Economic Accounts of Rongguo Mansion

I started reading "A Dream of Red Mansions" when I was a child, and I have liked it for many years. I have also read many miscellaneous analyzes by fans from various periods. This is the first time I have seen the perspective of this book. Starting from his major in mathematics, the author uses a quantifiable form and combines historical facts to analyze many details of Dream of Red Mansions. Then based on the analysis, he makes careful speculations and expansions about various obscure expressions in the novel and the content after the 80th chapter. It was very interesting to read and it gave me a lot of new thoughts. While reading, I accidentally searched the author on Baidu, and found out that the teacher passed away last year, just over a year ago, and I felt sad. But when I think about the teacher's works, there will still be people now and in the future who can read what the teacher was thinking when he wrote them, and feel a little warmth from the words.

This book has a unique perspective. By analyzing the economic issues in "A Dream of Red Mansions", it reveals the underlying reasons for the collapse of the Rongguo Mansion. The author is like a detective, interpreting the text from a novel perspective and strict logic, which makes people's eyes shine. Moreover, the author's combing of various economic details in the book makes the economic framework and operating mechanism of the Jia family clearly visible, allowing us to have a deeper understanding of "Dream of Red Mansions". It can be said that this book is a major innovation in the study of redness and is worth reading!

The first book I have read in 26 years. "A Dream of Red Mansions" has been studied by many people from various angles since ancient times. The author approached it from an economic perspective. It can be said that he not only grasped the macroscopic view, but also went deep into the microscopic details. From the food, clothing, housing and transportation of the maid and mother-in-law, to every plant and tree in the Grand View Garden, to the decline of Ningrong Mansion, the rent collection of the manor has failed year after year, and the income cannot make ends meet. At the same time, the characters of each person were analyzed from an economic perspective. All kinds of people in the government, whether they are talented or mediocre, powerful or powerless, never forget to take the official money into their own hands. Li Wan was a young widow and had no foundation in the family. He was very indifferent to everything in the family. He tried every means to save money to leave a way out for himself and Jia Lan. Sometimes he even benefited himself at the expense of others. When he opened a poetry club, he squandered the money of his sisters. Wang Xifeng seemed to have means and was in power. He used the monthly money of the servants in the house to lend money, and also made some illegal gains outside the house, but in fact, the economic power of Jia's house was not in his hands. There are also Mrs. Wang and various people from Tanchun. The most rare thing about this book is the detailed analysis of the few big housekeepers, bank accountants, compradors, etc. Who actually held powerful positions in the original book. These people colluded with each other to embezzle the property of the Jia family. At the same time, the author also slightly pointed out at the end that the economic decline of the Jia family was because the slavery system was still implemented in a society with a prosperous commodity economy.

After reading this book I feel Reading any book related to Dream of Red Mansions is not as good as reading Dream of Red Mansions itself. Of course, this book also uses numbers and mathematics in words to analyze the Dream of Red Mansions from a very novel perspective. This is actually a great innovation in academic terms. I think it is necessary and is not a meaningless study. From a story perspective, after reading this book, I have a deeper understanding of Li Wan's pain. Because in Dream of Red Mansions, Li Wan's pain comes more from the economy, while other people's pain comes more from love. Before reading this book, in fact, when I read A Dream of Red Mansions, I didn't realize the depth of the conflict between Li Wan and Mrs. Wang, the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law. He did not realize the pain that Li Wan, who came from an intellectual family, had to raise his eldest grandson alone in the house of a meritorious marquis after the death of his husband. She couldn't fit into the atmosphere of this big family, and she didn't have the right to manage the house. She could only be alone, not caring about anything, silently saving money for her son, and urging her son to study. In fact, Li Wan is one of the people with a better ending in Dream of Red Mansions. This good ending is due to her intelligence and self-interest Her son Jialan also inherited her intelligence I think Li Wan would be more successful if he could have stewardship rights or develop his own business. I feel like I'm in Baochai's state when I go to work He doesn't open his mouth when he doesn't do a lot of things. He shakes his head when asked and doesn't know. I am a talkative person and talk about everything. But now I understand that working in China's current society Must be a mute Don't discuss any personal matters with your colleagues, only talk about work Even work should be discussed in as few words as possible From now on, sew your mouth shut, zip up your zipper, and become a mute.

As the name suggests, the article is a detailed inventory of the income and expenditure of the Rongguo Mansion. It peels off details from the dialogues of the characters and various events to show the daily life and expenses of the Rongguo Mansion from top to bottom. The writing is well-founded, and the final appendix also uses statistical methods to refute Cao Xueqin's views in the last forty chapters. The only shortcoming of this article is that Che Zulu talks too much and quotes the original text over and over again in various situations. He wrote back and forth several times just for "I'm afraid this company will not be without me in the future."

The author made a detailed review of the economic accounts of Rongguo Mansion, and introduced the original text many times to make me relive the Dream of Red Mansions. Everyone is inseparable from the economic foundation. No matter how extraordinary a person is, even if he is as indifferent to worldly affairs as Jia Baoyu, he will eventually be unable to escape the implication of economic decline. The building will collapse, and it is easy to start a business but difficult to maintain it. The Dream of Red Mansions presents us with a picture of a big feudal family. When it reaches its final stage, there are traces of this trend. It is due to the concerted efforts of everyone involved. They either enrich their own pockets or have nothing to do with themselves. No one considers the family, so they can only watch it fall. The vast white land is so clean.

Looking at Dream of Red Mansions from an economics perspective, it is unique. From the side, we can see Cao Gong's rigorous and solid writing style. The collapse of the Jia family is not only the marginalization of power, but also an economic inevitability. This book is beautiful and provides a novel angle for us to read this masterpiece again.

It is well-founded and convincing. After reading this book, it is necessary to re-read Dream of Red Mansions and re-examine many overlooked details from an economic perspective.

Some of the points are quite fascinating, but throughout the book there are too many interpretations of the original plot, and the logic is a bit scattered. The writing style is still very good. It is a rare good book. After reading it, it feels like a five-tone cure.

Ok ok ok

Novel angle, lots of goods received

An unimagined angle [Like][Like]

The content is detailed and the writing is sophisticated.

It introduces the economic system of Ning Rong's second mansion in detail, making the characters' love and hatred more clear.

Good! Although a paragraph in the original book will be used as an argument in several categories, it is more systematic than the red book I read before.

It is a very good book that looks at the perspective of Dream of Red Mansions, but some of its views have not been verified.

The content is novel, the logic is rigorous, and it is easy to understand. It reveals a corner of the Dream of Red Mansions from an economic perspective. It is very interesting.

The angle is novel and the point of view is unique.

The angle is very novel and the content is very interesting. From an economic perspective, it analyzes the characters, motivations, plot causes, and the entire outlook of society at that time.

In fact, after seeing the group photos of officials and their families in the middle and late Qing Dynasty, I felt that it was really eye-catching to watch Dream of Red Mansions.