Jia Baoyu was deeply loved by Grandmother Jia since he was a child. He wandered around the gentle and wealthy countryside, devoted himself to raising powder and getting close to his sisters and maids at home. He and Lin Daiyu, childhood friends, became bosom friends and developed into a rare pure feeling in the world. He valued affection over ceremony, and made friends with Qin Zhong,,, and other sentient people. He likes temperament literature such as poetry, music, and fu, and hates four books and eight essays and critical Neo-Confucianism, calling those feudal literati who pursue the imperial examination and official career economy "Lv Kun".
But in the end, "for a moment, I was extremely sad and people could not change." The woman he worshipped died and dispersed; Under the family arrangement, she married Xue Baochai in a muddle, which led to Lin Daiyu's tearful death. After experiencing the pain of property seizure, he became more and more crazy and stupid.
Famous comments
He Qifang: Jia Baoyu's rebellion is not only manifested in his dissatisfaction and opposition to a series of feudal systems such as imperial examinations, stereotyped writing and being an official, but also in his love, sympathy, respect and devotion to girls, that is, his bold violation of feudal ethics and the concept that men are superior to women in feudal society.
Mou Zongsan: Baoyu is a sentimental person. He likes all the girls he meets. His feelings are the easiest to move into the object, and his intuition is particularly great, so his permeability is also strong. Often in a daze, often crying, it is this emotion that is moving. Baoyu became hard-hearted and went out for eternal life. Just like Sakyamuni, he stopped grief with sorrow and led away with pain. This is a cycle, and Buddhism is boundless. How to break this cycle? Baoyu became a monk and died much worse than Lin Daiyu.