《红楼梦》中人物年龄“矛盾”产生的原因,一是作者为塑造人物及表现主题思想的需要而有意设计的,如《红楼梦》中少女的年龄,作者就有意限定在“十五六七岁”以内。同时,有些是作者在刻画、塑造人物时所产生的一种客观效果。二是作者在年龄问题上重写意而不重写实的结果。三是有极个别的“矛盾”,很可能是版本传抄过程中失误造成的结果。 The reasons for the “contradiction” of characters’ age in “A Dream of Red Mansions” are as follows: First, the author intends to design for the characters and the theme of expressing the theme, such as the age of a girl in A Dream of Red Mansions, “Within. At the same time, some are the objective effects produced by the author when portraying and shaping characters. Second, the author rewrites the meaning of the age without rewriting the actual results. Third, there are quite a few ”contradictions" that may well have been the result of mistakes in version copying.