Please give an evaluation. The more versions of A Dream of Red Mansions, the better. Just like in our Chinese book.

Dream of Red Mansions. There are many versions. The difference lies in age and fat evaluation. Every version will be different. I think the best are JOE and Chen Geng. A few years ago, I bought "Re-evaluation of the Stone in Hongyan Zhai-JOE School-based" in Xi Shu, which was quite good. There are many valuable articles in the preface and postscript to help beginners get started. Unfortunately, only 16 times, Chen Geng's books have never been bought, but a few days ago, I bought a black box and two hardcover books from Tianjin Ancient Books Publishing House, that is, the Re-evaluation of Stone by Zhiyanzhai, which is based on Chen Geng's books and contains almost all versions of fat reviews. I think it's quite valuable. The original price is 280, and the book market only sells 50. Other versions have been published one after another. You can search Dangdang, Zhuo Yue and other websites, and there will be introductions. Xinhua Bookstore and Xi Shu should be sold.

In addition, I suggest you read some introductory books on a dream of red mansions. Opinions vary. I think Zhou's is better. You can also find some in the bookstore.

Introduction to the Fat Review of A Dream of Red Mansions

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The existing version system of A Dream of Red Mansions can be divided into two systems. One is the fat evaluation system that only circulated the first 80 times and kept the comments of Zhi Yanzhai. The other is the Cheng Gaoben system pieced together by Cheng Weiyuan and Gao E, which deleted all the comments of Zhi Yanzhai and continued to write 120 times. The so-called fat review is the sum of all the copied copies of "The Story of the Stone" plus fat reviews. These manuscripts retain a large number of red notes, and some important manuscripts are engraved with the words "Red inkstone re-evaluates the Story of the Stone", so people generally refer to these early manuscripts of the Story of the Stone as fat reviews or fat reviews.

At present, the known fat books were basically discovered by the world after the May 4th Movement. There are twelve kinds of * *, the most important of which are:

1. Xu Jiaben (this is the earliest version known at present), originally titled "Reading and Re-evaluating Zhi Yanzhai's The Story of the Stone by JOE", with only sixteen chapters. Compared with other editions, there are "wedges" before the first edition, and the batches before and after each edition are relatively centralized and complete.

2. The trade edition and the Chen Geng edition belong to the same evaluation system through textual research, and the annotations are roughly the same, which should belong to the same basic edition and recorded almost simultaneously. Ji Mao's title is "Re-evaluation of Stone by Zhiyanzhai", which is the same as JOE's wedge record. In the text, there are words such as "Re-evaluation of Zhiyanzhai for four times" and "Ji Mao's Winter Moon has been finalized". Geng Chenben is the most intact fat book, with 78 chapters, which is the closest book to Cao Xueqin's death time, so it is also the book that best conforms to Cao Xueqin's final revision intention. In the current fat evaluation system, it is generally used as the original basic reference book.

3. Qi Xu Ben was collected and prefaced by Qi Misheng in Deqing during the Qianlong period, which has reference significance because of its unique writing style of "two songs in one voice and two songs in one hand".

4. The Collection of Books in Beijing, which disappeared in the ten-year catastrophe, is by no means an ordinary collection of books, because its collector is Wu Nai, the chief author of The West Chamber (which contains poems about Cao Xueqin by Duncheng brothers).

There are many other fat books and super-recorded books handed down from generation to generation. The biggest difference between these fat copies and Cheng Gaoben is that the basic copy of the fat copy is earlier than Cheng Gaoben; There are only 80 fat books, even if there are 120, they are all copied from books by later generations; A large number of comments by Zhi Yanzhai were kept in the fat edition, while Cheng Ben was completely deleted. Cheng Ben rewrote some chapters and contents of the fat book, and the contents of the two versions of Cheng Ben were extremely confusing after rewriting.

The above is some brief information about the existing fat books. Someone once wrote an article criticizing Zhi Yanzhai. He thought that Zhi Yanzhai was a later scholar than Cao Xueqin, and gained Cao's trust, got some manuscripts and became famous in the name of the author. From this point of view, the fat book is simply a poisonous weed full of cancer, leaving nothing but harm and no benefit. Most people who hold this view refute Zhi Yanzhai's comments from the contents of Cheng Ben 120 novels, and think that the comments are absurd, self-contradictory, full of self-promotion and serious exaggeration. However, from the textual research of the fat book system, it is undeniable that the fat book comes first and the craft book comes last, and only the revised version of the first eighty copies can be compared with the fat book. If the reader has two versions at hand, compare the first part of the novel. In addition, in the heyday of novels in Ming and Qing Dynasties, book reviews have not only been regarded as the storyteller's understanding of the novel's content and appreciation of the text, but have gradually evolved into a supplement and re-creation of the overall structure of the novel. This started with a generation of legendary man Jin Shengtan commenting on Water Margin and The West Chamber and incorporating them into his own creation, and Mao Zonggang and his son revised the Romance of the Three Kingdoms and Zhang Zhupo's penmanship under the guise of books. As a novel, especially in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, many novels have the characteristics of unofficial history's hearsay, and it is indispensable to discuss the ruling and opposition parties and attack the current politics. In order to avoid the persecution of the literary inquisition and achieve the purpose of the novel being handed down from generation to generation, the phenomenon of deliberately using metaphors in novels is extremely common. For example, Jin Ping Mei obviously satirizes the family affairs of Yan Song in the Ming Dynasty, but sometimes because the historical facts are buried too deeply, readers only pay attention to the superficial plot content and cannot pay attention to it.

But the writing process of A Dream of Red Mansions is different from other novels. Fat reviews and novels always complement each other. From the earliest known version of JOE to the last version of Chen Geng before Cao Gong's death, Fat Review has always been an indispensable supplement to the novel, which has played a role in guiding and inspiring readers to think. The author himself described this book as "ten years of painstaking efforts", and the so-called ten years were handed down seven or eight years before the author died. In the following years, Cao Xueqin has been perfecting the content and adding and modifying the notes, but has not made any major adjustments and changes to the structure of the novel.