《红楼梦》人物关系有多复杂？一张图帮你理清楚！

《红楼梦》可以说是四大名著中最晦涩难懂的一部作品了，但这也成就了它“中国古典小说巅峰之作”的美誉，可以说是中国封建社会的百科全书。此外，《红楼梦》小说也衍生出了众多形式的文娱作品，类型包括电影、动画片、电视剧、越剧、昆曲、舞台剧、游戏、歌曲等。
Dream of the Red Chamber is arguably the most obscure of the Four Great Masterpieces, but it has also earned its reputation as the “pinnacle of Chinese classical fiction” and is arguably the encyclopedia of Chinese feudal society. In addition, the novel has spawned numerous forms of entertainment, including movies, cartoons, TV dramas, Yueju operas, kunqu operas, stage plays, games, songs, and more.

造成《红楼梦》难懂的原因之一是小说中塑造了大量的角色，从而形成了错综复杂的人物关系。那《红楼梦》中到底有多少人物呢？1982年，徐恭时在中国上海师院学报上发表文章指出《红楼梦》共写了多达975个人物，有姓名称谓的732人，无姓名称谓的243人。
One of the reasons why Dream of the Red Chamber is so difficult to understand is the large number of characters portrayed in the novel, resulting in intricate character relationships. In 1982, Xu Gongshi published an article in the Journal of the Shanghai Teachers’ College in China, stating that there were as many as 975 characters in Dream of the Red Chamber, 732 with names and 243 without names.

而今天要分享的数据可视化清晰地展现了《红楼梦》中各个角色间的人物、事件关系和发生的地点，小说中的主要角色使用1987版《红楼梦》部分演员的剧照作为标识，点击每个节点能看到人物的介绍和其延伸出的各种人物关系。这里以贾宝玉为例，可以看到他的结点延伸出几十条关系线，如他和薛宝钗的关系是“妻子”和“喜欢”，李贵和他的关系是“跟班”，袭人和他的关系是“仆人”等。
The data visualization we are going to share today clearly shows the relationships between characters, events and locations in Dream of the Red Chamber, using stills of some of the actors in the 1987 version of Dream of the Red Chamber as markers for the main characters in the novel. Take Jia Baoyu as an example, you can see that his node extends dozens of relationship lines, such as his relationship with Xue Baochai is “wife” and “like”. The relationship between Li Gui and him is “follower”, and the relationship between Xi Ren and him is “servant”, etc.

除了人物关系，这个可视化项目还提供地点和事件的筛选，读者可以清晰地看到与每个人物相关的事件以及发生的地点。对于对《红楼梦》不太了解的人或初读者来说，这个可视化可谓帮助颇多。比起自己记忆或罗列人物关系，这个图谱显得更加直观和完整。毕竟，《红楼梦》中的人物关系实在太多，父母、妻儿、兄弟姐妹、干爹干妈、同宗、朋友、仆人等，让人理不清头脑。
In addition to character relationships, this visualization project also provides a filter of locations and events so that readers can clearly see the events associated with each character and the locations where they occurred. For people who do not know much about Dream of the Red Chamber or for first-time readers, this visualization can be very helpful. The chart seems more intuitive and complete than memorizing or listing the characters’ relationships on their own. After all, there are so many character relationships in Dream of the Red Chamber, parents, wives and children, siblings, godparents, fellow clansmen, friends, servants, etc., that it is hard to keep track of them.

数据可视化项目网址：
https://grapheco.org/InteractiveGraph/dist/examples/example1.html