Tàixū Huànjìng de páifang liǎngbiān yǒu yí fù duìlián: " jiǎ zuò zhēn shí zhēn yì jiǎ, wú wéi yǒu chù yǒu hái wú. "
The gateway to the Land of Illusion has a couplet on either side: "When the false is taken for true, the true becomes false; where nothing is taken for something, something becomes nothing."
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There the fairy 警幻仙子 shows Baoyu registers and songs that hide the fates of the 金陵十二钗, the Twelve Beauties of Jinling. He cannot make sense of them, and the rest of the novel bears them out.