Author: Zhang Ailing
Zhang Ailing's Works: Nightmare in the Red Chamber (Literary Review)
Zhang Ailing described her textual research on A Dream of Red Mansions as "infatuation", so she got the sentence "I was fascinated by textual research for ten years and got the nightmare name of the Red Chamber".
An unfinished dream of red mansions
The study of A Dream of Red Mansions is changing with each passing day. There have been two different opinions on whether Gao E should continue to write this book. There is also a saying that the last forty chapters are Cao Xueqin's own works, and after writing them, he put aside the clues in the fat criticism and put them down. Some people think that the last forty chapters include Cao Xueqin's residual manuscripts. It has been a complete circle for forty years since the study during the May 4th Movement. Judging from the style and advantages and disadvantages alone, it is inevitable that the last forty chapters cannot be original or contain original elements, and subjective ridicule is inevitable. There is no use of literary criticism here. The fact is that everything is empty talk except textual research. I dared to write Baoyu's poem "Green Wax in Spring" to the last sentence "Unfinished Dream of Red Mansions", but the word "Unfinished" also became a question.