It is recorded in the Qing Dynasty's note "Diary of a Quiet Residence" that Xiao Shenyang presented a Dream of Red Mansions to Gan Long for reading. After reading it, Gan Long said, This book is about the Pearl family. ? Later, among the hermits in a dream of red mansions, there was a large group of people who asserted? Pearl family said? This passage by Gan Long is an important source of their views.

According to this statement, Jia Baoyu's prototype is Nalan Rong Ruo, the eldest son of Mingzhu.

Apart from Cao Zhi, Nalan Rong Ruo is probably the most famous childe in the whole literary history. His ci was once neglected, but it became popular again during the Daoguang period and was honored as a great man. Then he became more and more famous. In the 20th century, some people said that he was the first poet in the Qing Dynasty. Wang Guowei praised him even more in Other People's Thorns. When the Northern Song Dynasty came, you were alone? . In modern times, under the pen of An Yiru, Su Ying and others, he changed from a poet to a literary star, and from a literary star to an idol of Mary Su. Such a talented person, handsome and rich in gold, is a noble family. If he is the prototype of Jia Baoyu, it will be more interesting.

Too bad he's not. ? Pearl family said? Has been completely denied by the textual research of A Dream of Red Mansions. Nalan Rong Ruo is not Jia Baoyu. Even without those textual researches, Nalan Rong Ruo should not be Jia Baoyu, although they are really similar in some places, such as their delicacy, sensitivity, femininity and kindness. But their personalities are a little fundamentally different. At least before being robbed, Jia Baoyu was a happy man. A dream of red mansions is a sad book, but Jia Baoyu is a happy man, who likes to be lively and enjoy life. But Nalan Rong Ruo always seems to have a melancholy.

Many people envy him, such as handsome son, jade horse in the golden palace, splendid cars, splendid mansions and Nalan Rong Ruo, but he rarely seems to be really happy.

Looking back at Su Weiming Palace, the people in Lengga Mountain looked beautiful.

He was born in A.D. 1655. His real name was Nalan Chengde (later he was a taboo prince, changed to Nalan Xingde) and was born in Lengga Mountain. If Rong is him. He was born in the same year as Emperor Kangxi. On the clan, he is Ye's Lahu nationality, and he belongs to the Ministry of Empress Dowager Cixi. The so-called Nalan is actually? Nora? Different names of the word "two".

Nalan Rong Ruo's father is the pearl of a generation of powerful ministers. He is extremely shrewd and cunning, and belongs to the kind of person who wants to argue whether there are flies in front of him. Among Manchu dignitaries at that time, Mingzhu was the most sinicized one. He attaches great importance to letting children receive Confucian education. Nalan Rong Ruo learns quickly, just like a sponge absorbs water. He is also different from Jia Baoyu at this point. Jia Baoyu is rebellious and unwilling to learn the four books and five classics. He often makes some provocative remarks in private. If Nalan Rong is a good boy, he has never really rebelled in his life. Although he accepted Buddhism more spiritually, he never really questioned the Confucian tradition or the society in which he lived. He just doesn't feel well. In poetry, he is ten times better than Jia Baoyu, and in ideological courage, Jia Baoyu is far better than him.

Nalan Rong Ruo belongs to a Manchu nobleman. According to the convention, he can find a way to be an official without taking part in the imperial examination. But after all, the imperial examination is the right direction. Why don't you talk to people when you enter the officialdom? Xiaguan is a scholar? , than? Xiaguan is the second generation of officials? Sounds much better. Therefore, Pearl is bent on letting children take the road of imperial examination. The imperial examination is also easy for Nalan. On the one hand, it was related to the imperial examination system at that time. Manchu and Han were treated differently in Qing Dynasty, and Nalan was cheaper than Han students. Moreover, he was born smart. As a result, he was admitted to Juren Shuntianfu at the age of eighteen. At the age of twenty-two, Nalan was admitted to Jinshi again, ranking seventh in Di Mei and tenth among all candidates.

Nalan Rong Ruo is a scholar at heart. Like almost all traditional scholars, he did it? Who wrote 10,000 years of history? Looking for seals 3 thousand miles away? My dream of success. That year, he was also ambitious. He wants to go to imperial academy for a while, and then he wants to join the army and fight San Francisco with Wu Sangui. There is heroic blood in my life, and there is no reason to spill Jingjiang water! ? But he didn't go to the academician courtyard, nor did he shed the blood of a hero. After waiting for the entrance examination for several months, an imperial decree came down, appointing him as a third-class bodyguard and accompanying him into the palace!

It is also a tradition for Manchu nobles to be bodyguards. Pearl used to be a bodyguard, and Nalan Rong Ruo's younger brother later became a bodyguard. But the question is: if you want to be a bodyguard, why bother to take the Jinshi exam? It was widely speculated that he would enter imperial academy, which surprised everyone. On a whim, Kangxi decided the fate of Nalan. Since then, he has been a bodyguard for nine years. For nine years, he has been patrolling, accompanying the emperor in hunting, summering and offering sacrifices. Ascending to the temple is the emperor's side, and the retinue gives something to live in? . Cao Xueqin's grandfather Cao Yin worked with him and wrote a poem for him. Looking back at the Ming Palace Museum in Su Wei, the people in Lengga Mountain were beautiful. ?

Nalan Rong Ruo is not weak. He can ride horses and shoot arrows. It is said that he is? Hunting in the horse pond, stretching his bow and making a thunderbolt, all of them hit? , even in the novel "Seven Swords Down the Tianshan Mountains", Liang Yusheng let him and? Seven swords? Gui is one of them, fighting each other, so it is not difficult to be a bodyguard. But the problem is that Nalan Rong Ruo is not Duo Long in The Duke of Lushan. Being a bodyguard is completely against his nature and has no sense of accomplishment.

He was like a slave in front of the guards and never got rid of him until he died. The emperor has no intention of promoting him. Mingzhu became the minister of the interior at the age of 30, and Nalan's younger brother turned to be a waiter in his twenties, and he was proud of the spring breeze. It took him nine years to become a first-class bodyguard from a third-class bodyguard. Kangxi was very kind to him. When he was sick, he also asked for help and sent medicine, but he didn't reuse him. I think there's something in it. Kangxi likes him. In fact, almost no one doesn't like Nalan Rong Ruo, but Kangxi doesn't seem to think that he is a descendant of a minister. Judging from the character of Nalan Rong Ruo, perhaps Kangxi's vision was right after all.

In nine years, the proudest thing Nalan did was to be ordered? Flying shuttle dragon and dragon? Go to the northeast to inspect the situation for Kangxi. This espionage activity was very successful and was praised by the emperor. Many people say that Nalan Rong Ruo will be of great use this time. Who knows that nothing happened in the end. He went on to be his bodyguard, and the whole thing ended silently, leaving only a beautiful word "Sauvignon Blanc":

Mountain is a journey, and water is a journey. I want to go to Guan Yu. Night light. When the wind changes, the snow changes, and the dream of hurting the heart of the country falls through. There is no such sound in my hometown.

Lushui Pavilion Owner

Twenty-two years old is the turning point of Nalan Rong Ruo. This year, he was admitted to Jinshi, became a bodyguard, and wrote a "Golden Melody" for his good friend Gu Zhenguan. This word is not first-class in Nalan Rong Ruo's works, but it caused a sensation in Beijing and made Nalan famous. He took the opportunity to publish his first collection of words, The Collection of Side Hats, which is the predecessor of Qiushui Ci. Overnight, he became a rising cultural star in Ran Ran. Unlike other cultural stars, he is very rich. Pearl built a dew pavilion for him as a reception place, which was elegant and elegant, and soon became the most famous cultural salon at that time.

All kinds of literati swarmed in at once. Of course, there are some prominent people who have been getting along well here, but most of them are down-and-out literati. Rebuild the resumes of these talented people, often at that time? Awkward? Poor? Just a robe? No livelihood? Stubborn? Now they are like people who are anxious to see McDonald's plunge into it. Besides, his father, Pearl, is a high-level power official. If he gets involved in this relationship, he will be successful in official career soon. In their elegant words, this is called? Dried fish comes out of the water? Pearl seems to be interested in attracting talents as confidants through her son's relationship.

Nalan Rong Ruo helped the real one? Dried fish . Gu Zhenguan is the most important friend of Nalan's life. He had a friend named Wu Zhaoqian who was involved in the imperial examination and was unjustly exiled to Ningguta in the northeast. A weak wit in Jiangnan is really miserable in that place, and whether he can survive is a problem. Gu Zhenguan vowed to get him back. He found Nalan Rong Ruo and showed him the words he wrote to Wu Zhaoqian, also called Golden Melody, which was a classic in Qing Dynasty:

Is Ji Ziping safe? I will come back and do everything well in my life, so that I can turn back! Who comforts the long journey, the mother's hometown is poor and the children are small. I don't remember a glass of wine. If you get used to fighting with people, you will always lose him. The ice and snow have been around for a long time.

Tears will not drip through the cow's clothes. Counting the end of the world or flesh and blood, how many can you win? Life is thinner than beauty, not to mention today. Only congestion, biting cold and discomfort. For 20 years, I made a promise, hoping that Aconitum and pepper would finally save each other. You wear sleeves to buy this letter.

Nalan Rong Ruo cried after reading it. He said you don't have to say anything, and I will try my best to save your friend. He took Gu Zhenguan to see his father's pearl. This matter is very difficult, because the court case is a big case, and Wu Zhaoqian is registered in Kangxi. But Gu Zhenguan knelt down for Pearl, and Pearl finally reluctantly agreed. Later, Pearl and his son spent a lot of trouble and money to get Wu Zhaoqian back. But Wu Zhaoqian didn't know why, and Gu Zhenguan didn't mention it to him. All he knew was that Pearl had saved herself. After returning to Beijing, he fell out with Gu Zhenguan because of trivial matters, and he scolded Gu Zhenguan to everyone. When he went to Pearl's house to thank humbly, Pearl led him to a room and showed him an inscription on the wall. Gu Liangfen is the place where Song Ling genius Wu Hancha kneels? . Wu Zhaoqian stared blankly for a moment and then cried.

Gu Zhenguan is Nalan Rong Ruo's first confidant. Only such a person deserves his friendship. Nalan Rong Ruo attaches great importance to friendship. Every time he sends his friends away, he feels sad. Scholars are difficult to get along with and their self-esteem is particularly sensitive. However, in the memory of almost all literati, Nalan has no aristocratic shelf, and he has never been able to influence others. Friends sat in the green water pavilion, screaming and abusing the world. Nalan Rong Ruo just listened quietly and didn't think he was a pestle. Wealth is a very strange thing. Most rich people are inevitably a little arrogant, but some people are gentle by nature. If they are born in poverty, they may inevitably be contaminated with some worldly things. However, because they were born with wealth, they have always maintained a naive childlike innocence. Li Yu is like this, Jia Baoyu is like this, and so is Nalan Rong Ruo.

The overwhelming sadness and nostalgia after Nalan's death may be just a habit of a scholar and cannot be taken seriously. But many years after his death, when friends got together to talk about him, many people burst into tears. Such crying is more convincing than all words, and it can prove what kind of people they miss.

Your body, as cold as snow, will be revived by my warmth.

Nalan once had a dream lover. Who the hell is this man is now impossible. Some people say that it was his maid, and later became a monk; Some said it was her sister-in-law and later married; Some people said it was his cousin, and later she entered the palace and became a maid-in-waiting. Even more say more strange, even said he Rong Ruo to see his cousin, disguised himself as a Lama, secretly sneak into the harem at such a time. These statements can only be ignored. But obviously, this woman is the first person he loved. This is the youthful love of teenagers, because it looks better without it. For this relationship, he wrote a sad sentence:

Xie Gu compound is more disabled, and Yan Su carved beams. On the silver wall of the moon, how can you tell the fragrance without knowing the flowers? This feeling has been recalled by myself, and it is scattered. After a storm comes a calm, but I had a dream eleven years ago.

This may be the best word to write first love after the Northern Song Dynasty. But this kind of first love is more suitable for sad nostalgia, which reminds people of what they have missed. It won't leave real scars in life.

Only Lushi left him such a scar. Nalan Rong Ruo married Lu at the age of twenty. Lushi is the daughter of the Governor of Guangdong and Guangxi. She has a good cultural background and has a good relationship with Nalan Rong Ruo. He even wrote colorful words for her for the first time. But three years later, Lu gave birth during childbirth, and both mother and son died. The blow caused great pain to Nalan Rong Ruo. He suddenly went crazy, parked his wife's coffin in Shuanglin Temple and went to the coffin from time to time. It was not until more than a year later that his wife was buried at his father's insistence. He recalled and chewed over and over again, and wrote one word after another to remember his wife. For him, it may be a way to let the sadness leave the body, flow to the paper, and slowly dissipate.

Who reads the west wind alone? Rustling yellow leaves close the window, reminiscing about the past and setting the mountain. It was unusual at that time to get drunk in spring and gamble on books and pour tea.

Every sentence looks ordinary, but no one has written such a sad eulogy since Su Shi's Jiangchengzi. However, there is a difference between Nalan and Su Shi. Su Shi is an open-minded person. He will be sad only when he thinks of sadness, and Nalan Rong Ruo is a person who can't let go, and he will be overwhelmed by sadness.

There was a famous man named Xun Can in Wei and Jin Dynasties. His wife had a high fever. Xuncan took off his clothes in winter and ran to the yard, freezing himself cold, and then went back to hold her to cool down. In grief, Nalan Rong Ruo remembered the ancients thousands of years ago and wrote a sentence:

If the moon finally comes out, I will not hesitate to be roasted by snow and ice.

This is exactly what Zhang commented. Tears followed, making people unable to read? . But life goes on. He went on to marry another wife, Guan Shi. This is a political marriage, and the relationship between Guan and him can't be said to be bad, but it can't be said to be good. Their emotional world doesn't seem to be in tune, and they are a little close to each other. After the marriage, Nalan wrote a poem of mourning for Lu. After his death, the official remarried soon, which was also an abnormal thing under the social atmosphere at that time, and also hinted at the relationship between the two.

Later, he had a brief love affair with a woman named Shen Wan. Shen Wan, a talented woman in Jiangnan, wrote a collection of words about dreams, but her identity is rather vague. Presumably, she is a geisha, just like Liu and Dong Xiaowan. This relationship was established by Gu Zhenguan. Nalan Rong Ruo fell in love with Shen Wan and lived together when he was on a southern tour with Kangxi. Later, Gu Zhenguan was asked to bring Shen to Beijing. Originally, according to the identity of Nalan Rong Ruo, it was normal to marry a concubine, but at that time it was stipulated that Manchu and Han did not marry (the Han flag bearer was not among the Han people), and Mingzhu resolutely refused to accept Shen Wan. A few months later, He gave in and sent Shen Wansan back to Jiangnan. The two broke up. He Rong Ruo felt guilty about it. It is said that his most famous sentence is to blame himself in a deep and wan tone:

If life is just like the first time, you don't have to draw a fan in the autumn wind. It is easy to change, and it is also easy to change. Lishan language stops midnight, and the rain bell doesn't complain. More importantly, if you are lucky, you will be more willing than before.

That year, Nalan Rong Ruo was thirty years old. In the eyes of others, he is lucky. He is the son of a cabinet university student and the owner of the Green Water Pavilion. He has a wife and children, wealth, status and talent. Even if Kangxi doesn't reuse him for the time being, he will become a senior official sooner or later according to his qualifications. However, only those who have read the poem Autumn Water know that this lucky man's heart is full of the same sadness as the tide. There is the pain of losing a wife and the sadness of being lovelorn, but it doesn't stop there. Nalan Rong Ruo's more sadness is nameless, and there is no specific reason. Behind it is boredom with the whole world. He is like Holden, who was full of food and drink in Good Girl, standing in the brightly lit streets of new york, facing this bright, warm and empty world, he suddenly burst into inexplicable tears and said to his dead family in his heart: Dear Ellie, please don't let me disappear.

Quzhong

There may be something wrong with Nalan Rong Ruo's genes. His children didn't live long, and Nalan Rong Ruo himself ended his life at the age of 3 1. 1685 In May, Nalan Rong Ruo and his friends got together to drink, and everyone wrote a poem "Flowers at Night". Nalan Rong Ruo died eight days later. A year later, Gu Zhenguan returned to his hometown from Beijing, hung a small portrait of Nalan Rong Ruo in his room and lived in seclusion for 30 years.

Ten years ago, when Gu Zhenguan died, he wrote a poem on Cao Yin's scroll:

How many people know Nalan's mind when everyone is competing to sing "Thinking of Drinking Water"?

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