《红楼梦》的作者曹雪芹不仅是一位用白话文写小说的伟大作家,而且还是一位“诗词曲赋”无所不精的古文学家。他不但是古诗创作的高手,同时也是一位古诗词创作的理论家。他的这一套古诗词的创作理论,概括起来有四点,包括以诗词创作论、以诗词的题目和韵律论、以诗词鉴赏论,肯定和承认戏曲在文学史上的地位。曹雪芹的这些文学观点,都是通过他创作的人物口中说出来的。 Cao Xueqin, author of A Dream of Red Mansions, is not only a great writer who writes fiction in vernacular Chinese, but also an “all-rounder of ancient poetry”. He is not only a master of ancient poetry, but also an ancient theorist of poetry creation. His theory of the creation of this set of ancient poems can be summed up in four points, including the theory of poetry creation, the topic of poetry and the theory of prosody, the theory of appreciation of poetry, the affirmation and recognition of the status of drama in the history of literature. These literary views of Cao Xueqin are all spoken through the characters he created.