Landscape

Author: Luo Shimin
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Publish Date: 2005-01-01
Features: This series presents an image-rich Nanning from three perspectives—narrating history, describing local customs, and experiencing landscapes—through a light and elegant style. It tells the stories of Nanning's thousand years and its fresh, vibrant new appearance. The material in this series comes either from historical archives or from firsthand interviews with witnesses, making it suitable as a historical record or as a collection of anecdotes. It is intimate and credible. We hope readers will pick it up for leisure, gaining a relaxed and enjoyable understanding of Nanning. In truth, Nanning is a great place—a place you'd be willing to visit and a place worth visiting.
Nanning, an ancient yet young city in the Southern Song Dynasty. To call it ancient is because the Zhuang and Han people have lived on this land for over 10,000 years since prehistoric times. To call it young is because it began to rise as a modernized city in the 1950s. Just a decade ago, when Nanning people traveled abroad, they were often asked, "Where is Nanning?" As the capital city, Nanning was so unfamiliar to people that it often made Nanning locals feel awkward. In the past decade, with the rapid economic development of Nanning and the implementation of China's Western Development Strategy, Nanning has increasingly been recognized as the host city of the "China-ASEAN Expo" and has begun to attract global attention.
Nanning, this city with a history of over 1,680 years, seems to be telling the world its stories of the past thousand years, much like the stories of the Central Plains. It is a city as green as a painting and as beautiful as a poem, with simple folk customs and diverse charm. The landscapes are filled with poetry, and the countryside is filled with songs. This series presents an image-rich Nanning from three perspectives—narrating history, describing local customs, and experiencing landscapes—through a light and elegant style. It tells the stories of Nanning's thousand years and its fresh, vibrant new appearance. The material in this series comes either from historical archives or from firsthand interviews with witnesses, making it suitable as a historical record or as a collection of anecdotes. It is intimate and credible. We hope readers will pick it up for leisure, gaining a relaxed and enjoyable understanding of Nanning. In truth, Nanning is a great place—a place you'd be willing to visit and a place worth visiting.