Book 3 Chapter 1

Book 3 Chapter 1

Origin of the Chapter's Titles
The title 东风恶，欢情薄 is from the poem Phoenix Hairpin (釵頭鳳), also known as Phoenix Pin and Chai Tou Feng, authored Lu You, a prominent poet in the Southern Song Dynasty, when he met his first love and ex-wife by chance after eight years at a garden.

东风恶，欢情薄 can be translated as:


 * But the unkind east winds blew, Swept our affection into cold.


 * Biting east wind, happiness thin


 * Wicked custom, short-lived joy

Context of the line in its passage:

Your beautiful soft hands, 

And my sealed yellow wine, 

Spring painted willow green, shaded all the town walls.

But the unkind east winds blew, 

Swept our affection into cold.

A chest full sorrow chained me, 

''How many years separate grief? ''

''Mistake! Mistake! Mistake!''