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"A Dream of Red Mansions" was originally called "The Story of the Stone". The first 80 chapters of the book were written by Cao Xueqin, and the last 40 chapters were compiled by Gao E. This book centers on the daily life of Rongguo Mansion, takes 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, and 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 inevitable trend of feudal society's demise. This novel has reached the peak of our country's classical novels. "Dream of Red Mansions (set of 2 volumes)" is a great work with high ideological and artistic qualities. Judging from the ideological tendencies reflected in "Dream of Red Mansions", the author has preliminary democratic thoughts. He has a deep understanding of the real society, including the darkness of the palace and official circles, the feudal aristocracy and their families. Decay, the feudal imperial examination system, the marriage system, the slave system, the hierarchical system, as well as the corresponding social governance ideas, namely the Tao of Confucius and Mencius, Cheng-Zhu Neo-Confucianism, social moral concepts, etc., Have been deeply criticized and vague ideals and propositions of a preliminary democratic nature have been put forward. These ideals and propositions were a tortuous reflection of the budding factors of the capitalist economy that was growing at that time.

"A Dream of Red Mansions", formerly known as "The Story of the Stone", is one of China's four great masterpieces and is universally recognized as the pinnacle of Chinese classical novels. It can be called an encyclopedia of Chinese feudal society and a master of traditional culture. This book combines the characteristics of many excellent versions on the market and uses 120 full chapters. In order to facilitate students and the general public to read, phonetic notations and uncommon word annotations have been included along with the text, and an introduction to the creative background and annotations on Chinese studies knowledge have been added. The illustrations in the book are all collector's edition paintings. For example, "Grand View Garden" was painted by Sun Wen, a painter from the Qing Dynasty. The brushstrokes are delicate, the colors are bright, and the paintings are exquisite and elegant. They vividly reproduce the scenes in the book, allowing readers to feel the plot, atmosphere and characters more truly. The rest of the selected illustrations are all exquisite and detailed, with extremely high aesthetic value and collection value.

"A Dream of Red Mansions" is set in the complicated upper-class aristocratic society of the Qing Dynasty as the background, with the love tragedy of Jia Baoyu and Lin Daiyu as the main line. Through the description of the rise and fall of the four major families of Jia, Shi, Wang, and Xue, "A Dream of Red Mansions" shows all aspects of the late feudal society in China in the first half of the 18th century, including colorful worldly human affairs. It can be described as an encyclopedic novel.

This book is a great work that highly combines realism and romanticism, and is also the pinnacle of literature and art of an era. Through the description of the four major families of "Jia, Shi, Wang, and Xue" from prosperity to decline, the book truly shows the social life, customs and sentiments of the time, and can be called an encyclopedia of the end of feudalism.

"A Dream of Red Mansions" is known as "the encyclopedia of my country's feudal society". It centers on the daily life of the Rongguo Mansion, takes 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, and takes the history of the four Jinling aristocratic families, Jia, Shi, Wang, and Xue, from their peak to decline as a hidden line, showing the inevitable trend that the feudal society at the end of the road will eventually perish.

This series of books includes "A Dream of Red Mansions", "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms", "Water Margin" and "Journey to the West". These four works are well-known to every household and have a profound influence in our country. They are rare masterpieces in Chinese literature. The stories and scenes in it have profoundly affected Chinese people's ideas and value orientations. The four works have been praised by readers of all ages for their extremely high artistic level, detailed characterization and rich ideological connotation.

Shu Yuanwei's preface to "Dream of Red Mansions", chapters 1 to 40, originally collected by Wu Xiaoling, now in the Capital Library. Zhu Nanxian has a photocopied copy, which is stored in the National Library. Shu Xu dated the fifty-fourth year of Qianlong's reign (1789) as the "Jiyou" year, so edition researchers also called it the "Jiyou edition". It has important edition research value and can be used as a supplement to the "A Dream of Red Mansions Ancient Manuscripts Series".

"A Dream of Red Mansions", also known as "The Story of the Stone", is the pinnacle of Chinese classical novels and ranks first among the "Four Great Classical Chinese Novels". It is generally believed that the first eighty chapters of the book were written by the Qing Dynasty novelist Cao Xueqin, and the last forty chapters were continued by Gao E. This masterpiece in the history of Chinese literature has become a wonder in the history of Chinese classical literature with its rich ideological content, great artistic achievements and far-reaching cultural influence.