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

“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

“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