Jia Jia in A Dream of Red Mansions was very prosperous at first. Why is it gradually declining?

A big family like Jia will not decline because of simple "spending money like water" and "making ends meet". What really made it decline was Jia's downfall.

In fact, at the beginning of A Dream of Red Mansions, there were no senior officials or generals in Jia's family. Except for the hereditary and vain women like Jia Mu, Yuan Chun and Jia She, the highest position of Jia Fu is actually Jia Zheng, the minister of the Ministry of Industry. Yuan Wailang of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology only takes five products. Today, he is at most a main hall of the central ministries and commissions, not a local official. Although the main hall is already a big official for us ordinary people, you should know that Jia Fu is the government of two countries, and Rong Ning is now the kind that can sit in the first three rows.

It's strange that you can support such a big family from five products. When Jia Jia was alive, he also had an intersection with the upper class, and the Jia family barely supported him. After Jia Jia's death, the last line between Jia Jia and the upper class was broken, and the upper class was doomed to decline. Finally, the Jia family has another measure, that is, to make friends and train children from poor families or ordinary people and small officials to enter the officialdom. When they are developed, I hope they will cherish the incense and give some help to the Jia family. Not to mention that people always change, and no one can predict how much incense will be left after many years. Even if you encounter a baiwenhang or a troublemaker, it is also trouble to bring trouble to yourself. This kind of person's training cycle is long and unstable, and some of them are similar to buying lottery tickets. They can only count as idle chess, not as right.

To sum up, the root of Jia's decline is mainly the failure of several attempts to enter the imperial examination circle. So study hard, boys, no matter how great the inheritance of our ancestors is, it will not last long.