There is a Heavenly City above and a Earthly City below
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1、 Like "Dream of the Red Chamber", "The Tale of Genji" involves characters from the imperial family. Although the scenes depicted are from Japan's aristocratic class, the emphasis on love life is similar to that of "Dream of the Red Chamber". Therefore, it is considered as Japan's "Dream of the Red Chamber".
2、 The Tale of Genji is also recognized as the earliest full-length realistic novel in the history of world literature. Therefore, it holds special significance for both Japanese literature and world literature.
3、 The second volume of Marco Polo's Travels refers to Hangzhou as "Xingzai" and "Tiancheng", and Suzhou as "Di Cheng". Xingzai "was a general term used during the Southern Song Dynasty to refer to the place where the Emperor's visit was located in Hangzhou; And 'Heavenly City' and 'Earthly City' are translations of the Chinese proverb 'Heaven above, Suzhou and Hangzhou below'.
4、 Marco Polo praised that "the joy provided by walking in the city is unparalleled in any city in the world, and one's confidence in it is like being in heaven.
5、 The Divine Comedy adopts the unique fantasy form of medieval literature, in which Dante takes himself as the protagonist and imagines himself as a living person embarking on a journey to the underworld - the kingdom of the dead. The whole poem is divided into three parts: "Hell", "Purgatory", and "Heaven".
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