More than 20,000 words Dream of Red Mansions Review 20

The book "Dream of Red Mansions" is said to have 1 million words, and one-third of these 1 million words were written by others.

Although Cao Xueqin has finished writing the whole book, she has lost dozens of times for various reasons.

And these 1 million words are still "read for ten years, added and deleted five times", completed. Ten years is ten years. On average, it's just more than 100,000 words a year.

Add some content and delete some content to make the book more compact and reasonable.

More than 100,000 words a year, less than 10,000 words a month, to speak, the writing speed is not very fast, of course, it is also a word of thought, the so-called "Yin An a word, twist a few neck whiskers", after repeated scrutiny, careful conception, "two sentences and three years, a cry and two streams", so it is said that "the words seem to be blood, ten years of hard work is unusual".

10,000 words a month, according to the current manuscript fee, 40 or 50 yuan for 1,000 words, more than 500 yuan for 10,000 words, remove paper, ink, pen and inkstone, he also likes to drink some wine, it is really a dismal management and painstaking loneliness.

It is no wonder that he sighed at that time, "The whole family often eats porridge and wine on credit, and sells paintings to pay for the restaurant".

However, once it was published, it immediately caused a sensation, and Luoyang paper was expensive for a while, but by then he had already passed away and did not enjoy this joy. It's a proper bestseller right now, and I don't know how long it's been on the bestseller list.

The first 80 chapters of "Dream of Red Mansions" are about 610,000 words, and the version of "Dream of Red Mansions" has two major systems: 120 "Cheng Ben" and 80 "Fat Ben". The Cheng book is a typeset copy by Cheng Weiyuan, and the lipo copy is an early manuscript copied and commented by Yan Zhai at different times. The fat book is the base of the Cheng book.

Dream of Red Mansions is an ancient Chinese chapter hui style long story**, one of the four classical Chinese masterpieces, generally believed to be written by the Qing Dynasty writer Cao Xueqin. **With the rise and fall of the four major families of Jia, Shi, Wang, and Xue as the background, from the perspective of the rich and noble son Jia Baoyu, and the tragedy of Jia Baoyu's love and marriage with Lin Daiyu and Xue Baochai as the main line, it depicts the life of a group of beautiful women in the boudoir who have behaved and seen from the eyebrows, showing the real beauty of human nature and tragic beauty, which can be said to be an epic work that shows the beauty of women and the world of ancient Chinese society from all angles.

The exact number of words in the whole book is 731017 words, "Dream of Red Mansions" was born at the end of Chinese feudal society in the 18th century, when the Qing Dynasty closed the country, and the whole country was drunk in the dream of the prosperous Kangqian era. On the surface, this period seems to be peaceful, but various social contradictions in the bones are intensifying and developing, and the entire dynasty has reached a turning point of prosperity and decline.

In the Kangxi and Yongzheng dynasties, the three generations of the Cao family and four people have been weaving in Jiangning for a total of 58 years. When the Cao family was at its peak, there were four times to take over the chauffeur. Cao Xueqin grew up in Nanjing, and experienced a rich and prosperous aristocratic life in her youth.

But later, the family gradually declined, and in the sixth year of Yongzheng (1728), it was confiscated due to shortfall, and Cao Xueqin's family moved back to Beijing.

After returning to Beijing, he worked as a miscellaneous errand in charge of literature and ink in a royal academy "Right-wing Zongxue", and his situation was poor and his life was difficult. In his later years, he moved to the western suburbs of Beijing, and his life became even poorer, "full of basil", "the whole family ate porridge and wine often on credit". The book "Dream of Red Mansions" was written by Cao Xueqin in poverty after she went bankrupt and collapsed.

The creation period is from the early years of Qianlong to about the 30th year of Qianlong.