Bai Hui

Author: Zhang Wei
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Publish Date: 2004-05-01
Features: From Baihui, Zhang Wei found the best way, a sense of relaxation and freedom never before seen in his other works. With the simplest tone, he reveals his thoughts on nature, life, history, life, love, friendship, and character. Understanding these will not be difficult. Perhaps, he only asks of us: at least your heart should be delicate and lively, not completely possessed by simple and vulgar material desires. He also hopes you will care about what kind of happiness humans should pursue in this world and how one can be truly worthy of the title of "human."
In recent years, Zhang Wei has accumulated emotions, experiences, worries, and confusion in his heart. His passionate love and equally intense hatred have burst forth uncontrollably in Baihui. It is a short but intense connection between Zhang Wei and reality, a moral and ideological sword he has drawn against the times. This work, more like a long spiritual self-defense, shows us the brave and resolute struggle of the writer against the impact of the commercial wave and the decline of the moral integrity and spiritual character of Chinese intellectuals. Even a decade later, the writer's instinctive warrior-like cries still transcend time and space, striking our ears. It can be said that through Baihui, the writer stubbornly defends the spiritual standards of the Chinese cultural elite at that time, so that when we look back on that literary history, we no longer feel ashamed.