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"Dream of Red Mansions" is the highest peak of Chinese classical literature. It describes the rise and fall of a wealthy family. "Dream of Red Mansions" is considered a masterpiece of realism. The author should have certain life experience, either personally experienced it or what he himself has seen and heard before he can write such a work. Many scholars believe that "A Dream of Red Mansions" is Cao Xueqin's autobiography, writing about his family's own affairs. So, is this book really about Cao Xueqin's family affairs? It was not easy for "Dream of Red Mansions" to be handed down from completion to handed down. After many twists and turns, it was almost destroyed and lost. We can still see this book today because there are many book lovers who took all kinds of risks to protect it, and the author Cao Xueqin also paid a lot for this book. Because "Dream of Red Mansions" survived through numerous difficulties and dangers during the heyday of literary inquisition in the Qing Dynasty, what are the unsolved mysteries in the process of completing this book?