Who is the author of A Dream of Red Mansions?

A Dream of Red Mansions is a novel written by Cao Xueqin in Qing Dynasty. This novel has been published for more than 200 years. By describing the rise and fall of Jia Fu, the representative of aristocratic family in feudal society, and taking the love story of Jia Baoyu and Lin Daiyu as the clue throughout, it tries to expose the contradictions within the ruling class, the contradiction between the ruler and the ruled, and the contradiction between the ruling class and society in the Qing Dynasty, reflecting the common phenomena of all social strata and all kinds of human beings at that time. It indicates that the whole feudal society will inevitably perish.

A Dream of Red Mansions is profound and all-encompassing, and is known as the encyclopedia of feudal society in China.

Its achievements in ideological field and artistic creation reached the peak of China ancient literature. Over the past 200 years, with the emergence of different forms of manuscripts of A Dream of Red Mansions, the unfinished works of the author Cao Xueqin died, and the author's experience and thoughts. People discussed and studied the works and authors, and gradually formed A Dream of Red Mansions. Its literary color is gorgeous, its content is rich, its characters are numerous, its personality is distinct, its plot description is wonderful and vivid, it is magnificent and its climax is repeated. From the emperor's concubines, princes and nobles, ladies-in-waiting, to the lowest ordinary people, even local ruffians, prostitutes and prostitutes, the characters are vivid and lifelike. It combines various genres of China literature, and the author Cao Xueqin pursues freedom and equality and respects personality. He reflected his ideals and wishes through the tragic stories of a large group of young men and women, represented by Jia Baoyu and Lin Daiyu, who struggled and even sacrificed to pursue individual liberation and safeguard human dignity.