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Where is the Grand View Garden of Dream of Red Mansions?

The Grand View Garden in "A Dream of Red Mansions" is a villa built by the Jia family for Yuan Chun's relatives. It is located in the capital mentioned in the novel. Yuan Chun's garden is commonly known as "Grand View Garden", and the plaque in the main hall reads "Gu Ensiyi". After Yuan Chun came to marry him, Yuan Chun ordered Baoyu and Zhu Chai to live in the garden. In the narrative system of the novel, it is half of the royal garden lineage, becoming a barometer of the fate of Yuan and Chun, and is invisibly related to the fate of the Jia family. Therefore, in order to build the Grand View Garden, it is necessary to expand the original Fanghui Garden site of Changfang Ningguo Mansion. There is a large main mountain in the garden that symbolizes the ancestral line of Jia Mansion. Grand View Garden is a place where the author's life ideals and social ideals are placed. It is the daughter country of Baoyu and the Twelve Hairpins of Jinling. It is the embodiment of the illusory world and a place full of love and beauty in the world. It embodies the ideas of the novel, such as the dignity of a daughter, the rebellion of youth, the combination of good and evil, poetic life, an ideal new world, the true emotions of young children and the tragedy of love. "A Dream of Red Mansions" is an ancient Chinese chapter novel and one of the four major classical Chinese novels. It is generally believed to be written by the Qing Dynasty writer Cao Xueqin. The novel takes the rise and fall of the four major families of Jia, Shi, Wang, and Xue as the background, takes the wealthy son Jia Baoyu as the perspective, and takes the love and marriage tragedies of Jia Baoyu, Lin Daiyu, and Xue Baochai as the main line, and depicts a group of elegant and knowledgeable boudoir beauties. The life style shows the true beauty and tragedy of human nature. It can be said to be an epic work that shows the beauty of women and various social conditions in ancient China from all angles.