张德辉
张德辉：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。
张德辉
“The Road South”
His Story
Old head clerk of the Xue family pawnshop. In Chapter 48, after Xue Pan has been beaten by Liu Xianglian and cannot bear to be seen, he announces that he will go south and trade; Zhang Dehui, who is travelling home at the year’s end anyway, is the man produced to take him. Aunt Xue doubts her son and does not doubt the clerk, and that is what settles it. The novel gives him the errand and nothing more.
In Xiang Li's Hands
An old man stooped against a rock, white beard, blue-grey robe with a dark fur-edged collar, a long staff held against his chest with a fall of fine hairs streaming off the top. Orange shows at the lining. No shop, no ledger — she paints the traveller, not the clerk.
The Calligraphy
张德辉 at the right gives surname and full two-character given name, the complete formal name that the collection’s stewards and servants are almost never granted.
Connections
- Xue Pan 薛蟠 — the young master he takes south on business.
- Aunt Xue 薛姨妈 — who lets her son go because this man is going with him.
- Liu Xianglian 柳湘莲 — whose beating in Chapter 47 drove Xue Pan out of town.
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
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
