2. A Dream of Red Mansions marks the maturity of China's novel art. On the basis of inheriting the artistic tradition of China's ancient novels, it has made great creation and development, reaching an unprecedented peak of China's classical novels. His artistic achievements are as follows:
First, the structure is grand and exquisite. There are three worlds in A Dream of Red Mansions: the Grand View Garden, the society outside the Grand View Garden, and a vague illusory mythological world. An event and an event are mutually causal, interlocking and interwoven into a huge dense network, which makes the life picture shown in A Dream of Red Mansions as complex and colorful as life itself.
Second, language contains it. The article is unpretentious and brilliant. Truth and falsehood, emptiness and reality, peace and strangeness have reached an organic unity. You can see the truth in falsehood, the surprise in plainness, and the truth and falsehood coexist. Genius and intelligence are hard to distinguish.
Third, the art of characterization is full of vitality and lasts forever. Among them, there are more than 400 celebrities with surnames, and dozens of them are impressive and have extremely distinctive personality characteristics, which have become immortal artistic images in China literature.
Fourthly, it combines all artistic expression means such as poetry, prose, painting, music, architecture and sculpture. Create a poetic character and poetic mood and style, which is a breakthrough in previous narrative novels.