从此空空道人因空见色，由色生情，传情入色，自色悟空，遂易名为情僧，改《石头记》为《情僧录》。至吴玉峰题曰《红楼梦》。东鲁孔梅溪则题曰《风月宝鉴》。【甲戌眉批：雪芹旧有《风月宝鉴》之书，乃其弟棠村序也。今棠村已逝，余睹新怀旧，故仍因之。】

Henceforth, the Taoist Empty Void hollowing emptiness had worked out some hues, due to that hues certain affection thus accrued causing reversely more hues, and from that more hues he realized the voidness more, then he changed his name as Sentimental Sanghae, renamed  of 《The Story Of A Stone》to《The Note Of A Sentimental Sanghae》. Then it was relayed to Don. Wu Yufeng and titled 《A Dream Of Red Mansion》whom by. Separately Don. Kong Meixi of east Lu area inscri

　空空道人听如此说，思忖半晌，将《石头记》【甲戌侧批：本名。】再检阅一遍，【甲戌侧批：这空空道人也太小心了，想亦世之一腐儒耳。】因见上面虽有些指奸责佞贬恶诛邪之语，【甲戌侧批：亦断不可少。】亦非伤时骂世之旨，【甲戌侧批：要紧句。】及至君仁臣良父慈子孝，凡伦常所关之处，皆是称功颂德，眷眷无穷，实非别书之可比。虽其中大旨谈情，亦不过实录其事，又非假拟妄称，【甲戌侧批：要紧句。】一味淫邀艳约、私订偷盟之可比。因毫不干涉时世，【甲戌侧批：要紧句。】方从头至尾抄录回来，问世传奇。

且鬟婢开口即者也之乎，非文即理。故逐一看去，悉皆自相矛盾，大不近情理之话。竟不如我半世亲睹亲闻的这几个女子，虽不敢说强似前代书中所有之人，但事迹原委，亦可以消愁破闷，也有几首歪诗熟话，可以喷饭供酒。

Even hairbun maidservants everywhen uttered that of somesuch videlicet of whichsoever ejusd., no literature but texture. Would one by one read you them

 out entirely self-contradiction, by and large, unreasonable and non rational were these says.  In the end, they are no match to several girls whom I had seen in mine half life, though I could not say that they are better than personae in al

 　石头笑答道：“我师何太痴耶！若云无朝代可考，今我师竟假借汉唐等年纪添缀，又有何难？ 【甲戌侧批：所以答得好。】但我想，历来野史，皆蹈一辙，莫如我这不借此套者，反倒新奇别致，不过只取其事体情理罢了，又何必拘拘于朝代年纪哉！再者，市井俗人喜看理治之书者甚少，爱适趣闲文者特多。历来野史，或讪谤君相，或贬人妻女， 【甲戌侧批：先批其大端。】奸淫凶恶，不可胜数。

The stone quipped: “your stiffness and hierophant mine! As the dynasties impassable verifications you mentioned, if me don you actually pretend epochs

 of Han or Tan dynasty to appose the embellishment,