Great Masters' Perspectives on the Grand View Garden

Author: Yu Pingbo
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Publish Date: 2005-05-01
Features: "With mountains on the left and waters on the right, it was built with great precision, how much effort it took to complete! The heavens and the earth are all here, and the Fragrant Garden should be named 'Grand View'." — Yuan Chun, Yuan Mei, in The Poetic Dialogues of the Following Garden, said that the Grand View Garden in Dream of the Red Chamber was his Following Garden. If we examine the history of the Following Garden, we can believe this claim is not false. — Hu Shi In fact, there was indeed a shadow of the Grand View Garden at that time, and we can say this. The author expanded this faint trace by many times, using ink and brush to paint a mirage-like paradise of the heavens and the earth. — Yu Pingbo The Prince Gong Mansion was not the "Rongguo Mansion," and the Cuijin Garden was not the "Grand View Garden," but it was a real prince's mansion, a miniature "Grand View Garden." Artistically speaking, it could even be called the "Grand View Garden." — Gu Pingdan Since its debut, Dream of the Red Chamber has always attracted attention, aside from the author's background and the cryptic interpretations of the characters, the origin of the Grand View Garden has also been a topic of much interest and debate, sparking many discussions and speculations. Almost every person who has been concerned about the fate of Jia Baoyu and those girls has left a deep impression on this courtyard and has either deeply or superficially asked the same question: Where exactly is the Grand View Garden? As early as 1981, the Culture and Arts Press published a book titled The Grand View Garden, compiled by Mr. Gu Pingdan and Mr. Zeng Baoquan, which included over 200,000 words of discussions about the Grand View Garden over the past century, and Mr. Mao Dun even wrote the title for it. It is based on this understanding that we have edited and published Grand View Garden Through the Eyes of Famous Scholars. The book selects representative articles over the past century that discuss the Grand View Garden, supplemented by additional illustrations.