Cheng Jiaben was originally the winter solstice in the fifty-sixth year of Qianlong (179 1). Thirty years after Cao Xueqin's death, Cheng Weiyuan, the owner of Huizhou Cui Wen Bookstore, printed 80 copies of A Dream of Red Mansions in movable type for the first time with Gao E's Forty Addenda, which is the first printed version of A Dream of Red Mansions. After publication, because of the large social demand, it can't be met, and "because of the urgent need of public interests, it is not as good as fine proofreading at the beginning of printing, and there are also some mistakes" (Introduction to Gao E). In the spring of the following year (fifty-seven years of Qianlong, Renzi Flower Dynasty), it was revised and reprinted, with five or six thousand words changed, and the target questions were slightly changed to Cheng Yiben, Cheng Jia and Cheng Zi. Under the influence of woodcut in the Painting Academy at that time, its style was quite different from Huizhou prints in the Ming Dynasty. The preface was written by Cheng Weiyuan and Gao E. Because Cheng Yi was revised before typesetting, an introduction was added after the preface. There are pictures in front of A and B, engraved with pictures and preface, with a total of 24 pages. They are all 10 lines, each line is a half page of 24 words, double-sided, white mouth and single fish tail. The cover is engraved with "Xiu Xiang Newly Carved Dream of Red Mansions" and signed by "Cui Wen Bookstore". At the end of the book, there are 24 volumes of "Cui Wen Bookstore".
A Dream of Red Mansions written by Cheng Hao and Cheng Yi is extremely rare, especially the Cheng Hao version. They are precious materials for studying A Dream of Red Mansions, and occupy an important position in China's classical literature and ancient printing history.