Who became the imperial concubine in the eighth episode of A Dream of Red Mansions? What is her relationship with Baoyu? How did she become a imperial concubine?

Jia Yuanchun.

one of the twelve women in Jinling, the eldest daughter of Jia Zheng and Mrs. Wang, the sister of Jia Zhu, the sister of Jia Baoyu, and the head of the four sisters in Jia family. Jia Yuanchun is one or two years younger than Jia Zhu and eleven or twelve years older than Baoyu. Jia Fu is known as Empress.

Jia Yuanchun was named Yuanchun because he was born on the first day of the first month. When Yuan Chun was a teenager, she entered the palace to be a female history. At the age of 23-24, she was given a title of virtuous princess. In order to welcome the relatives of Yuan Chun, Jia Fu built the Grand View Garden. The fate of Yuan Chun is related to the rise and fall of Jia Fu. Qin Keqing's death marks the end of Jia Fu's life, and Yuan Chun's promotion of imperial concubine brings Jia Fu back to life. She is also the biggest pillar of the four families.

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Introduction of the main characters in A Dream of Red Mansions

1. Jia Baoyu

The son born in Rongguo Mansion with a jade was really a waiter in Chixia Palace in his previous life, and he is the second son of Jia Zheng and Mrs. Wang in this life. As a direct descendant of Rong Guo Fu, he was born in an extraordinary way, smart and witty, and was regarded as the apple of his eye by the whole government, and had high hopes for him. He hangs out with the girls at home all day, loves their beauty and purity, and mourns their tragic fate. Jia Baoyu is an imaginary novel character and a reflection of the writer's mind.

2. Lin Daiyu

The crown of twelve women in Jinling. Lin Ruhai and Jia Min's daughter, Baoyu's aunt and cousin, lived in Rongguo Mansion. She is aloof, unsociable, disdainful of all kinds of popular ways of dealing with people, sentimental and quick-witted. She and Baoyu really love each other, which is Baoyu's alliance against feudal ethics and is a firm pursuer of free love.

creative background

Cao Xueqin grew up in Nanjing and experienced a prosperous aristocratic life in his youth. But then the family gradually declined, and in the sixth year of Yongzheng (the Cao Xueqin family moved back to Beijing because of the loss of money and sin). In his later years, he moved to the western suburbs of Beijing, and his life was even poorer. He was "full of Artemisia scoparia" and "the whole family often ate porridge and wine on credit". A Dream of Red Mansions was written by Cao Xueqin in poverty after he went bankrupt. The creation time is from the early years of Qianlong to about thirty years of Qianlong.

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