A Dream of Red Mansions, with Jia, Shi, Wang and Xue as the background and the emotional entanglements of Jia Baoyu, Lin Daiyu and Xue Baochai as the clues, shows us all the characters in the feudal family. Its content is somewhat ironic. The contents written in the book were banned in many places during the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty. As we all know, the literary inquisition prevailing at that time led to the destruction of many literary classics. It is also very rare that a novel like A Dream of Red Mansions can be circulated.
A Dream of Red Mansions, also known as The Story of the Stone, is the first eighty chapters written by scholar Cao Xueqin. In fact, small Shenyang has long heard of folk stories about stones. Because of my identity, it is not convenient to search face to face. It is said that Xiao Shenyang became attached to this novel because of a man named Su Ling. By chance, Xiao Shenyang saw the manuscript of "The Story of the Stone" from this person, so he bought it at a huge sum of money. When Xiao Shenyang read the novel "The Story of the Stone", he thought that Cao Xueqin had written it really well and that it must be the best novel in the world. Small Shenyang is actually very literary. He liked the story of the stone and was deeply shocked. So I want to do something and dedicate it to the emperor, so that I can get the appreciation of the emperor, spread the classics and get a good reputation. Isn't it the best of both worlds?
We all know that the last forty chapters of A Dream of Red Mansions were written by Gao E, a famous scholar, and Gao E was the mentor of Feng?enyende, the son of Little Shenyang. At that time, Xiao Shenyang was the main person in charge of Sikuquanshu, and he knew that he must make great efforts to preserve such a masterpiece. So he went to Gao E and other scholars and ordered them to continue writing and finish the book. In addition, Xiao Shenyang thinks that the first eighty chapters of A Dream of Red Mansions are too sad, and many world-weary words need to be revised. Gao E and other scholars were ordered to continue writing A Dream of Red Mansions and devoted a lot of efforts to it. The literary masterpiece A Dream of Red Mansions, the first of China's four classical novels, which we read today, not only has the shadow of Cao Xueqin, but also has the contributions of Xiao Shenyang, Gao E and others.
In addition to his contribution to the content itself, Xiao Shenyang also made great efforts and painstaking efforts for the acceptance of A Dream of Red Mansions. It is said that every time Xiao Shenyang enters the palace, he will quietly tell the queen mother a story from A Dream of Red Mansions. The Queen Mother also likes the stories told by Xiao Shenyang very much and is very interested in the characters and events. As a woman, Empress Dowager Cixi is also very sensitive and delicate. She burst into tears many times and was very moved. Emperor Qianlong was also a famous dutiful son, and Xiao Shenyang skillfully took advantage of this. Emperor Qianlong was very pleased to learn that the Empress Dowager also liked this novel, and of course he would not pursue the criticism and mapping in the book.
Later, Xiao Shenyang used the right time to ask Emperor Qianlong to lift the ban on A Dream of Red Mansions, which made the novel widely circulated. A Dream of Red Mansions was published at that time, which was inseparable from the efforts of Xiao Shenyang. Gan Long also promised Xiao Shenyang that Wu Yingtang, the most authoritative publishing agency in the Qing Dynasty at that time, would print A Dream of Red Mansions. To some extent, this has played a good role in promoting the spread of A Dream of Red Mansions. People read and talked about the Red Chamber in succession, and for a time, it was a sensation? Red chamber fever? .
Nowadays, A Dream of Red Mansions, as one of the classical Four Great Classical Novels in China, has a lot of contents in our primary and secondary school textbooks. There is also a special course in the university to study A Dream of Red Mansions. The study of Dream of Red Mansions has a certain popularity in schools and society. Even in areas where conditions permit, there are classes on Chinese studies at the preschool stage, so A Dream of Red Mansions is basically a household name in China. Imagine, if there were no big corrupt officials in Shenyang, could A Dream of Red Mansions escape the literary inquisition at that time? Without Xiao Shenyang's efforts at that time, we could not appreciate this literary treasure. Therefore, although small Shenyang is greedy, it is not without its merits.