Cultural Zhejiang

Author: Ke Ping
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Publish Date: 2005-01-01
Features: Culture of Zhejiang is a work by poet Ke Ping that reflects on the arduous, rich, and great journey of Zhejiang culture over 700 years, vividly and concretely showcasing its vicissitudes of transformation. "The initial praise is inevitably tinged with mythological hues / Where the mulberry fields / Suddenly rise from the vast ocean / Revealing the dim dawn of civilization / Under the sky where birds and saber-toothed elephants roam / When rough stone tools roam the earth / Like the inspiration of a maiden poet / Leaving passionate verses on paper / With the help of a historical telescope and the wise gaze of anthropologists / In Jiande County in western Zhejiang / I see the face of a cultural infant, composed of fire, stone tools, and bone artifacts." Reading these passionate and reflective lines of poetry, we are inevitably immersed in the long river of Zhejiang's cultural history. The book is also accompanied by numerous photographs that reflect the historical customs and cultural ambiance of Zhejiang.