Earth Notes

Author: Liu Changchun
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Publish Date: 2004-04-01
Features: Liu Changchun writes prose that is somewhat melancholic and desolate, yet gentle and faint, yet deeply and profoundly sorrowful—about the future of humanity, about our descendants, he feels it in his heart without fanfare. Earth Notes might resemble Prishvin's The Calendar of Nature as a hymn of springtime—of light and water, of grass, of forests, of the spring and summer, autumn, and winter of humanity. If possible, it could also be written like Tatsuo's Journey to Beauty or Northern Europe Journey, with picturesque and beautiful prose. The reason humans live so beautifully is that there are still many flowers, grasses, trees, birds, beasts, fish on Earth that accompany us. So these words are somewhat elegant, but more are sorrowful. Because the land I have walked on has seen many animals vanish, many rivers change, and many forests disappear. Since the day I came to understand the world, the things I remember can no longer be verified by tangible natural objects. I don’t know if this is a new kind of confusion for me as a contemporary person.