From: Cao Xueqin's Poems Before Returning to Qing Dynasty.
Original text:
Talking about tea is heavy, more infatuated and more bitter.
It's extraordinary that you have worked hard for ten years.
Translation:
Most of the words are traces, and people who are more infatuated have been bitter for a long time. Now it seems that every word is made of blood, and ten years of hard work is not easy.
Extended data:
Creative background:
A dream of red mansions was opened for the first time, and two authors introduced themselves. In these two prefaces, Cao Xueqin described the origin, experience and experience of writing, and clearly expressed his literary thoughts and creative principles.
At first, he criticized those formulaic, conceptual and contradictory creative tendencies, and thought that this kind of creation was far less "fresh and unique" than those "inconsiderate and contradictory" works.
He does not rely on any historical stories, nor does he rely on any folk creation, but directly draws materials from real social life, which is "every word is like blood" and permeates the author's personal feelings of blood and tears. The works are "truthfully described, not taboo", which keeps the diversity of real life and the richness of phenomena.
From all kinds of characters, it shows the absurdity, weakness, isolation and decline of the rich family. The characters he wrote broke the writing style of "the good guys are completely good and the bad guys are completely bad" in the past, and "the characters described are all real characters", which changed the characterization of ancient novels from typology to personalization and shaped typical characters.
Cao Xueqin perceives life with the poet's sensitivity, focuses on his own life experience, and consciously creates poetic artistic conception, making his works graceful and subtle, so vivid and unattainable.
Different from the previous novels, which condescended to judge life, set up moral courts and strictly judged personnel, he wrote about the characters' inner trembling, incomprehensible psychology, unavoidable bitterness and ruthlessness in life, and let readers taste the situation of life.