Hong Lou Meng, translated as a Dream of Red Mansions, sometimes translated as the Dream of the Red Chamber, the great classical Chinese novel written in the mid-eighteenth century during the reign of Emperor Chien-lung of the Ching Dynasty, has been widely popular throughout the last two hundred years and more. It is said be a story engraved on a stone. Legend has it that one day two immortals passed by a huge wild Mountain, bringing to the world a stone, which is said to “the one of those left by Nu Wa, a girl who used to patch up the sky with stones. The two immortals have experienced all the vicissitudes of life.
A DREAM OF RED MANSIONS is known to every household in China. It tells of the social life of many periods in the Qing Dynasty and portrays successfully a group of innocent and lovely girls suffering under the debris of a male-centered feudal society.
The series begins with the mother-less child, Lin Daiyu - whose beauty and intelligence surpasses all - moving into her maternal grandmother's family in the capital. There, the child meets numerous relatives, one of whom is Jia Baoyu, her mother's nephew, and the heir of the family. Baoyu was borne with a jade tablet and so, is treated like a fragile egg, and is spoiled by his grandmother. He often spends his time with his female cousins and maids instead of being in his studies. One of the cousins he hangs around with is Xue Baochai.
As the story goes on, Baoyu and Daiyu eventually fall in love with each other, but Daiyu is not very well-liked by the family, and instead, the family members favor Baochai.
Contents
1 Tai-yu Parted with her Father and Went to the Capital
2 Pao-yu, Tai-yu and Pao-chai's First Meeting at the Hall of Glorious Pageant
3 Granny Liu Pays her First Visit to the Jung Mansion
4 Tai-yu Feels Slight Jealous while Meeting Pao-yu at Pao-chai's Home
5 Hsi-feng Sets a Vicious Trap for a Lover
6 Hsi-feng Helps to Manage Affairs in the Ning Mansion
7 Literary Talent Tested by Composing Inscriptions in Grand View Garden
8 Jung Mansion Had the Imperial Consorts Visitation on the Feast of Lanterns
9 A Sweet Girl Shows Deep Feeling One Quiet Day
10 A Song Awakes Pao-yu to Esoteric Truths
11 Meeting a Nightmare in Seeking after Favor
12 Tai-yu Weeps at Falling Petals
13 The Fortune Enjoys Deep Fortune and Long Life
14 Chi-chuan Dies a Heroic Death in Shame
15 Pao-yu Was Beaten for Flirting
16 Granny Liu Pays Visit to Grand View Garden
17 Hsi-feng Taken by Surprise Gives Ways to Jealousy
18 Yuan-yang Vows Never to Marry
19 White Snow and Red Plum-Blossom in the Glassy World
20 Plucky Cheng-wen Mends a Peacock-Feather Cape in Bed
21 An Evening Banquet on the Feast of Lantern Festival in the Jung Mansion
22 Ping-erh Wields Authority to Right a Wrong
23 Artful Tzu-chuan Tests Pao-yu's Feelings
24 Girls Feast at Night in Happy Red Court
25 The Profligate Secretly Takes Second Sister Yu as a Concubine
26 Hsi-feng in Jealousy Makes a Scene in the Ning Mansion
27 Lady Hsing Feels Wronged and Puts Hsi-feng in Wrong
28 Strange Omen Occurs at Night Banquet
29 Spoony Childe Writes a Dirge on Cottonrose Hibiscus
30 Drifting away of Fair Maidens from Grand View Garden
31 Spiritual Jade Was Stolen During a Bustling Feast
32 Grieving Over Tan-chun's Departure to Marry Far from Home
33 Astonished by the Heavy News of the Death of Tai-yu
34 High-and-Mighty Hsi-feng Resigned herself to Fate Spread East of Bed-Curtain
35 Collapsed Mansion Come to an End
36 A Vast and White Expanse of Immerse Universe
《红楼梦》A Dream in Red Mansions (The Story of the Stone)
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