Chapter 53 The first case of the original

A young lady asked me: 20 years ago, the CCTV version of the series, the plot after the 80th chapter in the book has changed in the play, does this method of filming disrespect the original work?Her question pissed me off.Alas, until now, there are still so many people who are confused and think that the 120 printed copies that are currently in circulation, signed by the names of Cao Xueqin and Gao E, constitute a complete "original work".no!I want to shout loudly here: You must understand that Cao Xueqin wrote it. Due to various reasons, only about eighty chapters have been handed down. After the eighty chapters, it is not that he has not written at all. One hundred and eight chapters or one hundred and ten chapters, the last chapter has a "Love List", except for Jia Baoyu, all of them are 1

Women in groups of 2 (i.e. Jinling Twelve Hairpins, the main volume, the secondary volume, the secondary volume, the secondary volume, etc. should be 9 groups of 108 people in total), and each person also has a commentary, Baoyu is "loveless", Dai Jade means "feeling" (the first word "love" is a verb, which generally means: Baoyu can also use affection for ruthless things, while Daiyu is emotional for her own love).Gao E had nothing to do with Cao Xueqin. It was more than 20 years after Cao Xueqin's death that he cooperated with the bookseller Cheng Weiyuan. After the 80 chapters of Cao Xueqin's handed down book, it continued for 40 chapters.Here we will not discuss how to evaluate Gao Xu in detail, but only emphasize that Gao is a person who has never met Cao Xueqin, nor has any written communication, and his ideological realm and aesthetic pursuit are far from or even contradictory. It is definitely not Cao Xueqin’s cooperation Therefore, how to treat the last forty chapters of the 120-chapter current edition is just a question of how to treat Gao E's sequel, and it definitely does not constitute a question of "how to treat Cao Xueqin's original work".

After clarifying the above premise, I know that I have a positive attitude towards the handling of the episode after the 80th chapter by the CCTV version 20 years ago.Abandon (or basically abandon) the content of Gao Xu, based on the foreshadowing in the existing ancient text and the revelation of the plot after the eighty chapters in the comments of Zhi Yanzhai (this person is Cao Xueqin's real collaborator) (the last chapter has " "Love List" was revealed by this person), especially based on decades of "red studies" research on the plot after the eighty chapters, coupled with reasonable imagination, the entire story has been completed, which is a remarkable achievement in the history of adaptation. pioneering!

When Shanghai was in the "isolated island period" in the 1940s, movies were made, Yuan Meiyun played Jia Baoyu, Zhou Xuan played Lin Daiyu, Wang Danfeng played Xue Baochai; in the 1960s there was a Yue opera version; Focusing on the love tragedy of Bao and Dai, the audience feels that the content is just young men and women in feudal aristocratic families fighting for freedom of love and marriage. In fact, Cao Xueqin's work is far from being so narrow.The TV series directed by Wang Fulin finally broke through this point, trying to show more aspects of this great work, especially trying to show the possible stories and the final fate of the characters after eighty chapters (although there are no details due to the lack of original text The attachment to the language seems careless and sloppy), but it was the first time that the original source was cleared up, which is commendable!