Cao Xueqin's greatest contribution lies in his literary creation. A Dream of Red Mansions created by him is large in scale, rigorous in structure, complicated in plot and vivid in description, and has shaped many typical artistic images of characters. It is the pinnacle of China's ancient novels and occupies an important position in the history of world literature. Cao Xueqin left a valuable cultural heritage and spiritual wealth for the Chinese nation and the people of the world, which not only had a far-reaching impact on the creation of later writers, but also produced a large number of excellent derivative works in the fields of painting, film and television, animation, online games and so on. Academic circles and society have studied and discussed the author, version, text and skills of A Dream of Red Mansions, and even formed a special knowledge-A Dream of Red Mansions.
However, there are different opinions on the evaluation of Cao Xueqin's poems.
Ding Qizhen published the article "Cao Xueqin is an imitative poet" in the column "Everyone", and made the following comments on Cao Xueqin's poetic achievements: Cao Xueqin is an excellent imitative poet, who can imitate the poems of ancient poets and the voices of characters in novels and write poems with different contents and artistic conception. However, in the history of China's poetry, he is not even a third-rate poet.
A Dream of Red Mansions and Jinghua (Shaanxi People's Publishing House, 2008) written by Hu Wenbin, a famous redologist, two of them, Nearly 200 Years, highly praised Cao Xueqin's poetic art, such as "Great Poet", "Great Poet", "Cao Xueqin's outstanding talent in poetry and music, and his skills are perfect", and so on.
Source Baidu Encyclopedia and Personal Library