"I only drink a spoonful of water, even though it is weak."
Although there is a lot of weak water, I only take a ladle to drink.
"Three thousand" is a function word with many meanings. Baoyu used this allusion to answer Daiyu's question, which means that I have nothing to do with Baochai's quality. Although there are many beautiful women in the world, you are the only one in my heart.
Later, it became a love oath between men and women, which was a metaphor for loyalty and singleness to love.
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"Weak water is 3,000, just take a ladle to drink." It not only expresses sincere and single-minded love, but also expresses elegant and poetic language. In A Dream of Red Mansions, Cao Xueqin deliberately uttered this sentence through the mouth of the first protagonist, Jia Baoyu, as the clearest and most powerful expression of her sincerity to sensitive and suspicious sister Lin.
A dream of red mansions is a classic, Jia Baoyu and Lin Daiyu are classic images, and the phrase "weak water is three thousand, only one scoop of water" has since become a classic love story.
Before Cao Xueqin, Su Shi had a poem "The Wonderful Plateau of Jinshan" in the Song Dynasty, which wrote: "Penglai is unreachable and Wan Li is weak." In other words, the fairyland that everyone dreams of has a broad, sinister and dangerous barrier, which is out of reach.
After A Dream of Red Mansions, novelists scrambled to introduce "three thousand weak waters, only one scoop of water" into the story, which became an indispensable discourse in the dialogue between talented people and beautiful women.
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