What are the traditional and original aspects of Dream of the Red Chamber

Traditionality→chapter novels, semi-literary language (close to vernacular), poems, books and songs.

Originality→Novel conception, snake in the grass, laughter and scolding.

Meng of the Red Chamber, an ancient Chinese chapter-length novel, one of the Four Great Classical Novels of China, is generally considered to have been written by Cao Xueqin, a writer of the Qing Dynasty. The novel is set against the backdrop of the rise and fall of the four great families of Jia, Shi, Wang, and Xue, with the perspective of Jia Baoyu, a wealthy son, and the tragedy of his love and marriage to Lin Daiyu and Xue Baochai as the main thread.

Depicting the life of a group of ladies of the court whose behavior and insights are superior to those of the men of the court, and showing the true beauty of human nature and tragedy, it can be said that it is an epic work that shows the beauty of women and the worldly conditions of the ancient Chinese society from all angles.

Extended information:

Meng of Red Mansions exposes all kinds of darkness and evils in the late feudal society and its insurmountable inner contradictions, and criticizes the corrupt feudal ruling class and the feudal system. The Dream of the Red Chamber exposes all the darkness and evils of the late feudal society and its insurmountable inner contradictions, and makes a powerful criticism of the rotten feudal ruling class and the feudal system that is about to collapse, so that the readers have a premonition that it is bound to be destroyed; at the same time, the novel expresses a new and hazy ideal through the glorification of the aristocrats' rebels.

In the history of Chinese literature, there is no work that can write the tragedy of love as exciting as Dream of the Red Chamber; and there is no work that can reveal the social roots of the tragedy of love as comprehensively and profoundly as it does, thus making the most profound and powerful criticism of feudal society.