A Dream of Red Mansions is an ancient chapter novel of China, also known as The Story of the Stone. It is one of the four classical novels in China and was written by Cao Xueqin, a writer in Qing Dynasty.
The novel takes the rise and fall of Jia, Shi, Wang and Xue as the background, Jia Baoyu, a rich son, as the perspective, and the love and marriage tragedy between Jia Baoyu and Lin Daiyu and Xue Baochai as the main line.
It depicts the life of a group of boudoir beauties, whose manners and knowledge exceed the needs of men, and shows the true beauty of human nature and tragedy. It can be said that it is an epic work that shows the beauty of women and various social conditions in ancient China from all angles.
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A Dream of Red Mansions comprehensively and profoundly reflects the characteristics of the ups and downs of feudal society. It does not describe the love story of "wedding candles and being the first"; It is about the love and marriage tragedy between young feudal nobles Jia Baoyu, Lin Daiyu and Xue Baochai.
The great social significance of the novel lies in that it does not describe this love tragedy in isolation, but focuses on this love and marriage tragedy, and writes the rise and fall of four representative families of Jia, Wang, Shi and Xue at that time.
Focusing on Jiafu, it exposes all kinds of darkness and evil in the late feudal society and their insurmountable internal contradictions, and strongly criticizes the decadent feudal ruling class and the feudal system that is about to collapse, so that readers can foresee that it is bound to die. At the same time, the novel also expresses a new hazy ideal by praising the noble rebels.
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