A Dream of Red Mansions was born at the end of China feudal society in the18th century. At that time, the Qing government closed its doors to the outside world, and the whole country was immersed in the dream of Kangxi, Kangxi and Qianlong, and went to China. This period seems peaceful on the surface, but various social contradictions in the bones are intensifying, and the whole dynasty has reached a turning point from prosperity to decline.

During the Kang Yong period, Cao Jiazu Sun San worked in Jiangning for 58 years on behalf of four people. In its heyday, the Cao family had done four large-scale pick-up and drop-off of drivers. Cao Xueqin grew up in Nanjing and experienced a rich aristocratic life in his youth. However, the family gradually declined. In the sixth year of Yongzheng (1728), Cao Xueqin returned to Beijing with his family.

After returning to Beijing, he worked as a handyman in charge of literature and ink in a royal school, "Right-wing Religion". His family was poor and his life was difficult. In his later years, he moved to the western suburbs of Beijing, and his life was even poorer. He is "full of wormwood" and "the whole family often eats porridge and wine on credit". A Dream of Red Mansions was written in poverty after Cao Xueqin went bankrupt. The creation time is from the early years of Qianlong to about thirty years of Qianlong.

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The influence of A Dream of Red Mansions;

In the development of China literature, the outstanding realistic creation achievements of A Dream of Red Mansions provide rich artistic experience for future writers. Until China's modern literature, there were also works that were obviously influenced by A Dream of Red Mansions and made some achievements. There are countless poems, songs, operas, novels and movies with the theme of A Dream of Red Mansions.

In the past two hundred years, the study of A Dream of Red Mansions has never stopped, and a large number of research works have been produced, which has become a special knowledge-A Dream of Red Mansions, which is a rare phenomenon in the history of China literature.

About the author:

Cao Xueqin (about1765438+May 28th, 2005-about1February 763 12), whose real name is Zhan, real name, real name and real name is Qin Pu, is the author of China's classic Dream of Red Mansions. His ancestral home is Tieling, Liaoning, and his ancestral home is Jiangning (now Nanjing).

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