维纳斯的断臂成为美学上的一个经典。很少有人去为维纳斯寻找失落的断臂,更没有人去为维纳斯重新雕塑一个胳膊以追求完整、追求完美。但是中国的八十回《红楼梦》或许不能称作断臂的维纳斯,因为八十回之后缺的不是一个胳膊的体量,因而续著《红楼梦》便成为中国文学史上的一个奇观,自《石头记》问世以来,就不断地有人续,光当代人的就有几十部之多,这还是正式出版的,还不包含那些未能公开出版的续著。据网上搜索,比较有影响的是这几部:张之的《红楼梦新补》,山西人民出版社1984年版, Venus’s arm broken into a classic aesthetic. Few people to find Venus lost arm broken, but no one to Venus re-sculpture an arm in pursuit of integrity, the pursuit of perfection. However, China’s eighty-second “Dream of Red Mansions” may not be called Venus because of the lack of arms. Since the lack of armor after 80 backs, the continuation of “Dream of the Red Chamber” has become a spectacle in the history of Chinese literature. Since Since the advent of Stone Annals, there have been continuous renewal of more than a dozen as many as the contemporary of the light. This is still an official publication and does not include those that can not be published in public. According to online search, more influential are these: Zhang Zhi’s “A Dream of Red Mansions,” Shanxi People’s Publishing House 1984 edition,