There are more than a dozen versions of A Dream of Red Mansions, and the popular version is Cheng Jiaben. Pangben is a newly discovered "ancient book" in the 20th century, formerly known as "The Story of the Stone", commonly known as "Zhi Yanzhai's Comments on" The Story of the Stone ",among which Xu Jiaben, Ji Maoben and Chen Geng Ben are the most concerned. The new edition of People's Literature Publishing House 20 10 is signed "Cao Xueqin, Continued by Anonymous", which shows that "Gao E's theory of continuing books" has been abandoned.
2. It is said that Uncle Cao Xueqin's Zhi Yanzhai revised and commented on A Dream of Red Mansions.
Zhi Yanzhai is the main critic of the manuscript system of A Dream of Red Mansions, and reevaluates Zhi Yanzhai's The Story of the Stone. The comment on writing by Zhi Yanzhai is called "fat batch" or "fat batch" in the red circle, and the transcript with the comment on writing by Zhi Yanzhai is called "fat copy". However, there is no consensus on who Zhi Yanzhai is and what is the relationship with Cao Xueqin, the author of A Dream of Red Mansions. There are four main theories in the field of redology: first, the author says; Second, the wife said; Third, the uncle said; Fourth, my cousin said.
Judging from the content of Zhi Pi, Zhi Yanzhai should have a very close relationship with the author of A Dream of Red Mansions and his family, but a few researchers think that Zhi Pi is just a kind of commercial speculation. In criticism, the author's creative intention and metaphor are often explained, which provides the most direct and main basis for the branch of "exploring the lost" in redology.