The Story of the Golden Dust Family
The Golden Dust Family was a story about the rise and fall of a famous family in Beijing during the Qing Dynasty. The novel used the love story of Jin Yanxi and Leng Qingqiu as the main line, interweaving the grievances between the family members to show a colorful, dramatic and contradictory picture of family life. The protagonist of the story, Jin Yanxi, was the eldest son of the Jin family. He was arrogant and regarded money as everything. There was an irreconcilable class difference and sectarianism between him and Leng Qingqiu. However, under the arrangement of fate, the two eventually came together and became husband and wife. However, due to Jin Yanxi's family background, his marriage with Leng Qingqiu was not accepted by the Jin family, which eventually led to the decline of the Jin family and Leng Qingqiu's suicide. There were many other characters in the novel, such as relatives of the Jin family, servants and maids, who had different fates and encounters. The whole story is full of deep human thinking and historical vicissitudes. It is a classic in the history of Chinese literature.