一种奇特的阐释现象：析索隐派红学之成因

在《红楼梦》问世迄今二百余年的复杂接受史中，索隐派的阐释活动构成了其重要的组成部分。这一脉虽屡经考证派等红学主流的严厉批判，然历二百年而绵延不绝，至上个世纪转加兴盛，这种奇特的阐释现象背后实有其深刻之学理动因。即1、以经史之眼观小说及民族主义的期待视野；2、《红楼梦》文本之特殊性提供的索隐空间；3、考证派自传说的缺陷。最后得出结论红学索隐派的兴起及不绝如缕，是《红楼梦》文本外部、内部各种合力推动的结果，自有其学理上的必然性。并由此可以预言，对《红楼梦》进行索隐式解读的阐释现象，在相当长的时间内还不会消亡。

The School of Searching for Hidden Meaning, a Queer Way of Redology—the Studies of Hong Lou Meng (HLM) (A Dream of Red Mansion): its Features and Origin

For two hundred and more years since the HLM was out to be accepted by readers, the explanation of the School of Searching for Hidden Meanings to the studies of the HLM has been one of the important components of the studies of Redology. A queer exploration as it was, it had been to begin with criticized by the Redologic scholars of the mainstream schools, the school of textual criticism and others.Yet, it went on continually and even got thriving in the 20 th century. The writer of this paper deems that there might be some academic principle or law to have it to be supported, which he will deal in this paper from three aspects: (1) A view the readers learn from reading classics and history and apply it to decipher novels and national problems; (2) The Peculiarity of the text of HLM , which induces the readers to infer that there would be a latent story between the lines the author of the novel designed; (3) The insufficiency of the scholars of other schools of Redology, especially those who hold the hypothesis that the writing of HLM is the author's intention to write the story of his own, which contrary to their expectation yield a vacancy for those who search for hidden meanings. Likely here a conclusion would be drawn that the rise of the school in question and it was going on precariously should be the result of the speciousness of the text of the very novel, or rather, the resultant of the text itself and social background of the author and the writing of the novel, which tempts many a reader or researcher to go for probing if there be something hidden. Foreseeably, the school will go continually for a span of time.