The relationship between Cao Xueqin and Zhen Xuan is that Cao Xueqin is the sister of Cao Guiren. Cao Xueqin experienced a luxurious and romantic life in Nanjing Jiangning Weaving Institute in his early years. In the sixth year of Yongzheng (1728), the Cao family was sentenced to lose money, moved back to their former residence in Beijing with their families, and then moved to the western suburbs of Beijing, making a living by selling calligraphy and painting and helping friends.

After a major turning point in his life, Cao Xueqin felt that the world was cold and had a clearer and deeper understanding of feudal society. With perseverance and years of hardships, he finally created a great work with great ideological and artistic quality-A Dream of Red Mansions.

A Dream of Red Mansions, with its large scale, rigorous structure, complex plot and vivid description, has created many artistic images with typical characters, which can be called the peak of China's ancient novels and occupies an important position in the history of world literature.

Died of poverty and disease, without medical care. The year Cao Xueqin died, it was the New Year's Eve of Qianlong, and Cao Xueqin was thirty years old. The first draft of A Dream of Red Mansions was written around this period.

Basic information

Cao Xueqin (1765438+May 28, 2005-about1February 763 12), whose real name is Zhan, whose real name is Xueqin, Qinpu,.

Born in Jiangning, Nanjing today, the Ministry of Internal Affairs is leading the servants in full swing. Jiangning is the grandson, and the son of Cao Qing is the son.