A Dream of Red Mansions centers on the daily life of the government, focuses on the love and marriage tragedies and trivia of Baoyu, Daiyu and Baochai in the Grand View Garden, and takes the history of Jia, Shi, Wang and Xue, four famous families in Jinling, as the dark line, showing the inevitable trend that the feudal society at the end of the road will eventually perish.
With its tortuous and obscure expression, desolate and deep emotional style and strong lofty ideological connotation, it has irreplaceable research value in the fields of ancient folk customs, feudal system, social landscape, architectural inscriptions and so on in China, reaching the peak of China's classical novels.
The extended material of A Dream of Red Mansions exposes all kinds of darkness and evil in the late feudal society and their insurmountable internal contradictions, and strongly criticizes the decadent feudal ruling class and the feudal system that is about to collapse, making readers feel that it is bound to perish; At the same time, the novel also expresses a new hazy ideal by praising the noble rebels.
In the history of China literature, no work can write such a gripping love tragedy as A Dream of Red Mansions. No work can reveal the social roots of love tragedy in a comprehensive and profound way, thus making the most profound and powerful criticism of feudal society.
The most outstanding artistic achievement of A Dream of Red Mansions is that "it is as rich, complex and natural as life and nature itself", which makes life vivid and tasteful. The great events and waves in A Dream of Red Mansions are well described. As the story goes on, characters are constantly emerging, full of interest in life, and the secrets of life are revealed.
Its detailed description and language description inherit and develop the tradition of excellent novels of the previous generation. One of the outstanding achievements of A Dream of Red Mansions is to "radiate strong poetic and ideal brilliance".
References:
Baidu Encyclopedia-Dream of Red Mansions