Tongshu calendar: Why does "Chai County Cat" laugh?

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This illustration comes from "Alice" published in 1890. This is a new version of the author Lewis Corol's personally deleted by "Alice Man's Wonderful Realm", which is mainly aimed at small readers under the age of five.

In the picture, Alice, who was lost, met Chai County Cat and asked it.Chai Jun Cat said, "If you don't care where you go, it doesn't matter where you go; if you want to go where you want, as long as you go far enough, you will always arrive."

After chatting with Alice for a long time, Chai Jun cats disappeared slowly like dissolving in the air. The big mouth that laughed even in the air even disappeared for a while.Chai County is a place name in western Britain and is rich in cheese.It is said that people often make the cheese into the shape of a cat that laughed, which gives the author Lewis Karorl inspiration.After this book became a classic masterpiece, "smiling like a Chai County Cat" became an idiom in English, which is specifically used to describe people's laughes.

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