Gao E: Date of birth and death: about 1738—— about 18 15, a writer in Qing Dynasty. The word uncle LAN, a word cloud scholar. Because of his passion for the novel A Dream of Red Mansions, he was nicknamed "The History of the Red Chamber". Han army is a member of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, decorated with yellow flags. Originally from Tieling (now Liaoning), he lived in Beijing in the early Qing Dynasty.
Cheng Weiyuan: a native of Suzhou, Jiangsu Province, spent several years in Beijing to collect the remnants of A Dream of Red Mansions, and invited his good friend Gao E to jointly undertake the editing work of "carefully adding and deleting, learning from each other's strengths" and three times of printing. In the fifty-sixth year of the reign of Emperor Qianlong (179 1 year), Cui Wen Bookstore made a preface for the movable-type printed version of A Dream of Red Mansions (Cheng Jiaben), which was based on Zhang Wentao's "Poems of Chuanshan: A Gift to Gaolan": "After the legendary Dream of Red Mansions was eighty times, it was supplemented by a giant orchid book."
It is generally believed that the last forty chapters of A Dream of Red Mansions were written by Gao E. It is said that Cheng Weiyuan continued to write together, and it is also reported that Cheng Weiyuan's Preface and Preface to a Dream of Red Mansions, which was extracted from the Literature Museum during the Qianlong period, talked about the continuation of 40 pages after being purchased one after another, and thought that the continuation writers Cheng and Gao only did the repair and sorting work; But in any case, elevation is the hero of A Dream of Red Mansions, and they are of great significance to the spread and research of A Dream of Red Mansions.