What does a dream of red mansions reflect?

A Dream of Red Mansions reflects the profound criticism of the darkness of real society, the palace and officialdom, the decay of feudal nobles and their families, the feudal imperial examination, marriage, handmaiden, hierarchical system and social ruling thoughts, namely, Confucianism, Zhu Cheng's Neo-Confucianism and social morality. Put forward vague ideals and ideas with preliminary democratic nature.

Extension and expansion:

A Dream of Red Mansions, the first of China's classical Four Great Classical Novels, is a novel written by Cao Xueqin in Qing Dynasty. It is a human novel with world influence, the pinnacle of China's classical novels, an encyclopedia of China's feudal society and a master of traditional culture. The novel takes the rise and fall of Jia, Shi, Wang and Xue as the background, and Jia's family affairs and leisure as the background.