Qian Zhongshu made some brilliant analysis in his book Guanzhuibian on Lu You, the poet in the Southern Song Dynasty, which is well worth exploring and probing into.
As for the multiple theme, the study indicates that Qian Zhongshu USES lots of textual elements to make the text coherent and little interpersonal elements to pose his own opinion into the story.
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婚姻是什么?钱钟书老先生说:“婚姻像围城,城里的想出去,城外的想进来。”
13 marriage is what? Old Qian Zhongshu said: "marriage is like a siege, the city wanted to go out, outside the city want to come in."