1.1 The first climax After the founding of New China, major publishing houses were established one after another, setting off an upsurge in cultural construction across the country, and the cover design of "A Dream of Red Mansions" also ushered in a second climax. The People's Literature Publishing House, founded in 1951, started collating ancient Chinese books when it was founded. In 1953, under the name of "Writers' Publishing House", the press published the first punctuated version of "A Dream of Red Mansions" since the founding of New China [2]. Unfortunately, this edition of the book was published in a hurry due to time constraints, so the cover design is relatively neutral and appears in the form of plain paper with a red title, so it looks a bit rough. However, this edition of "A Dream of Red Mansions" established the book cover design element that People's Literature Publishing House will use for a long time to come - calligraphy fonts, and the inscription is by the calligrapher Mr. Shen Yinmo. In 1957, under the name of "People's Literature Publishing House", the press published the second edition of "Dream of Red Mansions" with collation and annotation (see Figure 3). The cover design of this edition not only retains Shen Yinmo's calligraphy title, but also adds "A Dream of Red Mansions" by Gai Qi of the Qing Dynasty as the background image. The overall cover looks much more elegant than the previous edition. After 1957, there were many works using decorative patterns in the cover design of "Dream of Red Mansions". These editions of books highly summarized the representative patterns in the book, refined them into basic elements, and arranged them into geometric dark patterns. Under the title of the book, the entire cover is sparse, elegant, and dignified. Here we still take the People's Literature Publishing House version as an example. The most distinctive decorative pattern on the cover of "Dream of Red Mansions" from this period was the 1959 version (see Figure 4). The cover of this edition was simple, plain and well-structured. In 1964, when the People's Literature Society published a new edition of "Dream of Red Mansions", it still used this cover. Only the illustrations were changed from the white-drawn illustrations of the 1959 edition to color illustrations by Mr. Cheng Shifa. The covers of subsequent 1974 and other editions also adopted similar decoration methods. The second climax maintains a low-key and elegant tone as a whole. The cover design is basically divided into two levels: the book title and the base image. On the base image, most of them are linear decorative patterns or decorative pictures. The covers of these editions are low-key and elegant, but the single color and linear expression inevitably weaken the visual impact.