In the Dream of Red Mansions, the poems of Daiyu and Baochai are familiar. Does Cao Xueqin copy ancient poems?

A Dream of Red Mansions is called the Encyclopedia of the feudal age. Many people think this is a bit exaggerated. I would like to say that people's knowledge and experience determine their horizons. In A Dream of Red Mansions, Cao Xueqin wrote a lot of poems and songs. Of course, there is no plagiarism we understand today. However, the ancients often developed their predecessors. Just as Wang Wei, the Tang Dynasty poet written in A Dream of Red, "The sunset is crossing the head, and the smoke is solitary in miles", which is derived from the poet of the Jin Dynasty, "the warmth of the distant village, and the smoke of the Yi Li, this is the "plagiarism" of the ancients, which is very different from what we copied today.

When the ancients wrote poems, they paid special attention to the use of words. They could not speak the vernacular, but they must have a "why ". For example, when Jia Baoyu wrote a proper poem in Yuanfei's provincial family, he also asked Xue Baochai's 'greenwa' to find a source. Another example is the chrysanthemum poems involved in A Dream of Red Mansions. Since Tao Yuanming's "seeing Nanshan in a long time under the chrysanthemum dashboard", the poets who wrote chrysanthemum poems could not do without these sentences, for example, Lin Daiyu's Chrysanthemum Poem "one from the Tao Ling pingzhang, qiangu Gao Feng said today", Xue Baochai "mo recognize dongli idle, stick screen chat to comfort Chongyang." In the Spring Festival, "Chang 'an is huadli, and Mr. Peng Ze is a mad drinker." Tao Ling "," Dong Li ", and" Peng ze "are related to Tao Yuanming, these can be referred to as allusions in poetry.

In Qin keqing's couplet "tender cold lock dream due to spring cold, Fang Qi cage people are wine flavor" (here I will say one more sentence, the following is a Red Mansion written by Qin shaoyou in the Song Dynasty, which has never written such a sentence, during the Song Dynasty, couplets were not popular in the middle of the Chinese Church. The actual popularity was during the Ming and Qing dynasties. However, this joint sentence is very similar to the words of Qin shaoyou. It can be said that Qin Guan is better than Qin Guan. For example, in shaoyou's words, there are "green water, Zhu Hua's rank, color, and tenderness", and "Night wine, wine, and dreams". Therefore, Cao Xueqin will extract couplets from the words of qinshaoyou, isn't it plagiarism? There are many such examples in A Dream of Red Mansions. For example, Lin Daiyu's "the plum blossom is stolen and the plum blossom is a ghost ". I remember a song poem, "the snow is fragrant, but the snow is fragrant ." Another example is Shi Xiangyun's haishu poem: "frome prefers cold, and the non-close lady wants to leave the soul ." Tang Ren Li Shangyin's "Frost month" poem: "qingfemale Susie is cool, and the mid-month Frost is fighting Juanjuan ." Therefore, ancient poems are used for reference and evolution. Just as Jia Baoyu Yin's couplet "Yin Cheng Yu Cai Youyan, sleep full mengxiang also Xiang", his old father JIA Zheng said at that time, this is set of "the book becomes ye Wen still green ". Therefore, it is normal for the poet to apply the work of his predecessors, and take the usage as an example. If there is no story in a poem, it is basically the same as that in an oil poem.

 

Reprinted: Sohu @ shaozhi honglou

In the Dream of Red Mansions, the poems of Daiyu and Baochai are familiar. Does Cao Xueqin copy ancient poems?