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A Dream of Red Mansions, formerly known as The Story of Stone, is a long fictional novel in ancient Chinese chapters and the first of the four Great classical novels of China. It is generally believed that the first 80 were written by Cao Xueqin, and the last 40 were written by an anonymous author, which were organized by Gao E and Cheng Weiyuan. The novel takes the rise and fall of the four families of Jia, Shi, Wang and Xue as the background, the perspective of the spiritual treasure jade transformed by rocks under the Qinggeng Peak of Dabarren Mountain as the main line, and the love and marriage tragedy of Jia Baoyu, Lin Daiyu and Xue Baochai as the main line, depicting the life of some boudoir beauties, showing the real beauty of human nature and tragedy. It is an epic work showing the beauty of women and the various forms of ancient Chinese society from all angles.
The version of "Dream of Red Mansions" has two major systems: 120 times "journey copy" and 80 times "fat copy". The Cheng version was printed by Cheng Weiyuan, and the Zhi version was an early manuscript copied and appraised by Zhi Yanzhai at different times. Fat is the basis of process.
A Dream of Red Mansions is a world-influential human fiction, an encyclopedia of Chinese feudal society, and a comprehensive of traditional culture. Its author with "the main purpose of the situation, the record of its things" self-encouragement, only according to their own things, according to the reason, to get rid of the old set, fresh and unique, has made extraordinary artistic achievements. The special writing style of "true things disappear and false words remain" makes the readers of later generations rich in imagination, speculating for a long time. Since the 20th century, A Dream of Red Mansions, with its rich and profound ideological background and exceptional artistic achievements, has led the academic circle to produce a special knowledge - redology, which takes it as the research object.