The Spiritual Pillar Of Cao Xueqin

Cao Xueqin is a great writer, The Dream of Red Mansions is one of the most brilliant chapters in China.Researching about Cao Xueqin is not continuous, since The Dream of Red Mansions is coming. From Wang Guowei to Liu Xinwu, each reader of different generations has different Understandings about The Dream of Red Mansions . So, the research about Cao Xueqin is also unceasingly. The achievements of research about Cao Xueqin is emerge since the new era. "Cao Xueqin Seminar"has been established in Beijing, and the CaoXue Journals were published also. "CaoXue" has become a subject as "Red" peremptory. A large number of scholars devoted themselves to "CaoXue", having made great achievements, especially on the thought of Cao Xueqin.This paper is creatived on the foundation of "CaoXue" and "the thought of Cao Xueqin ",in order to research the Spiritual pillar of Cao Xueqin. We discussed on this topic "How to live? Facing the huge destruction, what is the attitude of Cao Xueqin? What support him to write this novels in a long time? And, what is the thoughts of The Dream of Red Mansions foundation? This argument try to analysis the spiritual pillar of Cao Xueqin around this series of problems .Cao Xueqin was knowledged and talented. On one hand, he was looking for spirital homes in traditional culture,in Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism;on the other hand, Cao Xueqin was affected by Academic trend of"Feeling against Danie".We can use feeling to transcend the narrow of the moral, to fill the loneliness,to break the limited life to the limitless life,to solve the contradiction between people. The Dream of Red Mansions is an art world fulling of feeling, thich is Cao Xueqin's dreams. Wang Meng has said The Dream of Red mansions is a free and persistent book, because it was fulling of too much thinkings for life. However, the author clearly realized this is the ideal realm,which is not achieved. Hence The Dream of Red mansions is a tragedy, which express the author's thinkings about life, and give us endless aftertaste.This is the in-depth exploration to look for the spirit home for Chinese intellectuals again.