Lin Daiyu's graceful, slender, and melancholy beauty is quite similar to the world's first beauty, Xi Shi. The novel describes Lin Daiyu as "as sick as Xizi," which is an allusion to Xizi holding her heart. Jia Baoyu described Lin Daiyu's appearance as "frowning eyebrows", for her to take the word "knit", all the Xi Shi knit brows of the style.

Lin Daiyu wrote her own poem "Five Beauties", the first of which is about Xi Shi, "a generation of the city by waves". The people in the Jiafu family often use "sick Xishi" to tease Lin Daiyu, known as "Lin Daiyu's vice" of the Qingwen also like to "dress up every day like a Xishi look".

Lin Daiyu is a beautiful and talented young girl. Her parents died at an early age, her family fell into poverty, and she was left alone, living a parasitic life in the Jia Palace. But she was lonely and self-promoting, in that cold interpersonal relationships in the feudal family, high and low, only Jia Baoyu became her only confidant, so the hope and life delivered to Jia Baoyu's love.

She did not give in to circumstances in order to strive for marital success, nor did she adapt to the needs of her parents to advise Jia Baoyu to take the path of career and economy. She went her own way, exposing the ugly reality with scathing words, confronting the environment with her lofty character, and expressing her tragic feelings about her fate with the talent of a poet.

References: