Hong lou meng: Shi nan rong 紅楼梦：世難容

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. 62.

David Hawkes (1923–2007): A Dream of Golden Days: Sixth Song: All at Odds –
in: Hawkes, David. The Story of the Stone: Volume 1: The Golden Days. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1978. p. 142.
Yang Gladys 戴乃迭 (1919–1999) and Yang Xianyi 杨宪益 (1915–2009): Dream of Red Mansions: Seventh Song: Spurned by the World –
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.

气质美如兰，才华馥比仙。天生成孤癖人皆罕。你道是啖肉食腥膻，視綺罗俗厌；卻不知太高人愈妒，过洁世同嫌。可叹这，青灯古殿人将老，孤負了，紅粉朱楼春色闌！到头来，依旧是风尘骯脏违心愿；好一似，无瑕白玉遭泥陷；又何須，王孙公子叹无緣？