The culture of A Dream of Red Mansions | A girl's daily life | Author | Jun Jian Ya Kan Hong Lou
Jia Baoyu was described in detail as more than a dozen famous girls with surnames, and many others without surnames. Hongyi Yuan is good at singing and dancing, with a beautiful face and green sleeves. So, Jia Baoyu gave so many maids just because he was in favor? Not exactly. If you count the girls around Jia Baoyu, you will find that they are different.
Eight girls:
Hua Xiren, Ren Mei (Xue Qian), Qingwen, Sheyue. For "romantic love", four people who accompanied Jia Baoyu in the dreamland. Xue Qian changed her name to Ren Mei.
Yi Yue, Tan Yun, Qiu Wen and Bi Hen are the other four big girls.
Except for xiren, these eight girls are all first-class girls with a monthly salary of one or two pieces of silver. The other seven are all second-class girls, and each of them throws money.
Eight big girls bring out the best in each other, and the son who appeared in the 28th time is the second-class girl. In addition, Yee's little red is special, and it does not belong to Jia Baoyu's maid configuration, but Yee's maid. Although it is second class, it is not among the top eight girls.
Eight little girls:
Jiahui, Xianghui (Si Er), Fang Guan, Chun Yan, Lianger, Zhui Er, Indier, Pearl ... My little daughter earns 500 yuan every month.
Wang Xifeng explained in detail the situation of Jia Baoyu's maid in the room. However, there are two differences from the general understanding.
First, Jia Baoyu is not the only one who has eight big girls and eight little girls. Jia Huan and even the master of the Jia family are all of this number.
Big girls take care of themselves, while little girls learn to be body double. When the older girl is old enough to get married, the younger girl will change when she grows up and is admitted. Another little girl added.
Second, Jia Baoyu's eldest girl, except for one or two pieces of silver a month, is the standard of a first-class girl in Jia Baoyu's room. Qingwen and so on. There are people who hang money, and Jiahui. There is a standard of 500 yuan, which is higher than the monthly money of other girls in the room. Wang Xifeng made it clear: "If you are still an old lady, how can others be angry?" This means that no one will be jealous if their income is told by their grandmother.
Although Jia's maids are divided into first class, second class, little maid and coarse maid. Due to different hosts, the income standard is also different. Jia Baoyu is favored, and his girls have a high income, but the number is as standard as other brothers and sons and nephews.
Although there are many girls, everyone has a different division of labor. Lin Daiyu returned to Jia's home for the third time and gave an account.
Miss Jia's standard is that two maids are responsible for women's washing and bathing, and five or six maids work. There are far more girls around Jia Baoyu than sisters.
A Jia Baoyu used dozens of maids to wait on him. So, what is the specific division of labor of these maids and what do they do every day?
Xiren is the "manager" given by the old lady, gradually replacing Nanny Li. Xiren is responsible for everything around Jia Baoyu.
Xue Qian is in charge of tea and diet. She is the most trusted.
Qingwen is responsible for Jia Baoyu's writing and reading, which really adds fragrance to tea.
Musk Moon is Aroma's assistant, and Jia Baoyu goes out to dress up.
Yiyue and Tan Yun are in charge of Jia Baoyu's clothes, sewing and so on, and of course there are others.
Qiuwen and Bi Hen are responsible for washing clothes. Bi Hen waited on Jia Baoyu to take a bath for two or three hours, which became a big joke of Yuan.
Every girl is responsible for different things, not just her position. But someone is responsible for managing a certain item, checking for leaks and filling gaps. Others serve together and do their jobs.
Little girls are responsible for cleaning, boiling water, running errands, sending messages and other auxiliary services. They also learn from older girls and grow into older girls to leave as substitutes.
In addition, big girls and little girls can enter the room to serve. There are also a group of maids who are responsible for rough work such as yard cleaning and flower tree management, as well as foreign service personnel such as old mammy and daughter-in-law.
Plus a Jia Baoyu, there are not thirty or fifty service personnel. As for the elders, there will only be more.
Wen | Jun Jian Ya Guan Hong Lou
The information in this article is mainly quoted from:
80 copies of Zhou Stone Notes;
Cheng Yiben's revision of A Dream of Red Mansions;
A Dream of Red Mansions is a complete picture of Qinghe.