The ending of a Dream of Red Mansions that is faithful to Zhi Yanzhai's comment and subverts Gao E's sequel.
Yuanchun's marriage decree broke up the "wood and stone alliance" between Baoyu and Daiyu. Jia Mu and Sister Feng knew clearly that Daiyu was Baoyu's fate, but they had to succumb between "family law" and "national law" - on the day of their marriage, Daiyu burst into the hall with her hair in plain clothes and laughed loudly, turned around and ran to the forest where the incense was buried. "The jade belt hanging in the forest" finally became a bloody reality.
At a banquet at the Prince's Palace in Beijing, Baoyu lost her spirit jade when she was drunk, and she became comatose and stupid from then on. When the Prince of Beijing found out about the boy who had stolen the jade, and returned the jade to Zhao intact, the fragrance of the jade had disappeared and she died. Baoyu cried at the grave and wrote a thousand-word memorial poem, burned it in front of the hibiscus flowers, looked up to the sky and screamed: "Under Qian's screen window, I have no chance at all; in the loess ridge, how miserable is your life!"
Jia Mansion was confiscated and Zhu Fang was dispersed - Xiangyun fell to Qinhuai, Tanchun married off to the sea, Miaoyu was trapped in the mud, Sister Feng cried to Jinling... In the end, Baoyu let go of the cliff and returned to the foot of Qinggeng Peak, carving his life's blood and tears on the stubborn stone.
The vast white land is so clean. This is the only book that records all the hatred of beauty throughout the ages.
This chapter describes Jia's mother's death and Yuanyang's martyrdom, echoing the foreshadowing of the previous article. In Chapter 46, Yuanyang once swore, "As long as the old lady is with me, I will never leave her." Now she has fulfilled her promise with her life. Her hands with frostbite and her new shoes embroidered with lotus flowers are the most silent interpretation of the word "loyal maid". When Jia's mother died, she called her "Zheng'er", which was the last tenderness between mother and son; she was called "Lin Yatou", which was the grandmother's concern for her granddaughter - even though she knew that Lin Yatou had passed away before her, she still wanted to call her, as if she was still there. When she left, she smiled and said, "Girl Lin, grandma is here." That was not death, but a reunion with an old friend. Baoyu never cried. He had learned to face all partings calmly. When he said, "One day, it's time for me to leave," the last light in the garden was about to go out.
This time, it is written that Sister Feng was divorced and died in the Guanyin Temple, which echoes the sentence "One follow-up and two make three people dead, crying to Jinling is even more sad." She had spent all her life, and ended up severing the relationship between husband and wife with a divorce letter. She was ill and trapped in a wild temple. Before she died, she used her fingernails to draw the six characters "Qiaojie... Grandma Liu" on the handkerchief, entrusting her only concern to her. Ping'er buried the handkerchief in front of the grave and took Qiaojie to seek refuge with Grandma Liu. This was the end of the story of "accidentally helping the Liu family and meeting a benefactor".
After Baoyu woke up from the dream, he wrote "Ode to Jiangzhu", using snow as a sacrifice and his heart as incense, and read the heart-wrenching memorial poem to the wind and snow in front of the monument. What he was thinking about was Daiyu, and it was also the half of his life that he could never get back. Sister Feng returns to Jinling, Baoyu returns to consciousness, everyone returns to their place, and the vast white land is in front of us.
This chapter describes Daiyu's funeral, Baoyu's vigil, and Baochai's consolation. The three lines are intertwined, each with its own pain. Baochai, as a bride, comforts the idiot and says, "I will marry you, and I will guard this home for you." This is the most forbearing confession in the book. She knew that Baoyu only had Daiyu in his heart, but she sat alone at dawn on her wedding night; she knew that she was a pawn in a "good match", but she still shouldered the responsibility of a wife uprightly. She persuaded him to "wake up" in the calmest tone, but when had she ever woken up?
Baoyu wandered around the incense grave every day, and dreamed of Daiyu standing in the bamboo forest and saying "I'll wait for you over there" - it was so crazy that it was true. The piece of paper with "Sister Lin's Bride" written on it was pasted on the tombstone and then taken back, pasted on his chest and back on the tombstone again and again, like the only reality he could still hold.
This chapter describes the absurdity of "although they have visited the church, but they have not actually gotten married" - the golden marriage in Rongxi Hall is just a false gift, and the earthen grave where the incense is buried is his home in his heart. It's a pity that Baochai understands everything, but still guards an empty house; poor Baoyu doesn't understand anything, but guards an empty tomb. Everyone keeps their own space, and this is probably all the rest of their lives.
This time I wrote about Daiyu's death, crying every word. She forced a smile on her face and went to the Hall of Honor to "congratulate her." The white moon amidst the red makeup in the hall was the most poignant scenery in the book. "Second brother, you look so good in red" - readers will weigh how many tears are hidden in one sentence. Sister Feng slapped herself in the face and cried to tell the truth about the "fake wedding". After all, those who have tried their best can't count on their conscience. Baoyu covered Daiyu with the groom's robe and solemnly bowed three times, completing the wedding in his own way that he could never wait for. The three prayers before Zijuan's martyrdom: "Girl, you will still need someone to serve you after you die" - this is the most loyal farewell in the book. Daiyu spent her whole life buried in flowers, and was eventually buried in flowers. Jiangzhu returns tears, and now the tears are gone. "Come and go clean again." She went to a long-destined farewell in the cleanest way.
This chapter writes about Daiyu's last two days before her death. Burning poetry manuscripts is a "break of love". Those sentences that harmonized with Baoyu and those thoughts written down late at night were all returned to the void with a burst of fire. The gift of Zicuckoo's clothes and silver bracelet was to "give an account of the future affairs". Zicuckoo's words of "Why are you acting like a father-in-law?" Made her cry heartbroken. She could smell the aura of death, but she didn't dare to say anything.
The most cruel thing is the scene where Daiyu goes to see Baoyu. She stood at the door practicing her smile, pinching her lips to make them look red, and filling her eyelids with joy. Baoyu pulled her and called her "Sister Lin's bride" and said, "Let Sister Bao celebrate her happiness first." Every foolish word was like a dull knife cutting flesh. Daiyu swallowed the words "see you tomorrow" and spit them out again. She knew there would be no tomorrow.
The paper stuck to my chest deep in the bamboo forest, my arched back, and the bulging veins on the back of my hands—all my strength was used not to cry. When the poems are finished, so will the people. "What comes and goes is pure", she used the cleanest way to go to a long-destined farewell.
This time, Sister Feng reported the good news in two places. Baoyu was so happy that her soul came back, but Daiyu was so quiet that it made people panic - the calmer she was, the deeper the undercurrent underneath. In the spring of Yuan Dynasty, the marriage decree was suddenly issued. Jia Mu said, "It is difficult to violate the laws of the country", which ended the eternal knot of "love" and "propriety" in the big family. Jia Zheng did not dare to go to the palace to ask for the imperial edict, so Sister Feng proposed a plan to marry Daiyu and Prince Beijing. Daiyu's gentle smile when she "pretended to agree" was more heartbreaking than crying. The most cruel part is that Sister Feng deceived Baoyu and said, "I will have a fake wedding with Sister Bao first" - coaxing an idiot into a dream from which he will never wake up. The root of this matter was laid down as early as the first eighty chapters: Yuanchun gave a single treasure hairpin that was the same as the treasure jade (Chapter 28). At that time, today was destined. It's a pity that the old lady has been shrewd all her life, but she can't defeat a palace wall in the end; it's a pity that Sister Feng has exhausted all her traps, and in the end she has personally weaved a huge net that hid everything from the sky, trapping others as well as herself.
This chapter describes Jia's mother's death and Yuanyang's martyrdom, echoing the foreshadowing of the previous article. In Chapter 46, Yuanyang once swore, "As long as the old lady is with me, I will never leave her." Now she has fulfilled her promise with her life. Her hands with frostbite and her new shoes embroidered with lotus flowers are the most silent interpretation of the word "loyal maid". When Jia's mother died, she called her "Zheng'er", which was the last tenderness between mother and son; she was called "Lin Yatou", which was the grandmother's concern for her granddaughter - even though she knew that Lin Yatou had passed away before her, she still wanted to call her, as if she was still there. When she left, she smiled and said, "Girl Lin, grandma is here." That was not death, but a reunion with an old friend. Baoyu never cried. He had learned to face all partings calmly. When he said, "One day, it's time for me to leave," the last light in the garden was about to go out.
This time, it is written that Sister Feng was divorced and died in the Guanyin Temple, which echoes the sentence "One follow-up and two make three people dead, crying to Jinling is even more sad." She had spent all her life, and ended up severing the relationship between husband and wife with a divorce letter. She was ill and trapped in a wild temple. Before she died, she used her fingernails to draw the six characters "Qiaojie... Grandma Liu" on the handkerchief, entrusting her only concern to her. Ping'er buried the handkerchief in front of the grave and took Qiaojie to seek refuge with Grandma Liu. This was the end of the story of "accidentally helping the Liu family and meeting a benefactor". After Baoyu woke up from the dream, he wrote "Ode to Jiangzhu", using snow as a sacrifice and his heart as incense, and read the heart-wrenching memorial poem to the wind and snow in front of the monument. What he was thinking about was Daiyu, and it was also the half of his life that he could never get back. Sister Feng returns to Jinling, Baoyu returns to consciousness, everyone returns to their place, and the vast white land is in front of us.
This chapter describes Daiyu's funeral, Baoyu's vigil, and Baochai's consolation. The three lines are intertwined, each with its own pain. Baochai, as a bride, comforts the idiot and says, "I will marry you, and I will guard this home for you." This is the most forbearing confession in the book. She knew that Baoyu only had Daiyu in his heart, but she sat alone at dawn on her wedding night; she knew that she was a pawn in a "good match", but she still shouldered the responsibility of a wife uprightly. She persuaded him to "wake up" in the calmest tone, but when had she ever woken up? Baoyu wandered around the incense grave every day, and dreamed of Daiyu standing in the bamboo forest and saying "I'll wait for you over there" - it was so crazy that it was true. The piece of paper with "Sister Lin's Bride" written on it was pasted on the tombstone and then taken back, pasted on his chest and back on the tombstone again and again, like the only reality he could still hold. This chapter describes the absurdity of "although they have visited the church, but they have not actually gotten married" - the golden marriage in Rongxi Hall is just a false gift, and the earthen grave where the incense is buried is his home in his heart. It's a pity that Baochai understands everything, but still guards an empty house; poor Baoyu doesn't understand anything, but guards an empty tomb. Everyone keeps their own space, and this is probably all the rest of their lives.
This time I wrote about Daiyu's death, crying every word. She forced a smile on her face and went to the Hall of Honor to "congratulate her." The white moon amidst the red makeup in the hall was the most poignant scenery in the book. "Second brother, you look so good in red" - readers will weigh how many tears are hidden in one sentence. Sister Feng slapped herself in the face and cried to tell the truth about the "fake wedding". After all, those who have tried their best can't count on their conscience. Baoyu covered Daiyu with the groom's robe and solemnly bowed three times, completing the wedding in his own way that he could never wait for. The three prayers before Zijuan's martyrdom: "Girl, you will still need someone to serve you after you die" - this is the most loyal farewell in the book. Daiyu spent her whole life buried in flowers, and was eventually buried in flowers. Jiangzhu returns tears, and now the tears are gone. "Come and go clean again." She went to a long-destined farewell in the cleanest way.
This chapter writes about Daiyu's last two days before her death. Burning poetry manuscripts is a "break of love". Those sentences that harmonized with Baoyu and those thoughts written down late at night were all returned to the void with a burst of fire. The gift of Zicuckoo's clothes and silver bracelet was to "give an account of the future affairs". Zicuckoo's words of "Why are you acting like a father-in-law?" Made her cry heartbroken. She could smell the aura of death, but she didn't dare to say anything. The most cruel thing is the scene where Daiyu goes to see Baoyu. She stood at the door practicing her smile, pinching her lips to make them look red, and filling her eyelids with joy. Baoyu pulled her and called her "Sister Lin's bride" and said, "Let Sister Bao celebrate her happiness first." Every foolish word was like a dull knife cutting flesh. Daiyu swallowed the words "see you tomorrow" and spit them out again. She knew there would be no tomorrow. The paper stuck to my chest deep in the bamboo forest, my arched back, and the bulging veins on the back of my hands—all my strength was used not to cry. When the poems are finished, so will the people. "What comes and goes is pure", she used the cleanest way to go to a long-destined farewell.
This time, Sister Feng reported the good news in two places. Baoyu was so happy that her soul came back, but Daiyu was so quiet that it made people panic - the calmer she was, the deeper the undercurrent underneath. In the spring of Yuan Dynasty, the marriage decree was suddenly issued. Jia Mu said, "It is difficult to violate the laws of the country", which ended the eternal knot of "love" and "propriety" in the big family. Jia Zheng did not dare to go to the palace to ask for the imperial edict, so Sister Feng proposed a plan to marry Daiyu and Prince Beijing. Daiyu's gentle smile when she "pretended to agree" was more heartbreaking than crying. The most cruel part is that Sister Feng deceived Baoyu and said, "I will have a fake wedding with Sister Bao first" - coaxing an idiot into a dream from which he will never wake up. The root of this matter was laid down as early as the first eighty chapters: Yuanchun gave a single treasure hairpin that was the same as the treasure jade (Chapter 28). At that time, today was destined. It's a pity that the old lady has been shrewd all her life, but she can't defeat a palace wall in the end; it's a pity that Sister Feng has exhausted all her traps, and in the end she has personally weaved a huge net that hid everything from the sky, trapping others as well as herself.