The brief introduction is as follows:
Cao Xueqin (1715-1763) (1715-1764), whose real name is Zhan, whose real name is Xue Qin, whose real name is Qin. My ancestral home is Liaoyang. The grandson of Cao Yin was a novelist, poet and painter in Qing Dynasty. Cao Xueqin lived in Nanjing as a teenager and then moved to Beijing with his family. When he was a teenager, he lived a very rich and luxurious life, but in 1727, his father Cao Fu was implicated in the incident.
He was dismissed for losing money and things, and then he degenerated and moved to Beijing with his family. Living in the western suburbs of Beijing in his later years, it is even more difficult to eat porridge with his family. Forced by life, my wife and children were separated, my son died young and died in poverty, not yet fifty years old. Cao Xueqin was also good at painting, but all his works were lost. Duncheng's "Pipa on the White Fragrant Hill" is said to have only two broken poems: "Bai Fu's poems should be very happy, and a savage ghost will be taught to put on airs."
A Dream of Red Mansions is Cao Xueqin's great contribution to China literature and China culture. It was Cao Xueqin who wrote his own life experience and sentiment on the basis of his own personal life experience, in the way of "hiding the truth" and "confusing the false with the true". Profound and rich content, poetic narrative, colorful characters and touching plots have eternal charm. A Dream of Red Mansions is also enduring because of this masterpiece.
Yongzheng five years (1727), Cao Xueqin thirteen years old (nominal age). /kloc-in October/February, Cao Fu, uncle (father) of Yuanwailang, Jiangning Weaver, was dismissed from his post and imprisoned for crimes such as harassing the post station, weaving deficit and transferring property. , and was robbed before the Lantern Festival in the first month of the following year (family size, male and female servants, 1 14). Cao Xueqin moved back to Beijing with his family. Since then, the Cao family has been devastated and declining.
When I first returned to Beijing, there were 17 semi-old houses and three pairs of servants in the garlic market outside Chongwenmen, making ends meet. However, in order to repay the money owed by the case of harassing the post station and supplement the family, it is necessary to temporarily sell thousands of dollars of land mu. Some domestic slaves took advantage of this and borrowed a part of Dongzhuang tax under the pretext.
Later, the deficit became more and more serious, and it was inevitable to sell the house. Thieves broke into houses, so that they had no money for several days and were forced to take out their house documents as collateral. Finally, it became the death of the portal and the population was scattered. After a few years, it is even worse than rubble. Cao Xueqin became more and more speechless because of the bad family. "Although I dare not say that I have experienced hardships, I have learned more about the world."