Nalan Clan

Author: Xu Jinru
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Publish Date: 2002-01-01
Features: For a long time, I had a bias about the cultural condition of contemporary Chinese people. Having been influenced by avant-garde literary and artistic movements for so many years, I thought modern people had lost their aesthetic appreciation for classical spirit, only able to find fragments of shallow happiness in the concrete jungle. This idea was, of course, biased, but I had never found evidence to refute it until I learned about a group of in the capital and reread , the prime minister known as a Qing Dynasty poet. I couldn’t imagine that in such a noisy and society, there would be so many young people guarding pure lives anding a seemingly outdated spirit. For them, was no longer the Manchu poet seen by the "observing things with the eyes of nature" in the eyes of, nor the nobleman from , but an ideal in their hearts, a deep concern for the true emotions of life. Influenced by the mainstream tradition of Chinese poetics, works lacking historical sense always made me feel they fell below the mark, so I initially did not appreciate very much. However, after enduring a wave of overwhelming pain, I suddenly realized that indeed represented a kind of happiness.