”Sweet Dream in the Garden” achieves ”mutual illustration” of ”Peony Pavilion” through parallelled comparison. It has the Buddhism theme of ”life is uncertain and fragile”. The heroine Mrs. Qian's life experience is flooded by extreme contradictions between desire and soul. However, the relationship between body and soul is not a common body-soul opposition as in Xianyong Bai's many other novels, but a body aesthetics which comes out of the blending of both. It has three connotations: body carries and expresses the conflict between body and soul; body illustrates culture reminiscence; body converges the rupture of identity.