Original text:
Bai Yutang Spring Dance, Kochinda Volume. Bees gather around butterflies. How many times have you walked with the water? Is it necessary to appoint Chen Fang?
Never change, let him get together and let him leave. Laughter has no roots when you are young. Good wind, with its power, sent me to Qingyun.
Vernacular translation:
Spring in front of Bai Yutang seems to be dancing, and the gentle east wind blows slowly, so catkins are evenly scattered all over the sky, just like bees flying around butterflies, not falling into running water or mud dust. Wicker remains the same, no matter whether the catkins are reunited or separated, don't laugh at my rootless wandering in spring, I will rise to the peak with the power of spring breeze.
Extended data:
Creative process:
In the seventieth episode of Cao Xueqin's Dream of Red Mansions, Shi Xiangyun saw catkins dancing in late spring and occasionally became a poem. The poetry club began to write lyrics, each playing a minor, which was completed within a limited time. Xue Baochai wrote this song "Idle Catkins in Jianglin and Liuxian".
Appreciate:
There is a pun in the poem that "there are many butterflies around the bees" symbolizes the chaotic scene when things change in the Grand View Garden. Baochai has always been noble and self-possessed, and "ugly disaster" will certainly not touch her, not to mention her ability to live in the world, so she is proud of her "dancing" and "uniformity" in her speech.
Daiyu, on the other hand, can't help but gather and mourn, just like falling catkins. Baochai can "get together as he likes" and "never change", so objectively, after Daiyu's death, there will be an opportunity of "good marriage", which will make Baochai climb high and look far.