Twenty-Four Returns: General Huo, Your Navigation!

What exactly does the Twenty-Four Returns refer to? Literal level: twenty-four journeys back Can it be understood that the protagonist has twenty-four "return" experiences - returning home, returning to the team, returning to the customs, returning to the city, and returning to the court. Or more abstractly, it is the twenty-four "return" nodes. Time layer: Twenty-four solar terms There are twenty-four solar terms in a year, from the beginning of spring to the great cold, a cycle. Can it be a metaphor for a story or a character's fate with a complete trajectory and process? Historical Layer: Twenty-Four Histories How many "returns" are left in the history books? The surrender of the subjugated country, the surrender of the people, the return of the soldiers, and the end of the dynasty. It implies that there is the weight of a history book, but this "return" is not the return of "history", but the return of "people" - who returns to where and who does not return. Geographic layer: Twenty-four places of return The story starts from Baicaokou, to Tiezhuomen, and then to... Every place is a place of "return" - some people return to Tiezhuomen, some return to Daizhou City, some return to Jinying, and some return to Loess. Twenty-four returns, the final destination. Where? Emotional layer: home, way back, home, home The word "go" itself has multiple meanings: home (go back), surrender (surrender), end (end), home (footing point). Twenty-four returns can be a person's twenty-four desires to "return" - wanting to return home, wanting to return to the team, wanting to return to the Song Dynasty, wanting to return to the Jin Dynasty, wanting to return to a place where he can live... Irony layer: No return Twenty-four returns, in the end, none of them may be returned. "Return" in the book should be a wish, not a result. He Qubing's "guilt and meritorious service" meant that he could not return to Daizhou, and Miao Zhun's "navigation" meant that he could not return to modern times. I had a premonition that the more "gui" in the title of the book, the less "gui" there is in the story. Everyone has his own "home", but it is often not the place he originally wanted to return to.