Wang's comments include Preface to the Master of Flower Protection, General Review of A Dream of Red Mansions and Sub-Review of A Dream of Red Mansions. Wang's "A Dream of Red Mansions" can be found in the book "A Dream of Red Mansions", with twelve general comments. The first one divided the one hundred and twenty chapters of A Dream of Red Mansions into twenty-one paragraphs, in which it was said that "five chapters and four paragraphs are a procedure of A Dream of Red Mansions". The second part puts forward the "key" of reading A Dream of Red Mansions: A Dream of Red Mansions, and all the keywords are "true and false".
Wang grasped that the program of A Dream of Red Mansions is "color emptiness" and the key is "truth and falsehood", which is also the idealistic viewpoint and method of literary criticism.
Wang's overall evaluation of A Dream of Red Mansions is: "A Dream of Red Mansions is all a dream, and I criticize it. It's really love love love, which is even more ridiculous. There are 3,000 people in the world without dreams. Who is not a dream? If you are dreaming, it is impossible to dream in a dream. "
It can be seen that Wang not only summed up the people and things in A Dream of Red Mansions in one word, but also summed up his life-"dream" in one word.
Wang Xilian's comments on this book have a great influence on the communication history of A Dream of Red Mansions. The most widely circulated generation of A Dream of Red Mansions is Cheng Koizumi's first edition, followed by Wang's comments, but this version appeared and other versions were abandoned. Zhang Xinzhi,No. Taiping Idler, also known as "Miaofuxuan". Zhang Xinzhi is like a Confucian knight-errant. He often travels with his sword. He loved a dream of red mansions all his life, which lasted for 22 years and completed more than 300 thousand words of critical research.
In the 30th year of Daoguang (A.D. 1850), Zhang Xinzhi's annotation was attached to Miao Fuxuan's Stone. Zhang Pingben has "Reading the Stone" in front, with 30 articles. The first article says:
"The book" The Red Chamber "is a household name, and it is also engraved on people's hearts and changes their temperament. Compared with Jin Ping Mei, it is especially evil, and readers know what is right but not what is wrong. Occasionally, I can see huge eyes, but I am in a trance and still can't get rid of fatigue. The criticism of idle people makes the author feel reasonable, and the opposite sides of the book emerge together. The husband then heard the warning that the speaker was innocent, which is not great. "
Learning and courage are true things, but a dream of red mansions steals many books and perfunctory things are strange things, so it is said, "Who will remember strange things about people?"
Through "The Red Chamber", Zuo said in a word: "It's ridiculous to lose education!"
Taiping idlers spent 30 years writing 300,000 words of comments. After all, they regard A Dream of Red Mansions as a dark novel "Jin Ping Mei".
Although Zhang Xinzhi criticized the Red Chamber with the Four Books and Five Classics, many places are inevitably far-fetched, but on the whole, Zhang Xinzhi's profound understanding of A Dream of Red Mansions, profound critical realm and unique views are beyond the reach of ordinary critics. If it is eliminated, it will inevitably make people regret going back to Baoshan. Yao Xie, whose real name is Mei Bo, is called "Damoushanmin". Yao Xie's comments on A Dream of Red Mansions in Jiaochuan University have a great influence on later generations, and even some red scholars who believe in "fat comments" have to admit his contribution. Yao Xie is well-read and has a profound foundation. He is unique in poetry and lyrics, and few people in the world have a better study of music and painting. He is also a famous bibliophile, with a collection of tens of thousands of books. The most striking feature of Yao Xie's Comments on a Dream of Red Mansions is statistics, which provides great convenience for future generations to study. For example, there are 532 characters in his statistical novels, including 94 princes, 34 Jia family members, 16 Jia relatives, 69 domestic servants and so on. It is generally recognized by later generations that A Dream of Red Mansions has 448 characters, and the differences come from different statistical standards. In addition, Yao Xie also counted the special phenomena involved in the book, such as vocabulary, articles, clothes, descriptions of crying, birthdays, causes of death and so on. , and also points out the contradiction of 2 1.
His comments include general comments and sub-comments. When it comes to the theme of this novel, there is a sentence in the book review:
"Qin, love also. Love can be light, but it can't be light. This is the program of the book. "
"Qin", "Qing", "Qing" and "Qing" sang the program "Dream of Red Mansions" in homophonic, which is really shallow and not enough for in-depth discussion!
At the end of his review, his "sub-review" is much bigger than his "total review". In his comments, sometimes it involves mocking the world, sometimes it involves people's comments, and there are not many words. He sympathized with Daiyu and exposed Baochai. His Pink Flat has a feature that others don't have, that is, he can remember the year, month and day of the novel at the end. Yao Xie wrote the program of A Dream of Red Mansions, which was printed in the Republic of China and renamed Mansuo, Shishuo and Yusuo. "Man Suo" compiles and narrates Jia's family background, princes and other miscellaneous figures appearing in the book. There are handicrafts, poems and so on in Shi Shuo. Yu Suo includes Cong Shuo, Yi Yi and Xu Zi's Summary of Writing, among which Cong Shuo is the most important one, which lists the birthdays of the characters in the novel, the different personalities of the dead, the monthly expenses of everyone in the government, the wealth of cashiers in the government and the affairs in the garden. Damoushan is an important statistician in the research history of A Dream of Red Mansions.