Zhang Ailing's "Three Hate in Life" includes tasteless begonia, prickly shad and unfinished Dream of Red Mansions. From the first paragraph of Zhang Ailing's literary criticism of A Dream of Red Mansions, some people say that the "three major hates" are "one hates prickly crucian carp, and the other hates tasteless begonia"

A Dream of Red Mansions is an important work of Zhang Ailing. From 1966, Zhang Ailing settled in the United States to 1995. During this period, she spent ten years studying A Dream of Red Mansions, which is the crystallization of many years' research in her later years. The book contains seven research articles, including Unfinished Dream of Red Mansions, An Episode of Red Mansions, First Detailed Dream of Red Mansions, Second Detailed Dream of Red Mansions, Third Detailed Dream of Red Mansions, Fourth Detailed Dream of Red Mansions and Fifth Detailed Dream of Red Mansions.

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From 65438 to 0955, Zhang Ailing settled in the United States and wrote many English novels, but only one was published. After 1969, he mainly engaged in the study of classical novels. He wrote A Dream of Red Mansions.

1973 Zhang Ailing published A Dream of Red Mansions in Crown, and some of Zhang Ailing's essays and novels were reprinted by Taiwan Province Province.

During the period of 1974, Zhang Ailing published "Talking about Reading" and "Talking about Reading Postscript" in the supplement of China Times, and published "A Dream of Red Mansions" in Crown, completing the English translation of "The Story of Flowers on the Sea" (unpublished, but lost due to moving).

From 65438 to 0976, Zhang Ailing published her second collection of essays, Zhang Kan, and three details of A Dream of Red Mansions. 1977- 1993, Zhang Ailing successively completed the creation of Lust, Caution, Dissatisfaction and Contrast, and published A Dream of Red Mansions.

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Nightmare in the Red Chamber-Baidu Encyclopedia