If you want to go deeper, you should read the notes (! ! ) version, because many ancient proper nouns don't understand words, which has an impact on plot understanding.
Recommended by People's Literature Publishing House. Generally speaking, the prefaces of these books are mostly traditional views and slightly outdated remarks (see the preface date, mostly before 1990).
Specifically:
Reading a Dream of Red Mansions for the first time, it is best to read A Dream of Red Mansions by People's Literature Publishing House (second edition of Dream of Red Mansions Institute of Chinese Academy of Art, 1996).
On the cover: "China Classical Literature Reading Series" (Note! ! ! )。 Figure:
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The text of this book is Chen Geng, which is not bad. Its greatest advantage is that the annotations are more detailed, which is convenient for people who see a dream of red mansions for the first time.
Poetry in A Dream of Red Mansions is not dispensable like many ancient novels. It implies the plot of the following article, and without comment, it will hinder the understanding of the book.
The best version of A Dream of Red Mansions is The Story of Stones in the School of Fat Criticism (Writers Publishing House, 2003). See cover:
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This is the closest version I have ever seen to Cao Xueqin's original work-I checked it with photocopies of ancient books, and the original work is the earliest and proofread carefully. But this version is not suitable for (! ! ! ) readers who have never read a dream of red mansions at all, because he has no notes. But its writing is the closest to Cao Xueqin's original work. (The author takes the earliest ancient edition-Xu Jiaben as the base edition, so it is not enough to use the later bazaar edition and Chen Geng edition).
Xu Jiaben 16 chapter, 40 chapters in Bazaar, 80 chapters in Chen Geng (the last 40 chapters were written by Gao Jaw).
In particular, People's Literature Publishing House has another edition, which is a reprint of the previous old edition (although it is written in 2000, it is actually a version around 1960, please read the preface).
On the cover, there are "Required Reading Series of Chinese New Curriculum Standard" or "Illustration Series of China Ancient Novels".
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Never buy a simplified word book compiled by Zhou. He insisted on using some archaic characters and generic characters (without comments) in it, just like Kong Yiji. Expensive and poor.
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The Journey to the West, People's Literature Publishing House. Whether the cover is "Required Reading Series for Chinese New Curriculum Standard", "Illustration Series of China Ancient Novels" or "Reading Series of China Classical Literature", the text is the same. Take notes.
Cheap, you can buy Yuelu Bookstore, no comments.
Never buy it from Zhonghua Book Company. It's a revised version of the Qing Dynasty, not the original.
Romance of the Three Kingdoms People's Literature Publishing House. No matter how the cover is changed, the text is the same. Take notes.
Greedy and cheap, you can buy Zhonghua Bookstore or Yuelu Bookstore. No comment.
The Water Margin (100) was published by People's Literature Publishing House. No matter how the cover is changed, the text is the same. Take notes.
Water Margin 120. Shanghai Ancient Books Publishing House. No comment. Later generations added 20 stories (9 1- 1 10).
There are still 70 copies. Qilu Bookstore. No comment. Cut off the plot of woo and surrender, delete some useless poems, and the plot is more compact. I don't like watching surrenders watch this. (The last 50 chapters of this edition of Qilu Bookstore are attached to 120, which is a compromise for those who like to read more stories. )
Greedy and cheap, you can buy Zhonghua Book Company's (100) or Yuelu Book Company's "Biography of the Water Margin" (120).
People's Literature Publishing House has a large font and few typos. Other publishers are even worse. Although it's much more expensive, it's worth it.
To sum up:
A Dream of Red Mansions People's Literature Publishing House (China Classical Literature Reading Series)
Romance of the Three Kingdoms People's Literature Publishing House
The Journey to the West, People's Literature Publishing House
The Water Margin People's Literature Publishing House (100 volumes), Qilu Bookstore (a book, including 70 volumes and 120 volumes, can be read as a preface or postscript).