Grandma Liu lives in the suburbs of Beijing, close to Jia's home. Why do you say she is thousands of miles away?

It is not too early for Granny Liu to appear for the sixth time. Cao Xueqin deliberately began to pave the way for the narrative from Granny Liu. It happened that Granny Liu drove from home to Jia's house, and then explained the origin of Granny Liu, cut into the text and wrote that Granny Liu entered the house. The problem is that grandma Liu is clearly not far away. Why do you say she is "a thousand miles away, a small family"? Different people have different explanations for this.

The popular saying is that Cao Xueqin stole the concept of geography, thinking that the story of A Dream of Red Mansions should have taken place in Jinling, but he intended to write it as the capital. Therefore, Granny Liu originally lived in Jinling or Beijing, and the destination of Jia's residence should be thousands of miles away in reality and novels. To put it bluntly, grandma Liu and Jia are separated by thousands of miles, and Cao Xueqin deliberately abbreviated the distance. Lin Daiyu and Jia Lian, for example, went back to Yangzhou and died in Qin Keqing for several months. The search is still calculating the itinerary, which seems to be only a few days.

Grandma Liu, her son-in-law and her dog are all from Beijing, but it is not easy for her family to live in the city, so she moved back to her hometown outside the city to live and farm. Grandma Liu set out from home early in the morning and walked into the city with her five-or six-year-old grandson to the front of Jia's house. Just after ten o'clock, I went to Wang Xifeng's room to wait, and I caught up with Wang Xifeng to serve the grandmother every day and came down for breakfast. According to the truth that children and old people can't walk fast, Granny Liu and Banel wasted about three hours on the road, and the distance was only twenty miles at most, so they couldn't be thousands of miles apart. The ancients were forbidden to travel. Thousands of miles away is grandma Liu and the place she will never go.

There is another explanation, not the distance of the unit, but the distance between granny Liu's house and Jia's house.

Grandma Liu's son-in-law grandpa dog recognized Mrs. Wang's father as a nephew and became Mrs. Wang's serial brother. The two sides are not related by blood, but they can't write the word king. Grandpa dog has the power coveted by the Wangs, and grandpa dog also takes the opportunity to attach himself. The rest of the Jinling Wangs, including Wang Ziteng, who is thousands of miles away, don't know about it.

Cao Xueqin used "thousands of miles away" to describe the relationship between the two sides, and "small mustard beans" to describe the humbleness of Granny Liu's family, which set off the reality and distance between Granny Liu and Jia's family. It also revealed the bitterness and difficulty of Granny Liu's attachment to Jia's family.