薛宝钗推后入曹府 脂砚斋提前写香菱——石头记甲戌本第四回评点(系列连载5)

Xue Baochai Deferring Going to the Cao Mansion Zhiyanzhai Writing Xiangling in Advance——A Series of the Comments on Jiaxu Version 5

此一回的中心人物实则有二:宝钗和香菱,书中先写薛宝钗的出场,随后写香菱被拐卖之悲惨故事。薛宝钗为康熙的老师熊赐履遗腹女,原本在黛玉入府之前入府,香菱是本书作者脂砚斋在书中的另一位化身,本回写的是脂砚斋在曹家1728年抄家之后的一段人生经历。出于本书的结构和情节需要,作者推后了薛宝钗的入府时间,同时,提前写了香菱原本发生于后来的故事。

In this chapter, there are two main characters: Baochai and Xiangling. Xue Baochai was wrote at first, and then the author wrote that Xiangling was abducted and sold. Xue Baochai was a posthumous child of Xiong Cilv who was Kangxi's teacher, and had should gone to the mansion earlier than Daiyu;Xiangling was another portrait of Zhiyanzhai in this novel. This chapter described Zhiyanzhai's experience when Cao's house was searched and his property was confiscated. In need of the novel's structure and plots, the author deferred the time of Xue Baochai's arrival at the Cao Mansion. Meanwhile, the story of Xiangling was wrote in advance.