Abstract: Based on the original classic Dream of Red Mansion and guided by theoretical innovation, this paper presents a reinterpretation and repositioning for the jade culture background and concepts of jade beautifulness, jade deity, jade treasure and jade virtue involved in the novel and for the recognition, application and contribution of China’s jade culture from the new viewpoints of jade studies and jade culture, and proposes the new perspective that jade is the soul of Dream of Red Mansion and this novel is the classic literary work for China’s jade culture．