周锡山编著的《红楼梦的人生智慧》首次提出"《红楼梦》的人生智慧"命题，并作全面深入的阐释。《红楼梦的人生智慧》中《红楼梦》表现宇宙和人生的大智慧，也细写小智慧；大智慧包含着众多细微难辨的小智慧，小智慧往往也体现着大智慧。《红楼梦》虽然表达的是大智慧，写的却多日常细碎之事、小儿女细小微妙的心事、日常生活中的普通人际交往、妇女之间小小的勾心斗角，显示具体细微的智慧，更善于"于无声处"提炼人生智慧。《红楼梦》也描写了不少缺乏智慧、愚蠢的人的悲剧命运，并以此为反面教材，作为提高智慧的重要途径。照理，智慧帮助人们成功，可是充溢着人生智慧的《红楼梦》写的是失败和灭亡、美的最终毁灭，并以此表达了作者所悟到的大智慧。(The Life Wisdom from A Dream of Red Mansions prepared by Zhou Xishan first puts forward the proposition of life wisdom from A Dream of Red Mansions and makes a comprehensive and in-depth interpretation. A Dream of Red Mansions in the Life Wisdom from Dream of Red Mansions shows great wisdom in universe and life and also details little wisdom; great wisdom contains abundant tiny impalpable little wisdom, while little wisdom often reflects great wisdom. Although A Dream of Red Mansions expresses great wisdom, it describes many daily trivial things, day-to-day chronology, small delicate worries of little children, common interpersonal communication in daily life and small infighting between women, showing specific subtle wisdom and more adept at extracting life wisdom in the silence. The Dream of Red Mansions also describes the tragic fate of many foolish people lack of wisdom, and is used as an important means to improve wisdom with it as a negative example. Logically, wisdom can help people succeed, but A Dream of Red Mansions filled with life wisdom describes failure and death, as well as the ultimate destruction of beauty, and thus to express the great wisdom realized by the author.)