How could she not have been sad but, for fending the unseemly she acted with prudence. Men all know how to improve their visages, but not to refine .their characters An unrefined character will fall short of propriety. One should sculpt and embellish one's own character, and discipline oneself - to become a sage. Nor boast of your prosperity, for magnificence will dim. Favor must not be abused, and love must not be exclusive.
Exclusive love breeds coyness and extreme passion is fickle.
All that has waxed must also wane, and this principle is sure. Admire your own beauty if you will, but that brings misfortune. The Imperial Preceptress rules these admonitions and respectfully instructs the imperial concubines. Pine-sap wine and dried meat with bamboo shoots force me to be hungry. I shall remember the two trees on the south bank, How the blue-green bamboo clings, after rain, like morning glories.