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I enjoy reading classic literature in my free time. Today, I'd like to introduce my favourite
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, A Dream of Red Mansions, which is one of the “Four Great Classical Novels of Chinese literature”. The author, Cao Xueqin, used this novel to express his
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on many issues.
Cao Xueqin described the lives of four
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feudal (封建的) families in this book. One important story line is the romance between two main characters, Jia Baoyu and his cousin Lin Daiyu. They loved each other
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and both hoped for spiritual freedom. However, their love did not end well
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it was against the social norms (规范) of their time.
My favourite character in this book is Jia Tanchun, one of Baoyu’s sisters. She was clever, hard-working, and had her own
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. She also tried her best to resolve the complex conflicts (解决复杂的矛盾) of her feudal family.
Besides being a tragic love story, this novel is also of great
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in literature, medicine, fashion, architecture (建筑学) and food. No wonder that Cao Xueqin is considered one of the greatest
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in Chinese literary history.
Cao’s family was once very wealthy, but for some political reasons, they later became
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. And Cao had to write under difficult conditions. Many plots of the novel are based
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his life experiences and he put many secret, deep feelings into it. That is also one reason why people still find it so touching today.
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