I kinda lost my momentum with THE STORY OF THE STONE when I didn‘t touch it during Gay May. Now I‘ve reached the maximum number of renewals on Vol 3, so I NEED to push on through the last hundred and thirty pages today and tomorrow. Let‘s do this.
I set my opera doll‘s face to Xi-feng in honour of how very awful she‘s been in recent scenes.
This week‘s library haul, plus the changing-face opera doll I did indeed go back to buy on Monday. They‘d already sold one, so I‘m glad I stopped in! The current face is Bao-yu; the others are Dai-yu, Bao-chai, Wang Xi-feng, Shi Xiang-yun, and Grandma Liu (with thanks to my phone‘s built-in translation function, since the box is in Mandarin). I‘m kind of obsessed with it, and I was delighted to learn opera dolls are a whole genre of collectible!
Somebody donated a bunch of changing-face opera figures to the thrift store and I maybe got way too excited when I realized some of them were from A DREAM OF THE RED MANSION (also called THE RED CHAMBER, or THE STORY OF THE STONE in English), which is my project book for this year! I didn‘t buy one but now I kinda wish I had. Maybe there‘ll be some left next time.
Jia family matriarch. I love this character.
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