Red Chamber Dream Poetry Analysis

Author: Liu Genglu
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Publish Date: 2005-05-01
Features: The Dream of the Red Chamber is undoubtedly one of the greatest works in the history of Chinese literature, and it can also be considered one of the most complex. Indeed, The Dream of the Red Chamber represents the highest achievement of ancient Chinese cultural art. Cao Xueqin's The Dream of the Red Chamber is a poetic masterpiece of fiction. Its flowing prose is permeated with the fragrance of poetry everywhere. The numerous poems, songs, and quatrains in The Dream of the Red Chamber are like pearls and stars embedded in the vast blue sky, shining with extraordinary brilliance. The exalted status of The Dream of the Red Chamber in the history of Chinese fiction and even the history of Chinese literature is widely acknowledged and well-known to all. Among the poems in The Dream of the Red Chamber, those that portray typical characters and imply their destinies are the most numerous and of the highest quality. Among the 130 poems, there are over a dozen widely celebrated sets of group poems, each set celebrating the main characters of the novel.