Cao Xueqin is deeply influenced by culture and art. He is proficient in piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, and even dabbles in medicine, gardening and handicrafts. He has accepted the ideological and cultural traditions such as The Book of Songs, Songs of the South, Zuo Zhuan and Zhuangzi since he was a child. With profound cultural accomplishment and profound knowledge field.
However, this boy, who had no worries about food and clothing since childhood, had to follow his family to leave the rich Jiangnan and come to Beijing because of family changes in the sixth year of Yongzheng. At that time, he lived in the 17 bungalow in the mouth of garlic market outside Chongwenmen, and suffered from such family changes since childhood, from rich children to poverty and even lack of food and clothing. At the same time, Cao Xueqin tasted the hardships of life prematurely.
Cao Xueqin's life is very embarrassing. He first worked as a principal in the internal affairs department for a while, and also worked as a clerk in the right-wing religious school for a while, making a living and sometimes even delivering food to others. However, the hard life has not exhausted his personality, and he is still bohemian and spontaneous. His talent not only left the world a dream of red mansions, but also left many well-known poems, even the little-known Cao Shi Kite. Interested friends can look at Cao Xueqin's kite art, which won the titles of "the most beautiful book in China" and "the most beautiful book in the world", from which we can see another different Cao Xueqin.
Cao Xueqin can be described as a "great man", but his situation and final outcome are very regrettable and sad.