Romantic Dream

"Feng Yue Meng", written by Hanshang Mongolians in the Qing Dynasty, is a worldly novel with profound social critical significance. The novel focuses on the story of Lu Shu, a young man from a wealthy family, and his experience as a prostitute in Yangzhou. Lu Shu was ordered by his father to come to Yangzhou to visit relatives and take a concubine, but he became obsessed with Yuexiang, a famous prostitute in the romance field, and spent a lot of money on her, from dressing up, opening buds to daily support. Focusing on Lu Shu, the novel depicts a group of romantic libertines such as Jia Ming, Wu Zhen, Yuan You, and Wei Bi, as well as prostitutes with different personalities and ill-fated fates such as Yuexiang, Guilin, Fenglin, Shuanglin, and Qiaoyun. At the same time, the novel also extensively touches on characters from three religions and nine classes, such as turtle owls (such as Mrs. Xiao), gangsters, gangsters, yamen servants, knife and pen officials, monks and nuns, Duan Gong (incense), and Ma Phi, showing the complex and true face of Yangzhou society in the late Qing Dynasty. As a "experienced person", the author deeply reveals the nature of "false love" in the romance field through Lu Shu's experience from addiction to final abjection, and exposes the money trap, the warmth and warmth of human relationships, and the instability of the world in the land of fireworks. The title of the book "Feng Yue Dream" points out the main theme - the prosperous romance is just an illusory dream.