Gao E was promoted in the fifty-third year of Qianlong (1788), and was a scholar in Qianlong for sixty years (1795). He has served as a cabinet official, a Chinese military attache, a cabinet chief, a The Cabinetshi Read, a Taoist supervisor in the south of the Yangtze River and a criminal officer. There are some works handed down from generation to generation, such as The Last Manuscript of Yueshanlou, Mo Xiang Ci and Storing Grass. [ 1]
From the fifty-sixth year of Qianlong (179 1) to the fifty-seventh year of Qianlong (1792), Gao E was invited by his good friend Cheng Weiyuan to assist in editing, sorting out and publishing Cheng Jiaben and Cheng Yiben of A Dream of Red Mansions. Since Hu Shi's textual research, the redology has long believed that the last forty chapters of A Dream of Red Mansions are Gao E's sequels, and this view has been criticized more and more strongly in the 2 1 century. Since 2007, People's Literature Publishing House's new version of A Dream of Red Mansions 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" [2], which indicates that Gao E's theory of sequel has been shaken. Yu Pingbo's last words: "Cheng Weiyuan and Gao E saved the Dream of Red Mansions!" [3] Zhang Qingshan, president of China Red Society, pointed out: "Gao E should not be the sequel to A Dream of Red Mansions, but the organizer of its final publication ... A Dream of Red Mansions can be circulated, and Gao E is the first hero." [4]