《京华烟云》是林语堂的第一部长篇小说,在国外引起了强烈的反响,曾被提名为诺贝尔文学奖的候选作品。但它在国内长期得不到重视,因为读者在里面发现了大量熟悉的内容,就是对《红楼梦》的模仿,如小说的整体结构设置、人物设置、情节设置。模仿固然能带来创作上的便利,但对作家和作品来说都是一种失败。 The “Beijing-China Smoke Cloud” is the first novel of Lin Yutang and has aroused strong repercussions abroad. It has been nominated as a candidate for the Nobel Prize for Literature. However, it has not gained much attention in China for a long time because readers find a great deal of familiar content in it, which is the imitation of the “Dream of the Red Chamber”, such as the overall structure of the novel, characters and plot settings. Although imitation can bring creative convenience, but for writers and works are a failure.