注彼而写此 目送而手挥——刘姥姥二进荣国府的叙事匠心

Ingenuity of Characterization in Granny Liu's Second Visit to the Jung Mansion in A Dream of Red Mansions

刘姥姥二进荣国府,既是主题及环境意义的彰显,在叙事单元中更是前后情节得以结撰的枢纽。以刘姥姥之来为契机,以贾母两宴大观园为叙事焦点,作者旨在构建三种人物关系:一是围绕钗黛和解事件,展示新一轮钗黛关系的形成;二是围绕凤姐生日事件,铺演凤姐与贾琏的夫妻关系;三是围绕鸳鸯抗婚事件,暗写贾赦与贾母的母子关系、与贾政的兄弟关系。这种顺笔便墨、间三带四的叙事笔法,使得《红楼梦》这部人情小说呈现出真实、自然、生动、巧妙的原生态。

＂Granny Liu Pays Her Second Visit to the Jung Mansion＂in A Dream of Red Mansions is not only the highlight the significance of the theme and the environment, but also the connection of plots in narrative elements. With the juncture of Granny Liu＇s second visit and the narrative focus of Lady Dowager＇s fetes in Grand View Garden, Cao Xueqin aimed at building three character relationships ： 1 ）the formation of a new round of relationship between Xue Baochai and Lin Daiyu around their reconciliation;2）the couple relationship between Jia Lian and Wang Xifeng around her birthday;3）the mother-child relationship between Lady Dowager and Jia She,and the brotherhood of Jia She and Jia Zheng around Yuanyang＇ s anti-marriage. This kind of unique narrative technique makes A Dream of Red Mansions a real, natural, vivid and ingenious original ecology.