A DREAM OF RED MANSIONS CHAPTER 10 widow Chin Pockets Her Pride Because of Self-Interest Dr. Chang Diagnoses Ko-ching's ilness CHAPTER 11 Chia Ching's Birthday Is Celebrated in the NIng Mansion Chia Jui Meets and Lusts AFer Hsi-feng CHAPTER 12 Hsl-feng Sets a Vicious Trap for a Lover Chia Jui Look into the wrong Side of the Precious Mirror of 155 CHAPTER 19 Ko-ching Dies and a Captaln of the Imperlal Guard Es Appointed Hsi-feng Halps to Manage Affairs in the Ning Manslon 174 CHAPTER 14 Lin Juchal Dlas in Yangchow Pao-yu Meats the Prince of perching on the Road CHAPTER 13 Hsl-fang Abuses Her Power at Iron Threshold Temple Chin Chung Amuses Himself in Steamed-Breod Covent CHAPTER 16 Yuan-chun is selected as Imperial Consort In phoenix Palace Chin Chung Dying Before His TIme Sats Cif for the Nether Regio 210 CHAPTER 17 Literary talent Is Tested by Composing Inscriptions in Grand View Garden Those Losing Their Way at Happy Red Court Explore a Secluded Retreat 226 CHAPTER 18 Yuan-chun visits Her Pare n the Feast o「 Lanterns Toi-Yu Helps Her True Love by Passing Him a Poem 244 CHAPTER 19 An Eloquent Maid Oftens Earnest Advice One Fine Night A Sweet Girl shows Daep Feallng One Gulet Day
CONTENTS CHAPTER 20 Hsi-feng Reproves a Jealous woman Tai-yu Mocks a Prattling Girl 285 CHAPTER 2 Prudent Hsi-jen Gen Hy Takes Pao-yu to Tosk Pretty Ping- erh Quietly Comes to Chia Lians Rescue CHAPTER 22 A Song Awakens Pao-yu to Esoteric Truths Lanttm-Rlddle Grieve Chlo Cheng with their Ill Omens 311 CHAPTER 3 ines from The Western Chambet Ane Quoted in Fun A Song from Peony Patition Distresses a Tondar Hort CHAPTER 21 The Drunken Diamond Proves Himself Generous and Gollont An Ambitious Girl Loses Her HandkerchIef as an Enticement 339 CHAPTER 25 Fhe Devils Invoked by Sorcery Take Possession of Pao-yu and Hsi-fang Iwo sagas s·h· Joda, of Spiritual Understand ing in the ree命 of Red Mansions 355 CHAPTER 23 On Wasp-Woiat Bridge, HsiGo-hung Hints at Hor Feelings In Bamboo Lodge, drowsy in Spring, Tai-yu Bares Hor Heart 372 CHAPTER 27 Pao-chai Chases a Butterfly to Dripping Emarald Pavilion Toi- yu Weeps over Follen Biassom bγtheT。mbof 388 CHAPTER 2B Chiang Yu-han Gives o New Frlend a Scarlet Perfumed Sash Pao-chal Bashfully Shows Her Rad Bracelet Scented with Musk 401 CHAPTER 29 Favourites of Fortun·Prayγ fot Batter Fortune n Absurd, Loving Girl Falls Deeper in Lo CHAPFER 30 Pao chai Uses a Fan to make an insinuation Ling-kuan Writes on the Ground and a Foolish Young Man (s Touched
REM。 RED MANSIONS CHAPTER 31 A Torn Fon wins a smlle from a Mold A Pair of Unicorns Suggest a Match 451 CHAPTER 32 An Avowal Leaves Pao-yu Amused Disgrace Drives Chin-chuan to Suicide CHAPTER 33 A Jealous Younger Brother Tells Tales A Worthless Son Receives a Fearful Flogging CHAPTER 34 Moved by Affection, Pao-yu Moves Hls Cousin A Wrong Report Makes Poo-chai Wrong Her Bn other CHAPTER 35 Yu-chuan Tastes Some Lotus-Leaf Broth Ying-erh Skilfully Makes a Plum-Blossom Net CHAPTER 36 A Dream During the Embroidering of Mandarin Ducks In Red Rue Studio Foretells the Future Paa-yu Learns in Pear Fragrance Court that Each Has his share 518 CHAPTER 37 onia Club Takes Form One Day In the Studio of Autumn rashness Themes for Poems on Chrysanthemums Are Prepared One Eve nlng in Alpinia Park 532 CHAPTER 38 The Queen of Bamboos wins FIrst Place with Har Poems on Chrysanthemums The tody of the Apini Writes a Satine upon Crabs CHAPTER 3 An Old vilage Woman Telis Tall Stores A Romantic Youth Insists on Followlng Them Up CHAPTER 40 The Lady Dowager Feasts Again in Grand View Gorden Yuon-yang Presles over a Drinking Game 579
CHAPTER 1 Chen Shih-yIn in a Dream sees the Jade of Spiritual UnderstandIng Chia Yu-tsun in His Obscurity Is Charmed by a maid This is the opening chapter of the novel. In writing this story of the Stone the author wanted to record certain of his past dreams and illusions, but he tried to hide the true facts of his experience by using the allegory of the jade of"spiritual Understanding."Hce加 nl -cout e如 names like Chen$hib yin. But what are the events recorded in this book, and who are the characters About this he said In this busy, dusty world, having accomplished nothing. I suddenly recalled all the girls I had known, considering each in turm, and it dawned on me that all of them surpassed in behaviour and understanding; that I, shameful to say, for my masculine dignity, fell short of the gentler sex. But since this could never be remedied, it was no use regretting it. There was reall Ag I decided then to make known to all how I, though dressed in silks and delicately nurtured thanks to the Imperial favour and my anceitori'virtue, had nevertheless ignored the kindly guidance of my elders as well as the good advice of teachcrs and triends, with the result that I had wasted half my life and not acquired a single skill. But no matter how unforgivable my crimes, i must not let all the lovely girls I have known pass into oblivion through my wickedness or my desire to hide iay shortcoming Though my home is now a thatched cottage with matting windows, earthen stove and rope-bed, this shall not atop me A Homophone for" true fuct concealed.M
DEAM。 F RED MANSIONS from laying bare my heart. Indeed, the morning breeze, the dcw of night, the willows by my steps and the flowers in my rield my brush. Though I he learning or literary talent, what does it matter if I tell a tale in rustic language to leave a record of all those lovely girls This should divert readers too and help distract them from tbeir cares. That is why I use the other name Chia Yu-tsun7H Do you ki Worthy Readers, where this book from? The answer may sound fantastic, yet carefully consider- of great interest. Let me explain, so that there will be no doubt left in your minds When the goddess Nu Wa melted down rocks to repair the sky, at Baseless Cliff in the great Waste Mountain she made thirty-six thousan nd fiye hundred and one blocks of stone, each a hundred and twenty feet high and two hundred and forty fect square. She used only thirty-six thousand five hundred of these and threw the remaining block down at the foot of Blue Ridge 2 Peak. Strange to relate, this block of stone after tempering had acquired spiritual understanding. Because all its fellow blocks had been chosen to mend the sky and it alone rejected,it lamented day and night in distress and shame One day as the Stone was brooding over its fate, it approaching from the distance a Buddhist monk and Ta priest, both of striking demeanour and distinguished appear ance. They came up to the Stone and sat down to chat When they saw the pure translucent Stone which had shrunk to the size of a faa-pendant, the mouk took it up on the palm of his hand and said to it with a smil You look like a precious object, but you still lack real value I must engrave some characters on you so that people can see t a glance that you're something special. Then we can take you to some civilized and prosperous realm, to a cultured family of official status, a place where flowers and willows I Homophone for"fiction in rustic language." ophone tor