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

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

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

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