【正确答案】A Dream of Red Mansions is attributed to Cao Xueqin. The author chose Jia Clan as the focus, depicting how four affluent and influential families with prestige lost their favor and descended to crash. In the novel, about 100 classic characters are successfully portrayed. These characters concern people of all ranks in the Qing Dynasty. A Dream of Red Mansions is a remarkable story about Chinese feudal society. To understand Chinese values in all its complexity, one can do no better than to read A Dream of Red Mansions. 'It is not only a love story, but also a history story, because it describes the failure of the feudal period,' commented Chairman Mao.