Chapter 77 How many times was "A Dream of Red Mansions" originally written?

The question I wrote down (as the title) has already been answered, but it is really necessary to answer it again.It suddenly occurred to me to answer this "not a problem" question again, which was entirely due to a young comrade's suggestion.Under his suspicion and enlightenment, I realized that what is "not a problem" is still a big problem.New ideas, once explored, soon got new answers.Of course, it is not "one hundred and twenty chapters" like the fake "Quanbi" made by Cheng and Gao; but it is not like "hundred chapters" or "hundred ten chapters" literally called in Zhiyanzhai's commentary.

According to Cao Xueqin's original work, it should have been written in one hundred and eight chapters. Is that true?What are the arguments? Let me talk about our answer from several aspects. The original question about the number of times has been rumored to be a different word between Qian and Jia.For example, Shu Xu in "Jiyouben" mentioned that Zhang Hui is the number of "Qin Guan Bai Er" (how should this sentence be accurately interpreted? I still dare not make a judgment).That was the fifty-fourth year of Qianlong.Another example, later Yurui wrote "Zao Chuang Xianbi" and said: "One book, although Cao Xueqin has the ambition to write a hundred and twenty chapters, the book will die before it is completed." You see, this is the thirty-sixth year of Qianlong. , The clan Yurui who said "the senior in-laws have friends with him (Xueqin)", should you believe it? ——But otherwise, this gentleman has a lot of deceitful and irresponsible words!I have roughly cited some examples in the new and old editions of "A Dream of Red Mansions".According to him, Cao Xueqin "has the ambition" to write one hundred and twenty chapters, and "passes away" after writing "ninety chapters".If you believe his nonsense, you will be deceived by him[Note].

What else?Of course, we have to mention Cheng Weiyuan. He said: "Since there are one hundred and twenty volumes, how can there be no complete jade?" This kind of remark, at best, can be interpreted as that there was indeed a rumor at that time that Qin Shu was still alive. There are "forty chapters", and someone "saw" the catalog and so on, so Cheng and Gao took advantage of this rumor; at worst, most of them are rumors made by Cheng and Gao, first spread the false chapters Go, to serve as a "basis" for falsifying public opinion. Therefore, all of these do not prove at all that the original book of Qin Shu has one hundred and twenty chapters, in other words: the fake one is one hundred and twenty chapters, and the real one is not originally one hundred and twenty chapters.

After explaining these things, we can look at Zhi Yanzhai's words more clearly, and avoid many entanglements, because it is people like Yu Rui who also claim to have "seen" Zhi's batch of books! In the second chapter of "Qi Preface", the general critic before returning said: "Using the big essay of a hundred chapters, first write two big strokes with this chapter to risk it..." Chapter 25 of "Gengchen Version", near the end of the chapter, there is an eyebrow criticism saying: "The psychic jade eliminates evil spirits, all a hundred times, only this one sight,..."

As long as these two items are needed, it can be said that "the overall situation has been decided",-the original main body is a hundred chapters of writing. However, the critics also said "the next 30 chapters", for example, the 21st chapter, which has more than one book, said: "According to the text of this chapter, it is wonderful; but if you haven't seen the next thirty chapters, you still don't see the beauty of it..." ("Thirty Chapters" or "Thirty Chapters") In particular, the "Thirty Chapters of the Later Chapters" is mentioned. There is no second explanation. Everyone believes that the "Later" refers to the handed down version of the "Eighty Chapters of the First Chapter". ten times.Some researchers have already pointed out this.But that's right after all, right?

It was not until the discovery of "Mengfu Ben" that we found the evidence. At the end of the third chapter, there is a side comment: "In the next hundred and ten chapters of Daiyu's tears, I can't say this second word." This completely exposes Yu Rui's nonsense such as "Xueqin has completed her ambitions for a long time in the last forty chapters, but has just established a program, but has not yet written it, so time does not wait for others" and other nonsense. 1014).Some comrades also think that since this side comment appeared in the third chapter, and there are "one hundred and ten chapters later", the whole book should be 113 chapters (with other research).Regarding this, I will not talk about it for the time being, but please study and discuss it.Another comrade said: "Hundred and ten chapters" is just a general term, and it cannot be regarded as a "precision number".Makes sense.However, in any case, the appearance of this sentence proves that the "big essay of one hundred chapters" and "all one hundred chapters" are approximations, and are not actually an integer of one hundred chapters.This is very important.

After the above-mentioned "overall situation" is settled, we can go back and study the original eighty chapters in depth, in order to solve the problem of all the chapters. Cao Xueqin wrote a special letter shortly after opening the book: "It's better to prevent the festive Lantern Festival, when the smoke and fire go out!" These two lines of poems probably have three or four meanings, and they are picked up leisurely and reflected in the distance.In terms of structural design, Cao Xueqin took the fifty-fourth and fifty-fifth chapters as the "watershed". The first half and the second half happened to be the two parts of "prosperity" and "decline". The Lantern Festival has a night banquet", and it has reached the "peak limit".Looking down, starting from the fifty-fifth chapter, there is a completely different set of pen and ink.This point was preliminarily raised in "New Evidence of a Dream of Red Mansions" (please refer to the second line on page 895, the third line to the fourth line on page 987, etc.).

This view has already been agreed with by many readers interviewed or sent in letters, but a young comrade has made further investigations and more rigorous calculations for it.He said: I agree with this argument, but since the fifty-fourth chapter is the end point of the first half and the fifty-fifth chapter is the starting point of the second half, then the original book of Xueqin is not one hundred and ten chapters, but one chapter. One hundred and eight times. Whoever says the truth should obey his argument.So I looked at the whole situation from this new assumption, and immediately realized that this "one hundred and eight chapters" is really a very important discovery.In this way, does it conflict with Zhipi's "hundred chapters" and "hundred ten chapters"?Not to mention conflict at all.To say "hundred times" is to throw away the zeros and turn them into numbers, and to say "the next thirty times" and "hundred ten times" is to count the "missing" integers—about this, I will add it later—— —It’s all just for the convenience of writing, omitting details.So, are there any other concrete arguments? ——The question will never be just an arithmetic topic that even elementary school students can answer papers.Exactly so.Please listen to me explain the whole story in detail below.

It turns out that according to Xueqin's original intention: the structure design of the whole book is very strict, the review progress, plot evolution, layout arrangement, weighing and distribution are extremely precise.He divided the whole book into twelve paragraphs, and each paragraph has nine chapters.In other words, he uses "nine" as the "unit" number, and the first half and the second half of the book each occupy six unit numbers, six times nine, and each has fifty-four chapters, a total of one hundred and eight chapters. Really, is it so? This "nine" and its "clarity" can be discussed from the storyline first.Please see how the content of the first half of the book is distributed.

(1) The first chapter - the ninth chapter, these nine chapters are the prologue of the introduction, such as the introduction of the background, the appearance of the characters, and the lines of various subsequent accidents, all belong to this.Taking Jiayu Village as the thread, Lin and Xue Zhi went to Beijing; using Grandma Liu as the thread, Feng and Lian's housekeeping were exhibited; The mother and son of Jin Rong, a relative, took Lixiangyuan as the line, not only wrote about Dai and Chai, but also passed on Qing and Xi.... (This is just an extremely rough and simple statement. Xueqin often presents various meanings together and uses them in one stroke. Here I can only discuss one side, and the same will be the same later, so I won’t repeat it.) In terms of meaning, use "official protection talisman" It is the general outline of the rise and fall of the four major families; dreams and warnings are used to predict the fate of the characters; grandma Liu's "one entry" is the source of all "conclusions";In a word, the first nine chapters are just a glimpse of the story. At first glance, it seems to be rambling, nonsensical, and chaotic, but in fact, it is extremely compact and meticulous to lay the foundation for the following chapters one by one.These nine chapters were stopped by Naojiashu.The next time, there will be another big wave of Qin's serious illness, which seems to be continuous but real, and the beginning and the end are clear.

(2) Chapter 10-Chapter 18: This paragraph mainly writes about two extravagant "major events", one is the funeral of Keqing, and the other is the return of the concubine Yuan to the province.The former is actually writing about Xifeng's talents and vices, and the latter is actually infecting the prosperity and decline of Jia's family.Although the two events belong to Ning and Rong, they seem to be unrelated, but they are actually related. Therefore, Mrs. Qin entrusted her dream and Sister Feng looked forward to it.These nine chapters will be stopped after returning to save trouble.Next time, I will start another "feelings", another set of words, the beginning and the end are completely clear. (3) Chapter 19 - Chapter 27: The line in this paragraph has two sides, light and dark. "Enlightenment", which is soul-stirring and vigilant, has been developed to bury the incense and weep in the grave. The "dark side" is the secret struggle between Baoyu and Jia Huan's concubine, and the vicious power struggle between Sister Feng and Aunt Zhao, which broke out rapidly and unfolded fiercely, focusing on writing the first huge disturbance in Rongfu.In the middle, Jia Yun, Xiaohong, and Zuijingang are written, which will lay down ink and ink for major events such as Zhao and Huan's drug conspiracy, Feng and Bao's imprisonment, and Yun and Hong's rescue. The two sides of "brightness" and "darkness" are ingeniously and organically connected in the invisible.These nine chapters are ended with "Burning Flowers".Next time, Jiang Yuhan will be brought up again, which will be classified into another topic, and the beginning and the end will be completely clear. (4) Chapter 28--Chapter 36: In the first part of the ninth chapter, Jiang Yuhan, a beautiful official, comes out, with a new clue.A series of Baoyu's "unlucky" incidents, such as making friends with the actors in the palace and secretly leading Jin Chuan to death, advanced layer by layer, until it broke out into the climax of a conflict of "Da Cheng Zhe Tat".This is closely intertwined with the turmoil of marrying and discussing relatives.Among them, there are especially interspersed the expressions of Lingguan, Cuilu, Yuchuan, Jinying and other lower-class beautiful girls.In the end, it comes down to "Meng Zhao Jiang Yun Xuan", and uses "knowledge and determination" to dye and set off from the side.The next time, Haitang Poetry Club will be set up again, and the situation will change again, completely different from the beginning to the end. (5) Chapter thirty-seventh to chapter forty-fifth: These nine chapters start with poems and conclude with poems, poetry clubs, banquets, drinking orders, garden tours, and birthday celebrations. Burning incense, changing during the banquet, and making a small point.Finally, "autumn window wind and rain evening" as a knot, stop.The next time I will mention "embarrassing person", it will be completely different from the beginning to the end. (6) Chapter 46 - Chapter 54: The main line of the nine chapters is from the chants of the winter boudoir gathering to the New Year's Eve, Lantern Festival, various festivals, feasts and fun, and pardon and Xing to ask for mandarin ducks In order to pass the pulse, writing about the conflict between the special room and the second room is a big foreshadowing.In the middle, there is a close-up of the scenes of the princesses in Yihong Courtyard on a winter night.Narrative to Lantern Festival is the limit of "extreme prosperity". The fifty-fifth chapter of "Qi Ben" returned to the previous criticism and said: "This chapter is a continuation of the above, just like Huang Zhong Dalu's empress, turning out the feather tune business voice, which is not cool." It is the critic who used his own unique method to write It shows that this chapter follows the fifty-fourth chapter, which is a big change in pen and ink, and a major turning point in the plot.This concludes the first half.A total of sixty-nine - fifty-four rounds.Look at the second half. (7) Chapter fifty-fifth—chapter sixty-third: These nine chapters are the beginning of writing "decay". They explored Feng's disease and managed the family as a government, which caused the deepening of the conflict between the concubine and the concubine. The situation, the many disadvantages, and the complexity of the disputes are all reluctantly repaired and tidied up on the eve of "the tree falls and the monkeys are scattered", and they can't be saved. Take a side-view reflection, and then use "Shouyihong" as the knot point to close-up the "Qunfang" This time is special and the last big scene of the grand event, and the sign reveals that the "resolve" of the girls is not far away, take a slow step, and push to the next level, that is, to stop.It is still clear from beginning to end. (8) Chapter sixty-fourth - chapter seventy-second: Turning suddenly, the pen and ink focus on all the events of the second and third sisters You, highlighting the viciousness of Sister Feng. , Ning Zui's obsession line, and the poems of Xiang and Dai Taoliu in the middle are slightly broken, that is, all kinds of conflicts and struggles and complicated situations that occurred around Fengjie are still implicitly connected.This paragraph is all about the approach of ruin, and it is progressing layer by layer. The seventy-second chapter of "Qi Ben" commented: "This time it seems to be intentional, it seems to be inattentive, it seems to be continuous and not continuous; for painters, it is a combination of light and shade; The literary world is a different tune for the support of the bureau...——The literary spirit of the front and back, let's take a break here." The structure of the whole book is revealed, so "89" is another turning point.Next time, we will start a new "copying and inspecting the Grand View Garden", which is completely different from the beginning to the end. (9) Chapter 73--Chapter 81: This is the last paragraph of Xueqin's original book that exists today. The incident of "embroidered spring bags" led to a big scandal of "copying and censorship".From then on, Siqi was chased to death, Qingwen died, Fangguan was born, Yingchun was caught in the net, Xiangling was forced (about to die),——It is estimated that this is the long lost last chapter (Chapter 81) ) In the middle meeting, there are also those who will marry in Tanchun and those who will become monks in Xichun. In the middle, a passage of different colors of pen and ink in Mid-Autumn Festival and Xianglian Yin is specially used to color the back part, which is an important key point of the book.So far, the situation of "after the three springs go, all the fragrances will be exhausted" has become clear.It is for the eve of the big turmoil and the big downfall, the pen is full, turned into a bunch, thinking that it will be prominent next time-for the future, temporarily press the slow watch. Judging from the plot divisions, the general outline is like this, and the "nine" has reached ninety-nine. Let's examine the clarity of the number "nine" from another angle, and it's not out of order. The sixth chapter of "Xinzheng", "Calendar of the Red Mansion", once made a list of the novel's years, seasons, seasons and scenery.Readers are invited to open this chapter for comparison and inspection: 1. At the end of the first nine chapters, the "ninth year" is actually being written, and the next year has just passed secretly; from the tenth chapter onwards, it happens to start a new thread, and the story of the "tenth year" is described in autumn . 2. At the end of the second nine chapters, I happened to write about the busy situation of "the twelfth year", which was "never a good year", and then finished writing "Returning to the Province", which is the Lantern Festival of the next year, which is also the "No. Thirteen years" begins. 3. From the third nine chapters to the sixth nine chapters, there are a total of "four nine thirty-six" chapters of "long stories". Actually, it took a whole year to write, and it was New Year's Eve and Lantern Festival. At this time, it has already arrived The "watershed" of the fifty-fourth chapter mentioned above. Fourth, this "long year" which occupies such a unique space in the whole book is precisely the "fourth nine" distribution of the four seasons, which is neat and clear without errors.Try:—— 5. After the "visiting relatives", I wrote the twenty-seventh chapter, and I stopped when I wrote "Funeral Flowers". Although the funeral flowers have entered the beginning of summer, they are actually just for "Farewell to Spring", which is the end of spring .It is for the third nine chapters, writing about spring. 6. From "Xianxiangluo" to Mengzhaojiang Yunxuan and Awareness of Lixiangyuan, the whole is the fourth nine chapters, which are all written about summer events. Seventh, from Qiu Shuang's association and the proposition of "Chrysanthemum", to the autumn wind and rain, the entire fifth nine chapters are all written about autumn things and autumn feelings. 8. From the beginning of the forty-seventh chapter, the small work transitions, and briefly continues the events in late September, and immediately points out that "October 1st in front of me" is the beginning of the Winter Festival, and continues until the fifty-fourth chapter on New Year's Eve and Lantern Festival. King winter environment.So far, it's exactly six, nine, fifty-four. When I pushed the "Calendar" that day, I didn't think about the possibility of the above-mentioned relationships at all. At that time, I only pushed the "Year" as the main thing.If it is a coincidence, there are many coincidences in the world, but after all, how can there be many?It is said that all the above phenomena are just a coincidence, so is this coincidence too much? You might as well go back to the traditional "decimal" division method to look at the problem - you will find that at the end of each full ten chapters and the beginning of the following dozens of chapters, the plots are closely connected and cannot be disconnected, for example, The fortieth chapter ends with Sanxuan Yapai Order, the forty-first chapter begins with tea-tasting Quicui Temple, which was originally a matter of Jia Mu leading Grandma Liu to play; the fiftieth chapter ends with Ya Zhichun Lantern Riddles, the fifth The eleventh chapter begins with the newly edited nostalgic poems, which are the riddles of the poems and the riddles of the poems. Right in the middle of something—how does it all break up into one big paragraph?Such a comparison makes the number "nine" more obvious, and it is not our subjective fabrication. It is unavoidable that one is reminded of the general batch back to the previous article that had aroused speculation among "red study experts": ...When the book reaches the thirty-eighth chapter, more than one-third has passed,... This fat commentary clearly stated: it has been written thirty-eight chapters, and one third of it has passed—a little more, how can there be more than enough?I couldn't figure it out before.Now I know: there are one hundred and eight chapters in the whole book, one-third is four nine thirty-six chapters, and the thirty-eight chapters are just a little bit more after one-third (just one or two chapters)?It can be seen that this kind of general approval before the return is undoubtedly made by Zhi Yan for the one hundred and eight copies. ——Because, if it is written for the "prototype", "predecessor", and "first draft" of less than one hundred and eight chapters of the finalized volume (if there ever was one), then in any case it is impossible to pre-calculate such a volume. The exact "more than one-third" comes.Isn't it clear? Why did Cao Xueqin choose only the number 108?Of course, we are neither Cao Xueqin, nor dare we say we can answer for you.However, this number is used in daily life. For example, the number of Muni beads is one hundred and eight, the clock tower chimes the time and the bell is one hundred and eight pestles, the hero in the novel is one hundred and eight generals, and the magical transformation is thirty. Six changes plus seventy-two changes—one hundred and eight changes... I think that Xueqin's use of the one hundred and eight chapters for a popular novel should at least be considered "source" and "canonical", not "fabricated". "Bar? After knowing the design of one hundred and eight chapters based on "nine", I also feel that it is helpful to imagine and speculate about the general situation of the last twenty-seven chapters.For example, it was assumed above that the eighty-first chapter was on the eve of "after the three springs go, all the fragrances will be exhausted", and the tenth nine chapters below may be a formal account of the three springs gone, all the fragrances have followed, and the Grand View Garden is full of sadness. Fog (see "Xinzheng" page 882, article (12)).Then the eleventh nine chapters may be a series of major events such as the death of Yuan Chun, the revelation of all crimes, the ransacking of the house and imprisonment, and complete ruin.The last twelfth nine chapters should be summed up one by one for the surviving characters. The most important ones should be Sister Feng, Sister Qiao, Xiangyun, Pinger, Sheyue, Hongyu, Qianxue and others.Of course, there are many twists and turns in the plot and the sequence, we can't imagine it in detail and can't be very accurate, but we always feel that we are a step clearer than before we don't understand the structure of "Nine".Therefore, it is very important to know whether you understand the general structure of the hundred and eight chapters and the twelve "nines". "Qi Ben" commented before the 80th chapter: "To describe the jealousy of osmanthus, use a real pen; to describe the evil of the Sun family, use a false pen. To describe Baoyu's illness, it is a provincial pen; to describe Baoyu's burning incense, it is to stop writing." What is stop? Pen?That is to gain momentum, to prepare for another "writing" below.I once said: "It turns out that according to Cao Xueqin's intention and writing method, in the first eighty chapters of his book, he has arranged all the lines and preparations, and his writing has been full of momentum. In the string, the atmosphere of bright, slow and dark tension is just like the so-called "mountains and rain are about to come and the wind is full of buildings" and "all trees are silently waiting for the rain to come". The imminent downpour has been announced by various "warning signals". Once it is uncovered, it will be the key point for a different set of words in the whole book..." ("Xinzheng" page 893). The saying of "stop writing" can be read together.I still think this understanding is basically correct.But at that time, I didn't know the structure of "Nine".Now it seems that the situation I mentioned at that time may have to be pushed back a little bit, for example, it should be a scene that has been moved halfway back to one time.However, this double shows that the eighty-first chapter is a very important chapter in terms of structure. The purpose of this article is only to preliminarily point out this truth, and the plot content of the summary is extremely rough--just want to show the beginning and end of the big paragraph, that's all, readers must not mistakenly think that this is what it is from an artistic point of view. Layout structure, I am not qualified to dare to talk about these.I once said to several college teachers and friends that over the years, many people have talked about ideological content and meaning and value, but few people have talked about artistic attainments and techniques; Those who create are more helpful for reference.Just like the structure of the whole book, I am afraid that there is much to be done just from this angle. I have given an example that someone compared to a corrugated structure. There are countless big waves and small waves, ups and downs, and hooks back and forth. (See page 21 of "New Evidence").But it can also be compared to a three-dimensional building. Xueqin is a very miraculous and great architect who designed and built the Zhang Palace. He built thousands of households, complex roads and corridors. , I can’t get it out—this does not “prove” that Jianzhang Palace is a messy piece of earth, wood, bricks and tiles piled up at random. Well-designed, "blueprint" early results.Thousands of people and things, thousands of threads, intertwined and intertwined, manners and manners, but also organized and orderly, even if one person and one thing are deduced from one person, there is no exception to the knot and echo, and the whole body is written. arrive.Not long after the opening of the "Jiaxu Version", when it came to "sorrows and joys in parting and reunion, encounters in ups and downs, but then follow the traces and dare not... lose their true transmission", a Zhiyan eyebrow comment once said: Facts are facts.However, there are also frames, twists and turns, pros and cons, reflection belts, concealment and appearance, positive and intercalated, and even grass snakes and gray lines, sound transmission in the empty valley, one strike and two sounds, clear plank roads, dark Chencang, cloud and dragon. Fog and rain, the two mountains confront each other, the clouds support the moon, the back is covered with powder, and there are thousands of dyes, and there are many secret methods in various books.Yu also searched and dissected it one by one, explained it clearly, and waited for Gao Ming to comment on the mistakes. This is the "vision" of Zhiyan, which has been going on for two hundred years.It's a pity that no one has studied the overall structure, details, and skills of the game with their own "vision".Since the topic of one hundred and eight chapters was initially raised, Cheng Cheng will add the meaning here.If it can lead to research, it is also a blessing.When specifying "nine" as the base number, it does not mean that "nine" can no longer be divided. In fact, within a large paragraph of nine chapters, there must be a paragraph context to be found.In order to avoid complexity, I don't want to analyze them one by one here, "the reader should be content with it". It seems that there may be a possibility that when Xueqin created that day, what she wrote was "long chapters"-about two or three chapters of the current chapter, and at this time, the "Wensi melody" is in the rhythm. When he finally reached a "dispatching point", he roughly constituted a "basic paragraph"; and such paragraphs formed the large paragraphs mentioned above; " Divide it into details and adjust it into nine chapters. ——Of course, this "creative process" is just a speculation of ours, and we don't know whether it can be realized after all. One hundred and eight times, this discovery was originally prompted by Comrade Zhang Jialun, and I am very grateful, because in a sense, this discovery will enable our research to move forward. The first draft of Dingsi Xiaoxue Festival is completed Ordered on March 5, 1978 ~~~~~~~~~~ [Note] Since the whole book consists of one hundred and eight chapters, nine chapters should be divided into twelve volumes; why do the old manuscripts handed down now mostly use ten chapters as "volumes" in volumes?Also, why does the current version not end at eighty-one chapters, but eighty chapters?The answer is that ten chapters are divided into volumes, which is the latest form. For example, "Qi Preface" and "Jiaxu Edition" are both volumes of four chapters, and "Jiaxu Edition" is not divided into volumes.The method of dividing four chapters into one volume is probably not the earliest form. Comrade Zhang Jialun believes that the earliest two chapters were divided into one volume, because at that time the number of lines on each page was slightly like that of "Jiaxu" and "Qi Ben". ", so the book is very thick, but the number of chapters is small.This is the most.One hundred and eight chapters were divided into fifty-four volumes. When Xueqin was alive, only forty volumes were circulated, so it became "eighty chapters", and the eighty-first chapter was divided into the next volume. Therefore, when all volumes below the forty-first volume are lost, the outside world will not be able to see the eighty-first chapter; since the forty volumes that have been circulated have become eighty chapters, it will give people the impression of an "integer number". concept.Therefore, for the sake of convenience, the copyists later reduced the number of sub-volumes and changed the original line. The number of lines on each page was greatly increased, and finally merged into the usual form of ten chapters and one volume. The trace of "nine" is no longer easy. It was discovered. ~~~~~~~~ [Note] The most difficult part of "Xianbi", that is, Yu Rui's most incomprehensible part, is the insistence that there are "eighty chapters of the manuscripts collected by various families and the catalog after the eighty chapters. The rate is similar, but there are minor differences... "However, he also said: "Yu once saw a copy before Cheng and Gao were engraved,... After the eighty chapters, there is only a catalog, but no text. Ten chapters of 'Simei Fishing' and other catalogs are completely different." This is extremely strange!Yurui never mentioned any "differences" in the number of the "80 chapters of the back catalog" of the manuscripts he saw and the manuscripts "collected by Zhujia" and Cheng and Gao, which is enough to prove the "book catalog" he intended Still "forty times".If so, wouldn't he be right when he said "Cao Xueqin has the ambition to write a hundred and twenty chapters"?However, a lot of evidence in Zhizhu completely negates any possibility that Qin Shu was originally "Hundred and Twenty Chapters".So, where did the "catalogue" of "Forty Chapters" come from?If it is interpreted as: the catalog that has been circulated is the catalog of Cheng and Gaoben, it does not make sense, because Yu Rui has said that the two are "very different".If it is said that he really saw the "forty chapters" of the real catalog of Qinshu that was "different" from Cheng and Gaoben, then he should be very impressed. Apart from the fluent words, you can't even mention the true plot after the 80th episode?What's more, he spent a lot of effort arguing that Cheng and Gao's forty chapters are not true, and he only needs to mention how important the plot is, and Cheng and Gao's falsity will be obvious. Have you uncovered it?Why doesn't he do that?Besides, apart from Yurui, no one in the records of the Qing Dynasty really said that anyone had seen the existence of such a real catalog, so why?Therefore, my disbelief towards Yurui is still the same today.