This poem is taken from Cao Xueqin's "Burying Flowers", with a summary of the poem:
Hide the wind without a trick.
It's better to be clean than trapped in a ditch.
I am going to die and be buried, but I don't know when Nong will die.
The man who buried the flowers is laughing today, but who did he know when he buried them?
Just watch the spring flowers gradually fall, it is the time when the beauty dies of old age;
No sad songs for me, I don't know what happened!
Burying Flowers is a poem recited by Lin Daiyu, the heroine of Zhang Hui in the novel A Dream of Red Mansions written by Cao Xueqin. This poem imitates the Song style of the early Tang Dynasty in style, and it is called chanting flowers, but in fact it describes people. The whole poem shows Daiyu's sentimental character, inner contradictions and pains, subtle and complicated psychological activities through rich and peculiar imagination, bleak and sad pictures and strong sad emotions, and expresses her anxiety about her own existence and confused feelings about life in the process of complex struggles such as life and death, love and hate.
The negative and discouraging emotions in Burying Hanako are also extremely strong and cannot be ignored. It has a bad influence on readers who lack analytical thinking ability. Although this kind of emotion is completely in line with Lin Daiyu's ideological character formed by her artistic environmental position, after all, because the author consciously expresses his life experience through the mouth of the person he loves, to some extent, it exposes the weakness of his thoughts.
In fact, Burying Flowers is not only a poetic prophecy of Daiyu, but also a poetic prophecy of Daguan Garden. Although their specific experiences in the future are different, there is no difference in "no luck in life", and they are all registered in the "unlucky department". With the decline of the Jia family, all the girls in the Grand View Garden have to get stuck in the dirt and ditches, and there is no good end.