Did Eileen Chang say that there are three great regrets in her life, which are:

The first one is that anchovies are thorny, the second one is that begonias have no fragrance, and the third one is that the dream of the Red Chamber is not yet finished.

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From Eileen Chang's "The Nightmare of Red Mansions", the original text reads: "Some people have said that the 'three great hates' are 'a hate of shad with many thorns, a hate of begonias with no fragrance', and I don't remember the third one. Maybe because I subconsciously think it should be 'Three Hateful Things about the Dream of Red Mansions is not finished'."

Expanded:

Background:

Eileen Chang mentioned three major regrets of her life in The Nightmare of the Red Mansions, which focused on the unfinished Red Mansions, and Eileen Chang loved the Dream of the Red Mansions, and she was intoxicated by it. At the age of 12 or 13 when she first came into contact with the Red Mansions book, she felt a natural difference between Cao Xueqin's and Gao Ouija's continuation of the book. She loved the first half of Cao Xueqin, and thought that Gao Osprey's continuation was not the real Dream of Red Mansions, which is why she exclaimed that the Red Mansion was not finished.

Appreciation:

Shaddock is delicious, but there are too many thorns, so that people can not eat as much as they like, this is a hate; Begonia name is elegant, the color of the flowers elegant, pleasing to the eye, but there is no aroma, let a person strangle, this is the second hate; Cao Xueqin did not finish the Dream of Red Mansions, leaving unlimited regrets, this is the third hate.

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