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The Dream of the Red Chamber
The first time i encountered this poem in any sort of detail was at pekin university during the cultural revolution, when we had some lessons iner chinese poetics from a very sweet teacher. Out of the 500 lines of dufu's poems we were allowed to study precisely two. We were given two lines which are very portant, which go, tuman joro cho luo dung sgu. This is behind tem inside the vermilion gates, wine and meat are left to rot. On the road are the bones of those who have frozen to death. And this s that dufo, at one moment in his life, was conscious of the horrible difference between