Historical Writing Reality Seen from the Order and Style of All the Titles of A Dream of Red Mansions

There are many titles in A Dream of Red Mansions. The appearing order of them in General Notices is slightly different from that in Chapter One. The order in General Notices implies the author's Tai Chi circle. The style of some titles is elegant and the style of the other titles is vulgar, which hint the author's approving or disapproving attitude. In the relations of all titles, the author summarizes the whole topic with dream of red mansions, points to the reality by twelve beauties, uses Xuan to echo the former two, and reveals a hidden story of creative writing behind the text by the incident of Cao Xueqin makes remarks in Daohong Xuan.