一前言包含曹雪芹及其親友在內的同時代人,可能均想象不到雪芹會在後世以一本《紅樓夢》小說就進入中國文學史的最高殿堂,令我們對這位年輕時過着“烈火烹油、鮮花着錦”般生活,卻又陡然遭受抄沒家難并潦倒一生的作家,長期因文獻不足而欠缺較清晰且正確的了解。但拜一個世紀以來衆多紅迷鋪天蓋地搜尋相關數據之助,再加上大數據時代所提供的強大研究環境,我們開始有機會運用許多新的材料和知 A foreword Including Cao Xueqin and his relatives and friends, including contemporaries, may not imagine Xueqin in the future with a “Dream of Red Mansions” novels to enter the highest hall of Chinese literary history, so that when we were young “Burning firefighters, flowers, brocade”, but suddenly suffered a copy of the writer and life of the writer, due to lack of documentation for a long time lack of a clear and correct understanding. However, thanks to the overwhelming search of relevant data by a large number of Red Devils over the past century, coupled with the powerful research environment provided by the era of big data, we have had the opportunity to use many new materials and knowledge