What’s The Point?
I’m not going to quote yesterday’s translation post. It was kind of a pain, and required looking up a bunch of extremely obscure plant related words that frankly aren’t really worth learning.
All of this begs the most obvious question of all. What in the world is the point?
Well, believe it or not, the point of this passage, and of this chapter in general, is not to show how intelligent Jia Baoyu is. It’s also not to poke fun at Jia Zheng and the sort of person his character represents.
