The Dream of the Red Chamber was finished, only part of the manuscript was lost.

Many readers believe that Cao Xueqin didn't finish Dream of Red Mansions, that he only wrote about eighty episodes, and that he died before he had a chance to move on to the next one and put his pen to rest.

This is not the case, Cao Xueqin is the whole "Dream of the Red Chamber" finished, but the book is not one hundred and twenty, according to Mr. Zhou Ruchang's research, the "Dream of the Red Chamber" through the Department of the structure of the nine as a unit, but also twelve as a combination of the number of characters and the plot of the overall situation, therefore, the book should be 9 × 12 = 108.

Cao Xueqin has largely completed the whole book, with a complete table of contents, and the narrative text of each chapter is basically well written, leaving only some poems and other "parts" to be embedded, of course, but also the need to re-unify the manuscript, polishing off some inconsistencies or errors in the "burr! "Of course, there is still a need to re-draft the book and polish off some inconsistencies or clerical errors. Although the book has been completed, but the back thirty or so manuscripts of the anonymous, therefore, leading to some people think that "Dream of the Red Chamber" is not finished.

Meng of the Red Chamber

Meng of the Red Chamber, the first of the four great classical Chinese novels, the Qing Dynasty writer Cao Xueqin created a chapter-length novel. In the early days, only the first eighty transcripts circulated, after eighty partially unfinished and the original manuscript is lost. Originally titled Li-Yan-Zhai Re-assessment of the Stone Records. Cheng Weiyuan invited Gao Osprey to collaborate in the collation and publication of the full version of the hundred and twenty times, named Dream of the Red Chamber. There is also a version of the Golden Jade Edge.

Meng of Red Mansions is a work of humanistic fiction with world-wide influence, recognized as the pinnacle of classical Chinese fiction, the encyclopedia of Chinese feudal society, and a masterpiece of traditional culture. The novel is set against the backdrop of the rise and fall of the four great families of Jia, Shi, Wang, and Xue, and centers on the family minutiae and boudoir gossip of the Jia House.

Based on the love and marriage stories of Jia Baoyu, Lin Daiyu, and Xue Baochai, the novel foresees the inevitable demise of feudal society through the tragic fate of the rebels, revealing the crisis of the last days of feudalism.

The author of A Dream of Red Mansions had a preliminary democratization idea. He was interested in the real society, including the darkness of the court and officialdom, the decadence of the feudal aristocracy and their families, the feudal system of examination, marriage, slavery and hierarchy, as well as the ideology of social domination, namely, the Confucian and Mencius way of life and the Cheng-Zhu rationality, and the ideals and propositions of which were precisely the bud of the capitalist economy that was growing at that time. These ideals and propositions were a reflection of the twists and turns of the factors that were growing in the budding capitalist economy.