Sima Qian, author of Records of the Historian, and Cao Xueqin, the laureate Chinese writer of the Qing Dynasty whose A Dream of Red Mansion was and is still widely read, had suffered similar fates.

• 司马迁是这样的，曹雪芹也是这样，文人都是与富贵无缘，都是生前得不到公正的。