Cao Xueqin 
Dream of Red Mansions 

As a novel about people and love with global influence, The Dream of Red Mansions has been recognized as the greatest one in China”s classical fiction, it”s the encyclopaedia of both China”s feudal society and traditional culture. By taking rise and fall of four big clans of Jia, Shi, Wang and Xue as background, focusing on family trifles and leisure time of girls in Jia Family and making the love story and marriage of Jia Baoyu, Lin Daiyu and Xue Baochai the main storyline, the novel reflects the beauty of human nature and tragedy of Jia Baoyu, the top 12 female characters and lovers with both love and hate, praises those rebellious character in pursuit of light, forecasts the doom of feudal society with their tragic fates, and unveils the crises of the late days of feudal system. In addition, the author starts and ends the story with dream, and emphasizes the ideas of life”s a dream and nothing lasts forever throughout the novel, which reflects his strong fatalism and nihilism.