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Zhiyanzhai
16 quotes
“雪芹舊有《風月寶鑒》之書，乃其弟棠村序也。今棠村已逝，余睹新懷舊，故仍因之。”
Zhiyanzhai first seen 1754 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Comment in the first chapter of the 1754 jiaxu manuscript of Dream of the Red Chamber, as translated by David Hawkes in "The Translator, the Mirror and the Dream—Some Observations on a New Theory", published in Classica…
“若云雪芹披阅增删，然则开卷至此这一篇楔子又系谁撰？足见作者之笔狡猾之甚。后文如此者不少。这正是作者用画家烟云模糊处，观者万不可被作者瞒蔽了去，方是巨眼。”
Zhiyanzhai first seen 1754 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Comment on a passage in the preface to Dream of the Red Chamber, which established Cao Xueqin as the book's author, in the first chapter of the 1754 jiaxu manuscript, as quoted in "The Translator, the Mirror, and the Dr…
“Persons whom I saw thirty years ago and with whom I was intimate now appear on the page, and this compels me to declare that The Story of the Stone is a book of the deepest feelings and the truest words. Unless, however, one has in fact experienced such events or been deluded by such feelings, reading it is like "chewing wax" absentmindedly, never understanding the miraculous wonders of what one has witnessed.”
Zhiyanzhai first seen 1760 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Comment in the 1760 manuscript of Dream of the Red Chamber, as quoted by Anthony C. Yu in Rereading the Stone (Princeton University Press, 1997), p. 7
“能解者方有辛酸之泪，哭成此書。壬午除夕，書未成，芹爲泪盡而逝。余常哭芹，泪亦待盡。每思覓青埂峰再問石兄，奈不遇癩頭和尚何！悵悵！今而後惟願造化主再出一芹一脂，是書何幸，余二人亦大快遂心於九泉矣。甲午八日泪筆。”
Zhiyanzhai first seen 1763 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Only one who understood the message of this book could have the hot and bitter tears with which to finish it. Xueqin, having run out of tears, departed this life on New Year's Eve of the year ren-wu (12 February 1763) l…
“知眼泪還債，大都作者一人耳。余亦知此意，但不能說得出。”
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Recorded in: Note in the first chapter of an 1814 version of Dream of the Red Chamber, as quoted by Liu Zaifu in Reflections on "Dream of the Red Chamber", trans. Shu Yunzhong (Cambria Press, 2008), p. 197
“By resorting to illusions, the supreme expression of love is attained. Nothing can compare to it.”
Zhiyanzhai first seen 1993 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in Enchantment and Disenchantment: Love and Illusion in Chinese Literature by Wai-yee Li (Princeton University Press, 1993), p. 159
“作者今尚記金魁星之事乎？撫今思昔，腸斷心摧。”
Zhiyanzhai first seen 1973 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: A commentary on an episode in Chapter 8 of the Dream of the Red Chamber, trans. David Hawkes in The Story of the Stone, Vol. I (Penguin, 1973), p. 34, quoted by Gideon Shelach-Lavi in "Memory, Amnesia and the Formation …
“又是一個有害無益者。作者一生為此所誤，批者一生亦為此所誤，於開卷凡見如此人，世人故為喜，余反抱恨，蓋四字誤人甚矣。被誤者深感此批。”
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Recorded in: Comment on a scene involving Jia Baoyu with the maid Number Four in chapter 21, as reported and quoted by John Minford in Berkshire Dictionary of Chinese Biography, ed. Kerry Brown, Vol. III (Berkshire Publishing Group,…
“自悟則自了，又何用人亦解哉？此正是猶未正覺大悟也。”
Zhiyanzhai first seen 1993 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Comment on Jia Baoyu in chapter 22, as quoted in Enchantment and Disenchantment: Love and Illusion in Chinese Literature by Wai-yee Li (Princeton University Press, 1993), p. 221.
“釵玉名雖兩個，人卻一身，此幻筆也。”
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Recorded in: Comment in chapter 42, quoted in "Subjectivity and Intersubjectivity in Hongloumeng" by Qian Cui, in Dream of the Red Chamber: Literary and Translation Perspectives (Routledge, 2023), p. 106
“一部大書起是夢，寶玉情是夢，賈瑞淫又是夢，秦之家計長策又是夢……餘今批評亦在夢中……”
Zhiyanzhai first seen 1994 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Margin note in chapter 48, "when Baochai is amused at Caltrop writing poetry in her dream-sleep", as quoted and reported in Men and Women in Qing China: Gender in The Red Chamber by Louise P. Edwards (E.J. Brill, 1994),…
“She composes her verses effortlessly. Different from others, her mindset and talents do not come from book-learning.”
Zhiyanzhai first seen 2013 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Comment on Lin Daiyu, as quoted by Zuyan Zhou in Daoist Philosophy and Literati Writings in Late Imperial China (Hong Kong: Chinese University Press, 2013), p. 242
“Later I came across the following in the "Final Listing [of the Characters' Feelings]": Baoyu is "feeling not-feeling," Daiyu is "feeling feeling." These epithets are naturally assessments of their perversity and obsessiveness. And these summary judgments too are illogical and paradoxical. Superb indeed!”
Zhiyanzhai first seen 1993 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in Enchantment and Disenchantment: Love and Illusion in Chinese Literature by Wai-yee Li (Princeton University Press, 1993), p. 210
“The entire Story of the Stone is plausible and reasonable, and each event or each word is judiciously put down, but this sort of absurd talk now and then appears too. Is the author being deliberately playful and whimsical? Here he is having his good laugh, unlike [authors of] other books in which "ghostly talk" [kuei-hua] is undertaken in all seriousness.”
Zhiyanzhai first seen 1993 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in Enchantment and Disenchantment: Love and Illusion in Chinese Literature by Wai-yee Li (Princeton University Press, 1993), footnote on p. 240
“……此書之妙皆從詩詞句中翻出者……”
Zhiyanzhai first seen 1993 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Comment on the scene in chapter 25 in which Baoyu meets Hsiao-hung for the second time, as reported and quoted in Enchantment and Disenchantment: Love and Illusion in Chinese Literature by Wai-yee Li (Princeton Universi…
“鴛鴦劍能斬鴛鴦，鴛鴦人能破鴛鴦。”
Zhiyanzhai first seen 2013 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Comment in chapter 66, pointing out a paradox, as quoted by Zuyan Zhou in Daoist Philosophy and Literati Writings in Late Imperial China (Hong Kong: Chinese University Press, 2013), p. 56