Jia Baoyu
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Jia Baoyu is the principal character in the classic 18th century Chinese novel Dream of the Red Chamber.
An 1832 illustration of Jia Baoyu
Dream of the Red Chamber
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Dream of the Red Chamber or The Story of the Stone is an 18th-century Chinese novel authored by Cao Xueqin, considered to be one of the Four Great Classic Novels of Chinese literature. It is known for
Jia Baoyu
…Jia Baoyu (Chinese: 賈寶玉) is the principal character in the classic 18th century Chinese novel Dream of the Red Chamber. The first chapter describes how one piece of stone was left over from when the Wall of Heaven was repaired by the Goddess Nüwa. That stone, changed…
A scene from the novel, painted by Xu Baozhuan (1810–1873)
A page from the "Jimao manuscript" (one of the Rouge versions) of the novel, 1759
The "Jiaxu manuscript", 1754
A piece from a series of brush paintings by the Qing dynasty artist Sun Wen (1818–1904), depicting a scene from the novel