The main character in this novel insists on leaving the drawing room after seeing a pair of scrolls claiming human knowledge must be acquired through literature next to a portrait of the cousin who drives him insane and into a monastery. Some versions of it translate rather than transliterate the servants' names, calling two "Purple Nightingale" an
The main character in this novel insists on leaving the drawing room after seeing a pair of scrolls claiming human knowledge must be acquired through literature next to a portrait of the cousin who drives him insane and into a monastery. Some versions of it translate rather than transliterate the servants' names, calling two "Purple Nightingale" and "Invading Fragrance." One of its titles comes from ballads by the Monitory Vision Fairy, while the other refers to the main character as the human manifestation of an item left over when Nuwa repaired the sky. Set largely in the Ning-guo and Rong-guo houses and featuring the "Twelve Beauties of Jinling," for 10 points, name this novel about Jia Baoyu, a Qing dynasty novel by Cao Xuequin.
The main character in this novel insists on leaving the drawing room after seeing a pair of scrolls claiming human knowledge must be acquired through literature next to a portrait of the cousin who drives him insane and into a monastery.
{Dream of the Red Chamber} [or {Hónglóu mèng} or {Story of the Stone} or {Shítóu jì}]