40 Back To The Revision Process. "a Dream Of Red Mansions",

The last 40 chapters of A Dream of Red Mansions have a lot of editions just as the first 80 chapters. So far, we have three edition systems included hand written copy, type copy and block-printed edition. They have connections with each other. The later edition always emended the earlier edition, including wrongly written characters'correction, plot enhancement and language embellishment. All the above makes a dynamic development of the last 40 chapters.On the hand written copy stage of the last 40 chapters, owing to the constant interplay between the private copies, resulting in their copying to an extremely chaotic situation, often in a manuscript can be shown in several versions of the source. Yang Ben is such a book, copied from the handwriting can be clearly distinguish Yang back to the text of the last 40 chapters with the difference between the original and change the text. To change the text than the original, the plot is set on a more twists and turns, the characters a richer language, but also pay more attention to the description of the environmental atmosphere and rendering instructions from the revised trend symbols can be sure the text is the right to change the original amendment. Moreover, this revised process is largely completed at the same time period, mainly after the 40 back to the transcript of an integrated transcription of two or more together and accepting good advice, demonstrate a simple homes tend to seek the revised trend.In the emendation of the last 40 chapters, it needs to verify and study the quality of languages of each edition of the last 40 chapters. The work can offer some reality facts to the whole judgment of last 40 chapters. In fact, all the problems related to the last 40 chapters is a whole. Under the emendation's prospect, we can manage the order of every sub-problem as well as finding out the direct evidence after in-depth text analysis. For example, when we come to the last 40 chapters'ideology evaluation, we should notice the clou of some plots because it has different description. The emendation tend to reveal the influence to the last 40 chapters. In all, the study of the last 40 chapters can provide a new prospect to the related problems.