《金瓶梅》和《红楼梦》,是分别诞生于16世纪后期和18世纪中期的中国古代小说写实艺术的两座高峰。最早揭示这两部巨著之间艺术联系的,乃是脂砚斋对13回写秦氏之丧的一句批语:“深得《金瓶》壸奥。”深知作者“拟书底里”的脂砚斋在这个位置上下此批语,其用意是很明白的。他要提醒人们注意《红楼梦》中“秦氏之 “Jin Ping Mei” and “A Dream of Red Mansions” are the two peaks of the realistic art of ancient Chinese novels born in the late 16th and the mid 18th century, respectively. The earliest revelation of the artistic link between these two books is a remark by Zhi Yanzhai on the 13th Annotation of Qin’s Retribution: “won” golden bottle “ Zhai in this position up and down this language, its intention is very clear. He would like to remind people to pay attention to ”The Dream of Red Mansions“ in ”Qin’s."