賈寶玉
Since the first performance, ""The Romance of the Western Chamber" has become the most popular love comedy in China. Nowadays, it still actively performs in the stage.In the original traditional forms of art performance, such as Kun Opera and Beijing Opera, and other new forms of performance like musical and film. The resourceful maidservant Hongniangin the story is so prominent that evolves from a supporting role to an indispensable main character, becoming the synonym of marriage matchmaker in Chinese culture. In some local versions, the plays even is named by her name and the story itself is only slightly changed. The Romance of the Western Chamber also had profound influences on other literary works, such as "Dream of the Red Chamber"", the first of China's Four Great Classical Novels, and the another famous play "The Peony Pavilion" in Ming Dynasty. Jia Baoyu and Lin Daiyu reading "Romance of the Western Chamber" together is a very famous episode in the "Dream of the Red Chamber". In chapter twenty-three, Lin Daiyu is surprised to find that Jia Baoyu is reading the play because in Qing Dynasty, this book was forbidden to read. At first, Baoyu tries to hide the book, but he could not hide it from her. Later, he expressed his love for Lin Daiyu through the famous sentences from the book.