Dream back to the Qing Dynasty Dream Red Chamber

The Dream of the Red Chamber is well known. We all know that it is one of the four famous works of the mainland, but very few people have really read it, what is the context of the story? What are the characteristics of each character? In the next article, I will slowly share my understanding of the Dream of the Red Chamber! The benevolent see the wise and the wise see the wise, and the things are happy and do not spray.

If you want to talk about the Dream of the Red Chamber, you need to understand its author - Cao Xueqin.

Cao Xueqin (c. 28 May 1715 – c. 12 February 1763), courtesy name Xia, also spelled Mengruan, was a > of Qinxi and Qinpu< in the Qing Dynasty, and was the grandson of Cao Yin, the weaver of Jiangning. Great-grandfather Cao Xi served as Jiangning Weaver; great-grandmother Sun Shi served as the Kangxi Emperor's nanny; grandfather Cao Yin served as the Kangxi Emperor's companion and imperial bodyguard, and later served as Jiangning Weaving, and also served as the imperial envoy of the Lianghuai Patrol Salt Inspector, and was greatly favored by Kangxi.

In his early years, he lived a life of brocade and rich and elegant in the Jiangning Weaving House in Nanjing. Later, because of the Cao family's deficit, he was convicted, and the family fell in the middle of the road. Xueqin moved back to her old residence in Beijing with her family. Later, he moved to the western suburbs of Beijing and made a living by selling calligraphy and paintings and providing relief from friends. After experiencing a major turning point in her life, Cao Xueqin deeply felt that the world was cold and had a clearer and deeper understanding of feudal society. He despised the powerful, stayed away from the bureaucracy, and lived a difficult life of poverty.

Cao Xue is a sensual and has a wide range of hobbies, and has studied gold stones, poetry books, paintings, gardens, traditional Chinese medicine, weaving, craftsmanship, diet, etc. With perseverance and perseverance, after years of hardship, he finally created a great work of great thought and artistry - "Dream of the Red Chamber".