Wenhua
Wenhua 文花 — La voz en el festín de luna. Una cantante en el hogar de Jia Zhen en la casa Ningguo.
文花
“The Voice at the Moon Feast”
Her Story
A singing-girl in Jia Zhen’s household at the Ningguo house. She appears at the mid-autumn feast of Chapter 75, told to sing while Peifeng plays the flute. That is effectively all the novel gives her: a name among Jia Zhen’s women and one instruction to perform. She is in the room on the night the party hears a long sigh come from the other side of the garden wall, and she is not mentioned again.
In Xiang Li's Hands
She is painted dancing rather than singing: a large dark fan lifted above her shoulder, the other hand at her cheek, chin up, openly laughing. The robe is grey-black ink over teal. The whole ground behind her is a wall of peonies drawn in pale outline and left uncoloured.
The Calligraphy
文花, set low on the left rather than at the upper right where most of these sheets carry the name — a personal name only, of the kind given to a performer.
Connections
- Jia Zhen 贾珍 — master of the Ningguo house, who ordered the singing.
- Peifeng 佩凤 — Jia Zhen’s concubine, who played the flute to her song.
- Xieluan 偕鸾 — the other concubine of the same household.
Others of the same kind · Jia household – wives, concubines, in-laws Wang Xifeng 王熙凤 · Li Wan 李纨 · Qin Keqing 秦可卿 · Wang Furen 王夫人 · You Erjie 尤二姐 · You Sanjie 尤三姐 · Xue Baoqin 薛宝琴 · Xing Xiuyan 邢岫烟 · Li Wen 李纹 · Li Qi 李绮 · Xing Furen 邢夫人 · You Shi 尤氏 · Xue Yima 薛姨妈 · Zhao Yiniang 赵姨娘 and 11 more
Named on these pages Peifeng 佩凤
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
