A Dream of Red Mansions, formerly known as The Story of the Stone, is an ancient novel of China and one of the classical Four Great Classical Novels of China. The general edition is *** 120. It is generally believed that the first 80 chapters were written by Cao Xueqin, a writer in Qing Dynasty, and the last 40 chapters were written by an anonymous author, and the organizers were Cheng Weiyuan and Gao E.
Version has two systems: 120 cycle "process book" and 80 cycle "fat book". Cheng Ben is printed by Cheng Weiyuan, while Fat Ben is an early manuscript copied and commented by Zhi Yanzhai in different periods. Fat book is the basic book of craft book.
A Dream of Red Mansions was born at the end of China feudal society in the18th century. A Dream of Red Mansions was written in poverty after Cao Xueqin went bankrupt. The creation time is from the early years of Qianlong to the thirty years of Qianlong (1736- 1765).
The first paragraph of the first opening of the book, "The author speaks from the cloud", is the preface of Cao Xueqin. In this preface, Cao Xueqin appears as a real person and tells readers the origin of writing. According to himself, this book was written according to his prosperous old dreams in Nanjing in his early years.
With the rise and fall of Jia, Shi, Wang and Xue as the background, Jia Baoyu, a rich son, as the perspective, and the love and marriage tragedies of Jia Baoyu, Lin Daiyu and Xue Baochai as the main line, the novel describes the lives of some ladies and shows the true beauty of human nature and tragedy. It is an epic that shows the beauty of women and the beauty of ancient China society from all angles.
Content tasting:
A Dream of Red Mansions comprehensively and profoundly reflects the characteristics of the times when feudal society flourished and declined. Focusing on the tragedy of love and marriage, the novel describes the rise and fall of four representative families of Jia, Wang, Shi and Xue at that time. Focusing on Jia's family, it exposes all kinds of darkness and evils in the late feudal society and their insurmountable internal contradictions, and strongly criticizes the decadent feudal ruling class and the feudal system that is about to collapse, so that readers can foresee that it is bound to perish.
In the life picture of the Jia family shown in the novel, the absurdity of the etiquette and custom of maintaining the rank, birthright, age and the relationship between men and women in this aristocratic family was revealed, and various fierce contradictions and struggles in the "warm veil" of the feudal family were unveiled.
It is the author's original creation to depict the plump image and distinctive personality of the characters. The author doesn't describe the social environment of the characters' activities in detail like ordinary novels, but uses a kind of rough brushwork that seems careless but ingenious, and melts the description and characteristics of a wide range of typical social environment into the details of the novel, so that readers can feel the changes of the times and the special atmosphere of social life.
Author controversy:
A, Aisingiorro hongyun said:
The author of A Dream of Red Mansions must meet the following two necessary conditions. These two conditions were first written in A Dream of Red Mansions.
First, "there is no material to fill the sky, and joining the WTO is illusory." These eight words are the author's lifelong regret.
Second, on New Year's Eve, Qin died in tears before the book was finished.
"Nothing can fill the sky, and it is illusory to join the WTO", which shows that the author was originally a candidate to fill the sky and was close to the throne. Unfortunately, in the end, I didn't get what I wanted, and I was down and out all my life, so that "there is no material to make up for the sky, and the years are wasted in the red dust" has become a waste stone to make up for the sky. During the Kang, Yong and Gan Dynasties, among the descendants of Aisingiorro, there were only a handful who were close to the throne, nothing more than Yin Renren, Hongzhen, Hongzhen, and.
Hong Ying's father, Yin Zhen, was a participant in the Nine Sons' seizure of the throne, and the last person to compete with Yin Zhen for the throne. It can be seen that Hiro is really the one who is close to the throne. The day when Hiro died happened to be New Year's Eve, which happened to be "Noon Day", in line with the record of "Noon New Year's Eve". According to the investigation, Aisingiorro Hongchang is the only one of Aisingiorro's descendants who meets the requirements of "approaching the throne" and "dying on New Year's Eve". It can be concluded that the author of A Dream of Red Mansions is Aisingiorro Hongchang, the grandson of Kangxi.
Second, Cao Xueqin said:
In the Qing Dynasty, the author of A Dream of Red Mansions was a mystery. "There are different opinions about who it comes from." History books record several sayings, such as the son of Pearl, the son of Cao Yin and the grandson of Cao Yin. Hu Shi judged that Cao Xueqin, the grandson of Cao Yin, was the prototype of Jia Baoyu, and concluded that he was the author of A Dream of Red Mansions.