Cao Xueqin's poems in A Dream of Red Mansions are complicated, but mainly in depicting characters, writing scenery and argot.
One is in depicting characters. Cao Gong's portrayal of the characters in the book is really incisive and vivid. In poetry, riddles, wine list guessing, games, play, group activities, psychological portrayal and so on. , is vivid and endless. Most of the poems in Cao Gong's novels are expressed by the characters in the book, some are described by the author, and some are expressed by the characters' own poems, puzzles, songs, poems, and examples. They are consistent and take care of each other, each with its own strong points and colorful.
About writing about scenery. More representative ones are: the eighteenth issue of "The Grand View Garden"; Back to Jia Baoyu's spring, summer, autumn and winter; Forty-eighth time Xiang Ling's Untitled Chanting to the Moon; There are also many chrysanthemum poems, begonia poems, impromptu poems and so on. On the surface, these poems are about scenery, but the author's real intention is to write about the characters' inner world, destiny, personality, encounters and uneasy lives. This is different from what the ancients simply expressed with a poem.
About argot. A dream of red mansions has been fascinated for several times before, and many words and poems in it are code words. For example, the introductions of the four major families and twelve golden women are all false names, but the truth is hidden. There are also "Good Songs", "Beautiful Women in Wonderland" and "The Story of the Stone", in which the introduction, singing, production and other parts are full of argot. How can these argots be compared with ancient poems? It's completely different, so it's not the same kind of product.
Most of the poems in A Dream of Red Mansions describe the inner world of the characters. In particular, there are many descriptions of Lin Daiyu and Jia Baoyu, such as twenty-six chapters of Daiyu's Sorrow, twenty-seven chapters of Daiyu's Poems of Burying Flowers, forty-five chapters of Daiyu's Poems of Leaving the Autumn Window, sixty-four chapters of Daiyu's Poems of Stone, Green Pearl and Red Stroke, and seventy-nine chapters of Baoyu's Zhou Poems. These poems profoundly describe the inner world of the characters in the book, and their depth can be completely comparable to that of the ancients.
The poem A Dream of Red Mansions depicts or implies other meaning in many aspects. Literally speaking, poetry has not surpassed the ancients, but as a literary masterpiece, the significance of poetry in the book greatly exceeds that of poetry itself. "Full of absurd words, a bitter tear; Although the author of Dou Yun is stupid, who can understand the taste? " .