作家刘心武的研究引出一番学术争论。刘心武的主要研究方法和学术观点,据说是“从金陵十二钗中的秦可卿着手,详细考证了书中各人物的生活原型”,开创出红学研究中新的“秦学”分支。但是,红学家们大多不屑一顾,更有一位批评者说:“学问越做越深,离艺术越来越远,离无聊虚妄却越走越近。” The writer Liu Xinwu’s research leads to some academic controversy. Liu Xinwu’s main research methods and academic viewpoints are said to be “starting with Qin Keqing in the Twelve Beauties in Jinling and studying in detail the life prototypes of various characters in the book” and creating a new branch of “Qin science” in the study of the Redology. However, most of the Redologians disdain one more. One critic has even said: “The learning is getting deeper and deeper, getting farther away from the arts, getting closer and closer to boring delusions.”