论《红楼梦》春草堂藏本之底本——与夏薇《〈红楼梦〉春草堂藏本》一文商榷

On Master Copy of A Dream of Red Mansions of Chuncao Tang Edition

从《红楼梦》春草堂藏本的抄写款式等外部特征出发,发现春草堂藏抄本特征契合于嘉庆十六年东观阁本,并通过考辨两者之间存在三十几例"异文"完全重合的事实,论证春草堂藏抄本当系东观阁本刻本一系;廓清春草堂藏本并非源于某一种脂本,也不属于程甲、乙本。同时,通过异文比勘发现庚辰等脂本并非近于程高本,而是更近于东观阁本。即东观阁本系列与脂本有着更亲缘的嬗递关系。否证了所谓春草堂藏本"这个本子的底本也有可能是程甲、乙本和脂本系统之外的本子,很有可能是一个在程甲本、程乙本之前就出现的一百二十回抄本"之观点。

From the external characteristics like the copying style of the version of A Dream of Red Mansions,the writer found that the Chuncao Tang edition was corresponded with Dongguan Ge edition in the sixteenth year of Jiaqing dynasty.The thirty-odd variant characters in both editions are identical,thus demonstrating that the Chuncao Tang copy edition should belong to the Dongguan Ge edition but not one kind of Zhi edition or the first two Cheng editions.Meanwhile,it is found by comparing the variant characters that the Gengchen edition is closer to the Dongguan Ge edition,not the Chenggao edition.This shows that there was a more intimate transmutation relation between the two editions.This conclusion denies the result that the master copy of Chuncao Tang edition may be independent from the first two Cheng＇s editions and it is possibly a 120-chapter copy edition before the two editions.