Hong lou meng: Xu hua wu 紅楼梦：虛花悟

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: Eighth Song: The Vanity of Spring –
in: Hawkes, David. The Story of the Stone: Volume 1: The Golden Days. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1978. p. 142f.
Yang Gladys 戴乃迭 (1919–1999) and Yang Xianyi 杨宪益 (1915–2009): Dream of Red Mansions: Ninth Song: Perception of the Transience of Flowers –
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. 82.

将那三春看破，桃紅柳綠待如何？把這韶华打灭，觅那清淡天和。說什么天上夭桃盛，云中杏蕊多？到头来，誰见把秋捱过？則看那，白杨村里人嗚咽，青枫林下鬼吟哦。更兼着，連天衰草遮坟墓，这的是，昨貧今富人劳碌，春荣秋謝花折磨。似这般，生关死劫誰能躲？聞說道，西方宝树喚婆娑，上結着长生果。