A Dream of Red Mansions focuses on the emotional entanglements among Jia Baoyu, Lin Daiyu and Xue Baochai, and tells the story of people and events that happened in a feudal family of an unknown 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, the second line of Jia's family from rich to expensive reflects the decline of a large family and the inner ugliness of 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 the rise and fall of four representative families of Jia, Wang, Shi and Xue at that time.
Focusing on Jiafu, it exposes all kinds of darkness and evil in the late feudal society and their insurmountable internal contradictions, and strongly criticizes the decadent feudal ruling class and the feudal system that is about to collapse, so that readers can foresee that it is bound to die. At the same time, the novel also expresses a new hazy ideal by praising the noble rebels.
References:
Baidu Encyclopedia-Dream of Red Mansions