The sixty-third time in A Dream of Red Mansions, "Shouyi Hongfang Group gave a banquet", wrote down the order for everyone to draw flowers and sign. Daiyu painted a hibiscus flower, engraved with the words "the wind reveals a sad face" and tied with an old poem "Don't complain about the east wind." It can be seen that Cao Xueqin wants to compare Lin Daiyu to hibiscus. In the Tang Dynasty, people chanted hibiscus poems: "The hibiscus on the water surface has declined in autumn, and flowers are like flowers. I'm afraid it's more appropriate to describe Daiyu's aloofness with the aloofness and frost of lotus flowers.
Hibiscus blooms in August and September, and its corolla is white or red. "Guangqun Xiangpu" contains "This flower is elegant and elegant, and the temple is absolutely fragrant. Qiu Jiang is lonely and doesn't blame the east wind, so he is called a gentleman on standby". When it comes to hibiscus, we can't help but mention the allusions about hibiscus. According to the record of returning to the field, Shi became the Lord of hibiscus after his death; The story of Swallow in Shilin also contains anecdotes about the owner of Mifurong Pavilion where Ding died. These allusions are very enlightening for Cao Xueqin to fabricate the chapter of hibiscus flower god after Qingwen's death.
There are not many descriptions of hibiscus in A Dream of Red Mansions, and the descriptions are far less than Haitang and Chrysanthemum, but an article "Daughter of Hibiscus" is wonderful enough to write the essence of hibiscus. "Its essence is that jade is not expensive, its nature is that ice and snow are impure, its spirit is that the stars, the sun and the moon are not refined, and its appearance is that flowers and moons are not beautiful." It can be seen that in Cao Shi's mind, hibiscus is an extraordinary flower. But who does Furong's daughter refer to? Qingwen? Let's look at how "The Daughter of Lotus" describes: "Huayuan is afraid of herself, how can she be arrogant? Liu Ben is so sad, why don't you ban bathing? " And "Runa is full of tears and blood, sprinkled on the west wind; Zi Ze kept silent and appealed to Leng Yue. Just a lively sister Lin. When Baoyu considered a sentence, "I missed it under the screen window; In Huangtuling, Daiyu suddenly changed color. Another section mentions that Mrs. Wang said that "the eyebrows are somewhat like your sister Lin", which seems to imply that Qingwen is the shadow of Daiyu. So the real daughter of Furong should refer to Daiyu.
Lin Daiyu is a typical tragic beauty. She is smart and beautiful, lonely and arrogant, but sentimental, delicate and sick. Imagine, in a society that values power, interests and feudal ethics, how can a lonely and rebellious weak woman be accommodated? As a result, she had to struggle in this male-dominated society and live a life of "360 days a year, the wind and frost and the sword crush people". In the uncertain future, uncertain life and heavy mental shackles, she can only lament, "How long will it be bright and beautiful?" Once it is hard to find, it is called "May Nong have wings and flowers fly all over the world". But "after all, where is Xiangshan"? She is just like a hibiscus flower in autumn water, and finally ends up with the ending of "a pure land covers up a romantic life" and "I don't know when it will fall."