秦可卿新論：才情與情色的特殊演繹

A New Study on Qin Ke-qing in The Red Chamber Dream: A Singular Duet of Talent and Eroticism

秦可卿是《紅樓夢》中最具爭議的女性。本文重新探索其人其事，提出不同的思考與認識：秦可卿經過官員收養、賈府迎娶，形成了獨特的向上階級流動，因此躋身於以貴族女性為範圍的十二釵正冊中，一般多以「棄嬰」出身揣摩其處境，實為混同源流的擴大性解釋。其次，透過多方面的考察，足見可卿身兼釵、黛、鳳三人之長，卻也同時是一位愛欲女神，與賈珍的「爬灰」關係建立在情、欲複合的相悅基礎上，其複雜性是為人性演繹的特殊個案。至於自縊與慢性病的情節都是原稿的既有內容，屬於完整的有機敘事，透過賈瑞之死的同步性，以及「張太醫論病細窮源」的分析，可知秦可卿的病肇始於性成熟、惡化於性放縱、致命於性醜聞。可卿之所以在十二釵正冊中殿後，正是對其濫情而淫的批判，與秦氏一家的命名邏輯相合。

This article analyses Qin Ke-qing, the most controversial female role in The Red Chamber Dream. There are three main points to clarify. Firstly, Qin's rising up into the aristocratic class, she is in convention described as an “abandoned child”. But in her upward class mobility, the events of her adoption by an official and her marriage into Jia's Family are more decisive. Secondly, the author allocates Qin with all the talent characteristics of Bao-chai(寶釵), Dai-yu(黛玉) and Xi-feng(熙鳳), meanwhile, Qin is endowed with a unique kind of eroticism. Her incestuous affair with Jia Zhen (her father-in-law) is complicated, involving affection, desire and pleasure. Thirdly, Qin's chronic disease commit suicide are original content. Through the three points, I am claiming that Qin's story in The Red Chamber Dream is an organic narrative. To conclude, Qin's being listed as the rearmost one in First Register of Twelve Beauties of Jinling (十二釵正冊) implies the author's criticism of her excess and incest.