论《红楼梦》的文化小说特性

On the Characteristics of Dreams in the Red Chamber as a Cultural Novel

近几十年来对《红楼梦》的研究多注重它政治历史小说的一面 ,很少注意到它文化小说的一面。《红楼梦》的文化性不仅表现在它反映了我国当时的文化艺术成就 ,更主要的是通过对贾宝玉等典型形象的塑造 ,反映了当时的意识形态 ,通过对典型人物命运的安排 ,反映了作者对人生、社会、宇宙的思考。

Over the last decades Dreams in the Red Chamber has only been studied as a political and historical novel, while its characteristics as a cultural novel have gone unnoticed. The cultural aspects of the novel are represented not only through its reflection of China's cultural and artistic achievements at that time, but through the ideology of the then Chinese society: Through the depiction of Jiao Baoyu and other main characters, and through the description of the characters' destiny, the novel highlights the author's perception of human life, society and the universe.