What do you mean by "morality"? Entrust or contain, implied meaning or meaning. Do you look at the morality of the imperial court alone? I don't even know! Talking about "morality" in Chinese is intended to tell scholars that this literary method can be applied in future reading and writing, so the selection of materials should be typical, such as Ode to an Orange. Take a composition or a poem and ask students to say "morality", which is called abuse! If the students answer that the moral of Yu Garden is "praise for the superb artistic attainments of the builders of garden rockeries", there is nothing wrong with that. But what's the point except wasting time?
I didn't say "make people glow because they are sleepy" spontaneously. Zhang Dai, the son of an official family in the late Ming Dynasty, had a good life and received a good education. Born with enough wealth and well-being, enjoy the happiness on earth. After the extinction of the Qing Dynasty, the country was ruined, reduced to grassroots people, and their lives were embarrassed. The former life has now become a distant dream. But Zhang Dai still wants to leave a credible history for future generations, so that future generations can really understand what happened. So he wrote "Stone Chamber" about military affairs and "Tao An Meng Yi" about personal life.
Some experts have come to the conclusion after reading the extremely painful preface of Tao 'an's Dream that this book, like A Dream of Red Mansions, is full of luxuries, beautiful scenery, folk trivia and life details. The moral is "the thought of the old country, the feeling of the local land, the feeling of vicissitudes of life, the sigh of rise and fall." Therefore, there is a debate on the "implication" of Zhang Dai's works in academic circles.
The article "Imperial Garden" is selected from Zhang Dai's "Tao An Meng", which is a collection of articles, and there are more than 100 essays like "Imperial Garden". If students are asked to think about "the meaning of Zhang Dai's Tao Anmeng" in order to broaden their knowledge, isn't it because of his drowsiness that students think about "the meaning of Zhang Dai's Yuyuan Garden"?