《红楼梦》是我国古典小说之最伟大者。自它产生以来,中国文坛“传统的思想和写法都被打破了”(鲁迅语),因而也有了一专门学问——“红学”。许多作家、学者,甚至政治家都喜欢读它,从中汲取营养;有的还与之结下了不解之缘。这里介绍几位名家的轶事,以飨读者。茅盾能背《红楼梦》有一回,章锡琛对郑振铎说:“茅公(茅 ”Dream of Red Mansions“ is the greatest of our classical novels. Since its birth, the Chinese literary world has ”broken the tradition of thought and wording“ (Lu Xun), and thus has a special knowledge - ”Red Learning.“ Many writers, scholars, and even politicians like to read it, derive nutrition from it; some are still indissoluble bound with it. Here are a few famous anecdotes to readers. Mao Dun back ”A Dream of Red Mansions“ for a while, Zhang Xichen Zheng Zhenduo said: ”Mao Gong (Mao