Biyue
碧月
“Jade Moon”
Her Story
The other of Li Wan’s pair at Sweet-rice Village. Her one memorable moment is an errand: she crosses to Green Delights, stands watching the crowd of maids at play in Baoyu’s rooms, and remarks that their own side is quiet by comparison. It is a servant’s sentence, and it measures the whole distance between a young man’s household and a widow’s. The novel then lets her go.
In Xiang Li's Hands
The most private sheet in this group. She sits half out of her clothes — bare legs, bare feet, green shift, apricot robe slipping — with a carved mirror stand returning her profile and a brazier of red coals on the floor. No errand, no mistress: the off-duty hour.
The Calligraphy
碧月 — the given name alone, tucked into the top right corner above the drawn curtain.
Connections
- Li Wan 李纨 — her mistress at Sweet-rice Village.
- Suyun 素云 — the other of the pair, named to match her.
- Jia Baoyu 贾宝玉 — master of the rooms she visits and finds so loud.
Others of the same kind · maid – Yingchun, Tanchun, Xichun, Li Wan, Xiangyun Siqi 司棋 · Xiuju 绣橘 · Lianhua'r 莲花儿 · Shishu 侍书 · Cuimo 翠墨 · Xiaochan 小蝉 · Ruhua 入画 · Caiping 彩屏 · Cai'er 彩儿 · Suyun 素云 · Cuilü 翠缕 · Baoqin 抱琴 · Xiaoque 小鹊 · Xiaojixiang'r 小吉祥儿 and 5 more
Named on these pages Suyun 素云
Dream of the Red Chamber
Xiang Li painted all 413 characters of the novel between 1975 and 1985, the first person to complete the entire cast. See the whole collection · Chinese Empresses
