A Dream of Red Mansions, formerly known as The Story of the Stone, is one of China's four classical novels. The general edition is *** 120. It is generally believed that the first 80 chapters were written by Cao Xueqin, a writer in Qing Dynasty, and the last 40 chapters were written by an anonymous person and edited by Gao E and Cheng Weiyuan.
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 describes the lives of some ladies and shows the true beauty of human nature and tragedy. It is an epic that shows the beauty of women and the beauty of ancient China society from all angles.
A Dream of Red Mansions is a human novel with world influence, an encyclopedia of feudal society in China and a master of traditional culture. Its author encouraged himself by "talking about love with great purpose and recording it", only followed his own truth, got rid of the old routine, was fresh and unique, and achieved extraordinary artistic achievements.
Ideological content
A Dream of Red Mansions comprehensively and profoundly reflects the characteristics of the times when feudal society flourished and declined. It does not describe the love story of "wedding candles and being the first"; It is about the love and marriage tragedy between young feudal nobles Jia Baoyu, Lin Daiyu and Xue Baochai.
The great social significance of the novel lies in that it does not describe this love tragedy in isolation, but focuses on this love and marriage tragedy, and writes the rise and fall of four representative families at that time, including Jia Fu, which exposes all kinds of darkness and evil in the late feudal society and their insurmountable internal contradictions.