1. The core of tumult learning is "writing books with great voice". The original author of A Dream of Red Mansions is Hong Sheng, a great writer and poet of Shunkang Dynasty. The book records the history of the downfall of the Hongsheng family and its four interrelated "century-old families" after the change of political power. Hong Jia's "Song and his son are three prime ministers, Ming and Taibao are five ministers" is really the "imperial palace" of "poetry ceremony, tiring Ye Qinghua". After Dingge in Ming and Qing Dynasties, the Hong family experienced three "family difficulties" and finally fell into a white land, which was really clean. A Dream of Red Mansions was written after the last ray of hope in Hong Sheng's heart was shattered. There are five mixed feelings of resentment, hesitation, regret, helplessness, nostalgia and bitterness.

2. The twelve smart and beautiful young women in A Dream of Red Mansions are based on the twelve members of the Friendship Garden Poetry Society. At that time, they were daughters of "four great families" in Qiangu, Hong Huang, Hangzhou, and cousins of Hong Sheng. They are the same age as Hong Sheng and grew up together. They are really knowledgeable, smart and beautiful. In the early years of the Qing Dynasty, they successively established the "Five Sub-clubs of Bajiaoyuan" and "Seven Sub-clubs of Bajiaoyuan". They publicize the owner of the club, take nicknames, combine poems and rhymes, announce historical sites, and cause a sensation. With the demise of the "four big families", their fates are all unfortunate. As the saying goes, "A thousand red people cry" and "Wan Yan shares the same sorrow".

3. The prototype of the Grand View Garden in A Dream of Red Mansions is the hometown of Hong Sheng and his "Bajiaoyuan Sisters", and it is a paradise for emotional life in adolescence. This is a group of typical Jiangnan garden buildings in Ming Dynasty, including Hongyuan Garden, Xixi Villa, Flower House, Qiuxue Temple, Chai Men, Shantang and Shui Ge. It is located in today's xixi national wetland park nature reserve. The real background of A Dream of Red Mansions is in Hangzhou, where the words "flowers and willows are flourishing, gentle and rich" are hidden, and "Sansheng Stone Shore on Xiling Shore" is also the specific reference of Hangzhou.

4. The colorful description of "Yuan Fei's relatives" in A Dream of Red Mansions is indeed a subtle description of Kangxi's southern tour, but the driver is not Cao Yin, Cao Xueqin's grandfather, but Gao Shiqi, the powerful minister of Kangxi Dynasty. The driver is not in Nanjing, but in Xixi Villa, adjacent to Hangzhou Hongfu, which is the prototype of Xiaoxiang Pavilion in a Dream of Red Mansions. The prototype of "Daguanlou" is in the Chenghuang Temple in Wu Shan, Hangzhou, and the plaque of "Daguanlou" still exists today. The prototype of "Qin Fang Bridge" and "Qinfangchi" is today's "Yulin Bridge" and "Yulin Pool" in Xixi. Gao Shiqi and Hong Sheng are not only fellow villagers, but also peers, and their friendship will last a lifetime. In the thirty-eighth year of Kangxi, the emperor visited Gao Shiqi for the third time, and Hongsheng personally heard about it.

5. The prototype of "Green Ridge Peak on Ridiculous Cliff" in A Dream of Red Mansions is Panshan Mountain in the eastern suburb of Beijing (now affiliated to Jixian County, Tianjin). It is one of the four famous mountains in the world in the early Qing Dynasty. There are famous Pangu Temple (also known as Qinggou Peak), Laiwo Temple and Rocking Stone on the mountain. In the twenty-eighth year of Kangxi, Hong Sheng came here to "avoid Zen" after he was released from prison because "Wanshoutang was poor and white, which ruined his fame and fortune". The creative impulse of A Dream of Red Mansions was born here.

6. The "Empty Taoist" in A Dream of Red Mansions is based on the Zhipu monk of the "Qinggoufeng" (Pangu Temple) in Panshan Mountain, whose legal name is Android, and he is called Zhuo Monk. Because he has the dual identity of a monk and a Taoist, he is also called a humble Taoist. Hong Sheng and monk Zhipu are old friends. The dialogue between Brother Shi and Taoist Kong in A Dream of Red Mansions should be a true record of their dialogue in Panshan when Hong Sheng was brewing a Dream of Red Mansions. After A Dream of Red Mansions was written, it was this monk Zhipu who went to Jiangnan to sweep the tower in the 42nd year of Kangxi and copied Hong Sheng first. The book was copied by Taoist Kongkong and renamed as Love Monk Record, which is the general source of the version of Stone in the current Li Songxuan system.

7. In the 43rd year of Kangxi, at the invitation of Cao Yin, Hong Sheng went to Jiangning Weaving Institute in Nanjing to "play the Three-Day Fairy Hall". As can be seen from Zhu Yizun's poems and Cao Yin's poems, Hong Sheng went to Nanjing with the manuscript of The Legend of Hong Trading Company, with the intention of asking Cao Yin to help publish it. Hongsheng unfortunately fell into the water and drowned on his way home, and the manuscript has been living in Cao's house ever since. Sixty years later, Cao Xueqin dug up these manuscripts, feeling that they were similar to his family's deeds, which triggered a psychological buzz, so he began to "read for ten years and add and delete five times", and A Dream of Red Mansions officially began to spread. This book circulated by Cao Xueqin is the general source of today's vernacular version of A Dream of Red Mansions.

I made four comments on "Red inkstone" in A Dream of Red Mansions. The prototype is Huang Lanci, the wife of Hong Sheng, and "Zhi Yanzhai" is her nickname when she joined the Jiaoyuan Poetry Society. Because Hong Sheng's sufferings are all experienced by husband and wife, the comment on writing seems to be "everything has been experienced" and "criticism does not come from imagination". Hong Sheng's concubine, Deng Xueer, inherited the books approved by Chiyanzhai. Hong Sheng inherited incense from Deng's son, the second brother who died young, so she was nicknamed "stepsister" and homophonic "pervert". The "author" and ""in the criticism of Zhi "refer to Hong Sheng, and" Xiqin "is the pseudonym used by Hong Sheng in his early criticism of Tianbao Qushi. Huang Lanci died two years before Hong Sheng. After the death of Hong Sheng, the manuscript left at home, after being sorted out by Deng's family, became the general source of today's edition of The Story of the Stone.

9. A Dream of Red Mansions is based on Wang Yuyang, the teacher of Hong Sheng, the minister of punishments and the leader of poetry circles. Wu Yufeng's title is A Dream of Red Mansions, which is based on Hong Sheng's old friend Wu Qiao. His name is spirituality and his name is "Jade Phoenix Zen Laozi". Tangcun, the preface to Early Yue Feng Treasures, was Liang Qingbiao's prime minister, named Tangcun, and was called "Tangcun Prime Minister". This collection of poems was also named Tang Village Collection. It can be seen that all the characters recorded in A Dream of Red Mansions have real prototypes, and all the creation, copying and commenting processes recorded in The First Book are authentic and there is no "cunning".

10. In the process of writing A Dream of Red Mansions, due to the need to describe "national enmity and family hatred", a large number of stories and works of talented people in the south of the Yangtze River and "Eight Flowers in Qinhuai" which were popular in the Nanming period at that time were borrowed. "Good Marriage" and "Mu Shi Meng" are based on the love and marriage triangle story of Liu and Qian, and the title of "Dream of Red Mansions" comes from the love record poem "Early Spring" when living with Liu in a small red building. A set of "Chrysanthemum Poems" sung by the two sisters in the Grand View Garden in the book is based on the "Chrysanthemum Poems" written by Mao Bijiang, Dong Xiaowan, husband and wife friends Yang Longyou, Zheng Chaozong and Liang Zhanzhi. Daiyu's "Handkerchief Three Unique" imitates Li's "Farewell" and "Rainy Night in Autumn Window" imitates Liu's "Moonlight Night on the Spring River". The contents of Flower Burial Poetry and Lotus are written according to Liu's life experience, so they are out of tune with the identity, age and experience of the characters in the book.