Hong lou meng: Le zhong bei 紅楼梦：乐中悲

by Cao Xueqin 曹雪芹 (ca. 1715–ca. 1763)

Dynasty: Qing 清 (1644–1911)

Included in: Cao Xueqin 曹雪芹. Gao E 高鶚 (ed.). Hongloumeng 红楼梦 Beijing: Renmin wenxue chubanshe, 1973. 61f.

David Hawkes (1923–2007): A Dream of Golden Days: Fifth Song: Grief Amidst Gladness –
in: Hawkes, David. The Story of the Stone: Volume 1: The Golden Days. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1978. p. 141.
Yang Gladys 戴乃迭 (1919–1999) and Yang Xianyi 杨宪益 (1915–2009): Dream of Red Mansions: Sixth Song: Sorrow Amidst Joy –
in: Yang Gladys 戴乃迭 and Yang Xianyi 杨宪益. A Dream of Red Mansions: Volume 1. Peking: Foreign Language Press, 1978. p. 81.

襁褓中，父母叹双亡。纵居那綺罗丛，誰知娇养？幸生来，英豪闊大宽宏量，从未將儿女私情，略縈心上。好一似，霽月光风耀玉堂。廝配得才貌仙郎，博得个地久天长。準折得幼年时坎坷形狀。終久是云散高唐，水涸湘江：这是尘寰中消长數应当，何必枉悲伤？