"a Dream Of Red Mansions" Ancient And Modern Sequels Shallow Theory

Ever since the Chinese ancient and classic masterpiece——《 The Dream of the Red Chamber 》was published and engraved, there have been a great variety of continuations with respective emphases. Among them the writer of this paper especially selected eight versions in Manchu dynasty and six contemporary ones in order to study these continuations comprehensively. This paper comprises of two main parts: commentary article and thinking article. The commentary article bases on the concrete articles and is divided into two parts of the continuations in Manchu dynasty and contemporary era. The first part includes the method and origin of these continuations, the handle of Baochai and Daiyu etc; The second part emphasizes on the arrangement of the concrete person destiny and the handle of art means. The thinking article discusses the difference and similar, gain and loss between these two kinds of continuations using the tragedy, the theory of circular person and flat form person. From the discussion in this paper, it can be seen clearly that although they have obtained some achievements, these continuations are basically unsuccessful. As a kind of history culture inheritance, they have the meaning of cognition, but should be tidied up.