This sentence comes from the twenty-eighth chapter of A Dream of Red Mansions by Cao Xueqin, a writer in Qing Dynasty: Give money, and Xue Baochai is ashamed to cage the red musk deer string. It is the lyrics of the song "Red Bean" sung by Jia Baoyu. Original text:
Endless acacia tears cast red beans, endless spring flowers bloom all over the building.
I can't sleep well. After the storm and dusk, I can't forget the new worries and old grievances.
Jade grain can't swallow, it's all in my throat. I can't see the man in the mirror.
A frown that can't be opened is even more leaking when it is unknown.
Like a castle peak that can't be covered, the flowing green water is long.
Translation:
There are endless drops of blood and tears throwing red beans and acacia, and there are spring willow flowers all over the building, which can't be finished.
After dusk in the storm, I can't sleep well in the screen window, because I can't forget the old worries and the new ones.
I can't eat delicious rice and vegetables, and I can't see the inside of the diamond mirror.
I can't stretch my brow, but I can't wait for the morning in the leaking sound.
Just like the faint green hills that can't be covered in the distance, the long green water keeps flowing.
Extended data
Creative background:
A Dream of Red Mansions was born at the end of China feudal society in the18th century. During the Kang Yong period, Cao Jiazu Sun San worked in Jiangning for 58 years on behalf of four people. In its heyday, the Cao family had done four large-scale pick-up and drop-off of drivers. Cao Xueqin grew up in Nanjing and experienced a rich aristocratic life in his youth.
However, the family gradually declined. In the sixth year of Yongzheng (1728), Cao Xueqin returned to Beijing with his family. After returning to Beijing, he worked as a handyman in charge of literature and ink in a royal school, "Right-wing Religion". His family was poor and his life was difficult. In his later years, he moved to the western suburbs of Beijing, and his life was even poorer. A Dream of Red Mansions was written in poverty after Cao Xueqin went bankrupt.
Appreciate:
"Endless lovesickness tears red beans, endless spring flowers full of paintings" expresses the distress and sadness of young people in love, mixed with helplessness and sadness.
"Red bean" is acacia bean, which is often used to refer to acacia in poetry, and here refers to blood and tears. Endless lovesickness and red beans points out the theme of love. Let's use a series of parallelism sentences to show the young people in love who are distressed by love. Endless is the pain of substituting spring and autumn scenery year after year.
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