Taoyan Dream Reminiscences

Author: Zhang Dai
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Publish Date: 2000-08-01
Features: This book is a collection of classical prose works from the Ming Dynasty in China, a renowned work by the Ming and early Qing Dynasty litterateur Zhang Dai. A Dream of the Red Chamber recounts the author's memories of his past life, reflecting the landscapes, cultural relics, handicrafts, calligraphy and painting, taverns and teahouses, dance halls and singing houses, performances and storytelling, lantern festivals and deity worship, cockfighting and bird breeding, hunting and martial exercises, and other aspects of social life and natural scenery of that time. Besides writing about everyday trivialities, the book also includes landscape descriptions and lyrical expressions, with short, lively text often interspersed with humorous remarks.