Dream of the Red Chamber is not a ghost book.
Meng of the Red Chamber, an ancient Chinese chapter-length novel, one of the four great masterpieces of classical China, is generally considered to be written by Cao Xueqin, a writer of the Qing Dynasty. The novel is set against the backdrop of the rise and fall of the four great families of Jia, Shi, Wang, and Xue, with the perspective of Jia Baoyu, a wealthy son, and the tragedy of his love and marriage to Lin Daiyu and Xue Baochai as the main thread.
The book depicts the life of a group of beautiful women who are above the men in demeanor and insight, and shows the true beauty of human nature and tragedy, which can be said to be an epic work showing the beauty of women and the worldly conditions of the ancient Chinese society from all angles.
The versions of Dream of the Red Chamber can be divided into two systems: the 120-volume Cheng text and the 80-volume Lipbook. Cheng Ben is the printed version of Cheng Weiyuan, and Lipan Ben is the early handwritten version copied and evaluated by Li-Yan-Zhai at different times. The Lip-Ben is the base of the Cheng-Ben.
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A Dream of Red Mansions is a humanistic novel with world-wide influence, recognized as the pinnacle of Chinese classical fiction, the encyclopedia of Chinese feudal society, and a masterpiece of traditional culture. The novel to "the main purpose of talking about love, the actual record of its own affairs" self-criticism, only according to their own affairs of the body of reason, according to the trail, to get rid of the old set, fresh and chic, has achieved extraordinary artistic achievements.
"The real thing is hidden, false language village language" special penmanship is to make the later readers of the brain, speculation of the long and then more. Since the twentieth century, the academic world because of "Dream of Red Mansions" exceptionally outstanding artistic achievements and rich and profound ideological underpinnings and produced a "Dream of Red Mansions" as the object of study of specialized learning - red science.
"Dream of Red Mansions" comprehensively and profoundly reflects the characteristics of feudal society in the era of prosperity and decline. What it depicts is not the love story of "the cave and the candles, the golden list"; rather, it is the tragedy of love and marriage between Jia Baoyu, Lin Daiyu, and Xue Baochai, who were young members of the feudal aristocracy.
The great social significance of the novel lies in the fact that it does not depict this love tragedy in isolation, but takes this love and marriage tragedy as the center to write about the rise and fall of the four representative families of the time, namely, Jia, Wang, Shi, and Xue, which, centering on the Jia Mansion, exposes all kinds of darkness and evils in the late feudal society and its insurmountable inner contradictions.
The novel is a powerful critique of the corrupt feudal ruling class and the collapsing feudal system, making the reader anticipate its inevitable destiny. At the same time, the novel also expresses a new and hazy ideal through the glorification of the aristocratic rebels.