Children's Reading Classics

Author: Ming.
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Publishing Date: 2000-06-01
Features: Dream of the Red Chamber, as one of China's four great classical novels, is set against the backdrop of the Jia, Shi, Wang, and Xue four great families, with a love story as its main thread. It vividly portrays the tragic fate of many characters centered around Jia Baoyu and a group of Red Chamber women under the constraints of the feudal system and feudal families, as the Jia family's Rong and Ning mansions decline from prosperity. The work exposes the lustful corruption and mutual strife within the feudal aristocratic group, reveals the brutal oppression and exploitation of the working people by them, praises the rebellious actions of young aristocrats with awakened consciousness and certain servants in noble families, and lashes out at traditional thoughts such as feudal rituals. The language of the work is elegant and vivid, excelling in character portrayal, creating many artistic figures with typical personalities, such as Jia Baoyu, Lin Daiyu, Wang Xifeng, Xue Baochai, You Sanjie, and Qingwen. Notably, to express the pursuit of humanistic beauty, it unprecedentedly depicts a group of beautiful, intelligent, and lively female figures. It is grand in scale, rigorously structured, and possesses high ideological depth and outstanding artistic achievement, reaching the pinnacle of realism in Chinese classical long novels. Although it is shrouded in a sense of destiny's sorrow and melancholy, it never abandons the pursuit of beauty. This book is part of the Children's Reading Classics series, condensing the original's grand 120 chapters into 24, serving as a tool for young people to enhance their knowledge of classical masterpieces.