Hong lou meng: Fei niao ge tou lin 紅楼梦：飞鳥各投林

Dynasty: Qing 清 (1644–1911)

Included in: Cao Xueqin 曹雪芹. Gao E 高鶚 (ed.). Hongloumeng 红楼梦 Beijing: Renmin wenxue chubanshe, 1973. 63f.

David Hawkes (1923–2007): A Dream of Golden Days: Epilogue: The Birds Into The Wood Have Flown –
in: Hawkes, David. The Story of the Stone: Volume 1: The Golden Days. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1978. p. 144.
Yang Gladys 戴乃迭 (1919–1999) and Yang Xianyi 杨宪益 (1915–2009): Dream of Red Mansions: Epilogue: The Birds Scatter to the Wood –
in: Yang Gladys 戴乃迭 and Yang Xianyi 杨宪益. A Dream of Red Mansions: Volume 1. Peking: Foreign Language Press, 1978. p. 83f.

为官的，家业雕零；富貴的，金銀散尽；有恩的，死里逃生；无情的，分明报应；欠命的，命已还；欠泪的，泪已尽：冤冤相报自非輕，分离聚合皆前定。欲知命短問前生，老来富貴也真侥幸。看破的，遁入空門；痴迷的，枉送了性命。—— 好一似食尽鳥投林，落了片白茫茫大地真干·淨！