# Introduction to the work
In the early summer of 1840, the turbid waves of the Pearl River crashed on the shore, and the royal gate of Zhen Mansion in Guangzhou was hidden. Former Guangdong Inspector General Zhen Yingjiading was worried at home, with the Beijing Newspaper spread out on his desk. The embers of the Humen cigarette burning had not yet dispersed, and the British warship was already anchored in the Chuanbi Ocean. The Wanli blue vase in front of the screen wall, which concealed the memory of the Ming Dynasty and the end of the Ming Dynasty, had hidden cracks, like the unconcealed decline of the decaying Qing Dynasty.
This is a long historical scroll that draws on the narrative style of "A Dream of Red Mansions" - using the Zhen Mansion as a mirror to reflect the rise and fall of the Ming and Qing dynasties: Zhen Yingjia, who is as steady as Jia Zheng, carries the story of Chongzhen in "History of the Ming Dynasty" He sighs, worrying about the current situation between Daoguang Emperor's hesitation and Lin Zexu's courage; Zhen Baoyu, who is as ignorant as Baoyu, clutches the "Victory Picture" on the street, witnessing the cracks of the times in the sound of gongs and the shadow of cannons.
From the heroic feat of burning out the opium in Humen to the stormy waves when the British ships knocked the pass, from the gold paint repair marks on the Zhen Mansion porcelain bottles to the hasty evacuation of thirteen lines of foreign merchants, the fate of the family is intertwined with the national crisis like blue and white branches: there is a Red Mansion-style family daily texture, hidden in the delicate description of human feelings and sophistication; more By using the historical metaphor of the transition between the Ming and Qing Dynasties, we unravel the foci of dynasty decay, observe the struggles of individuals in the wave of change, and the worries of historians. Between real historical events and fictional family narratives, we interrogate the laws of the cycle of rise and fall, and record the beginning of an era from stagnation to turmoil.
Purpose: Use the narrative of Red Mansions to observe the decay of the Qing Dynasty