Dream of the Red Chamber. The novel mainly centres love story of Jia Baoyu and Lin Daiyu.
The well-educated, beautiful and talented girl Lin Daiyu lost her parents from childhood and lived in her grandma’s home in Beijing receiving coldly treatment. Lin had a very sentimental character. She and Jia Baoyu were attracted to each other and fell in love with each; however, their love was constrained by the concept of “match made in heaven.” Suffering from long-time love sickness and the grievous blow that his lover Jia Baoyu had to marry another girl Xue Baochai ; Lin could not take this and finally drowned herself in a pond. Later Jia became a monk in a temple, mourning of his beloved one.
Their love story is called China's Romeo and Juliet and the novel is favored by many Chinese people.
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Chinese Greatest love story
RomanceThese stories are known throughout China and have very tragic parts.
