This is what the late author Zhang Ailing said during her lifetime. Begonia without fragrance means that the crabapple is very beautiful, but does not have the floral fragrance it should have; shad is spiny, which means that the shad is delicious and fresh, but because of its many thorns, It is very troublesome to eat; "The Dream of Red Mansions is not finished" means that the artistic achievement of Dream of Red Mansions is very high, the storyline is very miserable, and it is sad and regrettable that it has not been completed.

Zhang Ailing, a modern Chinese writer, was originally from Tangshan City, Hebei Province, and her original name was Zhang Yong. Born on September 30, 1920 in a declining aristocratic mansion in the West District of the Shanghai Public Concession. Zhang Ailing's works mainly include novels, essays, film scripts and literary treatises, and her letters have also been studied as part of her works.

In 1944, Zhang Ailing met Hu Lancheng and dated him. In 1973, Eileen Chang settled in Los Angeles. On September 8, 1995, which coincided with the Mid-Autumn Festival, Eileen Chang's landlord found her dead in her apartment on Rochester Avenue in Westwood, California. She died of arteriosclerosis and cardiovascular disease. Aged 75, she had been dead for a week when she was found. On September 30, her former friends held a memorial service for her. After the memorial service, her ashes were scattered into the Pacific Ocean.