南安太妃
南安太妃：浏览李湘艺术网站的红楼梦资料。本页正文暂为英文，完整译文待补充。
南安太妃
“The Great Lady Who Came to Look”
Her Story
Dowager consort of the princely house of Nan’an, and one of the great ladies who come to Grandmother Jia’s eightieth birthday in Chapter 71. She asks to see the girls of the family. Tanchun, Xiangyun, Baochai, Baoqin and Daiyu are brought out to her; she looks them over, praises them, and gives keepsakes. It is a social courtesy and it is also an appraisal. The Jia daughters are being seen, and by whom matters.
In Xiang Li's Hands
Phoenix crown, pearl strings, a dragon robe in gold and aubergine that takes up half the sheet — and in her hands a small red-covered book, her eyes down on it. Two guardian lions loom behind in grey outline. For the woman the novel sends to look at girls, she is looking at a page.
The Calligraphy
The inscription reads 南安王太妃 — house, princely rank and her standing as dowager, and no personal name at all, because the novel gives her none.
Connections
- Jia Mu 贾母 — her hostess; the birthday is Grandmother Jia’s.
- Jia Tanchun 贾探春 — one of the girls called out for her to see.
- Xue Baochai 薛宝钗 — also brought out, and given a keepsake.
Others of the same kind · official / noble / royal Qin Zhong 秦钟 · Jia Yucun 贾雨村 · Bei Jing Wang 北静王 · Leng Zixing 冷子兴 · Zhang Rugui 张如圭 · Menzi 门子 · Xiping Junwang 西平郡王 · Zhangshiguan 长史官 · Feng Ziying 冯紫英 · Sun Shaozu 孙绍祖 · Yun Guang 云光 · Fu Shi 傅试 · Fu Qiufang 傅秋芳 · Li Yanei 李衙内 and 9 more
Named on these pages Tai Fei Gui Fei 太妃贵妃 · Linchang Bo 临昌伯 · Bei Jing Wang Fei 北静王妃
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
