Some scholars have pointed out that Xi-feng’s death of disease in the last 40 chapters of A Dream of Red Mansions is not in accordance with Cao Xue-qin’s original intention.And other people hold that the author of the last 40 chap-ters is not the same as the one of the first 80 chapters from the description of traditional Chinese medicine.However,after the sorting out the description of Xi-feng’s emotional disease in the first 80 chapters and the last 40 ones according to the tradition-al Chinese medicine theory that emotion may cause disease,we can make an interpretation and think that either from her course of disease,or the plot development,or her personal character,the last 40 chapters are roughly in accordance with the first 80 chapters.%有学者指出，后四十回凤姐病死结局不合曹公原意。还有些观点认为，从中医药描写看《红楼梦》后四十回完全不是出自一人之手。然而，我们按中医情志致病说梳理出前八十回与后四十回中凤姐的情志病描写，并进行解读后认为，不管是从病程进展、情节发展还是从人物性格方面来看，后四十回与前八十回保持了大体一致。
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