Various sequels to Dream of the Red Chamber and their brief contents.

Jinjiang ** network. The love of the Red Mansion is a continuation of Bao Dai's marriage.

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Analysis: Cheng Weiyuan said in the 120 chapters of "Preface to the Dream of Red Mansions" that more than 20 of the last 40 chapters were found by him from "bibliophiles who did not even raise the pile of paper", and the remaining 10 chapters were obtained from the "drum burden". But most people believe that the last 40 episodes are actually all from Cheng Gao and the others.

In recent years, some people have also suggested that the last 40 times of the book will be renewed by someone else, and Cheng Gao has indeed only done the work. Some people also believe that there are some old manuscripts of Cao Xueqin in the last 40 episodes.

In 1981, Chen Bingzao came to the conclusion that all 120 episodes were Cao Xueqin's original works through mathematical statistics of Dream of Red Mansions. There is still no general consensus in the academic community.

The writer is Gao E.

The last 40 episodes and the first 80 episodes are different in terms of ideological will, Bao Dai's personality, and artistic style. Therefore, scholars such as Hu Shi, Yu Pingbo, Gu Jiegang, Wu Shichang, Zhou Ruchang, Li Xifan, and Cai Yijiang awarded the copyright of the last 40 chapters to Gao E.

Shenzhen University has developed a multi-functional computer retrieval system for Dream of Red Mansions, and concludes that there are great differences between the first 80 episodes and the last 40 episodes in terms of vocabulary and description. All the rare characters in the book appear in the first 80 chapters, and none of them appear in the last 40 chapters; The book describes pavilions and pavilions 265 times, most of which are in the first 80 chapters, and there are 5 in the last 40 chapters.

The sequel to "Dream of Red Mansions" is Gao E.

Gao He (1758 - about 1815), the word Yunshi, the name Qiufu, alias Lanshu, Xing.

1. The history of the Red Mansion. One of the two main authors, arrangers, and publishers of Cheng Gaoben, the first engraved edition in the history of publishing and communication of the Chinese classical ** "Dream of Red Mansions", was a native of the Yellow Flag Internal Affairs Office of the Han Army in the Qing Dynasty, and a native of Tieling, Liaoning.

Gao He was promoted in the 53rd year of Qianlong (1788), and in the 60th year of Qianlong (1795), he was promoted to the rank of scholar and first, and successively served as the secretary of the cabinet, the middle book of the Han army, the classics of the cabinet, the cabinet attendant, the Jiangnan Provincial Supervision of the Imperial History, and the criminal department. There are works such as "The Last Manuscript of the Moon Mountain House" and "Inkstone Words, Grass Storage" and so on.

From the 56th year of Qianlong (1791) to the 57th year (1792), Gao He was invited by his friend Cheng Weiyuan to assist, collate and publish Cheng A and Cheng B copies of Dream of Red Mansions. Since Hu Shi's research, the red academic community has long believed that the last forty episodes of "Dream of Red Mansions" are a continuation of Gao E. In the 21st century, this statement has come under increasing criticism.

Since 2007, the People's Literature Publishing House's new edition of "Dream of Red Mansions" has stopped using the words "Gao E's writings" and "Gao E's continuation", and has been updated to "Anonymous Continuation, Cheng Weiyuan and Gao E's Continuation", marking the shaking of "Gao E's continued book theory". Red scholar Yu Pingbo's last words: "Cheng Weiyuan and Gao He are meritorious in preserving "Dream of Red Mansions"!

First of all, Cao Xueqin wrote the whole book of Dream of Red Mansions, and the whole book is not 120 chapters, but 108 or 110 chapters (which can be clearly inferred from the fat commentary), due to various reasons, part of it is lost, and the 80 chapters seen today are also composed of various manuscripts, that is to say, there is no complete 80 chapters version.

On the one hand, Cheng Weiyuan's sequel book is in line with the ending of the original work to a certain extent, and the achievement is high, and their sequel also conforms to some values of the bureaucratic class at that time, so don't allow it to be printed and become the first printed version of Dream of Red Mansions, and the previous versions are all manuscripts.

Most of the ones on the market are the last forty chapters written by Gao E, but there are actually other versions.

The most recognized is Gao E, but it is also said that Cao Xueqin personally wrote it, and Gao He and Cheng Weiyuan are only responsible for engraving. It is even rumored that Dream of Red Mansions was actually written by Ji Xiaolan, and the credibility is not high.

The first 80 chapters were written by Cao Xueqin, and the last 40 chapters were written by Gao E.

Gao He and Cheng Weiyuan, but it was mainly rewritten by the will of the Qianlong Emperor.

In fact, the 120 episodes of "Dream of Red Mansions" published by Gao E

The last forty chapters were written by Gao E.

, it was Gao Yi (E) who helped him continue to write.

Most of the Chinese characters in the last forty books are from the original author.

Originally, there were not too many problems in the last 40 chapters, but because of Mr. Hu Shih's "bold assumptions", the problems of the last 40 chapters became a big problem, and now it seems that if Mr. Hu Shi did not make that kind of conclusion in the last 40 chapters, Hu Shih's "bold assumptions" about the book "Dream Interpretation of the Red Chamber" would not be tenable. The last forty chapters are indeed a little problematic, there may be a few times that are not done by the original author, but most of the chapters are still done by the original author, and some of the chapters are particularly wonderful, and even the most wonderful in the whole book. ——For details, please see the 8th and 9th of today's headline "Interpretation of Red Mansions" series.

Some people also say that it was written by Cao himself.

Gao He usually thinks that the first 80 chapters of Dream of Red Mansions were written by Cao Xueqin, but this is not the case. According to the current research, Dream of Red Mansions has not been written by Cao Xueqin since the seventy-eighth chapter.

There are several times in the whole book about Dream of Red Mansions, which is also a mystery. Some people agree with Gao E's 120 chapters, but some people believe that the "last 30 rounds" referred to by Yan Zhai should be 79 to 108 times.

In other words, when Cao Xueqin was alive, "Dream of Red Mansions" was only published 78 times, not 80 times. In fact, the first 80 chapters of the 120 chapters of "Dream of Red Mansions" published today by Gao He are not entirely Cao Xueqin's original work, and some scholars believe that they have been tampered with by Gao He or Yan Zhai. And the last forty episodes of "Dream of Red Mansions" continued by Gao He are not all written by Gao E.

As we all know, Cao Xueqin's "Dream of the Red Chamber" was lost for some reason after the completion of the manuscript, and it is possible that Gao He collected the materials of the second half of the lost "Dream of the Red Chamber" and rewrote it to form the 120 "Dream of the Red Chamber" that he sees today.

It is believed that it was written by Gao E, and Cao Xueqin died after only writing the first 80 times.

The first 80 episodes were written by Cao Xueqin, and the last 40 episodes were continued by Anonymous, sorted out by Cheng Weiyuan and Gao E.

The main tendency is to be high, and I am afraid that it will not be possible to figure it out without conclusive evidence.

In the Qing Dynasty, it was continued by Gao E, and in modern times, it was continued by Liu Xingwu.

Ancient: Cheng Weiyuan, Gao E.

Hyundai: Wen Haoran, Liu Xinwu.

I have some opinions about the writer Liu Xinwu's interview report on the continuation of "Dream of Red Mansions" and the various discussions it has aroused.

Some people are interested in continuing to write classical masterpieces, some publishers are interested in investing in printing, and some readers are interested in buying and reading, as long as they comply with the law, there is no need to criticize them. However, there seem to be some issues that have to be discussed.

According to Liu Xinwu's explanation in an interview with reporters, the purpose of his continued writing of "Dream of Red Mansions" is to "restore Cao Xueqin's original meaning", to "conscientiously continue to write according to the foreshadowing of the first 80 episodes", and "not to come to Hulai". Specifically, it is "through the close reading and exploration of the first 80 texts, we try to restore the original writing and original meaning of Cao Xueqin's last 28 chapters." At the same time, it is also for Mr. Duanmu Yuliang, a senior colleague, to fulfill a last wish to continue to write "Dream of Red Mansions".

Judging from Mr. Liu Xinwu's two reasons, the latter is obviously not reliable, and the former has a long history. Mr. Liu's research on Dream of the Red Chamber in recent years has been accused by many people of "Suo Yin" and "archaeology" because of his obsessive obsession with "exploration", and has also been considered by some to be a "vulgarization" of the study of Red Studies, and has fallen into the quagmire of "Suo Yin" that has long been reviewed and surpassed by the Red Scholars. And what I want to ask is, can the original "mutilated" classic masterpieces be "continued"?

Is this "continuation" necessary? Will it succeed? Regardless of the experience of history or the lessons of reality, the answer given is very affirmative

No, it doesn't have to, and it won't really work.

A classic masterpiece of the Dream of Red Chambers cannot be continued, because literary creation is a highly original aesthetic labor, which is separated from the historical time and space of the time and the author's own individual labor, and any so-called "continuation" with the nature of "restoration" from the standpoint of a bystander is not so much an original aesthetic labor as a "speculative 'restoration' interpretation or research", which is no longer exactly the same thing as real literary creation. As it has been said, it makes no sense to put a prosthetic limb on the statue of Venus, and it is not necessary.

At the same time, continuations, especially those that are called "restorative", cannot be truly successful, because what others have written can never be fully grasped. With the life experience and thoughts of today's people, how can we succeed in "continuing" and "restoring" the works of the ancients two and a half centuries ago? Therefore, it is not a real restoration, at best, it can only be the self-righteousness of the sequel writer.

The last 28 chapters of "Dream of Red Mansions" can never be "restored" unless there are major "archaeological" discoveries.

Therefore, to "restore" "Dream of Red Chambers" according to "Suo Yin" and to sell one's sequel book as a "key" and "bridge" to understand "Dream of Red Mansions" is likely to "mislead" readers, and this is not the literary sentiment and professional duty that a professional writer should have. The so-called "a small mistake is a thousand miles wrong", the perverseness of the concept eventually leads to the confusion of practice. No matter how well the continuation is written, it is a sequel, not the original.

restoration", so it is better not to mention it.

Nuwa refined the stone to make up for the sky, and the stone that was refined was left unused, and it was abandoned under the Qinggang Peak of the Wuji Cliff in the Great Wilderness Mountain. This stone has been psychic, the size is arbitrary, come and go at will, because it is not selected to make up for the heavens, often sad and self-sorry. The monk and the Taoist priest saw its cuteness, so they brought it to "the prosperous state, the family of poetry and hairpins, the prosperous land of flowers and willows, and the rich and gentle township".

I don't know how long later, the empty road people passed by here, and saw that the stone was engraved with its experience, so they copied it from beginning to end, and handed it to Cao Xueqin to read, add, delete, and divide the chapters. The following is the content engraved on the stone. There is a gourd temple outside the gate of Gusu Chang, the eunuch Zhen Shiyin (homophonic true thing hidden) lives next to the temple, and the poor Confucian Jia Yu Village (homophonic fake language exists) who lives in the temple is pitiful, and he becomes a like-minded friend, and gives him silver to catch the exam.

On the night of the Lantern Festival, Zhen Shiyin's daughter Zhen Yinglian (homonym really should be pitied) was abducted; Soon there was a fire in the gourd temple; Zhen's house was burned down again. Zhen took his wife to his father-in-law, but was looked down upon, and his father-in-law was a despicable and greedy man, and he got the little silver he had left into his own hands. Zhen Shiyin was "anxious and resentful", "poor and sick", and was desperate.

One day, he was walking down the street on crutches, when he suddenly saw a lame man approaching, muttering some words in his mouth. Shi Yin listened to it and asked the questioner, and after knowing that it was "Okay Song", he replied with the annotation of "Okay Song". After being instructed by the Taoist, Zhen Shiyin completely woke up and became a monk with the lame Taoist.

This time it mainly talks about the origin of the book, including three things: first, the origin of Jia Baoyu and Lin Daiyu. Baoyu is a stone descending to earth, this stone was abandoned by Nuwa under the Qinggang Peak because of "no material to make up for the sky", and went to the police fairy to be a Shenying waiter, met a Zhuzhu fairy grass, irrigated her nectar every day, and was later reincarnated by a monk to be a man, he is Jia Baoyu.

The Zhuzhu fairy grass also followed the stone to repay the kindness, she is Lin Daiyu. The second is that there is an intellectual man named Zhen Shiyin, and there is a three-year-old girl Yinglian, who is regarded as a pearl in the palm of her hand. Shi Yin daydreamed one day, and in the dream he saw a monk carrying a piece of beautiful jade to reincarnate.

Shi Yin saw that there were four words on the beautiful jade, "Tongling Baoyu". When I woke up, I forgot about the dream. Soon after, Shiyin's daughter disappeared; The house was on fire again.

Therefore, he became pessimistic and misanthropic and became a monk. "Zhen Shiyin" is a homonym for "true things hidden". At the beginning of this chapter, the author says, "After experiencing a dream, I hid the real thing, and said this book "The Book of Stones" through psychic; Therefore, it is called 'Zhen Shiyin'.

The third is Jia Yucun, a poor intellectual, who often visits the Zhen family and is loved by the Zhen family's girl. Due to Zhen Shiyin's funding, Jia Yu became an official in the village"Jiayu Village"Yes"False words exist"The homonym of the text.

It mainly introduces the origin of Dream of Red Mansions