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Is there an aesthetic tragedy in China literature or culture?

There is a tragedy in China's literary works or culture, which can be traced back to Li Sao, the masterpiece of Qu Yuan, a famous poet in the Warring States Period. The poet described his life experience, moral character and ideal, expressed his anguish and contradiction in being murdered, and rebuked the fatuity of the king of Chu, the madness of the clique and his ineffective governance of Japan, which showed that the poet adhered to the ideal of "American politics", criticized the dark reality and did not collude with evil forces. There is also a long narrative poem "Peacock Flying Southeast" in the Han Dynasty. Through the love tragedy of Liu Lanzhi and Jiao Zhongqing, the poem accuses the feudal ethics, parental rule and the evil of family concept, and expresses the reasonable desire of young men and women for marriage and love independence. Recently, Cao Xueqin's novel A Dream of Red Mansions in Qing Dynasty centered on the daily life of the government, with the love and marriage tragedies of Baoyu, Daiyu and Baochai and the trivial matters of the Grand View Garden as the main line, and the four famous families of Jinling, Jia, Wang, Xue and Shi, as the hidden lines, showing the inevitable trend of the feudal society's eventual demise.