The different value orientations of Dream of Red Mansions and Cheng Ben

Cheng Gaoben continued to write the last forty chapters, and made a lot of changes to the first eighty chapters. In many places, the author's original intention is distorted, weakened, scandalized, and obliterated, such as Baoyu taking the skirt Xiangling for change, this paragraph is written very simply, and there is nothing between the two; But Cheng Ben changed it very ambiguously, as if the two had a personal relationship. For another example, Baoyu went to visit Qingwen and met her sister-in-law, Cao Xueqin's original intention was to prove the pure relationship between Baoyu and Qingwen through such an unbearable-looking woman, but Cheng Ben weakened this and capitalized Qingwen's sister-in-law's unbearability.

In the sixth time, Jia Rong borrowed a screen from Sister Feng, which was originally just to show that Sister Feng was not formal and had a straightforward personality, but Cheng Ben was very ambiguous and added a lot of descriptions, such as "blushing", as if she and Jia Rong had something. The changes to some verses are also not clever, such as changing "jade grains and golden ulva throat full throat" to "jade grain golden wave (golden wave is flowing juice, how can it be "swallowed full throat)" and "heartless decorated reeds" changed to "unintentional decorated reed seedlings", which is a big mistake.

The reason why Cheng Gaoben appeared so much is not necessarily because he deliberately misinterpreted Cao Xueqin's original meaning, but more because of the huge difference between the changer and Cao Xueqin herself in terms of world view, outlook on life, artistic quality, and writing skills, which changed many parts of Cao's original work to be very mediocre, vulgar and even unsightly.

The Dream of Red Mansions is actually an inkstone book. This version is the most in line with Cao Xueqin's real handwriting. Fat Yan Zhai is a speller, and now it is more recognized that Fat Yan Zhai is Cao Xueqin's confidante.

But there are also several people who approve the inkstone. But in general, the inkstone is the version that is most in line with the original. Only 80 times left in this version.

And Chen Gaoben is the popular 120 Dream of Red Mansions. The next 40 times are the sequels of Gao E. At present, it is recognized that Gao E's sequel has subverted the theme of the first 80 episodes.

It's not just the sequel to the last 40 rounds. Even Gao Yi modified the content of the first 80 episodes in order to make the content of the latter look reasonable.

Therefore, if you want to read the real Dream of Red Mansions, you should read more about the Yanben Stone Record.

The former is anti-feudal.

The latter defended feudalism.

Regarding the identity of Fat Yan Zhai, there are four main theories in the red academic circles:

a) The author says; (2) Shi Xiangyun said; (3) Uncle said; (4) The cousin said.

Cheng Ben, or Cheng Gaoben, is a book with special value in various versions of "Dream of Red Mansions".

The so-called Cheng Ben mainly refers to Cheng A and Cheng B.

The existing version of Dream of Red Mansions can be divided into two systems, one is the lipid review system that only circulates the first 80 chapters and retains the comments of Fat Yan Zhai, and the other is the Cheng Gao Ben system that has been sorted out and supplemented by Wei Yuan and Gao E, deleted all the comments of Yan Zhai, and continued to complete the 120 times. The so-called lipid commentary is the sum of all the biographical manuscripts of the "Stone Records" with fat criticism, and these copies have retained a large number of vermilion criticisms, and some of the important copies have the words "Fat Yan Zhai Re-evaluation of the Stone Records", and people generally call these early manuscripts of the "Stone Records" as fat commentaries or fat criticisms.

"Fat Yan Zhai" Gengchen (Qianlong 25, 1760) "Four Readings and Reviews" (photocopied banknotes. In the school notes, it is referred to as "lipid book").

And most of the Cheng Ben has been changed.

There are only 80 times in the fat book and 120 times in the Cheng book, and the former has not been changed, and the latter has changed too much.

Cheng Jiaben is the earliest engraved version of "Dream of Red Mansions", and its appearance is a major event in the history of red studies.

Cheng Jiaben ended the copying stage of "The Stone Record" and ushered in a new era of printing, which is of great significance for the wide circulation of this great work.

Dream of Red Chambers has been passed down to this day and has become a precious treasure of Chinese culture and an outstanding masterpiece of world literature, and Cheng Jiaben has played a very important role. As far as the version itself is concerned,Cheng Jiaben has many unique features and irreplaceable value in other books。

Dream of Red Mansions reflects the flaws of the feudal system.