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A Dream of Red Mansions is a novel with the style of chapters and chapters in ancient China, also known as The Story of the Stone. It is listed as the first of the four classical novels in China, and is generally believed to be written by Cao Xueqin, a writer in the Qing Dynasty. Based on the rise and fall of Jia, Shi, Wang and Xue, and from the perspective of Jia Baoyu, a rich son, the novel depicts the lives of a group of aristocratic women whose manners and knowledge are beyond the needs of men, and shows the human beauty and tragic beauty of lovers endowed with good and evil, which can be said to be an epic that shows the beauty of women in all directions.
A dream of red mansions is divided into two versions: 120 version and 80 version. Cheng Ben is printed by Cheng Weiyuan, while Fat Ben is an early manuscript copied and evaluated by Zhi Yanzhai in different periods, and Fat Ben is the base copy of Cheng Ben. The first 80 chapters of this new edition of popular reading are examined according to the fat version, and the last 40 chapters are examined according to the course version, with the signature "Cao Xueqin, anonymous sequel, Cheng Weiyuan, finishing".
A Dream of Red Mansions is an earthly novel with world influence. It is recognized as the pinnacle of China's classical novels, an encyclopedia of feudal society in China and a master of traditional culture. The novel encourages itself with the theme of "talking about love and recording things", only follows its logic, gets rid of the old conventions, is fresh and unique, and has achieved extraordinary artistic achievements. The special brushwork of "the truth is hidden and the village tells lies" has opened the brains of later readers and speculated for a long time. Later generations formed an outstanding school-redology around the study of reading A Dream of Red Mansions.
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Baidu Encyclopedia-Dream of Red Mansions