The real author of Dream of the Red ChamberThe real author of 'Dream of the Red Chamber' was still unknown. 'Dream of the Red Chamber' was written in the Qing Dynasty, but most researchers now believed that Cao Xueqin was only a successor to 'Dream of the Red Chamber' and not the author. Cao Xueqin's good friend, Gao E, had made some alterations to 'Dream of the Red Chamber' when he was tidying up the manuscripts left behind by Cao Xueqin. He had made some alterations to 'Dream of the Red Chamber', which became the' Dream of the Red Chamber 'that we are seeing now.