Dream of Red Mansions (Chinese Edition)

One characteristic of Chinese classical novel is that it is often mixed with some poems. In many novels, poem is just embellishment for fun. However, the poems in the ""Dream of Red Mansions"" and its main ideas, plots intermingled with each other. They are integral parts of the whole work. This book contains most of the poems, ci, music, ode, lian yu, ji yu, riddles, songs for drinking and so on according to their value to decide whether to keep or not. The writer Liu Genglu, is one of playwrights of 87 version of TV series ""Dream of Red Mansions"". He specialized in ancient chinese and history, especially dedicated to research into the history of Chinese poetry. In the ""Red House Poetry Dream"", the author illustrates every story referenced in poetry respectively and assesses their artistic value . the author also explores all the figures fate through metaphor. He also shows us Cao Xueqins creative skills by interpreting peoples character and literary talent with the standard of making hats according to head.