Zhou, 19 18 was born in Tianjin, whose real name was Yu Yan, whose name was Min 'an, and later changed to Yu Yan, and he was known as a wine taster. He used his pen names to read Shu, Cang Yu, Xi Xue, Gu Yan, Gong Yu, Shiwu, Qing Yu, Shiyan and Chuck. China is a famous redology scholar, classical literature researcher, poet and calligrapher. He is the first person to study redology in New China and a world-renowned master. More than 70 academic works have been published, and the masterpiece Dream of Red Mansions is an important work with pioneering and epoch-making significance in the history of redology, which has laid a solid foundation for modern and contemporary redology research. 2012 may 3 1 died in Beijing at the age of 95.