A Dream of Red Mansions vividly describes the whole life of China feudal society in the first half of the 8th century. The book has a large scale, rigorous structure, vivid characters and beautiful language, and has some obvious artistic characteristics, which is worth tasting and appreciating by future generations.
The author of the novel makes full use of all the excellent traditional techniques of China's calligraphy, painting, poetry, songs, music and other literature and arts, and shows a social tragedy, such as Jia Baoyu and Lin Daiyu reading The West Chamber, Daiyu burying flowers, Baochai catching butterflies, Qingwen making up the autumn, Baoqin Li Xue and Daiyu burning manuscripts. , but also in the characterization, such as Lin Daiyu's floating posture, poetic eyebrows. Handsome literary talent ... These are all cultivated by the author with the rich artistic accomplishment of China's excellent traditional culture, which makes her always have a special charm full of poetry and painting in the group of Twelve Woman, and the fragrance of oriental culture spreads.
Cao Xueqin truly reproduces the complexity of the characters in A Dream of Red Mansions, which makes us feel that the characters in the works are as real as those in life. Jia Baoyu in A Dream of Red Mansions "can't say that he is virtuous, stupid, kind, evil, aboveboard, wicked, intelligent and talented, vulgar and ordinary", which makes people comment. The heroine of ideal beauty is just like this. Even the notorious Rainbow Xifeng didn't write her as "all bad", but mixed some "loveliness" with "abomination", thus showing various contradictory and complicated actual situations and forming the "charming reality" of her character.
The author is good at revealing its unusual aesthetic significance through the artistic description of seemingly ordinary daily life, and even some unwritten and unrecorded social habits and details are vividly portrayed in A Dream of Red Mansions.