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The background of the production of "Dream of Red Mansions" was produced in the Kangxi, Yongzheng and Qianlong periods of the Qing Dynasty, which is the traditional "prosperous era of Kang Yongqian". The author is Cao Xueqin.

Through "Dream of Red Mansions", Cao Xueqin vividly reveals the profound crisis behind the prosperous era, and incorporates a deep reflection on the fate of the times, society, nation, family, and individual, full of a strong sense of distress, and expresses strong regret, sentimentality, nostalgia and helplessness.

Focusing on the daily life of Rongguo Mansion, the love and marriage tragedy of Jia Baoyu, Lin Daiyu and Xue Baochai and the trivial matters in the Grand View Garden are the main line, and the history of the four major families of Jinling aristocracy Jia, Wang, Xue and Shi from their heyday to decline is the dark line.

"Dream of Red Mansions", the first of the four classical Chinese masterpieces, is a long chapter hui style written by the Qing Dynasty writer Cao Xueqin**[1], also known as "The Story of the Stone", "The Golden Jade Yuan", and "The Story of the Stone in the Fat Yan Zhai". There are 120 "Cheng Ben" and 80 "Fat Ben" versions of this book. The first 80 chapters of the new edition are based on the fat book and the last 40 chapters are based on the Cheng book, signed "by Cao Xueqin, anonymous continued, Cheng Weiyuan, Gao E" [2] .

Dream of Red Mansions is a world-influential work of human feelings[3], the pinnacle of Chinese classics, an encyclopedia of Chinese feudal society, and a collection of traditional culture. **With the rise and fall of the four major families of Jia, Shi, Wang, and Xue as the background, with the family trivia of Jiafu and the leisure of the boudoir as the context, and the love and marriage stories of Jia Baoyu, Lin Daiyu, and Xue Baochai as the main line, it depicts the human beauty and tragic beauty of the lovers of good and evil centered on Jia Baoyu and the twelve hairpins of Jinling. Through the tragedy of the family, the tragedy of the daughter, and the tragedy of the protagonist's life, the crisis of the last days of feudalism is revealed[4] .

The author of Dream of Red Chambers has a preliminary democratic ideology, and he has made profound criticisms of the real society, including the darkness of the court and officialdom, the decay of the feudal aristocratic class and its families, the feudal imperial examination system, the marriage system, the slave and maid system, and the hierarchical system, as well as the corresponding social ruling ideas, that is, the Tao of Confucius and Mencius, Cheng Zhu Lixue, and social morality, and put forward vague ideals and propositions with the nature of preliminary democracy. These ideals and ideas were a tortuous reflection of the embryonic factors of the capitalist economy that were growing at that time. [5]

Dream of Red Mansions is self-exhorting to "talk about love with the main purpose and record its events", only according to its own reasoning, follow the traces, get rid of the clichés, fresh and chic[1], and has achieved extraordinary artistic achievements. In particular, the special penmanship of "the real thing is hidden, and the fake village dialect" has aroused the strong curiosity and desire of later readers to snoop, and various speculations have become more and more strange.