Dawu Fengcao I used to read “Selected Essays of Yongjing Hefeng” (translated by Chen Dewen, Baihua Literature and Art Publishing House, 1997 edition), and I was deeply impressed by some passages describing plants in the book. Among them is “Chu Yan”, the author recalls his father, Nagai Wohara, a poet of the Han Dynasty, and …
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Some postcards sent by the author from abroad The longer I stay at home, the more I miss the days on the road. When I was really bored, I dug out the thick stack of postcards with all kinds of stamps and postmarks and went through them one by one. I couldn’t help but feel …
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My knowledge of ancient mirrors is not sufficient. At most, I have read several articles and a small book about ancient mirrors written by Mr. Shen Congwen when he was a “full-time lecturer” in the history museum in his later years. A while ago, a museum in Shanghai held an exhibition of ancient mirrors. Because …
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The stove of the author’s old house In the twelfth lunar month of winter, on the second floor, I used the cinnabar-red electric pot like a “gui” to cook some dumplings and drink some spicy wine, and talked about the skills my father had unlocked in the past sixty or seventy years. His old man …
TV series “Snowflakes That Gone With the Wind” (2010) Stills One night in the late autumn of 2018, I got together with two old classmates who came to Shanghai for a meeting. At the wine table, I chatted about what major I would choose if I went back to college 38 years ago. One student …