Jia Baoyu is the main central figure in A Dream of Red Mansions. As a descendant of the Rong-Guo mansion, he was born with extraordinary intelligence and wit. He was born with "a face like Mid-Autumn Festival, a color like spring flowers, a knife cut on his temples, an eyebrow like ink painting, a face like a peach petal, and eyes like eyes." If you sometimes laugh when you are angry, you will look at it with affectionate eyes. There is a golden wreath around her neck, and a colorful silk sash with a beautiful jade tied on it. "It's a great hope for the Jia family. But his thoughts and personality prompted him to betray his family. The formation of his rebellious character is not accidental. The novel fully describes the living environment that caused his character and his specific situation in all aspects, and profoundly reveals the subjective and objective reasons for his character growth. On the one hand, the aristocratic society centered on men is so hypocritical, ugly and decadent that he feels lifelong regret for being a man; On the other hand, the purity and beauty of the girls made him feel that he would only be satisfied with them. He was also sent to his home school to study the Four Books and Five Classics, but the content and atmosphere of his home school were so decadent, and the masters who took this educational route were so vulgar and disgusting. His feudal education was emotionally inappropriate. He seldom contacts with his father who is an official. He is as scared as a tiger and gives him a wide berth. His parents gave him to a group of wet nurses and maids when he was young. Those ladies who surrounded him and treated him with a pure heart were his first teachers. The profound purity and freedom of the maids infected him, and the misfortunes they suffered because of their social status also inspired him. In Jia Baoyu's intuitive life, they are in sharp contrast with the leading forces of the center, which are mainly secular men: wisdom and stupidity, innocence and decay, cleanliness and filth, innocence and hypocrisy, kindness and evil, beauty and ugliness. In such an environment, Jia Baoyu gradually formed a love-hate tendency of his thoughts and feelings.
The core of Jia Baoyu's personality is to treat others equally, respect individuality, and advocate that everyone can act freely according to his own will. In his mind, there are only true and false, good and evil, beautiful and ugly. He hates and despises secular men, and is close to and respects oppressed women. He said, "Daughters are made of water and men are made of mud. I feel refreshed when I see my daughter, and I feel turbid and smelly when I see a man. " In connection with this, he dislikes the family from which he came, and loves and is close to those who are similar in character and smell and come from humble origins. This is essentially a denial of the aristocratic class from which he came. At the same time, he strongly resisted the traditional life path arranged for him by feudalism. For the sake of feudal ethics, except in the morning, he tried to avoid taking part in the fellowship and entertainment of literati. I am very disgusted with the highest ideals of feudal literati, such as fame and fortune marriage, and completely deny them. He just wants to live as he pleases, resigned to his fate, that is, to startle flowers in the daughter country of the Grand View Garden, sing quietly and live freely. "If I am lucky at this time, I will die when you are all in front of me, and then you can cry my tears, flow into a river, float my body, send it to a secluded place without birds, melt with the wind, and I will never be born again. This is my death. " Limited by the times, Jia Baoyu could not find a way out of real life. He wants to get rid of the shackles of aristocratic society, but he can't help but cling to the aristocratic class. This makes his thought and character have tragic and serious contradictions. His ideal is undoubtedly a denial of feudal life, but it is hazy and has a strong sentimental and nihilistic color.