Dream of the Red Chamber is a novel which insinuates the history of the Cao. It is "the Concubine Yuan" who is "the Emperor Kang Xi". The "Mothering" is a dummy borrowed by the writer to ...Dream of the Red Chamber is a novel which insinuates the history of the Cao. It is "the Concubine Yuan" who is "the Emperor Kang Xi". The "Mothering" is a dummy borrowed by the writer to construct the plots of the novel, and his intent is to record "South Patrol". Emperor Kang Xi died in 1722(to Chinese lunar calender, it was the year of tiger), the first year of Yong Zheng’s reign started from 1723(to Chinese lunar calender, it was the year of rabbit). That is the origin of "tiger meets with rabbit". The changes in the political environment by the death of Kang Xi, resulted in the destructive shock of removing the Cao’s posts and confiscating of the Cao’s property. And that secretively suggests "when tiger meets with rabbit, the great dream returns." The damning calamity causing the drastic destroy of the whole family put the three generations’ prosperous "dream" of Cao Xi, Cao Yin, Cao Yong and Cao Fu into the end. And that is the moral of "after three Chuns were disfavored, everyone should find his won way.展开更多
文摘Dream of the Red Chamber is a novel which insinuates the history of the Cao. It is "the Concubine Yuan" who is "the Emperor Kang Xi". The "Mothering" is a dummy borrowed by the writer to construct the plots of the novel, and his intent is to record "South Patrol". Emperor Kang Xi died in 1722(to Chinese lunar calender, it was the year of tiger), the first year of Yong Zheng’s reign started from 1723(to Chinese lunar calender, it was the year of rabbit). That is the origin of "tiger meets with rabbit". The changes in the political environment by the death of Kang Xi, resulted in the destructive shock of removing the Cao’s posts and confiscating of the Cao’s property. And that secretively suggests "when tiger meets with rabbit, the great dream returns." The damning calamity causing the drastic destroy of the whole family put the three generations’ prosperous "dream" of Cao Xi, Cao Yin, Cao Yong and Cao Fu into the end. And that is the moral of "after three Chuns were disfavored, everyone should find his won way.
