Introduction to Dream of Red Mansions: "Dream of Red Mansions" was originally known as "The Story of the Stone", "The Twelve Hairpins of Jinling", etc. The first 80 chapters were written by Cao Xueqin, and the last 40 chapters were continued by Gao E (some say it was Anonymous). It is one of the four famous classics in ancient China. one. It centers on the daily life of Rongguo Mansion, takes the love and marriage tragedies of Baoyu, Daiyu, and Baochai as its main thread, as well as the trivial matters in the Grand View Garden, and follows the history of the four Jinling aristocratic families, Jia, Shi, Wang, and Xue, from their heyday to their decline. As a hidden line, it shows the inevitable trend that the feudal society at the end of its rope will eventually perish. With its tortuous and obscure expression techniques, desolate and profound emotional style, and strong and lofty ideological foundation, it has irreplaceable research value in ancient Chinese folk customs, feudal system, social landscape, architectural epigraphy and other fields, reaching the level of Chinese classical novels. Gaofeng, known as "the encyclopedia of Chinese feudal society".