History Literature / DreamOfTheRedChamber

* {{Bishonen}}: Somehow, many adaptations of the novel portrayed Baoyu as this, to the extent of using beautiful ''actresses''. One example is Creator/BrigitteLin in the 1977 Creator/ShawBrothers movie adaptation.

** This is what happens to [[AbhorrentAdmirer Jia Rui]], who lusts after Wang Xifeng. After he is rejected, he falls hopelessly ill, but is given a chance to recover when a passing monk hands him a magic mirror. He is told to never look at the front, and must keep looking at the back of the mirror, at a terrifying picture of a skeleton. If he succeeds for a week, then he will be cured of his lust. He doesn't succeed, as the front of the mirror keeps drawing him into a sexual fantasy of him and Wang Xifeng, which ultimately kills him.

The novel is so significant in Chinese culture that experts（"Redologists") have devoted their lives researching and interpreting every aspect of the novel; such research into the novel is termed "Redology" (紅學/红学, ''Hóngxué''). There are also numerous film and drama adaptions throughout the years.

The novel is so significant in Chinese culture that experts（"Redologists") have devoted their lives researching and interpreting every aspect of the novel; such research into the novel is termed "Redology" (红学, "Hong xue"). There are also numerous film and drama adaptions throughout the years.

!! ''Dream of the Red Chamber'' contains examples of:

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* KillEmAll: Or most of them. Many characters are just ruined, without actually dying.

* IllGirl: Lin Daiyu. Wang Xifeng as well, for a few chapters. Both do not survive their conditions.

* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters: Over ''four hundred'' of 'em, most of them female.