The first gathering was at Qiu Shuangzhai where Tan Chun lived. The poem he wrote was "Ode to White Begonia", hence the name "Begonia Poetry Society" - "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, Lin Daiyu is the concubine of Xiaoxiang, Xue Baochai is the king of Hengwu, Li Wan is the old farmer of Daoxiang, Jia Yingchun is Lingzhou, Jia Tanchun is Jiaoxiake, Jia Xichun is Ouxie, and Shi Xiangyun is Zhenxia's old friend. . 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.
Lin Daiyu and Xue Baochai are the most talented people in Haitang Poetry Society - of course, there is also Shi Damei, who was absent when the society was founded. Her poetic talent is so high that she and the Xiaoxiang concubine jointly wrote poems in the Aojing Pavilion.