《红楼梦》与绘画的结缘几乎和小说的问世同步。早在乾隆二十四年己卯(1759),在小说还未完全写定、仅在作者至亲好友小范围内传阅和评点的同时,在庚辰本第二十三回有关黛玉葬花的描写之上,就抄有脂砚斋写于该年的一条朱笔眉批云:“此图欲画之心久矣,誓不遇仙笔不写,恐亵我颦卿故也。”其后,又抄有畸笏叟写于丁亥夏 The connection between “Dream of Red Mansions” and painting almost coincide with the advent of the novel. As early as the Qianlong twenty-four years Mao (1759), the novel has not been completely written, only in the small area of ​​the author’s close friends circulated and commentaries at the same time, Gengchen twenty-third about the burial of Daiyu Described above, copied Zhixinzai written in the year of a Zhu Pen brows: “This picture for the heart of a long time to do, do not meet the immortal pen does not write, I fear the impotence of prostitution.” , Also copied a distressed wat Hsiao written in Dinghai Xia