Appreciation of Cao Xueqin's Poem Ode to Bai Hai Tang

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Bai Yong begonia

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.

Make an appreciative comment

This seven-rhythm poem is the first collective poem when Tan Chun put forward the establishment of the Grand View Garden Poetry Society in the thirty-seventh session of A Dream of Red Mansions. Because someone happened to send two pots of Bai Haitang, they chanted, and the poetry club was named "Haitang Club". In this poetry competition, Tan Chun only rhymes, and Tan Chun, Baochai, Baoyu and Daiyu each wrote one. Later, Xiangyun came to make up two more songs. This poem by Daiyu was called "romantic and unique" by Li Wan, president of Haitang Poetry Society. Critics have always believed that this poem has a unique personality and style.