Speaking of Lin Yiliang's name, many people know his masterpiece Journey to the West-A Critical Review of a Dream of Red Mansions, but many people don't know that Lin Yiliang is the pseudonym of Mr. Song Qi, a famous Hong Kong red scientist. It was many years before I connected the two names. Mr Song Qi is the predecessor of A Dream of Red Mansions. As early as the early 1970s, he published a series of redology papers, such as The Development Direction of a New Dream of Red Mansions, On Grand View Garden, On Jia Baoyu as the crown of beauty. Every article has a great influence on the research field of A Dream of Red Mansions. It is said that the basic view of Yu Yingshi's two worlds in A Dream of Red Mansions comes from the Song Dynasty. However, most of Song Qi's articles are published in newspapers and periodicals in Hong Kong and Taiwan, which is difficult for ordinary readers in the mainland to read. This time, China Bookstore Press published Song Qi's A Dream of Red Mansions, which is called A Dream of Red Mansions. I think this is a very meaningful thing and a contribution to the development of a dream of red mansions. Mr. Cai Yijiang called Song Qi "Yu Pingbo of Hong Kong" in the preface to A Dream of Red Mansions, which is naturally a high evaluation, but I don't think this evaluation is excessive. Mr. Song Qi really has a high position in Hong Kong academic circles, especially in the study of A Dream of Red Mansions. He has been enthusiastic about promoting the study of redology in Hong Kong, Taiwan and overseas, and has done a lot of work for this. But in the study of A Dream of Red Mansions, Song Qi and Yu Pingbo are not exactly the same, and he seems to admire Wang Guowei, another great dream scholar.

People usually divide the schools of A Dream of Red Mansions into three schools: textual research, textual research and literary criticism. Song Qi undoubtedly belongs to the school of literary criticism. A basic starting point of his study of A Dream of Red Mansions is that it is a literary work and a novel, so he attaches great importance to the study of its literary achievements, artistic characteristics, characters and position in the history of world literature. For example, regarding the Grand View Garden, he thinks that Cao Xueqin is still a castle in the air and a garden on paper, no matter how vividly he writes it, because "the author uses the Grand View Garden to accommodate his creative attempts, including his ideals, to set off the characters of the main characters, which is in line with the development of the main line and theme of the story, rather than using the Grand View Garden to record the gardens that the author has seen." For example, he said that Cao Xueqin planted plum blossoms in Cui Qi Temple in Grand View Garden, the main purpose of which was to set off Miaoyu's character with plum blossoms, and even to symbolize Miaoyu with plum blossoms. Whether plum blossom is in the south or in the north is out of his consideration. Similarly, Lin Daiyu's Xiaoxiang Pavilion, Li Wan's Daoxiang Village, Xue Baochai's courtyard, Tanchun's lent and Baoyu's courtyard are all designed to set off the characters' personalities, regardless of the outdoor environment or indoor layout. As for the authenticity of the Grand View Garden, readers feel as if they are living in such an environment. We can't say that he must have a foundation, only that the author's creation is successful. Therefore, Song Qi believes that the Grand View Garden, a "landscape of heaven and earth", is neither in the north nor in the south, but only exists between Cao Xueqin's square inches. This analysis is very convincing.

Song Qi attached great importance to the literary study of A Dream of Red Mansions, but he did not deny the remarkable achievements made in textual research of A Dream of Red Mansions and its author's family background. For example, he attaches great importance to the use of fat review materials, and he also opposes taking 120 back to college as the basis for studying A Dream of Red Mansions. Textual research on A Dream of Red Mansions has really clarified many problems. Imagine that we could not have a deeper understanding of A Dream of Red Mansions without the in-depth study of Cao Xueqin, his family background and life times by predecessors. However, Song Qi believes that although textual research has its own value, it is still only a means. "The ultimate goal should be to explore the artistic value of A Dream of Red Mansions and its position in the history of world literature." He believes that literary criticism can make people realize the great value of A Dream of Red Mansions, especially by using the research method of comparative literature, which can make A Dream of Red Mansions comparable to the painstaking efforts of any great writer in the world literary world. Song Qi's viewpoint deserves attention.

Modern redology has a history of one hundred years, but redology is still a science full of hope and charm. In the new century, we should conscientiously sum up the experience and lessons of the study of A Dream of Red Mansions in the past hundred years, so that the study of A Dream of Red Mansions can advance along the scientific road. The book A Dream of Red Mansions by Mr. Song Qi will give us a lot of beneficial enlightenment.