"Truth" In Love-The View Of Science And Technology In "a Dream In Red Chambers"

"A dream of red chambers",which contains the essence of Chinese culture,as the peak of Chinese literature and art, has the best deep-rooted cultural background and wisdom in traditional novels. The work presents a broad picture in late feudal society of China and reflects the life of social economic status effectively then, by describing four feudal families' story of rising up and decline, who are Jia, Shi, Wang, Xue, and the tragedy story of Bao Yu. It is the treasure in human's cultural tradition. Redology involves widely. With the deepening of the research, more and more research angles are also found, which are not only limited studying in literature and novel angles, but also refer to science and technology, philosophy, culture and aesthetic etc."A dream of red chambers" was finished in Ching Dynasty, China. This period from the 17th to 18th centuries which is the time of late Ming and early Ching in Chinese history stage, is an important stage that the feudal society developed to the peak and began to decline. The feudal internal economy system that contains capitalist economic factors began to grow. Communication between Chinese and Westerns became frequent gradually and large quantities of missionaries came to China. Although their arrival was for preaching, their visiting brought objectively western advanced culture ideas, science and technology for this ancient Chinese nation, and injected a new culture elements of science and technology for the ancient China. By this new social situation, the work had important influences to the literati's and officials'ideas in that time. Their thoughts and scientific view was changing. In this paper, taking the edition written by Chao Shueqin and Gao Er for example, the writer will discuss their views of science and technology and reveal the literati's and officials'thoughts and ideas in early Ching under the background of this capitalist sprout period and of the frequent exchanges between Chinese and Western..Literature works pursue "emotion", but scientific knowledge pursue "truth". The first chapter of "A dream of red chambers" begins with the"emotion"spoken out by the"Kong Kong"Taoist. The whole work is linked throughout by the"motion"till the end. Therefore,"a dream of red chambers"is a typical emotional work. However, describing not only"emotion"throughout the whole work, it also shows a lot of information at that time by the epic description on various aspects of that society. The readers can understand each aspect of that society and explain the work according to their own understanding with "prejudice". Of course, as a society "encyclopedia", "a dream of red chambers" assimilates a lot of Chinese and western science and technology knowledge and expresses the author's and other literati's"truth"attitude towards science and technology at that time."A dream of red chambers"shows a more extensive space besides attentive"motion"description. We could see the"truth"through the"emotion". Meanwhile, we could also search the view of science and technologies showed in this work and the folk tragedy in that social life status from the homonyms of the name for the tea and wine.