This paper discovers that there are a number of important yet unique variant Characters in Bian edition of Dream in the Red Mansions compared with the editions of Jiashu, Yimao, Gengchen. The paper lists 64 variant Characters from Chapter one to ten in Bian Edition while the other editions contains common characters. Based on the above results, the paper concludes that Bian Edition is earlier than Jiashu and it belongs to the early lipid edition.%将卞藏本《红楼梦》与甲戌本、己卯本、庚辰本及其他重要本子作比对,发现数量很大的重要异文。卞藏本数量很大的重要异文在《红楼梦》已知重要本子中独一无二。文章列出的卞藏本一至十回有64处重要异文,甲戌本、己卯本、庚辰本之外的其他重要本子只有极个别几处基本相同。从卞藏本与甲戌本、己卯本、庚辰本大量重要文字差异的基本特征,可以得出结论:卞藏本底本早于甲戌本,卞藏本的底本属于早期脂本。
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