潘又安
潘又安 潘又安——两口棺材。司棋的表哥，也是她的情人。
潘又安
“Two Coffins”
His Story
Siqi’s maternal cousin, and her lover. In Chapter 71 Yuanyang crosses the Garden at night and walks into the two of them behind a rockery; he runs from the household soon afterwards. In Chapter 74 the search of the Garden turns up his letter in Siqi’s box, signed 表弟潘又安, and Xifeng reads it aloud. He comes back with money, in the account reported in Chapter 92, to find her mother refusing him. Siqi throws herself at the wall. He buries her, buys two coffins instead of one, and cuts his own throat.
In Xiang Li's Hands
Young, in a black cap and a full blue-grey robe cut with heavy strokes, head turned up and away, mid-stride. One palm open at his chest, a string of small beads and a jewelled clasp spilling from it. Ink rock behind. She paints the love-token, not the flight.
The Calligraphy
潘又安 is set low at the left in full — surname and two-character given name, the same signature that the letter in Siqi’s box carried.
Connections
- Siqi 司棋 — his maternal cousin and lover, who dies rather than take another man.
- Yuanyang 鸳鸯 — who caught them in the Garden in Chapter 71 and kept it to herself.
- Wang Xifeng 王熙凤 — who read his letter aloud at the Chapter 74 search.
Others of the same kind · steward / manager Lai Da 赖大 · Lai Er 赖二 · Lai Sheng 赖升 · Lai Shangrong 赖尚荣 · Lai Mama 赖嬷嬷 · Lin Zhixiao 林之孝 · Zhou Rui 周瑞 · Dai Liang 戴良 · Yu Lu 俞禄 · Wang Xin 王信 · Laiwang 来旺 · Jin Cai 金彩 · Jin Wenxiang 金文翔 · Jiao Da 焦大 and 8 more
Named on these pages Siqi 司棋 · Zhang Ma 张妈
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
