Hello and welcome!
These pages discuss the novel Honglou Meng 红楼梦 or The Dream of the Red Chamber. I hope readers will be able to pursue and discover many avenues of interest to the work in these pages, and leave with a more informed sense of its artistic merits.
I shall abbreviate the novel's title to HLM. HLM is one of the greatest works in world literary history. Apart from extensive academic research, indeed the independendent field of "Redology," HLM has also inspired numerous sequels, commentaries, stories, lyrics, ballads, operas, anthologies, translations, illustrations, societies, websites, fan-literature, radio adaptations, TV series and movies, as well as countless GIFs, memes and messaging stickers. These pages embrace it all.
