When red was no longer celebrating happiness, joyfulness, nobility and regality, it caged the yearning for freedom, it silenced the weeping of loneliness, it stifled the longing for love, it fueled struggle for power, it masked the faces of envy and hatred, it hardened the heart of tenderness and purity, it buried the sanctity of spirit.
If only these red walls of the Forbidden City could speak...
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