What is the setting of The Story of the Stone, or The Dream of the Red Chamber; Volume 1: The Golden Days by Cao Xueqin?

Although the Rong and Ning mansions are the main settings for this story, there are a variety of other settings visited in the book. The action of the novel begins in the Great Fable Mountains where the stone is originally created by the Goddess Nu-wa. Next, the action moves to the area of the Bottle-gourd Temple in the Chinese town of Soochow. It is in this town that Zhen Shi-yin lives with his Feng-shi and their daughter. Jia Yu-cun lives next door in the temple.