Is the commercially available Dream of Red Mansions the original version by Cao Xueqin and Gao E

There is an original. Ask clearly when buying.

As for the differences, it is normal that there will be miswords when copying and printing books in ancient times, so now there are n versions. Of course, there are also people who delete and modify it indiscriminately, which is a bad book.

Suggestion: Buy the ancient book "Dream of Red Mansions", which is based on the system of the Yan Zhai commentary, and some versions of the Dream of Red Mansions have been continued. It is very different from the high-jaw sequels that are now in use.

It should be a version system that is relatively small different from Cao Xueqin's original. Among them, the "Jiazhu Ben" is considered by some red scholars to be the closest to Cao Gong's original work. The research of red scientists such as Zhou Ruchang is based on this book.

But these are all very professional, and they are usually printed in traditional Chinese, so it's better to buy them yourself or pick a good publishing house Big publishing houses like people's literature and writers are good.

I would like to add that the "Dream of the Red Chamber" in my own home is written by the People's Literature, and it is written with the proofreading of the Dream of the Red Chamber Research Institute of the Chinese Academy of Arts, which is very good.

Dream of Red Mansions is divided into many versions, the People's Literature Publishing House, the one that came out is Cheng Gao's, most of the ones are this version, that is, Cao Xueqin's original work, Gao E's continuation, and there is the fat commentary version, which has now been published, and the two have many retrospectives, which are different, and the general content is about the same.

is as big as the overall context, including the fate of the Jia family, as well as the endings of important characters such as Lin Daiyu, Shi Xiangyun, Miaoyu, Xiangling and others, as small as the personality, language and behavior of many characters, such as Jia Yun and Xiaohong, there is basically no ...... without inconsistenciesOtherwise, it would not be said that Gao He distorted Cao Xueqin's original work......Let's just say a few that are quite right, Baoyu may be right in the end, Sister Qiao's ending is basically true, although Jia Yun should be a positive role in this matter, the ending of attacking people is probably no problem, and Yingchun is probably no problem.

The first 80 episodes are Cao Xueqin, and the last 40 episodes are Gao E's continuation, and it is generally believed that Gao E's writing is too frustrating, but no one can continue to write decently. Legend has it that the finale of Dream of Red Mansions was taken to the coffin by Cao Xueqin.

Cao Xueqin wrote the first 80 chapters, and some people say that the next 40 chapters were written by Gao E. But not necessarily, there are other versions.

Cao Xueqin is the author, but the last 20 episodes of Dream of Red Mansions written by her were lost, and Gao He continued to write them.

The first half is Cao Xueqin, and the second half is Gao E. . .

The first 80 episodes are Cao Xueqin, and the last 40 episodes are Gao E.

The first eighty episodes are written by Cao Xueqin, and the latter are all written by Gao E.

Wipe. Don't be like this, it's ironclad Cao Xueqin, Gao Yi is continuing, and now he is still being criticized by all kinds of people.

Gao He (c. 1738-c. 1815) was a literary scholar of the Qing Dynasty. The word Lanshu, the word Yunshi. Because of his love for ** "Dream of Red Mansions", he is nicknamed "The History of Red Mansions".

A member of the Yellow Banner of the Han Army. His ancestral home was Tieling (now Liaoning), and he lived in Beijing in the early Qing Dynasty. Familiar with the scriptures and history, working in the eight strands of literature, poetry, **, opera, painting and gold and stone are also quite proficient.

Poetry in the Tang Dynasty, the style of words is close to the flower school, ** then "the word must be its roots, and the cultivation is sincerity", emphasizing the main meaning. In the fifty-third year of Qianlong (1788), he tried to raise people for Shuntian Township. Sixty years of Jinshi.

Successive officials and cabinets are in the book, and the cabinet reads. In the sixth year of Jiaqing (1801), he was the same examiner as the Shuntian Township Examination. In the fourteenth year, he was selected by the attendant to supervise the imperial history of Jiangnan Province.

Eighteen years, promoted to the criminal department to the matter. In office, he is known for his "integrity, diligence in political affairs, and talent", and he is an official with a clean air.

In addition to the 40 sequels of "Dream of Red Mansions", Gao He also wrote a variety of poems, such as "Qing Historical Manuscript Wenyuan II", which recorded "Lanshu Poems", and Yang Zongxi's "Eight Banners Wenjing" recorded "Gao Lanshu Collection", which is now lost. The extant "Ten Arts of Lanshu" (manuscript), "The Essentials of the Rulers" and the poetry collection "The Last Manuscript of the Moon Xiaoshanfang", and the collection of words "Yan Xiang Ci and Cun Grass" and so on.

Regarding the continuation of the book, repost one.

The front is written by Cao Xueqin, and the back is written by Gao E.

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

Cheng Jiaben: In the 56th year of Qianlong (1791), Cheng Weiyuan and Gao He combined the first 80 chapters and the last 40 chapters of "Dream of Red Mansions" into a complete story, which was typeset in movable wooden type, and the title of the book was "Dream of Red Mansions", commonly known as "Cheng Jiaben". The last 40 of them are generally believed to be made up by Gao He (there is also a saying that the anonymous man continued, and Gao He sorted out).

Cheng Yiben: Cheng Yiben in the 57th year of Qianlong (1792), Gao He and Cheng Gao used movable type printing to print 120 times of the book called "Dream of Red Mansions", about 70 days after Cheng Jiaben was printed, so it was named Cheng Yiben.

Mengfuben: the name of the stone, found in the Qing Dynasty a Mongolian palace, hence the name. 120 times.

Jiazhuben: the name of "Fat Yan Zhai Re-evaluation of the Stone Record", save 1-8, 13-16, 25-28, a total of 16 times, divided into 4 volumes, 4 times a volume. The first time there is a sentence that is not in the other books:

To the fat Yan Zhai Jiaxu copy and re-evaluate still with stones. Hence the name. Jiaxu, 1754.

There are more than 1,000 comments in this book, which is called "fat criticism".

Ji Mao Ben: The name of "Fat Yan Zhai Re-evaluation of the Stone Record", save 1 time - 20 times, 31 times - 40 times, 55 times (the second half), 56, 57, 58, 59 times (the first half), 61 - 63, 65, 66, 68 times - 70 times. On the table of contents of the 31st-40th volume, there are six words "Ji Mao Winter Moon Definitive Edition", so it is called Ji Mao Edition.

Ji Mao, 1759.

Gengchen Ben: The name is "Fat Yan Zhai Re-evaluation of the Stone Record". Save 78 times, 1-80, lack 64, 67 times. Bound in 8 volumes. 10 times a book. The last four volumes of the table of contents have the words "Gengchen Autumn Moon Definitive Edition", hence the name. Gengchen, 1760.

Mengfuben: the name of the stone, found in the Qing Dynasty a Mongolian palace, hence the name. 120 times.

Qi Ben (lithograph, Shanghai book, Nanjing book): the name of the stone, there is a preface to Qi Li, hence the name. 80 times.

Yang Ben: Also known as Dream Manuscript, Yang Collection, and Full Manuscript. Because it is the original collection of Yang Jizhen, it is named. Title: "Lanshu Taishi Hand-Finalized Dream of Red Mansions".

Shu Xuben: also known as Ji Youben, Fat Shu Ben, the title "Dream of Red Mansions". Save 1-40 times. There is a preface of Shu Yuanwei in 1789 (Ji You), hence the name.

Collected Version: Now in existence at the Institute of Oriental Studies in St. Petersburg, Russia. 78 times saved, 5 or 6 times missing.

There is no general title. Except for a few times called Dream of Red Mansions, each time is called Stone Record. In more than one place, it is incorrect, but this one is correct.

The best example is the second sentence of Daiyu's eyebrows, which is: a pair of eyes that seem to be crying but not crying. It is an excellent match with the first sentence "two bends seem to be frowning, not frowning".

It's a lot inferior. This sentence should be the original pen of Xueqin. Photocopies are available.

Jiachen is also known as Dream Awakening, Dream Preface, and Fat Dream, with the title "Dream of Red Mansions". There is a dream master order. 80 times.

Zheng Zangben: 23, 24 times. It was once collected by Zheng Zhenduo, hence the name.

You know a Cheng Yiben You go to see Zhou Ruchang and Liu Xinwu, I also read it in the book.

In fact, some published editions have Gao E's name on them. And some don't. For example, in the new version of Red Mansions, Anonymous is written on the author of the sequel.

Some of the changes were made to Gao E's sequel, so his name was deliberately avoided.

There is also a theory that this sequel was not originally written by Gao E, but for some reason he was mistaken for the author.

It is generally believed that the Red Chamber is Cao Xueqin's life's work and the crystallization of his art. Coupled with all kinds of dissatisfaction with the ending, he has a prejudice against Gao E.

Rouge Zhai said that the ending should have been forced by the situation for Baoyu and Xiangyun, two people who originally only had family affection.

This ending may not be satisfactory to everyone. Therefore, Gao E's tragic ending is too painful, and it is considered to deviate from the original intention of the original work and cannot be recognized.

In fact, Gao E's literary level is indeed not as good as Cao Xueqin's, but his thoughts about the Red Chamber are sufficient.

This is also the fact that there are multiple sequels to Red Mansions themselves, but the mainstream has always been the Gao Yi version.

This is also a disguised recognition of Gao E.

120 times are the names of the two people, and 80 times are Cao Xueqin. In fact, there should be no 120 combined version, which is unfair to Cao Xueqin, and Gao E's sequel should be published separately.

It's not cooperation, it's just Cao Xueqin's work, and Gao He just helped.

Gao He continued to write the last 40 episodes of "Dream of Red Mansions" out of emotional interest after Cao Xueqin's death, and his writing quality and writing are much inferior to Cao Xueqin, and his final ending does not conform to the ending that Cao Xueqin wants to write, so as a result, Gao He only continued to write "Dream of Red Mansions" out of a psychology similar to that of a fan and a finisher, and the real author of this masterpiece is still Cao Xueqin, besides, although only Cao Xueqin's name is signed, But most people know that the author of the last 40 episodes is Gao E, so this is fair to Gao E.

I believe that for the vast majority of red researchers, they only admit the eighty times, first, Gao E's talent is not as good, which is understandable, Meng Ruan's talent and life experience are absolutely rare in ancient times; Second, in the first five episodes, the original work has predicted the fate of almost all the characters and the final ending, whether explicit or implicit, and Gao E's sequel can be regarded as conforming to the original work, but in fact, many scholars have pointed out the unreasonableness of Gao E's sequel; That is to say, the forty chapters of Gao and E are extremely "official", that is, they are relatively political, and they have always been rarely recognized by literati.

Some books only have a part written by Cao Xueqin.

Who let the beginning be written by Cao Xueqin.

Problems left over from history are not reported by the people and not prosecuted by the officials.

There is a view that Gao E's sequel is a dog's tail continuation mink, which is not as high as the first 80 chapters written by Cao Xueqin, and the red scholars mainly study the first 80 chapters, and the last 40 chapters have been largely ignored.

Gao He wrote it after Cao Xueqin's death, and his continuation was completely inconsistent with Cao Xueqin's original intention. Some people even scolded him for writing this manuscript, you can't read the current Dream of Red Mansions as a book, but should be separated. So it's not a question of injustice to Gao E.

Hello! There are many versions of Dream of Red Mansions, which can be divided into 80 versions and 120 versions according to the number of episodes. Among them, the 80-episode version is Cao Xueqin's original work, and Cao Xueqin passed away before she could finish writing Dream of Red Mansions.

According to research, Cao Xueqin's original intention was to write 108 times, so I won't say much here. Although Cao Xueqin left behind the unfinished part of the manuscript, this part of the manuscript was also lost in the process of being borrowed by others, which should be said to be the biggest regret in the history of Chinese literature. The last 40 chapters of the 120-chapter version are written by Gao E, Gao E and Cao Xueqin are not contemporaries, Gao E was born after Cao Xueqin, and the two do not know each other, and Gao E does not have any advantage in continuing to write Dream of Red Mansions, neither Cao Xueqin's manuscript, nor is it clear Cao Xueqin's original meaning.

Gao Yuan not only continued to write the last 40 times, but also made a lot of revisions to the first 80 times, the famous writer Ms. Zhang Ailing commented that the last 40 times is the vulgarization of the Dream of Red Mansions, like bone cancer deeply imprinted in the brain, I can't forget it, her evaluation of Gao Gao is four words: death is more than innocent! There are also many extant versions of 80 versions of Dream of Red Mansions, and there are many, many small differences in the text of different versions, of which of course only some of them are Cao Xueqin's original work.

Due to the low status of the past **, readers often modify it without authorization when they see what they don't like, so it is not as simple as Cao Xueqin's original work, it should be said that each version has been modified by others, and the number of revisions is as large as a cow's hair. The purpose of writing this is to tell everyone that you must not buy or read the 120-chapter version written by Gao E. The absence of the last 40 episodes does not mean that we cannot know the original ending of Dream of Red Mansions, one of the major characteristics of Dream of Red Mansions is foreshadowing, foreshadowing is ubiquitous in Dream of Red Mansions, Cao Xueqin often hints at someone's subsequent ending in the previous text, so you can understand Cao Xueqin's original meaning through foreshadowing.