怡红院丫环的人名意蕴

Connotations of the Names of Slave Girls of the Yi Hong Compound

《红楼梦》的人物命名十分新雅有趣 ,体现了作者精心的艺术构思 ,其中丫鬟的人名寄寓了其主人的身份、地位、兴趣、爱好甚至性格命运等特征 ,是作者的一大创新。俗语云 :贴身的奴才半个主子 ,现实生活中他们的命运又何尝不是紧密联系在一起的呢 ?本篇拟从命名取义的角度来探讨怡红院丫环命名的特点 ,并兼谈宝玉的空幻意识和雅洁的审美观。

The elegant and novel names of the slave girls in The Dream of the Red Chamber reflect the writer's careful artistic plot.These names imply their masters' social position,status,interst,hoby and even their masters' personality and destiny.The naming of the servant girls is one of the write's creations.As the saying goes:A body servant means half a master.In reality their destinies are closely related.This paper probes into the naming of the slave girls of the Yi Hong compound from the angle of the connotation of names and discussess Bao Yu's voidners conciousness and his concept of elegance and cleaness.