What is the steamed bun nunnery in the dream of Red Mansions?

There is such a sentence in the fifteenth chapter of "Dream of Red Mansions", "It turns out that this steamed bun nunnery is Shuiyue Nunnery, because the steamed buns made in his temple are good, so he gave this nickname, not far from Tieji Temple." It can be seen that Manju-an and Suigetsu-an are the same place.

The steamed bun nunnery in "Dream of Red Mansions" is a private Taoist temple in Jiafu, which is a place for fake family members to worship their ancestors and dip and pray for blessings, which is actually a metaphor for this is also a microcosm of Jiafu.

In order to portray the character, Jia Qin was originally a person looking for flowers and willows, and accidentally discovered this place, so he chose this place to fool around with the old nun.

Because this place has become a place where people gather to gamble and ask for flowers and willows, it will be disgusting, and there will be such a saying.

In order to reflect some of the circumstances of Jiafu, it also hints at the ending of Jiafu, and in this way makes the story more interesting.

There is a steamed bun nunnery in "Dream of Red Mansions", as the name suggests, because the steamed buns in the steamed bun nunnery are delicious, so it has such a name, but in fact it is not so simple. The nuns in the Mantou Nunnery are all unusual, and they are inextricably linked with Jiafu. Wang Xifeng became bad, this started from Mantou Nunnery, and it was the turning point for her from good to bad, so Mantou Nunnery is a very meaningful place in "Dream of Red Mansions".

Wang Fanzhi's "Steamed Buns Outside the City".

Steamed buns outside the city, stuffed grass in the city.

One person eats one, and it doesn't taste good.

There are no 100-year-old people in the world, and they are forced to make a thousand-year-old tune.

Striking iron as the threshold, the ghost clapped and laughed.

In fact, this poem is not difficult to understand, the soil steamed bun refers to the grave mound, and the person is the stuffing of the steamed bun. People always have to die in the end, and if you use iron sheets as a threshold to prevent the imps from knocking on the door, it will only make the imps laugh.

In fact, the poem has already been spelled with the songEven if you are prosperous and rich in life, you will not bring death with you, you will come cleanly, you will go cleanly, whether it is a wife and children or a prince or a general, no one will help you, and no one will care about a dead person.

Wang Fanzhi, the author of "Steamed Buns Outside the City", was a person in the late Sui and early Tang Dynasties, he had a hard life when he was a child, he was adopted since he was a child, and went to work as a helper after the decline of his family. It can be said that Wang Fanzhi is a person who has experienced the ups and downs of the family, after the decline of the family, Wang Fanzhi, who used to ride a high-headed horse, changed his little donkey, although he saw the people riding high-headed horses around him, he wrote with envy and self-pity, but after all, he still had to live, and he could only comfort himself.

Mantou Nunnery, the evolved steamed bun poems are not only a good prescription for Wang Fanzhi to relieve the depression in his mind, but also become the mentality of the world to follow. Only by tasting the suffering of the world and looking down on life and death can we face life open-mindedly, and Wang Fanzhi has already realized the truth.

Mantou Nunnery means grave, and Mantou Nunnery corresponds to Tieji Temple, which means that even if you are rich and noble for several generations, you will still die.

On the surface, the steamed bun is a good steamed bun, but in fact, the word "water moon" is very particular. water, drifting or dew; The Moon, the Wind Moon. The water moon nunnery has the name of dew wind and moon, and the temple is full of practicing nuns.

Ancient women avoided water and the moon was afraid of it, but it was named after the water moon, and there were such ** names as steamed buns, which can be seen that there is dirt and dirt in it. 

It's just a way to survive. It was supposed to be a place of cultivation, but their desires did not disappear, and what to do if they wanted to eat and drink, they had to find some way to make money.

Because although the steamed bun nunnery hides dirt, but he has witnessed the decline of Jiafu, every time someone in Jiafu goes to the mantou nunnery, it means that someone in Jiafu has died, so although the steamed bun nunnery hides dirt and dirt, in fact, part of it is also the dirt of Jiafu. And it is also to compare with the "Iron Threshold Temple" that represents prosperity, and the comparison between the two points out the final outcome of Jiafu.

In "Dream of Red Mansions", everyone believes in Buddhism very much, hoping that the Buddha can protect themselves and hear their requests, so they worship the Buddha in the "Tieji Temple" to make vows. Mantou Nunnery is next to the "Iron Threshold Temple", Mantou Nunnery was called "Shuiyue Nunnery" at the beginning, and then because of Fan Chengda's poems, and the steamed buns of Mantou Nunnery are particularly delicious, so everyone called Shuiyue Nunnery Mantou Nunnery. But in the ancient saying, the meaning of the earth steamed bun is the burial bun, in fact, the author has already revealed the true background of this steamed bun hermitage.

Therefore, all the funerals in Jiafu were held in Mantou Nunnery, and in the later period of Jiafu, many people passed away, so the role of Mantou Nunnery was highlighted.

And the "Iron Threshold Temple" has been accommodating the glorious moments of Jiafu, and the incense of the "Iron Threshold Temple" has been very vigorous, if there is no major change, the temple of "Iron Threshold Temple" should always exist, but in the later period, the time for Jiafu to go to the "Iron Threshold Temple" is getting less and less, and the time to go to the Mantou Nunnery is more and more, and the author is vaguely pointing out that Jiafu is about to lose. And the place of Mantou Nunnery has a strong sense of existence, and many stories are happening in Mantou Nunnery, such as the story of Wang Xifeng and Steward Zhang's daughter and husband, as well as Jia Baoyu seeing Luo Shen in Mantou Nunnery, and the death and funeral of everyone in Jiafu are all happening in this small Mantou Nunnery.

Although the steamed bun is small, it has witnessed the decline of Jiafu, and the "Iron Threshold Temple" cannot guarantee the prosperity of Jiafu from generation to generation, and only the steamed bun nunnery that hides dirt and dirt is the final destination of Jiafu.

The Dream of Red Mansions is very gorgeous, but Cao Xueqin wants to mention the ugly steamed bun nunnery because he wants to form a strong contrast and reflect the society of the time.

The Iron Threshold Temple symbolizes Jiafu, and the dilapidated Mantou Nunnery is next to the Iron Threshold Temple, echoing it from afar, implying that sooner or later Jiafu will be corrupted.

Mantou Nunnery is a contrast to the Grand View Garden, reflecting the complexity and diversity of society, both beautiful and dirty.

Lu Xue'an Lu Xue'an in "Dream of Red Mansions" is the place where the sisters embroider their poems, and it is also the place where Shi Xiangyun roasts venison to eat. The part of the story scene with Lu Xue An is mainly focused on the 49th episode "Glass World, White Snow and Red Plum Fat Powder Fragrant Baby, Cutting Fishy Meat" and the 50th episode "Lu Xue Nuan Fighting for Instant Poems, Warm Fragrance Dock Elegant Spring Lantern Riddles". Tanchun invited the second brother Baoyu to come here, and the invitation card was written in the hope that he could "come to the snow", the so-called "snow" is to come by boat through the snowflakes, and to come here from the deep pool where Hongyuan is located, it is indeed necessary to take a boat; But the time of the sisterhood reunion is autumn, where does the snowflakes come from?

Originally, the reeds here are thick, every autumn, the reed flowers are like snow, the name of the autumn snow hermitage and the name of the reed hermitage in the book "Dream of Red Mansions" originally had the same meaning, take a boat through the reed flowers to come here, is the so-called "snow comes".

It is the practice place of Miaoyu in the Grand View Garden, and it is a nunnery with a view in the garden.

Shuiyue Nunnery, also known as Mantou Nunnery, a nunnery in "Dream of Red Mansions", the nuns in the nunnery are: the old sister-in-law is quiet, the sister-in-law is intelligent, and the wisdom is good.

Lu Xue'an (also known as Lu Xueguang, pronounced as yan) After a night of heavy snowfall, Xiangyun, Daiyu, Baochai, Baoqin, Tanchun and other sisters in Luxue'an, Xiangyun roasted venison here, and Sister Feng lost her bracelet here Shuiyue'an is a place where Fangguan and other monks are born.

Mantou Nunnery is the place where Qin Zhong and Zhizhi'er have something to do.