A Quiz for the First Forty Chapters of Dream of the Red Chamber
"Dream of the Red Chamber" was a classic Chinese literary masterpiece written in the Qing Dynasty. The novel narrated the love story of Jia Baoyu, Lin Daiyu, and the rise and fall of the Jia family. In the novel, Jia Baoyu was an artistic youth who liked to write poems, admire flowers, play the piano, and so on. Lin Daiyu was Jia Baoyu's cousin. She was beautiful, smart, and melancholic. The Jia family was a large family in the Qing Dynasty. They had many properties, treasures, and servants. The plot of the novel was very complicated, involving many characters and events, including the death of Grandmother Jia, Jia Baoyu's marriage, Wang Xifeng's conspiracy, Xue Baochai's aloofness, and so on. 'Dream of the Red Chamber' was a novel full of philosophy and beauty. It was also an important chapter in the history of Chinese literature. Through the rise and fall of a family, it shows the complexity of human nature and social changes, which has high literary value and historical significance.
