Responsible for planting crops. There are many characters in A Dream of Red Mansions. Some unimportant people were named, and Cao Xueqin also linked their identity with their occupation, such as the manager of crops, and so on. Ma Tian in A Dream of Red Mansions is responsible for planting crops. A Dream of Red Mansions is an ancient Zhang Hui novel in China and one of the four classical novels in China. The author is Cao Xueqin, a writer in Qing Dynasty.