世外仙姝寂寞“妙”——妙玉简论

' Benefits' of Loneliness of a Nun Who Lives Outside the Mundane World——ABrief Comment on Miaoyu

妙玉在“金陵十二钗”中位排第六,120回《红楼梦》中涉笔九处,说明这一形象在作者心目中有足够重的份量。作为“槛外人”,她有着爱洁成癖、才情高雅、孤傲怪僻的独特个性,但又凡心未脱,眷恋着人世的自由与真情。然而,红楼梦时代却使她身不由己地完成了“欲洁何曾洁,云空未必空;可怜金玉质,终陷淖泥中”的可悲人生。

Miaoyu ranks No. 6 among 'the twelve beauties in Nanjing', who is dealt with for nine times in the 120th chapter of A Dream of Red Chambers. This indicates that this image occupies a considerable place in the author's mind. As an 'outsider', she has the propensity of being extremely clean, elegant in talent and emotion, and eccentrically arrogant, meanwhile she is not detached from the mundane world feeling attached to the freedom and genuine emotions that exist in the human world. Nonetheless the time of A Dream of Red Chambers enables her to achieve a tragic life that features 'no purity in pursuing it, no emptiness in seeking it; a poor girl of good sentiments ends up to be in the mire.'