In this novel, the protagonist's love interest often sings the lines "Flowers fade and fly, / and flying fill the sky" while burying flowers in her isolated garden. The novel ends as the protagonist becomes a Buddhist priest in response to his lover's death from tuberculosis. Phoenix, the matriarch of the central family, decides that Precious Virtu
In this novel, the protagonist's love interest often sings the lines "Flowers fade and fly, / and flying fill the sky" while burying flowers in her isolated garden. The novel ends as the protagonist becomes a Buddhist priest in response to his lover's death from tuberculosis. Phoenix, the matriarch of the central family, decides that Precious Virtue is to marry her son Pao-Yu, instead of his lover Black Jade. For 10 points-- name this Qing Dynasty novel written by Cao Xueqin, also called "Story of the Stone."
In this novel, the protagonist's love interest often sings the lines "Flowers fade and fly, / and flying fill the sky" while burying flowers in her isolated garden.
{Dream of the Red Chamber} or {Hung-Lou Meng} (Accept “Story of the Stone” on an early buzz)