Mr. Zhou Lei, a well -known red scholar in China, editor -in -chief of the Red Mansion Dream Academy, and member of the Academic Committee of the Chinese Red Mansion Dream Society, died in Beijing on August 1 at the age of 81.

According to the Guangming Daily client, Zhou Lei.Born in 1938, he graduated from the Department of History of Jilin University in 1962.He has successively served as assistant researcher at the Northeast Institute of Culture and History, the cadre of the Xiaopingling Brigade of Yongji County, Jilin Province, the librarian of the Yongji County Cultural Museum of Jilin Province, a researcher at the Beijing Academy of Social Sciences, a member of the Chinese Writers Association, the editorial board of the Red Mansion Dream Academic Journal, and a member of the Academic Committee of the Chinese Red Building Dream Society, etc.Essence

He began to study the Dream of Red Mansions in 1973. He cooperated with his friends to publish a series of red studies with Wen Lei as a pen name.From 1975 to 1977, the new version of the Red Mansion Dream of Honglou organized by the Ministry of Culture.Former screenwriter for CCTV TV series Red Mansion (1987 version).The editor of the Red Studies Cong Tan Gao's Poetry Collection of Taiwan Red Studies Thesis selected Hong Kong Red Studies Papers to select Overseas Red Studies Papers to Select the Red Studies World (the above books are compiled with friends).

Mr. Zhou Lei loves the career of the Red Studies and has made positive contributions to the development of Red Studies in the new era, the establishment of the Red Mansion Dream Magazine, and the establishment of the Chinese Red Mansion Dream Society.

The farewell ceremony of Mr. Zhou Lei's body will be held at 9 am on August 7th at the Xuanwu Hospital of the Capital Medical University Xuanwu Hospital.