Chapter 324 - The Students Refuse to End Class! (1/2)
Zhang Ye drank a mouthful of tea because his throat had turned dry fro
“My explanations and analysis still isn’t enough to convince you, right?” Placing down the ther Ye looked at everyone, and focused on the people from the literary world, who sat in the first row
A few Peking University students gave a faint acknowledgment
Ma Hengyuan got a microphone from someone beside him and said, “But that is just an analysis, and includes your own personal inference It can be considered as an answer to the questions, but it is still insufficient to explain the problem It has already been determined by academia and the historical world that ‘Dream of the Red Chamber’ has 120 chapters So how can it be overturned by a feords from you? In my opinion, I believe that the 120 chapters of ‘Dreah there are some se in character, like Jia Baoyu and Grandht have been intentionally done by Cao Xueqin He wanted to convey some information or hints to the reader that we s of all the characters in ‘Drea and an end”
“Does it really have a beginning and an end?” Upon hearing such chicanery in his refute, Zhang Ye laughed To use such rhetoricYe had already caused their heads to spin from his lecture
Ma Hengyuan said coldly, “Of course Is there a problem with that?”
Meng Dongguo also said, “The 120 chapters of ‘Dream of the Red Chamber’ is complete There are flaws, but what needs to be said has been said What needs to be written has been written”
Zhang Ye shook his head “I can’t agree with that”
Meng Dongguo exclaimed “You have doubts on that?”
These people clashed with Zhang Ye once again!
The Peking University students did not understand why Zhang Ye raised doubts with its completeness Did the 120 chapters of “Dream of the Red Chamber” lack completeness?
Zhang Ye chuckled “This is actually so I wanted to talk about later on, but since it has been brought up, I can talk about it now All of you think that the 120 circulated chapters gives us a coree The plot and characters were not complete, and this is also the reason why I doubt that the chapters after the eightieth ritten by Mr Cao I will not use the nine times twelve structure to analyze it, nor would I use historical information to prove my point Let’s just look at the 120 chapters I want to ask you, what happened to Drunken Diahtieth chapter?”
Drunken Diamond?
Who was this person?
The Peking University students did not study this classic too deeply, so they had forgotten
However, Redologist, Teacher Yang’s expression changed slightly He glanced at Ma Hengyuan and Meng Dongguo, but did not say a word
Yan Yu was also frowning in silence
Meng Dongguo was stunned What Drunken Diamond? Was there such a person? His research on ‘Dream of the Red Chamber’ was shallow, and had never read it too deeply
Ma Hengyuan, as a professor in Literature, knew this person He paused before saying, “This person isn’t important, nor…”
Zhang Ye interrupted him “Not important? This person’s na the first 80 chapters—This Drunken Dia his money! Hur Hur, could Cao Xueqin let such an unimportant person appear in the chapter title? A person whose name previously appeared in a chapter title suddenly mysteriously disappeared?”
Ma Hengyuan insisted, “This sort of side character does not need to be explained”
Zhang Ye sht then, what about Crio?”
“Criyuan was stumped
Regarding Cri, there were a lot more people who knew her
In the beginning, no one paid too in to think Right, what happened to Crimson?
Zhang Ye said to everyone, “If you insist that Drunken Diamond is an unimportant side character, then I’ her Crimson’s name had previously appeared in chapter titles, and she was an important character that not only appeared once in previous chapter titles Chapter 24’s ‘the Quiet-voiced Girl providesher handkerchief’ and Chapter 26’s ‘A conversation on Wasp Waist Bridge is a cover for communication of a different kind’ In Chapter 27, it ritten that Cri in her being appreciated by Fengjie” Zhang Ye had prepared this in advance, and iot the staff member to take out the information and project it on the screen He pointed at it, “It is clearly written in black and white how important she was as a character It can be seen froh Cao Xueqin did not use much to describe her, he htieth chapter, why did a character like Crimson disappear?”
No one could answer!
Zhang Ye continued to pursue this matter “Can you still consider this a complete plot with complete characters? If the currently circulated version’s chapters after the eightieth ritten by Cao Xueqin then no matter how muddleheaded Mr Cao was, no matter how sick he was, or how otten an iht?”
People kept questioning Zhang Ye, but Zhang Ye explained each and everyone of them!
Now, it was ti Ye to pose his question, but none of them could explain it!
Zhang Ye was not done He took out another piece of information “If people want to insist that Crimson was not an iotten her, and forgotten to write a plot regarding Crimson at the end, then fine Everyone, please take a look at Zhiyanzhai’s comments I have already mentioned Zhiyanzhai in my lecture yesterday I also mentioned that the entire book did not mention ‘The Temple of Prison God’, but I didn’t provide this inforht, now take a look These are Zhiyanzhai’s comments It clearly states that Crimson would appear in ‘The Temple of Prison God’ later on! She even saved Jia Baoyu! Even if the world of Redology does not recognize Zhiyanzhai’s ancient manuscript, you can never deny its existence forever Was Zhiyanzhai shooting hisnonsense, he would not have spun a story and place, that had never been ht? Besides, if Zhiyanzhai can reet her? No matter how anyone explains, or tries to h a character like Criht! It is not Cao Xueqin who had forgotten an iotten this character!”
“Such an explanation…” Ma Hengyuan stopped his sentence loomy face He realized that he could not refute this statement!
It was already unknohat the people fro
Zhang Ye sure was impressive He had really researched ‘Dreale probleed to answer all of the with an explanation, he even used it to prove his point! Could it be that…what he said was the truth?