2. A Dream of Red Mansions, an ancient China Zhang Hui novel, also known as The Story of the Stone, is one of the classical Four Great Classical Novels in China, and is generally considered to be written by Cao Xueqin, a writer in the Qing Dynasty. With the rise and fall of Jia, Shi, Wang and Xue as the background, Jia Baoyu, a rich son, as the perspective, and the love and marriage tragedies of Jia Baoyu, Lin Daiyu and Xue Baochai as the main line, the novel depicts the lives of a group of elegant and knowledgeable boudoir beauties, showing the true beauty and tragedy of human nature. It can be said that it is an epic work that shows the beauty of women and various social conditions in ancient China from all angles.