The Little Woman from Dream of Red Mansions
by Stony Ground
About This Novel
The daughters of the Red Mansion in Cao Xueqin's works are all of good nature and have extraordinary talents. Among them, the sentimental Lin Baoyu is the most representative. For Chinese people, Lin Daiyu is synonymous with "absolute petty bourgeoisie". If a petty bourgeoisie woman can be called "Daiyu", it means that she is first of all a more feminine woman. Daiyu is artistic, melancholic, and likes reading and writing. She is outstanding in talent and appearance, superior to others, and has an extremely persistent pursuit of love; she is weak and sickly, with congenital deficiencies, and acts like a weak willow supporting a phoenix; Daiyu stays true to her faith and abides by the creed of "what is pure comes and goes clean". "Dark-colored jade," "Sorrowful singing of dark blue is about to give birth to smoke," "Flowers wither, flowers fly all over the sky, red fades, fragrance fades, who can pity me?"
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