How many chapters does the full version of A Dream of Red Mansions have?

The complete version of A Dream of Red Mansions consists of 120 chapters.

A Dream of Red Mansions was born at the end of China feudal society in the18th century. At that time, the Qing government closed its doors to the outside world, and the whole country was immersed in the dream of Kangxi, Kangxi and Qianlong, and went to China. This period seemed peaceful on the surface, but various social contradictions in the bones were intensifying, and the whole dynasty reached a turning point from prosperity to decline.

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A Dream of Red Mansions first appeared in the 1950s of 18. It is said that it was presented in the form of a manuscript. The original book is called The Story of the Stone. The story is not completely told, only the first 80 times.

Later, in the early years of the Republic of China, Hu Shi and Yu Pingbo studied and found that the last forty chapters were quite different from the first eighty chapters in terms of ideas, art and plots. 192 1 year, Hu Shi published the research results that the last forty chapters were Gao E's manuscripts pretending to be Cao Xueqin.

Now everyone thinks that Cao Xueqin wrote the first eighty chapters of A Dream of Red Mansions, and Gao E wrote the last forty chapters.

A Dream of Red Mansions has written out the beauty, richness and profundity that were eventually destroyed under filth and ugliness, and written out the contradiction between them, which is a great artistic achievement of A Dream of Red Mansions. In China's classical novels, it creates an unprecedented feeling of purity, beauty and youth.

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