Weeping for Third Younger Sworn Sister Xiangpei 哭湘佩三妹 "After a friendship of thirty years" Gu Taiqing 顧太清 Creation of machine-readable version (scanned PDF images | website): param_HARVARD_SOURCE_OF_PDF 6.11 Text transcribed from (scanned PDF images | website) by Yanning Wang Conversion to TEI.2-conformant markup: Washington University Digital Library Services Washington University Digital Gateway

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The electronic edition is a part of the The Red Brush digitization project, Dr. Beata Grant, project director, Washington University in St. Louis.

The project consists of 752 Chinese versions of the poems and prose published in English translation in The Red Brush: Writing Women of Imperial China. Wilt Idema and Beta Grant. Published by the Harvard University Asia Center and distributed by Harvard University Press. Cambridge, Massachusetts and London. 2004.

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Library of Congress Subject Headings, 21st edition, 1998 English Chinese Chinese literature -- Women authors. param_LCSH_DYNASTY poetry feminine Encoding: Text validation, final tagging. 卅載情如手足親 問天何故喪斯人 平生心性多豪俠 辜負雄才是女身 紅樓幻境原無據 偶耳拈毫續幾囘 長序一編承過譽 花箋頻寄索書來

余偶續紅樓夢數回名曰紅樓夢影湘佩爲之序不待脫稿即索看嘗責余性懶戲謂曰 姊年近七十如不速成此書恐不能成其功矣

 談心每恨隔重城 執手依依不願行 一語竟成今日讖 與君世世爲弟兄

妹沒于同治元年六月十一日余五月廿九日過訪妹忽言姊之情何以報之余答曰姊妹 之間何言報耶願來生吾二人仍如今生妹言豈止來生與君世世爲弟兄余言此盟訂矣相去 十日竟悠然長往能不痛哉

 言到家山淚滿眶 到教雲影翳波光 關心念念愁先壟 或可驂鸞返故鄉

因杭城屢犯音問不通墳墓不知安否親戚不知存亡是以右目失明

 年來無事長相見 今日思君無會期 笑貌音容仍在眼 拈毫怕寫斷腸詩