A Dream of Red Mansions is the first of China's four classical novels, and it is a novel written by Cao Xueqin in Qing Dynasty. It is also called The Story of the Stone and Jinyuyuan. This book is divided into two editions: 120 Cheng Ben and 80 Fat Ben.

The first 80 chapters of the new version of A Dream of Red Mansions are collected according to the fat version, and the last 40 chapters are collected according to the process version, with the signature "Cao Xueqin, anonymous continuation, Cheng Weiyuan, finishing". The author of the last 40 chapters is still controversial.

The novel takes the rise and fall of Jia, Shi, Wang and Xue as the background, the family affairs of Jia's family and the leisure of boudoir as the main line, and the love and marriage stories of Jia Baoyu, Lin Daiyu and Xue Baochai as the main line, depicting the beauty of humanity and tragedy of lovers centered on Jia Baoyu and Jinling Twelve Chai. Through family tragedy, daughter tragedy and protagonist's life tragedy, the crisis of feudal eschatology is revealed [3].

A Dream of Red Mansions is an earthly novel with world influence. It is recognized as the pinnacle of China's classical novels, an encyclopedia of feudal society in China and a master of traditional culture. The novel encourages itself with the theme of "talking about love and recording things", only follows its logic, gets rid of the old conventions, is fresh and unique, and has achieved extraordinary artistic achievements. The special brushwork of "the truth is hidden and the village tells lies" has opened the brains of later readers and speculated for a long time. Around the study of reading A Dream of Red Mansions, an outstanding school-Dream of Red Mansions has been formed.