"花落水流红，闲愁万种。"
— The Story of the Western Wing
January 1, 1970
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As flowers fall and the flowing stream runs red, A thousand sickly fancies crowd the mind. — Act 1, Scene 1; Cui Yingying's lament; quoted by Lin Daiyu in Cao Xueqin's Dream of the Red Chamber (c. 1760), Chapter 23, trans. David Hawkes (Penguin, 1973), p. 467
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As flowers fall and the flowing stream runs red, A thousand sickly fancies crowd the mind. — Act 1, Scene 1; Cui Yingying's lament; quoted by Lin Daiyu in Cao Xueqin's Dream of the Red Chamber (c. 1760), Chapter 23, trans. David Hawkes (Penguin, 1973), p. 467