I think that every translation should be a recreation of the original. The translation of a poem should be a poem and not just an explication of it, and that was my principle in translating Hung-lou meng.
我認為每部翻譯，都是原作品的再創作，一首詩的翻譯仍是一首詩，而不只是對這首詩的解釋，這也是我譯紅樓夢的原則。