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The book takes its name from the concept of dreams. Zhang Dai confessed in the preface that the past "glory, honor, and wealth" were all but "one dream", and that by compiling a recollection "in front of the Buddha", he was "repenting" the casual and excessive luxury and pleasure from his earlier
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