杜春耕先生告诉我北京图书馆出版社要影印出版《妙复轩评本·绣像石头记红楼梦》 ,并约请我写序 ,感到非常高兴。据我所知 ,这个在《红楼梦》版本流传史上颇为重要的本子 ,自清光绪七年( 1 881 )湖南卧云山馆首次刊印以来 ,整整一百二十年没有再版过。此次影印出版 ,无疑是一件 Mr. Du Chungeng told me Beijing Library Press to photocopied and published “Miaofuanxuan commentary, embroidered like a stone,” and asked me to write the order, I am very pleased. As far as I know, this very important book in the circulating history of “Dream of Red Mansions” has not been reprinted for a whole one hundred and twenty years since it was first printed in Hunan Province in the seven years of the Qing Emperor Guangxu (1881). The photocopying is undoubtedly one