Most famous Chinese traditional novels have universal and unique artistic style, writing technique and artistic language, Honglou meng is one of the best novels that contain deep connotation cultural and ideological content. As is known, the original author Cao Xue Qing only wrote the first eighty chapters of this novel, but died before completing the last 40. The last 40 chapters of the novel are of dubious authenticity. It has been said that the other forty chapters were written by Gao E. It is not a complete and unified whole, so the literary qualities of the first eighty chapters could be discussed more efficiently rather than the last forty chapters in this essay. Furthermore, the three most important qualities of Honglou Meng as literature, namely its formal structure, the novel's lively characters, and the diversity of literary techniques, will be discussed in this essay. Honglou Meng is a book that consumed Cao xue qing's entire life. . The novel is believed to be semi-autobiographical and reflects the fortunes of Cao Xueqin's family. It was meant to be a memorial to the women Cao knew in her youth: friends, relatives and servants, as the author explains in the first chapter. The novel itself is a detailed and episodic record of the life of the extended Jia clan, composed of two branches, the Ning-guo and Rong-guo houses, occupying two large adjacent family compounds in the Qing capital, [Beijing]. Their ancestors were made dukes and at the beginning of the novel the two houses were still one of the most illustrious families in the capital. It can obviously be seen that the content of this novel is not easy to understand but contains deep meanings. As Lu Xun said, various people will have different understandings of Honglou Meng. It is clear that the three most important qualities of Honglou Meng's literature, namely structure, characters and literary technique, should not be ignored. First, the lattice shape structure of the novel is one of the three most important qualities of literature for Honglou Meng. All one hundred and twenty chapters contain a highly topical and tragic formation. The first half of the chapters depict a flourishing lifestyle of Jia's family, while the left half of the chapters describe a phase of decline of this family. It is usually said that the whole book is separated into four entities by the fall of Jia's family.