The so-called "firewood" used for burning is actually just dead wood. Think about the painting in which Lin Daiyu was sentenced, wasn't there just two dead trees? If this hint wasn't clear enough, Grandma Liu then clearly stated that the girl drawing firewood was named Mingyu.
As we all know, the word "jade" in "A Dream of Red Mansions" is not an ordinary word. There are very few characters with jade in their names. Xiaohong, the maid in the Baoyu House, was originally named Hongyu, but due to taboo She clashed with her owner and changed her name to Xiaohong, which shows how precious the word "jade" is and not just anyone can use it. This is the second time that Grandma Liu has entered the Jia family. She will know that the name of the Jia family's precious grandson has the word "Jade" in it. With Grandma Liu's IQ, it should be avoided. But here, Grandma Liu made this girl's name Mingyu without any scruples.
Let’s further analyze this name: Mingyu. Ming, of course, means tea. Moreover, the word "ming" is also a word that Baoyu loves very much. He named his favorite servant Baoming, and later changed his name to Mingyan, but the word "ming" was always attached to him. As for the color of the tea leaves, it is dark green, exactly the same as the color contained in Lin Daiyu's "Dai" character. The so-called Mingyu is Daiyu. However, Miss Mingyu in this story is not a person, she is dead, she is a ghost. He was seventeen when he died. The age of seventeen is shocking! Judging from the age progression of the characters in the book, Lin Daiyu died at the age of seventeen. He was well-educated and literate during his lifetime, and his appearance was extremely beautiful. His parents loved him like a treasure. In the second chapter, when the author introduced Lin Daiyu, the sentence he used was "(Lin Ruhai) and his wife had no children, so their love was like a treasure, and seeing that he was smart and comely, he also wanted to make him read and know a few words." The background introductions of Daiyu and Mingyu are exactly the same. Looking at it this way, who is this Miss Mingyu if she is not Daiyu? Therefore, Daiyu actually made a joke on herself: the protagonist drawing firewood under the snow is herself!
In the thirty-ninth chapter, Baoyu once ordered Mingyan to look for the ancestral hall and the statue of Mingyu that Grandma Liu mentioned, but Mingyan searched for a whole day but couldn’t find it. When he came back, he said: The beauty’s statue. The statue was not found, but a statue of a blue-faced and red-haired God of Plague was found. Baoyu coaxed him: "Don't worry. You can find it another day when you have free time. If he coaxed us, of course it's gone. If it really was there, wouldn't you have accumulated a lot of trouble. I will reward you heavily." Of course. There is no further text about looking for this Mingyu statue in the following article. After experiencing this, Baoyu basically concluded that Grandma Liu was making things out of thin air and her words were untrustworthy, so he continued to live his leisurely life of eating, drinking and having fun. But on which month and day did Baoyu send Mingyan to find this Mingyu ancestral hall? Chapter 42: The day after Grandma Liu visited the Grand View Garden, Sister Feng's daughter fell ill: Ping'er took out "The Story of the Jade Box" and read it to Caiming. Caiming turned it over and read: "On August 25th, the patient will meet the God of Flowers in the southeast. Use forty pieces of five-color paper money and send them forty steps to the southeast. Good luck." If at this time, It is inferred that Grandma Liu visited the garden on August 24th, and the day before, when Baoyu sent Mingyan to find Mingyu Ancestral Hall, was August 23rd. It was shortly after the Mid-Autumn Festival.
Red academic circles have long concluded that Daiyu died shortly after the second Mid-Autumn Festival after the 76th chapter of the Mid-Autumn Couplet. The August 23rd here is the real date of Daiyu's death in the future. Hibiscus blooms in autumn, which is in line with the prediction about Daiyu's fate in the flower lottery mentioned above.