鹦哥
鹦哥 鹦哥 — 她成为紫鹃之前。林黛玉到荣国府的那天，贾母看了看那个女孩带来的一个老嬷嬷和一个小丫头…
鹦哥
“Before She Was Zijuan”
Her Story
On the day Daiyu arrives at the Rongguo house, Grandmother Jia looks at the one old nurse and one small maid the girl has brought with her, decides it is not enough, and gives her a second-rank maid of her own. That maid’s name is 鹦哥 (Chapter 3). Daiyu renames her 紫鹃, and under the new name she becomes the person who never leaves her — the one who tests Baoyu in Chapter 57, the one at the bed at the end. 鹦哥 is the name she arrived under.
In Xiang Li's Hands
The only sheet here given a full background: a peacock in display, the eyes of its tail filling the paper corner to corner, the girl asleep against its breast in pink with her eyes shut. The bird in her name is a parrot. She is given a peacock instead, and given rest.
The Calligraphy
鹦哥, top right — the name issued to her in the matriarch’s rooms rather than 紫鹃, the name she is known by for the rest of the book, so the sheet catalogues her at the moment of handover.
Connections
- Zijuan 紫鹃 — the same girl, after Daiyu renamed her.
- Lin Daiyu 林黛玉 — the mistress she was given to in Chapter 3.
- Jia Mu 贾母 — the matriarch who owned her first and gave her away.
Others of the same kind · maid – Grandmother Jia's apartments Yuanyang 鸳鸯 · Hupo 琥珀 · Feicui 翡翠 · Boli 玻璃 · Zhenzhu 珍珠 · Yingwu 鹦鹉 · Cailuan 彩鸾 · Xiuluan 绣鸾 · Xiufeng 绣凤 · Wenguan 文官
Named on these pages Yingwu 鹦鹉
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
