In The Dream of the Red Chamber, Lin Daiyu often writhed in bed, coughing incessantly, in the end coughing up blood and expiring-apparently the classic symptoms of tuberculosis.
《紅樓夢》中的林黛玉，經常「歪」在床上、咳嗽連連，最後吐血而亡，就被懷疑是肺結核的典型症狀。