帘中人比桃花瘦--从《桃花行》管窥红楼之帘

The Girl behind the Curtain Is Thinner Than the Peach Blossom--Curtain image in A Dream of Red Mansions from“The Poem of Peach Blossoms”

《红楼梦》女子所赋诗词中,多处出现帘意象,其意蕴内涵既对以往文人诗词有所承接,又有人物情感的个性流露,可视为一种情感标记,展示出丰富而独特的情感特质和美学内蕴。林黛玉所赋《桃花行》中的帘意象表现了空间阻隔、思想阻隔与人花比拟的特征,传达出伤春哀音之情,从中可透视黛玉自我封闭、自怨自叹的幽深情感。

In the poems ascribed to women in the Chinese classical novel A Dream of Red Mansions,the image of curtain appears very often,which can be seen as an emotional mark with rich and unique emotions and aesthetic connotations as it is not only a continuation of previous literary poems in terms of connotation,but also the expression of the emotion and personality of the women.The curtain in“The Poem of Peach Blossoms”ascribed to Lin Daiyu,the female protagonist in the novel,functions as a barrier in both space and thought as well as a comparison between herself and the blossoms,conveying the sorrows for the passage of the spring season,and revealing her melancholy emotions of bemoaning her fate and self-seclusion.