《红楼梦》的开头非常富有特色。小说开篇的“作者自云”和石头的叙述交待了创作动机和创作缘起 ;空空道人石上读奇书的方式使作品披上了一层神秘的色彩 ;两个神话各司其职 :补天石的神话虚构出主人公非凡的来历 ,而神瑛侍者与绛珠仙草的神话则解释了主人公爱情故事的前世因缘 ;作者、说书人、石头三个相继出现的叙述者使小说叙事视角多样化、叙事层次复杂化。这些都体现了作者主体创作意识和结构意识的增强 ,从侧面表现出章回小说文体演进的一个重要环节。它的创作思想和创作方法对后世章回小说的创作产生了很大的影响 “Dream of Red Mansions” is very rich at the beginning. The author’s self-cloud and stone narration at the beginning of the novel account for the creative motivation and the origin of creation. The way of reading strange books on emptied Taoist people puts the work in a mysterious color. The two myths perform their respective duties: The myth of the goddess and the goddess explains the previous fate of the heroine’s love story; three successive narrators, such as the author, the storyteller and the stone, diversified the narrative perspective of the novel, Narrative levels of complexity. All of these reflect the enhancement of the author’s creative awareness and structural awareness, and show an important part of the style evolution of the chapter-back novels from the side. Its creative thinking and creative methods have a great influence on the creation of later chapters’ novels