From: A Dream of Red Mansions by Cao Xueqin in Qing Dynasty
Original text:
True and false, false and true, true and false, false and true.
Translation:
There is truth in falsehood and falsehood in truth. Sometimes a lie is true, and sometimes the truth is false.
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Creative background:
The beginning of A Dream of Red Mansions introduces the origin of the work in the form of myth, saying that there is an unused stone in The Goddess of Mending Heaven, which was abandoned at the foot of Geng Qingfeng, a lonely cliff in a big barren mountain. The mighty literati and mysterious real people passed by here and were endowed with spirituality by magic and brought to the world.
I don't know how many times I have been robbed. When I saw a story burned on a stone, I was asked by the stone to copy it down and pass it on from generation to generation. It was sent to Cao Xueqin, who read it for ten years, added and deleted it five times and wrote a book.
The story in the book begins in the town of Yin Shi. On the night of Lantern Festival, Zhen Zhen's daughter was abducted. Soon, Hulu Temple caught fire and Zhen's family was burned down. Zhen took his wife to his father-in-law, who was stingy and greedy. Zhen Yinshi is sick and desperate. Later, I met a lame Taoist, and after listening to his "Good Song", I deciphered the sound for "Good Song".
After the guidance of the Taoist priest, Yin Shi woke up and became a monk with the Taoist priest. Jia Yucun went to Lin Ruhai to tutor Lin Daiyu. Lin Ruhai's mother-in-law, Jia Mu, wanted to take Daiyu to her side because she lost her mother.
When Daiyu entered the mansion, in addition to Jia Mu, she also met her great aunt, namely Mrs. Xing, the wife of Jia She, and her second aunt, namely Mrs. Wang, the wife of Jia Zheng, her niece, Mrs. Wang, the young housekeeper, Wang Xifeng, the wife of Jia Lian, the son of Jia She, and Jia Tanchun, Jia Xichun and Jia Baoyu.
Baodai and Baodai have a feeling of deja vu at first sight. Baoyu saw that his cousin had no jade, thinking that jade was ignorant of people, so he smashed the psychic Baoyu and made an unpleasant scene. When Jia Yucun tried the case in Tianfu, she found Lien Win had been kidnapped. Xue Pan and his mother and sister Xue Baochai live in Guo Rongfu, Kyoto. Plum blossoms are in full bloom in Ningguo Mansion, and Jia Zhen's wife, You Shi, invited Jia Mu and others to enjoy the plum blossoms.