一九六三年五月,为筹备纪念曹雪芹逝世二百周年事,著名红学家吴恩裕、吴世昌、周汝昌等到香山访问正黄旗蒙古族老人张永海。张永海之父张鍴为解放前唱莲花落的艺人,曾经将《红楼梦》一百二十回全部改编成莲花落]唱。为了更深入的了解《红楼梦》,他向乡间诸老询问关于曹雪芹的故 In May 1963, in preparation for the commemoration of the 200th anniversary of the death of Cao Xueqin, famous red scholar Wu Enyu, Wu Shichang and Zhou Ruchang waited until Xiangshan to visit the Mongolian elderly Zhang Yonghai. Zhang Yong, the father of Zhang Yong, was a solo artist who had sung the lotus before the liberation. All of the 120 chapters of the “Dream of Red Mansions” were adapted into lotuses. In order to better understand “A Dream of Red Mansions”, he asked the elders of the country about Cao Xueqin’s story