Chapter 2 Chapter One: The Mystery of the Complete "Dream of Red Mansions"

Let's listen to a poem: "Don't ask about golden marriage and jade fate. They gather like spring dreams and disperse like smoke. Stones return to the foot of the mountain without aura, and even if they can speak, it is in vain." Obviously, this is a poem that has something to do with it.The poet reads a novel with a beginning and an end.It contains the story of "Golden Jade Marriage".He saw the scenes of "golden marriage" and "gathering like a spring dream" in the story, and also saw the ending of "scattering like smoke".At the beginning, there was a big rock in the heaven, which was brought to the human world by a monk. Following Jia Baoyu's experience of joys and sorrows, ups and downs in the world, he finally returned to the heaven, to the Wuji Cliff of the Great Barren Mountain. Under Qinggeng Peak.A Taoist of Kongkong saw a stone at the foot of Huihui Mountain, and there were many words on it, and this text was it.Taoist Kongkong renamed it "Love Monk Record" and brought it to the world. This text has other names, one of which is this.The person who wrote the poem above has read the whole book, and he uses poems to express his impressions and emotions.

Some people will say, this person has read it, written a poem from beginning to end, what is so strange about that?I have read it, and the one hundred and twenty chapters I read have a beginning and an end.But you have to know that the person who wrote this poem is not a person of today, but a person of the Qianlong era of the Qing Dynasty.This man is called Fucha Mingyi, styled Wozhai.He is a descendant of an unsatisfied aristocrat in the early Qianlong Dynasty. His ancestors used to be glorious, but in his generation, he only became a small official. The Shangsi Courtyard of the Qing Palace is the place where horses are raised, commonly known as the Royal Horse Garden. , as a small official who "holds the whip".The Royal Horse Garden is an institution that raises horses for the emperor, prepares horses for the emperor, and sends people to follow when the emperor wants to use the horse.This man has poor official luck, but he likes to read and write poems. He compiled his own poems into a collection called "Green Smoke and Small Window Collection".His poetry level is not high, and not many people appreciate it. It is estimated that he copied it out by himself for self-appreciation, or spread it among relatives and friends in a small range.However, this "Green Mist Window Collection" is an important material for research.This "Green Mist and Small Window Collection" has been preserved through the vicissitudes of life, and it is in the Beijing Library, where it can be borrowed and studied. There are more than one poems in "Green Smoke and Small Window Collection", there are twenty poems in one group, and the one I read just now is one of the twenty poems.It can be seen that Fucha Mingyi had read a book with a beginning and an end in the Qianlong Dynasty.

Why do I say it is not the one hundred and twenty chapters you are familiar with now?The writing age of the poems in this "Lvyan Suochuang Collection" can be deduced. According to experts' research, the latest poems were written no later than the forty-sixth year of Qianlong, that is, 1781 AD.The poems in this anthology are generally arranged according to the age. The 20 poems titled "A Dream of Red Mansions" are in the middle of the anthology. It can be seen that the latest poems from the experts I just mentioned are older. earlier.But when did the 120-chapter manuscript that we are all familiar with come into being?It was compiled long after Mingyi's "Green Smoke Slotted Collection" was compiled.The current edition of 120 chapters that everyone sees now is Cheng Weiyuan and Gao E—Cheng Weiyuan is a bookseller, Gao E is a literati—the two of them collaborated to write the 80 chapters that are roughly Cao Xueqin, and Gao E The forty consecutive chapters are put together and printed with movable type.So what year did this happen?They were printed for the first time in the fifty-sixth year of Qianlong, that is, in 1791 AD.I told you just now that the last poem of Mingyi's "Green Smoke and Small Window Collection" was no later than the forty-sixth year of Qianlong, that is, 1781 AD, and the 120 chapters handed down by Cheng Weiyuan and Gao E The book appeared in the fifty-sixth year of Qianlong, that is, in 1791 AD, which is at least ten years behind the time of the poems in "Green Smoke Suo Chuang Ji".Then the 20 poems titled "Dream of Red Mansions" listed in "Green Smoke and Suo Chuang Ji" were earlier than the forty-sixth year of Qianlong.Therefore, the complete book with beginning and end that Mingyi saw could not be the 120 chapters of the book that everyone sees now, and he could not have seen Gao E's sequel, because Gao E hadn't continued the book at that time. !What he saw should be another one with a beginning and an end.

Then someone will ask, and I have always heard people say that Cao Xueqin's only has 80 chapters, which is incomplete and incomplete.You are throwing out such a material now, which surprised me. It turned out that there was a complete one long before Cheng and Gaoben appeared in Chapter 120, and this was read by someone, such as Fucha Mingyi He had read it, and after reading it, he expressed his feelings in twenty poems.How is this going?Just citing the poem above is not enough to convince me, what he saw is the complete text, from the beginning to the end, can you cite another one?Then I'll make another song.The one just now is the nineteenth in this series of poems.Now let's take a look at how he wrote his twentieth song.

He wrote the twentieth poem like this: "It was not long before the food was cooked with jade and gold, and the king and grandson were thin and bony. Where did Qing'e's red powder go? I am ashamed of Shi Jilun back then." What does it mean?The life of the Jia family written in Cao Xueqin's book is eating jade and cooking gold. The food they eat can be compared to jade, and their motivation to cook can be compared to gold. They eat jade and cook gold, and they live a luxurious life. But this kind of life did not last long, not a few springs, not a few springs.We immediately recalled that in the first eighty chapters we have read, it is clearly stated that "after the three springs go, all fragrances will be exhausted", "exploring and breaking the three springs will not last long", and the life of prosperity and wealth is written in the book. In three years, it is clear that Fucha Mingyi not only saw the life of rich clothes and fine food in the spring in the first eighty chapters, but also saw the protagonist in the novel after the eighty chapters, the prince and grandson Jia Baoyu. What image is it? "Thin and bony", and finally became too thin. "Rugged" originally used to describe a stone with edges and corners, but it is used to describe a person who is thin, that is, without a little fat, the muscles have been exhausted, and the whole body is skinny.He saw Jia Baoyu in the entire second half of the story. This grandson—Jia Baoyu is of course a character belonging to the category of prince and grandson, and he is a descendant of Duke Rong—has become a strange look and is miserable.

Think about it, everyone, if he had only seen it eighty times, would Jia Baoyu have such an image?After the first eighty chapters, for example, in the seventy-eighth chapter, Cao Xueqin also wrote about the image of Jia Baoyu. Let’s recall, is there such a detail?Jia Baoyu was walking in the Grand View Garden, followed by two maids, one Sheyue and the other Qiuwen.At that time, the Grand View Garden had already been raided, and Jia Baoyu's favorite girl, Qingwen, had already been kicked out and died.Jia Baoyu was hit physically and mentally at that time, but what kind of image of Jia Baoyu was described by Cao Xueqin?Is it "skinny and bony"?no.He wrote that when he was walking in the Grand View Garden, Jia Baoyu felt hot, so he took off the big clothes on the outside. After taking off, he revealed the red pants he was wearing underneath. Who made these red pants for him?It was Qingwen's needlework.People and things are dead, and Qiuwen and Musk Moon are also very emotional. At this time, Qiuwen has a sentence to describe Jia Baoyu. She said that this red trousers, matched with your pine-colored jacket, will make you look more like an indigo head. , snow-white face.The indigo head means that the hair is very healthy blue-black; the snow-white face means that the face is plump and fair.Where is the skinny?It is certain that Fucha Mingyi saw Jia Baoyu's "thin and bony" image in the back of the whole book.In Gao E’s forty chapter sequels, Jia Baoyu is not “thin and bony”. Wearing a cape of gorilla felt, did not say that he was skinny.Obviously, the complete book that Fucha Mingyi read is different from the 120 chapters you read now, and he didn’t just read the first 80 chapters of Cao Xueqin, he saw the chapters of Jia Baoyu at the end of the book. The image is down and out.Now we look at the ancient version. Although we can’t see it after the 80th chapter, we can see some comments from Zhiyanzhai. Zhiyanzhai mentioned Jia Baoyu’s fall after the 80th chapter, and quoted Cao Xueqin’s original text after the 80th chapter. , It is called "choking sore in cold winter, and breaking felt in snowy night".Suan 齑 is sauerkraut dregs.The sauerkraut pickled in Beijing in the past, after the pickling, the vegetables are taken out, and the remaining rotten dregs are left.He was so poor that he caught the scum and ate it; on a snowy cold night, he had no way to keep out the cold, and he wrapped himself around a broken blanket that he picked up somewhere. It was such an unbearable sight.This kind of content is the opposite of "thin and bony".

Fucha Mingyi has read the whole book.Therefore, I can conclude that it wasn’t that Cao Xueqin didn’t finish writing, it wasn’t that Cao Xueqin couldn’t write any more when he wrote eighty chapters, and he stopped writing, or he wanted to write but couldn’t do what he wanted, or he didn’t write until the last chapter , he died, no.Although Cao Xueqin died relatively early, at the age of forty, he basically finished writing.He has a manuscript with a beginning and an end.Maybe there is no unified draft yet, and some parts are still missing in some parts, for example, in Chapter 75, he lacks a few Mid-Autumn Festival poems, and there are some contradictions in some places. The entire manuscript has been completely revised, but in terms of the development of the characters' fate and the flow of the storyline, he has already completed this manuscript.There is such an original, complete.

Of course, some people are still not convinced, saying that you just say that, I think it is quite mysterious.This Fucha Mingyi, the one he saw, maybe it wasn't Cao Xueqin's, right?Where did the manuscript he saw come from?Let me tell you now, there is a small preface in front of Fucha Mingyi's twenty poems titled "Dream of Red Mansions". What is the first sentence of this preface?He will tell you where the manuscripts he has read come from. He said: "Cao Zixueqin published one." First of all, he told you that this manuscript was produced by Cao Xueqin.In the past, the ancients showed respect to people, especially men, and they added "zi" after their surnames, such as Confucius, Mencius, Laozi, and Han Feizi; in Song Dynasty, Zhu Xi, Zhu Zi; in Qing Dynasty, Fucha Mingyi admired Cao Xueqin very much. , After reading Cao Xueqin's works, he called Cao Xueqin Cao Zixueqin.To publish means to show and lend. The source of his book is Cao Xueqin himself, and the beginning and end of the text he saw were provided by Cao Xueqin himself.So who wrote this book?He told you that it was "written" by Cao Xueqin, and writing is a work, which means that the copyright belongs to this person.The author himself is called Cao Xueqin, and he showed what he wrote, and Fucha got it clearly, and the words and sentences are very clear, including whether he showed half or a part?His explanation is a complete one.So whether it was written by Cao Xueqin, I think it is very clear.

Fucha Mingyi was born later than Cao Xueqin, but after he was born, Cao Xueqin was still alive. Of course, after Cao Xueqin passed away, he continued to live for a while, so he and Cao Xueqin should be said to be contemporaries. An individual's life goes through a period of time and space.That is to say, there was a period when Cao Xueqin was alive, and so was he. The space where Cao Xueqin was active was mainly Beijing, the city of Beijing, and the suburbs of Beijing. Fucha Mingyi also lived in this space all the time.There is also a lot of information to prove that Cao Xueqin's friends, such as the two brothers Dun Min and Dun Cheng, are also in Mingyi's social circle.Therefore, Ming Yi and Cao Xueqin probably have contacts.From Mingyi's words, it can be seen that even if Cao Xueqin didn't give him the complete manuscript directly, he gave it to his relatives and friends who are very close to him, so Mingyi was able to read this manuscript.

Fucha Mingyi also said in the preface that the manuscript he saw, "Remember the prosperity of Fengyue, because his ancestors were Zhifu in Jiangning." He will tell you that when he saw this manuscript, he had The nature of family history.The prosperity of Fengyue written in it is related to Cao Xueqin's family background.Cao Xueqin's ancestors, three generations and four people, followed a position called Jiangning weaving. Mingyi also said: "The so-called Grand View Garden is the former site of today's Suiyuan Garden." Later, many experts in red studies disagreed with Mingyi's words.Ming Yi believes that the Grand View Garden in the book has a prototype.He did prototype research much earlier than I did.He felt that the space of the Grand View Garden in the story could be identified by an actual garden, and he said that the prototype was Sui Garden.Red scholars of all ages discussed and formed different views.Some pointed out that the prototype of the Grand View Garden is by no means Suiyuan, which is a wrong judgment.Some experts believe that the prototype of the Grand View Garden is the garden of Prince Gong’s Mansion that is now in Beijing and can be visited. They think that Cao Xueqin referred to the predecessor of the garden of Prince Kung’s Mansion and exaggerated it into a Grand View Garden.Some people also think that the prototype of Grand View Garden refers to something else, neither the Sui Garden nor the Garden of Prince Gong’s Mansion, and another garden should be used as its parent.Some experts pointed out that the Grand View Garden is a story space created by Cao Xueqin by combining the characteristics of many Chinese gardens and adding artistic imagination.But in any case, after Fucha Mingyi read Cao Xueqin's complete book, he got an impression that he believed that the "truth hidden" in this "false language" manuscript was Cao Xueqin's family history.His point of view is worthy of reference.

Fucha Mingyi also said: "It's a pity that his book has not been handed down. Few people in the world know it, and I have seen its copy." He thought this book was very good and should be handed down, but it was a pity that when he saw the manuscript, This manuscript is very lonely, not many people have seen it, few people in the world know about this manuscript, this manuscript was not printed and circulated at that time, it was just a manuscript.At that time, printing in China was very developed. China had printing for a long time. During the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty, lithography was a printing method, wood engraving was another method, and wooden movable type printing was another printing method.At that time, Chinese papermaking technology had been invented for a long time, and the papermaking industry was also very developed. It was very convenient to use paper to print books, and after they were bound, they could be sold as cloth. However, the manuscripts that Fucha Mingyi saw were not so lucky. Few know."He told us that what he saw was a manuscript, that is, an original handwritten transcription in ink. This is a series of valuable information we have obtained from the prefaces of the twenty poems written by Fucha Mingyi in "A Dream of Red Mansions". Let us know that Cao Xueqin finished writing it, and there was a book with a beginning and an end, which was not later. The one hundred and twenty episodes produced by the collaboration between Cheng Weiyuan and Gao E.Moreover, the content of Cao Xueqin's 80th chapter and the content of Gao E's 40th chapter sequel is different, at least from the perspective of "Wang Sun is thin and bony" and from the final image of Jia Baoyu, they are completely different. Just now I introduced Fucha Mingyi's second poem, and I haven't said the remaining two lines.Someone suggested that if you repeat these two sentences, can it strengthen your argument?Then I will talk about the last two sentences to see if I can make my argument more grounded.The last two lines of the twentieth poem of Mingyi's "Title "A Dream of Red Mansions" are: "Where does Qing'e Hongfen go? I am ashamed of Shi Jilun." "Qing'e Hongfen" is a summary of all the young women in the book. "Qing'e" refers to the bluish-black eyebrows of young women. "Red powder" refers to the rosy face of a young woman after applying rouge, like rose petals.He told you, what he saw, what happened to the young women in the book? "Where do they go?" It's hard to tell where they are going, and the entire Jia clan finally "scattered and ran away".The fate of these women is tragic.It hurts him to think about it.The last sentence uses an allusion: "I am ashamed of Shi Jilun back then." Shi Jilun, his name is Shi Chong, and his style name is Jilun.A rich man in the Western Jin Dynasty also gained certain power in the division of power. He was a person who lived a life of extravagance and indulgence.But this person's final fate was very tragic. In the contest of power and wealth, he was defeated in the end.His political opponent took the emperor's order to kill him.He is very rich.In addition to his luxurious residence, he also has a large garden called Jingu Garden, which has many pavilions and pavilions.When his political opponents chased him in, there was a concubine named Luzhu in his family. Maybe Shi Chong was kind to her. She was loyal to her master, so she took action to express her resistance and dissatisfaction. In the past, a free-falling body fell from a building and died, which became a famous event in history, called the Green Pearl Falling from a Building.This Shi Chong is a very bad person, there is nothing worthy of sympathy, and Luzhu's behavior, from today's perspective, she died for Shi Chong for love and buried, and there is nothing worthy of praise.But after Fucha Mingyi read the whole book, there was a comparison. He associated the Jia clan in the book with Shi Chong.The Jia family has many problems, there are sins, mistakes, and disgrace, but no matter what, the Jia family is much better than Shi Chong.Let’s recall, the 80 chapters described that the gentlemen and ladies of the Jia clan are very bad, but no matter whether it is the ancestor Jia Mu, or the wife of the Rongguo Mansion, or the Jia clan The patriarch Jia Zhen is also good, they are not useless, in some time and space, they may also show a little sympathy and compassion, for example, Jia Zhen is a very bad person, but for some clan members who live in poverty, It's still a bit moral. Every year, the tribute sent by the farm is divided into piles for those relatively poor people in the clan to receive.Therefore, Fucha Mingyi felt that, no matter what, the Jia family was better than Shi Chong, but how miserable was the ending he saw? Even if a character like Luzhu didn't appear, Qing'e Hongfen, no one could stand up and make a rebellious move like Luzhu.So he felt that if Shi Chong had knowledge in the underground, and made a comparison, he would feel that he was better than me. When he was destroyed, no one like Luzhu expressed resistance, what about me?No matter how bad it is, I still have a green bead, so I'm ashamed.This is of course the imagination of the poet.One is a real thing, and the other is a thing in a novel.The ancients used allusions in their poems, limited words, and a line of poetry, but when interpreted, there are many layers and deep meanings. Mingyi's line of poetry shows that what he saw was the ending of a great tragedy. The destruction was even worse than that of Shi Chong back then, "the land is so clean after falling into a vast expanse of whiteness".What he saw should be Cao Xueqin's original intention, he really has a good eye. Speaking of this, some friends who are red fans are going to discuss with me, saying that Cao Xueqin's work is finished, with a beginning and an end, and Fucha Mingyi has seen it, so how come there are only about 80 chapters left?Where did you go after eighty chapters?What's going on here? There is a friend who is a red fan. When he discussed this issue with me, he introduced a piece of information. He heard a saying that the reason why there are no chapters after the 80th chapter is that Cao Xueqin himself was not satisfied with the content of his writing. It was destroyed, or it was destroyed because of fear and cowardice in order to escape the literary inquisition.I said where did you hear that?Is there any documented data as the basis?He said no, from hearsay.This kind of hearsay is unbelievable.There is no documentation to prove that it was Cao Xueqin himself who destroyed the manuscript written by himself after the 80th chapter due to one or another reason.There is no material to support such a view, which is untenable. And on the contrary, we all know that there are many commentaries in ancient books, some without signatures, some with signatures, and more than one type of signature, among which two signatures appear most often, one is called Zhiyanzhai, the other is called Jihusou, So who are this Zhiyanzhai and Jihusou?Is it male or female?What is the relationship with Cao Xueqin?Some say they are husband and wife, some say they are uncles and nephews, some say they are brothers, and some say they are father and son. There are disputes in the red academic circle.So Zhiyanzhai and Jihusou are the same person, at the beginning they used Zhiyanzhai as their signature, and later they used Jihusou as their signature, one person with two signatures, or are they two people at all?There are arguments.Let me tell you, no matter whether Zhiyanzhai and Jihusou are male or female, what kind of seniority relationship or interpersonal relationship with Cao Xueqin is, and it doesn't matter whether Zhiyanzhai and Jihusou are one person or two. Personally, but all parties in the debate are certain that the person who wrote the comment has a very close relationship with Cao Xueqin.While Cao Xueqin wrote, this person edited and wrote comments at the same time. This person participated in the creation of the whole book, so Zhiyanzhai's comments are very important and an important resource for our research. Then, in Zhi Yanzhai's comments, there are many clues about the fate of the characters, the ending of the characters, and the development of the storyline after the eighty chapters.When Zhi Yanzhai commented on the first chapter of the 80th chapter, he couldn't help mentioning some storylines after the 80th chapter, the trajectory of the development of the characters' fate, and the final outcome of the character's fate, and even quoted the sentences after the 80th chapter. "Cold winter chokes sore, snowy night surrounds broken felt" is an example.Sometimes it is simply in the commentary, telling us the chapters after the eighty chapters in full, what is the chapter after the eighty chapters?It is called "Xue Baochai's borrowed words contain irony, Wang Xifeng knows his fate and is a strong hero".Think about it, everyone, among the 120 chapters we have seen now, is there this one in the first 80 chapters?no.It is not found in the first eighty chapters of all ancient books.In the last forty chapters of Gao E's sequel, is there such a chapter?There is no such recollection.But Zhiyanzhai told us that Cao Xueqin's eighty complete episodes were one of these chapters.He also mentioned that in the book there is a grandson named Wei Ruolan, who has a behavior called "shepu".What exactly is "shepu" is not discussed now.He will tell you with certainty that there will be a plot like Wei Ruolan shooting the garden in the back. In this plot, Wei Ruolan is wearing a golden unicorn. A golden unicorn picked up in the Grand View Garden.He also told you the story written in the Temple of Hell God eighty times later, maybe more than one time.After eighty chapters, it will write about Wang Xifeng and Jia Baoyu, who have all been arrested and imprisoned.Who did they see in the Prison Temple?I met Qianxue and Xiaohong. When Zhi Yanzhai mentioned such content, he did not at all indicate that Cao Xueqin himself, or as a collaborator, thought that the content after the eighty chapters was not well written and should be destroyed. On the contrary, the loss of these borrowed chapters, Zhi Yanzhai sighed again and again, heartbroken.Therefore, Cao Xueqin's roughly written complete book is very precious. First of all, Cao Xueqin himself and his collaborator Zhi Yanzhai cherish it very much. So a question arises: Can Cao Xueqin's complete book, the content after the eighty chapters, be found?One way is to try every means to find manuscripts that still exist in the world.Is there such a possibility?I personally have not been completely discouraged so far, I think it is still possible.Although we have gone through so many social turmoil and many manuscripts have been destroyed, there is no guarantee that one day, a complete manuscript of Cao Xueqin will be found in a certain place.What's more, since 1840, China has been bullied by Western powers. When many foreigners robbed Chinese cultural relics, they also robbed many Chinese books, including manuscripts and printed ones.As far as I know, in some Western countries, some libraries have the Eastern Department, and there are such books, because there are very few Chinese-speaking people there, and they only searched and cataloged briefly, and did not read carefully.Then among the manuscripts they kept, it is also possible to excavate the manuscripts of Cao Xueqin after the 80th chapter. When Cao Xueqin's manuscripts after the 80th chapter have not surfaced, do we have nothing to do at all?Can we just lament frequently?I don't think so. In Hongxue, there was a branch called Tanyi very early on.Finding lost things is called Tanyi.Exploring lost studies is to retrieve the complete content of Cao Xueqin after the eighty chapters that existed.We have resources when we get back, at least for me, I have four resources for this research. The first resource is the first eighty chapters.To explore the lost, you must first familiarize yourself with the first eighty chapters.Because the characteristic of Cao Xueqin's text is to set a lot of foreshadowing, there are big foreshadowings and small foreshadowings, there are general foreshadowings, and there are sub-foreshadowings.So if you carefully study the first 80 chapters, you can sort out what his thinking is after the 80th chapter, what is the fate and development trajectory of the characters in his works, what is the final ending of the characters, including the overall trajectory of the plot development What is it, what kind of new climax will be produced, what kind of plot will be intertwined, and what kind of ending will be.These are all foreshadowed and clues in the first eighty chapters.Therefore, Exploring Yi itself is also a process of intensive reading, which is very interesting and meaningful.The eighty chapters I mentioned include the eighty chapters in the popular edition, and of course the contents of the first eighty chapters of various ancient manuscripts. Those texts are important resources for us to explore the lost. The second resource is what I mentioned just now, Zhiyanzhai and Jihusou, their comments on ancient manuscripts.These comments are very large, and there are quite a lot of content after the eighty chapters, so they are very valuable resources.Like the Wei Ruolan Shepu I mentioned just now, it will be written after the 80th chapter; the Prison Temple, there will be Qianxue and Xiaohong, and so on.As for what kind of scene, what kind of scene, what kind of details, what kind of dialogue between characters, what kind of language the author will use when describing this environment, "Zhi Criticism" all There are hints. "Zhipi" is a very rich treasure trove, providing many clues. This is also an important resource for us to explore the lost after eighty chapters. Another resource is the poems, articles, etc. of Cao Xueqin's contemporaries, such as Fucha Mingyi's "Green Smoke and Small Window Collection" that I introduced to you just now. "The poems, including the preface before the poems, are valuable resources for us to explore the lost true stories after the eighty chapters. In the past, many researchers have accumulated a lot of academic achievements in this area, which can also be used as a reference for us.Well, I am not the only one who is interested in "Exploring the Red Chamber". There are some experts whose research focus is on "Exploring the Red Chamber".So you see, we have resources to explore the true story of Cao Xueqin after the 80th chapter, and it is not that we are completely unable to do it.We can do it seriously, meticulously, and persistently. Of course, some people will have such doubts, saying that when you talk about this now, I always feel that you are a bit of a challenge to the 120 chapters of the current edition. I like the 120 chapters, which already has a beginning and an end. It has been circulated for so long, and now the books that we can easily access are basically 120 chapters. I am used to watching it, including now that Beijing TV has recorded a large-scale serial drama through the audition. According to reports This series was recorded entirely based on 120 comebacks, which is a very mainstream cognition and practice.Is it appropriate for you to talk about this now?I think if you like it one hundred and twenty times, you can continue to like it.This lecture of mine may make you like it more, because I will provide you with a reference after passing through the exploration. Let me tell you, according to my experience of exploration, Cao Xueqin will write like this after eighty chapters. Then You compare the last forty chapters of Gao E’s now, and the result of the comparison may be that your conclusion is that what you said is just for my reference. I don’t think it’s credible, or even though it’s credible, I still don’t like it. I think it’s still high. The last forty chapters of the Osprey are good. Doesn’t that encourage you to read the current version of the one hundred and twenty chapters?I see no harm in that. Therefore, I think that in the academic space shared by the public, there should be one more voice, one more point of view, and one more idea, which should reflect the policy of flourishing literature and art and prospering academic research such as a hundred flowers blooming and a hundred schools of thought contending.What's more, in the previous lectures, I have repeatedly emphasized to everyone that the reason why I dare to express my own research opinions is because I have two words from two people in my heart. One is the sage Mr. Cai Yuanpei. , do not agree."The other two lines are actually two lines of poems written by Yuan Mei, a poet of the Qing Dynasty, called "moss flowers are as small as rice, and they bloom like peonies".Now is an era of great rejuvenation of Chinese culture, and we must have a sense of participation in the study of traditional culture.Inheriting the excellent Chinese national culture is not the work of a few experts and scholars. They play a very important role, but ordinary people can also participate. Public participation is an important driving force for the revival of Chinese national culture. Well, having said that, here comes the question again, you may press me again, say it’s ok, ok, and return to Qi, you just think Gao E’s last forty chapters are not good, and you think Cao Xueqin already has You have explored the content after the eighty chapters, so let's not talk about it, you can talk about the eighty-one chapters first, Gao E's eighty-one chapters are called "Zhan Wang Xiang Simei Fishing Fish Feng Yan Ci twice into the family school", you just talk about it, why is it not in line with Cao Xueqin's original intention?You think he is wrong, so what should be the content of Cao Xueqin's eighty-one chapters?Then please listen to my next lecture.