Why is Dream of Red Mansions among the four classical novels the highest in literary value and artistic achievement? It is also the pinnacle of classical novels.

A Dream of Red Mansions written by Cao Xueqin in Qing Dynasty is called the insurmountable peak of China's classical novels. So, where is the charm of A Dream of Red Mansions? What attracts us so much? It is very simple. I believe that students who are not very keen on A Dream of Red Mansions know that the main theme of A Dream of Red Mansions has been clearly stated in junior high school history textbooks: "The book describes the decline of Jia, Shi, Wang and Xue, as well as the love tragedy of aristocratic youths Jia Baoyu and Lin Daiyu, which profoundly lashes the evils of feudal system and feudal ethics and reveals the historical trend of the inevitable collapse of feudal society. A Dream of Red Mansions is very ideological and artistic, and occupies an important position in the history of world literature. " The high ideological and artistic quality of A Dream of Red Mansions is one of the main contents to be discussed by experts, and it is very important in redology.

Highly artistic

It also costs a lot of money to make a new TV series of A Dream of Red Mansions, which shows the artistic height of A Dream of Red Mansions. In fact, besides what we see in TV series, there are many arts in Dream of Red Mansions!

I. Architecture

The architecture depicted in A Dream of Red Mansions also has a certain artistic content, among which the most representative is the Grand View Garden, where Baoyu and his sisters lived when they were children. There are many houses in the Grand View Garden, such as Hongyi Garden, Xiaoxiang Pavilion, Wu Hengyuan and Qiu Shuangzhai, each with its own architectural features. Before the Grand View Garden was completed, Ningfu and Rongfu also occupied more than half of the streets. With this, it is enough to see how elegant and magnificent the houses that the nobles of the Qing Dynasty lived in!

Second, clothing.

The clothes written in A Dream of Red Mansions are also artistic. The most famous one is obviously Baoyu's precious sparrow gold robe, which is described in a few short lines in A Dream of Red Mansions: "Baoyu looks golden, but it is not like the robe worn by Baoqin. I just heard the old lady say with a smile,' This is called sparrow gold, which is made of peacock hair in Ohio. I gave that wild duck to your sister the other day. It's only yours. "It can be seen that this is brought from abroad, and it is splendid, which shows its art.

"This person is dressed differently from other girls, with colorful sleeves, just like a fairy princess: wearing a golden silk eight-treasure beaded bun and holding five phoenix beads in the morning light; Wearing a red gold plate around his neck; The skirt is tied with mung bean uterus and Pisces roses; Wearing a golden butterfly, wearing a narrow coat of red satin, wearing a colorful carved azurite silver mouse jacket; Under the jade crepe skirt A pair of phoenix eyes, two curved arch eyebrows, slim figure, enchanting physique, pink face with spring force, and red lips before laughing. " This is the third appearance of Wang Xifeng in A Dream of Red Mansions, and the description of her dress. From these ornaments, we can see how exquisite and artistic aristocratic costumes are!

Third, painting.

The painting art in A Dream of Red Mansions is enough to show that Qing people attach importance to painting. What we are all familiar with is the painting that Xichun is painting in the book, which depicts the Grand View Garden. Things should start with granny Liu entering the Grand View Garden: granny Liu visited the Grand View Garden for the first time, and the people who came out of the village had never seen the world, so they must applaud. She also said that it would be nice if she could draw (the Grand View Garden), and grandma even wanted to draw some for her in Xichun. However, after all, the Grand View Garden is so big that painting it is not something that can be completed in a short time. Xichun is also a member of Haitang Poetry Club, so painting will delay writing. They discussed it and decided to give Xichun an annual leave, but when discussing what materials to use for painting, Baochai's words stole the show and caught my attention-"No.1 combination brush pen four, No.2 combination brush pen four, No.3 combination brush pen four, big dye four, small dye four, big south crab claw ten, small crab claw ten, ten people."

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Buildings and people's clothes are only part of the art of A Dream of Red Mansions. There are countless arts in the book, such as poetry and language.

Highly ideological

The high ideological content of A Dream of Red Mansions is exactly what the experts of A Dream of Red Mansions are persistently studying. There is a branch of A Dream of Red Mansions called Tanzhi. As we all know, there is nothing about history in A Dream of Red Mansions, just hiding it and showing it. So, where is the high ideological content of A Dream of Red Mansions?

I. Poetry

There are many poems in A Dream of Red Mansions, mostly from the Begonia Society (later called Peach Blossom Society) founded by Baoyu, Daiyu, Baochai and Tanchun. If you don't appreciate the poems in A Dream of Red Mansions carefully, it can be said that both time and the whole book are wasted. In fact, there are many poems in A Dream of Red Mansions that can be excavated. For example, Xiangling studied poetry and finally wrote a poem in her dream: "It should be that it is difficult to hide its materials, and the shadow is self-defeating, and it is chilling. An anvil is a thousand miles white, and a half-circle chicken sings five more songs. Wanderers in Qiu Jiang are more melancholy when they listen to the flute, and the young woman upstairs leans against the railing at the end of the night. Sheng Chang 'e wants to ask, why not have a reunion! "It's sad to hear this poem. Xiangling's life story was that she was trafficked to the Xue family to be a concubine, and her father was Zhen. "The Red Teahouse Leaning on the Bar at Night" shows a woman's lonely mood of leaning on the bar and looking at the moon at night. " If you win Chang 'e, you have to ask, why not have a reunion! Xiangling bluntly expressed her wish for reunion.

There are many poems in A Dream of Red Mansions, but there is only one in it, namely "Lotus", which is an article by Baoyu to pay homage to the dead Qingwen. The book describes the deep affection between Baoyu and Qingwen-Qingwen helped Baoyu repair the burnt sparrow golden hair. After Qingwen's death, Baoyu once wore that sparrow gold fur to school, and all the students around him focused on it. Moreover, Qingwen was enchanting and afraid that Baoyu would learn badly, so Mrs. Wang sent her home. Besides, she had no home, so she had to live in her brother's house, and her brother and sister-in-law ignored her. In the end, she died of illness, but she could not see Baoyu. Before she died, Qingwen told a girl that she wanted to be sent to be the protector of Hibiscus. That girl told Baoyu this, and Baoyu went to the Hibiscus Flower Pool to pay homage to Qingwen and made Hibiscus.

Both poetry and the hidden stories in poetry are full of romanticism, but Xiangling's kidnapping and Qingwen's expulsion reflect the social background at that time.

Second, people and names.

Older people know that boys' names should follow seniority and not be restricted by their own families. So the names of the characters in Jia's house all reflect this. According to seniority, there are always five generations, from Ning and Gong, the oldest, to Jia Lan, Jia Rong, Jia Yun and Jia Qiang, the youngest, with seniority behind their names. Jia Yan, Ning Guogong, Jia Yuan and Rong Guogong, born by two brothers and one mother, are all aquatic, so their names are divided into three parts; It is even more obvious that the sons of Ning and Rong Ergong are called Jia Daihua and respectively. You can see at a glance that they are from that generation, but there are also grandfathers who have not died in that generation (Jia Daihua and Jia Daishan died since the content of A Dream of Red Mansions began to be transferred to Jia Fu). He is Jia Dairu, Mr. Jia's private school and a relative of Jia's family. There are Jia Fu and Jia Jing, sons of Jia Daihua, and Jia She and Jia Zheng, sons of Jia Daishan. Everyone's name has an antithesis, so it is a literary generation; Looking down, there are more characters: Jia Zhen, Jia Lian, Jia Zhu, Jia Baoyu, Jia Huan, Jia Rui, Jade Generation; In the youngest generation, there are many figures, such as Jia Lan, Jia Rong, Jia Yun, Jia Qiang, Jia Qin and Jia Ling. The names all have a cursive prefix, so they are a cursive generation (Jia Lan's understanding of "LAN" is for personal use). The seniority of a person's name provides conditions for us to judge the seniority of a character in A Dream of Red Mansions, and we can know which seniority he belongs to from his name. In addition, Shi Sanjia and Xue also have seniority restrictions. For example, Wang Ziteng and Wang Zisheng are children, while Xue Pan and Xue Ke are bugs. But in A Dream of Red Mansions, some women's names are also closely related to their generations. For example, Baochai and Baoqin are treasures, Li Wan, Li Qi and Wen Li are silks, and the names of four young ladies, Yuan Chun, Yingchun, Tan Chun and Xichun, all have the word Chunzi. When we watch A Dream of Red Mansions, we will find that every lady or son of Jia's family is accompanied by several maids or pages. For example, Baoyu has xiren and Qingwen, Daiyu has Zijuan, Xueyan and Chunxian, and Baochai has Yingying ... The names of these maids are very interesting, and they attach great importance to sharing the same names with them, such as Four Treasures of the Study. Four treasures: pearls, amber, glass and jadeite. Four big lying girls: Qingwen, Jinchuan, Yuanyang and Siqi. Colorful: colorful screen, colorful children, Cai Feng, rosy clouds, colorful bears, colorful lights and colorful clouds. Twelve children: Qing Er, Zhao 'er, Xinger, Long 'er, Zhui Er, Xi 'er, Shou 'er, Feng 'er, Zhu 'er, Xiao 'er, Li 'er and Yu 'zhuer. Four pages: Yan Ming, Total annihilation, Herbicide and Accompanied Crane. Four little ones: Little Magpie, Little Red, Little Cicada and Little Cher. This makes you feel the great mind of Cao Gong.

However, this is not enough praise. As everyone knows, these names are really showing the historical and social background. In A Dream of Red Mansions, the homonym of some characters' names is their personality. The name of Zhen He provides clues for the study of A Dream of Red Mansions. We can interpret True Yin Shi as "the truth is hidden" and Jia Yucun as "the existence of false words". Moreover, "Dream of Red Mansions" appeared before and after the first callback "Dream of Knowing the Truth, Dust-laden Life and Good Family", which shows the position of Zhenhe in the book, and these two names give us clues. "Hiding the truth" means hiding the truth, and "keeping false words" means leaving lies to show history, which is exactly the same as the couplet on the stone archway in the dreamland of Tai Xu, which lays the foundation for our study of the whole book. There are many others, for example, Hodge is the cause of disaster, Feng Yuan is the cause of injustice, and Yuan Chun, Yingchun, Tan Chun and Xichun are collectively called Yuan Tan, all of which reflect the social background at that time.

The characters in A Dream of Red Mansions have different personalities. However, their fate is also various, but in the final analysis, it is still much more tragic. Among them, twelve women in Jinling are the most representative: young widows Li Wan and Shi Xiangyun; Jia Yingchun who was tortured to death by her husband after marriage; Jia Tanchun, far away from home; Jia Xichun, who is pessimistic and desperate and marries in youth; Qin Keqing who died with grievances; The wonderful jade that was stolen ... and the characters of the four fierce maids (Qingwen, Jinchuan, Yuanyang and Si Qi above) are even more distinct: Jin Chuaner jumped into the well and died; Yuanyang died with hatred; Si Qi hit the wall and died; Qingwen's death of shame and anger reflects the multiple personalities of the characters.

Third, marriage.

However, the marriage of children in A Dream of Red Mansions also reflects the thoughts of Qing people. Baochai's love tragedy embodies this point. Among the twelve poems in A Dream of Red Mansions, the most famous ones are "Winning Eyebrows" and "A Life's Mistake", both of which are portrayal of Dai and Chai. When Baochai and Baochai were married in the book, it was the day when Daiyu died. There is a lyric in A Life's Mistake, which is "All roads lead to gold and jade, and I only read the alliance of wood and stone", which is exactly what Baoyu wants to express. Baoyu didn't like Baochai, but when Baoyu lost his jade, people lost their minds. However, Lady Jia and Lady Wang thought that Baochai had a golden lock given by Taoist priests to ward off evil spirits, and Baoyu was reincarnated as a psychic, which was a good marriage. Baoyu only remembers that he and Daiyu were "former allies" and never wanted to marry Baochai, but in Mrs. Jia's place, she thought that Daiyu had a heart disease and could not marry Baoyu, but in Jia Jia and Daiyu's place. But I didn't know Daiyu was dead. Baoyu studied for a long time and went to Xiaoxiang Pavilion to remember Daiyu. So there was the ninety-eighth time that "the soul of bitter crimson beads left the land where tears flowed from the gods who hated heaven and disease." I believe that in a cash society, none of these things will happen. It is precisely because of the feudal thoughts of adults that Baochai's love tragedy took away Baochai's happiness all her life. Therefore, feudal marriage is also one of the reasons for accelerating the collapse of feudal society.

Although Baochai's love tragedy is famous, the following story is even more sad and ridiculous. This is a story about Tanchun. Speaking of these three girls, I got the impression that I was the second Wang Xifeng! Tanchun and Jia Huan are brother and sister, both born to Aunt Zhao, but she is much better than Jia Huan. For example, in chapters 55 and 56, Feng is ill, so Tan Chun, Li Wan and Baochai manage the housework. At that time, Tanchun was very domineering. At that time, Tan Chun and Li Wan were doing housework in Xiaocui Garden of Grand View Garden. Recently, the Wu family reported that Zhao, the younger brother of Aunt Zhao, had died, and came here to ask for a reward. Tanchun doesn't know what to do. Tanchun smiled and said, "This is nonsense. As you said, it's better to reward one hundred. If you don't obey the rules and don't tell your jokes, it will be difficult to see your second grandmother tomorrow. " Tanchun is getting worse and worse, and Wang Xifeng has also been pushed to this matter. It is expected that if it is Wang Xifeng, he will definitely get a reward of thirty or forty taels, so as not to wait for this "unintentional" family! The Wu family did not dare to refuse when they saw more and more talk about Tanchun. He immediately checked the old accounts and asked Tanchun to reward him with twenty taels. Not long after she went, Aunt Zhao came in glumly. The day before yesterday, the attack mother died and she was rewarded with forty taels. She expects Tanchun to be her own daughter and uncle, so she can't just enjoy twenty taels. She wanted to help her brother "get justice", but Tan Chun bit her. This shows that Tanchun's housekeeper is much better than Xifeng's (later Tanchun got married, the Jia family declined, Wang Xifeng was bullied, and Li Wan also sighed: "I hate that Miss San is gone!" )。 Later, Pinger went to Xiaocui Pond to look at the situation, which was also a surprise. After returning, she told Feng about it, but the conversation between them caught my attention-Feng smiled and said,' Good, good, what a girl! I said he was great. It's a pity that his life is too thin to be born in his wife's belly. Pinger said with a smile, "Grandma is talking nonsense, too. "。 He was not brought up by his wife. Who dares to look down on him and treat him differently?' Feng sighed: "You know, although being a concubine is the same, girls are not as good as men." . In the future, there is a frivolous person. First of all, you should find out whether a girl is a concubine. I don't know, let alone concubines, but our maids are better than other maids. In the future, I don't know whether the unforced choice is right or wrong, and I don't know whether the unforced choice is right. ""From this conversation, it reflects the evil of feudal ethics. Now that men and women are equal, how can this happen? Therefore, this also led to the collapse of feudal society! But then Tanchun married far away. At the end of the book, she went back to Jia's house and said that she had a good life and distinctive clothes. I had doubts about this: Tanchun was married far away, and she was an unmarried woman. Xifeng also said that "there is a frivolous person now." So, will Tanchun's life be good? I'm afraid Tanchun is a little harder than Yingchun, and I'm not bullied. However, this also needs expert research to determine.

We can feel the high ideological content of A Dream of Red Mansions from poems, names and marriages, but we can also feel it from history, because the high ideological content of A Dream of Red Mansions reflects the light of history!

"It is in vain to talk about a dream of red mansions and read poems." A Dream of Red Mansions is full of charm, and the characters in the Dream of Red Mansions are even more haunted. Regardless of the past, present and future, it indicates the historical era and our era. It is an immortal masterpiece and an insurmountable peak of China's classical novels!

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