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Updated: June 11, 2025
This stanza came next from the pen of Hsueeh Pao-ch'in, Far distant do the branches grow; but how beauteous the blossom blooms! The maidens try with profuse show to compete in their spring head-dress. No snow remains on the vacant pavilion and the tortuous rails. Upon the running stream and desolate hills descend the russet clouds.
"Is there in that picture any such costume?" Old lady Chia demurred, nodding her head and smiling. "What's more the persons represented in it could never be so pretty!" Hardly had this remark dropped from her mouth, than she discerned some one else, clad in a deep red woollen cloak, appear to view at the back of Pao-ch'in. "What other girl is that?" dowager lady Chia asked.
Pao-ch'ai continued: In whose household is there a flute made of green jade? The fish fears lest the earth from its axis might drop. "I'll go and see that the wine is warm for you people," Li Wan smiled. But when Pao-ch'ai told Pao-ch'in to connect some lines, she caught sight of Hsiang-yuen rise to her feet and put in: What time the dragon wages war, the clouds dispel.
She thereupon wrote an original stanza, which all, with one voice, praised for its remarkable beauty, and extolled for its extraordinary merits." "My dear cousin," eagerly smiled Pao-yue, "produce what she wrote, and let's have a look at it." "It's put away in Nanking;" Pao-ch'in replied with a smile. "So how could I at present go and fetch it?"
Pao-ch'in recited: Th' embroidered sleeve enwraps the golden sable in its folds. The snow transcends the mirror by the window in lustre. Pao-yue suggested: The fragrant pepper clings unto the wall. The side wind still in whistling gusts doth blow. Tai-yue added: A quiet dream becomes a cheerless thing. Where is the fife with plum bloom painted on?
Great was Pao-yue's disappointment at this rejoinder. "I've no luck," he cried, "to see anything like this in the world." Tai-yue laughingly laid hold of Pao-ch'in. "Don't be humbugging us!" she remarked. "I know well enough that you are not likely, on a visit like this, to have left any such things of yours at home. You must have brought them along.
Our venerable senior, I fancy, is not sure about caring to join us. Besides, this is only a small amusement between ourselves so if we just let that hussy Feng know something about it, it will be quite enough. A tael from each of you will be ample, but send your money to me here! As regards Hsiang Ling, Pao-ch'in, Li Wen, Li Ch'i and Chou-yen, the five of them, we needn't count them.
"We girls are all here." they laughingly answered. "That's Pao-yue." "My eyes," old lady Chia smiled, "are getting dimmer and dimmer!" So saying, they drew near, and of course, they turned out to be Pao-yue and Pao-ch'in. "I've just been again to the Lung Ts'ui monastery," Pao-yue smiled to Pao-ch'ai, Tai-yue and his other cousins, "and Miao Yue gave me for each of you a twig of plum blossom.
Pao-yue was, at the moment, enjoying the intense pleasure of watching the three girls Pao-ch'ai, Pao-ch'in and Tai-yue make a joint onslaught on Hsiang-yuen, so that he had of course not given his mind to tagging any antithetical verses. But when he now felt Tai-yue push him he at length chimed in with: The fir is the sole tree which is decreed for ever to subsist.
But to return to Pao-ch'in. This was the first occasion, on which she put her foot inside to look at the inner precincts of the Chia ancestral temple, and as she did so, she scrutinized with minute attention all the details that met her gaze in the halls dedicated to their forefathers. These consisted, in fact, of a distinct courtyard on the west side of the Ning mansion.
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