A Dream of Red Mansions Character Relationship Table ()

According to Zhu's A Dream of Red Mansions: How Many Characters Written in A Dream of Red Mansions, published by Baihua Literature and Art Publishing House 1997, 448 people were counted in Jiaqing period of Qing Dynasty.

In the early years of the Republic of China, Lan Shanghang compiled a Dream of Red Mansions, and collected 72 1 people with different biographies. The book also collected 23 ancient emperors and 1 15 ancient figures mentioned in Dream of Red Mansions.

There are eighteen queens, twenty-two women, twenty-four fairies, forty-seven deities and buddhas, thirteen story characters and two hundred and sixty-two people, each of whom has a brief review of his life and legends. * * A total of 983 people were received.

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A Dream of Red Mansions shows a broad vision of social life by describing the ups and downs of Jia, Shi, Wang and Xue, which contains rich and colorful secular human feelings. People say that A Dream of Red Mansions contains the historical capacity of an era and is an encyclopedia of the end of feudalism.

A Dream of Red Mansions is a classic with the highest literary achievements in China. It is the pinnacle of China's classical literature creation and the cultural treasure of all mankind.

A Dream of Red Mansions was first published as a manuscript during the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty. At present, the earliest manuscript we found is the reign of Qianlong and Xujia (1754), but there are only sixteen discontinuous chapters. Later, several manuscripts were discovered, such as the year of Qianlong Chen Geng (1765438+).

These manuscripts all named the novel "The Story of the Stone", with many comments signed "Zhi Yanzhai". According to textual research, the author of this novel is Cao Xueqin, who was born at the end of Kangxi or the beginning of Yongzheng and died at 1763 or 1764. Up to now, there is no unified view on his life experience, but due to poverty and illness, and the death of his beloved son, he failed to finish the novel.

It is a certain fact that the first eighty chapters handed down now are basically written by him. Thirty years after his death, 120 copies of A Dream of Red Mansions were printed with wooden movable type, and 179 1 and 1792 were printed twice, which was very popular since then. However, according to expert research, the last forty chapters of this popular book were written by a bureaucrat named Gao E.

Although his sequel makes the story have a complete scale, and the characters generally have an ending, because his own ideological realm and artistic accomplishment are far less than Cao Xueqin's, his sequel content does not conform to Cao Xueqin's original intention. According to Cao Xueqin's conception, Jia Fu will eventually be reduced to "like throwing a bird into the forest at once, and the earth is really clean."

Gao E, on the other hand, wrote Baoyu as "the monarch" and Jia Jia as "Huang Muen" and "Yan Shize". Therefore, Gao E's last forty chapters are a great failure. However, this practice of 120 times has become a custom for 200 years, and the tragic ending of Baodai written by Gao E has also been accepted by readers.

Therefore, when people talk about A Dream of Red Mansions, they often refer to the first eighty chapters of Cao Xueqin and the last forty chapters of Gao E. This book with a cycle of 120 has a total word count of about 1075000.