Dream of the Red Chamber is one of the four Chinese classics. The novel is semi-autobiographical and it gives an incredibly detailed insight into 18th-century life in China, particularly that of the aristocracy.
Reflections on Dream of the Red Chamber
In the novel's frame story, a sentient Stone, abandoned by the goddess Nüwa when she mended the heavens aeons ago, begs a Taoist priest and a Buddhist monk to take it with them to see the world.
I ask you; how much griefcan there be? As much as a spring river flowing east. Li Yu, Last Emperor of the Southern Tang, song lyric to the tune “The Beautiful Lady Yu." Xifeng arrives at the yamen nearly an hour later than PART FOUR ...
The book is one of the longest in ancient Chinese history, with more than 2,000 pages. The author's name can either be translated as Cao Xueqin, the most common translation, or Tsao Hseuh-Chin.
谅黛玉心中一无所知了,又见紫鹃不在面前,因悄悄的拉了侍书的手问道:“你前日告诉我说的什么王大爷给这里宝二爷说了亲,是真话么?”侍书道:“怎么不真。 ... 侍书道:“那里就放定了呢。 ... 但林姑娘也得给他说了人家儿才好,不然女孩儿家长大了,那个没有心事?
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This exquisite edition of A Dream of Red Mansions features a rare set of Qing Dynasty paintings by Sun Wen. This collector's edition features a complete set of Sun Wen's 230 paintings in splendid color, printed on fine paper.
"Redology" is the field of study devoted exclusively to this work. In the opening chapter of the novel, a couplet is introduced: Truth becomes fiction when the fiction's true; Real becomes not-real where the unreal's real.
The Story of the Stone (c.1760) is one of the greatest novels of Chinese literature.