Why "Dream of the Red Chamber" is the encyclopedia of Chinese feudal society

I. Dream of Red Mansions, the first of the four great classical Chinese novels, is a work of humane fiction with world-wide influence, recognized as the pinnacle of classical Chinese fiction, the encyclopedia of Chinese feudal society, and a masterpiece of traditional culture. The novel takes the rise and fall of the four great families of Jia, Shi, Wang and Xue as its background, the family affairs and courtesan affairs of Jia House as its vein, and the love and marriage stories of Jia Baoyu, Lin Daiyu and Xue Baochai as its main line, and depicts the beauty of the human nature and tragedy of the lovers of good and evil centered on Jia Baoyu and the twelve hairpins of the Jinling Haircuts. Through the tragedy of the family, the tragedy of the daughter and the tragedy of the main character's life, it reveals the crisis of the last days of feudalism.

Secondly, the author of Dream of Red Mansions has a preliminary democratism thought, he has y criticized the real society, including the darkness of the court and officialdom, the decadence of the feudal aristocracy and their families, the feudal system of imperial examination, marriage system, slave system, hierarchy, as well as the social ruling ideology that is compatible with it, namely, the Confucian and Mencius way and Cheng-Zhu rationality, and the concept of social morality, etc., and put forward a The ideals and propositions of a preliminary democratization are dimly defined.

Three, "Dream of Red Mansions" to "the main purpose of talking about love, the actual record of its own affairs" self-criticism, only according to their own affairs, according to the trail, get rid of the old set, fresh and chic, and has achieved extraordinary artistic achievements. In particular, "the real thing hidden, false language village language" special penmanship is a strong curiosity and prying desire of later readers, a variety of speculation that more and more strange.

Four, Chairman Mao said: (China in the past) in addition to the large land, large population, long history, as well as in literature, there is a "Dream of Red Mansions" and so on, a lot of places are not as good as other people, proud of not up. Mr. Lu Xun said: "Dream of Red Mansions" is a book that many people in China know, at least, the title. Who is the author and the sequel to put aside, alone is the intention, because the reader's eyes and all sorts of: economists see the "Yi", Taoists see the obscene, talented people see the lingering, revolutionaries see the row of Manchu, rumors see the Palace Examiner's secret ...... Mr. Wang Guowei said: "Dream of Red Mansions", the philosophical, cosmic, and also, the literary also. This "Dream of Red Mansions" is the reason why the spirit of our countrymen, and its value also exists in this.

Fifth, "Dream of the Red Chamber" not only in the country has millions of circulation, Tibet, Mongolia, Uygur, Kazakhstan, North Korea, a variety of text translation, but also has more than 20 languages such as English, French, Japanese, Korean, Russian, German, Western, etc. Selected translations, excerpts, and full translations. In foreign countries, there are also many people to study it, "Dream of the Red Chamber" has become the spiritual wealth of the world people **** the same. In Britain, the 1910 edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica praised Dream of Red Mansions as a very advanced work with a complex and original plot, and in 2014, The Daily Telegraph released a list of the "Ten Best Asian Novels of All Time", in which Dream of Red Mansions was ranked first. In France, critics praised Cao Xueqin for having Brewster's keen eye, Tolstoy's compassion, Musil's wit and humor, and Balzac's ability to see and reproduce a whole society from the bottom up.