One of the story prototypes in "Dream of the Red Chamber" is walking, running away.
When you leave your own life and look at others' lives with detachment, you may suddenly realize that the world is absurd. The real things may be fake, and within the fake things, there may be something real.
They say life is like a journey in the opposite direction, where one encounters countless similar stories along the way, such as the monks, Taoists, and Jia Baoyu in it.
Today, I am also drifting in life, hanging alone overseas, leaving my homeland thousands of miles away. Only then can I experience the feeling of the vast land covered in snow in "Dream of the Red Chamber." It is not cold, but clean.
From the perspective of leaving, there are similarities between "Dream of the Red Chamber" and Jack Kerouac's "On the Road."
Some scholars (Zhou Ruchang) have speculated that Jia Baoyu's ultimate fate is to become a beggar or a night watchman, also on the road.
It is precisely because we are on the road that we can see both sides of the world. Therefore, we cherish everything in front of us even more.