1. Banquet On Jia Baoyu's birthday, xiren hosted a banquet in the garden and invited all the girls in the Grand View Garden to come to the banquet to celebrate He Baoyu's birthday. During the banquet, everyone was happy to drink and write poems. Shaoxing wine was ordered by the maid xiren around Wang Xifeng as a celebration. At that time, Shaoxing wine, also known as Daughter Red, was the best wine. Shaoxing is a necessary gift for his daughter to marry him. What Jia Baoyu drinks is naturally not his own dowry wine, but the sisters in the Grand View Garden. On the evening of Fang Qun's banquet, they drew many flowers to watch the wedding. Shaoxing wine here has a metaphorical flavor.
Second, Shaoxing wine refers to the banquet after Fang Qun. All the girls in the Grand View Garden go in different directions. Jia Baoyu feels like an old father after drinking this Shaoxing wine. This is a moment of separation from all his sisters. A poem in A Dream of Red Mansions, Nuning Mei, laments the fate of these twelve golden hairpin, and Pearl's tears are all the infinite thoughts of Baoyu after sending all his sisters away. The author uses Shaoxing wine to refer to the fate of the girls in the book, and also makes the audience understand the meaning behind the author. Similarly, the Shaoxing wine here is the same as that in Chapter 5, Dreamland. Wan Yan and a glass of wine? It means the same thing, and there is a one-to-one correspondence between the front and the back. Banquet is the reality of dreams.
In A Dream of Red Mansions, every detail has a lot of room for consideration. The author predicts the fate of the characters in the book through various expressive things such as wine, flowers and poems. This way of writing makes the fate of the characters in A Dream of Red Mansions more clear, and it can be said that Cao Xueqin's writing skill is high.