🌷为什么曹公会这么喜欢黛玉？
Why does Cao Xueqin like Daiyu so much?
💘曹公写林黛玉从来不吝惜笔墨。他写黛玉的来历，写黛玉的美，西子、比干的什么的比喻全齐活，眼睛、眉毛、笑靥、泪痕都画了；写黛玉的才情，不惜让她在诗社三夺魁艳压群芳。林黛玉是花魂，也是诗魂，其他的如黛玉使小性子、曹公都写了，写的那么天真活泼、悲怆动人，而又不加雕琢，其他的姑娘都得不到这个待遇。
💝曹公喜欢写她，或者说，写她让曹公觉得舒畅的感觉。林黛玉，一个倔强、勇敢、聪敏、悲情的女子，在曹公的笔下，她是“行止见识，皆出我之上”的裙钗中最耀眼的那朵。她是水中芙蓉，出淤泥而不染，她清白自持，越出于众人之上，开花结果自芬芳。脂批里说，风月情怀，醉人如酒。林黛玉和宝玉的爱情，真是如酒一般能醉人。
💞红楼里几次二人互剖心迹，言语之间都有如惊雷闪电一般，那酒醇香而又浓烈，每句对白都如裂帛一般干脆利落，都值得让人回味，又如霹雳一般打在人心头，让人顿悟。哦，这就是爱情啊！
❤️Cao Xueqin spared no effort in describing Daiyu. While describing Daiyu’s background and beauty, he compared her to the legendary beauty Xishi and the faithful official Bi Gan, using all the best metaphors on her. He also gave detailed descriptions of her eyes, eyebrows, dimples and tearstains. He gave her creativity and wit, making her stand out at the girl’s poetry club as the three-time champion. Daiyu doesn’t just have beauty, she also has brains. All her other characteristics, such as her fits of temper, innocence, and liveliness, were thoroughly—but not superfluously—described by Cao, crafting her into a sad and alluring character; none of the other girls received treatment on this level.
💝Cao likes to write about her, or rather, Cao finds comfort in writing about her. Under Cao’s pen, Daiyu, a stubborn, courageous, smart, and melancholic girl, became the most spectacular out of all the fair ladies “surpassing in behaviour and understanding”. She is a lotus in the water, growing out of the mud unsoiled. Pure and self-disciplined, she is a cut above the crowd, a blossoming flower that gives off a sweet fragrance. Rouge’s critique, a commentary of the novel, states that “romantic love intoxicates like wine”. The love between Lin Daiyu and Baoyu, just like wine, is truly the intoxicating kind.
💕In “The Dream of Red Mansions”, the two bared their hearts to each other several times. Their conversations are often surprising, like bolts out of the blue, strong, rich and mellow like wine. The dialogues cut to the chase, like the sound of silk ripped in two. Not only are they memorable, they also leave a deep impression on the heart, like striking thunderbolts, giving the reader an epiphany. Is this not true love or what?
