Why study A Dream of Red Mansions?

A Dream of Red Mansions is a study of A Dream of Red Mansions and its authors. The name of A Dream of Red Mansions comes from a joke in Daoguang period of Qing Dynasty: Zhu Changding, a scholar in Songjiang, only likes reading novels and is particularly fascinated by A Dream of Red Mansions. A friend asked Zhu Changding, "Why don't you study Confucian classics?" Zhu replied: "I also study Confucian classics, but I study fewer Confucian classics than others." A traditional Confucian classic is a scarlet letter if it is less than one painting and three folds (see Jun Yao's Ci Zhu Ju Zero Ink). In addition, there is such a record in Li Fang's Eight Banners Illustration: "In the early years of Guangxu, the scholar-officials of the Jing Dynasty especially loved reading (according to the reference of A Dream of Red Mansions), claiming to be a dream of red mansions." From these records, we can also see the prosperity of studying A Dream of Red Mansions in Qing Dynasty.

Redology Schools and Their Representative Works

■ Over the past 200 years, Redology has produced many schools, such as comments, comments, poems, researches, textual research and so on. With the emergence of representative works of textual research school and Hu Shi's Textual Research on a Dream of Red Mansions, it is generally divided into old redology and new redology. The more important schools of Old Dream of Red Mansions are criticism and research. The representative figures of the critical school are Wang, Yao Xie and others in Qing Dynasty. They mainly annotate 120 copies of A Dream of Red Mansions supplemented by Cheng Weiyuan and Gao E in the form of dots and annotations. At the end of the Qing Dynasty and the beginning of the Republic of China, the esoteric school prevailed, mainly comparing the characters and stories in A Dream of Red Mansions with the people and things in history or hearsay. His representative works include Wang and Shen Ping 'an's A Dream of Red Mansions, Cai Yuanpei's A Story of Stone, and Deng Kuangyan's Interpretation of A Dream of Red Mansions. Today, there are still such works. Textual research school pays attention to collecting historical data about the family background and life of the author of A Dream of Red Mansions, and conducts textual research on its version. There are many important works, besides Hu Shi's Textual Research on A Dream of Red Mansions, Yu Pingbo's Discrimination on A Dream of Red Mansions, Zhou's New Evidence of A Dream of Red Mansions and Zhang Ailing's Nightmare of A Dream of Red Mansions. In addition, there are many redologists who study the writing method, literary characteristics and ideological significance of A Dream of Red Mansions from the perspective of A Dream of Red Mansions itself. Wang Guowei's Review of A Dream of Red Mansions is a comprehensive review of A Dream of Red Mansions by using western philosophical theories, which has had a great influence on the study of redology.

I. Old Dream of Red Mansions, New Dream of Red Mansions and Contemporary Dream of Red Mansions

■ The study of A Dream of Red Mansions is produced with the writing and spreading of A Dream of Red Mansions, which has a history of more than 200 years. Redology has also experienced several different development periods in the past two hundred years. It can be roughly divided into three periods: from the Ganjia period of Qing Dynasty to 192 1 year ago, it is called the "old redology" period; The period of New Dream of Red Mansions was from 192 1 New Dream of Red Mansions to 1954. Since 1954, the period of criticizing bourgeois ideas in the study of a dream of red mansions has been "contemporary dream of red mansions".

There are some poems and biographies about A Dream of Red Mansions and its authors in Old Dream of Red Mansions, some comments on various versions, and some books and articles on A Dream of Red Mansions. The overall achievement is not high, but the poems of Dunmin and Duncheng and some comments of Zhi Yanzhai are of high data value for understanding Cao Xueqin and his creation, while Wang Guowei's Comments on a Dream of Red Mansions expounds its social significance and artistic value from the Dream of Red Mansions itself. Although his philosophy is idealistic, the research angle is desirable. The most worthless monograph is Suoyin School, and its representative works include My Talk about a Dream of Red Mansions, Suoyin in a Dream of Red Mansions, Suoyin in the Stone by Cai Yumin, Suoyin in a Dream of Red Mansions by Wang, Suoyin in a Dream of Red Mansions by Shen Ping-an and Interpretation in a Dream of Red Mansions by Deng Kuangyan.

Generally speaking, the critical works in A New Dream of Red Mansions can be divided into three categories: the first category is the works of Suoyin School, such as A Dream of Red Mansions written by Kando in 1925, Textual Research on the Techniques of A Dream of Red Mansions written by Shou Pengfei in 1927, and The Story of the Stone written by Jing Meijiau in 1934. This is the first research stage. However, due to the huge momentum of A Dream of Red Mansions, the influence of researches is shrinking. The second category is textual research works, such as Hu Shi 192 1 Textual Research on a Dream of Red Mansions and 1928 Textual Research on a Dream of Red Mansions, Yu Pingbo 1923 Discrimination on a Dream of Red Mansions and 1952 Research on a Dream of Red Mansions. Their achievement lies in making some useful textual research on the author and version of A Dream of Red Mansions and criticizing the fallacy of the old Dream of Red Mansions. However, in textual research, idealistic ideas and pragmatic research methods were spread and became the main objects of idealism in the study of A Dream of Red Mansions from 65438 to 0954. The third category is critical works, such as Lu Xun's A Brief History of Chinese Fiction and Historical Changes of China's Fiction History, which put forward many outstanding and incisive views on A Dream of Red Mansions. In addition, Zhang Tianyi's Jia Baoyu became a monk, Wang Kunlun's Dream of Red Mansions and Li's Dream of Red Mansions are all successful works.

In the period of contemporary redology, the Comments on A Dream of Red Mansions 100,10, 1954 published by Wen Shizhe, Li Xifan, Lan Ling, On A Dream of Red Mansions and others and Guangming Daily. The influential works in this period are: A Dream of Red Mansions by Lan Ling, A Dream of Red Mansions by He Qifang, A Dream of Red Mansions by Cao Xueqin of Zhou, A Dream of Red Mansions Study by, A New Theory of Red Mansions by Zhang Mianchi, A Dream of Red Mansions by Jiang Hesen and A Dream of Red Mansions Review by. Lin's Dream of Red Mansions, Duan's Dream of Red Mansions, Lu Qixiang's Dream of Red Mansions, On Xifeng's Dream of Red Mansions, Sun Xun's Dream of Red Mansions and Jin Ping Mei's Dream of Red Mansions, Deng Yunxiang's Dream of Red Mansions and A Dream of Red Mansions Guide, etc. If you want to know more about the research history of A Dream of Red Mansions, you can read Guo's A Brief History Draft and a Continued Draft of A Dream of Red Mansions and Han Jinlian's A Historical Draft of A Dream of Red Mansions.

I prefer Zhou's Dream of Red Mansions. Some time ago, the content of "Liu's Secret" broadcast in the lecture hall of CCTV can also be seen.