Song of Burying Flowers is the representative of all the sad songs that Lin Daiyu encountered in her life, and it is also an important work by Cao Xueqin to shape this artistic image and show her personality characteristics. Like The Daughter of the Lotus, it is a text that the author tries to copy.
Bury flowers
Let's see the residual flowers of spring gradually falling, which is the time when beauty dies of old age.
No sad songs for me, I don't know what happened!
In the thirty-fourth volume of A Dream of Red Mansions, Baoyu was beaten, and for fear that Daiyu would be worried, Qingwen was used as an excuse to reassure Daiyu. Daiyu was so moved by this that it was difficult to control her feelings for a while, so she wrote these three poems on an old handkerchief.
Judging from the whole book, these three poems are the first time that Daiyu directly expressed her feelings for Baoyu and her worries about the future, and they are also the beginning of the gradual clarification of their feelings.
Bai hai Tang song
Half-rolled curtains cover the door, and the ice is ground into earth jade as a basin.
Steal a pear for three cents and borrow a plum blossom for a soul.
The moon cave fairy sews robes, and the woman who always wipes crow marks in my heart in autumn.
Who is shy and silent? I'm tired of leaning against the west wind at night.
Ode to Bai Hai Tang is a poem written by sisters when the Grand View Garden Poetry Club opened in a Dream of Red Mansions. Li Wan evaluated Daiyu's poems as "romantic and chic" and Baochai's poems as "subtle and vigorous", which shows that the styles are never mixed. Li Wan and Tan Chun admired Baochai, but only Baoyu preferred Daiyu. The difference of poetry criticism is also manifested in their different positions, hobbies and ideological character.
Reference to the above content: fairy science. Appreciation of Lin Daiyu's Poems in A Dream of Red Mansions