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Xiangyun's Drunken Sleep



běn
gù
shì
xuǎn


hóng
lóu
mèng


jiǎ
bǎo
yù

xuē
bǎo
qín

xíng
xìu
yān

píng
ér

rén
tóng

tiān
guò
shēng


zhòng
xiǎo
jiě
dài
shàng


de
yā
tóu
men
jiè

zài
sháo
yào
lán
zhōng
hóng
xiāng
pǔ
sān
jiān
xiǎo
chǎng
tīng
nèi
yǐn
jǐu
xíng
lìng


shí
chǎng
tīng
nèi
rè
nào
fēi
fán


This is a story from <A Dream of Red Mansions>.As jia baoyu, Xue Baoqin, Xing youyanand Ping'er had birthdays on the same day, the young ladies held a hilarious drinking party in the hall of the peony garden for them.

lún
dào
xiāng
yún
shuō
jǐu
lìng
shí

tā
xiǎng
ná
yā
tóu
men
qǔ
xiào

tā
hē
le

kǒu
jǐu

jiá
le

gè
yā
tóu

jǔ

lái
shuō


zhè
yā
tóu
bù
shì
nā
yā
tóu

tóu
shàng
méi
yǒu
guì
huā
yóu


zhòng
rén
xiào
le

lái

rě
dé
qíng
wén
děng

bāng
yā
tóu
shuō


yún
gū
niáng
ná
wǒ
men
kāi
xīn

kuài
fá
tā
hē
jǐu



When it was Xiangyun's turn to compose a verse amid a drinking game, she made fun of the service maids by saying, holding a duck head in hand, "This ya tou (referring to the duck head in hand) is not that ya tou (referring to the service maids around, as both are homophones in Chinese), for this ya tou has applied no hair oil..." Everybody roared with laughter. Some service maids protested, laughing, "You made fun of us, so you have to drink another cup. Let's pour a full cup her..."

dà
jiā
dōu
lái
jìng
jǐu


shí
cāi
quán
xíng
lìng

hū
sān
hē


guò
le

huì

dà
jiā
tū
rán
fā
xiàn
xiāng
yún
bù
jiàn
le


gè
chǔ
qù
zhǎo

bù

huì


gè
xiǎo
yā
tóu
xiào


pǎo
lái
shuō


gū
niáng
men

kuài
qù
kàn
kàn

yún
gū
niáng
chī
zuì
le

zài
shān
shí
hòu
miàn
shí
dèng
shàng
shuì
zhāo
le



As the party went on drinkers' games continued with ceaseless laughter and people suddenly noticed that Xiangyun had disappeared. While they looked this way and that, a serice maid rushed in laughing, "Young ladies. Hurry to have a look at the Lady Xiangyun. She's sleeping on the stone bench over there."

zhòng
rén
tīng
hòu

pián
便
qīng
qīng
zǒu
guò
qù

guǒ
rán
kàn
dào
xiāng
yún
zài
shí
dèng
shàng

rù
mèng
xiāng


miàn
de
sháo
yào
huā
fēi
luò
le

shēn

mǎn
shēn
mǎn
tóu
dōu
shì
huā
bàn

shàn

luò
zài
dè
shàng

yě
bèi
huā
bàn
mái
le

bàn


qún

fēng
hú
dié
zài
tā
zhōu
wéi
fēi
wǔ

xiāng
yún
zhěn
zhāo
yòng
shǒu
pà
bào
zhāo
huā
bàn
dāng
zhěn
tóu


The group tiptoed over, and sure enough, saw Xiangyun sleeping soundly. Fallen flowers scattered on her body, her hair and her face. Her fan had dropped on the ground aside. Bees danced in the air around her. Under her head was a make-shift pillow of peony flowers wrapped with her handkerchief.

zhòng
rén
kàn
le
yòu
shì
ài

yòu
shì
xiào

máng
shàng
lái
chān
fú

xiāng
yún
réng
jǐu
zuì
bù
xǐng

hái
dū
dū
lū
lū
dè
shuō
zhāo

zhòng
rén
xiào
zhāo
tuī
xǐng
tā

yōng
zhāo
xiāng
yún
huí
wū

qù
le


Amid laughter service girls gently woke her up and helped her-she was still mumbling something drunkenly-get inside the room.
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