非常荣幸应邀出席本次“大师与经典:文化遗产的国内传承与国际传播”国际文化论坛。我们在北京的西山脚下,举办这个论坛具有非同寻常的意义。260年前,中国的一位文学大师移居北京西山——也就是我们今天开会的这一带地方——度过了他人生的最后十年。他虽然在世上仅仅度过了四十年或四十多年的光阴,他虽然只给人们留下一部不完整的文学作品,但他和他的作品却仍然矗立在文学的珠穆朗玛峰上,与莎士比亚、巴尔扎克和托尔斯泰并肩站在一起,他就是曹雪芹和他的《红楼梦》。曹雪芹毫无疑问是中国乃至世界上最伟大的文学大师之一,《红楼梦》毫无疑问是中 It is my great honor to be invited to attend this “International Forum of Masters and Classics: Inheritance and International Communication of Cultural Heritage”. It is of extraordinary significance that we hold this forum at the foot of the Western Hills in Beijing. 260 years ago, a Chinese literary master emigrated to Beijing’s Western Hills - the same place we meet today - to spend the last decade of his life. Although only 40 or 40 years have passed since his death in the world, though he only left an incomplete literary work to people, he and his works still stand on the Everest of literature, Standing side by side with Shakespeare, Balzac and Tolstoy, he was Cao Xueqin and his “Dream of Red Mansions.” Cao Xueqin is undoubtedly one of the greatest literary masters in China and the world. There is no doubt that “Dream of the Red Chamber”