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ii ii covered almost all aspects of the novel throughout centuries. Different versions of it have also caused attention of translators and researchers. Essays and monographs are published. In October, 2002, the first conference on the translation of Hong Lou Meng was held at Nankai University, which is the first time to push the studies of Hong Lou Meng onto a new stage, on which Hong Lou Meng can be viewed and studied from various perspectives and systematically. Contrastive studies on different translation versions have been more and more prosperous. Cao Xueqin, who is praised as the most important writer with unusual awareness and gorgeous writing skills, applies various kinds of linguistic forms to convey his thoughts. As the crystallization of culture and the vehicle of emotional expression, four-character idioms help readers to enter into Cao Xueqin’s mode of thoughts. Four-character idioms are widely and permanently used in China. They are pithy, catchy, featured by rhythm and cadence. They greatly increase the expressiveness of all kinds of emotions and add to the vividness of language. Most idioms are culturally loaded phrases or sentences. The translation of idioms requires that the translator should not only transfer the meanings to the utmost extent, but also make the translations totally acceptable among the target language readers. Domestication and foreignization are frequently-applied strategies in translation. Although they have aroused heated arguments since their birth, they are adopted by many translators in literature translation. In idiom translation of Hong Lou Meng, Yang Hsien-yi, who is source-text-concerned, generally adopts foreignization as his translation strategy. Hawkes, who pays more attention to target language readers, mainly uses domestication as his strategy. Different choices lead to different effects on idiom translation. Yang Hsien-yi’s version is closely equivalent to source text and Hawkes’ version is more acceptable by targe