The fourth topic of A Dream of Red Mansions was named Twelve Women in Jinling after "Cao Xueqin mourned Hongxuan for ten years, added and deleted it five times, and divided it into chapters". What does this title have to do with A Dream of Red Mansions? Let's review the order of the first three titles. The first "Story of the Stone" is the imperial seal and epitaph (with emphasis on epitaph). The second book, Feeling Monks, is a record of an emperor becoming a monk. The third book, Yue Feng Treasure Mirror, is a mysterious "history book". The simple connection is: the jade seal-the emperor-the mirror of history. These three appellations all exist and develop around the theme of imperial power politics. The fourth title, Twelve Women in Jinling, is a continuation of the first three titles, which further expands the contents of imperial power politics and court mystery and adds more, newer and more confusing colors to A Dream of Red Mansions.
First of all, we must clarify the meaning of Jinling. When it comes to Jinling, the first reaction of most friends is Nanjing, because it is the ancient name of Nanjing City. There is nothing wrong with this! The six dynasties are determined! But when I contacted the twelve women behind me, people were at a loss and dumbfounded? ! There are no records and prototypes of twelve women in Nanjing history! What's more, there are no relics of the weaving of "Ning and Rong" and the Grand View Garden in the south of Caojia River! For this reason, A Dream of Red Mansions has been debated for a long time-is a Dream of Red Mansions an autobiographical novel by Cao Xueqin (Cao Jia)? Are Cao Xueqin's birth and death time and four big families in Jinling? Wait, wait, wait. The debate is still inconclusive, and it's still a pot of paste.
"Jinling" is synonymous with imperial power politics in A Dream of Red Mansions. According to the analysis and inspiration of the first three "false" titles, we can clearly define its two symbolic meanings. First, a metropolis of feudal dynasty, that is, modern people, called the national political center city the capital. The second is the imperial tombs of the royal families in various dynasties after the death of the emperor. This is similar to the result of the first topic analysis; When the emperor was alive, the "stone" was a jade seal, and after the emperor died, the "stone" was a mausoleum. In this way, the answer to "Jinling" in the fourth question is: the "metropolis" of a certain dynasty and the "tombs" (or royal cemeteries) of the royal family. This is a large-scale answer, and it can also be said to be an abstract double answer.
At the end of the last article, we mentioned the last sentence of Full Bed sung by Zhen: "-". The "foreign land" and "hometown" mentioned here are also two riddles of life; The author interprets this outlook on life from the standpoint of the emperor through Zhen's mouth. Ordinary people think their birthplace is "hometown". Once you leave your hometown to make a living and travel abroad, you will call other places "other places." "Such as: being an official, guarding the border, going to Beijing to take exams, performing arts in rivers and lakes, and doing business in different places-these can be said to be leaving home. However, the emperor's understanding of "two townships" is quite different from that of the people. Zhen in A Dream of Red Mansions is the incarnation of an emperor on a certain occasion (or a certain paragraph). According to the homophonic solution, the name can be changed to "True Stone Collection". The name of another character, Jia Yucun, can be changed to "Fake Jade Deposit". Their names will be discussed in detail later. The emperor thinks that he is the "son of heaven", "dragon seed" and "food for the dragon"; Your hometown, or hometown, should be in heaven, in heaven. For the first time, the dialogue between monks and Taoists introduced the "Shen Ying Waiter" in the "Red Defect Palace", which was the meaning. In the emperor's consciousness, "otherness" is like this: he was born in the world of mortals to "rise from the ground" for the whole world; Yin Di in a dream of red mansions is a big stone that fills the sky; The world is a "foreign land" for yourself.
Is the word "Jinling" related to "hometown" and "foreign land"? Yes! There is a very important connection! Before becoming an emperor, emperors (especially Taizu emperors who started businesses in Kaiyuan in various dynasties) were also ordinary people and had their own "hometown" (birthplace). When he (the emperor) fought in the north, the places he experienced and traveled were all considered as "foreign lands". For example, Zhu Yuanzhang, the Ming emperor, whose "hometown" is Fengyang County, Anhui Province, fought in "other places". When he conquers the world, he will become a yellow robe and ascend to the throne. He will choose a place with its capital as his unified political center. This central city is what we call "Jinling"-now Nanjing.
At this time, Zhu Yuanzhang began to change from an ordinary person to an emperor. The emperor still regards Jinling as a "foreign land". As for his "hometown", the founding emperor is not a forgotten person. Most emperors built their own tombs when they were alive. Zhu Yuanzhang is no exception. At first, he wanted to build a mausoleum in his hometown-Fengyang County. However, some of his courtiers and aides who used to flatter him used the former emperor's concept of "two townships" to persuade Zhu Yuanzhang, "Taizu will die after ten thousand years, and the holy family should not build his tomb in his hometown like the people, but in his own treasure house, as in the past, so that you can also bless the descendants of the royal family through the treasure house Feng Shui." After listening to this exhortation, Zhu Yuanzhang gave up his plan to build a mausoleum in his hometown. But he did not forget his ancestors and spent a lot of money to repair the ancestral graves in his hometown. I chose my mausoleum at the south foot of Zhongshan in Jinling and visited Mount Everest in Dulong House.
In fact, the emperor is also a human being, and he also knows that he can't go back to his "hometown"-heaven-the "hometown" that he recognized only after he became an emperor. Especially the old emperors know better that the "son of heaven", "saint", "dragon seed" and "immortality" are fooling the people and telling a big lie to benefit their own rule. After his death, like ordinary people, his body will be buried in the ground and rot into mud. However, unlike the people, I cannot be buried in my hometown like the people after my death. As Zhen sang, "You sing and I go on stage to make noise, but I will recognize another country as my hometown." This is the stage of history. The emperor is like an actor who sings opera. When one emperor left the stage after singing, another emperor came on stage to start singing again. An old emperor died and a new emperor was born; An old dynasty perished and a new dynasty was established. But after the emperor died, he was buried in his "hometown" (actually his hometown). If we understand the relationship between "Jinling" and "two townships" in A Dream of Red Mansions from the standpoint of the emperor, we should add a "Jinling" between "hometown" and "foreign land". This "Jinling" not only represents his "rebirth", but also symbolizes his "decline" (stepping down). So I think that the emperor's "hometown" = "Jinling" is also = "foreign land".
In the concept of Buddhism, people's "two hometowns" are considered as: people were born in a "foreign land" in the world of mortals, and people were buried in the "hometown" in the afterlife. Generally speaking, the elderly and older emperors also have such recognition. When I was a child, I remember that my grandmother suddenly told a dream: I dreamed last night and went to the "Homecoming Station", vaguely longing for my hometown. I was confused at the time. I didn't really understand the meaning of "Homecoming Station" until I watched the Japanese movie Homecoming in middle age and now I watch A Dream of Red Mansions. To a great extent, the "homesickness platform" in people's dreams is equivalent to the "Jinling" in the eyes of the emperor. Both were born in the world of mortals and died in the underworld. In the fourth episode of A Dream of Red Mansions, someone saw a question: Why did Xue Baochai's family live in pear fragrance court after they arrived at Guo Rongfu? This question really helps me to understand the concept of "two townships". Friends can first change the noun "Lixiangyuan" into the verb "complaining about leaving home", so that "complaining about leaving home" reveals three levels of "two townships". First, the worries of all the children of singing opera pear garden who have left their hometown (all the toiling masses who are wandering outside), second, the worries of marrying into the palace, third, the worries of all the married women, and fourth, the worries of all the Mao emperors who fought for the world and built tombs in different places. These three kinds of worries have given me another understanding. Everyone's hometown = Hometown Station and = Hometown. In a word, according to the equation relationship between these two mathematics, the concept of "two townships" in A Dream of Red Mansions can be attributed to human life and death. Life is short, but death is eternal; This view of life and death can be defined as ordinary people, born in a "foreign land" and died in a "hometown". The emperor was born in Jinling and died in Jinling.
We can't always discuss the word "Jinling" in isolation. We must dissect and analyze many lost fans in the book A Dream of Red Mansions, so as to truly taste the original flavor of the word Jinling. Let's use * * to break down the true meaning of "Twelve Hairpins".
Like my friends, when I first came into contact with Twelve Women in Jinling, I immediately thought of the female characters in A Dream of Red Mansions: Qin Keqing, Li Wan, Qiaojie, Wang Xifeng, Xichun, Yingchun, Miaoyu, Shi Xiangyun, Tanchun, Yuan Chun, Xue Baochai, Lin Daiyu, Xiangling, Hua Xiren and Qingwen (these people all have judgments and opinions in the primary and secondary books). Because the theme of A Dream of Red Mansions was not found correctly, the prototypes of all the characters in the book did not match. Until now, some people flaunt what they are with the titles of "scholar" and "master"; "Cao School" (research author), "Qin School" (research), "Exploring Yi School" (studying various errors in books) and so on. A classic of Chinese quintessence has been confused, even China people are confused. When we lock the theme of A Dream of Red Mansions in imperial politics, we can suddenly realize that the original "Twelve Hairpins" given by the author told us to guess historical puzzles related to the emperor.
Among the five words of Twelve Women in Jinling, the word "women" should be changed to "guess". Although Hua Er Yun is missing (the difference between rolling tongue and straight tongue), and it is also changed from a noun to a verb, the guessing range of Twelve Women in Jinling is very wide. Based on the topic of imperial power politics, I divide The Conjecture of Twelve Women in Jinling into four parts. First: the conjecture of the dynasty metropolis; The first thing we have to guess is Nanjing City. Of course, Nanjing has many other nicknames, not just Jinling. "The Capital of the Six Dynasties" is recognized in the history after the Tang Dynasty. After the founding of People's Republic of China (PRC), historians put the brief Southern Tang Dynasty, the capital of Zhu Yuanzhang in the early Ming Dynasty, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom and the capital of the Republic of China into the history of Nanjing. Nanjing has become a famous "city of ten dynasties". Speaking of which, it reminds me of someone. He is Mr. Ji from Nanjing Academy of Social Sciences. After the Olympic Games were decided to be held in China, he published a historic article about Jinling Capital on the Internet in order to win the right to host the Nanjing Olympic Games. You can have a look. In his article, he added two metropolises: one is that the little-known Yangwu regime (Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period) survived in Jianye (Jinling) for four years. The other is the ten years when Zhao Gou established his capital in Nanjing at the suggestion of Li Gang, a loyal minister, in the early Southern Song Dynasty. In this way, Nanjing was upgraded from "City of Ten Dynasties" to "City of Twelve Dynasties".
Mr. Ji's idea of "the city of the Twelve Dynasties" suddenly opened my eyes. At that time, I hadn't thought of changing the word "firewood" into the word "guess". But when I am happy, I am disappointed; Because the last two metropolises were decided several years after the publication of A Dream of Red Mansions, they can't be compared with Twelve Women in Jinling. But I didn't give up this opportunity. I also found the "new world" of Jinling, its capital, in the articles recommended by Teacher Ji and some netizens. One is the history of Fan Li's construction of a stone city, and the other is the history of Zhu Youkun's establishment of Nanming regime in Yingtianfu (Jinling) after the Qing army entered Beijing. If both of them are verified by historians, before the publication of A Dream of Red Mansions, Jinling City can indeed be designated as the "City of the Twelve Dynasties". "Twelve Women in Jinling" is really conceivable. Throughout history, Nanjing has become the "14th Dynasty City".
I am not a historian, and I have no systematic and exact research; Especially like the two "new lands" found above. Also leave some puzzles for friends to guess. I don't think it's enough to guess Nanjing's "Twelve Dynasties Metropolis" based on Twelve Women in Jinling. It's just a small guess. "Twelve Women in Jinling" is for emperors who are preparing to take over. It is for them to master the feudal history of China and the ruling experience of the former royal family. Only when they know the dates and cities where emperors lived can they master these historical knowledge. This paper analyzes Jinling from the perspective of royal metropolis, which is the general name of "metropolis" in past dynasties. In this way, interested friends can guess the "Dadu" of twelve famous dynasties in China by combining the puzzle of A Dream of Red Mansions. For example, the metropolis of the Yuan Dynasty-metropolis-now Beijing is also a metropolis of the Ming and Qing Dynasties. According to historical research, since the Yuan Dynasty, all ethnic groups and tribes in the north have called Beijing "Nanjing", which is relatively the "Jinling" in the minds of the people in the north. So which cities are the "Jinling" in Qin, Han, Three Kingdoms, Jin, Sui and Tang Song?
The second guess area of Twelve Women in Jinling is the mausoleum of the emperor. This guess is wider than the first one. Because a dynasty has only one or two cities, but it has many emperors. For example, in the Qing Dynasty; In the early Qing Dynasty, Liaoyang was the capital, then Shenyang was the capital, and Innuerhachi was the capital. Shenyang has two tombs of the Qing Dynasty, one is the Dongling of Nurhachi and the other is the Beiling of Huang Taiji. When the emperor shunzhi was eighteen, he chose a mausoleum for himself in Zunhua, Hebei. Later, it was named Qing Dongling. In Yong Zhengdi, I don't know why, in Yixian County, Hebei Province, I chose a mausoleum for myself; It was named Qing Xiling. In history, the Qing dynasty became an imperial dynasty with three cities and four tombs; It is also considered by later generations to be a bigger dynasty. Interestingly, the early Qing Dynasty was called Jin State. It was made by Emperor Mao Nurhachi. This is because Nurhachi's surname is "Aisingiorro"; Chinese means "gold". In addition, the Jurchen nationality at that time (later Manchu) was a descendant of the ancient northern Qidan nationality in China; At the same time of the Song Dynasty, the Khitans established a powerful Daikin Empire in the Northeast. Historically known as "money into". As for the state of Jin set by Qing Taizu, it is called "the post-Jin" in history. As we have said above, there are traces of tombs in the late Jin Dynasty, but so far no tombs before the Jin Dynasty have been found. I think: the mausoleum of the former Jin emperor is probably an important sub-topic of this big guess, right?
As for the tombs of other emperors, I think they can all be called Jinling. Because all emperors pretend to be "golden destiny" and wear imperial robes (yellow robes). Therefore, friends can guess "Jinling" concretely or comprehensively according to their own historical knowledge and the stories in A Dream of Red Mansions. Up to the "Huangdi Mausoleum" in Zhuan Xu, down to the Qing Mausoleum in Shunzhi and Kangxi and the Qing Mausoleum in Yong Zhengdi. These "Jinling" are imperial tombs that existed before the official publication of A Dream of Red Mansions, or should have existed but were not discovered.
The riddle in A Dream of Red Mansions is very interesting. The answer to some riddles is that things come first, then people; Others come first, then things. The first two guessing fields in Twelve Women in Jinling are transitive-the Imperial Capital and the Imperial Tomb. The last two guesses are related to people-the emperor and the women around him (mainly the queen and concubines). Whether it is first to people, then to things or first to things, then to people; The answers are all interrelated. If friends like to guess an emperor from the characters, then the women around him can appear. His metropolis and cemetery can also be determined. This article is not going to discuss the last two guessing domains of "Twelve Guess", because the history of many emperors and royals is not clear. I don't want this article to be long. But I can give my friends a hint here: Twelve Women in Jinling is not only the embodiment of royal women, but more importantly, body double, the body of the 12th Dynasty (except that Wang Xifeng is the embodiment of all women-Wu Zetian and sourdrang queen). They constantly change roles with each story in A Dream of Red Mansions. For example, Lin Daiyu; In different chapters, different emperors and queens were interpreted. Sometimes it's Li Yu, the Queen of the Southern Tang Dynasty, sometimes it's Zhu Youjian, the late Ming Dynasty, sometimes it's Shunzhi, the early Qing Dynasty, and sometimes it's Dong E Fei, the beloved princess of the emperor shunzhi.
Want to know what to guess later? Please pay attention to my next guess (5)-about A Dream of Red Mansions. The article is rather long, I hope you can inspire it. Personal opinion, for reference!
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