Version: The first eighty revisions are mainly based on the Chen Geng version and compiled by reference. The last forty chapters mainly refer to the Gao E version.

The version of A Dream of Red Mansions can be divided into two systems: 120 "cost" and 80 "fat cost". Cheng Ben is printed by Cheng Weiyuan, while Fat Ben is an early manuscript copied and commented by Zhi Yanzhai in different periods.

Re-evaluation of "Stone Story" by Zhi Yanzhai (Geng) is also called "Zhi Jing Ben". The title of the original book is "Re-evaluation of the Story of the Stone by Zhi Yanzhai", and the words "Four Reviews by Zhi Yanzhai" are marked at the beginning of each volume. The cover titles of the fifth to eighth volumes are titled "Chen Geng Autumn Moon Edition" or "Chen Geng Autumn Edition", hence the name Chen Geng Edition.

Fat book is the basic book of craft book. The first 80 chapters of this new edition of popular reading are examined according to the fat version, and the last 40 chapters are examined according to the course version, with the signature "Cao Xueqin, anonymous sequel, Cheng Weiyuan, finishing".

Based on the rise and fall of Jia, Shi, Wang and Xue, the novel depicts the life of a group of beautiful women in the boudoir from the perspective of Jia Baoyu, a rich son, and shows the true beauty and tragedy of human nature. It can be said that it is an epic that shows the beauty of women from all angles.

A Dream of Red Mansions is an earthly novel with world influence. It is recognized as the pinnacle of China's classical novels, an encyclopedia of feudal society in China and a master of traditional culture.

Extended data:

Chen Geng's original edition is quite early and has the most complete appearance. There are more than 2,000 original works of A Dream of Red Mansions by Cao Xueqin and comments by Zhi Yanzhai, and almost all the year and month names in Zhi Pi exist in Chen Geng's version, so this version is the most precious.

Chen Geng is an old collection of Xu Yong, a scholar and co-organizer in the late Qing Dynasty. 1933, Hu Shi saw this manuscript from Xu Xingshu, the son of Xu Yong, and wrote a long article "Notes and Postscripts of Chen Geng's Re-evaluation of the Stone Story by Zhi Yanzhai". /kloc-in the summer of 0/948, yenching university bought it from the Xu family and became the collection of Peking University Library.

In the fifty-sixth year of Qianlong (179 1), that is, in the spring of the third year after Gao E won the bid, his friend Cheng Weiyuan came to visit, presented the 120 book he bought and invited him to edit it together.

Soon, the first printed version of A Dream of Red Mansions appeared in the history of publishing and communication, which Hu Shi called Cheng Jiaben.

According to Cheng Weiyuan, their specific work is to edit and proofread the manuscript, learn from each other's strengths, copy it as a whole, and then print and publish it.

The publication of Cheng Jiaben was a bit hasty and eager for quick success, so the editing and typesetting were not detailed enough, and many defects were found just after leaving the factory, so Gao E and Cheng Weiyuan immediately set out to re-book it, which was called Cheng Yiben by Hu Shi in Fu Zi on February 13th in the fifty-seventh year of Qianlong (1792).

Cheng Yi's preface, written by Cheng Weiyuan and Gao E, mentioned that the first eighty chapters of this book filled in the missing items, corrected the mistakes and occasionally added or deleted several words on the basis of referring to various old manuscripts.

After forty times, there are only traces, and there are no other versions for reference. Therefore, we can only fill in the gaps according to the order of the remnants, so as to make the narrative continuous and reduce contradictions. As for the original text of the manuscript, they dare not change it privately.

References:

Baidu Encyclopedia-Gao E

References:

Baidu Encyclopedia-Stop Saying Zhai —— Re-comment on Geng Chenben's Story of the Stone