In early autumn, Jia Tanchun proposed to invite young women with literary talent in the Grand View Garden to form a poetry club. The purpose is to "gather poets at the pavilion in the wind garden; drunkenly chant the peaches on the apricot stream", write poems and recite poems to show the literary talents of the sisters in the Grand View Garden, not to mention the peach and plum blossoms. The members of the poetry club include Lin Daiyu, Xue Baochai, Shi Xiangyun, Jia Yingchun, Jia Tanchun, Jia Xichun, Jia Baoyu and Li Wan. The old farmer Daoxiang (Li Wan) is the president, Lingzhou (Yingchun) and Ouxie (Xichun) are the vice-presidents. One person writes the questions and the other supervises the field. The first gathering was at Qiu Shuangzhai where Tan Chun lived. The poems he wrote were "Ode to White Begonia", hence the name "Begonia Poetry Society" and "The Thirty-Seven Chapters of a Dream of Red Mansions". Everyone has a nickname in the poetry society, and most of their poems are named after the courtyard where they live in the Grand View Garden. Jia Baoyu is the son of Yihong and Lin Daiyu is the concubine of Xiaoxiang. Shortly after Baoyu was beaten in "A Dream of Red Mansions", Jia Zheng took off his studies and went to other provinces for a business trip. Baoyu was "liberated" and "wandered around in the Grand View Garden as he pleased, wasting his time and adding to it". At this time, Tanchun suddenly became very elegant and wrote a letter to Baoyu proposing to form a society and write poems. It happened that Jia Yun paid homage to Baoyu's two precious pots of white begonias, so they established the Begonia Poetry Society. In "A Dream of Red Mansions", the sisters first formed a poetry club to chant Bai Haitang.