The heart is higher than the sky, and life is thinner than paper. It's a proverb, which means that although you have great ambitions, your life is too frivolous. You can't live or die by yourself You were born poor and unable to show your ambition, so you were humble to death.

From A Dream of Red Mansions, written by Cao Xueqin.

The original text is: the heart is higher than the sky, as a humble, romantic and intelligent person. The representative figure of the Red Chamber is Qingwen.

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Qingwen-Guo Rongfu's maid. She is handsome, intelligent, articulate and good at embroidery. She is the most rebellious, despising Mrs. Wang's kindness to win over my little daughter, mocking the attackers who please her master, and publicly scolding Wang Shan for protecting her family when she raided the Grand View Garden. Her resistance was brutally retaliated and she was driven out of Jia's house when she was seriously ill. Baoyu went to visit secretly. She was deeply moved and died tragically that night.

These words have actually written Qingwen's life. "My heart is higher than the sky", just as the smile refers to the stars: At the age of ten, I was bought by Lai Da to be a maid. I am a slave of a slave. Later, I treated my grandmother as a gift, but I didn't grovel at all.

Her frankness and recklessness are aimed at everyone: Baoyu, Daiyu and Xiren. Objectively speaking, she is really not a good girl. She never put herself in the position of a slave. Even if Baoyu is asked to love herself, she is standing on the same equal height of "people", not servile.

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