Jiaxuben: The title is Notes on Zhi Yanzhai's Re-evaluation of Strange Stones, 1-8, 13- 16, 25-28, *** 16, which is divided into four volumes. For the first time, there is a sentence that other books don't have: The Story of the Stone is still in use when reading and commenting on Zhi Yanzhai and Xu Jia. Hence the name.
JOE, 1754. This book has more than 1000 comments and is called "Fat Criticism".
Ji Maoben: A book entitled "Re-evaluation of Strange Stones by Zhi Yanzhai" contains1-20,31-40,55 (the second half), 56,57,58,59 (the first half) and 61-. On the table of contents page of Volume 3 1-40, there are six words, namely, "Jimao Dongding Yueben", so it is called Jimao Ben.
Trade fairs, 1759.
Geng Chenben: "Re-evaluation of Zhi Yanzhai's The Story of the Stone". Deposit 78, 1-80, losses 64 and 67. Pack it into eight volumes. 10 back to the book. The last four volumes of the directory page have the words "Chen Geng Qiuyue finalized", hence the name.
Chen Geng, 1760.
Meng Fuben: The famous Story of the Stone was found in a Mongolian palace in the Qing Dynasty, hence its name. 120 times.
Qiben (Shi Yinben, Shanghai and Nanjing): The famous Story of the Stone was named after The Preface to the State of Qi. 80 times
Yang Ben: Also known as Dream Draft, Yangzang Draft and Final Draft. Named after the original Tibetan poplar. The title is "A Dream of Red Mansions Manuscript of Taishilan".
Xu Shuben: Also known as Ji Youben, a book with the title "Dream of Red Mansions". Save 1-40 times. There is a Shu sequence 1789, hence the name.
Russian Collection: The Oriental Institute in Petersburg, Russia. Seven or eight times, five or six times missing. There is no common title. Except for a few times, they are all called stone stories. In more than one place, it is wrong in this text, but this one is correct. The best example is the second sentence of Daiyu's eyebrows, which was originally written like this: a pair of watery eyes. And the first sentence "two curved eyebrows" are an excellent pair. It's very inferior. This sentence should be the original pen of Xueqin. You can make copies.
Chen Jiaben: Also known as Dream Book, Dream Preface Book and Fat Dream Book, the title is A Dream of Red Mansions. Main sequence with dreams. 80 times
Zheng Cangben: 23, 24 times. It was once collected by Zheng Zhenduo, hence its name.
The above-mentioned copywriting, also known as fat copywriting, has the comments of Zhi Yanzhai. All these manuscripts have been photocopied and published (except Shanghai and Nanjing).
Later, a printed version of movable type appeared:
Cheng Jiaben (1791):1791printed movable type published by Cheng Weiyuan and Gao E, 120 times. Cheng Yiben (1792): 1792 Cheng Weiyuan, movable type printed edition published by Gao E, 120 times. Cheng Jiaben was revised many times.
The relationship between books
The relationship between these books is an interesting research topic. According to one critic, these books are all from the same manuscript handed down by Cao Xueqin. The differences between manuscripts are formed by copying, and there are not many manuscripts handed down from generation to generation in Qin Xue. He used * * * statistical tables in different languages and other arguments to prove that all manuscripts are manuscripts (including the bazaar edition and Chen Geng edition). Therefore, the study of version relationship should be based on "meeting" rather than "book". Sometimes, we have to go deep into time.
Cheng Weiyuan and Gao E edited and published 120 copies of A Dream of Red Mansions, which were Cheng Jiaben and Cheng Jiaben respectively, in the fifty-sixth year of Qianlong (179 1). The original text of the first 80 chapters is also "fat copy", but almost all the comments have been deleted. The next 40 chapters are generally believed to be written by Cheng Weiyuan and Gao E, but some people think that another person continued to write this book, and Gao is only the organizer. From this time to the end of Qing Dynasty, Cheng Jiaben was reprinted in large quantities, which became the most widely circulated version at that time. Cheng Weiyuan and Gao E published Cheng Yiben the following year (1792). Cheng Yiben was revised on the basis of Cheng Jiaben, and the first eighty chapters were tampered with a lot. This book had little influence in the Qing Dynasty, and it became the mainstream only decades after Hu Shi advocated it in the Republic of China. Up to now, A Dream of Red Mansions published in Taiwan Province Province is still based on this book.