Dream of the Red Chamber

Author: Gao Lan
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Publish Date: 2004-01-01
Features: The Primary School Students' Pinyin Classics Series includes 6 Chinese classics and 6 foreign classics, totaling 12 books. To facilitate extracurricular reading for primary school students, the author has selected and adapted the original works, added standard Mandarin pinyin, and included exquisite illustrations. Learning pinyin, recognizing characters, and reading classics are all highly beneficial for cultivating children's temperament, developing intelligence, enriching their lives, and improving overall quality. Dream of the Red Chamber is one of the Chinese classics in this series. Dream of the Red Chamber, originally titled The Story of the Stone, is generally believed to have been written by Cao Xueqin for the first 80 chapters, with the last 40 chapters by Cheng Weiyuan and Gao E. It is a renowned classical Chinese novel. It is structured around the four great families—Jia, Shi, Wang, and Xue—and follows the rise and fall of the Jia family, centered on the tragic love story between Baoyu and Daiyu, depicting the vast life scenes of late feudal China. Now, we have condensed this 1 million-word masterpiece into 20,000 words in a vivid, illustrated, and pinyin-added format, vividly describing the entire scope of Dream of the Red Chamber through 46 stories. The purpose is to make it more suitable for young readers. To provide more knowledge points for young readers, each story is followed by a Knowledge Corner or a "Test Your Knowledge" section. This way, young readers can quickly and with great interest gain a glimpse of a pinnacle of Chinese literary history.