The opening poem of "A Dream of Red Mansions" is:
The paper is full of absurd words and a handful of bitter tears.
It is said that authors are crazy, who can understand the meaning?
Translation:
It seems that the article is full of ridiculous words, and the words are soaked with my bitter tears!
It is said that the author is too obsessed with the personal relationship between his children, but who can really understand the meaning of the book?
Poem Appreciation
From this poem, "absurdity" not only refers to the author's introduction of absurd stories such as "Refining Stones to Mend the Sky" and "Qinggeng Peak" in the book, but also It also refers to the decadence, cruelty, mutual strife and even the path to destruction of society at that time described in the book. Confucian scholars at that time also believed that this was a "big lie", so the author wrote "a page full of absurdities" with resentment.
Because the author has sympathy for many characters in the book, he said that he wrote this book with "a handful of bitter tears". He was afraid that future generations would not know his true intentions, so he said, "The author is an idiot, who can understand it?"
Lu Xun's "Small Introduction to "The Lord of Jiangdong Flowers": ""Dream of Red Mansions" is simply about destiny. , there are various differences depending on the reader's vision: Confucian scholars see "Yi", Taoists see prostitution, intellectuals see lingering, revolutionaries see the secrets of the palace, and gossips see the secrets of the palace. "Here, the author expressed his difficulty in speaking out and was deeply afraid. Qu Lian who is not understood.