A Dream of Red Mansions and Ancient Dramas and Novels

1. Overview of ancient operas and novels

(1) The form of yuan drama and its representative writers.

(2) Basic knowledge of ancient novels: mystery and human stories in the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, legendary novels in the Tang Dynasty, full-length novels in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, and classical Chinese novels in the Qing Dynasty. The representative works and authors of novels of various times.

2. Cao Xueqin's "Village Grandma Is Freemouthed, Love Brother Seeks the Bottom" (Chapter 39 of Dream of Red Mansions).

(1) The author and writing time of A Dream of Red Mansions.

(2) Cao Xueqin and the main ideological trend of A Dream of Red Mansions; Cao Xueqin's Literary Proposition.

(3) The characteristics of plot structure, narration, description, character language, etc.

(4) Character image and personality analysis.