Tender cold locks dreams because of spring cold, and fragrance is wine. What does this mean? Who can say the next sentence?

"The tender cold locks the dream because of the cold spring, and the fragrant empty cage is the fragrance of wine." Spring is just around the corner, and the lingering chill of winter makes it difficult to sleep. There is a faint smell of wine in the air, and people seem to be shrouded in a fog of wine.

This sentence comes from the fifth time of Cao Xueqin's Dream of Red Mansions in Qing Dynasty: Jia Baoyu wandered in his dreams and performed a Dream of Red Mansions with fairy songs. What Baoyu saw in Qin Keqing's room was the couplet of Qin Guan in the Northern Song Dynasty. On both sides of the Painting of Begonia Sleeping in Spring by Tang Bohu, a painter in Ming Dynasty. This beautiful couplet is the inscription and painting couplet of Qin bedroom in A Dream of Red Mansions.

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A Dream in Red Mansions

A Dream of Red Mansions is listed as the first classical Four Great Classical Novels in China, which is generally believed to be written by Cao Xueqin, a writer in Qing Dynasty. Based on the rise and fall of Jia, Shi, Wang and Xue, the novel depicts the life of a group of beautiful women in the boudoir from the perspective of Jia Baoyu, a rich son, and shows the true beauty and tragedy of human nature. It can be said that it is an epic that shows the beauty of women from all angles.

A Dream of Red Mansions is an earthly novel with world influence. It is recognized as the pinnacle of China's classical novels, an encyclopedia of feudal society in China and a master of traditional culture. The novel encourages itself with the theme of "talking about love and recording things", only follows its logic, gets rid of the old conventions, is fresh and unique, and has achieved extraordinary artistic achievements.

In the development of China literature, the outstanding realistic creation achievements of A Dream of Red Mansions provide rich artistic experience for future writers. Until China's modern literature, there were also works that were obviously influenced by A Dream of Red Mansions and made some achievements. There are countless poems, songs, operas, novels and movies with the theme of A Dream of Red Mansions.

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