The novel A Dream of Red Mansions not only describes the characters, environment and plot, but also contains a large number of poems, and analyzes the author's intention.

1. Ming and Qing vernacular novels are basically poems and songs quoted or written by themselves. It can be said that mixing poetry and novels was a popular creative technique at that time.

2. The poetry in A Dream of Red Mansions has a high artistic level, which is basically created by the author himself, which shows that Cao Xueqin has a high level of poetry creation and few quotations, which is also a major feature of A Dream of Red Mansions;

3. Poetry can describe people more concisely and accurately.