Poem about crabs by Jia Baoyu Jia Baoyu was a teenage boy living in privilege but ungrateful and rebellious. He did not appreciate what he enjoyed and fancied to be born as a servant girl. "In your greed, you forget how hard it is to digest, You indulge in the source of sour and pungent. You shower it on your prey, From which you chew the flesh away. You never progress straight ahead, But block other people’s way like a crab. With no heart nor spine, You celebrate cannibalism with a cup of wine." https://www.viewofchina.com/poems-on-crabs/

Dream of the Red Chamber narrates how a grand household with a large population and a high GDP figure decayed and collapsed. During its heyday, a splendid banquet was held at a luxury and spacious pavilion built on a lily pool, with steamed crabs as the main course and a...See more

The remains of the ancient Great Wall in Gansu in China's west. https://www.viewofchina.com/chinese-poems/