Everyone is familiar with the four classical novels, but even if you haven't read A Dream of Red Mansions, you know that A Dream of Red Mansions is the oldest of the four classical novels and occupies the highest position in Four Great Classical Novels for many reasons:

First of all, A Dream of Red Mansions has created the most characters and is also the most successful. Cao Xueqin created more than 400 characters. The most rare thing is that even the little people inside are lifelike. Although Shakespeare of the same age also created hundreds of characters, it is probably those dozens that can be remembered. As far as A Dream of Red Mansions is concerned, in addition to Baochai, Pinger, Yuanyang, Xiren, Qingwen, Zijuan and Xiaohong, even the maids have their own characteristics, and the scenes are mixed, which can leave a deep impression on people. Who can compare with other films?

Besides the characters in A Dream of Red Mansions, the poems in it can also be called Zhong Ling Yu Xiu. Even Cao Xueqin can win a place in the literary world of Qing Dynasty with this large number of poems.

In addition to the above two points, Bian Xiao thinks that the most successful writing style of A Dream of Red Mansions lies in its exquisite writing style. Every word and deed of the characters in the book may be the foreshadowing of subsequent stories, and a name of a character is sometimes a metaphor, which makes people think.

For example, at the beginning of the novel, the two characters, He Zhen, are homophonic with "falsehood" and "concealment of truth", which leads to the story of A Dream of Red Mansions. There are many similar word games in the novel, such as Wang Xifeng's judgment that "one obeys two orders, three people are wood", "one obeys two orders" is the beginning of obedience, "two orders" is the beginning of orders, and "man and wood" together is a Hugh word, which is Wang Xifeng's tragic fate, and finally Jia Lian divorced him.

Apart from the stories of characters, A Dream of Red Mansions also describes the details of life very fastidiously, and the food customs in it are very fastidious, which is not Cao's whimsy.

In addition, the mysterious legend of a dream of red mansions itself, lost and continued in the last forty chapters, like Venus with a broken arm, left people with infinite imagination and added infinite charm. It is said that every time you read a dream of red mansions, you will find something new. As you get older, you will have different perceptions and preferences. A Dream of Red Mansions is a book worth reading all your life.