Jia Baoyu's Birthday in A Dream of Red Mansions

In A Dream of Red Mansions, there is only one sentence "It's Baoyu's birthday now", which can be seen in the sixty-second chapter "Han Xiangyun drunk sleeping with peony and leaving Xiangling to take off pomegranate skirt" and the sixty-third chapter "The red party of the shroud died at a banquet", and the fifty-eighth chapter "Apricot Flowers, False Phoenix, Crying, False Phoenix, False Screen Window" mentioned "What a coincidence, this day is Qingming", and the following sessions seemed to be warm in spring. Then Baoyu's birthday was the next day, and I heard that Jia Jing had died. As the saying goes, "It's hot today", so Baoyu's birthday should be in late spring and early summer.

Take a closer look at Baoyu's birthday: "Because of the warm weather, Daiyu's illness is getting better"; "After a long time, once the girls are stubborn, they should order some snacks"; Shi Xiangyun's "Drunk to enjoy the cool, fall asleep on the bench behind the mountain" and "Peony flowers fly around"; Say Xiang Ling "Your man left for half a year" (Xue Pan left in June 65438 +65438 10+April of the first year); "It's hot, let's take off our big clothes"; ..... There is no doubt that it is late spring and early summer.

On this day, Baoyu buried "Husband and Wife Hui" and "Ice Spirit" with soil in front of Xiangling, which is obviously the third time to bury flowers. In the evening, many flower names were cast, and Fang Guan sang "Shang Huashi" and "three cups of spring at the table", much like "a flower party". In the 27th chapter, it was clearly stated: "In ancient times, on the day when the Mango Seed Festival was held, all kinds of gifts should be set up to offer sacrifices to the flower gods. It is said that once the mango seeds are over, it will be summer, all the flowers will be unloaded, and the flower god will abdicate and say goodbye. " It was April 26th. If Baoyu's birthday is also April 26, then the "night banquet" will not happen to be another ear festival; If Baoyu's birthday is Ear Seed Festival, it won't be April 26th. "Ear seed" is one of the 24 solar terms. After Xiaoman, before the summer solstice, it is about June 5 according to the western calendar, and the lunar calendar is generally in April and May.

Looking back on the first time, "Zhen is a psychic in a dream" and together with a monk, "I clearly sent stupid things into the womb of a police fairy". At this time, Baoyu was not yet born, and Zhen woke up "I saw the scorching sun and plantains" holding "going to the street to watch the fun". Later, when Jia Yucun visited, Yin Shi said, "Please come to the study and talk, so that we can disappear forever.". All these indicate that it was summer. When is summer? In addition, there is "excitement after the meeting"-festival performances. Anyway, this is not the time when Baoyu was born, because it is not the scene of late spring and early summer. If not at birth, maybe before conception.

If this is the fifth day of May, she will be pregnant soon and give birth in February and March of the following year. If you get pregnant on the "Chinese Valentine's Day", then the mother's last menstruation should be around June 23, and the so-called "pregnancy in October, one delivery" is 10 menstrual cycle, which is 280 days, so the delivery date is around April 6. Four, six, twenty-four, that rock is exactly "twenty-four feet square." If the delivery date is April 26, then the pregnancy date should be the end of July, "July filariasis", which is not so hot, unlike the "stupid" delivery time.

Baoyu's birthday coincided with the "flower burial" season, and it was his turn to bid farewell to the daughters of the Grand View Garden.