Dream of Red Mansions: the Mythological Structure of "dream of Red Mansions
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The novelist Bai Xianyong and the artist Xi Song-one has experienced ups and downs in life and changes in his family and country; the other has been practicing Buddhism for decades and is well versed in Buddhist principles. A pair of old friends who have known each other for half a century join forces to talk about "A Dream of Red Mansions" and explore in depth the mysteries hidden in the classic masterpiece. A detailed interpretation of the story of the Red Mansions, from the nature of repaying kindness with the purple fairy grass, the truth about Baoyu becoming a monk, the love and death of Fengyue Baojian, the Grand View Garden and the matriarchal society, and the symbolic meaning of Taixu illusion, extending to the national collective subconscious, Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism, Buddhism To learn connotative philosophy, the two teachers combined their many years of life experience and spiritual practice, combined with literary and aesthetic analysis, penetrated the surface text, analyzed the subtle images and metaphors in Red Mansions, and interpreted the characters and sentient beings from a unique perspective to reveal the main theme of Red Mansions. In the book, focusing on Yinglian, the first and last character to appear in "A Dream of Red Mansions", Xi Song uses his exquisite insights to put forward an unprecedented new interpretation, interpreting the great significance of Yinglian's "gray line" to the entire Red Mansions, and revealing the secret truth behind the text. In addition, this book also comes with a "Schematic diagram of the mythological structure of Dream of Red Mansions", which was drawn by teacher Xi Song himself. As the conversation between the two authors unfolds, the dense mythological structure at the top of "A Dream of Red Mansions" is gradually constructed step by step, brushing aside the bustling surface and delving into the hidden spiritual world of "a clear heart and a clear mind". This is a dialogue that "touches the soul", fully interpreting this great dream drama in the history of Chinese literature, and creating a dream-like Red Mansion stage.
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