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Thread: How you know Dream of Red Mansion?

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[quote=COOLSPRINGS,410340]I got to know the Dream of Red Chamber when I was just 5 year old when I went to see the film in Yue Opera(Shao Xing Opera). The dream of Red Chamber in Shao Xing Opera has become one of the best  treatures in Chinese culture in terms of the poetic classic lyrics ( it's hard to translate accurately into English) accompanied by the beautiful melody.

One of the Classie episode-Dai Yu Burying the Flowers
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One day, overcome by a spell of melancholy after bickering with Baoyu, Daiyu goes to bury some fallen petals at a hillside and falls in deep weeping at the demise of the flowers. She composed a long, elegiac memorial poem for the dead petals, which triggers off a similar grieving response in the eavesdropping Baoyu.

Daiyu's emotional tirades make sense in the context of the supernatural. It is strongly suggested that Daiyu is a reincarnated Crimson Pearl Flower that through good care by a Divine Attendant-in-Waiting in the heavens (the reincarnation of which is strongly suggested to be Baoyu) was imbued with sentient life. In exchange for this gift, the Vermillion Pearl vowed to be reincarnated as a human, and pay back her caregiver in the form of as many tears as a girl may weep in a lifetime.
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