《红楼梦》有“主情”和“主空”两条思想线索。“主情”即对一切生命体均抱有深切广博之爱,小说延续了晚明以来文艺“主情”路线,“主空”则受禅宗空观影响,两条线索并存于小说中。由于禅宗“于相而离相”思想及王学左派“童心”说的影响,使《红楼梦》并没有走向“空无所有”的颓废境地,而是情空一如,形成《红楼梦》思想主旨的一体两面。 “Dream of Red Mansions” has two thought clues such as “the main emotion” and “main emptiness”. “The sentiment ” is to have deep and broad love to all living body, the novel continues the literature and art “main sentiment ” line since the late Ming Dynasty, “main empty ” is affected by Zen empty concept, two clues Coexist in the novel. Due to the influence of the theory of Zen in the phase and the phase theory and the left school of Wang School and the innocence of the Wang school, the Dream of Red Mansions does not go to the decadent position of Form the “A Dream of Red Mansions,” the idea of ​​one of the two sides.