& lt& lt> What is this book about? Is it a dream?

A Dream of Red Mansions is about a big family. The ancestors of this family fought against the emperor, and both brothers were made dukes. The eldest brother is named Ning Guogong, and the younger brother Jia Yuan is named Rong and Ning. By the beginning of A Dream of Red Mansions, the first generation of Jia Yan and Jia Yuan had died, and the second generation of Jia Daihua and Jia Daishan had also died. Only Jia Daishan's wife, Mrs. Shi Taijun, is still there. Among the many figures in Rongning Building, Jia Mu has the deepest qualifications. She is the biological mother of Jia She and Jia Zheng, menstruation of Jia Jing, grandmother of Jia Lian, Baoyu and Yuan Chun, aunt of Jia Zhen, great-grandmother of Lin Daiyu, aunt of Shi Xiangyun and distant aunt of Xue Baochai. The daughter of Hou Shijia, a Jinling family, has been married to Jia's family for more than 50 years, enjoying the splendor of the world. Although she is old now, she leaves the housework to her second daughter-in-law, Mrs. Wang, and her granddaughter, Wang Xifeng, and only takes her grandchildren to play and retire, but she is still in power in the government. Jia Zheng denounced Baoyu, and she threatened to "go back to Nanjing immediately", so Jia Zheng "pleaded guilty"; Jia She wanted Yuanyang, the maid-in-waiting around her, to be a concubine, but she was scolded back, so she had to "report her illness and was afraid to see Grandmother Jia". As for Wang Xifeng and others, they do everything possible to please her, and all the stars hold the moon around her. Although Jia Mu is not the central figure in A Dream of Red Mansions, she is the central figure in Guo Rong Mansion. The daily life in the mansion is centered on Jia Mu: drinking, going to the theatre, playing cards, visiting temples, playing tricks, offering sacrifices to shrines, telling jokes, solve riddles on the lanterns, drinking orders ... The author's detailed description of the daily life of Gonghoufu makes us really understand the real scene of aristocratic life in the late feudal society.

Because of Jia's love, Jia Baoyu was able to hang out for a long time, and because of Jia's love, Lin Daiyu, who lost her family, came to Guo Rongfu from Yangzhou, which objectively provided conditions for the development of Bao Dai's love. However, the old lady can hug them lovingly and scream, for fear that the lamp ear will spill ash into Baoyu's eyes, but she can't tolerate their "serious etiquette" love behavior. In her eyes, an innocent girl remembers her lifelong events, and then "ghosts are not ghosts, thieves are not thieves." So it is very likely that the author continued to write that she adopted Wang Xifeng's "switch strategy", which created Baochai's love tragedy and Baochai's marriage tragedy. Finally, the old lady, who enjoyed the best life in the world, ended her life with the collapse of her family after witnessing the tragic ending of her property being stolen and her children and grandchildren being imprisoned.

Jia Mu has two sons. The eldest son, Jia She, attacked the title of Jia Daishan (according to the regulations of demotion from generation to generation, attacking the position of the first-level general) and divided it out. In A Dream of Red Mansions, he mainly did two things: one was to force Mrs. Xing to ask Yuanyang, the close-fitting maid of the old lady, to be his concubine, and the other was to collude with Jia Yucun to snatch twenty ancient fans from the stone idiot's house, causing the family to be ruined. Jia Mu doesn't like her eldest son, daughter-in-law Mrs. Xing, but lives with her second son Jia Zheng, so Jia Zheng's wife, Mrs. Wang, is in charge of the house's internal affairs. Jia Zheng and his wife are gentlemen of the older generation of Jia family. The husband is honest outside, and the wife is a vegetarian and a Buddhist. They are bent on cultivating Jia Baoyu according to feudal moral standards, hoping that he can become the heir of Jia's century-old inheritance. Therefore, Jia Zheng spared no effort to punish Baoyu, while Mrs. Wang deliberately planted an attacker loyal to feudal morality to guard Baoyu, severely punished Jin Chuaner, Qingwen, Fangguan and others for allegedly leading Baoyu astray and deported him. However, Jia Baoyu failed to embark on the "right path" of "career economy" according to their wishes, but "pulled back from the cliff" and left them forever. The hypocritical orthodoxy in this pair of declining families will not get a better ending than others when the family collapses. In the last 40 years, I wrote "Grateful for the position of the old man", which made Jia Zheng attack Jia She's lost title again, which was not in line with Cao Xueqin's original intention of "dying for the official family business".

Jia Jing, cousin of Jia She and Jia Zheng, is the third generation of Longfang Ningguo House. Although he was the second son of Jia Daihua, his eldest son, Jia Fu, died early, so he took the title, with a man (Jia Zhen) and a woman (Xi Chun). However, he was obsessed with alchemy and became an immortal. He handed the title to his son Jia Zhen, moved to a Taoist temple outside the city, and didn't come back for his birthday. He eventually died because he swallowed too much cinnabar. The word "respect" in the fifth time in A Dream of Red Mansions refers to Jia Jing, saying that he is the beginning of Jia Zuye's ruin.

These are the older generation of Jia family, some have dreams, some have lust, and some have dignity. The decline of the Jia family began from their generation, and it was only because of the great family cause that "a hundred-footed worm died without rigidity" that the shelf outside did not fall.

The fourth generation of Jia family can be divided into two factions: one is Jia Zhen Jia Lian, who is married and in power, and her eldest sister Yuan Chun enters the palace as an imperial concubine; One group is Baoyu, Jia Huan and three younger sisters, Yingchun, Tanchun and Xichun, all in their teens.

Jia Zhen is the fourth generation black sheep of Rong Ning. When he was young, he captured the title of "General Sanpin Weilie" and became the head of Jia clan with the qualification of Changfang. No one can control it. He committed adultery with his daughter-in-law, Qin, and was discovered by the maid, which led Qin to commit suicide in shame; He also had an affair with his sister-in-law, You Shi, and in order to achieve the purpose of long-term occupation, he gave You Er Jie to Jia Lian as an outsider, which ruined her life. During his mourning for his biological father, he did not forget to make love, ride horses, shoot and gamble. All kinds of moral constraints in feudal society didn't work for him at all, and all he showed was naked animals enjoying themselves crazily.

Jia Zhen's cousin Jia Lian is also such a "dirty kind" who "walks into the house regardless of the smell". His own daughter had acne rash, and he wanted to fast the queen who had acne, but he took the opportunity to steal from the chef. On the birthday of his wife, Wang Xifeng, he had sex with Bao Er, a domestic servant. During the mourning period of the country and the family, she secretly married the second sister, especially the outside. He is nominally the foreign minister of the government, but he is restricted by the internal minister Wang Xifeng. Even his page knows: "We dare not provoke grandma's confidant, and grandpa's confidant (Jia Lian's confidant) dares to provoke grandma." If someone doesn't know what the dude of the feudal aristocracy looks like, Jia Lian is a vivid model.