最浅显的道理也往往最容易被人忽略,看似高深莫测的《红楼梦》研究似乎也在验证和重复着这一道理。近百年来,数量庞大的红学家们在浩若烟海的史籍中苦苦寻觅,对《红楼梦》的作者、家世等所谓学术问题极尽大海捞针之能事,对曹雪芹的远祖一直追溯到三国时。但这种繁琐复杂的研究背后恰恰掩盖了这样一个再简单不过的事实:《红楼梦》是一部小说,是一部描写悲剧的 The simplest truth is often the most easily overlooked, seemingly unpredictable “Dream of Red Mansions” study also seems to verify and repeat this truth. In the past century, a large number of Red-Scholars have searched painstakingly in the history of the world, and have done everything in search of a haystack in the so-called academic problems of the author and family background of the “Dream of Red Mansions.” The ancestor of Cao Xueqin dates back to the Three Kingdoms . However, behind the complicated research, it is just a simple fact that “Dream of Red Mansions” is a novel, a tragedy