The dilapidated room and the empty hall were once filled with a bed of milky water; The place where weeds are overgrown and dead trees and branches are everywhere used to be a paradise for singing and dancing. Here, two contrasting scenes are used one after another, from the present declining state to the prosperous appearance of that year, expressing the vagaries of the world and the miserable state after the prosperity faded.
"The humble room was empty, the bed was full, the grass withered and the young withered, and it used to be a ballroom" is a classic poem of the Chinese classical novel A Dream of Red Mansions, and it is a comment on Zhen's A Good Song of a Lame Taoist, which shows the author's realism and religious thoughts. The content of the poem alludes to the plot of the novel and expresses the author's anger and disappointment with reality.
Extended data
Zhen saw a lame Taoist singing "A Good Song" and had an epiphany. He further annotated "A Good Song" and further extended and explained the ideological essence of "A Good Song". After Zhen annotated "Good Song", he left with this crazy Taoist priest and never heard from him again.
Zhen is a famous squire in Jinling and a clever scholar. However, with the departure of his beloved daughter Zhen, his family's property and house were burned to rubble. He went to his father-in-law, but he was cheated by his father-in-law. Instead, he was ridiculed by his father-in-law for being lazy and unable to live. In addition, in the old year, I was seriously injured, and in the old year, I was riddled with illness and repeated attacks, gradually revealing my next life.
References:
Baidu Encyclopedia-All right, Song Zhu