It means that it is better to die than to die.

From Lin Daiyu's poem "Burying Flowers" in A Dream of Red Mansions: "Beautiful bones are not collected, and a cup of pure land is pure and clean, which is better than a trapped ditch. If you bury flowers today, you will laugh. Who will you know when you bury them? "

Lin Daiyu once pitied the fallen peach blossoms, packed them and buried them in Hua Zhong. Later, when she came to Hua Zhong, she told herself that she had fallen into a flower, and she cried sadly "The Song of Burying Flowers".

On the surface, the poem means: instead of letting the petals fall and rot on the ground, it is better to pick them up with a toolkit and bury them in clean soil to maintain their delicate posture and romantic temperament. Let it come and go as clean as ice, far better than falling into mud. Now I bury peach blossoms, others laugh at me for being stupid, and I don't know who buried me for a year. In fact, this poem is a reflection of Lin Daiyu's sentimental character and tragic life experience, and it is also the lonely and arrogant character of Lin Daiyu when she dreams of freedom and happiness but can't get it.

So these poems are not only Daiyu's pity for peach blossoms, but also Daiyu's life experience of self-pity.