Chapter 4 Appendix 2 Preface to the Sixth Edition of Suoyin, The Stone Tale

——Discussion on Mr. Hu Shizhi's Textual Research on A Dream of Red Mansions Yu Zhi's reticence for this reason was actually caused by Xu Liuquan's theory in "Lang Qian Erbi".Liu Quan called Baochaiying Gaodanren and Miaoyuying Jiang Ximing.Yu Guanzhong wrote that Baochai's femininity and Miaoyu's aloofness are consistent with the characters of Gao and Jiang.And Danren bribed the golden beans, and locked them with gold.It is false that a fallen horse has fallen into the accumulated accumulation, and Xue Pan is like the shadow of a mud sow.The enthusiasm of Ximing is in Kedi, and he is in the shadow of Naruto with the magic trick.He died in prison in order to be robbed.Also use the wonderful character jade to shadow the ginger character, and use the snow character to shadow the high character.Knowing the person entrusted by it can be inferred by three methods: 1. Those with similar personalities.Second, there are anecdotes.3. Those related to the name.Therefore, Xiangyun's boldness is used to promote it as the year, and Xichun's remoteness is used to promote it as Sun's friend, using the first method.The second method is to use Baoyu to be regarded as Yunfeng after encountering a nightmare, and to be regarded as the pillar of the country because Sister Feng cried to Jinling.In the name of Tanchun and Tanhua, it was promoted as Jian'an.Based on the name of Baoqin and the story of learning the piano from Shixiang, it is deduced to open up frontiers, and the third method is also used.However, every time one person is cited, the three methods or two methods are used at the same time.Others, if Yuanchun's suspect is Xu Yuanwen, and Baochan's suspect is Weng Baolin, then it is considered to be near isolated evidence, so I will not be included.They think they are prudent, and they are different from those who attach themselves at will.A recent reading of Mr. Hu Shizhi's "Research on the Dream of Red Mansions", which is listed in the "Hongshu of the Affiliated Association", is called "the wrong path", "big fool", "stupid mystery", and "very far-fetched Affiliated Association". , I dare not admit it.Or I can't help but have the vulgar view of being a poor broom, but there are some people who can't force me to admit Mr. Hu's words.Now tribute to his doubts on the left:

(1) Mr. Hu said, "Those who have been studying this book have always taken the wrong path.... Instead of searching for materials that can be verified by the author, era, version, etc., they collected many irrelevant fragments of history Let’s attach the plot in the meeting.” It is also said that “we only need to determine who the author of this book is, the author’s deeds and family background, the era when the book was written, and what differences this book has had based on reliable versions and reliable materials. What is the origin of these manuscripts and the origins of these manuscripts? These questions are the legitimate scope of research." The materials of the author, time, and edition of the case should be searched.Mr. Wang Jingan once wrote "Comments on A Dream of Red Mansions", and there is a saying: "The name of the author (I have checked all the books, but I have not found the name of Cao Xueqin) and the year and month when the book was written, which should be known to readers of this book, seem to be more important than the name of the protagonist. It is especially important. There is no one to verify it, and this is incomprehensible.” He also said: “Gou knows that the greatness of art is created in life, and the Dream of Red Mansions is the only great work on art in our country. The name and the year and month when the book was written are definitely the only subject of research." Mr. Hu has a brief history of the family history and life of Cao Xueqin, the author of the first 80 chapters, and Gao Lanshu, the author of the last 40 chapters. Collecting a lot of materials is really meritorious, and it can explain Mr. Wang Jingan's regret a little bit.However, the closest contact we have with literary books is not in the author's life, but in his works.The content of the work, that is, what Mr. Hu called "plot", is by no means without value of research.For example, the Songs of Chu in ancient Chinese literature was written by Qu Yuan, Song Yu, Jing Chai, etc., and its time was in the time of King Huai and King Xiang of Chu, that is, the third century BC in the Western calendar.However, "good birds and fragrant herbs are used to match loyalty, evil birds and smelly things are compared to slanderers, spiritual beauties are compared to kings, concubines and lost women are compared to virtuous ministers, dragons, luanfengs and phoenixes are used to entrust gentlemen, and the wind and clouds Ni thinks that a villain", which was mentioned by Wang Yi, is certainly nothing more than the content.In foreign literature, such as the works of Shakespeare, it may be said that it was written by Bacon, and the question of "who is the author?" arises.As for Goethe's "Faust", the myths and scripts it is based on and the course of its writings in the sixty years are all detailed in the history of literature, and its content is that of the first Greetchen or the so-called movie Elsassirin Friederike ( The theory of Bielschowsky), or the shadow Frankfurter Gretchen (the theory of Kuno Fischer), the Walpurgisnacht section of the second part is geological theory, the Heleua section is cultural transportation issues, and Euphorion is the shadow of the British poet Byron, (various Slightly the same.) It is also a textual research on the plot.In Tolstoy in Russia, there is no doubt about his life and the order of his works. Recently, Mr. Zhang Bangming, Zheng Yanghe and Mr. Zheng Yanghe translated the "Biography of Tolstoy" by the Englishman Sarolea: "Everything written by him contains The nature of autobiography. The protagonists of each book, such as Irtunev, Olunling, Neqirudov, Laiwen, Pisokov, etc., are all the incarnations of themselves. The stories of others described in each book, There is a direct relationship with him..."Family Joy" narrates the incidents in the love field when he was young, and expresses his opinions on love and marriage. After the protagonist in the book proposes marriage, he writes about the evil deeds of the youth when he was wild. To be honest, to give love to oneself. This is what Tolstoy personally did when he proposed to Solyabeth three years after the publication of "Family Joy". That is, a book can also be written by Tolstoy View of the House of Tay. Among them, the old Les Stef is the ancestor of Tolstoy, the young Les Stefs is his father, and Solia is his adoptive mother Darshana, who refused his father’s marriage twice. Natsha Yaostov is his aunt Darshana Perth, Bissokov and Lai Wen are both used by Tolstoy to describe himself. The death of Lai Wen's brother is the death of Tolstoy's brother Mitley. Cherudov's peculiar behavior, which the commentators say may not be possible based on psychology, is actually one of the memories of Mitley's life left in his brother's heart. Mitley married a prostitute, which is the same as that of Nei Qiruduo. "It is also the textual research on the plot.However, how can we reject it as a supplementary meeting when we examine the plot?

(2) Mr. Hu said that the names of people illustrated in his clumsy book "Suo Yin" are mostly "stupid mysteries", and he also said that "if a book is really a series of such stupid mysteries, it is really not worth guessing".The clumsy book of the case demonstrates the ability to demonstrate, and this book uses three methods, as mentioned above.The so-called name relationship is only one of the three methods. Even if it is not accurate, it cannot obliterate the whole book.Mr. Kuang Hu's posthumous posthumous posthumous name is just the habit of Chinese literati, who thought it must be so and then it is worth guessing. "Shi Shuo Xin Shu" states that behind Cao E's stele, there are eight characters "Yellow Silk Young Woman, Grandson Jijiu", which means "exquisite good words".The ancient quatrain "Where is Gaozhen now? There are mountains again on the mountain. Why should the head of the sword be broken and fly to the sky." With Gaozhen as the husband, the head of the sword should be returned. "Southern History" records the nursery rhyme of Emperor Wu of Liang as "a deer opens the city gate , The gate of the city deer is open" and other sentences, which means that the deer is open, the irony is that the son is crying, and the later prince is dead.From Mr. Hu's point of view, aren't they all stupid and mysterious? "Pinhua Baojian" uses Hou Shigong's shadow of Yuan Zicai, Hou and Yuan are borrowed from monkeys and apes, and Gong and Zi are synonymous, while Shi and Cai come from the saying "there is only one stone in the world, and Zijian monopolizes all eight fights".Since the analysis of the thirteenth sister is a jade character, it is not easy to guess unless it is broken by the scriptures.In addition, Ji Xian Tang Yingnian Geng Yao, Ji Yu Nian, Tang Yu Yao, although they are still simple, and Xian Yu Geng comes from the article "Dog said Geng Xian".From Mr. Hu's point of view, aren't they all stupid and mysterious?That is to say, Zhuang Shaoguang is Cheng Mianzhuang, Ma Chunshang is Feng Cuizhong, and Niu Buyi is Zhu Caoyi, all of which are recognized by Mr. Hu. , almost all credible.Among them, if Fan Li was named Tao Zhugong and Fan was used as Tao, and Wan Daifang was used because of the (traditional version of Wan) writing Wan, isn't it a stupid mystery?However, let's use it as the number one writer in Anhui, how can it be that the number one writer in the Han army is not like this?

(3) Mr. Hu said that the 8 taels and 20 taels obtained by Grandma Liu in my book have disappeared, while the 100 taels given by Mrs. Wang in the forty-second chapter has not been found. It just doesn't make sense."There are a hundred and twenty chapters in the case, and there are only a few dozen cases of Yu Zhisuoyin. Those who have disappeared will record them, and those who have not will be kept. This is the prudence of Yu Zhi.If you want to prove everything, then you can say that the authors include Shitou, Kongkong Taoist, Kong Meixi, Cao Xueqin, etc., but Mr. Hu only verified Cao Xueqin; there are many important events in it, but Mr. Hu only verified Nan Will there be any arbitrary and unreasonable decision to take the matter of patrolling?

(4) Mr. Hu concluded that it was Cao Xueqin's autobiography based on Cao Xueqin's life, and concluded that "it is a self-narrative book with the real events hidden". "Cao Xueqin is the self-confessed me at the beginning, and the source of the two treasures of Zhen Jia (true and false) in the book." It is said in the case that the real thing is hidden, not just the real name, so it cannot be used What is said in the book is true.And if the precious jade is the author's own shadow, why should there be two precious jades, Zhen and Jia? (I despise the word Zhen Jia, because the ancients had orthodox and puppet dynasties... they were familiar with it. Jia Yucun cited the characters from the two Fus of good and evil, including Chen Houzhu, Tang Minghuang, Song Huizong, etc., so I doubt Zhen Baoyu's shadow Hongguang, and Jia Baoyu Ying Yunfeng also.) If Mammy Zhao said that the Zhen family took over four times, and Cao Yinshi also took over four times, which proves that the Zhen family is the Cao family, then Mammy Zhao also said that the Jia family was only ready to take over Once, Ming was away from Zhen's family for four times, and An De said that Jia's mansion was also Cao's family?Mr. Hu said that Jia Zheng was Yuanwailang, so he could correspond to Yuanwailang Cao Fu, so he said that Jia Zheng was the shadow of Cao Fu. However, in the thirty-seventh chapter, Jia Zheng was appointed as an apprentice, and in the seventy-first chapter, Jia Zheng returned to Beijing. Fate, because he is a school student, so he dare not go home first, and so on, Cao Fugu has never heard of school school.Moreover, since Jia's family is the shadow of the Cao family, and this book is written by Xueqin about his family's situation, the wording should be measured.Now watch the seventeenth chapter of Jiao Dazhi's scolding, and the sixty-sixth chapter Liu Xianglian said: "Your East Mansion is clean except for those two stone lions." It seems that there is no room for it.And Xu Sanli participated in Xu Qianxue, and said: "After Yidi paid homage to the prime minister, he and his in-law Gao Shiqi became more ostentatious, so that he said, "I went to Yu Qinhui (Yu Guozhu), and Xu Yansong came. Qianxue is like Pang Juan, he is his eldest brother." The rumor. There is also the pairing of 'the five treasures are returned to the East China Sea, and the gold and pearls of all nations are tribute to the people of Dan'." Yun Yun.Looking at the fifty-fifth chapter today, there is a saying that "just one patrolling Yaksha fell, and three Zhenshan Taisui were added".The fourth chapter has "Jia is not fake, white jade is used as a horse for Tang Jin. A Fang Palace, three hundred miles away, cannot live in Jinling. The East China Sea lacks a white jade bed, and the Dragon King invites the King of Jinling. There is a lot of snow in a good year, and pearls are like earth and gold is like iron." The official talisman.Obviously, it was the shadow of a pair of rumors at that time, and had nothing to do with the Cao family.Therefore, I despise the original, which must be a political novel of the Kangxi Dynasty, written by those who met Gao, Xu, Yu, and Jiang in person, and then added and deleted by Cao Xueqin, or perhaps inserted into the stories of the Cao family, or the entire book belongs to the Cao family.

Cai Yuanpei on January 30, the eleventh year of the Republic of China.