Why All The Renaming
The past few posts have been filled with Jia Yuanchun renaming just about everything in the garden:
又改題：「有鳳來儀」，賜名瀟湘館。「紅香綠玉」，改作「怡紅快綠」，賜名怡紅院。「蘅芷清芬」，賜名「蘅蕪院」。「杏簾在望」，賜名澣葛山莊。
Jia Yuanchun also changed some of the other inscriptions. She named the building with the inscription “The Phoenix Arrives in Ritual Splendor” the “The Xiaoxiang Building.” She changed the inscription “Red Fragrance and Green Jade” to “Delighting in Red and Rejoicing in Green,” and called the building “The Red Delight Building.” The building called “The Pure Fragrance of Wild Ginger and Angelica” she named “Wild Growth Building.” “Apricot Banner In Sight” she named “The Hemp Washing Villa.”
This might seem like filler or something meaningless to you. But it’s not.
