"A Dream Of Red Mansions", "Young This Latter Forty

The Dream of Red Mansions has twelve kinds of draft, and as one of these, version of Yang is selected to be the research object in this Paper. Here, the major aspects is the textual research on basic questions and main features, it includes the relationship between the version of Yang and its collector, the features on copying and format, the poem at front of the chapters and the poem at the end of the chapters, the comment and colophon, the relationship between the version of Yang and GAO E, and so on. Then on this basis, the comparison between the Latter 40 Chapters of Cheng and Yang is the most important part. Then discuss the Latter 40 Chapters of the Dream of Red Mansions for more, and at last, contest the viewpoint of the Latter 40 Chapters of the Dream of Red Mansions written by GAO E.The words of the Latter 40 Chapters of the version of Yang is very indistinct, but the view of this situation is different, do research foundation carefully on the words of this part is a matter of that whether or not there is the draft of one hundred and twenty before the version of Cheng. Through comparative analysis, we can find that the words in the Latter 40 Chapters of the version of Yang are obvious better than the version of Cheng at every word, sentence and paragraph. These comparative results are the new strong evidence to prove the Latter 40 Chapters of the Dream of Red Mansions are not written by GAO E and all the one hundred and twenty chapters of the Dream of Red Mansions is truly written by Cao Xueqin.