A person's pilgrimage

Author: Zhu Mo
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Publish Date: 2005-02-01
Features: A Pilgrim Alone is another distinctive cultural prose work by Dongfang Publishing House following the release of Yu Qiuwei's cultural prose Cultural Hardship. Critics have referred to the author Zhu Mo as "the young Yu Qiuwei." Born into a scholarly family, Zhu Mo was exposed to books from a young age,, and developed the habit of independent thinking. The author is a youth chasing simple happiness. From Lushan to Beijing, from Lanzhou to Jiayuguan, and then venturing into the vast desert along the Silk Road, he began to experience "enlightenment." The grandeur of mountains and rivers, the majesty of luxurious palaces, the desolation of border ruins, and the profoundness of humanistic history gradually entered the aesthetic vision of the youth. A "purification and cleansing" of the soul spread freely in his heart. Is life and death fragmented pieces or a cyclic completion? Will the natural universe eventually end? Then, facing the unavoidable tragic outcome, what does the existence of life truly mean? What is true happiness and? In this work, which is called "youthful cultural prose," the author explores fundamental questions about life.