Since 2007, the new edition of A Dream of Red Mansions by People's Literature Publishing House no longer uses the words "Gao E's works" and "Gao E's sequel", but updates it to "anonymous sequel, arrangement by Cheng Weiyuan and Gao E", which indicates that Gao E's theory of sequel has been shaken.
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. Fat book is the basic book of craft book.
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Finishing A Dream of Red Mansions:
After Gao E succeeded in the exam, he prepared for the exam again and again, but failed again and again. He was exhausted physically and mentally, but he also took a few years off. He once borrowed a copy of A Dream of Red Mansions from a friend, and stopped reading it eighty times. He didn't see the second half either. He is deeply sorry.
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. Gao E thinks this book is an unpretentious leisure novel, but there is no conflict with Confucianism on the whole, so he readily agrees. Five days after the winter solstice this year, the task was completed and the factory went to press.
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.
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