What is the function of burying flowers in A Dream of Red Mansions?

Song of Burying Flowers hints at Lin Daiyu's character, which is also a turning point in her fate. It provides important clues for future generations to explore the tragedy of Baodai in Cao Xueqin's works.

1. This poem shows Daiyu's spiritual world destroyed by cold reality through rich and strange imagination, bleak and sad pictures and strong sad emotions, and expresses her anxious experience and confused feelings in the complex struggle between life and death, love and hate.

It is the representative of all the lamentations that Lin Daiyu experienced in her life, and it is also an important work by Cao Xueqin to shape the artistic image of Daiyu and show her personality characteristics.

The appearance of this tearful poem this time marks a turning point in the development of Lin Daiyu's character. Prior to this, although Lin Daiyu's parents died young and lived in Jia's house, she was a granddaughter of Jia's family after all. In addition, Xue Baochai has not really posed a threat to her at this time. Basically, Lin Daiyu's personality is more cheerful and less depressed.

However, after the plot of burying flowers, Lin Daiyu's character took a sharp turn, which became the turning point of her tragic fate, and also made an obvious footnote for her later disappearance of Dimfragrance.

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Description of the content of Burying Flowers;

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 is full of blood and tears, resentment and anger, through rich and strange imagination, hazy and sad pictures, strong and sad emotions.

It shows Dai Yu's sentimental character, inner contradictions and pains, subtle and complicated psychological activities, and expresses her anxious experience of her own existence and confused feelings about life in the process of complex struggles such as life and death, love and hate.

The whole poem is lyrical and incisive, with weeping language, sad voice and blood and tears in every word. Every word in the poem is not from the heart, and every word is not condensed with blood and tears, which shows Lin Daiyu's experience and sigh about her life.

Burying Flowers describes the protagonist's aloof and arrogant character, unwilling to be humiliated and defiled, and unwilling to bow down when he fantasizes about freedom and happiness. It is for its ideological value.

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