Cao Xueqin: Quotes about flowers

Cao Xueqin was Chinese writer during the Qing dynasty. Explore interesting quotes on flowers.

Cao Xueqin: 22 quotes1 like

“One day, when spring has gone and youth has fled,
The Maiden and the flowers will both be dead.”

Cao Xueqin book Dream of the Red Chamber

Source: Dream of the Red Chamber (c. 1760), Chapter 27

“All, insubstantial, doomed to pass,
As moonlight mirrored in the water
Or flowers reflected in a glass.”

Cao Xueqin book Dream of the Red Chamber

Source: Dream of the Red Chamber (c. 1760), Chapter 5

“Let others laugh flower-burial to see:
Another year who will be burying me?”

Cao Xueqin book Dream of the Red Chamber

Dream of the Red Chamber (c. 1760)