Dream of Red Mansions

The novel takes the rise and fall of the four major families of Jia, Shi, Wang, and Xue as the background, takes the family trivial matters of the Jia family and the leisure time in the boudoir as the context, and takes 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 good and evil lovers centered on Jia Baoyu and the Twelve Hairpins of Jinling.