In a word, A Dream of Red Mansions is a very good masterpiece. It is very helpful for your writing to read it carefully.
In fact, the continuation of Gao E is really not very good, it is just rubbish. Only Dai Yu seems to be able to burn the manuscript, but it is enough to watch the first 80 chapters of A Dream of Red Mansions. The author is full of absurd remarks and handfuls of bitter tears. If all are written, I think it can be called the first sad book in the world, which can make people cry. If you want to read it, you must prepare some books after reading the last 40 chapters. And people with depression can't watch it yet! However, the magic of A Dream of Red Mansions lies in: It only wrote the first eighty chapters. Although there is no manuscript of the last 40 chapters of A Dream of Red Mansions, people can infer the ending of the last 40 chapters of A Dream of Red Mansions from the existing narrative of the first 80 chapters and the comments of a contemporary owner named Zhi Yanzhai (the original Dream of Red Mansions has this person's comments on the book, and she may be the only person who has read the book except Cao Xueqin). Judging from this man's comments on eyebrows, it's really tragic. But I don't know why the last 40 chapters didn't come down, but they were written. According to expert research, the owner of Zhi Yanzhai and Cao Xueqin may be the same person, but that's because she commented on A Dream of Red Mansions with her own tone, and the flaws behind it were intentional. But now it seems that it is not easy to write this level in two-thirds parts. No book in the world can write like this. I can't imagine, if a book is only written two thirds, and there is no one third, what is there to read? Now that A Dream of Red Mansions has been achieved, the ending of the last forty chapters can be explained clearly by asking casually. All the people quoted have different views on this, and they have expressed their opinions for a long time. I think this has achieved Cao Xueqin's goal of leaving only the first 80 chapters. This is his genius and the charm of this book. Maybe it's because of that sentence ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! !
A Dream of Red Mansions is a mystery novel, full of suspense and unsolved mysteries. If you are free, make a cup of hot tea, read the first eighty chapters of A Dream of Red Mansions, compare the comments of experts, then calm down and think about it, and feel the mystery of A Dream of Red Mansions and Cao Xueqin's intentions. It's really a spiritual enjoyment, and it feels so comfortable!
Gao E's forty sequels to A Dream of Red Mansions are a mess! I recommend you to read the first 80 times, there is no need to read the last 40 times! Gao E's understanding of Cao Xueqin's thesis is not in place, such as:
1. According to the meaning of the judgment,
Warm in vain, empty clouds like osmanthus,
The actresses are blessed, but the sons have no chance.
The ending of "Twelve Women in Jinling" should be that Hua Xiren married Jiang Yuhan before Baoyu became a monk, while Gao E's sequel is that Xiren married Jiang Yuhan after Baoyu became a monk.
2. According to the meaning of the judgment,
I am smart and ambitious. I was born in the last days.
Qingming tears are sent to the riverside to see, and Dongfeng dreams.
In the official version of Twelve Women in Jinling, Jia Tanchun ended up marrying overseas, and never saw Jia's family again. In Gao E's sequel, Jia Tanchun once went home to visit relatives with great splendor.
3. Gao E's mistake is so great that we can't understand Cao Xueqin's arrangement of twelve women in Jinling, which is the famous mystery of arranging wonderful jade. Miaoyu is the only one among the twelve women in Jinling who is not related to Jia family or relatives (including in-laws), but she ranks sixth in the official list of the twelve women in Jinling, directly ahead of Wang Xifeng. Miaoyu can rank in this position because of some factors in recent forty years, but Gao E didn't write it. In fact, the final result of Cao Xueqin's wonderful jade is not the same as that written by Gao E. Miaoyu ranked sixth because it was discovered in the 1960s that Mr. Yijing had a manuscript of The Story of the Stone, which was copied according to Cao Xueqin's whole book, including the first draft of the last forty chapters. (Actually, Cao Xueqin didn't write the last forty chapters. He actually published the first draft, but he didn't put it into practice. Cao Xueqin died, and later the last forty drafts were lost. He found that the fat comments in this book were different from some comments published by the red circle at that time. The evaluation of Miaoyu's ending is like this: "Isn't it sad that a beauty can't give in to her bones?" "Beauty" should refer to Miaoyu: for some reason, Baoyu and Xiangyun were robbed by an old local official, and the condition for saving these two people was that they had to yield to "bones", which was cruelly put forward. If you sacrifice yourself, I can let these two go. This "dead bone" must be a powerful person, such as a loyal and obedient king. In the end, she "can't give in to dead bones." At the cost of succumbing to "bones", she allowed Jia Baoyu and Shi Xiangyun to reunite through hardships and finally survived. How noble, so it is natural that she can rank sixth among the twelve women in Jinling (this information was given by Liu, a famous writer and a famous Redology researcher, in the lecture room program).
4. There is also a police nun who asked those singers to sing twelve songs of a dream of red mansions for Jia Baoyu, which is too clear. After 80, the ending should be, finally Jia Fu is:
The family was scattered, and suddenly it fell like the first floor, and suddenly it was like Yi Deng.
Its ending should be:
Just like eating all the birds and throwing them into the forest, the land is so clean!
According to Cao Xueqin, the Jia family should be doomed. However, Gao E's sequel ended with the emperor (actually it should be Qianlong) pardoning Jia's family, and Jia's family flourished again.
5. Gao E totally twisted Jia Baoyu! Baoyu was supposed to be a good man, a person who was incompatible with the feudal mainstream society. He has never entered the Four Books and Five Classics. He called those who went to study the classics and took part in the imperial examination "national thieves" and "Lu Wei", and he hated those official fans. However, in the last forty chapters, Gao E turned Jia Baoyu into a good boy, listened to Jia Zheng, went to school twice, and devoted himself to reading sage books? I still remember writing in the last forty chapters that one day Jia Baoyu met Qiao Jie. I heard that Qiaojie felt very good after reading "Daughter Filial Piety", so she told her "Biography of Lienv", which is a long story about feudal morality. This is not Jia Baoyu's original style at all! Gao E completely distorted Jia Baoyu!
Many of the last forty chapters written by Gao E are inconsistent with Cao Xueqin's original intention, which can be seen from the first eighty chapters. Therefore, Gao E's sequel is very incorrect. I suggest that the last forty chapters are really not worth reading carefully!