Why is A Dream of Red Mansions "breaking the traditional way of thinking and writing"?

Mr. Lu Xun once pointed out: "In short, since the publication of A Dream of Red Mansions, traditional thinking and writing have been broken." Lu Xun's so-called "everything is broken" means "dare to describe it truthfully, not shy, and describe the good guys and bad guys in the previous novels completely well, which is very different, so the characters described in it are all real people".

A Dream of Red Mansions does not regard characters as the embodiment of a certain thought or character, let alone as a tool for preaching. The author expresses the inherent vividness, richness and complexity of life with delicate pen and ink.

A Dream of Red Mansions breaks the single-line structure of traditional novels. It takes the love and marriage relationship of Jia Baoyu, Lin Daiyu and Xue Baochai as the central clue, and at the same time describes other characters and events in the aristocratic family. While grasping the love and marriage tragedies of Jia Baoyu, Lin Daiyu and Xue Baochai, the author describes the vast social environment, thus writing out the social roots of this tragedy.

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On the basis of traditional novels, the plot structure of A Dream of Red Mansions has also made a major breakthrough. It has changed the plot and characters' single-line development characteristics of previous novels such as Water Margin, and the characters' events are intertwined and restricted each other, creating a grand, complete and natural artistic structure, making many characters move in the same time and space, making the plot go on as a whole, showing the author's outstanding artistic talent.

The environmental description of A Dream of Red Mansions is poetic, with diverse brushwork and distinctive features. In China's classical novels, it is the author's original creation to portray the plump images and distinctive personalities of the characters in combination with wonderful environmental descriptions.

The author doesn't describe the social environment of the characters' activities in detail like ordinary novels, but uses a kind of rough brushwork that seems careless but ingenious, and melts the description and characteristics of a wide range of typical social environment into the details of the novel, so that readers can feel the changes of the times and the special atmosphere of social life.