A Dream of Red Mansions, one of the four classical novels in ancient China, is a chapter-by-chapter novel, which was written in 1784 (forty-nine years of Qing Qianlong). Meng Jue's Preface to the Master was officially named A Dream of Red Mansions. Its original names were Stone Story, Love Monk Record, Treasure Mirror and Twelve Women in Jinling. Author Cao Xueqin, the sequel was completed by Gao E. This book is a masterpiece with high ideological and artistic quality. The author has a preliminary democratic thought. He profoundly criticized the darkness of real society, court and officialdom, the decay of feudal nobles and their families, feudal imperial examinations, marriage, handmaiden, hierarchical system and social ruling thoughts, namely, Confucianism, Zhu Cheng Neo-Confucianism, social morality, etc., and put forward vague ideals and propositions with preliminary democratic nature.

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