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A Dream of Red Mansions: Six Volumes (humanities Classics Library)

(qing Dynasty) By Cao Xueqin, Continued By Anonymous

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"A Dream of Red Mansions" is one of the four famous ancient Chinese novels and the pinnacle of ancient Chinese novels. The whole book is centered on the daily life of Rongguo Mansion, with the love and marriage tragedies of Baoyu, Daiyu, and Baochai as well as the trivial matters in the Grand View Garden as the main line. It also uses the history of the four famous aristocratic families of Jinling, Jia, Shi, Wang, and Xue, from their peak to decline as a hidden line, showing the decline of families and society in the feudal era. There are many editions of "Dream of Red Mansions". This edition is a classic and best-selling edition of People's Literature Publishing House. It was edited by Yu Pingbo and annotated by Qi Gong. It uses the original edition as the original edition, the Zhiyanzhai Gengchen edition, Jimao edition, and Jiaxu edition as the main editions, and the Jiachen edition, Zheng Zang's residual edition, and Cheng Jiayi edition were also used for revision. Mr. Qi Gong's annotations are clear, accurate, concise and beautiful, covering many aspects of knowledge such as language, historical documents, folk customs, religious culture, art, etc., And are highly praised by modern red scholars. The two perfectly combine to present a classic version of "A Dream of Red Mansions".