大约于1763或1764年,也就是短暂的太平年代乾嘉盛世,一代英才曹雪芹即在贫病交加中赍志而殁,身后只留下相对完整的前八十回《石头记》,或许还有些后四十回的残稿及写作提纲。其后,又经高鹗和程伟元续写后四十回,并对全书进行修订和刊行,于是,我们就有了洋洋一百二十回的全本《红楼梦》了。 Around 1763 or 1764, the ephemeral peace and prosperity in the Taiping era. A generation of elite Cao Xueqin, who was ambivalent about poverty and sickness, left behind only a relatively complete set of the first eighty “Stones” and perhaps some After forty times of the draft and writing outline. Later on, he was reexamined by Gao Cheng and Cheng Wei-yuan for forty times, and revised and published the book. Thus, we had a full version of the “Dream of Red Mansions” dated back to 120.