Comments on A Dream of Red Mansions February 27, 2005 Words: 15 16 Author: Heart of the Ark Source: unknown entry: anonymous date: February 27, 2005 Volume: 65. Throughout the history of the evolution of human love intelligence, it can be roughly divided into three stages: prehistoric emotional history, ancient emotional history and modern emotional history. If the literary history of human emotions is a history of reflection and reappearance, the position of A Dream of Red Mansions in the times will be more clear. Just like an arch bridge, it just crossed the end of her ancient emotional history and the beginning of modern emotional history. From this point of view, the distance between A Dream of Red Mansions and our times is more clear. These classic works show a comprehensive picture, so vividly preserve the influence of the past times, so that we can understand the great differences and subtle similarities and differences between people in ancient and modern times from taste. We think with mixed feelings that the history of human emotions is advancing in evolution, just like the history of reason, although the track of evolution is so heavy and slow, and we fought bloody battles step by step, including the cost of blood and life. Modern people still strongly feel the destruction from Li Yumei, and we have to admit that this sympathy is mixed with the alienation and differentiation of Chiang Kai-shek and pioneer journalists. In this era, more than half of men will choose Xue Baochai when choosing a spouse, just like the arrogant son of Hongyi, who lost his family status, and more than half of his women are worthless in its eyes. Modern people's tears must be less and less, at least less than in the past. This means that emotions do not know barren drought or happy spiritual happiness. People become more intelligent and changeable emotionally, and more ignorant and cunning. They are often insincere, their emotions and rationality are inconsistent, and their mentality is not ideal, but they obey the call of ideals. They have worldly desires, but they often run counter to their feelings. If the love of personal feelings in classical times comes from family and social tragedies, it is irreconcilable, but it is developing forward after all. The work accomplished the mission entrusted by the times as far as it could, and made a great contribution to the classic emotional history.