《四书》是大观园里书目提及最多的。贾宝玉认为《四书》是先秦哲人阐释学术思想的著述,而《四书章句集注》牵强附会,曲解经典。两者在曹雪芹的笔下与贾宝玉的心中泾渭分明,态度也大相径庭:对儒家经典《四书》充满崇敬,而对用来钻营举业的《四书章句集注》等后人注本则非常鄙弃。曹雪芹的《四书》观受到时风与家世的影响。 “Four Books” is the most mentioned in the bibliography of Grand View Garden. Jia Baoyu holds that the “Four Books” is a book written by ex-Qin philosophers to interpret academic thoughts, while the “Four Books and Ancestors” remarkably distorts classics. Both of them are quite different from those of Jia Baoyu in the writings of Cao Xueqin and their attitudes are quite different: they are full of reverence for the Confucian classics “Four Books” and are very disdainful of the posterity of later generations such as the “Four Books and Ancestors”. Cao Xueqin’s “Four Books” view is influenced by the style and family background.