What problems did A Dream of Red Mansions reflect in feudal society?

This book reflects the profound criticism of the darkness of the real society, the palace and officialdom, the decay of feudal nobles and their families, the feudal imperial examination, marriage, handmaiden, hierarchy and social ruling thoughts, that is, the neo-Confucianism and social morality of Confucius and Mencius and Zhu Cheng, and puts forward hazy ideals and propositions with preliminary democratic nature.

Based on the love and marriage stories of Jia Baoyu, Lin Daiyu and Xue Baochai, this paper describes the beauty of human nature and the tragedy of lovers, eulogizes the rebels who pursue light, foresees the inevitable demise of feudal society through the tragic fate of rebels, and reveals the end crisis of feudalism.

A Dream of Red Mansions has a preliminary democratic thought. His thoughts on the real society include the darkness of the court and officialdom, the decay of feudal nobles and their families, the feudal imperial examination system, the marriage system, the handmaiden system, the hierarchical system, and the corresponding social ruling thoughts, namely, Confucius and Mencius, Zhu Cheng Neo-Confucianism, social morality and so on.

They made profound criticism and put forward hazy ideals and ideas with the nature of primary democracy. These ideals and concepts are the tortuous reflection of the budding factors of the growing capitalist economy at that time.

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A Dream of Red Mansions first spread overseas in the fifty-eight years of Qianlong (1793). At that time, a ship that arrived in Japan from Zhejiang carried 67 books of China, including 9 volumes 18 sets of A Dream of Red Mansions. ?

In Qu Qin's masterpiece Biography of Eight Dogs Meeting in the South, it is said that each of the eight dogs was born with a spirit bead, which is probably inspired by the birth of Baoyu Daiyu in A Dream of Red Mansions.

1892, Sen Huainan translated the first wedge of A Dream of Red Mansions and published it in the 2nd issue of South China Review. Starting from this, various Japanese versions emerged one after another, which also brought the wider Japanese people closer to this masterpiece from China. Until the 1930s, many Japanese people went to China to study and were still learning the standard Beijing dialect in A Dream of Red Mansions.

In the development of China literature, the outstanding realistic creation achievements of A Dream of Red Mansions provide rich artistic experience for future writers. Until China's modern literature, there were also works that were obviously influenced by A Dream of Red Mansions and made some achievements. There are countless poems, songs, operas, novels and movies with the theme of A Dream of Red Mansions.