在清代前期，也就是《红楼梦》的成书时期，中国封建社会已进入末期，农民阶级和地主阶级的矛盾日益激化。封建的土地所有制是地主阶级奴役和剥削农民的基础。广大农民深受政治压迫和经济剥削，处于极端贫困和痛苦的境地，除了反抗斗争，别无出路。广大农村是当时阶级斗争的重要战场。当时，明末农民大起义已被镇压下去，而新的农民大起义尚未到来，农村的阶级斗争形式首先表现在，广大农民为反对封建的土地租佃关系而进行的抗租、反夺佃的斗争；同时还表现在以贫雇农民为主体的为反对沉重的赋税徭役负担而举行的抗粮、抗差、反苛捐杂税等斗争。这些斗争形式，过去的封建王朝虽然也发生过，但是在清初， In the early Qing Dynasty, that is, the time of the publication of A Dream of Red Mansions, the feudal society of China had entered the final stage and the contradictions between the peasant class and the landlord class were increasingly intensified. Feudal landownership is the foundation upon which the landlord classes enslave and exploit peasants. The vast majority of peasants, deeply oppressed by the political oppression and economic exploitation, are in extreme poverty and painful circumstances and have no alternative but to resist the struggle. The vast rural area was an important battlefield for the class struggle at the time. At that time, the peasant uprising had been suppressed in the late Ming and the new peasant uprising had not yet come. The form of class struggle in the countryside was first manifested in the anti-rent and anti-tenancy of the broad masses of peasants against the feudal land tenancy Struggle. At the same time, it is also manifested in the struggle against food, hard-earned and anti-austerity held by the poor peasant farmers as the main body to oppose the heavy burden of taxation and military service. These forms of struggle, the feudal dynasty in the past although it happened, but in the early Qing Dynasty,