The Plum in the Golden Vase or, Chin P'ing Mei Quotes

“It is made up of one character each from the names of three of the major female protagonists of the novel (P'an Chin-lien, Li P'ing-erh, and P'ang Ch'un-mei) that would literally mean Gold Vase Plum; it can be semantically construed as The Plum in the Golden Vase, or Plum Blossoms in a Golden Vase; and it puns with three near homophones that might be rendered as The Glamour of Entering the Vagina.”
― David Tod Roy, The Plum in the Golden Vase or, Chin P'ing Mei: Vol. One: The Gathering

“Money, in this world, is but a
sometime thing;
Where is the family that is long rich
or forever poor?”
― Lanling Xiaoxiao Sheng, The Plum in the Golden Vase or, Chin P'ing Mei: Vol. One: The Gathering

“Evil and good meet with their due reward. Good fortune and ill luck walk side by side. But he who never walks the wrong path, need have no fear when comes the summons in the night.”
― Lanling Xiaoxiaosheng, Golden Lotus Volume 1: Jin Ping Mei