Nalan Xingde is the son of Nalan Mingzhu, a university student in Kangxi Dynasty, formerly known as Nalan Chengde.
1674 was changed to nalanxingde, which avoided the taboo of the prince's "guarantee" at that time. A year later, the prince changed his surname to Yin Yong, so Nalan Xingde changed back to Chengde, but I don't know why later generations used to call him Nalan Xingde, probably because the name of Xingde sounded more cultured.
Actually, another name of Nalan Xingde, Nalan Rong Ruo, is a little more literary, so in the following writing, we will call him Nalan Rong Ruo (his name is Chengde and his word is Rong Ruo).
Rong Ruo and Cao Yin are similar in age. They are not only like others, but also personal bodyguards of Emperor Kangxi. They naturally become good friends who talk about everything.
Nalan Rongruo entered the palace as a bodyguard when she got married. His wife, Lu, is the daughter of Lu Xingzu, governor of Guangdong and Guangxi. They are a match made in heaven.
Just as many people think that Nalan is the prototype of Jia Baoyu, I think his wife Lu should have the shadow of Lin Daiyu.
First, Lushi and Lin Daiyu are both southern noble families.
Lin Daiyu lives in Yangzhou, a famous canal city. Her father is Lin Ruhai, a salt inspector. Although her rank is not high, she has considerable power. Lu grew up in Guangzhou, an important town in Lingnan, and his father Lu Xingzu was an official of the governor's yamen.
Secondly, Nalan Rong Ruo compared Lushi to Xie Daowen, a talented woman in the Eastern Jin Dynasty who had the reputation of "being in the lee of the forest", and wrote poems such as "The boudoir in the forest is rare" and "The Taoist family in the forest is desolate" for her. Cao Xueqin's poems and songs are excellent since childhood, so he must memorize the lyrics of his grandfather and good friend Nalan Rong Ruo. He thought of Gao Qi, a great poet in the Ming Dynasty, from Lushi's Lin Li Feng.
Thirdly, Daiyu's burial of flowers is one of the most well-known stories in A Dream of Red Mansions, and Lu had a similar elegant move.
One rainy day, Nalan Rong Ruo came home from the outside and found that Lu was not in the room. He was worried that she had caught a cold in the rain, so he took an umbrella to look for her in the back garden. When he entered the garden through the winding cloister, he saw the most beautiful scene in the world-Lushi stood by the lotus pond, holding two umbrellas, one covering her lovely figure and the other covering the newly blooming lotus. ..
Fourth, Lushi and Lin Daiyu are unlucky women.
Since A Dream of Red Mansions entered the hearts of millions of readers in the middle of Qing Dynasty, Lin Daiyu has become synonymous with unfortunate beauty, and Lu's unfortunate life is even worse than Lin Daiyu's.
When Nalan Rong Ruo missed his beloved wife Lu, he wrote the following song "Huanxisha":
Who reads the west wind alone?
The rustling yellow leaves closed the window.
Thinking about the past and the future, the sun sets.
Sleep soundly through wine,
Bet on books and tea.
At that time, only Tao was ordinary.
Lushi and Nalan Rong Ruo had a harmonious and poetic marriage life, but the couple's happiness lasted only three years, and they died forever with Lushi's dystocia. Nalan Rong Ruo's sentence "The only way at that time was unusual" contains a lot of unspeakable pain-he thought that "living a drunken life, gambling on books and splashing tea" would last forever, and he would never have thought of it anyway.
Although we can't assert that Nalan and his beloved wife Lushi are the archetypes of Jia Baoyu and Lin Daiyu, the words of Song Xiangfeng quoted by Qing scholars in the Diary of Quiet Residence on August 12, 2009 (1859) are quite convincing-"Cao Xueqin wrote A Dream of Red Mansions in the high hall (that is, Emperor Qianlong of Qing Dynasty). Gao Miao read it well and said, "This cover is also made for the Pearl family (this is about the Pearl family). "