A Tragedy of the Soul in a Previous Life —— A probe into the philosophical meanings of "color", "emotion" and "emptiness" in A Dream of Red Mansions Xu Hui's summary: The meanings of "color", "emotion" and "emptiness" in A Dream of Red Mansions are not exactly the same as those in Buddhist teachings, but Buddhist terms are borrowed to express the author's painful experience caused by the contradiction between material secularity and spiritual soul in human existence. From the perspective of life aesthetics, the novel embodies a non-utilitarian aesthetic attitude. The tragedy of "love" centered on Bao Dai's love is essentially a spiritual tragedy and a soul elegy in which humanists are blocked by the social animality of human beings in the last days of their existence, unable to realize the return of human nature to the truth and unable to establish the dimension of human life in the real world. Author: Guangdong Federation of Social Sciences.

Keywords: "A Dream of Red Mansions" Philosophical Implication Spiritual Tragedy

Classification number: I 207.45438+0 1

Text snapshot: 1. The binary opposition between "color" and "emotion" An immortal literary work, its eternal artistic charm always comes from its inherent richness and broadness, which provides diverse understanding and thinking for different readers in different times. A Dream of Red Mansions has obviously become an inexhaustible topic in the history of literature. But in any case, literature is essentially the spiritual style and soul of human beings.