Chapter 66 Postscript

Daughter Lunling compiled the manuscript into Zhizhi, which was published by United Publishing House, and added another item to the "Hongxue" library. Unspecified. First, Zhang Ailing did not seem to have formally enrolled in elementary school in Tianjin, but was directly admitted to the church school St. Mary's Middle School after returning to Shanghai, and she began her writing career as soon as she entered school. Second, when she was living in Hong Kong, she worked hard to write the script for the TV series "Red Mansion". According to the information, she was unsuccessful due to great difficulties.This point can be added to her various causal relationships with "Red Mansion".

Third, in the prefaces of her Mandarin and English translations, there are fragments of text involved; because the main idea is the same as that of the book, there is no new insight, so it is not quoted. Fourth, her ability to remember and recognize the different texts of the manuscripts and publications of the novel is amazing, and no one can match it.She Ziyun had great expectations for a certain book on "Gengchen Ben" at the beginning, but when she saw the book, she was immediately disappointed.This example best illustrates the problem.I read her writings with great shame in this respect.

5. In this book, I commented on her thesis on the "process" of writing "The Great Moving". I was afraid that what I saw was biased, so I asked Mr. Wang Bin, the author of "A Dream of Red Mansions" for advice.Meng He replied: It is possible to move small parts of individual plots forward and backward when writing a manuscript; as for important chapters and story layouts, it is impossible to move them piece by piece (roughly).He made this judgment from the standpoint of professional knowledge, and here is a brief record of the origin of this discussion point for the reference of experts before making a judgment.

Thanks to all the ladies and gentlemen who have contributed their energy and labor to this small work. Finally, here is another thing to explain: The appendix of this book quotes an article by Mr. Qian Min commenting on Zhang Ailing's red studies. The level is so high that I have rarely seen it. I admire it very much.But I couldn't contact Mr. Qian for advice, so I took the liberty of doing so, and I was deeply disturbed.I pray for his forgiveness, and please contact me so that I can submit the signed book as a token of my gratitude. I wrote the manuscript of this book, which started in the spring of this year (March 18, 2004) and ended in Guyu.And I would like to thank Ms. Zhao Zhenyi for her hard work on this book.

Jiashen Dongyue Ruchang Postscript