Chen Kangchou 陳康疇
1690s · Qing China
They must be begging monks reborn. All they have in mind is alms.
應是頭陀轉世,意中但求布施也。A comment attached to this passage in Dream Shadows
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Zhang Chao 張潮
1690s · Qing China
Flies gather on people's faces and mosquitoes bite people's skin. What on earth do they take people for!
蠅集人面,蚊嘬人膚,不知以人爲何物!Dream Shadows (Youmengying)
You Tong 尤侗
1690s · Qing China
It only shows that human flesh and blood are fit for flies and mosquitoes to chew. To us it is a person; to a fly or a mosquito, how is it different from anything rank and rotting!
正以人之血肉只堪供蠅蚊咀嚼耳。以我視之,人也;自蠅蚊視之,何異腥膻臭腐乎!A comment attached to this passage in Dream Shadows
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