Mr. Lu Xun once said, "Since Dream of Red Mansions came out, traditional thinking and writing styles have been broken." Talk about the understanding of this sentence

Mr. Lu Xun once pointed out: "In short, since the Dream of Red Mansions came out, the traditional thinking and writing methods have been broken." Lu Xun's so-called "all broken" refers to "dare to truthfully depict, and no taboo, and the previous novel narrative good people are completely good, bad people are completely bad, is very different, so the characters narrated in it, are all real characters".

"Dream of the Red Chamber" does not write the characters as the embodiment of a certain idea or character, let alone treating them as didactic tools. The author's delicate writing shows the vividness, richness and complexity inherent in life itself.

A Dream of Red Mansions breaks the one-line structure of traditional novels. It takes the romantic and marital relationships of Jia Baoyu, Lin Daiyu, and Xue Baochai as its central thread, while simultaneously unfolding the depiction of other characters and events in the aristocratic extended family. While focusing on the tragedy of the love and marriage of Jia Baoyu, Lin Daiyu and Xue Baochai, it develops a broad description of the social environment, thus writing out the social roots of this tragedy.

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The plot structure of A Dream of Red Mansions, on the basis of the previous traditional novels, also made a new major breakthrough. It has changed the characteristics of the plot and character development of the previous long novels such as "Water Margin" and "Journey to the West" etc. Characters and events are intertwined and constrained by each other, creating a grand and complete and natural artistic structure, which enables many characters to be active in the same space and time, and makes the plot move in a holistic way, which shows the author's excellent artistic talent.

Dream of Red Mansions is full of poetic descriptions of the environment, and the writing style can be described as varied and particularly distinctive. In classical Chinese novels, it is the author's original idea to incorporate wonderful environmental descriptions in order to portray the characters' full-bodied images and distinctive personalities.

The author did not describe the social environment of the characters' activities in detail as in general novels, but used the rough brush strokes that seemed to be unintentional but were actually original, melting the description and characteristics of the typical environment of a wide range of societies into the detailed descriptions of the novels, so that the readers could feel the changes of the times when the building was about to fall and the special atmosphere of social life.