A Study Of Comments On The Dreams Of The Red Mansion From The Perspective Of Education And Aesthetic Education

Wang Guowei’s article, Comments on the Dreams of the Red Mansion contains many factors of modernity, which makes it extremely easy to establish relationship with our present academic research based on the paradigm of dialogue. However, this type of research is usually one-dimension and ignores the importance of the historical context of this comment. Comments on the Dreams of the Red Mansion were first serialized in an educational magazine edited by Wang Guowei, while researchers are hardly concerned about the educational factor of this article and do not associate it with his educational activities and opinions on sociability. Therefore, in order to open up a new looking land for this article, it is necessary to use education as the keyword to analysis the materials about Wang Guowei’s early time. Under this special vision, the macro investigation of his academic activities in Education World can help to understand the generative process of this article. Wang Guowei considered the Dreams of the Red Mansion as an educational novel, so the main task of his article was to teach his readers the educational knowledge from this novel. However, when showing that, he made a conflict with Schopenhauer for their different opinion on education. At last, he used the concept of dream to eliminate this conflict and formed his special opinion about how arts work to improve our society. This model is helpful to contribute to the more reasonable academic evaluation on Wang Guowei’s comment.