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This passage... the allusions to all these characters that I've never heard about made it confusing to follow what's even going on. But they're listing items in the room that allude to all these different people. I'm not sure I would have even been able to pick out all the names from the german translation I'm reading since all the names are either mangled or literal. Makes it doubly confusing haha.

I just read on the wikipedia page for Romance of the Western Chamber that it's actually the "naughty" book that Jia Baoyu is reading in chapter 23.

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