The Dream of Red Mansions Period Interview Translation
Image received from a friend. Translation starts from the paragraph in the red box. In these two years (since joining the Red Mansion group), all YY read, thought, and considered were BaoYu: “his most important traits are treating people equally, respecting individual personalities, hating and despising typical male (perspectives) in the society at that time. On the contrary, he’d spontaneously get to know and respect females who are at an inferior social status or situation/circumstances. This is the part that’s most similar to myself.” <-- this was quoting YY’s own words. During the days in the group, those who spent the most time with the girls are big (older) and small (younger) BaoYus. Yu XiaoTong, who played the role of small (younger) BaoYu, especially liked to play tricks on the girls. He was given the nickname of “Demon King.” Whenever the girls were tricked to a point that they didn’t know if they should cry or laugh, or even got mad, YY would stood up for them (the g...