Okay, here is the translation following your instructions: Seemingly Elegant ("Beauty Fox" Fashion Essays Series II)

Author: Xu Hong
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Publish Date: 2005-01-01
Features: The city is piled with gray skyscrapers, and beneath the seemingly peaceful life lies hidden intrigue. People have added technology and art to their smiles, surrounding the bewildered masses with machines and steel. Old houses are torn down and rebuilt, children grow into adults—Xu Hong believes that comparing human life to music is a fitting analogy: there are introductions and interludes, climaxes and recedes. There are fast movements, intermezzos, variations, dissonances, and ultimately, a rest. And the melody of life is closely intertwined with a person's temperament and fate through an intrinsic logic. Now, in the middle of my youth, I can dimly hear the tunes and rhythms of my future music. Those scattered notes will gradually become clearer after this highlight. In this context, I would not exaggerate to say: these dense days of half-ripe emotions are the highlights of my life. I believe I will say the same thing even after many more years. Indeed, at a certain stage of life, people are in a period of active thought and are willing to pour out their crystallized thoughts in writing. This collection of essays includes some scattered ideas from the past two or three years. There are columns written for newspapers, notes from reading, and commentaries on debatable cultural events. The importance of social life and environment to creation is self-evident. Although new theories have long surpassed these notions, they still exist. In each of my essays, one can also see some traces of the current social atmosphere.