About This Novel
"A Dream of Red Mansions" was originally called "The Story of the Stone". The first 80 chapters of the book were written by Cao Xueqin, and the last 40 chapters were compiled by Gao E. This book centers on the daily life of Rongguo Mansion, takes the love and marriage tragedies of Baoyu, Daiyu, and Baochai as well as the trivial matters in the Grand View Garden as the main line, and uses the history of the four famous aristocratic families of Jinling, Jia, Shi, Wang, and Xue, from their peak to decline as a hidden line, showing the inevitable trend of feudal society's demise. This novel has reached the peak of our country's classical novels. "Dream of Red Mansions (set of 2 volumes)" is a great work with high ideological and artistic qualities. Judging from the ideological tendencies reflected in "Dream of Red Mansions", the author has preliminary democratic thoughts. He has a deep understanding of the real society, including the darkness of the palace and official circles, the feudal aristocracy and their families. Decay, the feudal imperial examination system, the marriage system, the slave system, the hierarchical system, as well as the corresponding social governance ideas, namely the Tao of Confucius and Mencius, Cheng-Zhu Neo-Confucianism, social moral concepts, etc., Have been deeply criticized and vague ideals and propositions of a preliminary democratic nature have been put forward. These ideals and propositions were a tortuous reflection of the budding factors of the capitalist economy that was growing at that time.
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Official(14)Scraped 9d ago
Who came to read this novel because they had to take Dream of Red Mansions for exams?
It's absurd for people to leave and drink tea.
can't read
Can't read. . . . .
A bit difficult to understand, but still very interesting
Well, not bad, not bad
I don't understand a bit
Regain your youth and start reading.
Not good-looking
It's not good, it doesn't look good, it doesn't look good.
This book is very good😀
Very good, very very good
It's normal not to understand. Even some experts don't understand it. But the descriptions are really detailed.
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Community(0)
Official(14)Scraped 9d ago
Who came to read this novel because they had to take Dream of Red Mansions for exams?
It's absurd for people to leave and drink tea.
can't read
Can't read. . . . .
A bit difficult to understand, but still very interesting
Well, not bad, not bad
I don't understand a bit
Regain your youth and start reading.
Not good-looking
It's not good, it doesn't look good, it doesn't look good.
This book is very good😀
Very good, very very good
It's normal not to understand. Even some experts don't understand it. But the descriptions are really detailed.
