对联
Inscription for Grand View Garden: The Phoenix Comes in Splendor
The precious tripod's tea is done—the smoke still lingers green;
The secluded window's chess game ends—the fingers are still cool.
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Annotation
In Chapter 17, when Jia Zheng took Baoyu to inscribe plaques for the Grand View Garden, Baoyu composed this couplet for what would become the Naiad's House (Daiyu's future residence). It depicts a refined literati scene of tea and chess, matching the bamboo-grove atmosphere of the Naiad's House.
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