Why The Dream of Red Mansions Cannot Be Expressed Exhaustively
CAO Xue-qin has repeatedly written about people with"The Style of the Spring and Autumn Annals",which makes The Dream of Red Mansions quite a lot of"fuzzy smoke and clouds".He is also learn-ing from QU Yuan,to shape imaginative characters with the symbolic technique of metaphor and support and to convey emotions through systematic narrative imagery."QIN and ZHI(Author and Annotator)"together formed an open novel text form full of"contradictions"and tension.The strong intervention of"excessive inter-pretation"and"compulsory interpretation"in the field of novel criticism in the tradition of scriptural interpre-tation has,to varying degrees,shaped people's interpretation of The Dream of Red Mansions.It is precisely because The Dream of Red Mansions presents a"great state of chaos"that the interpreters have divergent views,thus achieving its"inexhaustible"artistic charm.
The Dream of Red Mansionsdeliberate digression in writingcharacter imagery and narrative imageryopen text"endingless"novel"excessive interpretation"and"compulsory interpretation"