Appreciation of Lin Daiyu's Description in A Dream of Red Mansions

Lin Daiyu's graceful, affectionate, melancholy and sickly beauty is quite like the best beauty in the world. The novel describes Lin Daiyu as "a disease like a western child wins three points", which is the allusion of stone heart. Jia Baoyu described Lin Daiyu's appearance as "frowning and sharp eyebrows" and chose the word "product" for her, which made Shi frown.

Lin Daiyu's self-created poem "Five Beautiful Songs" is the first poem praising "A Generation of Beautiful Women Chasing Waves". The servants of the Jia family often call Lin Daiyu "the beauty of illness", and Qingwen, who is known as "Lin Daiyu's deputy", also likes to "dress up like a beauty" every day.

Lin Daiyu is a beautiful and talented girl. In his early years, his parents died, his family was poor and lonely, and he went to Jiafu to live in a sponsor's house. However, she is cold and confident. In that indifferent feudal family, Jia Baoyu was the only confidant, so she entrusted her hope and life to love.

She did not give in to the environment for the success of her marriage, nor did she meet the needs of her parents to persuade Jia Baoyu to take the road of career economy. She went her own way, exposing the ugly reality with sharp words, confronting the environment with arrogant personality, and expressing her tragic feelings about fate with the talent of the poet.

References:

Baidu Encyclopedia-Lin Daiyu