A Dream of Red Mansions is a work of humanistic fiction with world influence.

Meng of the Red Chamber is a work of humane fiction with world influence, recognized as the pinnacle of Chinese classical 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 the background, the family trivia of Jia House and the love and marriage stories of Jia Baoyu, Lin Daiyu and Xue Baochai as the main line, and portrays 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 Hairpin. 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. The author of A Dream of Red Mansions has a preliminary democratism, he y criticizes the real society, including the darkness of the court and officialdom, the decadence of the feudal aristocracy and their families, the feudal system of examination, marriage, slavery and hierarchy, as well as the ruling ideology of the society, namely, Confucianism and Mencius and Cheng-Zhu rationality, and the social and moral concepts, etc., and puts forward a hazy preliminary democratism ideals and propositions. They also put forward some vague ideals and propositions of a tentative democratization nature. These ideals and propositions were precisely the twisted reflection of the budding elements of the capitalist economy that was growing at that time. Chairman MAO once commented that, apart from its vast territory, large population, long history and the existence of the Dream of the Red Chamber in literature, China was inferior to others in many respects and could not be proud of itself. Mr. Lu Xun said: As for the value of "Dream of the Red Chamber", but in the bottom of the Chinese novel is really rare. The main point in the dare to truthfully describe, and no taboo, and the former novel narrative good people are completely good, bad people are completely bad, very different, so the characters described in them, are real characters. In short, since the "Dream of the Red Chamber" came out, the traditional thinking and writing method are broken. --It is the article of the charming and lingering, but also in the second thing.