Which is better, Gengchen or Qi Xu?

Fat Yan Zhai re-evaluates the best stone Ji Gengchen school book.

Gengchen is a version that is closer to the original. A large number of lipid batches have been preserved, with signature numbers. Among them, the number of years and months is far more than it should be, and it is extremely valuable for research.

The title of "Fat Yan Zhai Complete Commentary on the Stone Record" should be based on various versions - Jiashu Edition, Gengchen Edition, and Qi Preface Edition, which may all be available, and a relatively complete lipid batch version is arranged. However, the characteristics of each version are confused, which is not conducive to research.

It depends on what you focus on.

Gengchen is the closest version to Cao Xueqin's period, and it is also considered to be the closest to the original, or even the most authentic. Fat Yan Zhai, Tera Wat Sue and others should all be Cao's friends before his death, and they talked about the gathering and knew a lot about Dream of Red Mansions. If you re-write the original (Cao Zhu Red Mansion), then this version is good.

Qi Xuben, I can only talk about it from memory. I remember that Cheng Gaoben's Red Mansion was the earliest copy of this edition--- which was verified in an article.

Fat Yan Zhai re-evaluation of the stone Ji Gengchen school book is better, it is published by the writer's publishing house mentioned in your question, I have a set. As for the specific benefits, there are many on the Internet, so I won't go into them all. The preface of the writer's publishing house's "Fat Yan Zhai Re-evaluation of the Stone Ji Gengchen School Book" has made the difference between the Gengchen book and the Qi preface book very clear, you can refer to it.

Personally, I like "Fat Yan Zhai Re-evaluation of Stone Ji Gengchen School Book".

Fat Yan Zhai re-evaluates the stone Ji Gengchen school book".

I think Gengchen is better.

"Fat Yan Zhai Re-evaluation of the Stone Record" (Gengchen Ben) is also known as Fat Jingben. The original title of the book is "Fat Yan Zhai Re-evaluation of Stone Records", and the frontispiece of each volume is marked with "Fat Yan Zhai Fan Four Reading and Commenting". The cover book titles of volumes 5 to 8 are "Gengchen Autumn Moon Definitive Edition" or "Gengchen Autumn Definitive Edition", hence the name Gengchen Edition.

Gengchen's original book is quite early, the appearance is the most complete, preserving Cao Xueqin's original text "Dream of Red Mansions" and more than 2,000 comments on the Yan Zhai, almost all of the names of the year and month in the fat batch exist in the Gengchen book, so the version is the most valuable and the most precious. In 1933, Hu Shi saw this manuscript from Xu Xingshu, the son of Xu Hao, and wrote a long article "Baqianlong Gengchen's book "Fat Yan Zhai Re-evaluation of the Stone Record" banknote". In the summer of 1948, Yenching University purchased books from the Xu family and became a collection of books in the library of Peking University.

1) Taipei Wenyuan Publishing House, January 1959, four paperback volumes, two hardcover volumes.

2) Taipei Lianya Publishing House, 1977.

3) Taipei Canton Book Office, April 1977, hardcover four-volume reading.

4) Taili Gao Beihongye Book Company, 1979, hardcover four volumes.

5) Hong Kong Chung Hwa Book Company, Hong Kong Branch, 1977.

(1) Taipei Commercial Press, 12 volumes (small print).

2) Taipei Student Book Company, April 1976, four volumes.

3) Taipei Cantonese Book Company, April 1977, hardcover four volumes (4) Taipei Art Book Office.

The school book of the Stone Ji Gengchen is the most complete and most authentic preservation of the original appearance of Cao Xueqin's original manuscript of the 11 kinds of "Dream of Red Mansions" in the existing manuscript, which was discovered by Mr. Xu Xingzhi in Longfu Temple in Beijing in 1932 and collected by Chunxi, and later bequeathed to the library of Yenching University, which is now in the library of Peking University. This book and Mr. Hu Shih's 1927 discovery and collection of buried Jiazhu (fragments) can be called a double gem, belongs to the national cultural relics and documents. Today, according to the three photocopies published in 1955 and published by the People's Literature Publishing House, the three photocopies are proof-typeset (and checked according to the originals), and the original and the relevant materials on the photocopies are also included.

This book is the first revised edition published in China to comprehensively reflect the original appearance of the Gengchen version of "The Dream of the Red Mansion" (including its fat criticism).

The biggest difference between this book and the popular editions of Dream of Red Mansions published in the past is that it is strictly edited and typeset according to the original appearance of the final version of Cao Xueqin during her lifetime. Not only can you appreciate the true style of the author's original version, but you can also directly provoke Jian to taste the more than 2,100 precious comments left by the author's "confidante" Fat Yanzhai on Gengchen's original (most of which are different from the criticisms of the previous Jiaxu school book published in this book), which has a unique value of artistic appreciation, academic research and edition collection.

The revision of this book has made a major breakthrough in clarifying the original source of the text of Dream of Red Mansions (including the fat criticism), which deserves the attention of people from all walks of life.

"Jiazhu Ben": The title "The Stone Records of the Re-evaluation of the Fat Yan Zhai", which was purchased by Hu Shi in Shanghai in 1927 and stored in the Cornell University Library after Hu Shi's death in 1962, and is now being acquired by the Shanghai Museum.1 This book only survives the first to the eighth, the thirteenth to the sixteenth, the twenty-fifth to the twenty-eighth, a total of sixteen, and there are many pages missing.

This is the earliest surviving manuscript of Dream of the Red Chamber, but this manuscript is early in the sense that the manuscript is based on the earliest. In the first chapter of the book, the title of the book is described in the text, "To the fat Yan Zhai Jiaxu copied and re-commented, still use the "Stone Record", so the academic community has determined the age of the manuscript on which it is based, so it is referred to as "Jiazhuben".