Chapter 61 International "Dream of Red Mansions" Symposium Book

Lin Daiyu is sick in Xiaoxiang Pavilion International Symposium on May 26, 1980 (excerpt) This Congress is worldwide and unprecedented.It is of great significance to summarize past experience and point out the direction for the future.My contribution, however, is very meager, and I state three points as follows: (1) It can be viewed from various angles of history, politics, and society, but it itself belongs to the category of literature and art, after all, it is a novel; in terms of its ideological nature, it is also related to philosophy.This should be the main thing, but it seems to have been said less in the past.Wang Guowei's Commentary on A Dream of Red Mansions is creative, but it also has an idealistic bias and time constraints.As for the evaluation of great works in literature, it seems that it has never been seen so far.Since its inception, there have been many speakers, calling it "Hong Xue", but its core is still lacking in discernment, and it has not been correctly evaluated.In the future, it seems that we should discuss it more from the two aspects of literature and philosophy, but I don't know if it is true.

(2) There are many kinds of Hongxue today, and it is extremely prosperous. It can enhance readers' understanding of this book, but it also has some disadvantages. Because there are too many, it is not easy to distinguish right from wrong.How should it be read?If you only read plain Chinese, you will be ignorant and ignorant; if you read a lot of books, you may lose your way.If you don't read and don't read, you will lose both.For the current plan, it seems advisable to compile an "Introduction" and "Introduction" to make it easy for everyone to understand, and not to ask for further explanations. It may be helpful for those who love to read books.There are many opinions, but the original book is here.Seeking common ground, reserving differences, and lacking doubts cannot be discarded.But taking the same is not necessarily the same; reserving differences will inevitably lead to quarrels; although it is good to "learn more and doubt more", if you have to apologize every time, people are not comfortable.However, the situation of the country is different, the right and the left are different, people hold their own opinions, there are many ways to say it, and it is very difficult to implement compilation.

(3) On the other hand, for decades, Cao Xueqin and Cao Xueqin have been praised but not criticized. They are highly praised, both at home and abroad, and their valuations are getting higher and higher. Such one-sided praise does not help a correct understanding.My early "A Dream of Red Mansions" did not have a high evaluation of this book, or even a low evaluation. It was wrong, but it rarely attracted people's attention.Not long ago, I also gave up and said that I went to the team supporting Cao Mihong, which should be said to be a bit of a pity[50].Now that nothing is bad, one may mistakenly regard the shortcomings as advantages; it is clearly a loophole, but there are subtleties in what is said.Whenever I make such a mistake myself, I am not much more afraid than guessing stupid riddles.The last forty chapters are originally from another hand, and the first eighty chapters are also broken, which is well known to everyone.Although this book is a masterpiece, it is not finished. If it is highly praised, it will be farther away from the public.This may be due to excessive enthusiasm.If you can put the distance farther, or look at it from another angle, you can avoid a lot of smoke, and the truth of the truth can be clarified a little.