When I was young, I had a chance to read the book Dream of the Red Chamber for my neighbor was a teacher and had so many books including the book Dream of the Red Chamber. I read a few pages and found it was only about daily life. I felt so bored and put it down and forgot it.

    Last year, in Shenzhen, when I stayed at my small room alone, I watched the TV drama Dream of the Red Chamber and was deeply moved by it and it left a beautiful red dream in my heart. Naturally, I also paid attention to those actors.

    Jia Rui, Ma Guangru, was probably the No.1 tragic character. He lived totally in his red dreams and thought himself as Baoyu. When he went to Beijing to have an audition for Jia Baoyu, he was beaten by Ouyang Fenqiang and was only able to play wretched Jia Rui. Later he loved Chen Xiaoxu without any result and was always different from other people and died in a miserable and poor life. He was similar to Zhang Guorong and could be called drama lunatic, only he wasn’t as popular as Zhang Guorong.

    Shi Xiangyun, Guo Xiaozhen, I saw she was still beautiful after twenty years and could never forget that simple and happy Shi Xiangyun acted by her. I guessed no actress could act Shi Xiangyun better.

    In a word, every character was acted well in 87 edition Dream of the Red Chamber comparing with New Dream of the Red Chamber, to which I had to say, what the hell was that? TV drama is a kind of art, if added with too many things, will become sour like food.

    If you’re the best one for the character, I’ll choose you regardless of everything. A really simple and true standard, but which is really so hard to be executed nowadays. Thanks to the 87 edition Dream of the Red Chamber, I am interested in the novel so much.

    Just look at those beautiful and happy maidens, my heart is full of happiness and gratitude, which reminds me of the words of Jia Baoyu, “man is made from mud and woman is made from water.”