What is the identity of the annotator of A Dream of Red Mansions, Zhi Yanzhai?

There are four main theories about the identity of Zhi Yanzhai in the red circle: (1) The author said; (2) Shi Xiangyun said; (3) Uncle said; (4) Cousin said. These are all about the relationship between Zhi Yanzhai and Cao Xueqin.

"the author said". This statement can't stand reasoning, and it is the most difficult to establish. In the fat criticism, there are many expressions of "Yu Er Ren", "Writer" and "Approver", and there is a clear line between the author and the approver, so there is no doubt that they are two people. And if this is the author's "cunning brushwork", the approver, that is, the author, becomes a self-boasting, and his personality is low, which is obvious. Judging from the spirit and thoughts revealed in a Dream of Red Mansions, how can the author who has the idea of "emptiness" in his heart be willing to slap his mouth? And that kind of arrogant and free-spirited literati image, which is "arrogant and arrogant, eloquent and eloquent" and "arrogant as a gentleman's world is strange, and jagged is even more fragmented", constantly does not allow himself to do such an unbearable thing. The biggest reason for this statement is "how can others know when the author writes a book" (in Yu Pingbo), which is undoubtedly that Zhi Yanzhai is regarded as an ordinary reader, ignoring the close relationship between him and Cao Xueqin.

"Shi Xiangyun said". Mr. Zhou Ruchang picked out a number of comments similar to women's tone from the fat criticism, so he decided that Zhi Yanzhai was a woman. For example, Geng Chenben wrote a line at six o'clock at the second time: "If Brother Yu sees this batch, he will say,' Old goods, he won't relax me everywhere, hateful!'" Looking back, I compare Yu to a hairpin, and each other is a bosom friend. Why is Yu lucky? Smile. "Back to Baoyu's remark that" Miss Affectionate spends her honeymoon with her "annoyed Daiyu, and his side line criticized the cloud:" I will be annoyed, too. Mr. Zhou thinks that "it is not female to stop calling" and "it is a female voice again". In fact, in the process of Cao Xueqin's creation, all of them put themselves in the position of acting for the characters in the book. If a woman is a woman, she intends to "speak", if a villain is a villain, she imitates the villain's tone, and if she is a clown, she has no rude words, so many people are arrested. In essence, approving books is tantamount to writing books. It is also necessary to devote yourself to the book environment and vent your related emotional feelings one by one. When you are satisfied, you will pity others and stand from another angle in order to get incisive. At the same time, Mr. Zhou, based on a line in the second edition of Jiaxu's book, criticized that "drinking first for Ningrong people, but drinking for Yu Yi", thought that "Zhi Yanzhai is not among Ningrong people", but it must be an important role in the book. It is further inferred that Shi Xiangyun is the most suitable.

"uncle said". There are two main reasons for this statement. First, Yu Rui, a Qing dynasty man, wrote in the book "Idle Pen at Jujube Window": "I heard the old book" Feng Yue Bao Jian ",also known as" Stone Story ",and I don't know why it was written by someone. Cao Xueqin got it, because the story told in the book is similar to his family's story. Because of the use of the title, he revised the book to five times ... I have seen the manuscript, and this book has the comment on what happened in that year, which is very true. It is easy to call it "Dream of Red Mansions" and "smell its so-called" Baoyu ",which means his uncle, not his own portrayal. Both sentences begin with the word "smell", which should be a popular view at that time, not from his uncle Mingyi and Minglin, so it can not be confirmed. This kind of "smell" once aroused people's doubts about Cao Xueqin's copyright in A Dream of Red Mansions, and its fallacy is obvious (Fu Cha Ming Yi may have made friends with Cao Xueqin, and there are 2 poems of tihongloumeng, and the note before the poem is: "Cao Ziqi wrote a Dream of Red Mansions, to remember the prosperity of romantic years ........................................................................... Yu Rui said to himself, "I want to tie the word Xueqin with its name, but I don't know its name." Cao, a soldier of the Han Dynasty, doesn't know his official flag. We don't know Cao Xueqin so well. How can we listen to his "smell" and believe it? Isn't it ridiculous that even the word "smell" should be added before such a thing as "there are friends with Cao Xueqin"? Secondly, Geng Chenben replied for the 18th time: "Before Baoyu entered the school, he was introduced by Jia Fei when he was three or four years old." Fat criticism: "The critic brought this teaching, so he criticized it and burst into tears. My first sister died too early, otherwise, why should I be a basket case? " According to this, Zhi Yanzhai calls Wuchun as her elder sister, and Yuan Chun's image is based on Cao Xueqin's aunt as a princess, so it is calculated that Zhi Yanzhai should of course be Cao Xueqin's uncle.

"Cousin said". Zhi Yanzhai and Cao Xueqin are brothers. In the 22nd chapter of Jing Ben, there is a grotesque comment: "Let's talk to those who know it before. In a few years, all the scholars of Qinxi, Zhiyan and Xingzhai have not gone one after another. Today, there is only one rotten thing left in Ding Haixia, so I would rather not kill it!" In the comment on writing, Cao Xueqin and Zhi Yanzhai are called "philosophers", while the self-proclaimed "rotten things" look at the tone, Cao Zhi seems to be the same generation, and the abnormal generation is longer than the two. The third time of Jiaxu; "The master said,' I haven't been well for days, but I feel sad when I see the girls, so I can't bear to meet them for the time being. "Abnormal criticism said:" I haven't made a statement for a long time, so I may wake up when I see this statement. " The grotesque self here is more than Jia She, which can prove that he is the elder of Zhi Yanzhai, who is better than Jia Baoyu. Jiaxuben said for the second time, "It's in the garden in the back area." Zhi Pi: "Why don't you just use the word" West "for the word" Hou "? I am afraid that my husband will cry, so I dare not use the word' west'. " According to Zhi Yanzhai's respect for "Mr.", "Mr." should be an elder, or it is abnormal. Cao Yin named himself "Flower Sweeper in Xitang", and his branch is extremely sensitive to the word "West". When future generations write books, they naturally avoid them. At this time, the earliest time to make a batch was Jiaxu (1754). In the above three comment on writing, no matter "Mr" or "misshapen", it will not be Cao Yin himself or his brother, but only Cao Yinzi's nephew. Zhi Yanzhai is naturally Cao Yin's grandson, so he is equal to Cao Xueqin. In addition, it seems more reasonable that Zhi Yanzhai and Cao Xueqin are brothers of the same generation. For the first time, Jiaxu wrote a fat criticism: "Now and then, I only hope that the Lord of Nature will give me another Qin and a fat. What good is the book?" The other two are also very happy in Jiuquan. " "One Qin and One Fat" also said that it is conceivable that the relationship between them should be suitable for equal brothers.

the study of a dream of red mansions started in the early 192s. In 192, when Lu Xun wrote A Brief History of Chinese Novels, all the quotations from A Dream of Red Mansions were based on the preface of Qi Guo's life and the movable type of Gao Mu's life. It can be seen from this that Lu Xun had paid more attention to the paper money than to the high one. In 1927, Hu Shi bought a copy of Jiaxu, and in February of the following year, he published the article Textual Research on New Materials of A Dream of Red Mansions. This is the first monograph on the study of the banknote of A Dream of Red Mansions in the history of redology, and it is also the beginning of the study of the banknote of A Dream of Red Mansions. Around this time, the banknotes of A Dream of Red Mansions have been discovered one after another, and the following twelve kinds have been obtained so far. (In the order of its discovery): 1. The preface to The Story of the Stone by Qi Guo is called the Qi Xuben for short, with eighty chapters. In 1912, there was a stone seal printed by Zhengshu Company in Shanghai, and the first forty chapters of the original copy were found, which is now in Shanghai Library. Second, "Red Yanzhai Re-evaluation of the Stone Story" (Jiaxuben) is referred to as Jiaxuben, with 16 remaining chapters. It was collected by Hu Shi in 1927 and was originally collected by Liu Quanfu in Daxing. This book was originally stored in Cornell University Library, USA, and is now in Shanghai Museum. Three, "Red Yanzhai Re-evaluation of the Stone Story" (Jimao edition) is referred to as Jimao edition, with 38 remaining chapters, then three and two and a half chapters, and now there are forty-one chapters and two and a half chapters. It was originally hidden by Dong Kang and later by Tao Zhu, and now it is in the library of Beijing. The newly discovered three times and two and a half times are still collected by the historical museum of the original discovery unit. Four, "Red Yanzhai Re-evaluation of the Stone Story" (Gengchen edition) referred to as Gengchen edition, seventy-eight times, purchased by Xu Xingshu in 1932, is now in Peking University Library. Five, preface to Qi Guo's life "The Story of the Stone" (Nanjing Library Collection) is referred to as Qining Book for short, eighty times, and it is the old collection of Nanjing Library. 6. The preface to Dream of Red Mansions, with eighty chapters for short, was discovered in Shanxi in 1953 and is now in Beijing Library. Seven, one hundred and twenty copies of Qianlong's Manuscript A Dream of Red Mansions, referred to as Dream Manuscript, were discovered in the spring of 1959 and are now in the library of the Institute of Literature of China Academy of Sciences. 8. The Story of the Stone, which was collected in the Mongolian Palace for short, was originally eighty times, and the banknotes were made into one hundred and twenty times. It was discovered in 196 and is now in the Beijing Library. Nine, Shu Yuanwei preface "Dream of Red Mansions" is referred to as Shu Xuben, with 4 chapters remaining, Wu Xiaoling's old collection, Zhu Nanxi's shadow copy, and the Beijing Library. Ten, Zheng Zhenduo's banknote copy of A Dream of Red Mansions is called Zheng's copy for short, and there are twenty-three or twenty-four copies left, which were collected in Zheng Zhenduo and are now in Beijing Library. Eleven, Yangzhou Jing's collection of banknotes "The Story of the Stone" is referred to as Jing's collection, eighty times, and Jing Ying's old collection has been lost. Twelve, Leningrad Institute of Oriental Studies, the banknote "Stone" is referred to as the collection, eighty times, missing five or six times, and seventy-eight times, which was collected in the Leningrad branch of the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Soviet Academy of Sciences. In addition, the woodblock movable-type edition of A Dream of Red Mansions in Xiu Xiang, which was published in 1911, is called Cheng Jiaben in the world, and its original edition is also the early banknote edition of the fat-based system. Together, there are thirteen different early banknote editions of A Dream of Red Mansions. Except for Jing Ben, which has been lost, only the fat has been preserved and lost, the other twelve kinds, either Ji Guang Pian Yu or Zhao Bi Wan Bi, are all valuable materials for studying the banknote of A Dream of Red Mansions.

There is also a new saying that the reason why Zhi Yanzhai is called Mr. may be a courtesy title for women at that time, especially those who are knowledgeable. Moreover, according to their intimacy and Cao Xueqin's experience, most of Zhi Yanzhai is also detailed, and some people speculate that this Zhi Yanzhai may be Cao Xueqin's confidante, either husband and wife. But these are all inferred from some tone words on the fat batch, and the actual situation is temporarily impossible to test.