《红楼梦英文简介》PPT课件

1、A dream in Red Mansions1 A Dream in Red Mansions 2 The Story of the Stone 3 Stone Story（石头记） 4.Dream of the red chamber 红楼梦的英文翻译 CAO XUEQIN (1715-1763) was born in a family which three generations held the office of Commissioner of Imperial Textiles in Nanking, a family so wealthy that they were abl

2、e to entertain the Emperor Kangxi four times. But calamity overtook them and their property was confiscated. Cao Xuegin was living in poverty near Peking when he wrote his famous novel The Story of the Stone (also known as The Dream of the Red Chamber), of which this is the second volume.曹雪芹（1715-17

3、63或1724-1764）大约生活在康熙末至乾隆中叶，满族正白旗人。清代小说家，名沾，字梦阮，号雪芹、芹圃、芹溪。他的先世原是汉人，祖籍是河北丰润县，后移居辽宁铁岭，大约在明末被编入满洲籍，身份是“包衣”(家奴)。一般认为是中国长篇名著红楼梦的作者。他出身于一个“百年望族”的大官僚地主家庭，从曾祖父起三代世袭江宁织造一职达六十年之久。后来父亲因事受株连，被革职抄家，家庭的衰败使曹雪芹饱尝了人生的辛酸。他在人生的最后几十年里，以坚韧不拔的毅力，历经十年创作了红楼梦并专心致志地做着修订工作，死后遗留下红楼梦前八十回的稿子。 红楼梦内容丰富、情节曲折、思想认识深刻、艺术手法精湛，是中国古典小说中伟大

4、的现实主义作品A dream of Red MansionsAt the background of Jia,Shi, Wang, Xue four families , story is by Jia Baoyu, Lin Daiyu love as the center. In the feudal society (封建社会), their views about free marriage ,eventually lost to the feudal system.As a result, Lin Daiyu drops the last tear for her love ,then

5、 dead; Jia Baoyu, leave home to be a monk; Xue Baochai, married Jia Baoyu, but she never really win love, loneliness accompany all her life. A dream of Red Mansions in medicine, architecture, food culture, poetry and so on, are worthy of our study.Jia BaoyuJia Baoyu is a passionate(多情) and devoted（专

6、情） lover.At the first time ,he saw Lin Daiyu, then gave his heart to her. Many beautiful women around him, but his heart never change. At the same time, he is also very talented, his poetries beyond all expectations. He says:“the man is made of clay, the woman is made of water“(男人是泥做的，女人是水做的骨肉).Lin

7、DaiyuThe characters in “a dream of Red Mansions” ,I like Lin Daiyu the most .she is a proud and arrogant girl, especially theBury flower words（葬花词）, weakness with unyielding stubborn. Certainly, she has some shortcomings, willful, and bit narrow-minded, but no one is perfect.The most impressive is t

8、he Chant white Begonia （咏白海棠） in “the stolen three white pear pistil, borrow clubs a wisp of soul.”（偷来梨蕊三分白，借得梅花一缕魂。） Steal, borrow two words are great. Xue BaochaiXue Baochai is a feudal society of womens requirements of the typical representative（封建社会对女子要求的典型代表人物). Her appearance bring the love of

9、 baodai to be a triangular relationship. In this relationship, who are all right,and vicitims(牺牲品).Wang XifengWang Xifeng, is a superwoman(女强人), just over twenty control of the Rongguo house. she knows how to win the favor of the edlers, and good at dealing with the interpersonal relationship. Her des