索隐、考证以及索隐派红学

Suo Yin, Textual Research and the Suo Yin Approach to The Studies about A Dream of Red Mansions

何为索隐派红学,是索隐红学研究的首要问题,对这个问题的回答,关乎整个红学史的建构。现有的红学史叙述,虽然对此均有论及,然而,在具体的叙述实践中,无论是通过语义转换手段,还是根据推求之本事、关注之问题和研究之方法,来界定区分索隐红学,均面临着难以克服的困难。界定索隐派必须明确,索隐并非与考证平行的概念,它不是研究方法,而是种阐释旨趣,凡视文本为伪装,在文本内各意义单元和文本外各对象间建立映射关系,并将其推定到作者意图层面,以索解此意图为阐释之根本目标,即为索隐,亦方为索隐。只有把握住这一点,才能将红学史上林林总总的索隐式红学识别划分出来,正确构建红学史格局,为后续的索隐红学研究打下坚实基础。

What is the Suo Yin（索隐, investigating the hidden meaning） approach to the studies about A Dream of Red Mansions？ This question is fundamental to the studies about A Dream of Red Mansions and the answer to it is critical to the construction of the history on the studies about A Dream of Red Mansions. Although this question has been mentioned in the existing literature on the history of the studies about A Dream of Red Mansions, it is rather difficult to define and identify the Suo Yin approach in the making argument by semantic conversion, facts exploration, focus question, and research methods. To define the Suo Yin approach, one must understand that it is not an equivalent concept of textural research, and that it is not a research method but an interpretative objective. All those, which take texts as camouflages, establish mapping relationship between the meaningful units within texts and the objects out of texts and further try to construct the intentions of the author, are and can be defined as the Suo Yin approach. Only with this understanding can the vaious Suo Yin approaches in the history of the studies about A Dream of Red Mansions be distinguished from other approaches, the pattern of the history of the studies about A Dream of Red Mansions be constructed in the right way and the solid foundation be laid for the Suo Yin approach to the future studies about A Dream of Red Mansions.