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.
At the same time, from the rich and gorgeous Jiafu to the declining line, it reflects the decline of a large family and the ugliness within this seemingly gorgeous family.
A Dream of Red Mansions, an expanded material, comprehensively and profoundly reflects the characteristics of the prosperity and decline of feudal society. It does not describe the love story of "wedding candles and being the first"; It is about the love and marriage tragedy between young feudal nobles Jia Baoyu, Lin Daiyu and Xue Baochai.
The great social significance of the novel lies in that it does not describe this love tragedy in isolation, but focuses on this love and marriage tragedy, and writes about the rise and fall of four representative families at that time, including Jia Fu, which exposes all kinds of darkness and evil in the late feudal society and their insurmountable internal contradictions.
It strongly criticizes the decadent feudal ruling class and the feudal system that is about to collapse, making readers feel that it is bound to perish. At the same time, the novel also expresses a new hazy ideal by praising the noble rebels.
A Dream of Red Mansions is a work with rich connotations. Song of Kindness and Twelve Poems of a Dream of Red Mansions remind Jia Baoyu of the triple tragedies he 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.
The most outstanding artistic achievement of A Dream of Red Mansions is that "it is as rich, complex and natural as life and nature itself", which makes life vivid and tasteful. The great events and waves in A Dream of Red Mansions are well described. As the story goes on, characters are constantly emerging, full of interest in life, and the secrets of life are revealed. Its detailed description and language description inherit and develop the tradition of excellent novels of the previous generation. One of the outstanding achievements of A Dream of Red Mansions is to "radiate a strong poetic and ideal brilliance".
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.
The language of A Dream of Red Mansions is mature and beautiful. Its characteristics are simple and pure, accurate and vivid, simple and colorful, reaching the realm of perfection. The language of landscape writing in the novel is vivid and vivid, which makes the reader immersive.
A Dream of Red Mansions has its own brand-new features and permanent artistic charm, both in ideological content and artistic skills, which makes it the Li Zhuo in world literature.
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