeng Ginny Scott and assistant manager Jiangning Weaving Affairs. This year, I went from Beijing to Nanjing to accompany my sick father. In June of the same year, my father died in office, and in November, he was instructed by Jiangning to weave. Cao Yin's "Dongting Poetry Banknotes" Volume II "The Feeling of Planting Willow in the West Garden" has a cloud: "I am grateful again and dare to forget it in the court."

At the time of writing this first sentence, Cao was "in debt" as "the internal reference and assistant manager of Jiangning weaving affairs". However, only one month later, Cao Yin was "violated" and dismissed. What "example" was violated is unknown in history. In Cao Yin's Poems of Dongting, the poem "Zhu Chixia read the lotus after sending it" says: "The method of banning clothes is free of pills for stopping illness."

When his father died, the family left Jiangnan and returned to Beijing. Suffering has dealt a heavy blow to Cao Yin, leaving him in a state of sadness and despair, including the poem Regret for the Past. One of them is "for thousands of years, I dare not worry." The oppression that can't be fully described is all in the poem. The death of his father, the blow of retiring from poverty, and the sudden death of his good friend Nalan Chengde all constituted multiple blows to Cao Yin. It was not until ten years after Nalan's death that Cao Yincai felt that "every family was competing to sing" Drinking Words ",and Nalan's mind was unknown", and he wrote a deep memory of Nalan, and the sadness caused by this deep memory was "recalling the past, being cold and beautiful; Ma Ying dog laughed at it, and it is tender and withered now. "

This of course laid the foundation for Cao Yin to write A Dream of Red Mansions.

Leaving his father's inheritance in Jiangning and being suddenly dismissed not only involved the lucrative job of weaving in Jiangning falling into the hands of others in the competition, but also reflected that Wang Zheng, under the imperial envoy of Kangxi, was able to play, pull and put it away freely, uprooting Cao Yinjia's inheritance in Jiangning and returning it to Beijing. Cao Yin was a bodyguard beside Kangxi for nearly 15 years. Cao Yin served Kangxi for nearly 2 1 year if he was accompanied by his six-year-old childhood in the palace.

1685, in the 24th year of Kangxi, Cao Yin returned to the north with Fu Yun and served as foreign minister in the Criminal Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. In the same year, Kangxi issued an order to the interior office: "Now, there are very few assistants in the interior office who are good at shooting books. You can set up a special school, choose those who can teach and let them learn to shoot. The best one is hired and the worst one is dismissed. The school should be located in an ordinary place and let the learners work hard. "

It can be seen that Kangxi asked for both civil and military skills, personally supervised and trained the royal domestic slaves of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, especially Cao Yin, his younger brother who grew up together, and let him experience in different departments of the Ministry of Internal Affairs until 1690 when he moved to Suzhou as a weaver girl.

Cao Yin's son Cao Qing was born in Beijing.

Cao Yin, born in 1658, died in 17 12, with a clear word, built pavilion, No.1 Li Xuan, No.1 Snow Bridge (this number was not written by people who play textual research, because it is not conducive to them to regard Cao Xueqin as the grandson of Cao Yin, and the word "snow" is taboo). In the second year of Kangxi 1663, he went to Nanjing with his father when he was six years old, that is, he was in Beijing and Kangxi before he was six years old.

Cao Yin's experience and life in Beijing laid the foundation for him to gain the absolute trust of Kangxi, and even more, he reserved rich life experiences and rich life materials for writing A Dream of Red Mansions.

Cao Yin is not only proficient in poetry and lyrics, but also good at writing plays. 1692 "The Story of the Northern Red Stroke" was written by the ship, with an inscription on the east, and boasted that "the book on the table is the joy on the field, wonderful. Although Zhou Lang has been revived, can Ann care? "

Cao Yin not only sang with a large number of literary celebrities in the south of the Yangtze River, but also often organized performances and arranged music, and had more contacts with playwrights such as Hong Sheng.

The original name of A Dream of Red Mansions is The Story of the Stone. Many of Cao Yin's poems are related to writing this masterpiece, but everyone was fooled by Hu Shi and focused on Cao Xueqin. For example, Cao Yin's The Stone of Martial Arts, which many researchers think does not exist, was inspired by Cao Xueqin's poem "Grandpa" Cao Yin.

"Wu gorge stone, Wu gorge stone, and you, Zhou Lao wrapped in a piece, cut off the rest of the liver like a soldier. I'm afraid I'll miss, but I won't say anything. Without a meteor, the gods will eat, and the thunder axe will be hollowed out to destroy the thunderbolt. The emperor will refine the ancient relics, and the horns will not be used. "

I still remember the first time I said in A Dream of Red Mansions, "When Nu Wa's family tried to mend the sky ... a piece was useless and was abandoned at the foot of Geng Qingfeng."

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