A Dream in the Red Mansions: the Remaining Dream and the Sad Wind

The red door collapsed, the fragrant soul dispersed, and the lingering sound of a dream in the Red Mansion was cold. Continuing Cao Gong's unfinished work, he writes about the final destination of all the flowers in the Grand View Garden: In the bamboo shadow of Xiaoxiang Pavilion, Daiyu's poetic soul still whispers; under the fallen flowers in Yihong Courtyard, Baoyu's madness hides the sober pain; in the cold fragrance of Hengwuyuan, Baochai's dignity cannot hide the calculation in his heart... This is a sequel that respects the tragic core of the original work. It does not have the thrill of "changing fate against the will of heaven", only the sadness of "helpless flowers fall away". Using classical pen and ink to continue the elegance and sadness of Red Mansions, everyone who has loved "A Dream of Red Mansions" can once again touch those fresh and fragile souls in this remaining dream. The continuation of "A Dream of Red Mansions" always anchors the tragic core and the destiny of the times laid down by Cao Gong in the first 80 chapters of "A Dream of Red Mansions". It takes "following the foreshadowing, keeping the original heart, and inheriting the rhyme of sadness" as the core concept. It refuses deliberate perfection, does not tamper with the nature of the characters, does not weaken the heaviness of the times, and strives to restore the original meaning of "Thousands of reds cry, and thousands of colors are sad together" written by Cao Gong. At the beginning of the writing, the narrative line of the first eighty chapters is followed, and it is in line with the foreshadowing of the fate of the characters and the rise and fall of the family in Zhibao. The ending of each character is the inevitable result of the interweaving of his character and the times. There is no forced twisting and no deliberate tenderness. I would like to use this article "A Dream of Red Mansions" to pay tribute to the first eighty chapters of the great classic "A Dream of Red Mansions", and also allow readers to encounter the Red Mansion again in the eighty chapters later, feel the sadness hidden behind the prosperity again, and understand the ultimate meaning of Cao Gong's pen "The vast white land is really clean".