"Dream of the Red Chamber" is an inexhaustible book of ancient wonders.
In The comments of Li Yanzhai about "Dream of the Red Chamber", cao Xueqin "died in tears" before she could finish writing? Or was Cao Xueqin already finished writing, but the next forty times was lost in circulation or was forcibly deleted by the Qianlong Emperor? So far, the red academic circles are still inconclusive. However, the red academic circles are more certain about one point, that is, the various existing versions of "Dream of the Red Chamber", the first eighty of which were written by Cao Xueqin, and the later ones were continued by others.
In the more than 200 years since half of "Dream of the Red Chamber" was published during the Qianlong period, countless people have regretted that they could not see the whole "Dream of the Red Chamber" and figure out the fate of many characters they were concerned about. It is precisely because of this that generations of literati have picked up their pens and continued to write "Dream of the Red Chamber". So far, there are more than 40 sequels in the strict sense alone. Counting down, since the release of "Dream of the Red Chamber", there has been an average of one sequel every 5 years.
The earliest sequel to "Dream of the Red Chamber" is the "Dream of the Red Chamber" of the Qing Dynasty, which has a total of thirty times and was published during the Qianjia period. After that, qin Zichen's "Dream of the Dream of the Red Chamber", Lan Gao's "Dream of QiLou Chong" (also known as "Dream of the Red Chamber"), Wu Woyao's (Wu Zhaoren's" of "New Stone Record", Chen Shaohai's "Dream of the Red Chamber", the master of the Sea Garden's "Dream of the Continuation of the Dream of the Red Chamber", Mr. Mengmeng's (Linheshan)'s "Dream of the Red Chamber" (also known as "The Afterword to the Twelve Slaves of Drawing Jinling"), Gui Hoezi's "Dream of the Red Chamber", Lang Yuanshanqiao's "Dream of the Red Chamber", Huayue's "Dream of the Red Chamber" (also known as "Dream of Illusion"), Jiang Ling's "Dream of the Red Chamber" 3. Anonymous's "Dream After the Red Chamber", Anonymous's "Red Chamber Dream Again", Anonymous's "Red Chamber Dream" and other sequels.
Among the sequel authors of these "Dream of the Red Chamber", there are many famous artists who are good at writing novels. For example, Wu Yanren, who wrote "The New Stone Record", wrote "The Strange Situation Witnessed in Twenty Years" and was rated as one of the four major condemnation novels of the Qing Dynasty by the present people.
However, these sequels have not reached the artistic standard of the original, and most of them follow the idea of a happy ending in Chinese literature and art, eager to "help Dai Yu Qingwen out of the coffin" and make the tragic meaning of the original work disappear.
Today, most of these sequels are obscured because the artistic standard is too far away from the original. Among them, only the sequel of Qing Ren Gao E basically followed the path of tragedy, which is the best of many sequels, so it is also embellished after Cao Xueqin's original work as the usual complete "Dream of the Red Chamber".
There is no doubt that Gao Hu was cautious about continuing the last forty times. At that time, Gao Yan speculated about the subsequent ending with some clues revealed by cao Xueqin from the first eighty times, which may not necessarily follow the original work completely, but the speculation itself may not fully follow the author's original intention. In addition to Cao Xueqin herself, it is impossible for future generations to stand up and say that their understanding is Cao Xueqin's original meaning. It was quite difficult for Gao Hu to use his insights and the information he had mastered to understand the characters and endings portrayed by Cao Xueqin.
In the past hundred years, there has not been a sequel that can replace Gao Osprey. As a fan of "Dream of the Red Chamber", Gao Hu would never do anything that would not benefit Cao Xueqin, and his arrangement had his own ideas. At the end of "Dream of the Red Chamber", I have to say that it will make people have a deep sense of desolation and depression, seeing that only Li Feng, TanChun, Xi Chun, lonely and lonely are left in the Grand View Garden, and then everyone will do a wedding for Bao Yu together, Dai Yu died alone, more stifling sighs, human feelings are cold and warm to this point, if you really let the story go on, who knows how many miserable things will happen in the future? Cao Xueqin's unfinished writing may be so cruel that he himself can't bear to write, and posterity can't bear to look at it. Therefore, the uniqueness of Gao Osprey is that while trying to ensure the tragic ending, he can't bear to go against the will of the public and add an "aura" to the end, which is Gao Osprey's good intentions.
Of course, I have to admit that there is a certain gap between Gao E's sequel and the first eighty times. But after all, "Dream of the Red Chamber" was written by Cao Xueqin "after ten years of reading, adding and deleting five times", and anyone should treat the follow-up rationally, and cannot use the author's writing to ask for the author's writing, because it is much more difficult to continue than to write by yourself. To be fair, the forty times that Gao Osprey made up, although not as good as the first eighty times, did have the benefit of not being buried. He wrote about the death of Siqi, the death of the Mandarin Duck, the robbery of Miaoyu, the death of Feng jie, and the marriage of the attackers, all of which were very brilliant sketches, and the most noteworthy thing is that these people all wrote about the tragic end. There was also a public case of the most important "Mushi Qianmeng", Gao Yan actually patiently taught Dai Yu to die of illness, teach Bao Yu to become a monk, make a big tragedy end, and break the reunion superstition of Chinese novels. This tragic vision cannot but be admirable...
Gao Hu overthrew countless reunions in the later "Dream of the Red Chamber" and saved a novel with a tragic end for Chinese literature!