Reason:
The words describing the capital in A Dream of Red Mansions mainly include Jinling, Shenjing, Du Zhong, Chang 'an and Xijing. The word Jinling means Nanjing. Because the description of Jinling in the book began to be extremely clear. For example, Jia Yucun said, "Last year, I went to the border of Jinling. I wanted to see the ruins of the Six Dynasties. I went into Stone Town that day and passed by his old house. East of the street is Ningguo Mansion, and west of the street is Guo Rongfu ... "It can be seen that Jia Fu's" Old House "and the fourth time it is said that Jia Yucun was awarded Tianfu, etc. These all refer to Jinling, which is Nanjing.
There is also a capital city in the book, which is nicknamed Du Zhong, Shenjing, Chang 'an and Xijing. This vague capital comes from qi zhou people's imagination of Jinling, that is, the author implicitly describes his hometown, qi zhou, the capital of Fan Jing, as the second Jinling, which is used to refer to Beijing in the south and north, especially Beijing, the capital of the Qing Dynasty after Dingding. Because, if the author directly regards Beijing as the blueprint of Jia Fu's capital, or simply says Beijing, it is easy to make people feel that this is a political novel describing current events, so it is easy to associate Jia Fu with the "fake government" in the book, that is, to imagine the Manchu Dynasty as a puppet regime, so the author will fall into a literary prison. Therefore, he should refer to Jiafu and its capital, which not only implies the pseudo-Manchu and Beijing, but also avoids the political risks brought about by it. Therefore, he magnified the imaginary "Jinling" in the eyes of the country and wrote it in the book as the background of the capital, making it a symbol of the two capitals of Ming and Qing Dynasties. So the prototype of the capital described by the author is neither Nanjing nor Beijing. It's just a metaphor for South Beijing and North Beijing.
Introduction to the work:
A Dream of Red Mansions, the first of China's classical Four Great Classical Novels, is a novel written by Cao Xueqin in the Qing Dynasty, also known as The Story of the Stone and Jinyuyuan. This book is divided into two editions: 120 Cheng Ben and 80 Fat Ben. The first eighty chapters of the new edition of Tongshu were collected according to Fat Book, and the last forty chapters were collected according to Cheng Shu, with the signature "Cao Xueqin, Anonymous, Cheng Weiyuan, Finishing".