What do you mean, "It's better to beat the golden bell than knock the wooden fish for three thousand"?
This sentence comes from Cao Qingxue Qin's Dream of Red Mansions. Jia Lian said with a smile, "I'm not telling a lie: if anyone besides my sister can manage thousands of taels of silver, it's just that you are not as understanding and courageous as you. If I talk to them, I'll scare them. Therefore, I would rather play the golden bell than beat the drum for three thousand. "
brief Introduction of the content
A Dream of Red Mansions, the first of China's classical Four Great Classical Novels, is a novel written by Cao Xueqin, a writer in Qing Dynasty, also known as The Story of the Stone, Jinyuyuan and Re-evaluation of the Story of the Stone by Hongyan Zhai. There are two editions of this book: 120 "Cost" and 80 "Fat Edition". The first eighty chapters of the new edition of Tongshu were collected according to Fat Book, and the last forty chapters were collected according to Cheng Shu, with the signature "Cao Xueqin, Anonymous, Cheng Weiyuan, Finishing". A Dream of Red Mansions is an earthly novel with world influence. It is recognized as the pinnacle of China's classical novels, an encyclopedia of feudal society in China and a master of traditional culture. The novel takes the rise and fall of Jia, Shi, Wang and Xue as the background, the family affairs of Jia's family and the leisure of boudoir as the main line, and the love and marriage stories of Jia Baoyu, Lin Daiyu and Xue Baochai as the main line, depicting the beauty of humanity and tragedy of lovers centered on Jia Baoyu and Jinling Twelve Chai. Through family tragedy, daughter tragedy and the protagonist's life tragedy, the crisis of the last days of feudalism is revealed.
Ideological content
A Dream of Red Mansions is a work with rich connotations. The Poems of Good Songs and Twelve Poems of A Dream of Red Mansions remind Jia Baoyu of the triple tragedies he experienced. The author puts Jia Baoyu and a group of girls with different identities and positions in the poetic and real novel world of Grand View Garden, showing the tragedy and beautiful destruction of their youthful lives. The profundity of the works lies in that this kind of tragedy is not entirely attributed to the cruelty of the wicked, and some of them are directly destroyed by feudal forces, such as the tragic fate of Yuanyang, Qingwen and Siqi, but more tragedies are caused by the "common morality, common human feelings and common circumstances" in feudal ethical relations, and are life tragedies caused by the deep structure of orthodox culture accumulated and solidified for thousands of years. The novel depicts a vast historical picture of imperial palaces and rural villages, which reflects the complex and profound contradictions and conflicts in the last days of feudalism extensively and profoundly, and shows the essential characteristics of feudal nobles and the historical fate of inevitable decline. What is particularly profound is that the pictures of Jia's life displayed in the novel show the absurdity of the manners and customs that maintain the rank, birthright, age and relationship between men and women of this aristocratic family, and uncover all kinds of fierce contradictions and struggles in the "warm veil" of feudal families.
A Dream of Red Mansions exposes all kinds of darkness and evil in the late feudal society and their insurmountable internal contradictions, and strongly criticizes the decadent feudal ruling class and the feudal system that is about to collapse, making readers feel that it is bound to perish; At the same time, the novel also expresses a new hazy ideal by praising the noble rebels. In the history of China literature, no work can write such a gripping love tragedy as A Dream of Red Mansions. No work can reveal the social roots of love tragedy in a comprehensive and profound way, thus making the most profound and powerful criticism of feudal society.