Zhi Yanzhai's comment on writing is called "fat criticism" or "fat criticism" in the red circle, and the manuscript with Zhi Yanzhai's comment on writing is called "fat edition", which is the version of A Dream of Red Mansions that most conforms to Cao Xueqin's thought.
There are four main opinions about the identity of Zhi Yanzhai in the red circle: the author says; The wife said; Uncle said; Cousin said. These are all about the relationship between Zhi Yanzhai and Cao Xueqin.
The accepted view of Redology is that Zhi Yanzhai is not the pseudonym of Cao Xueqin, but they are two different people. Since 1979 Mr. Dai Bufan, a red scientist, questioned Cao Xueqin's authorship, more and more researchers have more strongly denied Cao Xueqin's copyright in recent ten years.
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Zhi Yanzhai revealed the author's family background, realized his life experience, and revealed the inside story of the relationship between the novel and the prototype background, that is, Cao Jiazhi.
For the first time, the monk pointed to Zhen Yinshi and smiled: In the third sentence of the four poems he read, "After the Lantern Festival", Jia Xu had a saying: "Before and after, you are ignorant." It reminds us that the Cao family was robbed in the past. It was before the Lantern Festival in the sixth year of Yongzheng that the Cao family was robbed of their property. So the fat group said, "If you don't go straight before the clouds, you may know something."
Zhi Yanzhai revealed the meaning of words, annotated words and allusions, learned the story of the book, and revealed the inside story of novel writing skills and artistic creation.
For example, in the JOE edition, there is a comment for the first time on "the secret method in the book": "Although it is practical, it is also described as a frame, with twists and turns, reflections, hidden views and positive jumps, so that grass and snakes are gray, empty valleys sound, one blow and two sounds, plank roads, dark nights, clouds and dragons, fog and rain.
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