本书作者夏荷,本名夏和,满族人,生于1936年,现在兰州商学院任中文教授。夏荷早年从事语言修辞研究,1982年开始研究红学。据作者讲,是1984年春节,在他的老同学和他的爱人花美云女士支持与鼓励下,写下了第一篇红学论文。至今已写了近十篇红学研究文章汇集成《红楼梦寻真录》这本书。 The author of this book Xiahe, whose real name is Xiahe, Manchu, was born in 1936 and is now a professor of Chinese at Lanzhou Business School. Xiahe engaged in language rhetoric in his early years, and in 1982 he started to study his studies of redology. According to the author, it was the Spring Festival in 1984, with the support and encouragement of his old classmate and his wife, Ms. Hua Miyun, who wrote the first red paper. So far, he has written nearly ten redology research articles compiled into a “Dream of Red Mansions” book.