A Dream of Red Mansions Chinese Classical Literature

This book is a great work with high ideological and artistic qualities. Judging from the ideological tendencies reflected in this book, the author has preliminary democratic thoughts. He has a deep understanding of the real society, including the darkness of the palace and officialdom, the decadence of the feudal aristocracy and their families, the feudal imperial examination system, the marriage system, the slave system, the hierarchical system, and the corresponding social governance ideas, namely the Tao of Confucius and Mencius, Cheng-Zhu Neo-Confucianism, social moral concepts, etc. They all carried out profound criticism and put forward vague ideals and propositions with a preliminary democratic nature.