Emotion
Normally I would want to wait to talk about something like this until we’ve finished a basic translation of Dream of the Red Chamber and can start getting into the commentaries. However, yesterday’s translation passage about Qin Zhong and Zhineng is simply too deep to ignore.
It’s deep because it starts to get at the philosophy that motivates Jia Baoyu. And to really understand that, we need to at least take a peek at some of the famous Zhiyanzhai commentary.
