"A Dream of Red Mansions" is the greatest and most famous classical novel in ancient China. It was created by Cao Xueqin, a great literary master of the Qing Dynasty, who devoted his life to writing it.
The book is based on the prominent aristocratic society of the Qing Dynasty more than two hundred years ago, and vividly depicts the rise and fall of the four major families of Jia, Shi, Wang and Xue.
The main line of the story revolves around Jia Baoyu, a young man who is innocent, kind and sincere, and Lin Daiyu, a talented girl who is smart and talented.
Together with many girls with distinctive personalities and outstanding talents, they lived in the picturesque Grand View Garden, writing poems, painting, singing and laughing, and spent a pure and beautiful time of youth.
However, as the four major families gradually declined from prosperity to prosperity, Baoyu and Daiyu's innocent and deep emotions eventually turned into a lamentable tragedy.
The novel not only profoundly displays the magnificent social changes and human conditions of that era, but also records the ancient architecture and gardens, clothing and food, festival customs, music, chess, calligraphy and painting in detail.
It is like an all-encompassing treasure house of ancient culture and a great masterpiece worthy of the name "encyclopedia".
