when the poetry club was founded, there were seven of them. Li Wan recommended herself as the president, and at the same time recommended Jia Yingchun and Jia Xichun as the vice presidents. One was responsible for writing the questions and limiting the rhyme, and the other was responsible for transcribing the prison. Li Wan's reason is that none of them can write poetry. In fact, they are "modest". They may not be good at and like poetry, but they have never done it. We still remember that when Princess Yuan visited her mother, they were all ordered to sing poems about the Grand View Garden together with four other people. As a poet, you must have an elegant title. At the suggestion of Lin Daiyu, everyone gave a nickname. Li Wan is an old farmer, Jia Tanchun is a guest under the banana, Lin Daiyu is a concubine in Xiaoxiang, Xue Baochai is a Heng Wujun, Jia Yingchun is a Lingzhou, Jia Xichun is a Lotus Pavilion, and Jia Baoyu is the King of Flowers in the Crimson Cave, also known as Yihong Childe. Their first activity was to chant Bai Haitang. This was caused by Jia Yun giving Jia Baoyu two pots of white sea soup flowers. The name of the poetry club also came from this.
Later, some people joined in. Shi Xiangyun was the first. On the second day after the establishment of the poetry club, she was received by Jia Fu, became the eighth member of the poetry club, and made up two Haitang poems. That night, she also discussed with Xue Baochai the plan to hold the second activity. With the help of Xue Baochai, she hosted a crab banquet at the Lotus Champs. The Jia family, Mrs. Wang and Aunt Xue all went, and then the members of the poetry club made twelve chrysanthemum poems, and Baoyu, Daiyu and Baochai each made a crab chant with great interest. The second participant is Wang Xifeng. She was dragged into the club. Li Wan took the lead in asking her to be the censor, and Wang Xifeng saw through at a glance: "I won't do anything wet." "Obviously, I was asked to be a copper merchant who made money." Wang Xifeng still wants to push it off, but Li Wan and them are not willing to rely on it. Wang Xifeng had no choice but to agree: "Tomorrow morning, get off the horse, pay homage, and put down fifty taels of silver to host the club for you slowly." The third is Xiangling, who was also drawn into the club. Because Xue Pan went out to do business, Xue Baochai asked her to stay in the Grand View Garden for her company. When Xiangling had leisure, she worshipped Lin Daiyu as a teacher to learn poetry. Seeing that she was serious, Jia Tanchun said, "I'll make up a contract tomorrow and invite you to join the club." Xiangling was fascinated by learning to write poems, and finally made progress and became a veritable member of the poetry club. Just as Xiangling made progress in writing poems, a large number of guests came to Jia's house at once, and they temporarily stayed for various reasons. Among them, Li Wan's cousins Li Wen and Li Qi, Xue Baochai's cousin Xue Baoqin, and Mrs. Xing's niece Xing Xiuyan all know how to write poems, so it is necessary to invite them to join the club. In this way, four people were added at once. The first activity they took part in was also the third activity of the poetry club, which was an "impromptu couplet" in Luxue Temple on a snowy day. At this point, the Haitang Poetry Society has fourteen members. This is exactly what Jia Tanchun said: "Our poetry club is thriving." By the way, the poems of Haitang Poetry Society got a chance to be published because of the spread of Jia Baoyu. The "xianggong", who were dancing and writing, heard that there was a poetry club in the Grand View Garden and asked for a manuscript. Jia Baoyu wrote a few songs, and they were all really impressed, so they copied them and carved them. This is also an achievement of the poetry club.
Things always have ups and downs, and the poetry club has not been active for more than a year. Lin Daiyu wrote a poem "Peach Blossom" in the early spring, which ignited their poetry creation. Shi Xiangyun was very active. She proposed to change the Haitang Society into the Peach Blossom Society, so as to make the poetry society more developed by taking advantage of everything. So Jia Baoyu, Lin Daiyu, Xue Baochai, Shi Xiangyun, Xue Baoqin and Jia Tanchun found Li Wan together, and agreed to start a new society the next day and promote Lin Daiyu as the owner. The first activity of the Peach Blossom Club was in the late spring. Because Shi Xiangyun accidentally wrote a catkin poem, everyone wrote a poem in Xiaoxiang Pavilion on the topic of catkin. Lin Daiyu, Xue Baoqin and Xue Baochai each wrote one, and Jia Tanchun and Jia Baoyu co-wrote one. Unfortunately, the first activity of the Peach Blossom Club was also its last activity. Their spring is too short.