A Dream of Red Mansions focuses on the emotional entanglements among Jia Baoyu, Lin Daiyu and Xue Baochai, and tells the people and events that happened in the feudal family of a fictional dynasty. Through the description of some daily events, taking the twelve women in Jinling as the main body, it reflects the love and hate of all women in Jiafu Grand View Garden.
A Dream of Red Mansions is a work with rich connotations, and Good and Twelve Poems of a Dream of Red Mansions imply the triple tragedies that Jia Baoyu experienced. The author puts Jia Baoyu and a group of girls with different identities and positions in the poetic and real novel world of Grand View Garden, showing the tragedy and beautiful destruction of their youthful lives.
The profundity of the works lies in that this kind of tragedy is not entirely attributed to the cruelty of the wicked, and some of them are directly destroyed by feudal forces, such as the tragic fate of Yuanyang, Qingwen and Siqi, but more tragedies are caused by the "common morality, common human feelings and common circumstances" in feudal ethical relations, and are life tragedies caused by the deep structure of orthodox culture accumulated and solidified for thousands of years.
The novel depicts a vast historical picture of imperial palaces and rural villages, which reflects the complex and profound contradictions and conflicts in the last days of feudalism extensively and profoundly, and shows the essential characteristics of feudal nobles and the historical fate of inevitable decline.
What is particularly profound is that the pictures of Jia's life displayed in the novel show the absurdity of the manners and customs that maintain the rank, birthright, age and relationship between men and women of this aristocratic family, and uncover all kinds of fierce contradictions and struggles in the "warm veil" of feudal families.
A Dream of Red Mansions has created many characters, each with his own unique personality characteristics, and has become an immortal artistic model, which will always shine in the history of China literature and world literature.
On the basis of traditional novels, the plot structure of A Dream of Red Mansions has also made a major breakthrough. It changed the plot and characters' single-line development characteristics of previous novels such as Water Margin, created a grand, complete and natural artistic structure, made many characters move in the same time and space, made the plot go on as a whole, and showed the author's outstanding artistic talent.
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