Why did the Hulu Temple fire in A Dream of Red Mansions burn for ten months before it went out? ?

In the Hulu Temple next door to Zhen's house, a young monk was frying an offering. Because the oil was too hot, he accidentally lit the dry wood by the fire. The monk had no choice but to splash it with water, but it caused a bigger fire and then lit the wooden temple. There was a big event in the real family, and the trees and houses in the yard were set on fire, and then half the street was burned. According to the fire extinguishing efficiency and manpower at that time, it was impossible to put out such a big job at once, and it burned for a long time. The book says that there must be an exaggerated way to burn it for ten months.

On the Lantern Festival on the fifteenth day of the first month, after Zhen's daughter was cheated away by traffickers, Zhen's family fell into sadness, but unfortunate things happened again. It happened that in March, an accident happened at Hulu Temple, which was separated from his house by a wall. A monk accidentally lit the Hulu Temple, and the houses in Suzhou city burned one after another, burning the whole street red and burning the retired Zhenyin stone to nothing. The so-called "fried sacrifice" is the food used to sacrifice to God after frying. March 15 is just around Tomb-Sweeping Day, which is suitable for sacrifice. In Buddhism, March 15 is the tenth fasting day, a day of fasting and worship of gods.

A fire robbed Zhen Yinshi of almost all his property. Hodge, a male member of the Zhen Shi family, is homophonic for "disaster", because losing a winning streak is the beginning of the disaster of the Zhen Shi family, and it is homophonic for "fire". Two months after the loss, the Zhen family suffered another fire.

This fire almost ruined "my nature is bleak, I don't care about fame." Zhen forced him to go to the grange, but he was met with "no harvest after floods and droughts, rats and thieves started", and finally he had to "transform the grange and bring his wife and two maids to his husband's family". However, I don't want to suffer a lot of cowardice in my father-in-law's family. This series of natural and man-made disasters finally completely defeated Zhen. He finally abandoned his wife and became a monk with a Taoist priest.