"Begonia is tasteless, shad is prickly, and the red chamber is unfinished" means: Begonia is beautiful and tasteless, shad is delicious and has many bones, which is difficult to swallow; A dream of red mansions is well written, but it is not finished. Nine times out of ten, it means that there are few things that are perfect in time.

This is Zhang Ailing's famous story in A Dream of Red Mansions:

"Someone once said that the' three major hates' are' one hates prickly shad and the other hates odorless begonia'. I don't remember the third thing, probably because I subconsciously think it should be' three hates an unfinished dream of red mansions'. When I was a child, I watched A Dream of Red Mansions eighty times, and all the characters were tasteless and disgusting. I only complained,' Why didn't it look good later?' ..... It was a long time before I heard that there were sequels in the last forty chapters of Gao E. No wonder ... "

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Begonia is tasteless, shad is prickly, and the red chamber is unfinished. A Dream of Red Mansions by Zhang Ailing.

Zhang Ailing, a modern writer in China, was born in Tangshan, Hebei Province, formerly known as Natalie. 1920 was born on September 30th, a declining aristocratic mansion in the west of Shanghai Concession.

During the period of 1944, Zhang Ailing met and interacted with Hu Lancheng. From 65438 to 0973, Zhang Ailing settled in LA, and from 65438 to September 8, 1995, it coincided with the Mid-Autumn Festival. Zhang Ailing's landlord found her dead at the age of 75 in her apartment on Rochester Avenue in westwood, California, due to arteriosclerosis and cardiovascular disease. She died a week before she was found. On September 30th, her friend held a memorial service for her. After the memorial service, the ashes were scattered into the Pacific Ocean.

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