I found an important point, that is, Cao Xueqin's discussion about Jia's attitude change in the first 80 chapters and the last 40 chapters of A Dream of Red Mansions.
What they are discussing is that the change of Jia's attitude is a wake-up call for Baodai's love development.
Some people think that Lin Daiyu and Jia Baoyu should be together. According to the attitude of Lao Cao Man in the first 80 years, with the support of grandma, the two will definitely be together.
In Gao E's article, Jia Mu became an advocate of marriage. I agreed with Wang Xifeng's idea of changing people to get married, which also led to Baodai's love tragedy. Lin Daiyu finally dried the last tear and died.
This is also the difference in their content structure.
There is also a little girl, a girl named Liu Wuer. In fact, Mr. Cao Xueqin had written him dead in the first 80 times (I forgot the reason, and interested friends can go and see him by themselves), but in the last 40 times, he came back from the dead and became Jia Baoyu's maid.
So, two people write novels. No matter what kind of imitation attitude the latter holds towards the former, it can never be the former. Everyone has his own unique creative method. Personal style is clearly visible. Therefore, from the professional analysis, the creative techniques of Mr. Cao Xueqin and Mr. Gao E are definitely very different.
I want to make it clear that Mr. Cao Xueqin's creation is better than Mr. Gao E's, but he is more powerful because he doesn't know the symbolic meaning and the art of language and poetry.