What is the answer to the riddle of Xue Xiaomei's ten "ancient poems" in the 51st chapter of A Dream of Red Mansions?
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I don't think it's the ten of the twelve hairpins of the Golden Hairpin. Because the book has explained "hidden vulgar ten pieces". We might as well guess according to the riddle, how about it?
I'll try to guess its nine "Pudong Temple Huai Gu" riddle is: needle and thread
The riddle is: small red bone cheapest body lightest, private tucked secretly carry strong handful into.
While being lifted up by the lady of the house, she has already seduced him.
In ancient times, needles were made of bone.
Question added: Regarding the ten riddles, I think of it this way, literally as poems of wistful antiquity, without question. But if you take it as ten riddles to guess its riddle, you can't limit yourself to the poetry. For example, "Red Cliff" can't be associated with the Red Cliff of the Three Kingdoms, because there are many different kinds of riddles.
I think the answer to the riddle "Red Cliff in Memory of the Ancient Times" is more similar to the riddle "Lotus Lanterns". The first sentence, "The Red Cliffs are buried in water, but the water does not flow", means that after the red candle in the lotus lantern is lit, the wax in the wick is shaped like a pool of clear water, and the wax bordered by the red red Cliffs. The lotus lamp is a kind of good deed for people to worship ghosts, which means that the lonely souls and wild ghosts will be freed. This is why the name is left in vain. "Hustle a torch sad wind cold" is the candle burning strong, although "Hustle a torch", but after all, for the infinite souls and burning, so there is a sense of sad wind cold. Therefore, I guess this riddle should be: lotus lamp
Questioner: jiusi1234 - second best answer whistleblower "Dream of Red Mansions" 51, Xue Baoqin wrote ten wistful poems, hidden ten things, please guess, we said it "natural new clever", "wonderful! ", but guessed for a while but can not guess, the author in the book and never delivered the answer to the riddle, causing future generations of scholars have guessed. But according to the information I know, so far totaled only guessed four, the rest of the answers are looking at the wind catching untenable. More than two hundred years, hundreds of red scientists, research writings are voluminous, but most of these ten poems as a dumping boat of the reef and avoiding the past, so far most of these ten poems riddle is still unanswered questions. For this reason, I would like to dedicate the results of my thoughts on these riddles as an opportunity for mutual exchange of ideas with my fellow travelers.
It was in the unprecedented year of 1973, when I had already been raided three times, and there were no more books to read. Loneliness from the village of friends and relatives borrowed a book "Dream of Red Mansions" (Book II, 31-60), carefully read up, no longer like the student era when reading the skimming, which realized that the back of the ten poems but hidden ten riddles. At that time, the book's notes were very brief and did not reveal anything about the riddles, so I made a subjective guess. As the saying goes: "A fool who thinks a thousand times must get one", I have guessed the riddles of seven poems, namely, "Jiaotou Huaigu", "Qingzuka Huaigu", "Meihua Guan Huaigu", "Red Cliff Huaigu", "Peach Leaf Ferry Huaigu", "Huaiyin Huaigu", and "Pudong Temple Huaigu", which is quite exhilarating; however, I think that I am still ignorant, and that my personal guesses may have long been forgotten by many red scholars. I guess I may have been illuminated by the wisdom of many redologists.
In 1979, I returned from the mountain village to the city high school as a teacher, and the next year I went to the library to check the relevant information, and only then did I realize that the results of the guesses of all the famous writers were both consistent, and there were more inconsistent; consistent with only the "Crossing of the Toes", "Green Grave", "Plum Blossom View", and the rest of the three poems, but there are huge differences. After considering the original poems over and over again, I am even more convinced that my own insights are a little beyond those of my predecessors, which is encouraging. At the same time, this also inspired me to continue to solve the riddles of the remaining three poems, and by 1982, I had solved the riddles of "Guangling Huaigu" and "Mawei Huaigu". In order to organize these materials, I read the annotated version of Dream of Red Mansions published by the Beijing Normal University in 1992, and learned from the annotations that Wang Xilian had made an accurate guess about Mawei Huaigu, which coincided with my own, and that this guess had put him head and shoulders above Zhou Chun and Xu Fengyi. Unfortunately, I have not yet found a convincing answer to the poem Zhongshan Huaigu. Zhou Chun's speculation that the poem is "meat" seems absurd: Wang Xilian's speculation that it is "monkey playing" also seems far-fetched: Xu Fengyi's speculation that it is "puppet" is based on two lines in the original poem, one of which is "the puppet", and the other is "the puppet", but the other is "the puppet". The correct answer is always in harmony with all the lines of the poem. By the way, I would like to add that there is a difference between "puppet show" and "shadow show", and the latter is more likely.
Since the "crossroads", "green mound", "Mawei" and "plum blossom" view of the four Qing dynasty has made a conclusion, and "Zhongshan" of the riddle to be further explored, can be skipped, so I would like to explore the results of the other five slightly illustrated:
"Red Cliff Ancient Memories"
The Red Cliffs buried in the water does not flow, leaving the name of the empty boat;
The rumbling a torch sad winds of cold;
A torch of clamor and a cold wind of grief, unlimited souls of the heroes within the swim.
It is in the first place among the ten poems, and the production is very superb. From the point of view of chanting history it is memorializing the history of the Battle of Red Cliff: in the thirteenth year of Jian'an, Cao Cao led his army southward, swallowing up ten thousand miles of air, and Sun Quan and Liu Bei joined forces to fight against it, attacking Cao Cao's ships with fire at Red Cliff, and breaking them greatly.
Zhou Chun of the Qing Dynasty guessed that it was "the use of battleships water drillers", which means "horse-drawn lanterns", but it has to be what he said - to draw on the lamps! But it has to be what he said - to paint on the lamp the scene of "battleships and water maneuvers", otherwise the lamp will not be able to get along with the riddle. Xu Fengyi guess is "law ship", is the old custom of ghost festivals, ghost sacrifices used, the Department of papier-maché tied into a boat, above and tied to the monks chanting, the bow of the boat more listed in the ghosts, placed in the river - that is, the mouth of the flame, and ultimately burned to ashes. Considering the whole poem, and the "Red Cliff buried", "leaving a name in vain" and other words and not related, so it can not be convincing. Some people speculate that it is "Mosquito Light", or not. Some scholars are more cautious, not lightly speculate, but feel that the whole poem is covered with a layer of gloomy and cold atmosphere, that is insinuated that the ominous end of the Grand View Garden, this understanding is not unreasonable.
I think the most reasonable answer is "coffin"! I've reviewed the original quatrains one by one, and there's not a hitch.
1, all sides of the coffin are painted red, and the title of the poem "Red Cliff" two words coincide with the said that it insinuates that although the Rongning two houses are hot, but ultimately will not be inevitably collapsed and perished destiny is really the most appropriate; "Coffin" is simply the family doomed to decline, and thus also implies that it belongs to the The "coffin" is simply this family is doomed to decline and fall, thus also implying that the feudal society to which it belongs will also be bound to the collapse of the image and accurate symbols.
2, the first sentence of the burial of the coffin; the second sentence of the empty boat metaphorical shape of the coffin, the coffin shall be written on the front of the name of the deceased; the third sentence of the occasion of burial in the drums and music in the loved ones crying, cremation of the scene of the dead; the fourth sentence is the final ending - no matter who can not escape into the coffin of the fate of history. --- It is simply a painting of funeral customs!
If you favor the aria, you can translate it like this:
After the Battle of Red Cliff, the dead drowned and blocked the river,
The dead left their names in vain, and on the river were the burnt-out ships and boats;
The fire in the bleak winds burnt Cao's soldiers to the point that they were screaming in sorrow,
Numerous souls of heroes have entered the underworld since then.
If the poem is translated as an aria, it can be expressed in this way:
It has four walls and is buried underground,
It is shaped like an empty boat, and it is loaded with people who have died in vain;
At the time of burial, the relatives are bawling, and all the things are burnt,
How many heroes in history have not been able to escape from the place of this home!
"Huaiyin Huaigu"
Strong men must guard against evil dogs, three Qi positioning the cover of the coffin:
To say that the world will not be contemptuous, the grace of a meal is also known to the dead.
From the point of view of history, the four lines of the poem briefly summarize the life of Han Xin: 1) When Han Xin was a boy, he was humiliated at the bottom of the crotch. 2) Later, he was appointed as the king of Sanqi, which sowed the roots of the disaster. 3) When he was poor, he suffered a lot of coldness and neglect from the common people. 4) He once suffered from the kindness of his floating mother's meal, and after he got rich, he was rewarded with thousands of dollars.
This poem has been the subject of many guesses by the Qing people, but none of them have been correct. Zhou Chun guessed "rabbit", incredible: Xu Fengyi guessed "toilet", probably he was completely "three qi bit fixed", "contemptuous Xu Fengyi guessed "toilet", probably he was completely confused by the words "three qi position fixed", "contemptuous", "the grace of a meal" and so on, and could not get out of the bull's-eye, and even the "death" and "shit" are also one and the same! Wang Xilian guessed that "beat the dog stick" (also known as beat the ghost stick), he is so round to explain its saying: "do all the bad karma, the death of the remainder of the fear of the northern custom, the death of a bowl of rice, inserted into the three broomcorn millet poles, simmering noodles for the mallet, for the mallet, the mallet name of the beat the dog stick, for the dead over the village of the evil dogs with" -- know that reluctance, only had to attach a set of awkward instructions; but the dead may not always be "strong man", and how the first sentence does not relate.
In fact, the bottom of the mystery is the "walking stick", and the four stanzas respectively describe its relationship with the young and strong, the old man and especially the beggar, which is a wonderful aria. The poem can be translated as follows:
The young and strong carry the hand, can prevent the evil dog bully,
Old man on it (with two feet) has been dying;
Zhongzhi cane, the world do not despise,
(beggars but with the cane for life, they are always along the street begging call) please give a mouthful of rice, your great kindness I will be to the end of my life! I will never forget it!
This is not a picture of the social life of the suffering of the great masterpiece, all familiar with the life of the hard times will evoke the heartbreaking memories. All of this does not need to be proved by quotes from the classics, and any defense that leaves the realities of life will seem far-fetched and pale, and will not be convincing.
If translated from the point of view of history, the text should be newly adjusted:
Hansin, when you are young and strong, you should be careful to guard against bullying dogs,
was the king of the three qi, which hides the crisis of murder;
when you are humble and poor, the world of the common people despise you,
would not have expected that you later with a thousand dollars to pay back to the drifting mother of the friendship of a meal!
In guessing this riddle, the ancient Greek playwright Aeschylus inspired me. In his play, there is a sphinx, a sphinx-faced monster, perched on a rocky outcrop that chokes the intersection and speaks riddles to the passersby, so that many of them are eaten by it because of their inability to guess what is going on. Later, Oedipus passed by this place, the monster said to him the riddle is: under the sky what animal was born with four feet, and then with two feet, to use three when walking wobbly? Oedipus answered that it was man. For: when a man is young, he crawls on all fours; when he grows up, he straightens himself and walks on two feet; and in old age he takes up a crutch, which becomes his third foot! The riddle is guessed, and the monster, ashamed, leaps from the cliff and falls to his death. Some translators translate the riddle succinctly into nine words: "towards four feet, two feet in the afternoon, three feet in the evening", and this "three feet in the evening" and "three Qi position set the cover of the coffin" is simply the same, it is really amazing! This is really amazing!
"Pudong Temple"
Small red bone cheap all light, private tucked secretly carry strong handful of;
While being hanged by the lady, has seduced his counterparts.
Pudong Temple is the name of a fictional temple in Wang Shifu's The West Wing. The poem is about a maid, Hongniang, who was eager to help Zhang Sheng and Yingying form a good relationship, and was tortured by Yingying's mother, Mrs. Zheng.
Only for the poem there is a "bone" word, Zhou Chun's guess is "dice" (gambling equipment), to the first line of the discretion is already reluctant, and then down the line will not make sense at all; Wang Xilian focus on a "red" word, hard to say that it is a "red" word, and the word "red" is a "red" word, and the word "red" is a "red" word. Wang Xilian stared at the word "red" and insisted that it was "red sky lanterns"; others were probably blinded by "hanging up" and guessed that it was "bamboo curtains", Others were probably blinded by the word "hoist" and guessed that it was "bamboo curtains", "firecrackers", "shoehorns", etc. I think the correct answer is "red sky lanterns". I think the correct answer is "bone needle". Needle is called zhēn@① in ancient times, and more anciently, it is called aphorism. Writing is a powerful proof of history, and the evolution of writing is a reflection of the development of history. In ancient times, human beings used fish or animal bones to grind them into needles, and the character "箴" also indicates that most of them were made of bamboo, which were gradually extinguished by the appearance of copper and iron tools. But in our country exactly what age bone needle completely disappeared and completely replaced by steel needle, no historian has drawn a clear line.
According to the information, there is a needle museum in Reddy's, England, which tells us that in the more developed capitalist production in England, 1898, when made of a steel needle needs to go through twenty-two processes, which the eye and grinding require sophisticated labor equipment. This is almost one hundred years ago, we can imagine, even earlier than this one hundred and thirty years ago, our folk handicraft workshop in the production of a steel needle will be how difficult! We cannot rule out the possibility that bone needles were not extinct at that time, and that they may have existed in parallel with steel needles for a long period of time. Along with the invasion of Western powers, bone needles gradually withdrew from the stage of history.
To this end, the original poem for a little explanation: 1, bone needle, since the production is difficult, the price is naturally expensive, will be treasured by women, dyed red both beautiful, once lost is also easy to identify and find, so called "small red". 2, the second sentence of the process of sewing clothes with needle and thread. 3, three, four lines of the writing of the needle work after the women to collect the needle. After writing the needle work, women should collect the needle, the tail line is not removed, so there is a "seduce his counterparts" of the sentence, and it is inserted into the "needle stacks"; needle stacks are fluffy spherical objects, often hanging on the wall within reach, so it is said that "hang up! Therefore, it is called "hanging up". If we focus on the story, we can translate it like this:
The Little Red Maiden, you humble servant girl,
you have brought a pair of lovers together by pulling them together in secret;
although you have been tortured by the old lady's hanging,
yet you have made them lovers after all.
This is the first time that I have ever seen you in this world,
and the second time that I have seen you in this world.
If the focus is on aria, it can be translated like this:
Looking at you in your bony red dress, light and delicate,
you have actually joined the fabrics of your own things into one;
Afterwards, you were often hung high by the madam,
but then you seduced the tail line of amorous love to go with you.
Riddles, their origins are probably as old as literature and art. In ancient Greece, there is the legend of the Sphinx with a sphinx, and in Indian literature, there is a "Twenty Nights", which weaves in twenty moving riddle stories with clues to the queen's marriage proposal, which can be said to be popular. In China's pre-Qin canon "Xunzi - Fu chapter" there are also shining examples, five of the text on the nature of riddles. It is characterized by "hiding words to conceal the meaning, and using treacherous analogies to refer to things", i.e., using all kinds of clever analogies instead of speaking directly to imply the characteristics of things, so that the readers can speculate and guess. For example, the "Provincial Fugue":
There are things in this, born in the mountains, in the room hall; no knowledge, no skill, good governance clothes; no theft, not steal, hole in the wall and line; day and night, to become the article; in order to be able to combine the vertical and horizontal, but also good even the balance; under the cover of the people, on the decoration of the emperor; the work of the very broad, do not see the wise and good; when the use of the existence of the use of the death. I am a fool and I don't know what I am talking about, so I dare to ask the king to do it!
The king said: the beginning of this husband was born huge, the success of small evil? The first is a small one, and the second is a small one, and the third is a small one, and the fourth is a small one. The head xiān＠②da and the tail Zhao Zhao Yao evil? One to one, the end as a matter, no feathers, no wings, repeated very extreme; tail born and things start, tail zhān @ ③ and things have been; hairpin as a father, tube as a mother; both to sew the table, but also to connect Li: this is the so-called Pro reason. The image and function of the "needle" is written in a tone of questions and answers between the ruler and the minister, and the words are vivid and fascinating. It was introduced two thousand years earlier than "Dream of the Red Chamber", with different artistic styles: one is elaborate and delicate, and the other is condensed and refined, and encapsulates the storyline of "The Story of the Western Chamber". The two are two thousand years apart, in our country's literary time and space, reflecting each other, overriding the ancient and modern!
Guangling Huai Gu (广陵怀古)
蝉噪鸦栖转眼过，隋堤风景近如何;
只缘占尽风流号，惹惹惹了纷纷口舌多。
From a nostalgic point of view, this poem is about Yang Guang, Emperor Yang of Sui, who dug a canal and toured Yangzhou.
Guangling: the name of the ancient county, now Yangzhou City, Jiangsu Province. Emperor Yang was killed by Yuchu Wei during his third trip to the south of the Yangtze River, and the Sui Dynasty fell.
Sui-dike: the first year of Sui Daye opened Qiong ditch into the river, next to the building of the Royal Road, the tree with willow, called the Sui dike.
Because the line of sight to the "Guangling", "mouth and tongue" and other words, Zhou Chun guessed that it is a "hole xiao"; Xu Fengyi by the Sui embankment widely planted willows and the "mouth and tongue". Xu Fengyi guessed that it was "willow toothpick" from the willow planted on the Sui embankment and the word "mouth and tongue"; Wang Xilian guessed that it was "willow toothpick" because of the "Sui embankment scenery", and because of the relationship between "wind flow", he guessed that it was "willow toothpick". Wang Xilian guessed the word "willow" because of the association of "Sui dike scenery" with willow, and because of the relationship of "wind flow". Their **** the same point is only a little less than the rest, so they can not stand.
In fact, the answer is "paper kite" - that is, a kite, because the poem already has the word "wind" and a slight variation. According to the perspective of aria, the words in the poem are also re-interpreted a little:
The title, Guangling - broad, boundless sky; Ling, harmonic Ling, rising up in the air; the two words have been sketched out the characteristics of the paper kite. In the first sentence, the cicadas and crows roost, referring to the high trees where the cicadas and crows roost, this sentence writes that the paper kite has already risen up in the air and surpassed the tops of the tall trees in the twinkling of an eye. In the second sentence, "Sui dike" means "dike" and "dike" means to lift up the kite and let it fly as you like, so what is the similarity between this scene and this scene? In the third sentence, it is written that the kite floats in the air by virtue of the wind. In the fourth sentence, it is written that the kite is floating in the air, and people on the ground are commenting on it as they look up.
The tall trees where cicadas and crows roost are overtaken by you in a flash,
and you are released into the air as you wish, what does this scene look like?
This is the first time I've seen a kite in the air.
You have the wind in your favor, and you can't help but get people talking, talking, talking.
This is the most vivid portrayal of kite flying. Refer to the "Dream of the Red Chamber" seventieth paragraph describing kite-flying text, simply more exciting.
The world knows that Cao Xueqin wrote "Dream of Red Mansions", but few people know that he also wrote "South Harrier and North Kite Kao Gong Zhi", which specifically introduces the "tie, paste, painting, flying" kite experience, as well as the production of kites and kite mnemonics, and hand-drawn a lot of colorful drawings of kites. It is reported that a set of four special stamps "Kites" issued in 1980 was chosen from this book. The author's rich life experience is also the reason why his writings are so popular!
By the way, some people think that each of the ten poems alludes to a different person, and conclude that this poem alludes to Qingwen; however, if we look at it in connection with the two lines of the poem "A good wind helps me to reach for the blue sky," it would be more accurate to say that it alludes to Xue Baochai. -No matter how high this good wind makes her float, after the long line of affection is broken, she can not help but fall down from the blue sky!
The Peach Leaf Ferry
Decaying grass and idle flowers reflecting shallow pools, peach branches and leaves are always separated;
The beams of the six dynasties are much like this, and a small photo hangs on the wall.
The Peach Leaf Ferry, the former site of the Qinhuai River ferry in Nanjing, Jin Wang Xianzhi was here to send his concubine Peach Leaf, the ferry thus named. No one has guessed the answer to this poem, Zhou Chun guessed "fan", Zhao Zengwang guessed "door god paper", both have no edge. This poem is just a brief reference to ancient history, vividly describing the characteristics of the "bright mirror" and its existence in the family of the officials and eunuchs. Accordingly, just to explain the following:
Mirror, the ancient jiàn＠④, cast bronze, until the end of the Qing Dynasty, bronze mirrors are still a lot of mirror to grind the mirror for the industry of craftsmen often soliciting business along the street. In the 18th century, the Europeans were moving to the east, and the families of the eunuchs had glass mirrors, which were naturally expensive at the beginning, and not generally available to the rich families, so like Jia Baoyu's Yihongyuan, which was full of bright mirrors that made Liu Laowei perplexed, and naturally was a wonder to the villagers in the mountainous countryside, and the poor people even had difficulty in obtaining bronze mirrors, and had to borrow the pots to take pictures of the shadows, which is why the sentence, "The beams of the six dynasties are much like Xu", refers to the fact that the poor and needy people had no access to bronze mirrors. "
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1, mirror (copper mirror, especially glass mirror), steep as water, so it is called "shallow pool", "bad grass" metaphor for the old, "flowers" metaphor for the young, all for the mirror to shine. 2, the mirror, the mirror, the mirror, the mirror, the mirror, the mirror, the mirror, the mirror, the mirror, the mirror, the mirror, the mirror, the mirror, the mirror, the mirror. To illuminate the shadow. 2, the mirror to illuminate people, the shape and the shadow of a real and a virtual, can not be merged into one. 3, six dynasties, refers to the Jinling (now Nanjing), Wu, the Eastern Jin Dynasty, the Song Dynasty, Qi, Liang, Chen and other six dynasties have built their capitals here, collectively known as the six dynasties; Liang, refers to the building, rhetorically belongs to the borrowing of the frame, i.e., the official family of the magnificent house. 4, the small light, i.e., a mirror, mostly hung on the wall. 5, the mirror is a mirror, and it can be used as an example. 6, the mirror is a mirror, and it is used as an example. 7, the mirror is used as an example. Accordingly, the original poem can be translated as follows:
Both the grass and the flowers can be reflected in the pool,
but the shadow cannot be united with the body.
There is no shortage of such things in Jinling city,
Hanging high on the wall on one side, illuminating the appearance of the eyebrow and the face of the woman.
Let's go back and talk about the writing characteristics of these ten nostalgic poems.
1, the ten poems all appear in the face of wistfulness, and the language of the poems does follow the trajectory of history or legend, such as "Red Cliff", "Crossroads", "Huaiyin", "Guangling", "The Great Wall", "The Great Wall", "The Great Wall", and "The Great Wall". Five of the poems, such as "Red Cliff", "Crossroads", "Huaiyin", "Guangling", and "Green Mound", summarize historical events or the lives of people; the remaining five are also based on the plots of literary works. The other five are also based on the plot of a literary work. But the clever thing is that the back of the poems is also a mystery, which is very cleverly hidden. These poems are both historical and aphoristic, with double entendres and no mistakes, demonstrating the author's superior artistic genius.
2. The titles of these poems are riddles in themselves, or important parts of the riddles. For example, the coffin - visible all sides are painted red, is indeed called "Red Cliff"; cross-toe - trumpet, blowing the trumpet is not exactly the hands together, fingers crossed posture? The two words of the title are such a concise and vivid sketch! Guangling - the paper kite, isn't it a depiction of it floating in the vast, boundless sky? Peach Leaf Ferry--a pool of clear water reflecting the peach blossom-like beauty! The propositions are so elaborate that they are rare in other works or riddles.
3. The answers to the riddles are the most common objects used in daily life, especially in the life of the youngsters who are still in their childhood. Such as trumpets, canes, paper kites, mirrors, ink pots, pancreatic soap, bone needles (even steel needles are not reluctant), fans, none of them far from life, and even "coffins" are of course familiar to them, wherever there are people living there will be funerals, and they will never be a stranger to the clamor of the drums and music at the time of the funeral. But to the scholars who confine themselves in the hands of the scholars in the study will be more and more guessing the more mysterious, more guessing the more confused up. Such as the "Red Cliff" guessed as "walking lanterns with warships water manipulator", the "Mawei" guessed as "Yang Fei crown white peony", want to be tricky and odd, into a dead end and have to pull the readers also forced into it. Zhou Chun guessed ten and only one of the right, he also knew that there is no certainty and lamented: "Fear that I guessed may not be also, An get up all the beauty and asked?" He regretted that he couldn't bring the beauties in the book back to life to tell him the answer.
These ten are "Dream of Red Mansions" in the glittering jewel-like light of the text, is the literary canon of riddles in the art of treasures, is Cao Xueqin left us the art of treasures.