A Dream of Red Mansions was written by Cao Xueqin with his life's blood and tears. Zhi Yanzhai said, "On New Year's Eve, Qin died in tears before the book was finished." Cao Xueqin also said: "The paper is full of absurd things and a pair of sad tears. Dou Yun's author is stupid, who can solve the taste! " (The first time in A Dream of Red Mansions) Obviously, the theme package of A Dream of Red Mansions contains profound meanings and is by no means simple and solvable.
How many characters did A Dream of Red Mansions write? During Jiaqing period of Qing Dynasty, there were 448 people in Jiang Qi.
In the early years of the Republic of China, Lan Shangxing compiled The Biography of a Dream of Red Mansions, and received 72 1 person with different biographies. The book also included 23 ancient emperors, 1 15 ancient people, 18 empresses, 22 women, 24 fairies and 47 gods. * * A total of 983 people were received.
Although A Dream of Red Mansions has rich humanistic connotation, poetic artistic situation and even complicated ideological significance, and its cultural aesthetic value is indeed higher than Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Water Margin, The Journey to the West and Jin Ping Mei, it is still a novel and an object that ordinary literati can talk about at will. The new Dream of Red Mansions initiated by Hu Shi requires historical textual research on everything related to novels, while topics such as Cao Jiazhen, the first eighty chapters, the last forty chapters, and the fat review are quite professional topics, which are not easily accessible to any scholar. The new redology promoted the status and level of redology, but it also made redology more and more elite. In any case, A Dream of Red Mansions is just a professional academic, which is easy to talk about but not easy to study. However, 49 years later, A Dream of Red Mansions is almost a household name in China. At one time, many amateur red scientists and "red scientists of workers, peasants and soldiers" appeared.
Harmony between A Dream of Red Mansions and the 20th century is not an ordinary conjunction, because A Dream of Red Mansions is not an ordinary study and comment on A Dream of Red Mansions, but a "study" constructed in the special social and cultural atmosphere of China in the 20th century. /kloc-not only did A Dream of Red Mansions not exist in the 0/9th century, but the study of A Dream of Red Mansions in the 2/kloc-0th century will not be a Dream of Red Mansions in the 20th century.